Conservatives (the C-list) lack brilliance, merit as guest-list proves
LAUREATES OF LIMBAUGH
Ever hear a nobel laureate being interviewed on Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity or Bill O'Reilly? Of course not! Nor will you have heard any on the world's A-list of brilliance and merit. But you may well have heard any number of laureates, in any number of fields...if you were listening to NPR. Why just last week, I heard an interview with Desmond Tutu.
When you turn on your radio, you have a few choices. You could listen to music, or you could listen to talk. That's about it. There is no fart channel. Well, let me think about that a minute...
OK..so Rush, though flatulating bloviance, or bloviating flatulence, is passing gas...onto the customer. He does at least give us a break by allowing all manner of gutter helmet to intercede.
There are no guests on Rush Limbaugh. All you get is pure Rush. Pure opinion. One voice. Dictation.
And one voice is not enough. Not if you value education, edification, amelioration.
I suspect there is a reason that Conservatives -- at least the most visible and outspoken ones in today's America -- are those very people who made Cs in school. They just got by. They may have also participated in that allied C-word, "cheating".
Anecdotally, the only folks I know who cheated happen to be conservatives. And strangely, they have tended to foist their cheating upon the post-educational world...cheating at work, cheating on their wives... It is as if they get a thrill from the cheating itself.
But quality rises on its own merit. It needs no shoehorn, no false promotion.
And quality recognizes quality, and also cheating. And quality avoids cheaters, and gravitates to kindred spirits. One reason you will not see laureates on Limbaugh.
