I'm starting to wonder if Beck drinks before he does his shows.
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Rush Limbaugh loves to use the "reverse racism" meme as often as he can.
Seeing as he can't come out and call Sonya Sotomayor a "wetback", and you just know he wants to, he uses her race against her differently.
Limbaugh had this to say of Sotomayor on his radio program today:
She ruled against the white firefighter Ricci and other white firefighters just on the basis that she thought women and minorities should be given a preference because of their skin color and because of the history of discrimination in the past. The law was totally disregarded. That's what I mean when I refer to her as a reverse racist. Obama himself is one, the chip on his shoulder that he brings to office. If people just listen to what he said over the course of his career, it's unmistakable. I know the media is going to harp on this reverse-racist stuff, and I just want all of you to know that I am perfectly willing to back it up and I'm proud that I said it. It happens to be true.
Of course he wants her to "fail". You shouldn't even have to ask.
For Rush, it's a given that he has issues with women in power. He has problems with people that aren't white. He simply has problems dealing with the very real fact that his party loses so many arguements, by and large, because he and they can't accept the fact that Americans come in all shades and colors, all opinions, all backgrounds, and nothing they do will ever be able to erase that.
Am I asking Rush to be tolerant of people of alternate ethnicity? Absolutely not. To do so would be such a futile exercise that it is beyond laughable.
Glenn Beck is a totally different animal all together. He says and does things not simply because they fit into his canted view of the world, he says them because he knows that it will make him more money, get him more spots on various Fox"News" shows, knows that it will cause people to disagree with him. His problems lie within the very real fact that he is utterly clueless. Well, clueless to anything except how many zeros he has to the left of the decimal-point in his bank account.
To put it another way, he has lost the plot. This isn't just simply ignorance that we are dealing with, it is rank stupidity on a level not seen since Steven Spielberg decided it would be a good idea to re-edit E.T..
Although both these poor excuses of men - who actually give credence to the theory that we are descended from apes - are from two areas of the racially-ignorant spectrum, they are shining examples of why many/most of the Republicans in this country are seen as racist or supportive of racist actions.
The trick is, give yourself enough room to get out of being called a racist. That's why Limbaugh uses the "reverse-racism" line. He can get out of it if he talks fast enough and ties together completely divergent subjects in one mass of cholesterol and cigar smoke filled rant.
Beck is simply just crazy enough to say things like "nigger", "wop", or "spic". He'll just deny saying it, have some sort of crying spell on his Fox"News" show, and have Jonah Goldberg explain how it's "Liberal Fascists" that made him do it, and then demand an apology from Whoopie and Barbara Walters.
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