Be Quiet Rush

The self proclaimed head of the Republican Party – Rush Limbaugh – has made one of the more asinine statements of his entertainment career.

Rush recently told his 20 or so million listeners that the slowness in the distribution of the H1N1 vaccine is a plot by the Obama administration t create "fear, confusion and control."

The fact is the H1N1 virus doesn't grow as well or as fast as other viruses and it has taken the CDC and the producers of the vaccine longer than expected to produce the stuff and get it out to the people who need it. Sometimes things like this happen. Get used to it.

This is yet another attack on President Obama which leads the uninformed and unwilling to listen to the truth to believe that this administration wants to take over and run all aspects of the lives of all Americans. If anyone is cynical enough to believe this, they deserve to not get the shot.

Rush, if you are going to lead the Republican Party, which you seem to think you are doing, then act responsibly. This isn't a partisan issue. You should be telling your listeners that those most in need should be allowed to get it first and so on. Help, don't hurt the effort to vaccinate Americans.

I would guess that Rush, though his wealth, his drug dealer, or his political connections has already received his H1N1 vaccine shot. And he isn't in a priority group … except maybe those who are really stupid, fat or recovering addicts.

What would the advantage be to the administration to create "fear, confusion and control"? I can't see any. The only one who is trying to create those things is Rush … to keep his followers in line.

Shame on you Rush. I thought even you were better than that.

It is sad that Rush is seen by his devotees as the oracle of truth. They don't get that he's an entertainer and will say anything that will keep him on the air. For him to think he's leading the Republican Party is laughable at best. Sad and scary at worse.

If this keeps up, there isn't going to be a Republican Party as we have known it. The current vitriolic hatred of President Obama and his administration will eventually backfire. When it does, Rush and his cohorts better not have smoked all their retirement money already, since they'll need it by then.

Anyone as unprincipled as Limbaugh should be laughed at, not listened to. Even the faithful eventually see the light.