Know Your Enemy
January 27th, 2006One of Rush Limbaugh’s stock phrases when dressing down liberals is to call them “phoney-baloney, plastic banana, good-time, rock-and-rollers.”
He gets really fired-up when he says it, like it’s absolutely the worst indictment anyone could level.
So, what the hell does it mean? It’s such a ridiculous turn of phrase. I mean, I guess I understand “good-time rock and roller” but what’s with the “plastic banana?” Is this in reference to something? Perhaps an original “plastic banana” from a long-forgotten cultural battle of the 1960’s?
this is not the plastic banana, but simply a plastic banana.
January 31st, 2006 at 3:54 pm
hi mitch. the plastic banana - some reference to VU or warhol? but how would Rush know about them? it’s unlikely right? unless he used to score at the factory or something. why hasn’t he od’d or relapsed yet? i am waiting.
February 2nd, 2006 at 11:04 am
I thought about Warhol too, FB, but ruled it out.
It also makes me think of the circa-1970 Hanna-Barbera show, “Banana Splits.”
which I’ve never seen.
February 3rd, 2006 at 10:47 pm
i think its a Greatful Dead reference…long shot though