Limbaugh: Opposing Lynch Mobs Everywhere?
Upset with Senator Barbara Boxer's tough questioning of Condoleezza Rice the other day, Limbaugh has suddenly become a stauch anti-racist. He's setting up Boxer as the affluent lynch mobster of Rice, accusing her of "hitting below the ovaries" (Limbaugh's words) because Boxer (rightly?) pointed out that neither Rice nor anyone in the administration has any family who'll be paying a real price for their abysmal decision making in Iraq. In other words, neither Rice, nor Bush, nor Cheney will risk losing a family member in this war.
It is as if asking tough questions of a clueless and often imperious Secretary of State were the same thing as the violent policing of heterosexual white male privilege and racial sexual segregation (for everyone but white males, of course, who felt it their inheritance to "take" black women whenever they chose to).
There's a central irony here, of course. Ever quick to accuse those who've actually suffered instutitional discrimination of being whiners and inferior--at least by implication--Limbaugh's quick to run to the defense of a woman of color who's positioned in a rarefied, affluent, and powerful class, and who (coincidentally?) happens to share his political ideology.
Pardon me if I'm skeptical of Limbaugh's commitment to social justice.
Rather than a lynching, Rush, why not call it what it is: congressional oversight? I know that you haven't seen much of it since 2001, but this is what the founders had in mind: accountability.
Bush and his minions (and, yes, that includes Rice and, alas, Colin Powell) are finally, finally being held accountable. One could only wish that it were more than just speech.
Kudos to Boxer; shame on Rush.