What is Deepak Chopra talking about?

Over at Yahoo in the opinion section, I made the mistake of reading Deepak Chopra's post that ran on the Huffington Post. Note I did not want to admit to reading the Huffington Post but I digress. Chopra decides to comment on the current flap involving Rush Limbaugh and President Obama. He starts off the post with this:

"When Michael Steele, the hapless chairman of the Republican Party, lost his bearings and called Rush Limbaugh's style ugly and incendiary, everyone knew it was the truth. But it was a perfect example of an inconvenient truth."

Everyone knew it was the truth? Did anyone get Newt Gingrich's opinion on this or Sean Hannity? By the way Deepak, I don't find Rush's style ugly so who is this everyone you are referring to? I guess they are the people that he associates with on a daily basis that don't involve any 'right-wingers'. Chopra continues his article making the point that Limbaugh is actually anti-moralistic as he is fueled by what makes him "pissed off" rather than being guided by any principles. Anyone who listens to Rush knows that is not the case. Rush has broken with the Republican party many times and is actually guided by core conservative principles that I would guess Deepak and his circle of friends find antiquated and odd.

Chopra notes:

"Under ordinary morality, the wretched plight of illegal immigrants, for example, must be considered along with the fact that they are breaking the law. Being poor, illiterate, and desperate, their human condition makes them more sympathetic than ruthless lawbreakers would be. But under anti-morality, if you hate immigrants because they are foreigners who don't look American enough, the argument is over."

Note what he has done in this paragraph. He starts talking about illegal immigrants and winds up knocking Limbaugh and his listeners for hating immigrants because they are foreigners and don't look American enough". Is this guy an idiot? The debate about illegal immigration was not without considering the immigrants plight but it was a discussion (at least on the radio shows that I listen to) about the rule of law, the ability of the United States to handle the influx of immigrants, the effect on the national culture and not the least of all, national security. I never heard someone rail against people for the way they looked but rather for the impact illegal immigrants posed to many facets of our country. What Chopra quickly does is instead try and tar and feather Limbaugh and crew as racists. Chopra believes, I guess, that there are no respectful arguments against anything but full amnesty for the 12, 15 or 20 million illegals regardless of the impact to our country. I guess concern for their plight outweighs everything else in Chopra's mind.

Chopra winds up his screed noting that Limbaugh doesn't feel the need to "understand…or try and accommodate their views" where the "they"could be feminists, gays, Muslins, etc. I guess we should follow Deepak's example as he truly tries to understand the conservative mind and accommodates Limbaugh's perspective. What?? You mean he doesn't practice what he preaches and instead of understanding and accommodating other people's views he just passes judgment on them? Sounds like he may be closer to Rush than he thinks. But don't worry everyone knows the truth about Deepak Chopra and what passes for his learned opinion these days.

OSROMAN