{"id":183329,"date":"2014-12-24T20:00:00","date_gmt":"2014-12-25T01:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2014\/12\/24\/it-goes-without-saying-that-rush-limbaugh-is-a-blithering-idiot\/"},"modified":"2014-12-24T20:00:00","modified_gmt":"2014-12-25T01:00:00","slug":"it-goes-without-saying-that-rush-limbaugh-is-a-blithering-idiot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2014\/12\/24\/it-goes-without-saying-that-rush-limbaugh-is-a-blithering-idiot\/","title":{"rendered":"It Goes Without Saying that Rush Limbaugh is a Blithering Idiot"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As evidenced by his <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/blogs\/style-blog\/wp\/2014\/12\/24\/i-know-its-racist-rush-limbaugh-offers-his-hot-take-on-why-idris-elba-shouldnt-be-james-bond\/\">recent racist screed about how Idris Elba cannot play James Bond because the actor is black<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Emails revealed that a senior Sony executive was looking to tap Elba to replace Daniel Craig when the latter is done with the role.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, Rush Limbaugh had a bigotrygasm over all of this.<\/p>\n<p>This begs the question:&nbsp; Why are sponsors supporting this inveterate racist?<\/p>\n<p>To be clear, I would much rather have Elba playing George Smiley than James Bond:&nbsp; I&#8217;ve always found Bond to be a bit one dimensional.<\/p>\n<p>I will say something here:&nbsp; If&nbsp; Sony co-chairman Amy Pascal has mooted casting Elba take the role of Jack Ryan in a Tom Clancy movie, I would be upset: It&#8217;s a profound waste of his not inconsiderable acting talent.<\/p>\n<p>Then again, playing Jack Ryan in a Tom Clancy would be a waste of pretty much <b>anyone&#8217;s <\/b>acting talent.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As evidenced by his recent racist screed about how Idris Elba cannot play James Bond because the actor is black. Emails revealed that a senior Sony executive was looking to tap Elba to replace Daniel Craig when the latter is done with the role. Of course, Rush Limbaugh had a bigotrygasm over all of this. &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[967,993,1064,979],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-183329","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bigotry","category-cinema","category-media","category-wanker"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183329"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=183329"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183329\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=183329"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=183329"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=183329"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}