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There You Go Again, Rush
May 5, 2010
As Ronald Reagan used to say,
"There you go again."
On his entertainment program April 29, Rush Limbaugh insinuated that
environmentalists blew up the Deepwater Horizon oil rig in order to
kill an energy bill that might expand offshore drilling and give a
boost to nuclear energy.
Limbaugh offered his turgid conspiracy hypothesis without a shred of
evidence to support it, but evidence has never been Rush’s strong
suit.
Aside from the obvious question as to why environmentalists would risk
endangering fisheries, shorebirds, wetlands, and marine creatures with
a metastasizing oil slick, there is the small matter of how such a
breathtaking feat of sabotage in mile-deep water would be accomplished.
Limbaugh outdid himself days later when he said the ocean will see to
cleaning up the slick "if it was left alone and left out there." After
all, "it’s natural. It's as natural as the ocean water is."
Don’t tell us, Rush. Go down to the Gulf Coast and say that to the
faces of crabbers, shrimpers, and oystermen fearing for their
livelihoods.
Chances are, the fishermen would have a more astringent response to El
Rushbo than "there you go again."
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