Yet another nut in the Fox News snack bowl
I'd ask where Fox News finds these people, but we all can guess the answer. So here's frequent contributor Erik Rush on his radio show talking about how Nelson Mandela
wasn't all that great after all.
“You know I hate to rain on the parade here, but there really isn’t a whole lot to celebrate aside from this synthetic symbolism that is being made out of someone who, you know, didn’t do much,” Rush said. “Apartheid went away, great. There are South African blacks who have told friends of mine they wish it was back because the country was safer, if you can believe that.”
Oooh, he has friends who have friends who they say they wish apartheid was back. As editorial plot device, that's even better than "my cab driver told me how much he agrees with my thoughts on world economics."
If this sounds rather familiar, rather too akin to hard-right assertions that American black folk had it just so very much better off under slavery, back under the kind masters doling out steady jobs and a nice straw bed to sleep on, you would not be far off. But it is also in fact the very argument used against Mandela by Ronald Reagan and other conservative contemporaries: apartheid may be a bad thing, but it sure makes the trains run on time!
It should probably also be noted that Rush is absolutely no-holds-barred batshit crazy—which is again probably reason for his many Fox News appearances. Holy moly.