The One Thing Rush Limbaugh SHOULD Know...

It took over a decade, but it seems that Al Franken was right: Rush Limbaugh is a big, fat idiot.

Keith Olberman labeled Rush Limbaugh the "worst person in the world" in a segment on his show Countdown last night. And you don't just get that award willy-nilly, folks. You've got to get out there and earn it, and Rush Limbaugh has.

Here's what happened:

Rush Limbaugh criticized Michael J. Fox the other day for doing ads for a Democratic hopeful in Missouri because he backs Stem Cell Research. Sounds reasonable enough, considering Michael J. Fox has Parkinson's Disease and probably would like to see if Stem Cell Research would help cure it someday.

Maybe. Maybe not. The jury still seems to be out whether or not that sort of thing works or not. But I don't think it hurts to find out.

Okay.

So anyway, Rush Limbaugh said that his listeners had called in and were telling him that something about Michael J. Fox didn't seem right, that something seemed a little off.

So Rush Limbaugh came to two very respectable - and well thought-out, I might add - conclusions: either J. Fox was "acting" or he "had gone off his meds".

Apparently, Rush Limbaugh was insinuating that M.J. Fox was using his disease to push Stem Cell Research. I don't know that I follow. Rush Limbaugh is so much smarter than I am.

Well, if there's anything that Rush Limbaugh should know, it's medications, right? I mean, how many run-ins has the guy had over the subject?

Nevermind. That has no bearing on the story.

But what Rush Limbaugh failed to realize is that people with Parkinson's - I hope that's right - who go "off their meds" don't shake more; they shake less. It appears as though the medication that most people take allows them more flexibility than normal and the shaking is just a sign of that. If they were to - in Rush Limbaugh's esteemed medical language - "go off their meds", the victim of that dreaded disease would become less flexible, and their hands would become stiff and feel as if they'd been dipped in concrete. They wouldn't shake more, as Rush Limbaugh, M.D. would have you believe.

So, in closing, thank you Rush Limbaugh>. You and Sean Hannity are great Americans.