Name-Calling Revisited: Can we move on?

I only listen to Rush Limbaugh’s radio show for a few hours each week. Partly that’s because I don’t have time to commit to listening to the radio for three hours per day, five days per week. The other reason is that I don’t really enjoy listening to him much. I regard it as work. As would an annoying little brother, he seeks to annoy people and insult them, while claiming complete moral innocence and the high ground. To be perfectly honest, his behavior reminds me of the advice given by the demon Screwtape to Wormwood in the C. S. Lewis classic The Screwtape Letters:

… the delightful situation of a human saying things with the express purpose of offending and yet having a grievance when offence is taken.

I say this not because I’m joining the group that wants to beat on Limbaugh. I say it to emphasize what I’m about to say, which amounts to a retraction of a previously-held opinion, though not one about which I wrote on this blog.