Rush Limbaugh: Health Care is a Leftist Plot to Kill Off the Elderly
Rush Limbaugh’s latest bizarre hate-mongering conspiracy theory, one-upping Sarah Palin’s “death panels:” the “left” is using health care reform as cover, to kill off the elderly just like Stalin and Mao did.
Who are we targeting in health care? Old people. Rationing the care of old people. Shutting down nursing homes. Why focus on the elderly? …
And then it hit me. And don’t doubt me on this. Leftists, Marxists, socialists, wherever they are, are leftists, Marxists, socialists.
What’s the first thing Mao Tse Tung did? What was the cultural revolution? He took out the educated people. He took out people who had a cultural, historical memory of China’s past. He took out, the equivalent would be, he killed, and Stalin did the same, took out the people who remembered how things work.
Of course, he winds up with the standard deniability clause, after directly comparing Obama’s health care plans to Mao’s cultural revolution:
Are you comparing Obama to those peo … uh, no. Not in terms of genocide. But they’re not invited to the summit.
Where would anyone get the idea he’s comparing Obama to Stalin and Mao? It’s a head-scratcher, all right.
I expect the Limbaugh apologists to say he’s just joking; that seems to be the standard excuse for any hateful, deranged thing Limbaugh says. But I always thought humor was supposed to be, you know … funny?
(Hat tip: KT.)
Frank says: