On the way into school today, I heard Rush Limbaugh refer to Barack Obama as having been a “street organizer,” a bit of racially-coded jargon pioneered by the Republican National Committee. (It doesn’t even make sense — you can’t organize streets.) Limbaugh, who previously called Barack Obama a “little black man-child,” also contrasted Obama’s past with Sarah Palin’s “quintessentially American” life story — classy stuff. I’ll post a link to Media Matters when they have a transcript and audio up.

Update 9/2 8:13 PM: In fairness to Limbaugh, Rob points out in comments that Obama himself used the term “street organizer” to describe what he did. I’m still uncomfortable with Limbaugh using it, however.