If only wingnuts could claim "black privilege"

If only wingnuts could claim "black privilege"

by digby

They just can't get anything they want anymore because the African Americans run everything these days:

On his radio program Monday, Limbaugh chastised incoming Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell for his statement that his goal over the next two years is to convince American voters that electing a Republican president in addition to a Republican Congress in 2016 need not be a “scary outcome.” Though McConnell pledged to confront the administration on issues like health reform, energy, and the environment, Limbaugh decried the Kentuckian’s remarks as evidence that the GOP will “throw in” with Obama and the Democratic Party.

“What do you think that means? That means throwing in with the Democrats,” Limbaugh said.

“We don’t want to be scary. We don’t want to be seen as extremist kooks. Remember, all you have to do to be seen as an extremist kook is oppose Obama, pure and simple,” he added.

Limbaugh’s broadside then took a bizarre turn, as he proceeded to connect the establishment GOP’s alleged betrayals with the police killings of Michael Brown and Eric Garner.

Then he said this:

“But it’s easier to throw in with Obama. His race, by the way, is a clear factor in this. Let’s not kid ourselves. It’s much easier to throw in with the first African American president than to oppose him because you know what’s going to come. Even if you pay off Al Sharpton, you still might face allegations of racism.”

That's a human rights abuse, obviously. And it's led to Obama running roughshod over the GOP for years as they've supplicated themselves to his every whim. Look at Obamacare! (Well, ok. No Republican voted for it but still ...) At this point the Republicans are so afraid of being called racists that the only David Duke acolyte they could put in their leadership was third in line.

These poor elites just get no respect anymore. It's quite clear that a fabulously rich white man being called a racist is pretty much the same thing as slavery. And the highway to the Hamptons is the new underground railroad.

We all have a dream that someday rich white men will not be judged by the color of their skin but the content of their stock portfolios....


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