Tfgray’s Weblog

I’ve said it before, but it bears repeating: every time you think the Right can go no lower, they get out the backhoe.

Today Rush Limbaugh, he who doubts Obama’s citizenship, who thinks Obama is worse than Al Qaeda, who wants him to fail, who introduced “Barack the Magic Negro” to the nation, has announced that the racist anti-semite who shot up the Holocaust Museum is a left-winger.

Keith Olbermann thinks Rush is crazy. BS, Keith. Rush is covering his vast expanse of ass. Sorry to use Anglo-Saxon language, but there it is. There’s a fairly good case to be made that Rush represents the mainstream edge of the extreme Right. Rush knows that he’s dancing on the edge of charges of inciting violence–not quite enough to get him an accessory before the fact charge, but enough to bring the wrath of every decent human being in this nation and beyond down on his head.

His reaction? To tell his followers that this sort of action is beyond the pale? Who? Rush? The guy who sent his cleaning lady out to score hillbilly heroin? The guy who thinks his thirty years of militaristic bluster is a fair exchange for having opted out of actual military service? The moral crusader who needed 60 hits of Viagra to get him through a Carribean vacation while unmarried?

Nope. All you have to do is blame the problem on your opponents. Is there any factual basis to the accusation? Nah. Logic, even? Not a shred. But that’s never stopped his horde of minions from swallowing everything he says whole.

So the question is, will they swallow this one, too? Will they decide that random murder is justified to protect the nation from Socialism, or Communism, or today’s dangerous -ism du jour? Or will they rise up en mass screaming, “How dare you call us Aryans ‘Commies?’” (Not holding my breath for that one, but it would be fun.) or will they, at last, see him for the manipulative, lying coward that he is?