Forget Theodore Dreiser's classic tale of "American Tragedy." We have one among us these days, in addition to the economic meltdown, in the personage of Rush Limbaugh.
Until recently, everything I heard about this man was second-hand information. But I chanced to see a cut of his talk show on another program. Someone wrote in and called his comments "childish" - a master piece of understatement. He insanely is calling for President Obama's administration to fail. I could hardly believe my ears. How reprehensible can one be - not to say how horrifically unpatriotic.
Imagine this statement being made by a black person prior to say, 1950. He would be a prime candidate for a lynching. But this is a democracy. Winston Churchill once said that democracy is the worst form of government except for all others. So no matter how off-the-wall R. Limbaugh, as well as Ann Coulter, are, they can have their say.
Didactic personages of whatever persuasion and in all arenas, social, theological, political, etc. are distressing and counterproductive to the common good. They are recipients of Absolute Truth, no doubt exclusively flung down to them from On High. Both of these people epitomize the adage "I know what I know even though what I know is not so."
