Digby on the rush Limbaugh gets from rape imagery

[BurtWorm]

http://digbysblog.blogspot.com/2010/04/feel-rush-by-digby-rush-says-that.html

Feel The Rush

by digby


Rush says that people like the man who threatened Nancy Pelosi are justified because they are "mad" and "worked up" at "being raped" by their government.

The man lived in subsidized housing in San Francisco --- which has universal health care that covers people like him. I wouldn't call that "rape." In fact, I'd call it kindness, but I suppose to someone like Rush kindness is a sort of rape.

I do wonder, though, why Rush is always so concerned about being raped, and being told to "bend over and grab his ankles" and the like. (Of course, he also characterized the Abu Ghraib abuses as "blowing off steam" so he has some rather eccentric views about rape and sexual abuse in any case.) But one thing is clear --- he's obsessed by these violent sexual images and seems to be extremely stimulated by the idea of sexual assault. Indeed, he sees the whole world through that lens. As with Beck, I have to wonder about his audience. Do these men all feel they are being raped too? And does it excite them the way it excites Rush? Someone should do an investigation.

[MineralMan]

1. Don't forget the constant dwelling on things being "shoved

down his throat." That's the current talking point amongst the wingers.