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Rush Limbaugh & the school bus

Wednesday, 16th September 2009

"Look, I think it's important to talk about black male violence... But good grief, Limbaugh is up to something wicked..." Is the talk radio host playing up an incident to make a racially inflammatory point about Obama? Rod Dreher - who has taken down his original account of the fracas - says yes. I recommend reading the whole post.

UPDATE: Jeffrey Goldberg asks if The Drudge Report  (of which more below) is any better. You'd have thought Obama's opponents would have been content to stick to exploiting the ACORN story, which does at least seem to be genuine.

ANOTHER UPDATE:  On second thoughts, I don't know why I'm surprised. After all, we're talking about people who don't miss a chance to run the Obama-as-Manchurian-Candidate angle:

The best friend of his maternal grandfather, who raised him, was an avowed communist...
For the sake of my own mental health I'm going to have to stop reading this stuff.

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