Well, surprise surprise.
A sportswriter for the Washington Post
has turned out to be one more liberal who loves to judge
others by race. This morning this was apparent in a
Michael Wilbon column on Rush Limbaugh.
Let’s leave aside that when it comes to putting up examples
of Rush’s supposed racism, Wilbon says “I don’t listen to his
show” and “I’m not going to try and give specific examples of
things he has said over the years; I screwed up already doing
that, repeating a quote attributed to Limbaugh (about slavery)
that he has told me he simply did not say and does not reflect
his feelings. I take him at his word.”
So we have established, according to Mr. Wilbon himself,
that he doesn’t listen to Rush, and has “screwed up” attributing
racial remarks to him that Rush never said. A promising
start.
Alas, not for long.
Wilbon than instantly goes off the track by referring to
President Obama not as the president of the United States, which,
the last time I checked, he was. No, he said this;
“But Limbaugh has long history of the same insults and race
baiting, to the point of declaring he hoped the president of the
United States, a black man, fails.”
So. That’s it. Those of us who view Barack Obama as (a) the
President of the United States, and (b) a thorough-going
left-winger whose policies are off-the-charts damaging to the
country….. are race baiting? So when blacks wanted Nixon to fail
they were race baiting? Got it. When they hated Hoover they were
race baiting? When they voted for Jimmy Carter, who got to the
White House after getting elected governor by courting every
thorough-going white racist vermin in the state of Georgia, they
were…what?
Apparently Mr. Wilbon is an enthusiastic supporter of
Justice Clarence Thomas but just forgot to write a column
trashing all those liberals who went after Thomas because of his
race. Oops.
The hard fact and deeply unattractive fact seems to be that
the race-baiter here is Mr. Wilbon. He is incapable of viewing
the President, by his own admission, as The President. But
as such, Barack Obama is the same in every way as the other 43
from Washington through Bush. Except to Wilbon. No, Wilbon’s
focus is on race. The President isn’t president in Wilbon’s eyes,
he’s the black man
who is president. And the rest of us who want to treat this
president the same way we treated all the others (on a scale,
that covers everything from fainting in a swoon to hurling
buckets of invective, the usual approach of Americans to their
chief executives) are told that we have to judge Mr. Obama
differently because of his skin color.
Mr. Wilbon is put forth to Post
readers as a professional. A journalist. A sportswriter. He
is also a black man. So what? Is that how Mr. Wilbon wants to be
judged? As “Michael Wilbon, black sportswriter.” rather than
“Michael Wilbon, sportswriter”??
His approach to Rush Limbaugh in the end has nothing to do
with Rush, who is, as those of us who do listen to his show are
well familiar, a believer in a colorblind society. He makes fun
of — quite deservedly — those like Wilbon who pretend to this
when in fact they insist on judging people by skin color, by
race.
Mr. Wilbon clearly lives his life on what some refer to as
the liberal intellectual plantation.
It’s time…way past time in American life…for Wilbon and
others to cut the chains and walk off. And the next time they see
the President of the United States…understand that he is that.
Just that. And only that.
