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Friday, January 15, 2010
Boomer with Attitude / News Rush and Robertson: two faces of same coin
Posted By John Grooms on Fri, Jan 15, 2010 at 5:02 PM
In this blog, I wrote yesterday about the grotesque statements regarding Haiti from Rush Limbaugh and Rev. Pat “Giving religion a bad name for over 30 years” Robertson. The more I think about them, though, the more the two statements seem related, in that they represent two of the worst attributes of the American far right wing: racism and conspiratorial mumbo-jumbo. Both of which are the results of another common trait on the right: blatant, willful ignorance.
Limbaugh exposed, once again, what a kneejerk racist he is; not only by claiming that Pres. Obama wants to use the Haitian disaster to “boost his credibility with the light-skinned and dark-skinned black community” in the United States, but by the simple fact that his automatic first reaction to the catastrophe was racial. Plus, do you think that if the earthquake took place in, say, Canada, Limbaugh would be so dismissive of the tragedy? Or have the nerve — this is still mind-boggling — to argue against aiding the survivors?
Robertson, for his part, embodies the kind of superstitious, conspiratorial B.S. you hear all the time from the right wing fringes, e.g., the “gay agenda”/”Obama’s a communist”/“birther” bleatings of the right’s sheep.
What’s worrying is that these nuts, i.e., those who agree with the Limbaughs and Robertsons of the world, think they’re the basis of a grassroots movement that should be running the country. Those who pay attention to history may remember other such “grassroots movements” based on fear and prejudice and how well they governed once in power.
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