Im really only posting this story because I will take any opportunity to post a picture of Idris Elba on Slog.
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  • I'm really only posting this story because I will take any opportunity to post a picture of Idris Elba on Slog.

Rush Limbaugh knows what color fictional characters are, you guys. He's just as much of an expert in fictional race deliberation as Megyn Kelly. And the fact is, Rush Limbaugh hates the idea of Idris Elba—"I'm not sure how you pronounce the guy's name," Limbaugh says dismissively of Elba, whose name is pronounced Elba—as James Bond. "That's not who James Bond is," Limbaugh says of the fictional character. He then helpfully explains that James Bond is white and has always been white. Limbaugh says Bond "always drank vodka, shaken not stirred, and all that," but Jay-Z's favorite drink is Cristal, so the Bond casting doesn't make any sense, right? Uh, because Jay-Z is...black...and so is...Idris Elba?

Wow.

Then Limbaugh lists a number of real people and then casts the biopic about them with actors of different races*: George Clooney as President Obama, Kelsey Grammar as Nelson Mandela. He briefly acknowledges that casting a real person is different than casting a fictional character, but he doesn't let that incontrovertible fact get in his way.

"We could always be more fair," Limbaugh sneers. "We could always be more equal about it." Then he establishes a hostage swap: he tells Hollywood that if they make a movie with "George Clooney and Kate Hudson as Barack and Michelle Obama, you can have Idris Elba as James Bond."

In conclusion, Rush Limbaugh is a man who has to fill hours of radio time with his voice every weekday.

* Limbaugh's comments remind me of this great Donald Glover bit about some white racist commenter's argument against Glover playing Spider-Man.