one of the peak reality show moments of last night's state of the union address by Donald
Trump, a running 78 minutes and being riddled with lies and distortion and reality show
moments.
Uh, one of the things that, um, was absent was policy and Donald Trump instead did cheap
stunts like surprising extremist right-wing radio host rush Limbaugh with the presidential
medal of freedom.
Check out that moment.
Rush in the news lately because he announced that he has been diagnosed with advanced lung
cancer.
He was there as Trump's guest.
And here is Trump surprising him with the presidential medal of freedom.
I am proud to announce tonight that you will be receiving our country's highest civilian,
the presidential
medal of freedom.
Shortly after this, Melania Trump put the metal on rush.
So, so I want to be really clear here.
I'm not happy.
Rush Limbaugh has lung cancer.
We're going to hear a voicemail later today from a caller about this.
I find rush Limbaugh's politics, disgusting and destructive, but I would not wish cancer
on anyone I know personally.
The nightmare of having a loved one diagnosed with cancer and serious illness.
I have nothing to say that would even hint at pleasure at rush Limbaugh having cancer.
Separate from that, rush Limbaugh is a disgusting, horrible extremist who should not have the
medal of freedom.
It devalues the honor of the medal of freedom to give it to rush Limbaugh.
This is the rush Limbaugh who called Barack Obama the magic Negro in a song parody.
This is bullshit as Al Sharpton about Barrack Obama, the matching name and [inaudible] Kong
and that causes not [inaudible].
This is a guy who mocked Michael J. Fox is Parkinson's by pretending to shake uncontrollably
and claimed that uh, Michael J. Fox is playing up the Parkinson's
in this commercial.
He is exaggerating the effects of the disease.
He is moving all around and shaking and it's purely an act.
This is the only time I have ever seen Michael J. Fox for Trey, any of the symptoms of the
disease he had.
He can control himself enough to stay in the frame of the picture and he can control himself
enough to keep his eyes right on the lens.
The teleprompter,
that guy is the one that Donald Trump surprised with the presidential medal of freedom last
night.
But you know, my, my girlfriend's grandmother was awarded the presidential medal of freedom
by president Clinton for a life's work, cleaning up children's television, developing educational
programming, keeping advertisers that are predatory to kids out of kids' TV, working
with the house and Senate, improving people's lives.
And then rush Limbaugh gets it after Barack the magic Negro and making fun of Parkinson's.
It's a guy rush Limbaugh with a career of sexist, racist, xenophobic comments.
Famously calling healthcare advocate Sandra fluke, a slut that was an entire other national
fiasco.
So the metal ends up meaning less instantly when Donald Trump gives it to rush Limbaugh
in this cartoonish reality show stunt men merely to get attention.
It's classless to use a national address to give a reactionary talk show host a metal
for nothing more than being a Trump Trump supporter.
Because that's really what this is about.
Limbo is sick now.
He supports Trump and here's a way to do something that will get attention.
Imagine for a second, like it's hard to even come up with an example like bill Maher or
I don't, John Stewart, I don't even know.
Imagine that Barack Obama was impeached by a Republican house and hours from being acquitted
by a democratic Senate in a total sham trial and the day before during a state of the union,
Barack Obama says, surprise bill Maher or surprise John Stewart.
Here's the presidential medal of freedom.
The right would go nuts.
They would be apoplectic.
And you know, bill Maher and jr John Stewart aren't even good examples because they were
critical of Barack Obama.
There almost is not a good example.
We're living in a society where logic, reason and thought have been replaced by ignorance,
pandering and almost a proud, uh, um, uh, a proud defiance about falling for one thing
to fall for wanting to be sucked into these meaningless stunts.
The reality show nature of what's going on and we're in trouble.
I mean, we're, we're just in serious trouble as a result.
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