Awesome Celebrity Birthday Of The Day: Rush Limbaugh

Posted at 12:21 PM Jan 12, 2009

By Kathleen Willcox


Welcome to one of NCDSUV's favorite daily features, where we acknowledge another turn of the calendar for a member of Hollywood land, even if it's a celebrity who often goes overlooked by the rest of the blogosphere, and regardless of whether we have a huge affinity for their body of work.

On Friday, we raised a spike-bedazzled leather birthday fist for glam-punker David Johansen. Today, we raise a leather fist armed with a spike for a horrible man whom we can all agree to despise, proving we have something in common after all. 
 Today's Awesome Celebrity Birthday Belongs To:
 
Rush Limbaugh
Age: 58
Why He's Sort Of Awesome: The porcine puppet of the right greasily lurched onto the airwaves in 1987 just as the Fairness Doctrine was being repealed, allowing him to present a pupu platter of offensive opinion without being required to defend it. My personal faves: making fun of Michael J. Fox's Parkinson's; saying Hillary Clinton wouldn't be elected president because no one wants to watch a woman age; encouraging Republicans to vote in the Democratic primary, a directive he dubbed "Operation Chaos"; and referring to Barack Obama as a "magic negro." While that fails to be awesome in and of itself, his presence on Planet Earth gives argumentative liberals something to violently agree about between bickering sessions re: Peace in the Middle East and organic vs. locavore produce. 
Most Likely Celebrity Status 20 Birthdays From Now: Oh, Rush'll be on the air, most likely still gassing about how the handicapped, women and people of color are ruining his life. And we'll still have something to bitch about together, our eyes agleam with the spark of camaraderie. 
All Apologies To: Howard Stern, Zack de la Rocha, Per Gessle, Kirstie Alley, Cynthia Robinson

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