http://dyn.politico.com/printstory.cfm?uuid=E44BA356-7DA1-40D9-847D-59EFB3BD9280Rush Limbaugh: Obama heckler not racist
By: MJ Lee
June 18, 2012 04:26 PM EDT
Rush Limbaugh on Monday defended The Daily Caller’s Neil Munro for interrupting President Barack Obama at a press conference last week, and brushed away accusations of racism against the reporter by saying, “Everybody knows that Munro was heckling Obama’s white half.”
Munro has been criticized for shouting a question during the president’s recent Rose Garden remarks on the administration’s new immigration policy — criticism that, Limbaugh argues, is unwarranted.
“They want this guy censored. They want him thrown in jail for not showing proper respect to the king,” the conservative radio host said, according to a transcript of his show. “Anybody ever heard the name Sam Donaldson? Oh, for crying out loud, what do you think Sam Donaldson did to Reagan all during the 80’s? … [Dan] Rather did it to Nixon. I mean this is common. This is what journalists are supposed to do out there.”
Echoing Tucker Carlson’s comments to POLITICO last week, in which the Daily Caller editor also came to Munro’s defense, Limbaugh derided the “White House press corpse” as “stenographers.”
“You ask the president a question when he’s usurping the Constitution, and guess who gets in trouble? You do. You’re not supposed to interrupt the king like this,” he said. “All Munro did was ask the question that should have been on the mind of every American watching: Why do you favor foreigners over Americans here?”
Limbaugh then scoffed at pundits who wondered whether Munro would have interrupted a white president.
“You see, it’s race, folks. It never happened to a white president,” he said. “This kind of behavior, it wouldn’t happen to a white guy. How cheap. How clichéd. How simplistic. How predictable. How utterly ignorant of these supposed great minds to suggest that any of this has anything to do with Obama’s skin color, ‘cause I’m going tell you, it doesn’t.”
He added, “Besides, everybody knows that Munro was heckling Obama’s white half, folks. Everybody knows that.”
