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Posted on: November 2, 2009 9:16 AM, by Ed Brayton
From Rush Limbaugh on Obama:
I think he's got an out-of-this-world ego. He's very narcissistic.
Now, he's not wrong. You don't get to be the most powerful person in the world without a huge ego. The very act of running for president requires a huge ego. But for Rush Limbaugh to accuse anyone else of being a narcissist? That'll destroy even the strongest irony meter.
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Rush projects, and in other news, water is wet! - DJ
Posted by: DingoJAck | November 2, 2009 10:15 AM
Ditto
Posted by: MikeMa | November 2, 2009 10:17 AM
Heh, yeah, which makes one wonder how Rush really feels about himself, when he calls Obama a wanna-be messiah with a god complex, etc, etc.
If that doesn't destroy your irony meter, check out the WSJ editorial page: We're Governed by Callous Children, in which Peggy Noonan complains that (a) people don't trust the government to help anymore, and (b) Obama and the Democrats believe too much in American exceptionalism.
Posted by: mad the swine | November 2, 2009 10:21 AM
Peggy Noonan should be sentenced to have someone follow her around for the rest of her life,saying, "It's your own damn fault" and "You have no one to blame but yourself".
Posted by: Jeff Eyges | November 2, 2009 10:27 AM
To be fair, Rush can't hear what he is saying.
Posted by: Holytape | November 2, 2009 10:39 AM
I think Chris Wallace's so-called interview with Rush Limbaugh must be seen (or read, (here's the transcript) to be believed. That's the source of Ed's quote and was broadcast yesterday on Fox News Sunday. I recommend watching at least a little to just for the visual antics - unbuttoned shirt, no socks, gesticulating, repeating GOP talking points (e.g., mentioned "dithering" twice), etc.
While it's pure infomercial it does provide insight into the insularity of the cocoon this man and his dittoheads use to defend themselves from reality. While the projectionism was rampant well beyond Ed's quote, some of the claims required an incredible level of ignorance in order to reasonate, e.g., Limbaugh's claim that he didn't know of one Republican who would support cap-and-trade.
Reality is of course quite different. Both Senators McCain and Lindsey Graham have both come out in support of cap and trade. Within the past couple of weeks Sen. Graham co-wrote an opinion piece published in the WSJ attempting to educate that paper's denialist readers that global warming is real (Limbaugh is a denialist) and that cap and trade was the right approach to regulate greenhouse gasses. My goodness, Sen. McCain's 2008 presidential platform also supported cap and trade to regulate greenhouse gasses, which he framed as a "market-based" approach.
Posted by: Michael Heath | November 2, 2009 10:54 AM
MH - They're not true Republicans......
Posted by: Coragyps | November 2, 2009 12:07 PM
But for Rush Limbaugh to accuse anyone else of being a narcissist? That'll destroy even the strongest irony meter.
This is, of course, the same ugly, fat, toad-like creep who thought it was witty to ridicule the attractiveness of the 13-year-old Chelsea Clinton ("White House dog").
Posted by: Molly, NYC | November 2, 2009 1:14 PM
Silly Molly. That standard is only for girls. A man's value isn't gauged by his appearance, it's gauged by wealth and power.
Posted by: Modusoperandi | November 2, 2009 1:33 PM
Baron Harkonen says what?
Posted by: Dr. Steve | November 2, 2009 1:34 PM
You don't have to be humble yourself to see the narcissism in others.
Posted by: David L. Henderson MD | November 2, 2009 1:44 PM
"You don't have to be humble yourself to see the narcissism in others."
true - but in rush's case, this is simply another illustration of his hypocrisy.
Posted by: dean | November 2, 2009 1:52 PM
Coragyps:
While I'm cognizant that you might be expressing some irony, Rush Limbaugh is one of the primary architects of defining the Republican party as a party of conservatives rather than a party that contained conservatives. If Mr. Limbaugh had instead stated conservatives rather than Republicans in the below quote I referenced @ 6, I would have used another example of his being divorced from reality:
This is Rush Limbaugh speaking, the man I've heard claim that Republican moderates are far more evil, dangerous, and insidious to the American interests than liberals. He is particular when he distinguishes conservatism from the Republcian party rather than sloppily conflating the two terms given his legacy of helping to transform the GOP into a conservative party in a manner that created an evironment that led to the creation of the term RINO ("Republicans in name only").
Posted by: Michael Heath | November 2, 2009 1:57 PM
But this is roughly the equivalent of Liberace calling someone "gay." It is such an over the top case of pot-kettle projection that you have to wonder if the guy is really that totally unreflective, if he is back on the oxycotton, or if he has become so utterly full of shit that he's a suppressed fart away from complete implosion.
Posted by: dogmeatib | November 2, 2009 5:37 PM
Like many rock stars with egos large enough to qualify for statehood, when Limbaugh is away from his mike and his crotch-sniffing fans in the GOP I suspect he's a fairly lonely man inside.
I also imagine that he'll die alone one day.
Posted by: CHV | November 2, 2009 6:42 PM
Being endowed with a sense of self-worth is a bad thing? The clown has not thought this through. Obama clearly has regard for other people, unlike Limbaugh. The president obviously thinks the welfare of other people is worth his time and effort. Talk Radio's Ambassador of Hate, on the other hand, can only complain and ridicule those who work for the good of humanity. He does not recognize this simple fact: having a big ego is not a problem. Having sufficient self-confidence to accomplish worth-while goals is not a problem. Being a jerk is a problem.
Posted by: John Swindle | November 2, 2009 7:00 PM
I also imagine that he'll die alone one day.
CHV - And soonish. This is not a particularly healthy man.
I can't even pretend to have mixed feelings about the prospect.
Posted by: Molly, NYC | November 2, 2009 11:14 PM
Mark my words, you'll feel a little sorry for him when Leia chokes him with a chain.
Posted by: Modusoperandi | November 2, 2009 11:27 PM
VOTE NOW!
Rush Limbaugh: Baron Harkonen or Jabba the Hutt? ;)
Rush is definately heading for implosion, he is already well below his own interest event horizon and heading down. Apart from a few vapour rub tears from Glenn Bek I doubt anyone will care much when he finally ceases using up oxygen. - DJ
Posted by: DingoJack | November 3, 2009 2:04 AM
Gotta be Jabba the Hutt, DJ, since Barbara, Hillary, Laura, and Michelle really are wives.
fusilier, SMOF, jg (ret.)
James 2:24
Posted by: fusilier | November 3, 2009 8:02 AM