Rush Limbaugh: Super-racist

He's not even trying to hide it anymore. Not even slightly.

Limbaugh attacks the victims in New Orleans again, "comparing" them to the survivors of the Midwest floods.

Think Progress has the transcript:

LIMBAUGH: I want to know. I look at Iowa, I look at Illinois—I want to see the murders. I want to see the looting. I want to see all the stuff that happened in New Orleans. I see devastation in Iowa and Illinois that dwarfs what happened in New Orleans. I see people working together. I see people trying to save their property…I don’t see a bunch of people running around waving guns at helicopters, I don’t see a bunch of people running shooting cops. I don’t see a bunch of people raping people on the street. I don’t see a bunch of people doing everything they can…whining and moaning—where’s FEMA, where’s BUSH. I see the heartland of America. When I look at Iowa and when I look at Illinois, I see the backbone of America.

Hardly an accurate version of what happened there and, as Cenk Uygur of The Young Turks points out, Limbaugh forgets to mention that people could not get out of New Orleans after the flooding, as opposed to Iowa.

But Limbaugh doesn't stop there - referring to the Democratic Party this week:

(From Media Matters)

LIMBAUGH: The -- there's a complicated answer to this and I'm going to have answer some of it in the monologue in the next hour, but one of the simple answers that will require some elaboration is that a lot of money is coming from these kooks -- and I'm not talking about just the blacks -- I'm talking about a whole kook-fringe base because George Soros is running it --

Rush has a history of bigoted remarks, but it seems that he's going out of his way to turn up the intensity and frequency of the racist talk lately.

Gee, I wonder why he would chose this year of all times?

What could possibly cause him to want to portray to blacks in an even more negative light — more negative than his usual manner — and do so on a regular basis?

What could it be?


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