Rush criticizes 10th grade essay - hilarious!

Okay, one more quick one from my backlog from last week. I picked his one up off of Crooks & Liars, and I just had to share it with you if you haven't seen it. In his seemingly inexhaustible zeal to attack Barack Obama on his radio show, the rotund pill popper decided to Google the Great Depression to educate his viewers all of the "liberal propaganda" he would find. The problem is, one of the pieces he found was written by a tenth grader. Wow, it takes an intellectual giant to attack a tenth-grade paper:

The best story I've heard this week by far was told today over lunch. Apparently, a co-worker of mine named George listens to the Rush Limbaugh show in his car, and yesterday heard him discussing Barak Obama's comments about similarities between the recent housing crisis and the lead-up to the Great Depression. I imagine the comments were referring to the obvious similarities between those who obtained ridiculous sub-prime loans and those in the 1920s who bought stock they couldn't afford on margin. However, Limbaugh decided that Obama's comments were the result of a crazy "liberal education" - and even remarks how "lucky" he is that he didn't graduate from college, thus allowing him to escape the perils of actual knowledge.

To prove his point, Rush says he did some Google searches for "Great Depression" and then proceeds to attack each of the results as liberal propaganda. Because we all know that college professors teach straight off of Google results pages. So my friend is listening and hears something rather striking... the name of one of our mutual colleagues - Paul Alexander Gusmorino ("The Third!" - I love the way Limbaugh says that).

Limbaugh found among the top results an essay written by Paul, entitled "The Main Causes of the Great Depression." He quotes Paul's essay and refutes each of its claims, dissecting them as if they were part of a Harvard professor's lecture on the subject. He doesn't pull any punches either. "Mr. Gusmorino, you better check Karl Marx and see if you plagiarized him in putting this piece together."

Ouch. Those words would be harsh if they really were for a Harvard lecturer. But that's not who wrote this essay. It was my friend who works as a program manager at Microsoft. When he was in 10th grade.

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Rush really is the right's Rosie O'Donnell, as someone in the comments section of this story points out. I also love how Rush considers it some sort of a badge of ignorance honor to have not graduated from college. Maybe Rush and Sean Hannity can get together to have an Uneducated Conference on Right-Wing Punditry. Hey, I'd go. You can't pay for entertainment that good these days.

By the way, the story does check out - it's on the drug addict's Website.

Photo from Crooks & Liars