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Monday, July 13, 2009

 
Gasbag Denuncia

by digby

Rush Limbaugh has his granny panties so twisted up about the DenunciaRush.com ads that he's strangling on them:

Now, the Democrats want to make this all about Sotomayor versus me. We have a spot, a new ad run by a liberal Latina organization called "Presente Action." They have a website called DenunciaRush.com. DenunciaRush.com and they're running these radio ads in Florida against John Mica and Adam Putnam.

RUSH ARCHIVES: She doesn't have any intellectual depth. She's an angry woman. She's a bigot. She's a racist...


RUSH: Must have hit home on that one if they're running ads out there trying to denounce -- they've got a whole website called DenunciaRush.com because I called her a "racista," a "racista and a bigot," and they're taking that... By the way, I sounded pretty good in that sound bite, don't you think? I'm the only one in English in the whole bite, but you get the drift here. The last line of this: "We asked Republican Congressman John Mica if he would denounce Limbaugh's words. His response? Silencio." Silence.

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... we have crashed, ladies and gentlemen, we have crashed DenunciaRush.com. They are at the moment finito. DenunciaRush has been crashed. So Russ Feingold, a couple of words that Sonia Sotomayor said taken out of context. You mean like Macaca? George Allen saying Macaca? We heard about that for weeks and months as the Washington Post and the Democrats sought to destroy Allen. He'd been a congressman, a governor, and a senator. Sotomayor's comments are much worse than Macaca, and they're frequent, and they are long held. You see how this race thing works, folks. If you're a liberal nothing you say can be held against you.

Read the whole thing. He's starting to babble like Sarah Palin. Talk about thin- skinned.

The GOP must think that they are in serious danger of losing the white male, conservative blowhard vote or they wouldn't pay fealty to someone whose every word is designed to ensure that they are the only ones voting for Republicans. They obviously don't want the Hispanic vote.

One word to the wise to the fatuous one: when you're talking about long held racist views, it's probably not a good idea to hold up a guy who had confederate flags and hangman's nooses in his office as being innocent as a lily white lamb. It's not like "macaca" came out of nowhere.




Let's keep those ads going, folks. Every time Rush calls Sotomayor a racist a future wise latina gets her progressive wings.

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digby 7/13/2009 06:00:00 PM |