Utterly repellent

US District Judge Richard Cebull, doing what he can to make sure that the Thing That Used to Be Conservatism repels and revolts people for generations to come, sends the following email:

“Normally I don’t send or forward a lot of these, but even by my standards, it was a bit touching. I want all of my friends to feel what I felt when I read this. Hope it touches your heart like it did mine.

“A little boy said to his mother; ‘Mommy, how come I’m black and you’re white?'” the email joke reads. “His mother replied, ‘Don’t even go there Barack! From what I can remember about that party, you’re lucky you don’t bark!'”

It gets better. Here’s his disclaimer when the email goes public:

The judge acknowledged that the content of the email was racist, but said he does not consider himself racist. He said the email was intended to be a private communication.

“It was not intended by me in any way to become public,” Cebull said. “I apologize to anybody who is offended by it, and I can obviously understand why people would be offended.”

Cebull said his brother initially sent him the email, which he forwarded to six of his “old buddies” and acquaintances.

He admitted that he read the email and intended to send it to his friends.

“The only reason I can explain it to you is I am not a fan of our president, but this goes beyond not being a fan,” Cebull said. “I didn’t send it as racist, although that’s what it is. I sent it out because it’s anti-Obama.”

What he means by that, as near as I can tell, is, “I knew what I was doing and I regret getting caught. And I believe in doing evil that good may come of it. As long as it’s anti-Obama, I will endorse anything, even the most vile racism with “it touches my heart” so long as I can land a punch against a political enemy.”

News for hizzoner: if you compare inter-racial marriage to a gang bang with animals, you are a racist. If you indulge racism for the “good end” of protesting a bad politician you are a racist, just as if you murder in order to collect the “good end” of an insurance policy, you are a murderer. If racism “touches your heart” you are a racist. Judge Cebull, you are a racist.

It’s a classic example of sin making a person stupid. It’s also dangerously emblematic of the weird zeal some people have for hating Obama instead of defeating him.