Rush Limbaugh:
Obama is "incompetent, incapable of [making] decisions";
Liberals vote for him only because "they feel sorry for him"
Rush Limbaugh
Rush Limbaugh has bizarre ideas about race, and racism. For example, he has claimed that "when a Democrat describes a black guy as a step and fetch it, that's not racism, because Democrats can't be racist." This is likely an example of rush "illustrating the absurd with absurdity."
President Barack Obama and former President Bill Clinton
Limbaugh asserts this while making the argument that others are as prejudiced as he is — specifically, that Bill Clinton thinks Obama is useful only for "fetching my coffee, carrying my bags."
President Obama embraces Donna Vanzant in Brigantine, N.J., on
Wednesday during a tour of a neighborhood impacted by Sandy.
(Photo: Pablo Martinez Monsivais, AP)
No great work, no level of demonstrated competence, and no testimonial of Obama's cooperation and good faith is convincing to Rush. It doesn't matter what is currently depicted on every cable news station; to Limbaugh, Obama can do no right.
New Jersey's Republican Governor Chris Christie and President Barack Obama
None of this is new. Limbaugh has always described President Obama in the most objectionable language he can muster. For example, Limbaugh has said that Obama is prejudiced, inauthentic, a black flag waving radical extremist, an empty canvas, very scary, race-baiting and fearmongering, and worthy of ridicule. Limbaugh has characterized Obama speeches as "shuckin' and jivin'" while accusing him of being "too black". Limbaugh has also droned incessantly about Obama not being black enough.
Limbaugh has riffed obnoxiously on the theme of Obama's incompetence:
Obama ... has been shielded from any kind of opposition his whole life. He's been protected. If he got a C at Harvard, somebody gave him an A. If he needed to get into Harvard Law, somebody greased the skids.
—Rush Limbaugh: The Debate Proved It! Conservatism Trounces Liberalism in the Arena of Ideas, October 04, 2012
President Obama toured Wayne, New Jersey, with
Governor Chris Christie (left) and others. | AP Photo
As Obama has received favorable coverage on cable news channels related to the devastation wreaked by Hurricane Sandy, Rush Limbaugh has stepped up the abuse. Here are excerpts from his extended anti-Obama tirade on Halloween Day:
RUSH: [excerpts] I want to expand on the racial component of this and the media's devotion to Obama and why they are sheltering him. They are suppressing stories on Benghazi. They're suppressing stories on his incompetence, the fact he's in over his head, he's unqualified, doesn't know what he's doing. They will not allow any such stories. They will not report them. They'll do their best to suppress them...
Liberals consider themselves elites. They're elites intellectually, smarter than everybody else. They're better people. They look at the original sin of slavery in this country as something that will forever shape, harm, penalize blacks. It is something that, as far as liberals are concerned, especially in the media, will never be overcome. They're still slaves in one way or another. This manifests itself in people feeling sorry for them... Forget the civil war, didn't mean anything. Slavery, the fact that it happened, means it's never gone away.
They look at Obama and they feel sorry for him. So unfair that he should have to deal with all these critics on the right. It's so unfair, because, of course, the interesting thing here is Obama does not come from the American civil rights tradition or heritage. As our Official Obama Criticizer, Mr. Snerdley would say, he doesn't have slave blood. He's never been down for the struggle. But it doesn't matter. This is how elite liberals look at minorities. Actually, look at everybody this way. Incompetent, incapable of decisions in life and doing things on your own. You need a big government shepherding you through life, or in their case, Obama needs them sheltering him...
You talk to conservative blacks, they'll tell you exactly this, and they know exactly what I'm talking about. It's actually a form of discrimination. The soft bigotry of low expectations and it leads them to have this almost parental type protective bubble. That's why there's no Benghazi story. It's not fair the first black president should have to deal with this stuff. It's not fair. They've already had to put up with so much as blacks in this country. It's not fair, traditional standards that presidents have been held to, Obama is exempt. It's a racial thing. In addition to there being unbridled ideological loyalty, they're all liberals. [emphasis added]
—Rush Limbaugh: Why the Media Shelters Obama, October 31, 2012
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Limbaugh attacking Obama is here.
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