Ian informs us that "Missouri recently adopted the crawfish as its state invertebrate".
I think they should've selected Rush Limbaugh instead. (Rush hails from Cape Girardeau, which has a good Bob Evans restaurant among probably many other amenities.)
Last month I tuned in to the Rush Limbaugh show, and was quickly rewarded with a spectacularly stupid sequence. A caller was on the line, and happened to indicate he was African-American while he spoke to an issue, and Limbaugh decided it was time for a demonstration of El Rushbo's mental powers. Limbaugh informed the caller that he was "a student of dialects" and that he wanted to take a guess at where this caller was from. The caller had a slight Southern accent, and used no obvious "dialect" that I could detect.
Based on Limbaugh's wretched history, I knew there was a great chance that he would say something incredibly stupid here. I wasn't disappointed. Rush asked, "Sir, are you a Katrina evacuee from New Orleans?" (quote is paraphrased). The caller said "no", he was from Virginia.
Seriously, is there anyone who understands less about New Orleans than Rush Limbaugh? The man is half deaf, yet he feels the need to veer off-topic and play "guess that dialect" with a black caller (natch). And he obviously doesn't know a New Orleans accent to save his life! He's spoken to who knows how many callers over the decades, yet he can't tell a Virginian from a New Orleanian?
The only thing I can say in Rush's favor is that he has always viewed himself, first and foremost, as an "entertainer". How is it that millions of listeners have taken his clowning seriously for nearly 20 years?
Saturday, June 30, 2007
Show me the Invertebrate
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Thanks for the reminder that Rush hails from the Show-Me State. Then again, I live in the city that spawned John Ashcroft. I tell myself that Brad Pitt and Bob Barker balance that out, but still...
Rush wouldn't know New Orleanians if they were looting his OxyContin. Has he ever even been there? Seeing as how he didn't get immdiately jumped (or asked to show his man-boobs), I'd say not.
Oh, and his politics suck too.
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Ian McGibboney, at
4:32 AM
El Rushbo was actually pretty entertaining in the early 1990s, when I listened to him. His comedy was fresh, and caustic, and he had the Clintons as daily fodder for his humor.
His freshness has long since left him, but being an apologist for the Bushies for 7 years can do that to you.
By 
, at
7:55 AM
As I have asked so many times, "Which New Orleans accent?" I could count about five different accents or "dialects" from my time growing up there.
Apparently, I still speak a recognizable New Orleans "dialect", since strangers often ask me if I'm from NOLA. My "dialect" may now include a slight overlay of Cajun or "bayou", after nearly 40 years of living in the territory.
Folks do take Rush seriously, even if his focus is to "entertain" and make money. It's a mystery.
By Grandmère Mimi, at
12:27 PM
I've actually heard people say that Rush must be right if he's on the radio. As if intellect and sound argumentation (and not the collective spending power of American idiots) were the main criteria for getting on the airwaves.
By Ian McGibboney, at
1:32 PM
No one outside New Orleans or at least South Louisiana can reliably identify any of the many New Orleans accents.
I've lived here 30 plus years and still can't tell who is an aristocrat (black or white) reliably.
I think there could be more that five, but, in the immortal words of Randy Newman "I could be wrong now, but I don't think so".
"No one outside New Orleans or at least South Louisiana can reliably identify any of the many New Orleans accents."
Yes, but it's not because they are confusing them with folks from Virginia.
I can tell Kaplan from Iota, though I think anyone could tell Kaplan from anywhere else in the world.
By Ian McGibboney, at
8:53 PM
I had no idea who Limbaugh was until I saw his Fox show years back. It was simply amazing to watch: the strange and insulting attempts at humour; the bizarre, forced "folksiness" from a man in a blue suit; the surreal appearance of the deliberate zombies (proudly self-proclaimed "Dittoheads") in his audience...
I caught a Columbus Day episode, and it was the most racist thing I've ever seen on television: the feature players were a brightly smiling, blond, blue-eyed Columbus trying to have a friendly conversation with a "native". The "native" was a man in a scowling brick red mask with a huge nose and coarse black hair who rejected all of Chris' overtures.
Simply amazing stuff.
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