Racists, Too

I have pointed out more than once that the right wing in this country is permeated by racism. I'm sure many people think I'm being shrill. Read this exchange between Rush Limbaugh and a caller, via Digby:

LIMBAUGH: Yeah. This is -- you're not going to believe this, but it's very simple. And the sooner you believe it, and the sooner you let this truth permeate the boundaries you have that tell you this is just simply not possible, the better you will understand Democrats in everything. You are right. They want to get us out of Iraq, but they can't wait to get us into Darfur.

CALLER: Right.

LIMBAUGH: There are two reasons. What color is the skin of the people in Darfur?

CALLER: Uh, yeah.

LIMBAUGH: It's black. And who do the Democrats really need to keep voting for them? If they lose a significant percentage of this voting bloc, they're in trouble.

CALLER: Yes. Yes. The black population.

LIMBAUGH: Right. So you go into Darfur and you go into South Africa, you get rid of the white government there. You put sanctions on them. You stand behind Nelson Mandela -- who was bankrolled by communists for a time, had the support of certain communist leaders. You go to Ethiopia. You do the same thing.

CALLER: It's just -- I can't believe it's really that simple.

Digby's predicting that there will be more on this order from the right-wing media shills -- Limbaugh, Coulter, Malkin, O'Reilly. I'm sure she's right. It's never been far below the surface, after all. And there's an election coming up.

(For an added dimension on this, see Dave Neiwert's post on Jules Crittenden's unbelievable screed about who is outbreeding who. Neiwert, being much more polite than I am, talks about eugenics, but let's face it -- the foundation is racism.)