Midnight Meme Of The Day!

by Noah

It's more than incompetence of course. Given Trump's love of his fellow racists and his utter disregard for veterans; awarding Rush Limbaugh a Medal Of Freedom right in the face of an also invited 100-year-old Tuskegee Airman was a perfect storm of nihilistic racist opportunity. It's so like Trump to go on TV, before the entire nation, having invited a living symbol of racist hatred and an African-American military man who served his country admirably, and then celebrate the racist like that. Deplorable? Absolutely. Trump just couldn't pass it up.

Trump giving Rush Limbaugh the Medal Of Freedom is just another example of Trump's evil and of how Trump loves to deliberately show his desire to disrespect, demean, and degrade American ideals, from the oval office itself down to this. It's hard to edit a list down to just a handful of Rush Limbaugh's most bigoted moments, but here are 6 quotes from Limbaugh's radio show, beloved by millions of Republicans everywhere. There are many other quotes attributed to Limbaugh from his early years. Some are even worse than these, including one where he allegedly praises Martin Luther King's killer, but finding reliable documentation is difficult. Many older radio transcripts in general have not been saved or properly archived.

You might say that these famous Limbaugh statements are what got him the Medal Of Freedom from our white supremacist president and will always endear him to republicans and you'd be right even though there's also the sexism and misogyny that are both part of the Limbaugh brand. But, for today...

1. “Look, let me put it to you this way: the NFL all too often looks like a game between the Bloods and the Crips without any weapons. There, I said it.” (January 19, 2007, as shown in the show transcript.)

2. “Have you ever noticed how all composite pictures of wanted criminals resemble Jesse Jackson?” (Acknowledged as true by Rush Limbaugh in a 1990 New York Newsday article.)

3. “The NAACP should have riot rehearsal. They should get a liquor store and practice robberies.” (This quote, much discussed at the time, was attributed to Limbaugh in a 1993 issue of Flush Rush Quarterly.)

4. [To an African American female caller]: “Take that bone out of your nose and call me back.” (Acknowledged as true by Rush Limbaugh in the same New York Newsday article as #2 above although not from his radio show but an earlier Top 40 music show he ran in Pittsburgh under the name Jeff Christie.)

5. “They’re 12 percent of the population. Who the hell cares?” (This statement, from his radio show, caused quite a stir in New York City back in 1994.

6. “I think the media has been very desirous that a black quarterback do well. They’re interested in black coaches and black quarterbacks doing well. I think there’s a little hope invested in McNabb and he got a lot of credit for the performance of his team that he really didn’t deserve.” (September 2003 on ESPN's Sunday NFL Countdown during Limbaugh's brief time with the channel. ESPN quickly heard from the public and realized the error of their ways, and he was shown the door.)

I didn't even include the fact that Limbaugh was a key mouthpiece, along with Trump and all of FOX "News," for the anti-Obama birther movement that the Trump Party adheres to to this day. I couldn't help but notice how much all of the republicans at the State Of The Union speech stood and applauded when Limbaugh got his medal. So, who's next? David Duke? A posthumous medal for segregationist democrat George Wallace? One for Strom Thurmond? Jesse Helms? Of course, there are plenty of possibilities. Hell, as Trump's mental state continues to deteriorate even further, maybe Jeffrey Dahmer will get one, and, speaking of Jeffreys, how about his old pal Jeffrey Epstein. "He was so misunderstood." I bet Alan Dershowitz and David Nunes are on the short list, plus any number of conservative media knuckle-draggers and white supremacy leaders. How about that Nazi who ran down Heather Heyer in Charlottesville. "So many very fine people. So many bigly deserve a medal from me, your greatest president."

Bye-bye, Lurita! Life is unfair. Once upon a time, disgracing yourself and your country the way you did could have earned you a Medal of Freedom

Actually, the Bush-regime rats aren't so much deserting
this sinking ship as shoving one another over the side.

Remember the good old days of the first term of the Bush regime, when there seemed to be no malfeasance a regimist could commit that could get him/her fired? By and large, the more egregious your misdeeds, the likelier you were to find Chimpy the Prez draping a Medal of Freedom around your neck. (Personally, I don't think I would want the world's most maladroit human being getting anywhere close to my neck, especially not when he's wielding an object capable of strangulation. But hey, it was probably better than the shit-canning they deserved.)

Well, those were the old days. Now the steady outflow of regime lackeys being frog-marched out of government service in disgrace is coming to resemble a stampede. The misconduct has become so egregious that instead of the usual image of rats deserting a sinking ship, we've got the rats pushing one another over the side of this leaky tub.

Latest ejectee from this squalid swamp: the unspeakable Lurita Doan, who devoted her time as administrator of the General Services Administration to turning the GSA into just another shameless enclave of the Right-Wing Political (and Money-Siphoning) Machine. Here is the Politico's account:

Lurita Doan Finally Forced Out At GSA

By John Bresnahan

Lurita Doan, head of the General Services Administration, was forced to offer her resignation tonight, according to an e-mail she sent out this evening.

Doan was appointed in late May, 2006, becoming the first woman to serve as GSA Administrator. With 12,000 empioyees and a $20 billion annual budget, GSA has responsibilty for overseeing the thousands of building and properties owned by the federal government.

Doan became the subject of congressional scrutiny last year for allegedly using GSA to help Republican lawmakers win re-election. Doan denied the allegation, but her appearance before the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee was disastrous. Rep. Henry Waxman (D-Calif.), chairman of the panel, called on Doan to resign over the allegations, but Doan refused to do so.

Here is the text of the e-mail that Doan sent out earlier this evening announcing her forced resignation:

"Dear Friends and Colleagues at GSA,

Early this evening I was asked to submit my resignation, and I have just done so. It has been a great privilege to serve with all of you and to serve our nation and a great President.

The past twenty-two months have been filled with accomplishments: together, we have regained our clean audit opinion, restored fiscal discipline, re-tooled our ability to respond to emergencies, rekindled entrepreneurial energies, reduced bureaucratic barriers to small companies to get a GSA Schedule, ignited a building boom at our nation's ports of entries, boldly led the nation in an aggressive telework initiative, and improved employee morale so that we were selected as one of the best places to work in the Federal government.

These accomplishments are made even more enjoyable by the fact that there were lots of people who told us they could never be done.

Best of luck to all of you, it has been a true honor."

As fellow flopperoos Gen. Tommy Franks and Iraq-occupation bungler L. Paul Bremer III look on, former CIA director George Tenet is rewarded for his bumbling by Chimpy the Choker.

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