you DO have to grab your ankles!
In case anyone needs reminding, here's the latest pearl from Rush, as spoken to eager disciple Sean Hannity:
"We are being told that we have to hope he succeeds, that we have to bend over, grab the ankles, bend over forward, backward, whichever, because his father was black, because this is the first black president."
Ah, Rush Limbaugh. It's so tempting to call you names, like "porcine windbag waste of space," or just to ignore you altogether because as we like to say on the Internet, "Don't feed the trolls." And you, sir, are the original King Troll of them all, higher even than Sean Hannity, to whom you spoke the words above, or Glenn Beck, Michael Savage, Laura Ingraham, or half a hundred others that are making comfortable careers hiking along the trail you, unfortunately, blazed for them.
But I just had a conversation with a dear friend (your worst nightmare, I'm sure Rush: a gay black immigrant) who reminded me that silence equals complicity, so I'm afraid I can't ignore you. I have to tell you, Mr. Limbaugh, that you do have to grab your ankles. Because you've had it your way for way too long.
You are going to have to watch while a half-African, half-white man deliberately reverses everything for which you've advocated, loudly and occasionally coherently, ever since you've been on the air. You are going to have to fume with the knowledge that you and people like you no longer have the ear of people in power. Every day, you are going to be forced to remember that the American people have thoroughly repudiated your agenda by giving the Democrats not only the White House but control of the House and Senate as well and the only thing you and people like John Cornyn (who is unfortunately one of my Senators) can do is resort to cheap grandstanding. You are going to have to get used to the idea that there are people in power now who believe that to marginalize any minority community and restrict their rights endangers the right of all.
Yes, Rush Limbaugh, you DO have to grab your ankles--and kiss your ass goodbye, as someone who is in any way relevant to the civic discourse of this country. Because I, for one, will enjoy seeing you reduced to impotent rage.