Rush Limbaugh on Healthcare and How Not to Use Your Brain

by Michelle . · 2009-08-14 07:00:00 UTC
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It's easy to brush Rush Limbaugh aside as an overpaid, trumped up, hypocritical conservative bobblehead --- don't listen to his ridiculous radio program, and he won't interfere with your day. The problem, however, is that others do listen, and take Mr. Limbaugh's baseless rantings as gospel truth.

Case in point: As Martha wrote yesterday, Limbaugh's latest claim to fame is comparing Obama's healthcare plan with Nazi Germany and the Holocaust. Utterly ridiculous, complete fantasy, and egregiously irresponsible.

But watch a clip from Wednesday's Colbert Report, and you see a rather incensed man yell: "It reads like something that was brought up in the early 1930s in Germany!"

Right, I'm sure you read the legislation and came to this conclusion yourself, rather than just regurgitating radio talk show fear mongering. And you know the difference between said fear-mongering and fact-based analysis. Because actually, this is how something from the early 1930s in Germany reads:

"All proposals that include a permanent presence, a permanent regulation of the Jews in Germany, do not solve the Jewish Question, for they do not eliminate the Jews from Germany. And that is what we want to do."

Rush Limbaugh is one thing, but the thousands of lemmings following his lead are the real problem.

Michelle . has been involved in various activist endeavors, including the Teach Against Genocide pilot campaigns.
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