I’ve had minor disagreements with Rush Limbaugh in the past. Anybody would, of course. And there have been many times I wished he’d been wrong, like when he predicted that the Left would try to reclassify carbon dioxide as a pollutant. (I remember scoffing back at the radio.)
But now I can say that Rush is just flat out wrong about something.
RUSH: Drudge had as a lead item up there this morning on his page a story from the UK, Sky News: “Scientists Unveil Missing Link In Evolution.” It’s all about how Darwin would be thrilled to be alive today. “Scientists have unveiled a 47-million-year-old fossilised skeleton of a monkey hailed as the missing link in human evolution.” It’s a one-foot, nine-inch-tall monkey, and it’s a lemur monkey described as the eighth wonder of the world. “The search for a direct connection between humans and the rest of the animal kingdom has taken 200 years – but it was presented to the world today —” So I guess this is settled science. We now officially came from a monkey, 47 million years ago. Well, that’s how it’s being presented here. It’s settled science. You know, this is all BS, as far as I’m concerned. Cross species evolution, I don’t think anybody’s ever proven that. They’re going out of their way now to establish evolution as a mechanism for creation, which, of course, you can’t do, but I’m more interested in some other missing link. And that is the missing link between our failing economy and prosperity.
I think Rush has been a powerful force for good over the years. This stunningly ignorant statement, however, blows a giant hole in his credibility.
Rush has been filling in the vacuum left by absentee leadership at the party level. The Republican Party is in serious need of leaders who can see reality.
