THANK YOU, BARACK!

The Obama campaign has come out with a new ad targeted to Hispanics and the best part it quotes some of the intolerant and hateful remarks of Fats Limbaugh. As I write, this has gotten some of the wingnuts upset but that's too damn bad. If they want to idolize Pigboy, then they'll have to put up with counter-attacks.

Obama Invokes Rush Limbaugh in New Spanish-Language Ads
The Trail
By Ed O'Keefe
Posted at 1:22 PM ET on Sep 17, 2008
Washington Post

The Obama campaign has released new radio and TV ads in Spanish that seek to tie Sen. John McCain to anti-immigrant comments made by radio talk show host Rush Limbaugh. The ads also suggest the Republican has "dos caras" -- "two faces" -- when it comes to his relations with Latino voters. The new messages, airing in Colorado, Nevada and New Mexico, come in response to recent Spanish-language ads by the McCain campaign that suggest Obama is responsible for the collapse of last year's bipartisan immigration reform efforts.

"They want us to forget the insults we've put up with, the intolerance," the television ad's announcer says in Spanish as a picture of Rush Limbaugh appears onscreen with quotes of him saying, "Mexicans are stupid and unqualified" and "Shut your mouth or get out."

Jake Tapper of ABC News' Political Punch does some fact-checking on this and he comes down on the side of McCain and Pigboy but I think he's wrong. First, it's pretty clear that Fats Limbaugh dislikes people who aren't conservative white males and that's been true for quite some time. Second, it is true that Fats strongly opposed the immigration bill that McCain initially backed BUT McCAIN NO LONGER SUPPORTS THAT BILL! Third, Fats Limbaugh is a MAJOR spokesman for the GOP and extreme conservatives. If McCain doesn't want to be linjked to Fats, he'll have to denounce him.

The Politico reports on an e-mail from Fats that attempts to respond to the ad but it is unconvincing:

Rush Limbaugh, featured in a new, Spanish-language Barack Obama ad, says the commercial distorts his past statements and amounts to "race-baiting" by the Democratic nominee.

"Obama is now stoking racism in the country," Limbaugh wrote in an email. "Obama is a disgrace - he wants the public to think he is Mr. Nice Guy while his thugs are in Alaska looking for dirt on Palin and he runs race-baiting ads and lies about what he has done and what McCain has done."