Proof That One May Listen and Not Hear

Assertions without proof are fun, aren’t they?

Notice the tactic of dodging the arguments completely in favor of emotion centric responses and amateur psychoanalysis.    Typically empty-headed spleen venting – utterly iconic of the loud set of the political left.

“He’s certainly got some genuine talent for radio. He knows how to viscerally and directly engage his listeners. But other than that, what’s the attraction?

“Simple, really. The ditto-head audience relies on Limbaugh the same way that a drunk uses a lamp post or the way a fundamentalist zealot relies on Scripture: not for illumination but rather for something to lean on.

“Call Limbaugh’s rants offensive, racist, extremist or just plain intellectually insulting, if it makes you feel better. I think it’s more useful to understand him instead as a form of religious experience, one of the more dogmatic strain. He’s a completely reliable inspiration and reinforcement for those who are embittered and battered and who confuse their natural allies for their enemies. He’s an electronic opiate for the masses. For Limbaugh’s audience is not a happy lot. They are completely convinced that an unholy coalition of liberals, homos, feminazis and overly entitled minorities are responsible for the mess of their own tiny, dead-end lives.

One wonders if it makes the left feel better to imagine that conservatives wander about angered and confused by the strange world in which we find ourselves.  A convenient delusion.