Nerditorial: Time Magazine Sez "Limbaugh has a point" about BP

Think I'm kidding?

I'm not even exaggerating.

Their words (my emphasis)...

The obnoxious anti-environmentalist Rush Limbaugh has been a rare voice arguing that the spill — he calls it "the leak" — is anything less than an ecological calamity, scoffing at the avalanche of end-is-nigh eco-hype.


Well, Limbaugh has a point. The Deepwater Horizon explosion was an awful tragedy for the 11 workers who died on the rig, and it's no leak; it's the biggest oil spill in U.S. history. It's also inflicting serious economic and psychological damage on coastal communities that depend on tourism, fishing and drilling. But so far — while it's important to acknowledge that the long-term potential danger is simply unknowable for an underwater event that took place just three months ago — it does not seem to be inflicting severe environmental damage.

Read all of this certified irony-free article here.

It hasn't even been two weeks since the well has been capped, and already there is a concerted effort to convince the public that the environmental impact of the damage done to the Gulf Coast has been exaggerated. Not by FoX news... by Time Magazine. And the source they lead with? The fair and balanced Rush Limbaugh.

Because when you want an unbiased, even-handed perspective on the severity of environmental damage, the first name that leaps to mind is Rush Limbaugh.

Jesus Tap-dancing Christ.

I wonder who Time Magazine thinks they are mollifying with this? The second that Time publishes anything that is remotely removed from Limbaugh's world-view, they will go right back to being what he so blithely and festively refers to as a component of the "drive by media".

The right has been accusing the media of liberal bias for well over thirty years now, and no matter how much the media moves, it has never been enough to even get an admission that maybe the media is moving at all to the right. Even now.

I am beginning to accept that the media will never catch on.

The right will accuse the media of liberal bias no matter what they do.

Congratulations, Time Magazine.

Rush Limbaugh played you like a three dollar banjo. And when he's done with you, he will smash you on-stage like a very well-nourished Pete Townshend.

Looks like you got fooled again.