Is Rush Limbaugh a racist? You betcha!

By Michael J.W. Stickings

We hardly need any more proof that Dear Leader Rush is a racist, a calculated racist who knows how to push the right buttons with his followers, but sometimes it's just so blatant that you can't let it pass without comment. Andrew Sullivan posts this image and text from Limbaugh's website:

This guy is an utter wrecking ball all by himself on the world stage to the point now of getting embarrassing.  This presidency of Obama's, it doesn't take much to irritate the left. Try this: "Barack Obama's presidency is graffiti on the walls of American history." That's what his administration is. No more than graffiti on the walls of American history. We have a juvenile delinquent for a president who has ruined so much public and private property, not even his gang is making much of an effort here to protect him. It's an utter disaster.

Andrew highlights the "racial dog whistles," the racist code words that, in this case, aren't remotely subtle: "graffiti," "juvenile delinquent," "gang" (all of which Rush and his ilk associate with being black, or perhaps also Hispanic).

It isn't worth responding to such bigotry, which is all-too-common from Rush and his right-wing ilk. It is worth noting, however, that it is being spewed not by some no-name fringe figure but by a leader of the conservative "movement," by a driving force in the Republican Party.

You don't think race plays a dominant role in the right's assault on Obama? Get your head out of your ass and pay attention. It's all out in the open.