Limbaugh keeps it classy

"That cracker made a lot of African-Americans millionaires."

Hey, fat boy, don't let the door hit you on your way out.

Reparations

Journalists covering the Capitol beat need to ask Republicans today, do you agree that health care reform is a form of reparations?



It is interesting, though. In a way, I agree that health care reform is a form of civil rights -- the right to affordable health care. The right to keep your coverage if you lose your job. The right to keep your coverage if you get sick. Limbaugh sees that as a bad thing. More specifically, he sees that as a zero-sum game in which health care is a form of wealth redistribution. If someone who isn't covered now is covered by health care reform, that's taking money directly out of his -- and his listeners' pockets.

As Duncan Black would say, these people are sick, broken things.

UPDATE: Blogspot proves the existence of God as it apparently will not let me post the actual audio clip.

A house on the beach

Well, William Shatner is Canadian, is he not?

A shout out to the LATimes readership

I don't know much about the newpaper industry, but I'd guess that it's probably not wise to publish op eds designed specifically and exclusively to insult its readership while promoting a product.

Toro, toro

Deep thought: Democratic operatives poke Limbaugh with the equivalent of a cocktail skewer while his apologists and Limbaugh himself imagine he's being gored like the bull they believe he is.

The Rush apology widget

Via TPM, it won't raise the political discourse, but it's pretty funny.

The head of the Republican Party

Rahm Emanuel seems to be getting under Republicans' skin. Hilarity ensues.

Mr. Steele called Mr. Limbaugh after the radio host belittled Mr. Steele on his show, questioning his authority and saying the new Republican leader was off “to a shaky start.”

“It’s time, Mr. Steele, for you to go behind the scenes and start doing the work that you were elected to do instead of trying to be some talking head media star, which you’re having a tough time pulling off,” Mr. Limbaugh said, in a transcript of his remarks he posted on his Web site.

“Mr. Steele: You are head of the R.N.C.,” Mr. Limbaugh said. “You are not head of the Republican Party. Tens of millions of conservatives and Republicans have nothing to do with the R.N.C. and right now they want nothing to do with it.”

The fight broke out at a time when Democrats have sought to portray Mr. Limbaugh as the new face of the Republican Party, a line that has been pushed in television advertisements financed by labor, as well as by the White House chief of staff, Rahm Emanuel. Mr. Steele bristled after a questioner on CNN referred to Mr. Limbaugh as the de facto leader of the Republican Party on Saturday.

“No he’s not – I’m the de facto leader of the Republican Party,” Mr. Steele responded.

“Rush Limbaugh is an entertainer,” he said. “Rush Limbaugh, the whole thing is entertainment. Yes, it’s incendiary, yes, it’s ugly.”

Mr. Steele told Politico on Monday that he had called Mr. Limbaugh to apologize.

“My intent was not to go after Rush – I have enormous respect for Rush Limbaugh,” Mr. Steele told The Politico. “I was maybe a little bit inarticulate. There was no attempt on my part to diminish his voice or his leadership.”