Another “Media Tweak”? Rush Limbaugh Calls The President “Imam Obama”

On the heels of his “first anti-American President” remarks, conservative icon Rush Limbaugh dropped what he calls the “media tweak” of the day, referring to the President as “Imam Obama” during his radio show today. While this sort of attention-whoring is par for the course for Limbaugh, the immediacy of his “Who, me?” defense reveals the fatal flaw in his logic.

According to Limbaugh, “tweaking the media” is “just too easy,” but it’s not really a trick if it isn’t, you know, a trick.

In this clip, Limbaugh drops the “Imam Bomb” early on, then spends the rest of the clip explaining what a master magician he is:

So, let me get this straight: Rush Limbaugh tricks people into talking about the xenophobic things he says by…saying xenophobic things? It’s like saying, “Hey, watch me tweak these cops,” and then smacking a cop in the face. Yes, you have cagily manipulated that cop into arresting you. Good show!

Limbaugh does, however, make a good point about GOP “strategerist” John Feehery‘s response to Michael Smerconish. He says that Obama isn’t the first anti-American president, not that he isn’t anti-American. It was a slick bit of simultaneous cake-having-and-eating.

Smerconish is right, though, to ask if Limbaugh is making Republicans look bad with his inflammatory comments, because he is making Republicans look bad with his inflammatory comments. The fact that he hides behind his impish “tweaking” excuse only proves him a coward in the process.

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