Is it possible that California Democratic Rep. Maxine Waters and Rush Limbaugh have found common ground in their criticism of President Barack Obama? As unlikely as that seems, both have reached the same conclusion: There is a racial element to the president’s current so-called “jobs tour.”
On his Wednesday radio program, Limbaugh replayed an unguarded moment from MSNBC host Andrea Mitchell, but not before he renamed Obama’s jobs tour.
“Now you want to hear something else funny?” Limbaugh said. “This afternoon, PMSNBC — Andrea Mitchell, NBC News Washington — she went live for a moment to cover Obama’s speaking in Atkinson, Ill., at the ‘White Like Me Tour.’ I think that’s what we ought to call this.”
Limbaugh pointed out the current headlines on the Drudge Report, which emphasized Obama’s issues with some in the black community.
“Drudge’s picture — folks, wait until Maxine Waters sees the Drudge Report,” he said. “This is great. I mean not a word is said. ‘Black Caucus on Obama: We’re getting tired’ and picture of Obama surrounded by white school kids with a sub-story, ‘He’s not coming to the black community.’ There’s another picture where he’s eating vanilla ice cream. We can call it the ‘White Like Me Tour.’”
Limbaugh recounted a perhaps accidental moment for Mitchell in which she apparently inadvertently asked into a live microphone during Obama’s speech if she “missed any substance.”
That caught Limbaugh’s attention because Obama has been advertised to be very substantive.
“I thought it was all substance with Obama,” Limbaugh said. “’Did I miss any substance?’”