Posted on 11/07/2022 7:52:04 AM PST by montag813
by Paul Sacca
In a video clip from nearly three decades ago, the legendary Rush Limbaugh was able to obliterate the concept of virtue-signaling, and did so in a mere 45 seconds.
The Merriam-Webster dictionary defines virtue-signaling as: "The act or practice of conspicuously displaying one's awareness of and attentiveness to political issues, matters of social and racial justice, etc., especially instead of taking effective action."
According to an article in the Boston Globe, the word "virtue-signaling" first surfaced in online message boards in 2004. In 2015, The Spectator published an article titled: "The awful rise of virtue signaling." Google Trends shows the term "virtue signaling" was not really used until the summer of 2017, and the term exploded in June 2020.
Rush Limbaugh categorically understood the concept of the virtue-signaling way back in 1993. He not only grasped the dangerous flaws of virtue-signaling, but he could effectively lampoon the concept before anyone had a name for it.
In the 1990s, there was no Facebook to put a filter on your profile photo or Twitter to put pronouns in your bio to show you support the "current thing." So people would wear ribbons to flaunt their moral high ground on a myriad of different causes.
For instance, orange ribbons are associated with leukemia, yellow to raise awareness for missing children, lavender to stand against urban violence, and blue ribbons are often worn to protest bullying. In the 1990s, a red ribbon was worn to raise awareness for HIV/AIDS.
In 1993 near the height of the AIDS epidemic, some people felt pressured to show their support for those suffering from HIV and AIDS by wearing a red ribbon on their clothes.
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I wish that ol windbag was still on the air
His response was to fold a dollar bill into a ribbon, which was to announce that:
"I care more about EVERYTHING than you do!"
Rush noticed, interpreted, and predicted items weeks, months, sometimes years before anyone else. A great example is Joe Camel and the SUVs. Eight or ten years before anyone else, Rush predicted the wackos, big gov, and the Drive-By Media would go after SUVs the way they attacked commercials like Joe Camel, for Camel cigarettes. I remember like it was yesterday, he would track and point out the SUV headlines and stories. It was as if the SUV had a mind of its own, and no human was actually driving it. SUV Runs Off The Road, SUV Obliterates Fence. I’ve been listening to Rush’s podcasts from when Obama / Biden were first running for office, and the first few months after the election. We are now, today, in the third term of the Obama / Biden regime. Everything the leftist, environazi, fascist commies want to implement and destroy is happening. While places like Kalifornia are trying to eliminate natural gas (and most other forms of real energy) Obama is installing tanks that hold thousands and thousands of gallons of natural gas. Each according to their need, unless you are on the far, far left. If you are on the far left, you can attempt to force real dark ages on the masses, while you build and hoard as much as possible for yourself.
Temporarily filling-in for lightman, while he's smashing PA's demonKKKrat voting poll fraud & corruption, on Monday, Tuesday & Wednesday.
God bless him where he is.
Watch later.
The Blaze put this up, too. Rush was hilarious and right 99.999% of the time.
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