For reporting that is an embarrassment to the profession
of journalism, and for being beholden to corporate paymasters rather than
the citizens of America.
Fresh off his high of being the generalissimo of coordinating "Operation
Chaos," which succeeded in getting an unknown number of Republicans
to vote for Hillary Clinton in the primaries, Rush Limbaugh is on a high,
even as his own party of the wealthy heads for a crash landing in the gutter.
John C. Christman of Spokane, Washington, felt strongly that Limbaugh deserves
at least an annual Media Putz recognition:
Few would proclaim that Rush Limbaugh is anything approaching
a genius, even though he continues to state that he has "talent on loan
from God." He proved just how inept he is this week when he told his
listeners that he had Googled and come up with yet more proof that college
professors were evil left-leaning ne'er-do-wells who are doing their best
to lead America's youth astray.
Limbaugh was railing on about Barack Obama's comments that there are some
similarities between the lead-in to the Great Depression and today's economic
picture. Rush came across what he thought was a paper published by a college
professor and proceeded to rip it apart, after stating that he was very fortunate
not to have to sit through such propaganda since he never graduated from
college. The only problem is that a listener recognized the name of the author
of the paper as having been a classmate in high school who now works as a
programmer for Microsoft.
The paper
was written by Paul Alexander Gusmorino III while he was a tenth
grade student. We have all had good reason to suspect that Rush was playing
with less than a full deck for a number of years now, but he has given us
even further proof that he is deserving of the Buzzflash Media Putz of the
Week Award.
It is not a surprise that Limbaugh should be entitled to a Media Putz Award.
It is a mystery to me how he has avoided being named for his second such
award, the first having
been awarded during August of last year.
I guess that only serves to prove that there is no shortage of halfwits hawking
their wares in today's media.
It's been a longstanding belief that Limbaugh and FOX News (last week's
BuzzFlash Media Putz winner) are the most responsible for the skewed misinformed
perspective
of many Americans who rely on television and radio for propaganda disguised
as news and "informed" opinion. Limbaugh and FOX have been successfully
molding public perspective into a prism that favors the wealthy and corporations
through the election of Republicans.
Theirs is the art of the demagogue, the prestidigitator, the charlatan.
Limbaugh is a multi-millionaire elitist who scorns his listeners while he
lights up expensive cigars and goes on hedonist trips to the Dominican Republic.
He's an ultra wealthy con artist and is once again the BuzzFlash Media Putz
of the Week.
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