Limbaugh calls for segregated buses
During his diatribe about a truly horrific incident in which several kids on a school bus pounded a lone white kid (and then other black kids intervened) Rush Limbaugh slipped in this interesting bit:
“I think the guy’s wrong. I think not only it was racism, it was justifiable racism. I mean, that’s the lesson we’re being taught here today. Kid shouldn’t have been on the bus anyway. We need segregated buses — it was invading space and stuff. This is Obama’s America.”
After that, Limbaugh seemed to realize he’d said something … um … inappropriate, and began fumbling around a bit. Watch:
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Eventually, though, he soldiered on, adding this:
“If homosexuality being inborn is what makes it acceptable, why does racism being inborn not make racism acceptable?” the talk show host asked. “I’m sorry — I mean, this is the way my mind works. But apparently now we don’t choose racism, we just are racists. We are born that way. We don’t choose it. So shouldn’t it be acceptable, excuse — this is according to the way the left thinks about things.”
Huh???
Limbaugh is clearly feeling the hot breath of Glenn Beck on his chubby neck, since in the last few days he’s had to ramp up the shock value just to stay relevant. But he also has a history, from the “take the bone out of your nose and call me back” dismissal of a black caller to “Barack the Magic Negro.” What’s incredible, is what he and Beck are able to get away with. When I was doing talk radio, I would have been immediately fired for saying we ought to return to segregated buses, bot not Rush. In fact, he won’t even get an awkward glance from his bosses, his fellow wingers, or Republican elected officials. That’s how far gone the conservative “movement” is.
Limbaugh clearly speaks for an aggrieved segment of the population, who have decided to launch their own version of the “civil rights movement,” (seriously. They even have their own “freedom riders” hurtling themselves into the trenches to roll back the evils of healthcare reform… okay, stop laughing…) based almost entirely on racial grievance. To the majority of Americans, they represent a fringe element. But even if they’re small in number, these people are dead serious. And while eight years of free-spending, deficits and wasteful wars didn’t get them exercised, something … can’t put my finger on it … something about Barack Obama did.
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