I'm gonna go with Limbaugh.
I hate to be a nitpick, but...you like
Rush Limbaugh? Really? I'm sorry, he's just a terrible, terrible, bigoted sexist and racist all around. Let's see if the following facts help you change your opinion:
a.) He mocked a 13-year-old Chelsea Clinton (Bill and Hillary's daughter, that is) for her appearance and called her a 'dog'. To quote Wikipedia:
Limbaugh referred to media coverage of Socks, the Clintons' cat. He then stated, "But did you know there is also a White House dog?" and a presented a picture of Chelsea Clinton who was 13 years old at the time.
But then again - Trump himself has made too many disparaging and very insulting statements about women's looks to count.
b.) He has made numerous racist comments about African-Americans. To quote a line from Wikipedia - "He once opined that all newspaper composite pictures of wanted criminals resembled Jesse Jackson, and another time that "the NFL all too often looks like a game between the Bloods and the Crips without any weapons.""
c.) He thought the death of 90 million Native Americans was worthy of a joke: "Holocaust 90 million Indians? Only 4 million left? They all have casinos, what’s to complain about?"
d.) Limbaugh is an utter classist. He has defended the ultra-rich and opposed taxes for that group on multiple occasions, and opposed basic welfare and support for the poor and disabled, including kids. This includes the free school lunches you are a proponent of.
e.) Limbaugh has minimised HIV/AIDS and made it the butt of many a joke. He once mocked the death of gay people from AIDS on his show. He called it "Rock Hudson's disease." He played the song "Another one Bites the Dust" when Freddie Mercury died of AIDS.
f.) Limbaugh has said that there is no need for sexual consent. He mocked a campus in Ohio that required verbal sexual consent, and said: "How many of you guys ... have learned that 'no' means 'yes' if you know how to spot it?" Meh, who cares about sexual consent anyway? At least, the people who supported Trump after Access Hollywood might not.
g.) An absolute hypocrite (like, Scott DesJarlais levels), Limbaugh has advocated a very hard line against drugs and drug use (including marijuana). Which is fine. But what about the fact that he himself was in a drug rehab facility? And has prescription drug addiction? I guess it's okay if he does it but not okay if anyone else does it, right?
h.) Limbaugh lived and died as a climate change denier who spewed many lies about climate change and insisted it was a hoax. This is true of many conservatives, of course, including many you strongly support.
i.) Limbaugh said of feminism: "[It] was established so that unattractive ugly broads could have easy access to the mainstream of society." Then again..you supported Trump even after Access Hollywood, so you may discount this as meaningless.
j.) You're an anti-Iraq isolationist, correct? So if nothing else, this one should hit close to home. He suggested bombing Iraq for no reason at all except as...revenge for September 11. He was bloodthirsty and loved the idea of killing innocent, impoverished Iraqi civilians to avenge the deaths of Americans at the hands of terrorists who did not represent the way the vast, vast majority of Iraqis thought about Islam and America. Because really, who cares if millions of innocent Iraqis, including children, are killed if it makes a few bloodthirsty Americans feel good about themselves? About the Abu Ghraib scandal (it was extremely gruesome, upsetting and shocking, and if you don't believe me, check out its
Wiki page): "This is no different than what happens at the Skull and Bones initiation ... And we're going to ruin people's lives over it and we're going to hamper our military effort, and then we are going to really hammer them because they had a good time." So much for America not practicing torture.
k.) He's taken a 180 on NAFTA, which I believe you, as an America First protectionist, oppose. Back in the nineties, he was a strong defender of NAFTA. As he realised his average listener was gravitating towards protectionism, however, he hastily reversed course. But given that you supported Trump, the flip-flopper of all flip-floppers, I don't think this should be much of an issue to you.
l.) Limbaugh spouted blatantly racist 'birther' conspiracy theories about Obama's citizenship and birthplace. Then again, so did the Orange Man.
m.) Limbaugh has made very serious and offensive allegations regarding 'false-flag operations' in both the US and New Zealand.
n.) In case it's not clear enough, Limbaugh is as much of a, if not an even bigger, pathological liar than Trump. From Wiki:
Of Limbaugh's controversial statements and allegations they have investigated, Politifact has rated 84% as ranging from "Mostly False" to "Pants On Fire" (signifying false statements that cannot be reasonably assessed as merely errors), with 5% of Limbaugh's contested statements rising to the level of "Mostly True" and 0% rated "True". These debunked allegations by Limbaugh include suggestions that the existence of gorillas disproves the theory of evolution, that Ted Kennedy sent a letter to Soviet General Secretary Yuri Andropov seeking to undercut President Reagan, that a recent lack of hurricanes disproves climate change, and that President Obama wanted to mandate circumcision.
o.) As far as Charlottesville goes, a lot of us think that the award of Worst Take should go to Trump's "both sides", hands down. HOWEVER, Limbaugh soundly outdoes Trump even on this front. As Wikipedia states, not only did he blame antifa/BLM, he also said it was a conspiracy between Terry McAuliffe, George Soros, et. al. -
After the white supremacist Unite the Right rally, in which a counter-protestor was murdered in the Charlottesville car attack, Limbaugh claimed that the violence had been provoked by Black Lives Matter activists, Antifa, and Robert Creamer. He also claimed without evidence that the police response had been deliberately restrained by Terry McAuliffe as a botched attempt to start a presidential bid in the 2020 Democratic Party presidential primaries, and that it was part of a campaign by "international financiers" such as George Soros to start a Second American Civil War to remove its status as a global superpower.
p.) Limbaugh mocked Michael Fox's Parkinson's disease and claimed he was acting/exaggerating it out...because Fox supported stem cell research:
In October 2006, Limbaugh said Michael J. Fox, who has Parkinson's disease, had exaggerated the effects of his disability in a political TV advertisement advocating for funding of stem cell research. Limbaugh said that Fox in the ad had been "shameless" in "moving all around and shaking", and that Fox had not taken "his medication or he's acting, one of the two". Fox said "the irony of it is I was too medicated", adding that there was no way to predict how his symptoms would manifest...In 2012, Fox said Limbaugh in 2006 had acted on "bullying instincts" when "he said I faked it. I didn't fake it.", and said Limbaugh's goal was to have him marginalized and shut down for his stem cell stance.
q.) He called Iraq War veterans who opposed the war "the phony soldiers". This from a man who never served in active combat himself.
r.) Limbaugh, just like Trump, spread lies and conspiracy theories about COVID19, insisting it was just "the common cold" back in February 2020.
s.) A series of controversies regarding him and Sandra Fluke are detailed in
this Wikipedia page. Listing them all out is not something I'm very interested in doing, particularly given how lewd, even by his/Trump's standards, his commentary was.
Is THIS the man you want to support and defend? Really? You're on the path to disavowing Trump (at least I hope so), so while you're at it, why not this horrible, bigoted, racist, sexist, Islamaphobic, bloodthirsty proto-Trump too?
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