We all are aware of Rush Limbaugh and his particular right-wing rhetoric that somehow through drug addiction and indictment for doctor shopping his popularity still reaches a minimum of 13.5 million listeners weekly. Just to give you a peek at how scary that number really is, Oprah reaches only twice as many viewers in the US each week. I say only not to discount Oprah as 26 million people is an amazing number for a daytime talk show to reach but Rush Limbaugh reaches half as many? Really? I’m terrified by that statistic. I would think he would reach 10% of her stats, but no where near half.
I know we were all taught as children not to call each other names and we know how much racism hurts us as a culture (or at least I hope those reading this blog do) but there as so many more ways we use labels in our lives that shut us off from groups, from information, and from individuals and if you are anything like me, it takes someone pointing it out every now and then for a real wake up call to happen in your life so change can begin to rebuild your way of interacting in the world.
Lectori Salutem! or L.S. (Greetings to the Reader!) I talked at length about the hate in the heart of one man with a massive audience, Pat Robertson, but it has seeped down into my daily life today just as it did a few years ago in Austin, Texas as you will here in an upcoming blog. [...]
