I always try to see the best in people and try not to attack anyone personally but sometimes it seems necessary to do so.  This is one of those times.

Rush Limbaugh is in the center of it once again for his outrageous comments. He is indeed a raving lunatic!  But he is also a very rich raving lunatic because of his behavior. That in my mind is a major cause of where we are in the political sphere in this country today. It is reported that Mr. Limbaugh made about $30 million last year from his rantings.  I’m sure all my conservative friends listen to him weekly and applaud his ability to rake in the big bucks with his bitter words.

I am also sure there are literally millions of radical rights who dream of someday being the next “Rush”. They prowl the web to find anyplace where they can put in a bitter and spiteful message that others might notice. Who knows who might be reading their words? Maybe some producer who will make them famous like their buddy Rush. The more outrageous they are the more likely they will be noticed.  This is one of the reasons almost everything on the web that is open to comments gets almost exclusively viral comments. After all who wouldn’t like to make $30 million a year!!

I’m sure my conservative friends are yelling that there are also some pretty radical left-wing commentators out there too.  They will mention that guys like Bill Maher who can spit out the spite almost as well as Rush. Bill’s reported net worth is only $23 million (only??) so he probably also looks on Rush with a certain amount of envy. There are a handful of others, both male and female, who profit from their vitriol actions but none of them as successful money wise as Rush. He seems to be the king of spite and a royal prince of the Republican party.

It amazes me that so many look up to these folks as heroes. It also amazes me that so many publishers open up their articles to allow comments. Don’t they realize that all of us normal folks have long since quit trying to put an actual productive comments among all that hate! Maybe if some would shut down the comments sections they would find that it really doesn’t affect their readership and then others would follow. The old saying about everyone wanting their fifteen minutes of fame is certainly true to one extent or another. But it would certainly be nice to see that fame accomplished by good deeds instead of hateful and spiteful words. But I guess it is easier to be spiteful than good.

My first encounter with the current type of U.S. politics was the McCarthy hearings of the 1950s. Even as a young boy I could see that all the hateful words that came out of those senators was not a good thing. It only took one phrase to eventually shut down that process and it was “Have you no shame!!!”.  I wish we could find the magic words to shut down support and envy of Rush and the people like him but “Have you no shame..” won’t do it this time because they don’t.

But what do I know…..