Doug Kerr
Well-known member
The death of actor Robin Williams is a tragedy on so very many levels.
And it has engendered many dreadful things that are far too banal to qualify as "tragedy".
Noted gasbag and serial polluter of the AM broadcast band Rush Limbaugh has informed us that the tragic life and ultimate death of Williams was to be expected as a result of the inherent unhappiness of the "political left".
Limbaugh characterizes this as that "The leftist attitude is one of pessimism and darkness, sadness -- they're never happy, are they? They're always angry about something. No matter what they get, they're always angry."
He goes on to say, "He had it all but he had nothing. Made everybody else laugh but was miserable inside," Limbaugh said. "I mean, it fits a certain picture or a certain image that the left has. Talk about low expectations and general unhappiness and so forth."
Well how about that. We learn something every day. In the case of utterances from Rush Limbaugh, all we learn is about Rush Limbaugh. Ooh!
A few years ago, shortly after Barack Obama was elected President of the United States, a family member began sending me generally-mindless diatribes denigrating the president. They were invariably full of factual errors. misquotations, faulty conclusions, and (worst of all) bad grammar, spelling, punctuation, and gaudy and/or careless typography.
I gave a critique of one of his early offerings, pointing out the grave errors of fact. He said, "I never knew you were such a liberal".
I guess it is my aversion to error in fact (or gaudy typography) that makes me so (a) liberal and thus (b) unhappy.
I am so grateful for the First Amendment of the United States Constitution. It assures that the AM broadcast band will never fall victim to dead air. Air with a smell like that of death, but not itself dead.
Am I angry? Rush Limbaugh has neither the ammunition nor the aim to make me angry.
Best regards,
Doug
And it has engendered many dreadful things that are far too banal to qualify as "tragedy".
Noted gasbag and serial polluter of the AM broadcast band Rush Limbaugh has informed us that the tragic life and ultimate death of Williams was to be expected as a result of the inherent unhappiness of the "political left".
Limbaugh characterizes this as that "The leftist attitude is one of pessimism and darkness, sadness -- they're never happy, are they? They're always angry about something. No matter what they get, they're always angry."
He goes on to say, "He had it all but he had nothing. Made everybody else laugh but was miserable inside," Limbaugh said. "I mean, it fits a certain picture or a certain image that the left has. Talk about low expectations and general unhappiness and so forth."
Well how about that. We learn something every day. In the case of utterances from Rush Limbaugh, all we learn is about Rush Limbaugh. Ooh!
A few years ago, shortly after Barack Obama was elected President of the United States, a family member began sending me generally-mindless diatribes denigrating the president. They were invariably full of factual errors. misquotations, faulty conclusions, and (worst of all) bad grammar, spelling, punctuation, and gaudy and/or careless typography.
I gave a critique of one of his early offerings, pointing out the grave errors of fact. He said, "I never knew you were such a liberal".
I guess it is my aversion to error in fact (or gaudy typography) that makes me so (a) liberal and thus (b) unhappy.
I am so grateful for the First Amendment of the United States Constitution. It assures that the AM broadcast band will never fall victim to dead air. Air with a smell like that of death, but not itself dead.
Am I angry? Rush Limbaugh has neither the ammunition nor the aim to make me angry.
Best regards,
Doug