Seemingly a lifetime ago, Woods referred to his racial identity as “Cablinasian,” a combination of the words Caucasian, black, American Indian, and Asian. The two men have talked, albeit using different terms, about moving beyond traditional, absolutist ways of understanding racial identity. Both ha d black fathers (although Woods’s has some white ancestry while Obama’s was a dark-skinned African) and non-black mothers (Obama’s wa s white, while Woods’s was of Thai, Chinese, and Dutch origin). the real Barack Obama,”-the host suggested parallels with another public figure with whom Obama seemed, on the surface, to share something when it came to matters of race: Tiger Woods. On the matter of depicting the president as being not what he appeared to be-or, as Limbaugh put it on December 8, 2009, “the man behind the curtain. What follows is an excerpt from the book: That connection was one of the few things that really surprised me as I was doing the research (I read eight years of Rush Limbaugh Show transcripts) for my new book The Tribalization of Politics: How Rush Limbaugh's Race-Baiting Rhetoric on the Obama Presidency Paved the Way for Trump. First of all, remember Limbaugh’s remark about the media figures who “hammered Tiger Woods for years”? Well, he was one of them.įurthermore, Limbaugh did so specifically by connecting Woods to Obama in a highly racialized and sexualized manner. Except that’s not the whole story when it comes to what Limbaugh has said over the years about Tiger Woods and President Obama. So, in sum: Tiger’s a great guy, he’s overcome a lot, the media hates him, and Obama’s a racist. The racial divide in this country precedes Donald Trump. The racial divide in this country is owing to Barack Hussein Obama. Donald Trump has done more for African-Americans in terms of economic opportunity than any Democrat president ever has and ever will, for that matter.” Who’s the real racist, according to Limbaugh? I think you all know the answer to that one: Limbaugh then spewed some Trump party-line bunk: “Trump is not anti-immigrant, and he isn’t racist. He heaped kind words upon Woods, and then attacked the media, which he said had “hammered Tiger Woods for years.” Limbaugh defended Tiger against those who had criticized him for accepting the award from Trump, whom the host described as falsely accused of fomenting racism. And just because there’s a really cold day in January means there’s no climate crisis (or, in Trump’s formulation, no “Global Waming”).Īfter Tiger accepted the medal from Trump during a May 6 ceremony in the White House Rose Garden, Limbaugh had more to say on the following day’s show. On a side note, Limbaugh also couldn’t resist throwing in a little of his trademark shtick on how there’s no racism in America because X: “I can’t tell you the number of people who sent me texts, “Hey, hey, how can that happen in such a racist country? See all those white people cheering Tiger Woods?” Exactly my point, folks. All Tiger Woods did was keep his head down and avoid being in the news over politics. Just join the chorus that Trump is a skunk, that Trump is this or that. It might help me get more appreciated if I publicly come out and ditch Trump.” But he didn’t do it. Tiger could have said, “You know, it might speed my public approval along. Tiger didn’t ditch Trump when it would have been easy to ditch him. And they wouldn’t do it, and Tiger wouldn’t do it. And just like they pressed the owner of the Patriots, Robert Kraft, to trounce and criticize Trump. People have been pressuring - you don’t know this - pressuring Tiger Woods ever since Trump got in the race to denounce Donald Trump just like they pressed Tom Brady to denounce Donald Trump. You know, he and Donald Trump have been friends for years. When Tiger won the Masters, Limbaugh talked about all he had overcome, including the sex and infidelity scandals in the golfer’s past, and then spoke quite positively about him: “One of the things I’ve admired about Tiger Woods is he’s shown the way how to be a friend, how to remove politics from his public comments.” Then Limbaugh continued that praise as he shifted the topic to politics:
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