Rush isn’t happy with the questions the press asked Obama last night. In particular, he is troubled by a question that made reference to a recent report that claims that one in fifty American children will experience homelessness. Limbaugh calls this statistic “bogus.” His evidence? A different report? Some government statistics, maybe? Nah. He counters the report and the statistic with this: “would somebody tell me the last time you saw a kid sleeping under a bridge?”
Limbaugh creates his own tailor-made reality for his listeners. He appears to feel perfectly entitled to declare things to be true or not true just by his own proclamation, without evidence or context. And his listeners appear quite comfortable in Rush’s reality (they call themselves “Ditto Heads,” after all; so I guess we can’t expect a lot of ciritical pushback from his audience). And this man, sadly, is taken very seriously by many people in this country.
(And by the way – what are you doing under those bridges anyway, Rush? Shopping, maybe?)
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