Not a “harmless little fuzzball

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A nearby used book store will be closed soon. Its books are being given away free. I brought back a dozen books only because they were free….except I’ll have to find room for them somewhere. Seven of them were in French and on subjects of limited interest other than the different vocabulary I’m likely to find in them.

I’ve been looking through other used bookstores with no success for one book and while the children section here didn’t have it at the end of two hours perusing the shelves I found a mint condition Rush Limbaugh “kids” book about Rush and his talking horse visiting Paul Revere for his ride. There is a talking donkey in the Old Testament so I’m not complaining but having Rush as a character….(sigh) No doubt this book is on the approved Republican sleep walking selection.

I also found a mint condition hard cover See I told you So by Limbaugh published in 1993.
I’m not sure if its the same Limbaugh book I bought as a paperback about the time I began standing apart from the Party without Lincoln. I also found a pre Senatorial Rush Limbaugh is a big fat idiot by Al Franken published three years later in 1996. I brought them all home. Rush died weeks after Trump’s denial that he’d lost the 2020 election and his attempted takeover of the government. I have a profile pic of Rush with the metal shaft jutting above his ear at the Time Trump awarded him a Presidential Medal of Freedom. I decided that before I tucked them away just now I’d see how far I could get into Rush’s book before uncovering a Trump like lie or something alarming. I found it in the first two paragraphs.

The Fuzzball’s champion failed to overthrow an honest election with lies and bodies just before the medal of freedom winner’s death. Today four years later after Trump’s legitimate election made possible by 40 of telling Americans that our government was their enemy there are a lot of Trumpian attempts to muzzle the press. Reporters without borders has a list from a month in of Trump II.

I told the four young people who visited with me that I’d watched a slow motion version of the frog in a pot of Republican water slowly being heated up until the frog boiled over 40 years. No fuzzballs had a greater impact on using Bullshit to divide America than Russ Limbaugh. He handed the reigns to Trump at the point when every independent minded Republican had been primaried out by people like our Pete Stauber. Like Schultz on the old Hogan’s Heroes these Trump boot lickers have only one line of defense. “I know nothing.” But they dress it up like Pete who says he’s fighting for our “way of life.”

About the author

Harry is a ferociously good natured eccentric in Duluth Minnesota who detests traitors dressed up as Uncle Sam. You can find somewhat better edited writings of his at the Duluth Reader "contributors." page. The URL is:

https://duluthreader.com/contributors/h/84/284-harry-welty