Limbaugh on Stephen Hawking’s passing
by digby
He waxed philosophical as only he can:
RUSH LIMBAUGH (HOST): If there are questions we can ask to which we will never have the answers, then that gives me confidence that there is more than just life on Earth. What is the point of creating beings who can ponder such places if they don’t exist? Certainly the Big Bang.
Again, I’ll admit I’m just a college dropout radio guy, okay? I’m not a professional physicist. I’m not a professional scientist. I do not own a lab coat, white or light blue. So they tell me that the Big Bang is where everything began. Hawking says it’s the Big Bang and we’re still expanding.
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Okay, the Big Bang. There was this whatever-size — call it a golf ball-, tennis ball-size of matter that banged and we’re all here. Where was it? Where was this glob of matter that banged that created the universe? Where was it? No, no, no. You can’t say, “It was in the void.” You can’t say it was in another dimension, parallel or otherwise, astral plane.
It had to be somewhere. Where was it? What was around it? Could you see it? Could somebody see this golf-ball-size bit of energy if they were not part of that? Could you be somewhere and see it?
Could you be somewhere and witness this Big Bang instead of being a part of it? If so, where were you? Well, since nobody could see it, how the hell do they know it really happened?
But I’m not supposed to ask that.
It’s hard for me to believe that anyone wants to listen to that idiotic drivel. But is everyone who does listen to it equally cretinous?
Well, the proof is in the pudding. Donald Trump is president. And Limabaugh remains one of the most influential political personalities in our culture. You do the calculations …
And we have to be grateful that he didn’t make fun of Hawking the way he and Trump usually mock those with physical disabilities. Of course he might have done it off the air. In fact, I’d bet money that he did.
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