Rush Limbaugh and the living brain dead

Like James Wolcott I rarely listen to the Al Franken show on Air America but like Wolcott I did today. A good friend of Al's, Mark, is on the show almost daily and Mark is a Limbaugh Ditto Head. My understanding is that Mark went through a rather nasty divorce several years ago and suffered from some kind of psychological meltdown turning this progressive into a Limbaugh fan. I'm glad that after my divorce I just started drinking excessively and started smoking again.

Wolcott's observations on Al and Mark today are right on target.

Today, Al was playing choice cuts of Rush's idiotic, morally debauched rationalizations for torture at Abu Ghraib and Gitmo. A pointless exercise, since Dittohead Mark thinks any criticism of the military is picking out the negative instead of accenting the positive. He insisted, practically demanded, that instead of emphasizing the occasional bad thing the military's doing in Iraq--you know, like wiping out entire wedding parties--Al should come up with one positive item a day from Iraq. And not be sarcastic about it either, Mark added.
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So this is where we are in 2004. Conservatives not only dictate the terms of debate from their side, but dictate how the other side should conduct itself (i.e., like eunuchs). Liberals would never bother pestering Rush or Ann Coulter to acknowledge one positive achievement of liberalism or feminism a day, because they know they'd only get a dismissive get-lost in return. But conservative have no hesitation in lecturing liberals on how to discuss the war in Iraq, even though all of the power in Washington is now concentrated in Republican hands and liberal Democrats haven't the slightest input into the decision-making process.

Al should have told his dittohead friend that it's too damned late to be sprinking sugar on the mound of corpses mounting in Iraq, but instead he persisted in this exercise in futility, trying to persuade someone who's unpersuadable, winkle a mind that's proudly, defiantly clam-shut. It really is liberal masochism trying to find common ground with someone who believes liberals barely deserve to occupy the same earth. Dittohead Mark might concede a minor point here or there, but he's never going to budge on the big dumb positions his hero Rush holds dear, and using his powers of reason on a sensibility so inert is a waste of Al's breath, and a waste of the listener's time.

It has been my experience that "Ditto Heads" really are simply brain dead and should be taken off life support. If we pulled the plug on a few million "Ditto Heads" we could probably get rid of the likes of Bush in no time.