Conservative opinion-maker Rush Limbaugh talks like he knows everything about everything, but this week he really stepped in it.
Sensing a chance to attack President Barack Obama, the Republican talk show host defended the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) and claimed that Obama had deployed a small number of troops to Africa to “wipe out Christians.”
A few moments later he was backpedaling, after someone informed him that he’d just stuck up for one of the most brutal militia movements in the world. LRA rebels are accused of terrorizing, murdering, raping and kidnapping thousands of people in the four nations, and tens of thousands of people died in their 20-year war with security forces in northern Uganda.
“Is that right? The Lord’s Resistance Army is being accused of really bad stuff?” Limbaugh hesitantly inquired. “Child kidnapping, torture, murder, that kind of stuff? Well, we’ll find … We just found out about this today, and we’re gonna do, of course, our due diligence research on it.”
Thankfully, the world also has Stephen Colbert.
“Of course! of course!” Colbert replied during Wednesday night’s episode of The Colbert Report. “Due diligence always comes after accusing the president of killing Christians.
Well, they had the word "Lord's" in their name... They MUST have been Christians, right? (Kind of like putting the word "socialist" in the name of the Nazi party... It must mean they were really classical socialists, right?)
LadyJazzer wrote: Well, they had the word "Lord's" in their name... They MUST have been Christians, right? (Kind of like putting the word "socialist" in the name of the Nazi party... It must mean they were really classical socialists, right?)
LadyJazzer wrote: Well, they had the word "Lord's" in their name... They MUST have been Christians, right? (Kind of like putting the word "socialist" in the name of the Nazi party... It must mean they were really classical socialists, right?)