Limbaugh echoes Malkin:
"In Obama’s America, the white kids now get beat up with the black kids cheering, ‘Yay, right on, right on, right on, right on… I wonder if Obama’s going to come to come to the defense of the assailants the way he did his friend Skip Gates up there at Harvard."I’m sorry but this is outrageous. The story was a classic schoolbus bully incident; it could happen anywhere any time and has happened everywhere at all times with kids of all races, backgrounds and religions. To infer both that it was racially motivated and that this is somehow connected to having a black president is repulsive. I know that is almost de trop with Limbaugh, but sometimes you have to regain a little shock. This man is spewing incendiary racial hatred. He is conjuring up images of lonely whites being besieged by angry violent blacks … based on an incident that had nothing to do with race at all. And why, by the way, does someone immediately go to the racial angle when looking at such a tape?These people are going off the deep end entirely: open panic at a black president is morphing into the conscious fanning of racial polarization, via Gates or ACORN or Van Jones or a schoolbus in Saint Louis. What we’re seeing is the Jeremiah Wright moment repeated and repeated. The far right is seizing any racial story to fan white fears of black power in order to destroy Obama. And the far right now controls the entire right.
Do they understand how irresonsible this is? How recklessly dangerous to a society’s cohesion and calm? Or is that what they need and thrive on?
And even if it was racially motivated, how does that relate to Obama’s Presidency? But it actually doesn’t matter what Limbaugh and Malkin are focusing on, because the conclusion is the same:
FEAR MONGERING: spreading discreditable, misrepresentative information designed to induce fear and apprehension.
The demonstrators say, "We have guns" [so you need to be afraid]. And reports like this say, "Now we have a black President, the African Americans are going to beat us white people up." How is that different from a few Moslem Terrorists blowing up the World Trade Towers? The right answer is that there’s no difference at all. Some call it terrorism. Some call it fear mongering. Same deal…
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