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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsIt is obscene that Trump gave the Presidential Medal of Freedom to that POS, Rush Limbaugh.
Rush gets a medal for being divisive for the last few decades?
saidsimplesimon
(7,888 posts)Knocking on death's door
InAbLuEsTaTe
(24,122 posts)Skittles
(153,138 posts)is Trump courted the black vote in the same speech he gave the PMoF to an avowed racist.
Brainfodder
(6,423 posts)Then he pulls that PEOPLE SAY/PEOPLE TELL ME crap which really translates to: HEY YOU IGNORANT fact non-checkers this is what I want you to think!
Being a trash talking, divisive, racist, earns you a medal in Crazy World.
Kali
(55,007 posts)gopiscrap
(23,733 posts)Bradical79
(4,490 posts)<insert thing Trump did>.
That's just the kind of Presidency we're in right now, which is obscene itself.
misanthrope
(7,411 posts)LuvNewcastle
(16,843 posts)Hitler was Time's Man of the Year one year. Of course, the difference is that those men's histories weren't already known when they received their awards. We know all we need to know about Limbaugh.
Totally Tunsie
(10,885 posts)It's merely recognition of someone having great influence - good OR bad - in any given year. Hitler wasn't honored for good deeds - No, not at all.
Medal of Freedom is a whole other animal.
First Speaker
(4,858 posts)...so did Khomeini, Khrushchev, Putin, Laval, and plenty of other dubious characters...