Rush Limbaugh has asked listeners
whether people should vote for President Barack Obama because “he's
gay.”
While news glossy Newsweek
has received flack for running a cover of Obama with a gay halo along
with the caption “The First Gay President,” the accompanying
article touted Obama as the first president to identify with the gay
community.
On his radio show, Limbaugh lamented a
Politico.com
story which claimed that the Obama campaign is seeking to define Mitt
Romney as a candidate looking out for “old, straight, white men.”
“Obama's campaign wants to turn
Romney into the candidate of old, straight white men,” Limbaugh
read from the article, then asked, “So does that mean you should
vote for Obama because he's a young, black gay man?”
He added that in the media's view
“Romney is to be tarred and feathered, not to be trusted, voted
against, because he's the candidate of old, straight, white men.”
“What does that make Obama, the
candidate of young, black, gay men? Where's the tolerance … the
compassion?” he rhetorically asked. (Listen
to the entire segment at Mediaite.com.)