How are Rush Limbaugh and Ann Coulter modern day beatniks?

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Wiilliam F Buckley, Jr. was an admirer of free-thinking Allan Ginsberg and Jack Kerouac. Limbaugh and Coulter worship Buckley and they support beatnik values of free sex. Rush said recently "I have mistresses all over the world" and Coulter said "Since I'm single, I can have sex with anyone I want".

Source on Ginsberg-Buckley relationship:www.harpercollins.com/autho…

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They are not.

The original beatniks of the 1950s and early 1960s were anti-materialistic (meaning anti-consumerist) and had a deeply spiritual element in their culture along with a strong emphasis on social justice, something obviously lacking within the demagogic, blowhard right-wing pundit class (especially the likes of Coulter and Limbaugh).

Instead, these two pundits would be more accuratley depicted as "libertine," meaning they readily act upon their desires without any regard, whatsoever, for their environment or even their fellow man.

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Answer 2

Please don't confuse belief in individual liberties with beliefs in an Almighty G.O.D. (Government Of Decree).
The blind HATE towards companies or free enterprise is unfounded.
You don't have to buy/support companies/Corporations.
Try NOT PAYING YOUR TAXES!

Answer 3

They're NOT anything more than well-informed, intelligent and motivated individuals who sees the harm that this administration is doing. And have the Will to speak their mind to alert the Nation of what a great many of us feel is a real threat to our prosperity.