A
waitress-turned-author has a confession that might make wingnut hate
speech radio hack Lush Dimbilb a bit uncomfortable: The two thousand
dollars he gave her as a tip? She immediately gave it to charities which
fund abortions.
Lush Dimbulb has stolen millions off of his
particular brand of knee-jerk anti-liberalism, over the years becoming
one of the most despised radio hacks
on the air. With all of that hate-profit, Dimbulb was apparently
feeling generous when he went out twice with his friend, sportscaster Al
Michaels, to an upscale Dallas steakhouse where award-winning author,
Merritt Tierce, was working as a waitress. After he got his bills, he
reportedly left Tierce a total of $2,000 in the tip line.
Given the pretty awful treatment
workers in the food and service industries often experience, most
waiters and waitresses would be forgiven for taking the money and
running, but not Tierce. Little did Dimbulb know, but his waitress also
happened to be the executive director of the Texas Equal Abortion Fund.
I wonder if he would still have felt so generous had he known?
Tierce
said the thought didn’t even cross her mind to keep the money. She said
it felt “like blood money to me.” Instead, she took the money and gave
it to her charity — which provides financial assistance to poor women
who need abortions but can’t afford the costs. “It felt like laundering
the money in a good way,” she recalled. “He’s such an obvious target for
any feminist or sane person. It was really bizarre to me that he gave
me $2,000, and he’s evil incarnate in some ways.”
She may not have
kept the money, but Tierce wound up just fine. After a few years, she
decided to take some of her experiences as a waitress and turn it into a
fictional re-imagining of that Dallas steakhouse in her debut novel Love Me Back.
Lush on the other hand? Poor, poor Lush. While he was publicly ranting
about how college women who want birth control were “sluts” and
“prostitutes,” the money he was making with all that anger was being
dumped directly back into the very things he opposed. How’s that for
karma?
If you’ve managed to avoid Limbulb’s bloviating and aren’t
aware (in which case, bravo!), the hate speech hack is fiercely opposed
to abortion. To make that opposition explicitly clear, in a broadcast a
few years ago, he went so far as to call abortion and the pro-choice
movement the “root of our cultural decay.”
Make that: cultural decay sponsored by Lush Dimbulb.
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