Tuesday, November 11, 2008

Blow V8

I’d like to take this opportunity to discourse at length in a pompous and boastful manner. In other words, I’d like to bloviate. What a wonderful word. Sounds like the bastard offspring of ‘bloated’ and ‘ruminate’. In my recent internet wanderings I’ve noticed an increased prevalence of the term bloviate. Why just yesterday I saw it three separate times at The Best of the Fray and it occurred to me that this is a new addition to my own verbal accoutrement. Yay.

With the ending of such a contentious election season it’s surprising that I haven’t noticed anyone busting out with this epithet until recently. I hear bloviate and I think of Rush Limbaugh. The guy is pompous if not bloated, boastful if not ignorant; a slovenly, bile spewing embodiment of a lifetime of bad eating, oxycontin abuse, multiple divorces, and general mean spiritedness. I wouldn’t pick on Rush but generally when someone gets publically exposed for such brazen hypocrisy you’d think it would ratchet them down a few notches on the pomposity scale, but not this pontificating jack-ass. All these years later he is vile as ever and still deified by throngs of his fellow hypocrites; hate the sin but love the sinner…as long as that sinner isn’t a democrat.

What was meant to be a quick commentary on the term bloviating has digressed into Rush-bashing but he encapsulates the mental image conjured up in my mind’s eye when I see this word. So here’s to you Rush, you bloated, bloviating blowhard.

7 comments:

Anonymous said...

I had a V8 when I was younger Ben. It had a little 5 litre Corvette donk in it. What a vehicle!!
Tony

notamobster said...

As soon as I saw the word - Bill Orally came to mind :(

Randall said...

In the words of HST: "I've never been able to properly express myself in this climate" (for me...Reality)

Ben There said...

Bill Orally...ha!

Candycane said...

v8s are yummo, but not the sodium free ones, they taste like butt

nina said...

Excellent Ben, really.

Anonymous said...

Your post shows true gravitas.....lol
Jj