Limbaugh: Obama is ‘behaving like an African colonial despot.’
Limbaugh: Obama is ‘behaving like an African colonial despot.’
On his radio show today, conservative talker Rush Limbaugh quoted at length from a new article in the American Thinker entitled, “Obama, the African Colonial” by L.E. Ikenga who identifies herself as a “first generation born West African-American woman.” In the article Ikenga argues that Obama is best understood through his “identification with his father” and his adoption of a “political mindset rooted in post colonial Africa”:
Like many educated intellectuals in post colonial Africa, Barack Hussein Obama, Sr. was enraged at the transformation of his native land by its colonial conqueror. But instead of embracing the traditional values of his own tribal cultural past, he embraced an imported Western ideology, Marxism. I call such frustrated and angry modern Africans who embrace various foreign “isms”, instead of looking homeward for repair of societies that are broken, African Colonials. They are Africans who serve foreign ideas.
Ikenga concludes, “[U]nderstand this: the African colonial who is given too much political power can only become one thing: a despot.” Limbaugh took Ikenga’s argument and ran with it, declaring that Ikenga “nailed who the guy is.” “We’ve elected somebody who’s more African in his roots than he is American…and is behaving like an African colonial despot,” Limbaugh said. Listen here:
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June 26th, 2009 at 4:43 pm.
… So says the white man.
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June 26th, 2009 at 4:44 pmIf I wanted to know what rush limpdick had to say, I would put him on the radio.
The fascination with the wingnut crazies at the expense of any dialog about what the dems are/are not doing to deliver change is just astounding.
June 26th, 2009 at 4:46 pmWait, Rush! You said he was an Arab!
June 26th, 2009 at 4:47 pm.
(R)ush said:
Dear (R)ush,
The correct dispersion is Kenyan.
The correct meme is Kenyan.
The correct lingo is Kenyan.
After all (R)ush, you haven’t disproved that Obama isn’t a Kenyan, yet. Why change the rhetoric now?
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June 26th, 2009 at 4:48 pm…so is it kosher to behave like a Western European-American despot? …cuz…well…nevermind.
June 26th, 2009 at 4:49 pmMore proof the wingnuts are crazy and controlled by bloviating drug addicts with weight problems.
June 26th, 2009 at 4:49 pmAnother Joe Says:
If I wanted to know what rush limpdick had to say, I would put him on the radio.
The fascination with the wingnut crazies at the expense of any dialog about what the dems are/are not doing to deliver change is just astounding.
What is astounding is that you waste your time reading posts here at TP. Masochist?
Go play on other blogs or start your own.
June 26th, 2009 at 4:49 pmCue the concern-troll wingnuts to carefully explain to us how Rush isn’t a racist.
June 26th, 2009 at 4:50 pmWait – I thought he was a Muslim from Indonesia. I need a flow chart.
June 26th, 2009 at 4:51 pmAnd Limbaugh is acting, as usual, like a skunk’s anal gland.
June 26th, 2009 at 4:55 pmWhy does anyone care what this porcine fool says? There are real issues of importance out there like the war in Iraqnam, and the demonstrations in Iran, and the psychotic leader of North Korea, and the not-yet-settled race for Senator in Minnesota.
Come on TP. Stop throwing out this drivel about Rush. If someone is interested in what Rush says they can listen to him or watch the Fixed “News” Channel. TP is better than this sort of coverage.
June 26th, 2009 at 4:59 pmTo think millions Americans listen to this crap day in and day out.
June 26th, 2009 at 4:59 pmSo Obama’s political mindset is best understood through the identification with his father, that he only met once?
June 26th, 2009 at 4:59 pmAn old fat sweaty white guy with a big ass and he-boobies – the typical repiggie these days…
June 26th, 2009 at 5:00 pmI call such frustrated and angry modern Africans who embrace various foreign “isms”, instead of looking homeward for repair of societies that are broken, African Colonials.
Wow, Rush is getting all intellectual on his listeners by reading them those quotes. I suspect that most of his listeners just heard “African, Marxism, African, foreign” and put some tea bags on their heads.
June 26th, 2009 at 5:00 pmBut, doesn’t this contradict his past claim that Obama’s ethnicity is Arab and not African ?
Oh, and Sanford’s affair Obama’s fault according to Rush.
Trying to outdo Glen Beck I reckon.
June 26th, 2009 at 5:01 pmAnother Joe Says:
If I wanted to know what rush limpdick had to say, I would put him on the radio*.
The fascination with the wingnut crazies at the expense of any dialog about what the dems are/are not doing to deliver change is just astounding.
June 26th, 2009 at 4:46 pm
***
*or you’d come here.
…
and here you are.
:)
June 26th, 2009 at 5:01 pmBe scared of the black man Johnny.
Give me a break.
June 26th, 2009 at 5:03 pmDidn’t his father leave when he was two years old? He may have bonded; but, he would not have cognitively had the ability to identify with his father
June 26th, 2009 at 5:03 pm…
an jo,
what’s a “petard”?
and how do you hoist
yourself on your own?
:)
June 26th, 2009 at 5:04 pm… Africans who embrace various foreign “isms”, instead of looking homeward for repair of societies that are broken,…
huh???
On his return to Kenya, Obama Sr. was hired by an oil company and then served as an economist in the Ministry of Transport, and later became senior economist in the Kenyan Ministry of Finance.[22]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barack_Obama_Sr.
sounds to me like he went home to help fix it…
June 26th, 2009 at 5:08 pmRush behaves like an overgrown, drug addicted blowhard. The reason he behaves that way is because he is a drug addicted, overgrown blowhard. What has he accomplished in life?
June 26th, 2009 at 5:08 pmThere is a black family in the White House. Be afraid! Be very afraid! The White supremists are losing their foot hold.
June 26th, 2009 at 5:10 pmRush Limbaugh hands down the best comedian on the radio. Problem is this is alot of people who actually believe he speaks the truth. LIES, all LIES I tell you
don’t forget you can’t spell Limbaugh without LAUGH!
June 26th, 2009 at 5:10 pmAs long as he doesn’t behave like an overpaid, undereducated, full-time complainer, it’s good. As long as he remains articulate and compassionate, better. He’s a far cry from his predecessor, and that’s great.
June 26th, 2009 at 5:10 pm3. Another Joe Says: The fascination with the wingnut crazies at the expense of any dialog about what the dems are/are not doing to deliver change is just astounding.
When he’s right, he’s right.
The problem with publishing the inanities of Limbaugh/Robertson/Newt is that there’s no action plan, no advertisers list to target, nothing but, ” what a tool,” echoes from the choir.
Substance is what is needed during several opportune moments in our government, like healthcare.
(via Krugman:)
Limbaugh, at this point, is merely a waste of pixels.
June 26th, 2009 at 5:11 pmI guess it wouldn’t be normal if we didn’t cap off the week’s posts with something idiotic Rush said. As if that’s news anymore.
I’m going to put my thoughts onto something positive, I’ve grown so weary of TP and it’s inability, or unwillingness, to moderate the forum and remove the racist, lying trolls.
PEACE
June 26th, 2009 at 5:11 pmSo, lemme get this straight — instead of embracing Marxism, President Obama should embrace the values of African tribal culture?
Um…isn’t one of the values of tribal culture (African, Native American, or anywhere else) to take care of each other? How does this fit in with the GOP “every man for himself and stomp on your neighbor to get ahead” mindset?
I see a couple of problems here. First is Ikenga, who has a somewhat ludicrous view of President Obama. True, he had a Kenyan father, but he was raised by his mother and his maternal grandparents. One can’t say that he’s “best understood” through his identification with his father — a man he hardly knew, and from a culture his son wasn’t raised in.
And the second problem is Limbaugh, who will take any opportunity he can to bash Obama, even something written by somebody whose only dubious qualification for credibility is that she comes from the same continent Obama’s father did. And from this, Limbaugh conflates Obama with African tyrants like — whom? Bokassa? Mugabe? Idi Amin?
Ridiculous, of course. But his audience will eat it up whether it makes sense or not.
June 26th, 2009 at 5:12 pmThe only thing Republicans have left is hatred and Rush Limbaugh. And every time Limbaugh opens his mouth, he offends thousands of young, new voters.
Thanks Rush!
June 26th, 2009 at 5:12 pmkaty Says:
huh???
On his return to Kenya, Obama Sr. was hired by an oil company and then served as an economist in the Ministry of Transport, and later became senior economist in the Kenyan Ministry of Finance
Typical Commie…
/wingnut
June 26th, 2009 at 5:14 pmRush Limbaugh is behaving like the drug addicted buffoon that he is.
June 26th, 2009 at 5:16 pmRush is filled with so much self loathing that he always needs an enemy. If he can’t attack someone, especially someone that is way smarter then himself, then he loses his sense of self importance. Other then his drug habit, having enemies is the only thing that keeps Rush going everyday.
June 26th, 2009 at 5:19 pmSpeaking of bullcrap, the adulterous Gov. Sanford of S.C. is using the Bible to justify his refusal to resign office. The duplicitous schmuck is using the story of David and Bathsheba to convince the holy rollers that he is just a normal godly man who was brought down by a temptress.
Did the board members of corporate evangelicalism draft this looney response for him?
June 26th, 2009 at 5:20 pmSo a racist junkie radio comedian seizes upon the feeble attempt of someone who never met Obama or any member of his family to psychoanalyze him in some wingnut blog I never heard of. Whatever. I guess the “trust me, I’m an African so I know all about this” is kind of cute in its pathetic obtuseness but otherwise thi sis just more of the same.
June 26th, 2009 at 5:21 pmSo let me see if I have this right; President Obama is a:
June 26th, 2009 at 5:32 pmMarxist, Socialist, Fascist, Totaliterian, Authoritarian, Muslim, Tribal Ruler and the AntiChrist? Mr. Bouncy-Bouncy is Well on his way to a room with nice, soft walls.
While Limbaugh gets quoted, our representatives had quietly cashed in on the bank bailout:
Welcome to: WTF Is My Congress Doing While I’m Bashing Rush?
June 26th, 2009 at 5:32 pmnormalasf Says:
Wait – I thought he was a Muslim from Indonesia. I need a flow chart.
No, he’s a chicago pol who goes to a hate america first christain church. No, wait, he’s communist socialist terrorist hypnotist pianist istist.
June 26th, 2009 at 5:36 pmre 36: you beat me to it!
June 26th, 2009 at 5:37 pmI was really disappointed in Limpballs today. He spent all his time on this “African colonial” stuff and cap-and-trade.
I was really hoping for a deja-vu moment with some discussion about Michael Jackson’s death. You know. Where he would say something about Jackson’s love of young boys.
That takes me back to the days when Limpballs used to yell that all drug addicts should be sent to jail. You know . . . and then his cover was blown and it turned out he was a drug addict and turned his housekeeper into his pusher. Then he kind of quit talking about what should happen to drug addicts.
So, I was hoping he would make some obnoxious comments about Jackson diddling small boys. You know. In the hope that karma would strike the gas-bag again. After all, it is about time that one or more of his ex-wives stepped forward and exposed his sick, deviant pedophilia.
Yup. The corpulent rant-jockey has definitely got some big, bad karma coming his way! The sooner, the better.
June 26th, 2009 at 5:39 pmThe art of putting together a 1000 piece jig saw puzzle drives me crazy. You always get the pieces that look like they should fit. There is no way that piece will fit the spot you want filled. Most reasonable people set the piece aside and proceed with the next piece. The Rush Limbaugh approach is to take a hammer and make the pieces fit. When he finishes he wants you to look at his work and compliment him on the wonderful job he has done.
June 26th, 2009 at 5:49 pmThe reality of Rush reasoning is his narcissism and his blatant racism. The scary thing is the Republican Party is also caught up in these “ism’s”. I am not at all surprised by this current ranting, you grow to expect it.
The Republicans is working hard very to alienate the African community for what purpose I don’t understand. For the rest of America, we have to ask who spawned this strange creature called Rush Linbaugh (I wish we could send him back to the swamp).
Limbaugh is right. We also know that because of this “African colonial despot”, we saw a South Carolinian family man ditch his kids on Father’s Day so he could cavort with an Argentinian woman…
Limbaugh makes things so easy to understand for even the biggest of dunces! ;-)
June 26th, 2009 at 5:50 pmAw, come on, Fat Bastard – call the president a ni**er and get it over with!
June 26th, 2009 at 5:51 pmRecession is when your neighbor loses his job. Depression is when you lose your job. Recovery is when Obama loses his job.
June 26th, 2009 at 5:52 pmLooks like some folks were too fast to congratuate AJoe on his change of colors yesterday.
June 26th, 2009 at 5:54 pmI knew you couldn’t give him a week to be back here telling TP how to run their own site.
tony and lido
These a–holes are making it seem like President Obama grew up and was raised in Kenya. Well, he wasn’t morons! Jees. His father left his mother when he was a toddler and died years later in a car accident. If I’m not mistaken, he first visited his Kenyan roots when he was dating Michelle, his wife.
June 26th, 2009 at 5:55 pmit appears that way
what a shame
June 26th, 2009 at 5:56 pmRecovery is not giving a crap what the republicans say and then passing legislation that will help turn our country around.
June 26th, 2009 at 5:56 pmHi Another Joe…
June 26th, 2009 at 5:57 pmLet’s talk first. Okay?
“We’ve elected somebody who’s more African in his roots than he is American…”
And Limbaugh is more a stupid, hateful racist than he is anything else.
June 26th, 2009 at 5:58 pmso, tub-o-lard rush has a degree in:
sociology?
political science?
psychology?
that’s right, the loser has a degree in pandering to uneducated assclowns like himself!
June 26th, 2009 at 6:04 pmBlack woman deciphering what another black woman wrote: she doesn’t like our prez; thinks he has risen above where she thinks he should be; she’s looking for notoriety with her BS claims
June 26th, 2009 at 6:19 pmSee, it takes one to know one. She’s basically nuts.
BINGO!!!!!!!!!!!!!
June 26th, 2009 at 6:27 pmWhen Limbaugh really gets excited by his own BS, the undulation of his chins is absolutely hypnotic…
I’ve only been visiting the TP site for a couple months now, and though it has gotten a little troll-heavy lately, I really enjoy the discussions with serious people. That being said, I sometimes wonder why TP gives Limbaugh all this attention when he clearly is nuts and just as clearly influences nobody but those who won’t listen to reason anyway.
June 26th, 2009 at 6:31 pmI am willing to take his word for what a despot is. He sees one in the mirror daily. He must have heard the term “colonial despot”, he surely has never read a book.
This idiot has eaten his way through life. Now he makes money chewing up people. It has inflated his body and his ego. Obviously he never spits anything out. Not true. He actually spits out a continual stream of lies, and reputation destroying garbage. He uses his bully pulpit to speak to an audience of brain dead, uneducated morons. These are the only people he can reach. They don’t know enough to see how ignorant he really is. He is a failed sportscaster, a drug addict, a serial divorced man, a food addicted man, he is a failed everything. The only thing he has succeeded in doing, is working for a network that has no standards. He tries his level best to drag all conversation into the gutter he loves. He wants to spread hate. He doesn’t know how to get out, so he tries to pull his listeners into his world.
You can almost pity him. Except for the damage he does, and the hate he spreads.
June 26th, 2009 at 6:31 pmOK, can we please get rid of this jerk now? Beyond the pale.
At least stop paying attention to him.
June 26th, 2009 at 6:34 pmLimbaugh is “desperate.”
June 26th, 2009 at 6:34 pmConsidering Obama’s father was absent most of Obama’s life, I doubt that the observation is valid, but hey, Rush never lets facts get in the way of a good rant of hate, so there you go.
June 26th, 2009 at 6:45 pmI really don’t know what the big deal is. Rushballs should already know that Obama is from the planet Krypton and his real father is Jo’el and he came to earth to save the humans from destroying themselves. Gee, everybody knows that.
June 26th, 2009 at 7:06 pmWhy hasn’t Limbaugh been imprisoned for inciting violence?
June 26th, 2009 at 7:15 pmThese guys are irrelevant. I wish TP would ignore them.
June 26th, 2009 at 7:53 pmIt will be a great day in America when this fat piece of shit dies.
June 26th, 2009 at 8:32 pmDoes Limbaugh have to come out and just call him a “n#$%r” before someone pulls his plug?
How much racism are these radio stations willing to endorse?
How much racism are these sponsors paying for ads on his show willing to have associated with their products?
Don Imus got his ticket pulled for a lot less.
June 26th, 2009 at 9:02 pmHow much racism are these radio stations willing to endorse?
As long as millions of sheeple listen everyday, the stations could care less.
June 26th, 2009 at 9:29 pmWait a minute. The other day, we were told that Obama was another Hitler. Before that, we were told that Obama was our very own “Supreme Leader”. And a week or so ago, he was compared to Putin. And now it’s a despot, and not any run of the mill despot, an AFRICAN despot (lest we forgot that Obama is half-black).
I’m so confused. I just wish the right wing would be one totalitarian icon to compare to Obama and stick with it.
June 26th, 2009 at 9:57 pmYou know coming from a big, fat idiot …
June 26th, 2009 at 10:31 pmIn following Media Matters Limbaugh File, I notice that practically every day he says “bend over and grab your ankles”. I’m just saying that I don’t hear that expression much in normal conversation. He really is disgusting!
June 26th, 2009 at 10:52 pmVincennes Says:
You know coming from a big, fat idiot …
I prefer degenerate fat slob of a drug addict.
June 26th, 2009 at 11:15 pmstep 1. throw **it at wall.
step 2. if **it slides down the wall, repeat step 1 at a different angle.
great, now instead of socialism I get to hear about despotism for a few months.
June 27th, 2009 at 12:39 amwe have a big very big ism in america
it is called imperialism
700 militry bases around the word two unwinnable wars and an industrial military complex like the world has ever known.
and here is the interesting part most americans including demos and repubs dont have a clue they are imperialists.
not a clue
either did germany or japan or england
germans lined the streets to cheer hitler on
americans call their sons and daughters heroes for fighting in our illegal wars.
nationalism patroitism and thinking your country is superior to all other countries can overwhelm the rational mind.
June 27th, 2009 at 2:49 amFigures it wouldn’t be Rush’s original thoughts. It actually sounds intellectual. If he did not have this writer, his rant would have had the usual racist, mindless, platitudes…Rush gets to attack Obama AND sound all intellectual. He better watch out, he trained his Dittohead minions to hate intellectuals…
June 27th, 2009 at 3:13 amI love it when Limbaugh opens his mouth. Each time, a couple more moderate republicans become democrats….
June 27th, 2009 at 3:31 amHe’s riffing and getting all his stereotypes mixed up. The colonials were the foreign white men. The despot was the local leader who threw them out. I think he’s thinking:
Colonel Gaddafi = Muslim despot.
Colonialism is African
Obama is black like an African.
ergo: African Colonel, er, Colonial Despot
June 27th, 2009 at 8:27 amAnother crazy talker. How would Limbaugh know what anyone is thinking? Wake up, America! He’s blowing hot air and you should be doing your own thinking.
June 27th, 2009 at 8:34 amRush is a pathetic obese drug addict as is evident by his physical behavior along with his spewing of outrageous verbiage when trying to communicate his brain dead views. Nothing out of that man’s mouth is credible! NOTHING!
June 27th, 2009 at 9:05 amIf you think this is bad, try going to the original article and while you’re there, check the incredibly ignorant right-wing bigoted comments. Unbelievable.
June 27th, 2009 at 9:54 amIt sounds like Limbaugh is disappointed that Obama isn’t an Uncle Tom sipping the kool-aid favored by Rush. I guess that is how a small mind works.
June 27th, 2009 at 10:29 amAhhhh, leave it to fat bastard Lush, the leader of the racist party of hate to make such a charming statement. Obviously he hasn’t been getting enough attention in the media lately so he had to think long and hard to come up with this zinger.
June 27th, 2009 at 12:02 pmCan you imagine the feigned outrage and demands for an apology had Thom Hartmann, Keith Olbermann or Mike Malloy said “Bush is acting like a Nazi dictator” while the former idiot in chief was in office?
June 27th, 2009 at 12:06 pmWow; talk about boundless idiocy.
Why can’t this bloated asshat take a shot of Demerol and just croak?
June 27th, 2009 at 12:09 pmVincennes Says:
You know coming from a big, fat idiot …
I prefer degenerate fat slob of a drug addict.
June 27th, 2009 at 2:20 pmObama smokes. That tells me all I need to know about him.
June 27th, 2009 at 11:13 pmPoor Rush.. No really. He has thrown every thing he has at the President. We all know the laundry list of things that Rush says is bad and nothing sticks and everyone in NY is simply awaiting news of his promised departure.
Now, Rush has serious competition for title of Supreme Crazy in Beck as they race well financed to the super sub-flooring.
What is a hateful, fearful, racist, Christian Values GOP SOB like Rush to do? What remains? I’ve set the countdown clock and am waiting to find out who will be first to actually do the unspeakable…Moon the President on TV or Vid-Cam. Rush or Beck? My bets are on Rush. But then again, Beck is contender.
June 28th, 2009 at 10:34 amFat, stupid, and ugly.
June 28th, 2009 at 7:22 pmOnce again, Rush speaks the truth. Thank God for Rush!
July 1st, 2009 at 9:13 pm