My apologies for the gap in my Klavan challenge entries. Rest assured that , while I may not have posted about Rush, I was dutifully listening to at least one hour of him yesterday morning, and will report tomorrow on what Rush said and why he says the things he says.
But for now, we’ll deal with my third day of Listening to Rush, the Thursday, April 2 show. Naturally the subject was President Obama’s European trip, the G20, and the economy.
I have to confess, after a couple of days, my mind is beginning to wander. It’s like staring intently at a brightly colored plaid. After a while, the pattern jumps forward at the expense of the whole and I have to blink for a minute to return my vision to normal. I’m getting snagged on individual words. A horrible suspicion about the rationale behind Rush saying we should listen for six weeks in order to “understand” him is beginning to dawn on me.
Mind…getting fuzzy. Thinking…more and more difficult…Must concentrate…concentrate…
Obama has been engaged in a slow surrender of the United States best interests. But as I told you, this is being reported as a slamdunk, grand slam, he’s the star of the show. He's the star of the show. The leaders there can't get enough of him and Michelle. They are American royalty. Tingles are up everybody's legs. It's just sickening.
Again with the word “slamdunk.” Rush likes the word “slamdunk.” Why does Rush like the word “slamdunk?” Nuance. Something to do with nuance. Rush doesn’t like nuance, that’s it. He doesn’t want us to like nuance either. People can’t merely “like” Obama. They must worship him. They must see him as the messiah. Liberals and Democrats can’t just be kind of pleased about Obama’s European trip, with some reservations. We must all consider it a “slamdunk” because otherwise Rush would have to go into the details about what liberals like about Obama and what they don’t like…and that would be…that would be…
It's all running together. Obama…G20….Socialism…trillion dollars…clowns…Socialist…The market is up because Obama is out of the country…
What?
I need to slap myself a couple of times. Need to go into the kitchen for more coffee. Lots more coffee. There. That’s better.
He’s talking about something else now. He’s talking about the First Lady. I find myself becoming a little more alert, conscious of a sensation like an itch deep inside my skull. It’s… the sensation of being puzzled. Something he says isn’t making sense. Thank God. My brain hasn’t died completely. I can still tell that he doesn’t make sense! That's something, isn't it?
..Michelle “Ma Belle” Obama and her wardrobe and how she’s taking Britian by storm, and so forth. Now, I have a photo here, I’m gonna show you this on the ditto-cam, let me zoom in, and I’m gonna tell you what you’re looking at there. This is Michelle ‘Ma Belle’ Obama heading off to the theater or some such thing. And she’s wearing, what you’re looking at there is, is an odd, really weird looking sweater. But, she cannot button it. It’s too tight. She’s also missed a button. Ladies and gentlemen, and I want to read to you, now that you’ve seen this on the dittocam…the caption to the picture is “Endearingly, the First Lady may have missed a button on her very busy sweater.”
Now, she went to the opera, she can’t button her sweater she missed a button and it’s described as “endearingly!” Let Sarah Palin try this! Let Laura Bush try this!
I have to admit that here I’m kind of stumped.
What’s with the “Ma Belle” bit? What’s the point? It’s a joke? I don’t get it. I know it’s a Beatles’ song -- “Michelle, Ma Belle, These are words that go together well, My Michelle..” but what’s the point of Rush making it into a nickname for Michelle Obama? Does anybody know?
As for the rest of it, this seems to be an attempt to equate some of Sarah Palin’s gaffes (Like her “I can see Russia from my front porch,” bit) with Michelle Obama wearing a busy sweater unbuttoned to the opera. Why he’s dragged Laura Bush into it is as big a mystery as his use of the nickname “My Belle,” since I don’t remember hearing Laura Bush being attacked much on cable news shows – certainly not to the extent Sarah Palin was. Every once in a great while I’d hear a half-hearted joke about her eyes, but she seemed pretty much the standard, rather vanilla first lady. Not much material there.
This waving around of a picture of Michelle Obama may simply be related to the way Rush views women in general, his obsession with female appearance. It’s possible he honestly does think a woman wearing a tacky sweater is the equivalent of her being unable to tell Katie Couric a single example of her daily reading material.
That’s really the best I can do when it comes to explaining “why” Rush says these things.
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