| RUSH: "This will play right into Obama's hands. He's humanitarian, compassionate. They'll use this to burnish their, shall we say, "credibility" with the black community -- in the both light-skinned and dark-skinned black community in this country. |
Rush simply can't wait to make the Haiti relief response a race baiting political weapon against Obama, suggesting that this is how he curries favor with minorities. Its pretty foul. The crassness of the thinking in this little jewel of a comment drew pushback from no less a republican than George Bush:
“We’ve got to deal with the desperation, and there ought to be no politicization of that.”
Which brings us to Michael Steele. Where is he? Lrey jumps right in big Mike's grill:
"When he should have stood-up to Limbaugh and held his ground as a person entitled to his intellectual opinion, and holding a formal political office, gained politically, he retreated from the ire of Massa Rush and subordinated himself to a man who holds him in the same regard he holds for black NFL quarterbacks – a necessary and politically correct evil....
Isn’t such retrogressive ignorance worthy of a rebuke by the man charged with making the GOP more inclusive? Steele (and other black “conservatives”) weren’t afraid to challenge Reid on his “negro dialect” comment. Either they stand-up to Limbaugh now or accept being “the negroes that bring him alcohol”, and always and forever be second class citizens in the GOP."
This latest ugly piece of race baiting political invective from Rush comes as little surprise as he likes to take opportunities to use racial subtext to inflame the passions of his audience and tweak the MSM as well. But its the larger point here that Lrey makes that is relevant to my mind, which is that for a party leader who talks the talk of making the party more inclusive, he needs to walk the walk. Not happening, not gonna happen.
