Rush Limbaugh is constantly claiming that he is not racist. And I believe that HE believes that. But I also believe that he knows his audience eats that stuff up. And he may truly believe that black people and white people are equal, but that clearly won't stop him from throwing around racially loaded words like "uppity."

 

Question: if someone is not racist, but they say things that are racist, does that really mean that they are not racist? Discuss.

 

Limbaugh has had a big hate on for Michelle Obama since Day 1, because she offends his sense of Ayn Rand-ian proportion. People should be allowed to be as fat as they want, and who are you to say differently? Dare to question the surprising rise in childhood obesity in America, and Rush Limbaugh will call you fat. 

 

Limbaugh feels obliged to comment on the appearance of any woman, of course. It is his right as a white man in America, his God-given right, to criticize the appearance of women. Even though this criticism always threatens to cause an aneurysm from all the cognitive dissonance, Rush being - even post-weight loss - a piggy, ugly little man with a withered black heart. 

 

But I digress.

 

Would the NASCAR crowd have booed Michelle Obama if she was white? This is the issue we are dancing around. Rush believes that it isn't a racial issue, bless his heart. He just thinks that the NASCAR folks are criticizing Michelle's promotion of a healthy lifestyle. Americans should eat better and exercise; hard to argue with that. Unless you are Rush Limbaugh, in which case that is tantamount to force-feeding your liberal dogma to the heartland, Clockwork Orange-style.

 

Rush also has the gall to criticize Michelle Obama for taking one 747 with her family and coterie, while her husband takes another. Mind you, this is the same man who gleefully celebrated Earth Day by sending his own private jet on an empty flight back and forth across the country and leaving on every light in his gigantic mansion, simply because he could. He did it proudly, because he believes that it is his job to serve as an example to Americans of what they can achieve, if only they aspire hard enough. (And come from a wealthy white family. Oh wait; he always leaves that part out.)

 

Sometimes, like when Rush Limbaugh is criticizing someone for being fat or ostentatiously using jet fuel, I start to wonder if he isn't just one big work of performance art. The right wing Stephen Colbert, if you will. Does he even listen to the things that he says?