I find it interesting, and by interesting, I mean disgusting, that rightwing figurehead Rush Limbaugh, while lambasting Sandra Fluke in the much-lauded "slut" radio bit, hasn't been brought to task for his support of Internet porn.  Not that it's surprising that he enjoys watching the explicit denigration of women or the illegal sex that one engages in while watching it.  No, what surprises me is that the left hasn't taken this ball (ahem) and run with it.  Doesn't he owe some sort of clean-smelling facade to his listeners, the faces of the "family values" party who is pretending such vigilant offense at the idea that women (especially un-married women) might make public their need for birth control?    

Rush stated that he believes that "strong, wholesome family values are at the very core of a productive, prosperous and peaceful society."  We can interpret that what he preaches to his choir means that, like Machiavelli had instructed in his guide to grooming successful, if not evil and destructive, leaders in The Prince, he does not believe his own lies.  This is important in a leader, and make no mistake, Rush Limbaugh is not simply a comedian (because it's funny to call a woman courageously speaking her mind a "prostitute") or a commentator.  His listeners are followers.  They regurgitate whatever slop he feeds them and brings it into society via water-cooler conversations, social media, OpEds.  That Rush had the nerve in his "apology" to spit out that it was disgraceful that the private goings-on in the bedrooms of the constituency are even part of the conversation is laughable.  First, because it is his "family values" party who has sought to center the upcoming election around it.  The ever-changing Republican front-runners are fighting over who is the most "conservative" which used to mean in favor of more private run business and smaller government, but is now simply a platform for anti-brown, gay, and vagina possessing people.

Secondly, the fact that he places himself as the figure-head of family values is ridiculous in so many ways that have been well-documented: married four times, no children, drug addiction, public denigration of women, the ugly hate speech.  And now, in the broadcast heard 'round the world, he professes his love for Internet porn.  "If we are going to pay for your contraceptives and thus pay for you to have sex (whaaa?), we want something.  We want you to post the videos online so we can all watch."  As if by completely submerging this Georgetown student in humiliation wasn't enough, he believes she owes society the opportunity to yank itself over the private goings-on in her bedroom that Rush thinks we should have the decency to not even talk about.  

That Rush Limbaugh, while cashing his paychecks for rallying the wholesome people of the U.S., is watching Internet pornography comes as no surprise.  It completely fits his profile of an ugly, hypocritical ideologue.  What's more surprising is that, unlike Mitt Romney's ex-chief of staff, an illegal alien gay lover has yet to step forward to complete the circle of right-wing repression and transference.  Yet, his admitting his penchant for masturbation in the blue-lit screen of his laptop, is another story.  Not only does it challenge his entire ideology, but it shows a brief respite of his message where his true self shines through.  There was never any doubt that he was a misogynist pig, but he's been careful to design his unfortunate railings against such wide hypocritical openings, leaving holes open where the public might wander into his overblown psyche, expecting a well-worn copy of the Constitution, the Bible, maybe the Federalist papers, but finds nothing but hot air.