Logo of the Psychotic Right
Is it possible to overdose on hypocrisy? Rush Limbaugh's about to find out -- he's taken one helluva dose. I'll explain in a little bit, but first we need a little background.
A couple of weeks ago, the Democratic Party's radio address was delivered by 12-year old Graeme Frost. The subject was SCHIP -- the children's health insurance program. In advance of a predicted veto of an expansion of SCHIP (a prediction you didn't have to be Nostradamus to make), the idea was to put a face on the program. Graeme was involved in an car accident three years ago, suffered severe head trauma, was in a coma, and recieved payment for his treatment thanks to the program. His sister's injuries were even more severe, she's still in recovery. Think Progress gives us a sample of the address:
If it weren't for CHIP, I might not be here today... We got the help we needed because we had health insurance for us through the CHIP program. But there are millions of kids out there who don't have CHIP, and they wouldn't get the care that my sister and I did if they got hurt... I just hope the President will listen to my story and help other kids to be as lucky as me.
Whether or not it's cool to have this kid deliver the address is an open question -- and one I'm not extremely interested in. It's not much of a stretch to imagine a kid giving a similar address for the GOP, asking "What if my mom had had an abortion?" Trust me, it'll happen eventually.
This post isn't about SCHIP, Bush's veto of it, or whether or not kids are valid spokespeople. The purpose of this post is to demonstrate what bags of crap people the on far right are.
Which, of course, brings us to the bloated drug addict. The elevated levels of hypocrisy in Rush's blood are due to a post on his site (he puts up transcripts of his show as blog posts), titled Why Democrats Must Lie to Win. Again, you don't have to be Nostradamus to guess that it's a collection of lies....
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