Fears of a Clown - (about oxycotin guy)

[Hawaii Hiker]

My apologizes if it's been posted already, but it is a must read...

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

[GardeningGal]

1. It is a good read.

Here's the first couple paragraphs....

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.

[rurallib]

2. "Race is an obsession with Limbaugh"

That pretty much says it all. Any more he hardly even hides it behind a veneer of concern for his country anymore.
Probably the biggest reason that he wants Obama to fail has nothing to do with his vaunted 'conservative' values. My guess is that he could not handle the success of a black person, especially as president.