Wow. They pay him for this?

I don't know how I got there (thanks Google!) but I got treated to Rush Limbaugh's broadcasting excrescence (oops!) today:

How many of you have seen the story in the New York Times today about all these prison abuses at Guantanamo Bay? It's Abu Ghraib all over again. Sigh. The International Red Cross is the source here, and they're just shocked and outraged at the treatment of prisoners at Guantanamo Bay. Well, if you ask me -- and I know you did because you're listening -- the International Red Cross is a joke. Folks, there are terrorist-supporting regimes throughout the world, there are dictatorships slaughtering their own people everywhere, but the International Red Cross focuses on us because we make our prisons available to these thugs and of course the New York Times is once again the media outlet of choice for the U.S. bashing as in Abu Ghraib, and then the IAEA leak about our supposed failure to secure munitions in the last week of the campaign, and now G'itmo. You know, this paper, I don't know. It appears to me the New York Times just hates this country. They hate red states. They hate traditional marriage. They hate our military. It's just amazing. Here, the International Red Cross, for crying out loud! The International Red Cross never once reports on the abuses of thugs and dictators and what they're doing to their own country.

We never heard from the Red Cross, International Red Cross on Saddam Hussein. We don't hear from them about what goes on in Korea, North Korea, or in China. We don't hear from the International Red Cross about what goes on in Iran. But, no, lo and behold, when there's abuse at G'itmo, when the people committing these atrocities around the world are in our prisons, we become the bad guys. Just typical. Just typical. And this is the kind of thing that's going to continue to inspire backlash among the American people, because the American people do not think that what we're doing with prisons at G'itmo is horrible, is bad. It's going to cause this pro-American backlash among Americans as the New York Times continues down its path to who knows where.

And Rush continues down his path to who knows where too. The road to hell is paved with incoherent half-completed sentences. Anyway, Rush? The Red Cross handles disasters and... oh yes... wars. Those Gitmo prisoners are there because of a war. The treatment of prisoners of war is very much a Red Cross area of interest. No doubt they'd like to tell countries how to treat their citizens too, but that's not their field. They did get involved in the Iran/Iraq war, for what it's worth... but North Korea, no luck, not until a shot is fired. (You were hoping?)

And the Red Cross hates traditional marriage? What the hell?! I think Elizabeth Dole would like an apology. Now.

Oh, and I'm not even getting into what he said about the torture itself. All I can say is... if he ever has to do time, maybe he can go to that prison in Arizona where they make the inmates wear pink underwear. That would be kinda cool.