Rush Limbaugh: The man who's always Right

An interview by a Brit, Nigel Farndale, that is interesting more for what it says about Farndale than it does about Rush. The American people know Rush, but during the interview Farndale and the attitudes that people like him have comes through in vivid colors.

Excerpts:

Although Rush Limbaugh doesn't actually work from a bunker, he does have a bunker mentality. His studio is on the third floor of a (purposefully) anonymous building 100 yards off the white sands of Palm Beach, Florida,

The building is a bunker? Which represents his mind? How do you make a building purposefully anonymous?

He has also had his quota of criticism from the media, or the liberal media, as he tends to call it.

You mean they are not?

There are commercial breaks and phone-ins, but mostly it is him delivering homilies on politics and current affairs, extemporaneously. His fluency is breathtaking.

Homilies?

Some 20 million Americans tune in to hear it on 600 stations across what he calls 'this fruited land'.

Actually Rush uses the term "the fruited plain" which is a phrase from the song "America the Beautiful," but I would not expect a Brit to be aware of a uniquely American song.

Limbaugh said it was only because he was black. Groan. He was being insulting, of course, on many levels, to both men, but at least he was being consistent with the Limbaugh world view, the view of the fabled 'angry white man'.

Thee is something a little sad about the childlike innocence of people like Nigel about American race relations and the monolith that is the black community. But if Rush's comment is an insult, then Thomas Sowell's agreement with Rush is also.

And this fabled "angry white man" is a creation of the pseudo-intellectual white Liberal to make them feel superior to the "lumpen-proletariat" in "flyover country."

But there is one issue about which I think he is dangerously wrong. Global warming. After all, I point out, 98 per cent of the world's leading scientists in this area don't think global warming is a hoax.

I have no idea where the Nigels of this world get this number. It must make them feel good about their faith. But as we enter one of the coldest winters in modern history, where snow if falling in Europe where it has not fallen this much in decades, they are as blind to reality as any jihadist. The denial of reality is literally breathtaking.

Still an interesting read both for what it reveals about Rush Limbaugh and the Nigel Farndales of this world.