A tribute to the great Rush Limbaugh

And his trashing of big, fat, stupid Michael Moore.

Rush is no longer with us, but his commentary lives on. A little less than 2 years ago, he destroyed the idiocy of Michael Moore.

Many of you are familiar with the phrase, "knocked it out of the park". For those who aren't, it's a reference to a home run so high and deep that it clears the outside stadium wall.

You can find a list of the longest homers in baseball history online. The longest on video will have pretty good estimates, and Jose Canseco had a 540 footer back in 1989. Mickey Mantle had 2 massive ones not on video, so perhaps the estimates could be off a bit, but they were 565 feet and an astounding 643 feet.

The thought "knocked it out of the park" came to mind early on as I read the article (linked below the quotes I pulled), as Limbaugh takes the figurative pitch from big, fat, stupid Michael Moore, and crushes one somewhere around 600 feet out of the park of debate.

Many pull quotes to include here, and that high number of pull quotes is how I estimate the figurative 600 foot blast. I put the very best in bold, and that’s still several.

Note that the transcription had some errors at the time I read it a couple years ago. I don’t know whether it has been corrected since then or not.

"I read something like this, can this guy really be this dumb? And then I have to conclude, yes."

"How many of you right now, if you spend your time on Twitter, how many of you are in arguments with people you are convinced are brain-dead about anything to do with reopening the states or the coronavirus or no matter what kind of logic that you throw at them, all you get back is hatred and vitriol."

"You can have statistic after statistic, fact after fact to refute everything they believe, and it doesn’t permeate. Michael Moore has been running around for decades promoting policies that would wreck the economy."

"He said he had no idea, when he plugged in his electric car, where did the electricity come from. In other words, he had no idea that it was coming from the power plant. He had no idea it was coming from coal."

“I assumed solar panels would last for ever. I didn’t know what went into the making of them.” Meaning what a drain they are on the environment to make. Now, if we believe this, the guy’s just flat-out clueless. And if we believe it, which would make sense, we find out exactly how blockheaded the people on the left are that we’re dealing with and that we’re going about dealing with them in the entirely wrong way. We can’t deal with them logically because they’re not using any semblance of mental acuity to arrive at whatever they believe."

"They are strictly the recipients of propaganda. And that’s it. They can’t tell you why they think what they think. When you challenge ’em, that’s when the insults start aimed at you. You’re a racist, you’re a bigot, you don’t know what you’re talking about. They can’t defend what they believe unless they have had some propaganda they think — using logic on them is a waste of time."

"If you’re debating them on Twitter, forget it. It’s a total waste of time. You’re not even on the same wavelength with these people because they’re not using thought. They’re not using any brain activity whatsoever other than memorization of propaganda."

"And they hate nuclear power because of one movie, The China Syndrome. They hate it. You cannot get through to them and tell them, based on what you believe, nuclear is the absolute only source that you should be relying on."

"You tell ’em how toxic the batteries are in their electric cars and how they have to dispose of them when they wear out, they won’t believe you. And it’s a problem. It’s a problem when, you know, we conservatives, the ones that are actively involved in stuff like this — I don’t know about you — I’ve arrived at my celebrated points of view by way of genuine intellectual application."

"I’ve questioned, I’ve researched what other people say. I have sought, in other words, to honestly, legitimately mentally confirm what I believe. There’s not one part of that equation that applies to most people on the left, that you would run into, average, ordinary Toms, Dicks, and Harrys out there on the left, they don’t get near any kind of mental process that involves thinking, critical thinking, analysis."

"The vast majority of these people literally think what they think because of hatred. It is hatred that the people that propagandized them use as the gateway or the pathway into these people’s so-called hearts and minds."

https://www.rushlimbaugh.com/daily/2020/04/22/michael-moore-discovers-electric-cars-use-energy/

Thank you, Rush Limbaugh.