Putz of the Week

BuzzFlash.com Presents:

Honoring reporters who just can't handle the truth!

May 22, 2008 Rush Limbaugh

For reporting that is an embarrassment to the profession of journalism, and for being beholden to corporate paymasters rather than the citizens of America. Fresh off his high of being the generalissimo of coordinating "Operation Chaos," which succeeded in getting an unknown number of Republicans to vote for Hillary Clinton in the primaries, Rush Limbaugh is on a high, even as his own party of the wealthy heads for a crash landing in the gutter. John C. Christman of Spokane, Washington, felt strongly that Limbaugh deserves at least an annual Media Putz recognition: Few would proclaim that Rush Limbaugh is anything approaching a genius, even though he continues to state that he has "talent on loan from God." He proved just how inept he is this week when he told his listeners that he had Googled and come up with yet more proof that college professors were evil left-leaning ne'er-do-wells who are doing their best to lead America's youth astray. Limbaugh was railing on about Barack Obama's comments that there are some similarities between the lead-in to the Great Depression and today's economic picture. Rush came across what he thought was a paper published by a college professor and proceeded to rip it apart, after stating that he was very fortunate not to have to sit through such propaganda since he never graduated from college. The only problem is that a listener recognized the name of the author of the paper as having been a classmate in high school who now works as a programmer for Microsoft. The paper was written by Paul Alexander Gusmorino III while he was a tenth grade student. We have all had good reason to suspect that Rush was playing with less than a full deck for a number of years now, but he has given us even further proof that he is deserving of the Buzzflash Media Putz of the Week Award. It is not a surprise that Limbaugh should be entitled to a Media Putz Award. It is a mystery to me how he has avoided being named for his second such award, the first having been awarded during August of last year. I guess that only serves to prove that there is no shortage of halfwits hawking their wares in today's media. It's been a longstanding belief that Limbaugh and FOX News (last week's BuzzFlash Media Putz winner) are the most responsible for the skewed misinformed perspective of many Americans who rely on television and radio for propaganda disguised as news and "informed" opinion. Limbaugh and FOX have been successfully molding public perspective into a prism that favors the wealthy and corporations through the election of Republicans. Theirs is the art of the demagogue, the prestidigitator, the charlatan. Limbaugh is a multi-millionaire elitist who scorns his listeners while he lights up expensive cigars and goes on hedonist trips to the Dominican Republic. He's an ultra wealthy con artist and is once again the BuzzFlash Media Putz of the Week.

 

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