That “gentleman” to the right is the American demagogue, Rush Limbaugh. And he is showing us a perfect example of bad smoking habits. He is not a man inclined towards subtlety and while his dependence on drugs did evince a love of life’s finer pleasures, his choice in these drugs — pharmaceutical pain killers — brought his utter tastelessness into stark light.
(Light of any kind is not flattering to Mr. Limbaugh. His face reminds one of a fattened swine. And it is in this same piggish manner that he smokes.)
Though Mr. Limbaugh professes some sort of right-ring, rabble-rousery, he smokes a cigar. And everyone knows that the best cigars are made in communist Cuba.
But the politics of American smoking is a tricky beast at the best of times. They have never fully mastered the habit, tending towards the nicotine equivalent of fast food, cigarettes, or towards an ostentatious image of wealth, the cigar. An it is such a crude display that Mr. Limbaugh favours.
He seems to picture himself as one of the most awful of creatures; the money grubbing, industrial robber baron. Yet, unlike these men, he does not build anything. He is paid to offer his dubious, drugged-up and ill-informed opinions on political affairs. He is an artist of the lowest order, a pig wallowing in the muck of power politics and begging his master’s to toss him the occasional corpse to feast upon.
I believe that people like this give smoking a bad name. We can only hope that, in his case, the rumors of cigars causing mouth cancer are true. I am most pleased by the mere thought of his overused tongue rotting out of his fat head.
1 comment
mona lisa
March 22, 2007 at 7:55 pm (UTC -5)
hahaha,nice. rush the repiglican.