Rush Limbaugh is an idiot

I’m sure you already knew that, but I’m not talking his right-wing wacko leanings today, folks. I’m talking about his lame-ass plea to Steve Jobs to help him with some issues (which he didn’t name in his original plea, but has now said what two issues–two very common issues, actually, that he could most likely solve if he, I don’t know, DID SOME RESEARCH. Or talked to Apple support like any other NORMAL human being would do. It’s not like he had tried and tried to get help and was ignored.)

So it’s not so much the fact that Limbaugh thinks he’s so important that when he has a problem he can just expect Steve Jobs to respond to him (and seriously, when is the last time you had a problem with Windows–ok, if you use it then you probably had a problem 5 mins. ago–and expected Bill Gates to even know how to fix it? Got car trouble? Why, call on the CEO of course!) that bugs me. It’s the bullshitting he does in his plea.

For example:

“You know, I’m a big Mac guy. I love Macs, and I’ve got four Mac Pros. They’re the top-of-the-line Mac Pros, maxed out…”  

Seriously? Because when a Mac Pro is actually “maxed out,” it costs roughly $24,000. So Limbaugh has four $24,000 machines for personal use? He spent about $100,000 on these machines and his sales rep/Apple store/wherever-the-fudge-he-bought-them is just ignoring him? Really? Because when I worked for Apple, we helped people who didn’t even buy their machines from us. FOR FREE.

But then I read this, which clinched my thinking that he’s just making shit up:

“I just ordered six brand-new Mac Pros: four for me and two as gifts; maxed out, Blu-ray drives.”  

Yeah, you know what? Mac Pros don’t come with a Blu-ray drive option. Check the Web site, Rush. And if yours showed up with them, then you obviously didn’t get them from Apple. So I hope you got someone really good to fuck around with and add blu-ray to your four $24,000 machines, jackass. Maybe you should ask them what else they tinkered with.

If Steve Jobs does reply, I hope it’s to tell Limbaugh to stick his microphone up his weathered old ass. Oh, wait. Steve did respond.

~ by Megan on February 14, 2008.