And what do you suppose El Rushbo is doing? Being Mr. Nice Guy and turning the other cheek? Well maybe, but his cheek's a bit lower down.
In The Wall Street Journal, Rush Limbaugh responds to the Obama campaign's sound bites pulled from two parodies he wrote about Mexico.
I understand the rough and tumble of politics. But Barack Obama -- the supposedly postpartisan, postracial candidate of hope and change -- has gone where few modern candidates have gone before.
Mr. Obama's campaign is now trafficking in prejudice of its own making. And in doing so, it is playing with political dynamite. What kind of potential president would let his campaign knowingly extract two incomplete, out-of-context lines from two radio parodies and build a framework of hate around them in order to exploit racial tensions? The segregationists of the 1950s and 1960s were famous for such vile fear-mongering.
...The malignant aspect of this is that Mr. Obama and his advisers know exactly what they are doing. They had to listen to both monologues or read the transcripts. They then had to pick the particular excerpts they used in order to create a commercial of distortions. Their hoped-for result is to inflame racial tensions. In doing this, Mr. Obama and his advisers have demonstrated a pernicious contempt for American society.
We've made much racial progress in this country. Any candidate who employs the tactics of the old segregationists is unworthy of the presidency.
I'm beginning to wonder if anybody in the Obama campaign has enough sense to come indoors from a hard show of rain. Picking on Rush?!! Even if the smear ad works as planned and gets Obama a few Hispanic votes, is that worth firing up El Rushbo and his millions of radio listeners?
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