Excerpt from an editorial in the Sioux Falls, South Dakota, Argus Leader:
Political correctness can go too far. We’ve all seen it.
But racist bigotry still is easy to spot – as it was in a Rush Limbaugh broadcast last week.
Limbaugh was commenting on Tim Giago’s decision to drop out of the U.S. Senate race after a meeting with Minority Leader Tom Daschle. The decision was worthy of comment and brings up all sorts of questions that many of us would like to have answered.
But Limbaugh went too far:
“I predicted that Tim Giago – South Dakota Native American activist – would be scalped politically. … Last week, Daschle and Giago had a powwow. What happened in the tepee is unknown, but when the smoke signals cleared, Giago was Home on the Range. … As for Giago, since he’s back on the reservation … .”