This morning the Today Show gave a considerable amount of airtime to conservative talk show host Rush Limbaugh. Barely five minutes into the interview, Limbaugh gloated about accurately predicting that a half-black person, Obama, being elected president would only “exacerbate racial problems” and lead to “dark days” for the country. You see, based on what Limbaugh’s inferring here, the United States of America would be much better off if blacks would just accept their place among the world’s downtrodden and cut it out with the striving, that way whites wouldn’t be near as pissed off as they are now, and then we could all have a fucking Coke and a smile and live together in perfect harmony. But that’s not the only dumbass horseshit Limbaugh had to say.

Limbaugh also told Today correspondent Jamie Gangel that John McCain, a longtime moderate Republican favored by independents, losing to Obama in the 2008 election should serve as evidence that the Republican party should become more conservative in order to win more national elections. However, any non-delusional, objective observer of politics knows that the reason McCain lost is because he chose an imbecilic Jesus freak to be his running mate, not to mention his morphing into more of a conservative in order to raise money from the party’s “base,” and because he ran one of the most slimy campaigns in modern American history. In short, McCain might have won if he’d told the party’s wingnut wing to go fuck itself and remained true to who he really is.

Nevertheless, below is part one of Today’s Limbaugh interview. Part two airs tomorrow.

Limbaugh illustration by the lovely and gracious, not to mention tremendously talented, Jim Cooke