Obama Racism/Muslim/Unpatriotic/Scary Black Dude Watch, #84

Rush Limbaugh—who is beyond description at this point except for the all-too-obvious-but-stark-in-its-simplicity horrible human being—spent a little time on his putrid radio show yesterday to make his audience totally smarter by telling them that Barack Obama is an Arab, not an African-American.

These polls on how one-third of blue-collar white Democrats won't vote for Obama because he's black, and -- but he's not black. Do you know he has not one shred of African-American blood? He doesn't have any African -- that's why when they asked whether he was authentic, whether he's down for the struggle. He's Arab. You know, he's from Africa. He's from Arab parts of Africa. He's not -- his father was -- he's not African-American. The last thing that he is is African-American. I guess that's splitting hairs, I don't -- it's just all these little things, everything seems upside-down today in this country.

In case I need to state the obvious, Barack Obama is not Arab, although who cares if he were. (Answer: Rush Limbaugh listeners.)

Amusingly, Limbaugh is, of course, technically right that Barack Obama "has not one shred of African-American blood," but he's also totally wrong. Neither of Obama's parents were African-Americans, but the fact that his father was African and his mother was an American pretty much makes Obama about as literally African-American as it gets. So I'm fairly certain that makes all his "shreds of blood" African-American.

Trying to parse Limbaugh logic makes my brain hurt.

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