For those Readers not old enough to make the connection..."Apocalypse Now" was a movie made in 1979, about the Viet Nam War, which generated the line, "I love the smell of napalm in the morning".
For those same Readers, it is critical to completely understand the humor in this Posting...that you also be aware of the fact that one of the biggest Chicken Hawks in support of every armed conflict that does not risk his OWN life...is Rush Limbaugh.
Limbaugh, like Bill O'Reilly, skipped out on the whole Viet Nam thing. Bill managed to stack a series of Student Deferments together long enough to have the deferral period last until the war ended. Limbaugh was actually declared either unfit to serve, or just so handicapped that he would surely not live out his first day in battle.
Either way, these punks, and others like them, including Dick Cheney, Paul Wolfowitz, Hannity and the rest of the crew that simply cannot wait to invade the next Sovreign Nation...deserve all of the bad Karma which the God of ANY religion decides to befall them.
I wrote the other day about listening to Hannity and almost being able to experience his seizure, as he simply could not accept the ass-kicking which IS coming. Ordinarily, I would feel horrible about the stress being endured...the moments being take off of the life of a person who was essentailly held captive, and being forced to watch the thing they cared about most in their life, being flushed down the toilet. And, by the time Barack Obama is sworn in, the full impact of he upcoming Depressionis felt, The Fairness Doctrine returns to the American airwaves, and the political pendulum swings even farther in the peoper direction...Hannity and the rest of his right-wing hate-mongering bullshit machine component parts...will become completely irrelevant.
As I said...while I may feel some sympathy or compassion for their wives, children and others who may now actually have to put up with seeing these turkeys more often...I can feel little if any thing other than happiness, as I contemplate a world which does not necessarily include these Chirpies spewing their daily diatribe of potentially violent encouragement to the Single Digit NASCAR Contingent which have kept them on the air thus far.
In the case of Limbaugh...when I heard him earlier today, it was as if John McCain himself had just strafed the studio in an A-4 with a full compliment of Napalm...and scored a direct hit on the fat, bald, drug addicted, would-be felon, while he was in mid-spew.
And, that was BEFORE Ted Stevens "brung it all home," with seven, count 'em, SEVEN FELONY CONVICTIONS.
It was also before, when asked to comment on the SEVEN FELONY CONVICTIONS of the Senior Senator from Alaska...AND ONE OF HER POLITICAL MENTORS...Sarah Palin stated only that she was sorry for the Senator and his family. Palin immediately blamed THOSE WHO PAID STEVENS...and essentially held Stevens harmless for his conduct. She also refused to state whether or not she would still vote for Stevens in the upcoming election.
And...without any of this Breaking News...I have to say that in all of the years that I have listened to this Blowhard ramble on and on, and on...in times when his political minions were in complete control, not only of their own destinies, but OURS as well...I have NEVER heard the man ooze the kind of legitimate fear that was present in his voice today.
These were no longer crocodile tears, My Good Friends. This man was scared RIGHT DOWN TO HIS SOCKS. He screamed about Jeremiah Wright, and then played tape after tape, after tape of Jeremiah Wright screaming for himself. Without looking at Limbaugh, a blind man still knew that the little beads of sweat teeming out of every pour had their own little sweat beads trailing behind them. A person with a severed olfactory nerve could smell the fear...and every listener knew that Limbaugh had not been this frightened since those 60 seconds of silence before the Head of his Local Draft Board declared him to be UNFIT for military service back in 1969.
I admit, there have been times, when I was doing my own radio program, that I got a little carried away from time to time. There were times when I got a little anxious, even upset about some ridiculously stupid, or arrogant, or ignorant, or other statement made, or action taken, by whoever had caused my momentary dismay. And...having something of a bully pulpit...I could and would take a few minutes to express that displeasure. On the other hand... I am quite sure that I never had a five alarm seizure while on the air. Nor, did I ever let them see me sweat...or feel my fear.
I know some of the longtime Readers know this...but, for those who have just joined us...I am a practicing Quaker, by faith. The Quaker Faith produces some of the most peaceful, accepting, understanding and tolerant human beings in the known universe. I honestly think of myself as being in each and every one of those categories. As such, it truly does pain me, more than you can know, to listen to even Limbaugh, and not feel bad...for me. The fact that the most compassion I can express on behalf of a guy who knows that the end is near...is to be willing to actually conduct the Presidential Election a week early, in order to effectively euthanize his sick, abundant ass...actually does cause me to feel the need to spend more time in meditation and reflection, than I do ordinarily.
However...having said that...because I honestly believe that there IS evil in this world...and, because I believe that at least some of that evil goes by the name of Rush Limbaugh...I will deal effectively with my dilemma. At the same time, I will take great personal pain, in enjoying the living hell out of watching and listening to the entire collection of right wing talk radio and television hacks have the air ceremoniously sucked out of their lungs over the course of the next eight days. I wish no real, or long-term ill upon them. And, at all times, as previously indicated...I will feel great sadness for those who live with them, or who will be forced to have far more contact with them, once they are out of jobs. Undoubtedly, once they are let go, more dogs will be kicked. More wives and children, will likely be beaten. Perhaps some of the newly disenchanted will even find there way back onto television...as guests of Chris Hanson on the NBC News Magazine, Dateline.
I know Limbaugh signed a huge new contract recently, through the mid-20 teens. Likewise Hannity was recently renewed for a long period. Perhaps they have good agents who knew that they would have no value a year from now, and pushed to complete negotiations prior to the election?
Funny...Ted Stevens pushed to have his case decided before the election, too. THAT, kinda didnt work out the way HE had planned.
If I were Hannity or Limbaugh...I might be checking those contracts to make sure they coudnt be cancelled based upon irrelevance.
If you have never listened to Limbaugh...do it this week. Ignore the venom. Hell, it is way too little, much too late. So, dont let it get to you. Do listen though...take a really deep breath, put your feet up, and watch as the karma of a war-mongering, elitist Chicken Hawk bastard...comes home...to roost!