Rush Limbaugh should probably consider himself lucky that he isn’t running for office and isn’t a contestant on some reality show. If he was, I’m pretty sure that he couldn’t even get a vote of support from his own constituents on the right. For it’s difficult — I’d venture to say nearly unfathomable — to imagine anyone with half a conscience could compare the torture in Iraq with Sex and the City, Britney Spears, and Madonna. But Rush did it. And this was no slip of the tongue that the guy now regrets. As  he told his radio show audience:

Folks, these torture pictures with the women torturers, I mean Marv Albert looking at those pictures would say, “Hey, that doesn’t look so bad.” You know, if you really look at these pictures, I mean I don’t know if it’s just me but it looks like anything you’d see Madonna or Britney Spears do on stage. Maybe you can get an NEA grant for something like this. I mean this is something you can see at Lincoln Center from an NEA grant, maybe on Sex in the City: the Movie. I mean, it’s just me.

I’m all for free speech, but this guy definitely needs to be voted off the island for his unique combination of ignorance and lack of empathy. I can only hope that the vote would be unanimous on this count …

Laura Nathan-Garner