Rush Calls Out Obama for Using Racist Tactics

Rush Limbaugh is fighting mad about having his words distorted and taken wildly out of context by the Obama campaign for use in Spanish language ads. Today he fights back with an op-ed in the Wall Street Journal:

I understand the rough and tumble of politics. But Barack Obama -- the supposedly postpartisan, postracial candidate of hope and change -- has gone where few modern candidates have gone before.

Mr. Obama's campaign is now trafficking in prejudice of its own making. And in doing so, it is playing with political dynamite. What kind of potential president would let his campaign knowingly extract two incomplete, out-of-context lines from two radio parodies and build a framework of hate around them in order to exploit racial tensions? The segregationists of the 1950s and 1960s were famous for such vile fear-mongering. ...

The malignant aspect of this is that Mr. Obama and his advisers know exactly what they are doing. They had to listen to both monologues or read the transcripts. They then had to pick the particular excerpts they used in order to create a commercial of distortions. Their hoped-for result is to inflame racial tensions. In doing this, Mr. Obama and his advisers have demonstrated a pernicious contempt for American society.

We've made much racial progress in this country. Any candidate who employs the tactics of the old segregationists is unworthy of the presidency.

You can read the rest to see how simple parodies were used to build a racist commercial that attempted to claim that John McCain was anti-immigrant (which is laughable on its face given McCain's attempt to pass an amnesty bill last year).

Obama has the Spanish language media completely under his control. During the conventions all of the Spanish TV networks covered the major Dem speeches. None of them covered any of the GOP speeches. It was a shameful performance by the Spanish language media.