The Humanity of Rush Limbaugh

I refer to of Roger Ebert’s 'You should be horse-whipped’ comment to Rush Limbaugh following Limbaugh’s twisting American Haitian refugee assistance into a defamation of President Obama. It reminded me of H. L. Mencken who defined a demagogue as "one who will preach doctrines he knows to be untrue to men he knows to be idiots."

I think there may be a better way to quiet this particular demagogue using Florida law to do so. The Baker Act declares that people who are “a harm to self or harm to others” may be involuntarily committed. As we already know that Mr. Limbaugh meets the test of the former though his admitted prescription drug abuse and we can now attribute his Haitian relief ranting as self declared evidence of the latter.

If nothing else it may compel this modern day Joe McCarthy to move elsewhere - assuming anyone would have him.

One last note, my tongue in cheek rhetorical taunting could be an example to Mr. Limbaugh. Sadly however, the use of irony which makes otherwise rude criticism appear somewhat more polite necessitates a degree of second-order interpretation, a sophistication often lacking in people with dementia.