Right Wing Talk Show Hosts Have Huge Problems with White Privilege.

A few months back I wrote an essay in which I defended Rush Limbaugh's comments about his hope that Barack Obama would fail as president. Rush, I observed, was merely telling the truth. He is not an elected official who has to feign interest in the advancement of the nation, but an entertainer. And while I wouldn't defend an entertainer who tries to incite violence, I would defend one who expresses his his unattractive desire to see his team win, even if it is at great cost to the nation. He merely spoke his mind. He was just being his misanthropic self.

I lambasted Rush in the same essay for the white privilege he wields when making comments to the effect that Colin Powell came to support Barack Obama based only on their shared African heritage. Rush, I pointed out, will never have to defend that his support of Republican candidates isn't due to shared ethnicity because white is the default color of political candidates.

Now Glenn Beck wants to take a stab at cashin' in on white privilege by suggesting that Obama should appoint a "gay, handicapped black women who is an immigrant" to the supreme court. You know, because doing so would bring about completely unfair charges of racism or sexism against anyone who opposes the judicial appointment.

What other motive could Obama have for appointing a gay judge or a black judge or a female judge, right? So now, any appointment of any judge who *isn't* white and male is some sneaky trick to get his appointment in?

Fear not, Glenn. I somehow doubt that the fact that Obama's appointment is minority (actually majority if they are female, or a brown person from the majority-minority state of California) will diminish a muscular, obstructionist response from the Republican Party.