Obama: Rush Limbaugh, Lou Dobbs Responsible For Rise In Hate Crimes Against Hispanics

This is just too funny. Barack Obama has said that there is a reason why hate crimes against Hispanics have doubled in the last year and that the reason can be laid at the door of "people like Lou Dobbs and Rush Limbaugh" for "ginning things up" and said it was not surprising that things like this would happen in such an atmosphere.

"A certain segment has basically been feeding a kind of xenophobia."

Rush Limbaugh has responded on his radio programme:

"I actually don't believe this. Barack Obama, in my own state, raising money for his presidential campaign called me xenophobic at a fundraiser," Limbaugh said. "I thought this guy was the unity candidate? Calling me a Xenophobe? Responsible for hate crimes? My feelings are hurt here."

That's just too funny. Limbaugh is hurt that people might think he's a xenophobe. This from a man who has admitted that he was once distracted by the Hispanic Mayor of LA who he assumed "was either the shoe shine guy or a Secret Service agent."

Referring to one of the country’s foremost Latino politicians in this way is acceptable in Rush's world. Not surprisingly, most Hispanics virulently disagree:

Yesterday, Alex Nogales, president of the National Hispanic Media Coalition, blasted Limbaugh for uttering “the same kind of nasty, bigoted, racist type comment that has become so prevalent in today’s society, as practiced by Lou Dobbs, as practiced by [Sean] Hannity, [Bill] O’Reilly, [Michael] Savage.”

Racial slurs, particularly fueled against Hispanics, has found a home on right-wing radio, which claims 91 percent of radio airwaves.

The nation’s leading Hispanic advocacy group, National Council of La Raza, launched a campaign earlier this year decrying right-wing radio for its “rhetoric that demonizes immigrants and Hispanic Americans.” “Talk like Savage’s, or Limbaugh’s or O’Reilly’s, has become routine, even systematic, and certainly a big business.

Poor, poor, Rush. He must be crushed. It's not just Obama that's got it in for him, it's those nasty shoe shine guys as well.

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Tags: Barack Obama, Hispanics, Rush Limbaugh, Lou Dobbs, violence