Button Your Shirt, Rush – No One Wants To See All That Skin
Others have looked at the substance, such as it was, in Rush Limbaugh’s “first national address” since ascension by fiat to head the Republican Party.
So let’s look at the style. Why did Rush Limbaugh show up with his shirt unbuttoned? Did he think he looked … sexy?
At BuzzFlash, Mark Karlin said “Limbaugh was dressed in black, as if he were the Pillsbury Doughboy trying to imitate Steven Seagal.” He added that that the CPAC crowd reminded him of the mass derangement scene in “Day of the Locust.”
Tom Watson at HuffPo described Rush as “[looking] for all the world like the sweating floor manager on the late afternoon shift at Larry Flynt’s Hustler Club in an unbuttoned shiny black shirt and undersized sport coat…” And: “Jowls rolling like thunder from the right via CNN’s unfortunate high-definition feed, Limbaugh took control of the sad and tattered remnants of the mainstream conservative movement, and urged continued allegiance to the noble Lost Cause of Reagan, metaphorically carrying his rebel-yelling followers into the hills like modern-day Quantrill’s Raiders standing firm against change.”
Taking a contrary view, Tom Trento, a Dittohead at Red County, was complimentary, of course, “Rush is classic, even looked classic in his black-on-black, open collar, tieless ensemble (whoa, I’m starting to sound like one of those designers!)” But: “Note to Rush: get back on the salads and veggies, the movement needs you around a bit longer.”
