For the past two days, it's been going around liberal blogs that Rush Limbaugh called for segregated school buses. He didn't. This is what he said:
I think the guy's wrong. I think not only it was racism, it was justifiable racism. I mean, that's the lesson we're being taught here today. Kid shouldn't have been on the bus anyway. We need segregated buses -- it was invading space and stuff. This is Obama's America.
Limbaugh wasn't calling for segregated buses -- he was suggesting that Obama wants segregated buses, that in "Obama's America." if a white kid doesn't want to get his butt kicked, he needs to find his own bus, because Obama won't stand up for white people. It's sick, but it's not a call for segregated school buses.
Limbaugh has made a number of outrageous statements over the past few days, so there's no reason to misrepresent what he said -- especially since his supporters will use it as proof in the future that Limbaugh's views really aren't all that abhorrent. Granted, I think it's kind of confusing as text, and it was only after several listens that I understood what he was saying, so it's not surprising to me that some people thought he was calling for segregated buses. But that's not what he was doing.
-- A. Serwer
