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Rush Limbaugh’s Theo-Fascist Perception of Reality

LELAND W. RUBLE

Whomever in the broadcast industry gave the “Okay” to re-employ the theofascist, hysterical hard-right propagandist and clown, Rush Limbaugh for another eight years, at the cost of four hundred million, obviously did so, with the expectation that this overly pretentious shock-jock on the fringe of the political right, would certainly attract more income in advertisements, and induct even more brain-dead listeners into believing in his fantasy realm of an America dominated by his mentally deluded version of a society based on fascism and hardcore Christian values.

Obviously, I’m no fan of this overstuffed clown of the airways, nor an “It’s an honor to speak to you Rush” ditto-head caller, that consumes a portion of the 3 hours this right-wing demagogue rants on and on, in a contrived, convoluted effort to convince his listeners that liberalism is the primary cause of all that ails America. Eliminate liberals and liberalism, and America can expect unprecedented growth and prosperity, he daily reminds his listeners. In this respect, Limbaugh resembles an overpaid used car dealer intent on selling you a damaged vehicle—in this case a noxious political ideology similar to the Nazi ideology that existed during the Third Reich—which he claims is mechanically sound, but a week after driving, the customer discovers to his utter dismay that he has been hoodwinked after being presented with a bill for major mechanical repairs. Limbaugh’s delusional ideology is, was, and will be if ever embraced by a majority of citizens, result in a theofascist government, and a president that acts more like a monarch than an elected representative of the people. His mind is riveted permanently on doing what he does best, incessantly trying to convince his listeners that only an ultra right-wing conservative government will resolve once and for all the many problems created as a result of liberal policies. He hates liberalism with the emotion and zeal of a fundamentalist preacher.

The presently employed official who resides in the White House, George W. Bush, reminds one of what happens when a president blatantly ignores the Constitution, and enacts policies with total disregard of congress, by using the power of executive privilege to enact legislation that he knows congress will not sanction. One obvious example is his funding with taxpayer money, religious organizations with fundamentalist objectives.

W. Bush is the kind of president that most likely appeals to the mind-set of the mentally delusional Limbaugh. Fortunately, the end of his imperial presidency is ending, and if not impeached for excessive lying about the reasons for invading Iraq, may still face prosecution in the realm of public opinion and even possibly in the World Court for crimes against humanity. There are many other reasons to convict W. Bush and Cheney for actions committed during this presidency.

Limbaugh’s primary motivation for what he does—besides enjoying an over-inflated paycheck for three hours of right-wing propaganda—is his animosity, indeed, outright hostility toward any opposing view related to the political, social benefits of a perspective of existence that embraces a more humanistic, liberal concept of society. By stating over and over again, ad nauseam, that he is “The Truth-seeker,” he gives the false impression to his naive listeners that what he says is based not on hearsay, malarkey, bunkum, baloney and outright lies, but is truthful, because he, the most knowledgeable man in America, has all the facts, and knows more than any living human being. In fact, his overly egotistic appraisal of himself is so self-assured, that he persuades his listeners that his evaluation of hardcore conservative ideology is unquestionable. If an overstuffed balloon—which he physically resembles—he probably doubts that anything, human or otherwise, is capable of pricking his ego to the extent that, if actually afloat, he would come smashing swiftly to the ground. He is so assured of himself and his distorted belief in an ultra-right conservative ideology, that nothing short of losing his employment as a shock-jock propagandist for theofascism, could extinguish the flood of endless lies, distortions, drivel, misstatements, and frequent flights of egotistic delusion that emerge from his ever babbling mouth. He exhibits all the characteristics (as psycho-babbler Ann Coulter likewise does) of a man teetering mentally and emotionally on the extreme perimeter of an ideology that is a threat to democratic government.

Indeed, Limbaugh acts as chief spokesperson and propagandist for a fascist theocratic America. His objective is a political agenda based on creating the false impression that only his hardcore conservative values can recreate an America that has, in his mind, been destroyed by liberal representation and liberal policies. He often says, that he won’t retire from broadcasting until every American believes in the same ultra theofascist ideology that he does. This is a boastful claim that only a deranged demagogue or zealot could make. Limbaugh’s agenda against liberalism includes any politician, citizen, member of the Democratic Party, or any Republican who exhibits the slightest tendency to be liberal on issues that conflict with his hardcore interpretation of conservatism. As an example: During the campaign for president in this current election cycle, he spent a considerable amount of time criticizing the eventual nominee John McCain, as someone not entirely conservative in his estimation, to become the nominee of the Republican Party. His preferred candidate was Mormon Mitt Romney, whose views he perceived as closer to his own theofascist concept of conservative ideology. When Romney lost to McCain, and it became evident that this was his party’s choice for president, he quickly retreated from bashing the same and now uses his repulsive, bombastic voice to prop up McCain’s uncertain race for the presidency, most likely because he dreads the aspect and all too conclusive fact that eight years of Bushism has so damaged the Republican Party, that McCain’s chances of being elected president are slim to none.

The decline of the Republican Party is due to Newt Gingrinch’s overly naive expectation that his brand of ultra Republicanism, would be so successful, that the Democratic Party would never again reemerge as a significant political force. This inflated expectation was completely shattered by the authoritarian, imperialistic policies of the Bush/Cheney regime. The Republicans were too blind to see that their restrictive domestic policies would never be, once the population became aware of their inhumane objectives, embraced by a majority of the public. Using religion, opposing birth control and abortion, race baiting and numerous other issues to win elections, was not a successful recipe for continuing as the majority party in the USA. Of course this has not impeded Limbaugh’s efforts to still broadcast a daily tirade against the democratic nominee Barack Obama. He’s not, regardless of the fact that he seems clueless a majority of the time, so ignorant, that he doesn’t realize that the odds of McCain becoming president and continuing the Gingrinch or Bush/Cheney revolution, are slim to none.

Limbaugh continues as he always has, to fudge the facts, and use his celebrity and program to do whatever he can to prop up a political party that may after 2008, become a minority party. As an effective propagandist for the Republicanazi right, and because he is being overly paid for his verbal distortions of the truth, he really has no choice other than to do what his advisers and employers require. And that is to continue propagandizing, while at the same time generating huge profits from the nonsensical jibber jabber that emanates from the lips of this theofascist bully of the airways.

Limbaugh’s radio program is the ideal forum for using the airways as a means to promote a vindictive, hateful commentary against liberalism. He uses his program as a vehicle to denigrate anyone critical of the daily pronouncements he broadcasts, frequently with the puffed-up egotism of a man totally oblivious to the fact that millions of Americans view him as a megalomaniac and political schmuck. He preaches, as is obvious to those aware of his deceptions, an extreme political ideology compatible with any former or present leader motivated by fascist and religious inclinations. He doesn’t come out and explicitly say it, but one of his main ambitions is, like a member of the clergy, to indoctrinate his listeners with the same mentally defective views of humanity that have for a long time infected his distorted perception of reality. In this respect (I don’t think it’s too extreme to say so) he closely resembles Tomás Torquemada (1420-1498), who was the most prominent leader of the Spanish Inquisition. It was Torquemada’s unquestionable belief—as Limbaugh’s unquestionable belief in theofascist conservatism—in biblical nonsense, that inspired the inquisitors to convict, mostly innocent people, based on the extremism of biblical quackery. Limbaugh’s message is that if you believe in my idiot extremism of conservative ideology, America can evolve into the greatest theofascist government on the surface of this planet. To heck with the economy, a war based on lies, thousands murdered, and the prospect of a president who is so inept that only 28 percent or less of the public has any confidence in his leadership. In Limbaugh’s distorted perception of reality, as long as Bush/Cheney are in charge, they can do no wrong because, of course, they have the credentials of extreme conservatives.

If the public, curse them, votes for a democrat as president, we will, in the mind of Limbaugh, revert back to the days of “New Deal” socialism, re-regulation of our financial institutions, the exposure of corporate exploitation, and more emphasis on preventing global warming. Unlike Torquemada, Limbaugh is not using the bible to condemn others to torture and death based on the fairy tales of biblical nonsense, he is using his program to cultivate in the mind of his listeners, the false impression that liberals are the enemy of the state, and that a conservative theofascist form of government would bring about his dipsy doodle vision of a corporate, religious government capable of resolving all the problems created by policies based on democratic, liberal values.

Limbaugh proclaims, as though he knows more than scientists, that “global warming is a hoax,” perpetrated by, you guessed it, liberal scientists intent on destroying the economy. He never lets a week go by when he doesn’t rant about global warming being a farce, and informing his listeners that they should ignore the evidence and go out and buy gas-guzzling SUV’s and burn as much gas as they can afford. The problem with his deviant mockery of global warming, is that a majority of his ditto-headed listeners are middle class men and women who can barely survive one week to the next on the paychecks they earn. I imagine they listen to this gas-bag, because he feeds them their daily dose of misinformation, hatred, delusions and naive blather which in turn gives them the false feeling that if they strive to become the kind of theofascist he is, all their present problems will evaporate; their dreams of prosperity increase; and hopefully more Newt Gingrinch clones will emerge to represent the interests of the American public. Only the politically ignorant and gullible could and do fall for Limbaugh’s poisonous cocktail of vapid rhetoric that emerges from the tongue of this blathering shock jock.

Another aspect of the contemptible rhetoric that Limbaugh mindlessly tosses out over the airways, is his indifference, even hostility toward women striving for equal rights in society. He has been known to refer to women prominent within this movement as “feminazis,” mainly as a deceptive way to mis-characterize their true intentions. Environmentalists are also high on his agenda of individuals and organizations that should be eliminated from expressing their opinions in public. In fact there are so many—other than liberals—whom he loathes, that we can state with satisfaction, that for now this clown of the airways does not occupy a high office of authority where he might have the power to put into action whatever emerges from his overly cluttered mind. It’s bad enough that he has a daily propaganda forum on some 600 radio stations that broadcast his psychobabble from coast to coast.

If you’ve ever had the occasion to listen to one or several of Limbaugh’s programs, you’ll notice one thing from the start. The man is so full of his own bullshit and hogwash, that he often absorbs the first hour and half of his program discussing nothing more than whatever issue presently occupies his mind. Lately, his main topic has been the constant bashing of Barack Obama. Even going so far as using the words “idiot” and “moron” as a means to convince his diehard ditto-heads that Obama is not competent nor intelligent enough to be president. Now that he’s compelled to support John McCain, it’s absurd to think that he perceives this man as mentally more intelligent than Obama, because his greatest achievement in life prior to being elected to public office, was the bombing of real and unreal enemies during the Viet Nam war. I suspect he knows better, but Limbaugh’s occupation as shock jock  is to spread whatever contrived bullshit he can, on whomever he can, in order to feed the emotions of his diehard brain-dead listeners.

Naming his program “talk radio” is a farce. It’s really, as are all talk-radio programs, hosted by right-wing demagogues, a forum for Limbaugh and others like him to function as propagandists for turning America into a theofascist government. When, after the first 90 minutes of Limbaugh’s program is over, he manages somehow to shut up long enough to get off his talkfest and allow a previously screened caller to talk. Usually the caller is an ardent fan of Limbaugh, and because of this they are allowed to say a few words because he knows that he or she agrees with his smug rehearsed rhetoric. On the other hand, seldom does a caller who objects to Limbaugh’s misstatements ever allowed by the screener to object to something Limbaugh has said. And, if someone who has an opposing view does manage to get through, he or she will usually get just a few moments to speak, and then Limbaugh unloads with his usually contrived remarks about he’s right, your wrong, blah, blah, blah. Cutting off the caller or constantly interrupting so that they can’t reasonably get their point across, is the same method of debate used by all right-wing hosts who become excessively defensive when they are incapable of defending their point of view. Limbaugh also uses the devious ploy of suggesting, if the caller is identified as liberal, that they are a seminal caller, someone intent on infiltrating his program with the intent to deceive and express an issue that is the opposite of the host.

Unlike some of the ultra conservative radio hosts who occasionally interview those who have an opinion different than the host, Limbaugh avoids interviewing those who disagree with him on a variety of subjects. Why? I suspect it’s because he knows that if he allows opinions different than his own, he is totally incapable of defending positions that are mainly contrived, deceptive, and highly questionable. He does not relish being seen as someone incapable of defending the deranged speculations he has based his career as a radio shock jock on. He does not want his listeners to view him as incapable of defending the idiotic ideology that is his main motivation as a demagogue for, and propagandist of a conservative theofascist ideology. When he does invite someone for an interview—about once a year or less—it’s usually someone like Dick Cheney, the late William Buckley etc. Only those who totally agree with his theofascist perceptions of reality are allowed to express their opinions for an indefinite amount of time. Hence, the listener is fed a double-dose of Limbaugian sleaze whenever he allows someone who embraces the same ideology that he does, to speak on his program.

On the subject of god and religion, there is no expectation that Limbaugh will ever express any skepticism toward the mythological fairy tales that impress the religious with the deluded belief that an invisible sky dictator is capable of responding to prayers for help. On this subject, Limbaugh like all other diehard right-wing radio hosts, has expressed the timeworn expression that religious belief, especially the Christian, is a necessary function in American society. He’s convinced that liberals are responsible for maintaining separation of church and state; for legalizing abortions; opposing charter schools and stem-cell research, and allowing—for what he perceives—as the ungodly act of homosexuals to marry one another. Actions which he perceives as un-Christian and ungodly. He does not have nor desire to view the prospect of a society that functions without the force of religious authority and dominance over society.

He, like most right-wing ideologues, would relish the elimination of church and state separation. After all, in his mentally confused mind, it is primarily liberals, who while ignoring religious beliefs and a god, are the reason why abortion was made legal; why women strive for more equal rights; why the majority of environmentalists are liberals who warn of global warming; why there is embryo and stem-cell research; why liberal women do not stay home and have fewer babies than religious women; why so many American blacks are incarcerated; why some democratic representatives lean toward socialism, and if they had their way, toward communism; why as long as there is one liberal on the Supreme Court, this country will never fully embrace the fascist ideology of extreme conservative values; why the lack of god belief is mainly responsible for liberals refusing to accept the extreme authoritarianism of conservative domestic and foreign policies; why the lack of belief in god is partly responsible for liberals refusing to accept the Bush/Cheney preemptive invasion of Iraq, a war he supports even though he must be aware that it was justified on hearsay, lies and deceptions; why all those who oppose conservative values and mock Limbaugh, are inherently anti-religious and incapable of accepting authoritarian leaders who are guided by, and imbued with an abundance of god belief; why George W. Bush’s approval ratings are so low, mainly because the public is not religious or conservative enough to embrace the political advantages of both Christian theocracy and political fascism; why America in the next election for president will, if it happens, ignore the conservative John McCain and vote for the liberal religionist Barack Obama as president; why if the democrats regain control of government, Limbaugh’s radio program of deceit, ugly humor, boastful absurdities, drivel, bullshit and conservative flimflam, may likely be jeopardized if (and that’s a big IF) the “Fairness Doctrine” is revisited, reinstated, and his employment as theofascist propagandist made that much more difficult if he is compelled to invite others with opposing views to share their opinions on his program.

It’s unlikely at this moment to think the “Fairness Doctrine” will become law again. However, Limbaugh has mentioned it several times as a means to state that a democratic president or congress might be motivated to reinstate the “Fairness Doctrine” and as a consequence, eliminate his lucrative employment as shock jock propagandist for the ultra right political establishment.

For far too long, Limbaugh has dominated talk radio, and for far too long, his intolerant views have been tolerated. It’s time the American public, not the public that seriously agrees with the bombast and sleaze that drips excessively from his mouth, awaken to the fact that this man is a demagogue and propagandist who blabbers endlessly for a form of government that is the antithesis of the kind of government envisioned by those who participated in the writing of the Constitution and the Bill of Rights. Individuals who would never have accepted nor allowed a Neanderthal like Limbaugh to participate in the writing of either the liberal Constitution nor the Bill of Rights. Such an individual as Limbaugh would have been perceived as someone whose political views were incompatible with the objectives of a representative republic.

Limbaugh will be historically remembered for what he is, a sleazy diehard schmuck and theofascist, who for a period of time, dominated the airways with a bombastic political theofascist commentary and propaganda.