02-07-2020, 07:32 PM
Rush Limbaugh, or as I have called him "Rash Libel" (almost polite, but I think an apt description of him) does not merit a Presidential Medal of Freedom. This man bullied a domestic servant into 'scoring' oxycontin for him, which is doubly illegal. Bill Cosby did get one, but that was before he was identified as a serial rapist. Yes, there are people of controversy. When IBM was preparing its supercomputer "Watson" it was feeding "Watson" such material as the song lyrics of Bob Dylan.
Unlike the politicians and authors on the list of recipients he is an unoriginal crank. Sure, he has late-stage lung cancer, but lots of people get that.
Freedom? He did not stand up to harsh undemocratic regimes as did Rosa Parks or Vaclav Havel. Morals? Put him with Pope John Paul II or Billy Graham and the sparks would fly.
OK, so he is in a way a prophet of "Donald Trump thought" down to the science-denial and the vindictiveness. Wow!
Unlike the politicians and authors on the list of recipients he is an unoriginal crank. Sure, he has late-stage lung cancer, but lots of people get that.
Freedom? He did not stand up to harsh undemocratic regimes as did Rosa Parks or Vaclav Havel. Morals? Put him with Pope John Paul II or Billy Graham and the sparks would fly.
OK, so he is in a way a prophet of "Donald Trump thought" down to the science-denial and the vindictiveness. Wow!
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated Communist but instead the people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists -- Hannah Arendt.