Tuesday, April 11, 2017

Rush flailing Away From The Sand

         Rush was livid as he went on and on and on describing how the liberals may have hijacked a conservative stronghold. Last night was the last straw! No, I'm not talking about President Trump filling the Oval Office with liberals, progressives, establishment types, neophytes and glamorous women. Apparently Rush watched last night's season finale of Homeland where....it appears...that next year's scripts are going to go in another direction.
         I've never seen an episode so I may not know anything about Homeland but I'm told that the Fox show '24' was similar. I did watch quite a few of those since they were on basic cable but I remember being a pain to my wife as I continuously commented that we better not let television producers, writers and directors influence in any way our own personal beliefs. 
         The Word of God must dominate our mind on every issue and in every situation of our lives, or to the degree that it doesn't we are on our own as to discerning the world and the perils all around us. Rush Limbaugh can analyze the political scene with the very best of them and he can then describe clearly and logically to his listeners what is actually happening better than all of them. He has been nothing less than a tour de force on radio and in the American conservative mind but he may be surprised that many of us had not enlisted him as our swami or our guru but as a news and issue commentator. He talks...we listen...and if he can convince....which he usually can...we are then more of an informed citizenry than we were.
         Rush can make mistakes and he is in the middle of a big one right now. He permitted himself to become so vested in a successful Trump presidency that he has been shanking just about every shot for the past few weeks. Whereas usually his analysis flows along a stream of logic it has lately been strikingly contorted, dull and at times inventively servile to the image of Donald Trump that he helped build up.