NYT Egan: Fears of a clown

[Iwillnevergiveup]

This is hands down the consumate piece on Rushbo.

March 4, 2009, 10:00 pm
Fears of a Clown

Timothy Egan

Once upon a time, you could drive to the most remote reaches of the United States and escape Rush Limbaugh. But from the Mogollon Mountains of New Mexico to the Badlands of South Dakota, where only the delicious twang of a country tune or the high-pitched pleadings of a lone lunatic came over the AM dial, there is now the Mighty El Rushbo.

As someone who spends a lot of time on the road, I used to find Limbaugh to be an obnoxious but entertaining companion, his eruptions more reliable than Old Faithful. But now that Limbaugh has become something else — the face of the Republican Party, by a White House that has played him brilliantly — he has been transformed into car-wreck-quality spectacle, at once scary and sad.

http://egan.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/03/04/fears-of-a-clown/?emc=eta1

[Iwillnevergiveup]

1. Uh oh.....double post

But if there was ever one that deserved it, this is it. Timothy Egan is a stupendous writer.

[BlueMTexpat]

2. K& R!!!

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