Limbaugh crowd's latest laughable Iraq excuse

As of late, the Rush Limbaugh radio show has turned into a forum where guests get to invent creative excuses that justify the White House's position that Iraq is not in the midst of a civil war.  The latest one: Baghdad isn't any worse than Washington DC.  Guest-host Roger Hedgecock tries to explain.

This is from Media Matters:

HEDGECOCK: They're calling it.In other words, it's like Floridafor [Democratic presidentialcandidate Al] Gore. This is -- you know, this is -- they'recalling the election. It's now a civil war.Boy, I'm glad we've clarified that. Let's see. Did they call Bosnia andKosovo a civil war? Huh?

Did they -- did they callwhat's going on -- and by the way, the murder rate -- whatever you hear,whenever you hear a story about Baghdad about blowing up, about -- you know,today two car bombs went off in the entire country. The murder rate in Baghdad, the people being killed in Baghdad, is lowerthan the murder rate of Washington, D.C. Is Washington, D.C., in acivil war? NBC has not called it, so I dare not say.

And yes, this is worthy of being posted on this web site.  The Rush Limbaugh show is listened to by tens of millions of Americans each week.  Think about the significance.  If Rush Limbaugh came out and said we should withdraw from Iraq, Bush's base would collapse and we would be out of there.  The fact that Limbaugh's audience is being subjected to denial after denial about Iraq is only helping in the effort to prolong this war.

Comments

[George]

Maybe there should be a civil war in Washington DC.

[The Mexican]

I'm a big fan of metal music (along with soul, jazz, and classical), and I'd love to see some ultra-brawl or mosh pit in such places. If we're going to be so behind in other nations on rational thinking and science but be ahead in immense product power of captialism, then I support a bill to take primitive measures of frustration to sell on major news networks on a monthly basis, where it's a political free-for-all and death match--let's make them work for their cash "earmark" incentives, king-fatted benefits, and triple-bolstered raises for the people's solace, the nation's entertainment. Immature? A bit. Ridiculously market-able one every level of society? Absolutely.