It didn’t take long for right-wingers to go into knee-jerk blame mode in the aftermath of the Boston Marathon explosions.
WorldNetDaily columnist Erik Rush declared in one tweet, “Everybody do the National Security Ankle Grab! Let’s bring more Saudis in without screening them! C’mon!” When someone tweeted in response about him blaming Muslims despite the total lack of evidence at that point that anyone was being implicated in the bombings, Rush retorted: “Yes, they’re evil. Let’s kill them all.”
After Right Wing Watch posted Rush’s offending tweets, Rush pretended it was all a joke, saying, “Sarcasm, idiot.”
But he followed that up with another Islamophobic tweet: “Keep ’em coming, muzzie apologist vermin! I LOVE it!”
Never mind, of course, that Rush has never been known for having any detectable sense of sarcasm.This is, after all, the guy who likened President Obama to a prison rapist and thinks Malcolm X is Obama’s real father.
There is no detectable line between Erik Rush the paranoid conspiracy theorist and Erik Rush the brilliant satirist, because the latter does not exist. Rush is simply trying to avoid having to take responsibility for his words.
The real question is, will Rush’s hateful outburst cost him what passes in his world for high-profile gigs — his WND column and his occasional appearances on Fox News with Sean Hannity?