Conservatidiot of the Day: Rush Limbaugh

I think it goes without saying that Rush Limbaugh is one of the most detrimental figures in the American conservative movement. He gets on his radio show and rants about bullshit few people aside from the extremist fringe cares about, mocking people with Parkinson's Disease and homosexuals and soldiers who oppose the Iraq war in the process. I really don't want to spend too much time ranting about how much of an asinine buffoon he is, because it certainly goes without saying, but today he said something which I think lingers deep down inside the narrow little minds of conservatidiots everywhere.

Limbaugh has reportedly referred to President Obama's Supreme Court nominee, Sonia Sotomayor, as a "reverse racist" because of a comment she made during a 2001 speech, where she said the following: "Wise Latina woman with the richness of her experience would more often than not reach a better conclusion than a white male who hasn't lived that life." He then went on to slam her views on affirmative action, and referred to Obama as the "greatest living reverse racist in America."

Okay, so where exactly is the racism in Sotomayor's speech? Frankly, I don't think many white men should assume that they know more than Latina women when it comes to the lives of Latina women. But naturally, the extremist fringe, angry at being called racist whenever they compare black NFL runningbacks to convicts on the run or tell African American callers to take the bone out of their nose, has decided to call anything which exits the mouth of a minority regarding a white man "racist" without searching for the context of what was said. They think that it is racist for minorities to talk about the injustices perpetuated by white men for centuries. They think it is racist for an impoverished minority to want the same access to education and employment as privileged white men have. And they think it is racist for a minority to claim that they know better about minority rights than the majority does.

Keep on shining, Rush. You are one of the greatest gifts ever given to the Democratic Party. Few take you seriously, and the ones who do are just as hopped up on whatever narcotics you're on or bunkered down deep beneath the surface of the Earth with their ten tons of guns and ammo they plan to use against the black Devil president of our's.