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PROOF THAT THE REAL AGENDA OF AMERICAN EXCEPTIONALISM IS BASED ON "FLAG FIRST, MORALS AFTER", as Mein Innkeeper Friend put it, by way of this recent item from Truthout.com:

It wasn't unusual that Rush Limbaugh went ballistic on his show on November 13. He does that several times a day.

It wasn't unusual that he mixed a few facts with opinion and outright lies in his three-hour daily show. Fact checking for the man who calls himself "America's Truth Detector" is as rare as union organizers working for Wal-Mart.

What is unusual is that Rush Limbaugh, whose web site shows a picture of him carrying a large, gold-fringed American flag on a six-foot staff, spoke out against the Constitution of the United States.

Because logic and reason avoids his black-clad, bouncy body, he may not have even known he was attacking the history of the United States and its Constitution. But on this Friday the 13, the forces of evil spewed forth from his unfettered microphone mouth.

The United States had announced it was removing five persons accused of plotting the 9/11 terror from Guantanamo Bay and putting them into the federal judiciary system. Attorney General Eric Holder, at a press conference in Washington, DC, had announced, "After eight years of delay, those allegedly responsible for the attacks of September the 11th will finally face justice ... I am confident in the ability of our courts to provide these defendants a fair trial just as they have for over 200 years [before] an impartial jury under long established rules and procedures." He announced that the Department of Justice would "prosecute these cases vigorously," and would seek the death penalty in each case. President Obama had said earlier that day he was "absolutely convinced that Khalid Sheik Mohammad [the alleged mastermind behind 9/11, and the other defendants] will be subject to the most exacting demands of justice. The American people insist on it, my administration will insist on it."

Limbaugh called the decision a "disgusting travesty perpetuated here by Barack Obama." That was just the beginning of his rant. Over the next few minutes, Limbaugh said the decision to bring terrorists to trial was solely "to satisfy the rabid, radical, far left that hates this country; that hates George W. Bush; that hates the US military."

Limbaugh opposed the use of lawyers; several times he branded them as leftist and Marxist, disregarding the reality that membership in the American Bar Association skews to the right. Although he came from a family of lawyers, he disregarded constitutional guarantees that require even the most heinous of criminals to be assured their rights, including the right to be represented by an attorney. While erroneously claiming that terrorists have no rights, Limbaugh also objected to providing the defendants "fairness," because in what he called the "new America," fairness is something created by "a bunch of radical leftists." He claimed that the defendants didn't even deserve lawyers because, in the world of Rush Fairytale Logic, the lawyers would use the courts to attack the United States.

He attacked the federal judiciary, claiming, "There are a bunch of radical leftists on our federal bench," all of whom apparently, if you believed the Mouth That Roared, are governed by such mundane and useless rules like - well - the Constitution of the United States. What Limbaugh didn't say, possibly because the facts didn't agree with his own distorted version of reality, is that there are more conservative judges than liberal judges in the federal judiciary. About one-third of all federal judges were appointed by George W. Bush, with a majority of all judges appointed by Ronald Reagan and the two Bushes. Limbaugh, in his deliberate distortion of facts, also didn't point out that 62 percent of all appeals court judges were appointed by Republican presidents, and that conservatives are the majority on 10 of the 13 appeals courts. He also failed to point out that six of the nine Supreme Court justices were appointed by Republican presidents. The Republican-dominated federal courts have cut down several unconstitutional provisions of the Patriot Act; the Republican-dominated Supreme Court has twice rebuked the Bush-Cheney administration for procedures that are blatantly unconstitutional. In one major decision, conservative Justice Sandra Day O'Connor, speaking for the majority, ruled, "Any process in which the Executive's factual assertions go wholly unchallenged or are simply presumed correct without any opportunity for the alleged combatant to demonstrate otherwise falls constitutionally short ... [T]he constitutional limitations safeguarding essential liberties ... remain vibrant even in times of security concerns."

Like most conservative radio hosts and their teabag-party followers, Limbaugh several times had blasted the Department of Justice for even thinking about bringing the terrorists onto the mainland, claiming the men were so evil that they would endanger all Americans. Unsaid by the talking mouths and empty heads was that the Department of Justice successfully prosecuted numerous gangsters, serial killers and terrorists, and then successfully imprisoned them without danger to civilians.

For emphasis about how he thought a trial for the 9/11 terrorists would be unfair, Limbaugh threw veiled anti-Semitic attacks upon a possible jury pool. "Before it's all said and done you're going to find some whack nut jobs on the Upper West Side of Manhattan that are going to be on this jury," said Limbaugh. The Upper West Side is largely identified as a community that was settled by refugee Jews, and which still has a significant percent of Jews.

Several times, Limbaugh stated that since the defendants had already "confessed," the need for a trial was not necessary, and would only embarrass the US, placating those "leftists," and exposing the entirety of the American intelligence community. This, said Limbaugh, is the "hidden agenda" of the Obama administration. "They want the United States on trial," Limbaugh cried out. Disregarding the absurdity of his own remarks, Limbaugh never acknowledged that the "confessions" were made only after severe torture. Bringing criminals, who have been subject to torture, to trial, who have confessed, said Limbaugh "is yet another internal assault on the fabric, the traditions, the institutions that have made this country great," he told his equally rabid listeners.

Having attacked the president, the attorney general, lawyers, judges, the Department of Justice and Jews, Limbaugh put Rep. Joe Sestak (D-Pennsylvania) into his crosshairs. Sestak, said Limbaugh, is "a dangerous left-wing radical ideologue." What drew Limbaugh's rage was that Sestak not only supported the prosecution of the 9/11 terrorists in federal court, but that on "Fox News," he argued, "Most studies have shown that [torture] does not give you evidence as readily or as credible as other means." Persons who are tortured, said Sestak, raising concerns about the legitimacy of the terrorists' "confessions," will often confess to anything in order to stop the torture.

What Limbaugh didn't tell his audience was that Sestak was a graduate of the US Naval Academy, a retired vice-admiral who had led a carrier battle group, and was the first director of the Navy's anti-terrorism unit after 9/11. Sestak's views are the same as John McCain's, also a Naval Academy graduate, who had led an air squadron. Listeners could now choose between two war heroes, one of whom had suffered torture as a prisoner of war, and a college drop-out who, said his mother, flunked almost all of his classes in his only year in college, was declared 4-F in the draft and now hails on 600 radio stations as the mouthpiece for the right-wing fringe.

"We are in the process of destroying American ideals; we are in the process of subordinating America's greatness, America's exceptionalism," Rush Limbaugh wailed.

The reality is that flag-waving, fact-impaired Rush Limbaugh has no idea what American ideals are, nor does he have respect for the legal history of the United States or the power of the Constitution.

Come to think of it, how do we know Meneer Limbaugh didn't have a few drinks and/or joints before going into the aforementioned exercise in "patriotic" psychopathia, (un)consciously (un)aware of the prospect that his words, in the right set of circumstances, pose Clear and Present Danger to the Peace, Safety and Good Order of the Nation?

(Even better yet, I'd just love to have this pathetic tirade redone so that the old "Deutschland Uber Alles"--or, better still, "Die Stem van Suid-Afrika"; in either case, using the worst-possible recordings known in a rather strident and clipped military staccato--serves as the background to The Oxycontin Boar's comments ... the better so listeners can best understand whence the mind of this self-appointed "Truth Detector" really lies.)

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AND HOW'S THIS FOR A WAY TO DISTRACT ATTENTION FROM SARAH PALIN DURING HER CARNIVAL OF HYPERACTIVE PERKINESS for the GOP's benefit vis-a-vis Indecison 2012: Having a loudspeaker some distance away playing "Oh, What a Circus" from Evita when Evita Reincarnate's message gets a little too glowingly perky, as per her habit all the while.

The lyrics thereof (whose melody line also turns up in "Don't Cry for Me, Argentina"), for the interested, are as follows:

(Che Guevara:)
Oh what a circus, oh what a show,
Argentina has gone to town
Over the death of an actress called Eva Peron;
We've all gone crazy,
Mourning all day and mourning all night,
Falling over ourselves to get all of the misery right

Oh what an exit, that's how to go,
When they're ringing your curtain down,
Demand to be buried like Eva Peron;
It's quite a sunset,
And good for the country in a roundabout way;
We've made the front page of all the world's papers today!

But who is this Santa Evita?
Why all this howling, hysterical sorrow?
What kind of goddess has lived among us?
How will we ever get by without her?

She had her moments, she had some style,
The best show in town was the crowd
Outside the Casa Rosada crying, "Eva Peron"
But that's all gone now;
As soon as the smoke from the funeral clears,
We're all gonna see and how, she did nothing for years

(Crowd:)
Salve regina mater misericordiae
Vita dulcedo et spes nostra
Salve salve regina
Ad te clamamus exules filii Eva
Ad te suspiramus gementes et flentes
O clemens o pia
Hail, oh queen, mother of mercy
Our life, sweetness, and hope
Hail, hail, oh queen
To you we cry, exiled sons of Eve
To you we sigh, mourning and weeping
Oh clement, oh loving one

(Che:)
You let down your people Evita
You were supposed to have been immortal
That's all they wanted, not much to ask for
But in the end you could not deliver

Sing you fools, but you got it wrong,
Enjoy your prayers because you haven't got long,
Your queen is dead, your king is through
And she's not coming back to you

Show business kept us all alive
Since seventeen October, 1945,
But the star has gone, the glamour's worn thin,
That's a pretty bad state for a state to be in

Instead of government we had a stage,
Instead of ideas, a prima donna's rage,
Instead of help we were given a crowd,
She didn't say much, but she said it loud

Sing you fools, but you got it wrong,
Enjoy your prayers because you haven't got long,
Your queen is dead, your king is through
She's not coming back to you

(Crowd:)
Salve regina mater misericordiae
Vita dulcedo et spes nostra
Salve salve regina Peron
Ad te clamamus exules filii Eva
Ad te suspiramus gementes et flentes
O clemens o pia

(Eva:)
Don't cry for me Argentina
For I am ordinary, unimportant
And undeserving of such attention
Unless we all are, I think we all are
So share my glory, so share my coffin
So share my glory, so share my coffin

(Che:)
It's our funeral, too

Must we expect Our Holy and Beloved America to become thus reduced?

"...and that is is a way."

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