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When I was a kid and came home offended by something somebody would say to me my mother often advised me to “consider the source.”  As I grew older this advice became very valuable to me in processing the validity of criticism from others. It’s not an exclusive hard and fast rule since sometimes the biggest fool can offer the best advice, even if he’s unable to take it for himself. Still, overall, considering the source makes or breaks a lot of the advice or critique offered to me in today’s world.

For example…if we were to use this technique to examine the critical commentary recently offered by Rush Limbaugh about Sandra Fluke we could have avoided a lot of the outrage and shock that seems to have been generated. Limbaugh questioned the morality of Ms. Fluke and many of us seem to have just accepted his right to do this without questioning his authority. Limbaugh has been married and divorced at least three times which indicates that he isn’t very skilled with intimacy or the art of compromise and respect for the needs of others.  I can tell you that I am not very good at these skills either having been divorced twice as well. I would be the last person to ever call someone else a “slut.”

Limbaugh is obese. This is not an opinion, this is a fact. Our society likes to point out the sins of others when it comes to the sin of lust, but we’re often silent about gluttony. I’ve seen some pretty huge people condemning others for sexual promiscuity, implying that sexual sin is more evil than gluttony or greed. I’m guessing its part of why Christ suggested we remove the beam from our own eye first.

Rush Limbaugh became addicted to narcotics and illegally obtained prescriptions to satisfy his addiction. Limbaugh has completed an inpatient rehabilitation program for addiction. According to most experts once one is an addict they are always an addict. The disease can be arrested but never cured.

Consider the source: Rush Limbaugh is a thrice-married, obese junkie. Does his opinion of anything really matter to anyone with any standards of decency? The solution is not to censor him, its to hold him in his own judgemental standards.

Why is anyone shocked or outraged because of anything Limbaugh says? When you tune in to his show, you are agreeing to listen to the rantings of a man of extremely questionable morality and unable to demonstrate his own ability to live by even the basic social values. If we get him removed from the radio he becomes a martyr to the cause of ignorance everywhere. Trying to censor him only feeds the right-wing nonsense that the “liberal elite” is keeping them down.

Next time somebody asks you what you think of Rush’s comments, say “Rush who?”