He has truly gone off the deep end, folks.

THIS is his spin on the whole thing? He's actually trying to paint the pirates as the VICTIMS now??

Dear Lord.

Sorry, I know it's not much of a diary, but I don't even know what to do with this one.

Up next: "Adolph Hitler: Misunderstood artist?"

Update: H/T to wyvern in the comments below for this gem:

Now, just imagine the hue and cry had a Republican president ordered the shooting of black teenagers on the high seas There would be 5 results: --For years to come, the "shooting of black teenagers" (known as "pirates" to everybody who doesn't have their head up their asses) would become a campaign talking point for the Republican president. --The Republican president would dispatch 4 dozen meatpuppets to saturate the TV media; their mission would be to extol the warrior machismo displayed by the president.

Rush Limbaugh would be kissing the fictional Republican president's ass all day everyday in his radio booth. --The Republican president would officially sanction Samolian pirates as "terrorists just as dangerous of Al-Qeada." --Bill Kristol & his ilk would pressure said Republican president to invade Somalia. There would be a 50/50 chance the Republican president would comply.

Update x2: Well, since I've hit the Rec list and all, let me use this opportunity to also pimp my diary from YESTERDAY:

Weekly Obameter: 11.7% of promises kept in the first 5.8% of term! (updated every Tuesday morning, for future reference!!)

Update x3: There's some discussion in the comments that Limbaugh may have been being sarcastic, ie, that he was actually parodying Al Sharpton, who in turn had noted that the pirates refer to themselves as a "voluntary coast guard" or some such nonsense.

I suppose this is conceivable; you'd have to actually listen to the voice inflection and tone of the audio to be certain (ie, to tell whether there's a sarcastic tone). However, there's no way in hell that I'm subscribing to his drivel, so I'll leave it up to others to make this call. What I can say is that given Rush Limbaugh's record of absurd, offensive and flat-out outrageous statements, I'm not exactly inclined to give him the benefit of the doubt.

Update x4: OK, I've thought about this a bit, and realized that even if this was an attempt at irony/sarcasm (ie, comparing the response to how the Left would respond if Bush had been the one who ordered the shootings), it's still way off target for one simple reason: Bush enjoyed a 90%+ approval rating for about 6 months after 9/11. Hardly anyone bitched about him invading Afghanistan and going after Al Queda and bin Laden, since that's, you know, the guy who attacked us. It wasn't until he let bin Laden go loose and turned to Iraq that "the Left" started to criticize.

In other words, if Obama had decided to respond to the Somalian Pirate situation by, say, ordering an air strike on Oklahoma, I'd certainly understand the Right (or anyone, for that matter) being critical about it.