Earlier this week, Rush Limbaugh claimed that “one of the biggest pet peeves black women have in recent decades is black men marrying or pairing up with white women. ... Particularly if they happen to be blond.” Limbaugh suggested that because of this purported “pet peeve,” black women would enjoy a Pepsi Max ad depicting an African-American woman angrily throwing her can of soda at her significant other, only to hit a white woman jogger he had given a once-over moments before.

Mary C. Curtis, contributor to AOL's Politics Daily, responds in a post titled, “Rush Limbaugh Has It Wrong. Some Of My Best Friends Are Blondes”:

Where I saw silly, Limbaugh observed something much more profound. Well, maybe profound isn't the right word. (Does he really think all black women are filled with self-doubt and all white, blond women have that much power?) He gave much more thought to it than any TV ad deserves. He had already criticized U.S. Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee (D-Texas) for denouncing the ad as “demeaning” African-American women -- overkill, I agree, for a statement on the House floor -- but then he couldn't help doubling-back for his rather twisted take. In Rush-world, a racial comment is a terrible thing to waste.

It's as though Rush Limbaugh is obsessed with black people in the abstract, as two-dimensional punching bags but not as human beings. I wonder if he actually knows any actual flesh-and-blood black people, living lives full enough not to worry about soda ads. Walk up to a group of three, Rush, and you might find they have three different opinions about a whole host of issues. Really.

Previously:

Limbaugh's “colorblind” history of racially charged comments