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Rush’s rant

Predictably, after being jettisoned as a minority partner by the group hoping to buy the St. Louis Rams, Rush Limbaugh, along with his many minions, is lashing out and, as is so typical of today’s conservatives, painting himself as a victim and blaming everyone for his predicament but himself.

As expected, both he and his listeners are following what has become the well-trod path of conservative victimization and denial. First, Rush never said any of those racist things he’s accused of saying. Where’s your proof? What are the dates? Let’s hear the tapes.

Ah, but Mr. Limbaugh and his listeners have been engaged in this race-baiting diatribe far too long for others not to have taken notice. So, when the proof is offered up in the way of audio and video recordings along with Limbaugh’s own writings, then the excuse becomes, “It was taken out of context. It’s just his brand of humor. You don’t get it.” Apparently, these folks are unaware of just how low one must go in the human character department to actually think any of this is funny.

Then, of course, we move on to, “Well, the other side does it, too.”

Is it just me, or do these people unceasingly sound like bratty children?

“I didn’t do it.” “She did it first.” “Well, they started it!”

Honestly.

I really don’t know if these folks are truly incapable of grasping the reality that the rest of us live in, or if they just enjoy throwing fits and martyring themselves, and I really don’t care. I’m tired of having my country held hostage by this crowd of tantrum-throwing children.

Rush insists that what has been done to him is nothing more than “Obama’s America on full display.” Well, he’s right.

In Obama’s America, the one that was democratically chosen by a majority of voters in the 2008 presidential election, decent people have decided that this brand of bigoted, racist, self-serving, incendiary bile is no longer tolerable and no longer acceptable. And neither are those who spew it.

October 17, 2009 at 11:09 pm

--Tammy Alonso

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