Rushbo Stupidism of the Week: It was a tough call this week, what with Rush blaming the shooting at the Holocaust Museum on Obama's anti-Semitism and all. But he set a pretty low bar on the very first hour of his Monday broadcast, so low that even he couldn't descend it:
Friday's Choice on Saturday: The great Jimmy Lafave washes the taste of Rush away with his beautiful cover of "Catch The Wind":
Barack Obama sees America's role in the world as not good. It is offensive to the sensibilities of millions of people to hear a member of the state-run media refer to a half-black, half-white human being with no experience running anything of substance referred to as a god.
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((sigh)) That's pretty low even for Rush. Somebody'll really have to point out to me where the media ever regarded Obama as a god. The closest I've ever seen is the religious right press declaring him to be the antichrist.
I like Jimmy Lafave's take on "Catch the Wind". It reminds me of the all-night jams my old friend Joel, a reggae guitarist, and I used to get into; we could go for hours on "All Along the Watchtower" or "Knockin' On Heaven's Door". This has that same hypnotic quality.
You're writing a mystery? Cool beans!
Rushbo is a real snake in the grass, all right. If someone called him on this, he'd act all offended and say that Obama is half-black half-white, so how can stating a fact be racist?
Jimmy Lafave is wonderful. None of his albums are worse than very good. I'm a big fan of his last one (Cimarron Manifesto), and Trail is a great place to start. Unfortunately, he rarely performs outside of Texas. The one time I saw him, he joined Bruce Springsteen to sing "Oklahoma Hills"!
I DO believe in karma and I'd say Rush is headed for a mean, humongous train wreck. I can't wait to witness it.
It's always been one of my favorite songs.
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