Commentator presents good views over air waves
One day during Thanksgiving vacation about
2 1/2 years ago, I was lying in bed and I
turned on the radio and this guy was yell
ing, and I thought, “Who is this nut?”
Then 1 heard him opposing the New York City
gay community and their attempts to defame the
Catholic Church. Then I thought that this guy
made a lot of sense and I’ve listened to him ever
since.
He ’ s Rush Limbaugh, a conservative tal k show
host and commentator whose show is heard daily
in Lincoln from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. on KLIN (1400
AM). He is the most listened to radio talk show
host today.
He doesn’t just talk. He’s also known for his
“updates,” in which his humor is evident. The
latest absurdities by specific groups are shown,
and he uses music as an introduction. Here are
some examples: he uses Clarence “Frogman”
Henry’s “Ain’t got no home” for his homeless
update.
With every update, he tries to show absurdity
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by being absurd. With the homeless, leaders like
the deceased Mitch Snyder want the homeless to
stay that way and that’s wrong. Limbaugh thinks
that the way to decrease the homeless population
is to increase the chances that they will gel jobs,
and I agree.
Another popular update of his is the “Gorbasm,”
which is a play on words between Gorbachev and,
well, you figure it out. A Gorbasm is, as he
describes it, that feeling of joy you get when you
think about all of the great things Gorbachev has
done for world peace. Okay, you can stop laugh
ing now. The music he uses as an introduction to
this update is from “The Empire Strikes Back”
when the Imperial Forces try to crush the Rebel
lion. Limbaugh is therefore comparing Gorbachev
to Darth Vadcr.
He agrees with Dan Quayle when he talks
about traditional family values and certain groups
who try to tear them down. Here arc some of these
groups:
• The animal rights activists. These people,
Limbaugh says, seek to raise animals to humans in
stature. But animals don’t have rights, they have
privileges. He and I agree here. He uses Andy
Williams’ “Bom Free” for his animal rights up
date to show that animals do not have the same
freedoms as man.
• The environmental movement. Rush calls
them “environmental wackos.” These are people
who chain themselves to trees to prevent loggers
from chopping them down as well as people who
spike trees, injuring loggers when they try to cut
them down. These people think the world is going
to end so they go to extreme measures to make
sure “evil” corporations can’t “pollute” the planet’s
environment, like sabotaging their factories.
The opening music for each hour is by the
Pretenders, and he has rock n ’ roll, jazz and pop as
bumper music. He also has commercials like
Spatula City, a fictitious store that sells nothing
but spatulas, and Fur Cafeteria, where customers
can eat all kinds of “critters,” an in-your-face to
the animal rights activists.
Limbaugh also believes that all these groups
arc striving toward the same goal, which is more
socialism. How else can you explain Public En
emy, a rap group that speaks out against black
oppression in America, protesting the building of
a nuclear-waste dump in England?
He makes fun of Ross Perot. Whenever a caller
mentions Perot’s name, Limbaugh plays “When
Johnny Comes Marching Home,” calling Perot a
patriot, but a patriot might not be fit to be presi
dent. Once he even used “The Wizard of Oz” to
describe Perot, which I think fits better. The
Wizard of Oz can supposedly solve any problem
with magic, but it turns out that he’s just an
ordinary man, and that’s Perot.
People may not agree with everything he says,
but he’s popular because his views are in line with
most of the American people’s and, at the same
time, he’s more entertaining than anyone else on
radio.
Paul Robinson is a junior news-editorial major and a
Daily Nebraskan columnist
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