We started it as a homage to Janet Jackson, and her incredible impact on the Super Bowl years ago.
Our feeling was, as nice as her right boob was, the public was too distracted to see the real Right Boobs out there spewing forth crap every day.
But we had to take a break for a while. But with a new president, and a new attitude in the country, it's time we started actually burying the right wing, once and for all. They still have far too much influence.
This week's choice for Right Boob was not easy to come up with. I mean, there is a treasure trove of bullshit to dig through every single day, and it's really difficult to whittle it down to just one.
This week, however, the choice was easy, possibly even predictable, although I doubt it. Our Right Boob wasn't big enough on any particular day to showcase it, but every day, Our Right Boob added the right wing idiocy.
And so, be sure to keep the children away, because without further ado, we reveal...
Our Right Boob of the Week...
Rush Limbaugh
Rush Limbaugh LOVES being the, um, "tit"ular head of the Republican Party. You can tell, because he sounds stupider now than he did fifteen years ago, when he was at the top of his radio game. He is actually doing more to kill the current incarnation of the Republican Party than anyone, and that's a good thing. We need a healthy two-party system, and the current Republican Party is sick as hell.
This week, Limbaugh was the obvious choice for Right Boob. No one else even came close. He didn't rise to the top on any particular day, but for the week, he was golden -- a veritable font of right wing crap...
All week long, as the rest of middle America was outraged by the news that AIG executives were giving themselves huge bonuses, apparently for running their company into the ground and needing the government to bail them out.
On Monday, when a caller dared say he agreed with Obama about the bonuses, Limbaugh replied:
Let me ask you a question. ... You have a company -- let's take AIG out of this 'cause they're so emotionally charged. Let's say that the company being bailed out is the XYZ Widget Company. ... We need them to manufacture widgets and sell widgets and so forth. So why in the world -- or how do you get to the point where you're going to bail out the company, but you don't want the employees to get paid? (...) This is not just executives, but executives are employees, too. And in many of these firms, Nathan, their salaries are pretty small. They work on bonuses, via contract based on merit.
Isn't that sweet? Rush Limbaugh cares SO MUCH for the common working man. Only, no one has been talking about bonus awards for anyone making less than $100,000, so his complaint is something of a non sequitur. Quite the surprise coming from Limbaugh, I know.
The next day, he took on "the bailout" itself:
I want to ask all of you in this audience and those of you who are new to this program a question. Way back last fall, when all this bailout stuff started, I warned you: This isn't going to work. This is not the way to do it. This is the government asserting control. We see now what a total mess all of this has become.
Guess where we are now? We've got the administration led by President Obama and his teleprompter. His teleprompter told him to say yesterday that these AIG executives are greedy and selfish, and now what? We've got death threats being phoned in to the AIG headquarters in New York, and all this time, we've been told that it's talk radio that incites this kind of hatred. It's Limbaugh and the little Limbaughs that create all of this animosity and anger and cause people to behave in ways that are uncivil.
And the president's own teleprompter is telling him to say that these executive are greedy and selfish and this is inciting people to behavior that could lead to violence if their threats are acted out. This whole thing is a boondoggle. It is a mess brought to you by the United States government led by Democrats.
Pretty cool, huh? See how he did that? In Wingnut speak, Limbaugh -- who dropped out of college and tooled around the radio and sports promotions biz for about 30 years, before he started a national right wing radio show, where he was able to peddle Hooked of Phonics to an audience who didn't even know what phonics was -- is implying that President Obama, whom Limbaugh used to deride as a great speaker, but little else, is now too stupid to speak without a teleprompter, and was the ONLY ONE responsible for the economic mess that precipitated the bailout.
Think about this a minute. First, he says he was against the bailout last fall (when Bush was president), but that somehow Obama deserves all of the blame, even though he was merely running for president at the time of the initial bailout. Something lke 90% or more of the balout money AIG received came from Bush and Paulson, and I don't recall Bush and Paulson putting conditions on the money.
You have to LOVE, however, that on Monday, he was all worried about those poor AIG workers, but by Tuesday, his care and sympathy had shifted to the executives, who were giving themselves bonuses for essentially draining our 401(k)s.
As Media Matters points out, Limbaugh's excuse of AIG's actions is doubly reprehensible, given his stance on the bailout of GM, Ford and Chrysler. Check out the difference in tone here:
OK, so Toyota, $30 an hour versus the UAW, 28. So fire [UAW president Ron] Gettelfinger for getting you an inferior deal. But that's not the answer. See, I'll guarantee you something, Mr. Krueger. I'll bet you Toyota's not paying 700,000 people every year full wages and retirement who no longer work. I know the UAW has made some concessions on wages, but they haven't made any concessions on the stuff that's really costing.
I'm all for you guys making everything you can. I'm -- I've said this I don't know how many times. I'm not against anybody earning what they can get. You are worth what somebody will pay you, unless you're in a union, and then you're only worth what your thug leader can get for you. In this case, you're getting $2 an hour less than the people at Toyota are getting. If that's even true. I don't know that that's -- I've heard that the sum total of the UAW package is actually $55 an hour when you add everything up. I mean, I don't know what to believe about all this.
All I know is common economics, and that is you cannot pay 700,000 people every year for doing nothing as though they're still working full-time. You cannot do it. You cannot do it in perpetuity, or you are in heap big trouble. I don't care if somebody made that deal long ago or not. The bill has come due. What I do know is that in 2007, Mr. Krueger, Toyota and General Motors sold almost the identical number of cars -- 9.37 million. I also know that Toyota made $17 billion selling their 9.37 million cars. I know that General Motors lost something like $28 billion selling their 9.37 million cars.
Now, I don't know all the things that contribute to the difference in Toyota's profit and General Motors' loss, and I doubt that it's all labor costs. I don't think it's -- the disparity can be that large simply because of labor, but it's certainly a factor.
But I'm not against you guys. But I'm against -- I'm just a classic Econ 101 guy. There's just some things I know that used to be common sense. You can't pay people who produce nothing for you. And you can't pay a whole bunch of them over and over again who don't do anything, even if they have in the past. We had a deal, we had a deal -- yeah, well, look at where it's got you. Your company's being bankrupt or bailed out or what-have-you.
It ain't healthy. The purpose of this country is not to see to it that the United Auto Workers get paid when there aren't any cars being made. That's not the purpose of the United States of America. The purpose of the United States of America is not to have Democrats run around telling people that that's the kind of deal they can get if they elect Democrats.
On Wednesday, he was back to lying about the original bailout, AND the stimulus package. Apparently, he's decided that it's his job to revise the history the Republican Party doesn't like.
It's in the stimulus package that they get the bonuses. That's what they're now going to go in and try to change. "AIG stands for Arrogance, Incompetence, and Greed" -- yeah, and you people bailed them out. And let's remember one thing, folks, while we go forward: Not one Republican voted for this bailout. Remember way back in the fall, not one Republican voted for the TARP bailout? And this was why.
And let's never forget what we were told back then: If we didn't do this, the country was finished. If we didn't pass this law and bail out these banks, it was over. We didn't have a day to make this decision. We didn't have a half-day. We didn't have 24 hours. Not one Republican voted for it the first time around. This is why.
Let's see...
The stimulus package contains no bonuses for anyone. It simply failed to prevent the AIG bonuses from being awarded.
You have to love how he confuses the situation to make himself sound smart. See how he mentions the stimulus bill, and then switches abruptly to the bailout bill, because his Dittobots can't follow logical progressions, and then declares that "not one Republican voted for the TARP bailout"?
Well, as Media Matters points out:
In fact, many Republicans in both the House and Senate voted in favor of the Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008, which authorized the secretary of the Treasury to create the Troubled Asset Relief Program to provide financial aid to banks and other financial institutions. Indeed, on September 29, 2008, 65 House Republicans voted in favor of H.R. 3997, the original House vehicle for the act. After that legislation failed, on October 1, 2008, 34 Senate Republicans voted for H.R. 1424, the new vehicle for the act, and on October 3, 2008, 91 House Republicans voted for that bill. President Bush, a Republican, subsequently signed it into law.
Oops. Guess he was wrong. So odd for our Right Boob, isn't it? But see, the stupid morons who listen to his show will repeat that, as if it was true.
Also during the week, on the news that three British scientists who were skiing to the North Pole in order to measure the ice and determine the effect of global warming on the polar ice, our Right Boob declared it "hilarious" that "three dingbats ... are about to die" trying to prove global warming. You can check out this incredible demonstration of "compassionate conservatism" here...
I could go on and on, but this is only a blog, and not a book series...
Suffice it to say that Rush Limbaugh is, without a doubt, our...
Right Boob of the Week...
As has always been our tradition, Our Right Boob will Receive a certificate, suitable for framing...
If you would like a copy of Limbaugh singing his fool heart out about being a Nazi, send an e-mail to talentonloan@gmail-dot-com, and I'll send a copy to you...
