The Rush Limbaugh Thread

[VampElvis]

Aside from extreme Colbert-esque satire (which Rush isn't particularly renowned for) I just cannot think of a context that makes this okay.

That's probably because he never said it. It's one of the quotes of questionable veracity, in honor of Colbert let me change that to truthiness.

 

[moraldeficiency]

Considering the league has 32 white owners, yes. I thought it was quite apparent honestly lol

I can't believe people thought that was serious.

 

[SuBe]

Aside from extreme Colbert-esque satire (which Rush isn't particularly renowned for) I just cannot think of a context that makes this okay.

Yup, he never said that phrase. There is no evidence anywhere other than repostings like this that he ever said it. He has been an outstanding voice against the Left for over 20 years, and there's not audio record of this? Yup, fake.

 

[Nivek]

Yup, he never said that phrase. There is no evidence anywhere other than repostings like this that he ever said it. He has been an outstanding voice against the Left for over 20 years, and there's not audio record of this? Yup, fake.

On that quote, maybe. But these?

* "We are being told that we have to hope [Obama] succeeds, that we have to bend over, grab the ankles ... because his father was black."

* "I do believe" Obama is an "angry black guy."

* "n Obama's America, the white kids now get beat up with the black kids cheering."

* "Obama's entire economic program is reparations."

* Obama is "more African in his roots than he is American" and is "behaving like an African colonial despot."

* Obama is "Halfrican-American."

* "Obama has disowned his white half ... he's decided he's got to go all in on the black side."

* Sotomayor "a reverse racist" appointed by Obama, "the greatest living example of a reverse racist."

* Obama "wants us to have the same health care and plan that he had in Kenya" and "wants to be the black FDR."

* Latching onto LA Times op-ed, Limbaugh sings "Barack, The Magic Negro."

* "God does not have a birth certificate. Neither does Obama"; Obama "has yet to prove he's a citizen."

* Limbaugh on Gates controversy: "Here you have a black president trying to destroy a white policeman."

* Limbaugh suggests Obama would not have acted on Somali pirates if he'd known they were "actually young, black Muslim teenagers."

* Limbaugh suggests Democrats, media believe "you can't criticize the little black man-child."

* "The government's been taking care of [young blacks] their whole lives."

* "The days of [minorities] not having any power are over, and they are angry."

* "[M]inorities never do anything for which they have to apologize."

* Limbaugh: "The media has been very desirous that a black quarterback do well."

* Limbaugh says "NFL all too often looks like a game between the Bloods and the Crips."

* Limbaugh declares basketball "the favorite sport of gangs."

* Limbaugh invented "racial component" to Hackett's decision to withdraw from Ohio primary race.

* Limbaugh on Survivor series: "African-American tribe" worst swimmers, Hispanics "will do things other people won't do."

* Limbaugh suggested Colin Powell only supported Obama because of race.

* Limbaugh: Gates is an "angry racist."

* Limbaugh called illegal immigrants an "invasive species."

* Limbaugh repeatedly calls Native Americans "Injuns."

* Limbaugh says Democrats' interest in Darfur is securing black "voting bloc."

* Limbaugh says that if "feminazis" had remembered to oppose "affirmative action for black guys ... they wouldn't face the situation they face today."


Yup, Cartman is sooo not hung up on race...

 

[SuBe]

Do you have any Audio Clips of these?

 

[Nivek]

Yup, same place I got the quotes and comments from... Mediamatters.org

Yup, so not an adult Eric Cartman, and ssooo not racist...

 

[Matt]

Not necessarily agreeing with this article, but it makes a fair point:

http://www.ocregister.com/articles/mao-million-don-2610375-saying-dream

Here is a tale of two sound bites. First:

"Slavery built the South. I'm not saying we should bring it back; I'm just saying it had its merits. For one thing, the streets were safer after dark."

Second:

"The third lesson and tip actually comes from two of my favorite political philosophers, Mao Tse Tung and Mother Teresa. Not often coupled with each other, but the two people that I turn to most to basically deliver a simple point, which is: You're going to make choices. ... But here's the deal: These are your choices; they are no one else's. In 1947, when Mao Tse Tung was being challenged within his own party on his own plan to basically take China over, Chiang Kai-shek and the nationalist Chinese held the cities, they had the army. … They had everything on their side. And people said 'How can you win? How can you do this against all of the odds against you?' And Mao Tse Tung says, 'You fight your war, and I'll fight mine.' You don't have to accept the definition of how to do things. … You fight your war, you let them fight theirs. Everybody has their own path."

The first quotation was attributed to Rush Limbaugh. He never said it. There is no tape of him saying it. There is no transcript of him saying it. After all, if he had done so at any point in the past 20 years, someone would surely have mentioned it at the time.

Yet CNN, MSNBC, ABC and other networks and newspapers all around the country cheerfully repeated the pro-slavery quotation and attributed it, falsely, to Rush Limbaugh. And planting a flat-out lie in his mouth wound up getting Rush bounced from a consortium hoping to buy the St. Louis Rams. NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell said the talk-show host was a "divisive" figure, and famously nondivisive figures like the Rev. Al Sharpton and the Rev. Jesse Jackson expressed the hope that, with Mr. Divisive out of the picture, the NFL could now "unify."

The second quotation – hailing Mao – was uttered back in June to an audience of high school students by Anita Dunn, the White House communications director. I know she uttered it because I watched the words issuing from her mouth on "The Glenn Beck Show" on Fox News. But don't worry. Nobody else played it.

So if I understand correctly:

Rush Limbaugh is so "divisive" that to get him fired Leftie agitators have to invent racist sound bites to put in his mouth.

But the White House communications director is so undivisive that she can be invited along to recommend Chairman Mao as a role model for America's young.

From my unscientific survey, U.S. school students are all but entirely unaware of Mao Tse Tung, and the few that aren't know him mainly as a T-shirt graphic or "agrarian reformer." What else did he do? Here, from Jonathan Fenby's book "Modern China," is the great man in a nutshell:

"Mao's responsibility for the extinction of anywhere from 40 million to 70 million lives brands him as a mass killer greater than Hitler or Stalin."

Hey, that's pretty impressive when they can't get your big final-score death toll nailed down to within 30 million. Still, as President Barack Obama's communications director says, he lived his dream, and so can you, although if your dream involves killing, oh, 50-80 million Chinamen you may have your work cut out. But let's stick with the Fenby figure: He killed 40-70 million Chinamen. Whoops, can you say "Chinamen" or is that racist? Oh, and sexist. So hard keeping up with the Sensitivity Police in this pansified political culture, isn't it? But you can kill 40-70 million Chinamen, and that's fine and dandy: You'll be cited as an inspiration by the White House to an audience of high school students. You can be anything you want to be! Look at Mao: He wanted to be a mass murderer, and he lived his dream! You can, too!

The White House now says that Anita Dunn was "joking." Anyone tempted to buy that spin should look at the tape: If this is her Friars Club routine, she needs to work on her delivery. But, for the sake of argument, try a thought experiment:

Midway through Bush's second term, press secretary Tony Snow goes along to Chester A. Arthur High School to give a graduation speech. "I know it looks tough right now. You're young, you're full of zip, but the odds seem hopeless. Let me tell you about another young man facing tough choices 80 years ago. It's last orders at the Munich beer garden – gee, your principal won't thank me for mentioning that – and all the natural blonds are saying, 'But Adolf, see reason. The Weimar Republic's here to stay, and, besides, the international Jewry control everything.' And young Adolf Hitler puts down his foaming stein and stands on the table and sings a medley of 'I Gotta Be Me', '(Learning To Love Yourself Is) The Greatest Love Of All' and 'The Sun'll Come Out Tomorrow.' And by the end of that night there wasn't a Jewish greengrocer's anywhere in town with glass in its windows. Don't play by the other side's rules; make your own kind of music. And always remember: You've gotta have a dream, if you don't have a dream, how you gonna have a dream come true?"

Anyone think he'd still have a job?

Well, so what? All those dead Chinese are no-name peasants a long way away. What's the big deal? If you say, "Chairman Mao? Wasn't he the wacko who offed 70 million Chinks?," you'll be hounded from public life for saying the word "Chinks." But, if you commend the murderer of those 70 million as a role model in almost any schoolroom in the country from kindergarten to the Ivy League, it's so entirely routine that only a crazy like Glenn Beck would be boorish enough to point it out.

Which is odd, don't you think? Because it suggests that our present age of politically correct hypersensitivity is not just morally unserious but profoundly decadent.

Twenty years ago this fall, the Iron Curtain was coming down in Europe. Across the Warsaw Pact, the jailers of the Communist prison states lost their nerve, and the cell walls crumbled. Matt Welch, the editor of Reason magazine, wonders why the anniversary is going all but unobserved: Why aren't we making more of the biggest mass liberation in history?

Well, because to celebrate it would involve recognizing it as a victory over Communism. And, after the Left's long march through the institutions of the West, most are not willing to do that. There's the bad totalitarianism (Nazism) and the good totalitarianism (Communism), whose apologists and, indeed, fetishists can still be found everywhere, even unto the White House.

Rush Limbaugh's remarks are "divisive"; Anita Dunn's are entirely normal. But don't worry, the new Fairness Doctrine will take care of the problem.

©MARK STEYN

 

[moraldeficiency]

I believe the quote originally brought up by the players was:

http://www.fair.org/index.php?page=3928

Reacting to a report of black students assaulting a white student on a bus (an incident that police determined was not racially motivated), Limbaugh brought in Barack Obama: "In Obama's America, the white kids now get beat up with the black kids cheering, 'Right on, right on, right on.'" (Media Matters, 9/15/09)

Which he did say and I heard him say on a sound bite. ^sorry as a white guy with many black cousins I've got to say, that's some racist ********. Even if he didn't say half of what he's creditted to saying that's still a lot of racist stuff out there. I don't think he's this huge racist more a closet type or maybe that's just part of his media "personna" but either way the NFL's not gonna want to bring that type into ownership. It's a buisness and they have a right not to allow someone to own a franchise because of the damage it would do to the NFL overall.


Side note, does Rush really thinks black high school kids are saying "right on" that's like something from a bad 70s movie. Where is the writing for his show?

 

[Kurosawa]

It wouldn't surprise me if some of the unverified quotes are legit and came from media-free convention speaking engagements. I've seen some clips from other far right conservatives at those sorts of events where they make statements like homosexuality is a mental disorder, etc....Rush could have easily said those things but had never been recorded saying them. Plus there's plenty of racist things he is 100% known to have said that one can easily see he either IS a racist or says racist things because that's what his audience wants to hear.

Either way, he's not a serious conservative making legitimate points...he sells hate and people are buying.

And here's the goal:

http://www.boston.com/news/nation/w...ce_under_strain_as_leaders_face_more_threats/

 

[Nivek]

Limbaugh's conspiracy theory: Obama "corrupted" NFL new-owner bidding process

Limbaugh: "Obama people have got their hooks in the NFL now." Limbaugh claimed that "[t]he NFL is as politicized as anything else is in this country, and for lack of a better word, when DeMaurice Smith, and Al Sharpton, and Rev. Jackson can pressure the commissioner into saying who can and cannot even apply and go through the vetting process, then they've got their own slippery slope and they're admitting that politics is here. And DeMaurice Smith is an Obama-ite. The transition team. A big donor. Close buddy of Eric Holder. So Obama, the Obama people have got their hooks in the NFL now." [Premiere Radio Networks' The Rush Limbaugh Show, 10/16/09]

Yeah, it's Obama's fault, not you and your mouth, Rush...

 

[Nivek]

Oh, it look's like Fox is also helping push Rush and his "woe is me" CROCK OF **** story...

What the hell? He can't even admit his own mouth and reputation blew the deal? What a wuss...

P.S.- Love that they used his "skinny" pic.

 

[Raiden]

Right now I think this whole business about bidding for the Rams as a minority owner was just a PR move by Rush so he can have more materials to use for his radio shows.

 

[Kurosawa]

Neither Limbaugh nor FOX wants to piss the NFL off. They'd best back off.

 

[Nivek]

That is what I said here not that long ago as well. He knew he wouldn't get to be an owner, it was just a "Balloon-Boy" stunt to keep his name "floating" in the media. Well, the media that doesn't have their little throne made for him.

 

[Bathead]

I was wondering how long it would be before Limbaugh et al would blame Obama. They didn't disappoint.

 

[VampElvis]

Limbaugh's conspiracy theory: Obama "corrupted" NFL new-owner bidding process

Limbaugh: "Obama people have got their hooks in the NFL now." Limbaugh claimed that "[t]he NFL is as politicized as anything else is in this country, and for lack of a better word, when DeMaurice Smith, and Al Sharpton, and Rev. Jackson can pressure the commissioner into saying who can and cannot even apply and go through the vetting process, then they've got their own slippery slope and they're admitting that politics is here. And DeMaurice Smith is an Obama-ite. The transition team. A big donor. Close buddy of Eric Holder. So Obama, the Obama people have got their hooks in the NFL now." [Premiere Radio Networks' The Rush Limbaugh Show, 10/16/09]

Yeah, it's Obama's fault, not you and your mouth, Rush...

Yeah, that's just morbidly obese. He's waaaay off base there and proving the point that sometimes it's better to be silent and presumed. That has about as much, if not in fact less, credibility that the Balloon Dad's claim Hillary is a reptilian.
(I'm not being sardonic here, it's really, really dumb.)

 

[Raiden]

Neither Limbaugh nor FOX wants to piss the NFL off. They'd best back off.

Yeah, Fox especially. Rush doesn't need NFL, but Fox does need the NFL demographics for their rating and market share. If Fox pushes this too far, NFL may not want to renew their contract when it is up for extension.

 

[Marx]

Oh, it look's like Fox is also helping push Rush and his "woe is me" CROCK OF **** story...

What the hell? He can't even admit his own mouth and reputation blew the deal? What a wuss...

P.S.- Love that they used his "skinny" pic.

 

[SuBe]

Oh, it look's like Fox is also helping push Rush and his "woe is me" CROCK OF **** story...

What the hell? He can't even admit his own mouth and reputation blew the deal? What a wuss...

P.S.- Love that they used his "skinny" pic.

He just lost nearly 100 pounds. He's been talking about it for months.

 

[Marx]

It must be all that hot air he's been releasing on the airwaves.

Spoiler

I'm sorry man, I couldn't resist. I think it's great that he's been able to lose so much weight. It's never an easy task.

 

[Addendum]

So he's the male Oprah with his weight

 

[DACrowe]

Wow. Rush Limbaugh blames Obama for him not getting the NFL team, due to his high-profile image as a racist.


so ironic.

 

[DACrowe]

Wow. Rush Limbaugh blames Obama for him not getting the NFL team, due to his high-profile image as a racist.


so ironic.

 

[metr0man]

Wow. Rush Limbaugh blames Obama for him not getting the NFL team, due to his high-profile image as a racist.

so ironic.

Also ironic is that according to Limbaugh, everyone else is a racist.

Here's a funny column that outlines of Rush's "You're Racist!!!" allegations.

http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-...rush-the-race-baiter/?cid=hp:beastoriginalsL1

Obama the Halfrican American is a racist. Sotenmeyer is a racist. The NFL is racist. Liberals are racist. That guy who got arrested in his home is a racist. The media's racist. This makes him different than the Jesse Jacksons how exactly?

 

[BlackestNight]

Also ironic is that according to Limbaugh, everyone else is a racist.

Here's a funny column that outlines of Rush's "You're Racist!!!" allegations.

http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-...rush-the-race-baiter/?cid=hp:beastoriginalsL1

Obama the Halfrican American is a racist. Sotenmeyer is a racist. The NFL is racist. Liberals are racist. That guy who got arrested in his home is a racist. The media's racist. This makes him different than the Jesse Jacksons how exactly?

That's why he does it. In his mind if Jesse Jacksons and Al Sharpton can make baseless claims of racism, then he should be able to do the same.