Most people know that Rush Limbaugh is a crazed, contemptible, pill-popping hypocrite listened to each week by millions of reactionary voters. But did you know that Rush is now advocating violence in addition to hatred? Expressly and publicly hoping for violent crimes to victimize many of his fellow U.S. citizens?
Rush Limbaugh says he’s dreaming of riots and violence in Denver during the Democratic National Convention – in fact, he sings about it to the tune of Irving Berlin’s White Christmas. “I'm dreaming, I'm dreaming of riots in Denver,” he sang yesterday on his national radio show, thereby simultaneously desecrating a beloved American holiday classic and inciting mass violence toward the good people of Denver.
Hatred and violence. There’s a pattern there. Rush likes hatred and violence because he holds Americans in contempt. He supports war profiteers over U.S. troops, polluters over our shared environment, and lies and religious intolerance over empirical truth and multi-faith pluralistic harmony. Rush wins when he tears America apart.
Rush and his cronies have been playing this game for years, and often winning. But progressives are fed up with him once and for all. We’re going to call him on his crappy talking points and lies, and take on Rush and his regressive “dittoheads.”
We win when we rebuild and restore America, together. We win when we come together around shared progressive values, to organize and advocate for progressive change.
We hope that the Democratic Convention in Denver will be an expression of progressive values, not violence and unrest. We pray that the Republican Convention will be a signal that that party is moving beyond the Bush legacy and jerks like Rush. Our work is set out for us: to keep the next President and other political leaders throughout America accountable to progressive values and campaign promises.
