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Feb 10He sure does–ask his wives.
Last week, Rush Limbaugh judged the Miss America pageant (In related news, that’s still around), and being that he’s Rush Limbaugh, people have been accusing him of being sexist. So he went on Fox and Friends (where else?) to defend himself. Naturally, it went off without a hitch:
“I’m a huge supporter of women. What I’m not a supporter of is liberalism. Feminism is what I oppose, and feminism has led women astray. I love women. I don’t know where all this got started. I love the women’s movement — especially when walking behind it. This idea that I don’t like women is absurd. This is Miss America. And if there’s a Mr. America out there, it’s me.”
Bold mine. Beyond being pretty funny, this is a pretty perfect illustration of one of the biggest problems I have with conservatism as it exists in the United States today: the utter lack of self-awareness, introspection, humility, or curiosity, which breeds a reflexive hostility to anything novel. To them, opposition and outliers are to be homogenized or destroyed, not understood and engaged with.
HT: Andrew Sullivan
February 4th, 2010 at 3:50 pm
“…no matter how bad all their ideas are, no matter how disastrous their governance has been, no matter how many horrible things they have done to the economy and this country, what really is killing the Republican party is that deep down, they are just complete assholes.”
-Balloon Juice