Ethics

Limbaugh's Moral Insanity

By Ed Brayton

Here's an absolutely mind-blowing clip of Rush Limbaugh arguing with William Shatner about health care. Okay, that's surreal enough as it is. But the argument Limbaugh makes is just astonishingly bankrupt morally. He actually argues that having access to health care is no different than having a house on the beach; the wealthy get the house on the beach and the poor don't, and the same is true of healthcare, and that's just fine.

And then he says he believes this just because he wants the country to be as good as it can be -- without poor people, presumably.

Full post as published by Dispatches from the Culture Wars on December 03, 2009 (boomark / email).