It's always encouraging to hear that Rush Limbaugh's outraged by the same leftist media gunk that we've highlighted here at NewsBusters. On Monday's radio show, El Rushbo highlighted the "unhinged" Rolling Stone interview with John Kerry that we noted, picking up on a piece by Kevin Williamson at National Review.
Kerry loosely agreed with his interviewer, Jeff Goodell, that the Koch brothers and ExxonMobil could be considered "enemies of the state" and suffer in a class-action lawsuit like the tobacco companies:
LIMBAUGH: Now, Charles and David Koch, Koch Industries, true, they're wealthy, yes, they're Libertarians. They raise money. They stand for traditional American values. They employ tens of thousands of people. I mean, they're standard, ordinary, everyday American citizens. They are great patriots. Rolling Stone magazine goes and asks John Kerry, should they be considered enemies of the state? He also posed the same question about Exxon. Do you realize enemy of the state, do you know what kind of language that is? Enemy of the state, there's no such concept in the US Constitution when we're talking about domestic politics and competing ideas. These kinds of phrases, "enemy of the state," this kind of status occurs in dictatorships, in tyranny, banana republics and so forth.
Rush also brought up (as our Tom Johnson did) Rebecca Traister's article in New York magazine on how Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton represent “the death throes of exclusive white male power in the United States.”
This was last Wednesday. And it's not in the communist Daily Worker. It's in New York magazine. "The current election campaign pits the forces of backlash, the old and angry --" That would be the white male power structure. "-- against the forces of frontlash. That would be the new and different." The new and different are Hillary and Obama and left-wing causes.
She posits in this piece that Obama and Hillary represent an "altered power structure and changed calculations about who in this country may lead." She said: "And while the resistance may be symptomatic of death throes, a rage at the dying of the white male light, it nonetheless presents a very real threat. ... Imagine Ted Cruz or Donald Trump or Marco Rubio in office with a Republican Congress and Supreme Court seats to fill. Voting: restricted. Immigration: halted. Abortion: banned. Equal pay: unprotected. Same-sex marriage: overturned." We can't permit this. That is the way they are mobilizing. This moment, this election, these years represent the death throes of exclusive white male power in the US.
So, as far as this woman is concerned, believe me, she's not an outlier. She's mainstream. Your support for Trump or your outrage against the Washington establishment, Republican or otherwise, all it means is is that you are in the white male camp, and you have always had the power, you've always been able to dictate the social norms and the political direction, you've been able to dictate everything about this country, but not anymore, because we're taking it away from you. You destroyed this country, you white males, going back to the founders. You implemented all this hate and racism and imperialism. You destroyed poor people all over the world. You became an illegitimate superpower by stealing every other nation's resources. Everything about you is illegitimate, including your white race, and we are getting even.
