RALLBLOG: Rush Declares Jihad On Your Humble Narrator!
[Ted} RALL: (taped quote) Well, I have more sympathy for the 290 million Americans who are living worse lives under a worse economy, being paid less with worse health care, with more homelessness, with more poverty than there would have been had Ronald Reagan never become president. So for me, you're right, I don't have that much sympathy for him.
RUSH [Limbaugh]: Folks, seriously, what am I supposed to do with this? This is so asinine that it is beneath all of our dignity to even set it straight. But I know some of you want, okay, homelessness, health care, wages, economy, 290 million Americans living worse today because of Reagan. What is sad about this is that such an imbecile and such an ignoramus ends up as a prominent cartoonist in major newspapers. This guy could not pass a basic civics test. This guy could not pass a recent American history test. This guy could not get a college diploma today. He couldn't get a high school diploma with what his view of history is.
(RALL: Columbia University, Rush. Class of 1991. Major: history. With honors. Sorry, try again. Thanks for playing.)
2 Comments:
my loathing for limbaugh notwithstanding, the problem with ted's quote is a good number of those 290 million americans r living better off--a lot better off. true: the gains by the already rich were vastly disproportional to the losses of the factory worker, and not since the great depression have more americans slipped beneath the poverty belt, but until radical liberals acknowledge the greed factor in reaganomics--and that it also made a lot of professional and middle-class folk rich (remember yuppies?)--the rational conservatives will never take ted seriously. wipe away the hokum grin and brylcreem and you'll find a nation looking inward--w/ hyper-competitive 'individualists' and 'patriots' looking out for themselves. the 80's mantra was god helps those who help themselves--not, as jesus said to the rich man: "You lack one thing; go, sell what you own, and give the money to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven; then come, follow me." When [the rich man] heard this, he was shocked and went away grieving, for he had many possessions.
of course we also have to consider that much if not most of the wealth derived from the real estate and stock market boom--and quite a bit of that liquidity came from outsourcing to the third world and foreign investment.
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