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Orange Impostor2/26/2011 9:38:32 am PST

After the utterly repulsive and race-baiting billboard that was taken down (as documented here) I was hoping that that ugly tactic of the anti-abortionists would have served as an indicator that argument wasn’t the most wise one to make.

Along comes Rush Limbaugh, who apparently hadn’t blown his dogwhistle enough this week, with all the tirades he had regarding First Lady Michelle Obama’s recipes. He decided to bring the shovel, and the whistle with him to yesterday’s radio program with this gem (audio included in link):

Rush Limbaugh: “Planned Parenthood, Doing The Job The Klan Could Never Finish”

“You want to to really stir things up, talk about who owns Planned Parenthood and where are these clinics being put? They’re being put in black neighborhoods. Who’s making money? Who’s profitting? Liberals! Leftists, obviously! Pro-abortion types. And who’s defending them? Someone tries to put a billboard up defending them, they get run out of town by Al Sharpton and the rest. My God, folks, this is, this is…well, this is intolerable…Well, I don’t know if we should go that far. Planned Parenthood, doing the job the Klan could never finish? Is that what you’re thinking?”

And Rush is chuckling right as he’s speaking the last sentences. Creating an equivalence between Planned Parenthood and the KKK is FUNNY to him.