Amy Winehouse calls Obama a drunken crackhead
Well, not really—but something equally ridiculous has happened: Corpulent, drug-addled race-baiter Rush Limbaugh accused Obama of “stoking racial antagonism” in an editorial published in today’s Wall Street Journal. Limbaugh is whining about the use of his own words in a Spanish-language Obama ad. A couple of unintentionally hilarious excerpts of the Limbaugh piece:
Much of the media that is uninterested in Mr. Obama’s connections to unrepentant 1970s Weather Underground terrorist William Ayers and Rev. Jeremiah Wright have so far gone along with the attempt to tie me to Mr. McCain. But Mr. McCain and I have not agreed on how to address illegal immigration. While I am heartened by his willingness to start by securing the borders, it is no secret that we have fundamental differences on illegal immigration.
The media is uninterested in Ayers and Wright? Not in this universe. And while it’s true Limbaugh used to slam McCain non-stop for having an insufficiently harsh stance on immigration, the point is, McCain and other Republicans who supported McCain’s immigration bill caved in to the pressure Limbaugh and his Dittohead zombies brought to bear.
McCain repudiated his own bill—said he would no longer vote for it—to secure the nomination. He had to because Limbaugh set his party’s many xenophobes howling for McCain’s head on immigration. It’s just one of the numerous principles the so-called “maverick” jettisoned on the way to the nomination. McCain bowed down and kissed Limbaugh’s fat ass, just like he made a pilgrimage to kiss Jerry Falwell’s ring after rightly terming the now deceased bible-humper an “agent of intolerance.” So it’s perfectly fair to tie McCain, Limbaugh and the Falwells of the world all together with a big fat bow. That’s what happens when you compromise your principles. More from Limbaugh:
And more to the point, these sound bites are a deception, and Mr. Obama knows it. The first sound bite was extracted from a 1993 humorous monologue poking fun at the arguments against the North American Free Trade Agreement… As for the second sound bite, I was mocking the Mexican government’s double standard—i.e., urging open borders in this country while imposing draconian immigration requirements within its own borders. Thus, I took the restrictions Mexico imposes on immigrants and appropriated them as my own suggestions for a new immigration law.
I suppose in Limbaugh’s reptilian brain, those “monologues” were the greatest bit of satire since “A Modest Proposal.” Only Limbaugh isn’t Jonathan Swift. He’s not Stephen Colbert either. He’s a monumental hypocrite who has made a handsome living chiefly by inflaming the passions of ignorant white folks against people of color, the poor and anyone else Limbaugh deems insufficiently American.
Limbaugh is a draft-dodger who questions the patriotism of heroes who don’t blindly support Bush’s wars. He’s a former dole recipient who rails against the relative pittance the US bestows upon the poverty-stricken—as if that amount of money weren’t laughably small in comparison to the trillions lavished on the war machine. The hypocrite concludes:
We’ve made much racial progress in this country. Any candidate who employs the tactics of the old segregationists is unworthy of the presidency.
The racial progress we’ve made has been despite the best efforts of race-baiting demagogues like Limbaugh. It is he who has made a career of employing the tactics of the old segregationists, which is why it’s laughable for him to accuse anyone else of racial antagonism.
In a truly enlightened society, such a hypocrite and xenophobic shit-stirrer would find his microphone cut off for lack of funds, and yet Limbaugh recently secured the most lucrative radio contract in history. I consider that a measure of how much further we have to go.
[Cross-posted at Betty Cracker]
Posted by Betty Cracker on 09/19/08 at 10:52 AM • Permalink
Categories: Politics • Election '08 • St. McSame • Barack Obama • Bedwetters • PUMAs •
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