Limbaugh reacts to progressive ads -- says new racist stuff

by: AdamGreen

Tue Jul 14, 2009 at 12:57

As Chris mentioned yesterday, this was the fruition of a great idea that began with him.

Well, Limbaugh responded on the air. If you have a strong racist-dar and you felt a weird tingly feeling yesterday, that's probably why.

Limbaugh mentioned DenunciaRush.com (where folks are chipping in to keep the ads on the air) four times. In the course of his response, he said, "Sotomayor's comments are much worse than Macaca" and "She reflects the racial anger, attitude that Obama has."

Today, Presente Action issued this statement:

Rush Limbaugh has no shame -- launching more racist attacks on Judge Sotomayor during a historic week when her credentials are on full display and our community is beaming with pride. Our elected leaders cannot remain silent in the face of these inflammatory comments polluting the public discourse. We demand that Republicans on the Senate Judiciary Committee denounce Limbaugh's latest remarks immediately.

Politico's Glenn Thrush has already reported on this statement, and it'll be interesting to see if any reporters ask Senate Judiciary Republicans directly whether they denounce Limbaugh's latest racism.

If you want to help keep these ads on the air, you can chip in here. More below...

I'm really enjoying the rising use of ads by progressives as a source of pressure -- and a means to be heard, augmenting the other means we use.

Yesterday, this Presente/PCCC radio campaign was covered by ABC, Politico, CNN, Huffington Post, Orlando Sentinel, St. Petersburg Times, and the South Florida Sun-Sentinel. Blogs such as Daily Kos, CrooksandLiars, Digby, AmericaBlog, and DownWithTyranny also posted on it.

Possibly most fun was The O'Reilly Factor, in which Bill O'Reilly seemed flummoxed by the question, "What is Prrrresente??" Check it out, and then consider chipping in to keep the flummoxing up!