Out of the Frying Pan and into the Kabong!!!!

Been under the weather and blogging lightly the last couple of days. Couldn't pass up this latest little kerfuffle regarding Rush Limbaugh, though. Listen here [1]: Rush giggles appreciatively when a caller says her twelve-year-old daughter thinks Barack Obama looks like Curious George. You know, the cartoon monkey.

Rush was soon on the air with an apology—says [2] "I"d never heard of Curious George. Only now, staffers have sent me little pictures of Curious George."

Rigggghhhhhht. If you were so innocent of the malign implications of laughing that a black man looks like a monkey, why did you, at the time—listen to the clip again [1]—warn the caller, in mid-chuckle, "Don't make me laugh! I can't laugh"?

Amazing how Rush proceeded to step in it further. Attempting to back up his ridiculous claim that he hadn't heard of the ubiquitous cartoon character in existence since 1941, he recalled the cartoon characters he did adore in his youth: Yogi Bear; the Flinstones; the Wacky Racers...oh, and, "well, I did like El Kabong."

Younger readers might not be familiar with El Kabong. They don't show it any more. Why? Because Rush's favorite cartoon was a racist anti-Mexican freak show: