From the Aug. 22 broadcast of The Rush Limbaugh Show:
LIMBAUGH: Here’s [caller] in Lake Orion, Michigan. Thank you for calling. Great to have you on the EIB Network.
CALLER: Hey, Rush. It’s great to talk to you. I talked to you once before. I’ve been listening to you for a couple of years now, and I think I’m getting brighter, but there’s a lot to be learned. I know I’m no expert in foreign affairs, but what really confuses me about the liberals is the hypocrisy when they talk about how we have no reason to be in Iraq and helping those people, but yet everybody wants us to go to Darfur. I mean, aren’t we going to end up in a quagmire there? I mean, isn’t it — I don’t understand. Can you enlighten me on this?
LIMBAUGH: Yeah. This is — you’re not going to believe this, but it’s very simple. And the sooner you believe it, and the sooner you let this truth permeate the boundaries you have that tell you this is just simply not possible, the better you will understand Democrats in everything. You are right. They want to get us out of Iraq, but they can’t wait to get us into Darfur.
CALLER: Right.
LIMBAUGH: There are two reasons. What color is the skin of the people in Darfur?
CALLER: Uh, yeah.
LIMBAUGH: It’s black. And who do the Democrats really need to keep voting for them? If they lose a significant percentage of this voting bloc, they’re in trouble.
CALLER: Yes. Yes. The black population.
LIMBAUGH: Right. So you go into Darfur and you go into South Africa, you get rid of the white government there. You put sanctions on them. You stand behind Nelson Mandela — who was bankrolled by communists for a time, had the support of certain communist leaders. You go to Ethiopia. You do the same thing.
CALLER: It’s just — I can’t believe it’s really that simple.
LIMBAUGH: Well, see, I knew you couldn’t believe it. But here’s the — here’s one that’s even going to be harder to believe and it is even more truthful. Could you tell me what vital national interest, [caller], is at stake in Darfur?
CALLER: Um, I don’t know.
LIMBAUGH: Nothing. Zilch, zero, nada. Darfur is not attacking us. Darfur has not said they want to attack us. So they will — same thing — Clinton sent the U.S. military off to Bosnia. No U.S. national interest at stake. The liberals will use the military as a “meals on wheels” program. They’ll send them out to help with tsunami victims. But you put the military — you put the military in a position of defending U.S. national interest, and that’s when Democrats and the liberals oppose it. And —
CALLER: Right. Terrorists have attacked us and our oil supply comes from, you know, Iraq and Iran and the Middle East, and yet that’s not worth defending.
LIMBAUGH: Right. That’s exactly right. You’ve got it. You’ve got it. Now you just have to believe your own instincts from here on out.
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Get your Rush voodoo doll here.
Rush Limbaugh is, admittedly, a big fat idiot, and his explanation of why liberals are so eager to invade Sudan is loathsome.
That said, why are liberals so eager to invade (and occupy) Sudan? The record of “humanitarian” interventionism in actually helping its recipients is not so good, and it’s fairly clear that humanitarian interventionism is the liberal smokescreen for imperialism — the 21st century’s version of “the white man’s burden.” It is not clear that the proponents of humanitarian intervention in Darfur (or Bosnia) are any more honest about their intentions than the proponents of “preemption” in Iraq…or Iran.
Progressives wishing to understand the push for invasion of Sudan should ponder this fact: Sudan is an oil-exporting country, whose output is sold mainly to China. Given that fact, can you think of any reason the US government would be interested in “regime change” in Sudan? Does this make humanitarian explanations of calls to invade Sudan more, or less credible?
There is one political party, and it is the War Party. They just have different marketing campaigns for liberals and conservatives.
Media Matters is leading a campaign to get Rush to apologize for his Darfur remarks. (Fat chance!) But you can add your name to the list anyway at http://mediamatters.org/rushdarfur/