More Rush (I love puns)

Gawd, am I getting more and more annoyed about this. Limbaugh and his little blue pills that is. Its amazing how the New York fucking Times can write an article about whether Bill and Hillary are sleeping together and not be all over this. What the hell was a single, “conservative”, “Christian” doing in the pay for sex capital of the world and (coincidently or not) the child prostitution capital of the world with some woody in a bottle? “Enquiring minds want to know”

Hopefully I’m writing this in vain because someone is hard at work, as it were, finding out what BigPharma was into down there. If there ever was a need for Larry Flynt this is it. He is someone who has the cash and I’m guessing sources to get this one. Pictures would be good. Well, hell, pictures would be awful but you know what I mean. They would be useful.

In the meantime why haven’t some of the shining lights of the Christian Right shot their mouths off about this? They okay with this? The other thing that I’m real curious about is why the Dominican Republic? BigPharma may not be much to look at but he has lots of cash. If it was your basic stuff he was into I would think he could get some high end, and very discrete talent in Palm Beach. Really makes me wonder what the hell he was doing down there.

Did you ever get a song or rhyme in your head that you couldn't stop hearing?

Well I have one and I damn well wish it would go away. I keep hearing in his deep, whiney voice (how does he manage that anyway) Rush Limbaugh repeating over and over again:

"Georgie, Porgie, puddin and pie, kiss the boys and make them cry" And to make it worse he is saying it in Spanish. And I don't even understand Spanish.....

Who would have thought that you could make a career out of being a self-righteous, hypocritical, professional blowhard?

But it appears that you can. I bring you as example one William Bennett. This is a man who is essentially a professional moralist; a man who wrote a book called "The Book of Virtues: A Treasury of Great Moral Stories". I wonder if if included the chain smoking talking head as an example of self discipline? Or the story of the compulsive gambler who presumed to tell others how to live as an example of the virtue of knowing oneself? Or the political operative and the dominatrix as an example of upholding family values and the sanctity of marriage.

Yea, I know this is all old news but Bennett has crawled out from under his rock again and that the people need to be warned that he is foraging again. Fortunately, Dana Priest was there to point this out (and thanks to Atrios for pointing this episode out and providing a link). While I have to admit I really enjoyed Ms. Priest poking Bill in the eye the real issue is that it happened. Why is this asshat on TV? What credibility does he have. To the best of my knowledge real moral philosophers, oh, let's say Buddha or Jesus, weren't chain smoking, compulsive gamblers who frequented dominatrixes. I could be wrong on some of that but I don't think so. And yes, I aware that neither Buddha nor Jesus is likely to make the Sunday morning talk shows as a moralist in residence. But hell, there has to be someone else. They really need to do better than a verbally flatulent hypocrit. I think that if they have on Bill Bennett in the future he would be much better suited to doing something other than presuming to tell people how to live their lives. Maybe he should become a professional juggler or do card tricks or something. I mean I really don't want to watch him getting tied up and beaten by Mistress Whatever, but I suppose that would be more amusing than listening to him pass judgement on people.

All of this is in addition to the more basic issue of why the TV folks feel that they should put people on to tell us how to live our lives. We need advice from any of them on that, much less from a complete hypocrit. Really, what kind of brain says, "Oh, we need someone with gravitas and high moral standing to discuss the role of the press in society, lets get Bill Bennett." If I want to know whether to hit on 16 I might ask Bill for advice. Other than that, he can keep it too himself.

Maybe it isn't strictly a Matt Lauer problem.....

It is a bit hard for me to admit this but I could have missed the real problem with my previous post that made fun of Matt Lauer. By that I don't mean that it is no longer my opinion that Matt is as worthless as a tit on a boar hog, but that rather that the whole fucking Today Show is more or less of the same worth as the aforementioned tit.

I was once again at the gym, the only lace where my delicate sensabilities are subjected to the offal of the Today Show. This time it was a Saturday morning so Matty Boy wasn't on so I can't blame him. But what was on was a very long segment by my reckoning on that really crucial issue for our nation; Starr Jones.

Honest to goodness, Starr Jones,we had stuff on what happened (who fucking cares), who were the winners and losers in the resulting fallout (how can an event of such insignificance have fallout) and lastly the role of Barbara Walters in the controversy (she went from interviewing the Shah of Iran to Starr Jones). Good Christ, we have things in the world that are actually important to peoples lives. I mean you know, things that fucking matter. Its no wonder people don't know about signing statements and rendered ) prisoners and the like when the fucking Today Show appears to view finding the truth about what happened in the Starr Jones affair as important, or more so, than issues regarding war and peace