Rush Limbaugh, the conservative commentator who has assumed a prominent leadership role in the Republican party, is up to his old tricks. Nothing fires up Limbaugh’s extremist and blood-thirsty base than attempting to portray minorities as lazy and shiftless individuals who are all too eager for an undeserved handout.
Here is what Limbaugh said on his nationally syndicated show:
LIMBAUGH: As the economy performs worse than expected, the deficit for the 2010 budget year beginning in October will worsen by $87 billion to $1.3 trillion. The deterioration reflects lower tax revenues and higher costs for bank failures, unemployment benefits and food stamps. But in the Oval Office of the White House none of this is a problem. This is the objective. The objective is unemployment. The objective is more food stamp benefits. The objective is more unemployment benefits. The objective is an expanding welfare state. And the objective is to take the nation’s wealth and return to it to the nation’s quote, “rightful owners.” Think reparations. Think forced reparations here if you want to understand what actually is going on.
Limbaugh is an old-school conservative who likes trying to portray minorities in this stereotypical way. The tired reparations debate is an old and obviously controversial one. Conservatives like to go to this weapon because it makes it easier for them to push their case that minorities want something they don’t deserve or are just whining about issues of the past (such as slavery). Of course, now that we have a president of color in the White House (Barack Obama) you can bet this will not be the last time we hear this kind of talk from conservative Republicans. This is another way of trying to rile up conservative white Republicans by pouring gasoline on the fire (telling them that undeserving people of color are attempting to take from them what they have “earned” through their lives).
Think Progress:
http://thinkprogress.org/2009/05/11/sessions-limbaugh-unemployment/
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