The colored out of space

[womzilla]

Jesse Taylor at Pandagon find this bit of swill from Rush Hindenberg:

These polls on how one-third of blue-collar white Democrats won't vote for Obama because he's black, and--but he's not black. Do you know he has not one shred of African-American blood? He doesn't have any African--that's why when they asked whether he was authentic, whether he’s down for the struggle. He's Arab. You know, he's from Africa. He's from Arab parts of Africa. He's not--his father was--he's not African-American. The last thing that he is is African-American. I guess that's splitting hairs, I don't—it's just all these little things, everything seems upside-down today in this country.

As Jesse says,

Let's account for all the many, many types of racism at work here:
1.) Obama's a different, worse type of minority than the already bad type of minority he was before! He’s like a super-nigger!
2.) Obama's hiding his Arab heritage because it’s something shameful! Even worse than being a welfare-loving, crack-addicted homeboy from Chitown!
3.) Let's manufacture the entire ethnic makeup of a country based on no fact or verifiable claim whatsoever in order to smear someone for having said background. Kenyans also eat white babies, in case you hadn't heard.

In the comments, I added:

I love how, somehow in Limbaugh logic, "Arab" isn’t "African", even though a sizable portion of the population of Africa is Arab. This whole thing goes several steps beyond absurd. He’s not just a nigger; he’s not just a SUPER-nigger; he’s a sand-nigger jungle bunny from beyond time and space, so it's okay to hate him. That’s not racism, that’s just good common sense.

I'll quote myself:

A couple of months back, when the New York Times Magazine ran the cover headline "Rush Limbaugh Is Just Getting Warmed Up", I thought, "He means, 'I'm going to niggerbait like no one has ever niggerbaited before.'"

Sometimes one derives no satisfaction from being right.

Comments

People Need a Good Stiff Dose of Metaphor!

[shelleybear.livejournal.com]

Act Three. Babies Buying Babies.

Elna Baker reads her story about the time she worked at the giant toy store, FAO Schwartz. Her job was to sell these lifelike “newborns” which were displayed in a “nursery” inside the store. When the toys become the hot new present, they begin to fly off the shelves. When the white babies sell out, white parents are faced with a choice: will they go for an Asian, Latino, or African-American baby instead? What happens is so disturbing that Elna has a hard time even telling it. (16 minutes) (http://www.thislife.org/Radio_Episode.aspx?episode=347)

[sarah-ovenall.livejournal.com]

That is grotesque. I have nothing else to say.

But if You Believe Yoko Ono

[(Anonymous)]

Woman is the Nigger of the World, so does that make Sarah Palin's selection even more brilliant than it initially appeared? After all, this way the Hillary Democrats and the Obama Democrats will have to vote for McCain!

In 1840, the Whig slogan was "Tippecanoe and Tyler Too," and after the election, "Tyler Too" was President for 47 months, while "Tippecanoe" barely lasted a month. Maybe Mrs. Palain knows what she's talking of when she speaks of a "Palin/McCain Administration."

Vote for 20 Month Governor and 894 out of 899 free!

[sarah-ovenall.livejournal.com]

actually I do have something else to say. I thought it was crazy to claim that a person with one African parent and one American parent is not African American. This morning I met a woman (at the Obama office, coincidentally) who told me that her children's father is from Africa and she doesn't consider them African American. She said that when people ask what her kids are or similar inappropriate questions, she says they're Cameroon-American and tells the asker to look it up on a map.

[sarah-ovenall.livejournal.com]

also, Rush Limbaugh is a dick.

[washa-way.livejournal.com]

I think the part that makes Rush REALLY freaked is the fact that Obama is an American.

In Rush's world, that just shouldn't be the case.