Charles Johnson US News • Sun Oct 18, 2009 at 3:29 pm PDT • Views: 1,234
As the apologists all over the right wing blogs continue to focus on one or two disputed quotes, here’s a lengthy collection of racist and/or race-baiting quotes from Saint Rush Limbaugh — all of them verified, cited and attributed: Limbaugh: My racial views? You mean, my belief in a colorblind society?
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If you hadn't said that, I would have. When I see those FoxNews segments defending him, I change the channel. When I try to watch, all I get in my mind is They Might Be Giants singing "Your Racist Friend".
Oh good grief!
Unrepentant never looked so clear
[Link: www.cnn.com...]
Money quote of the article:
The U.S. Supreme Court tossed out any racially-based limitations on marriage in the landmark 1967 Loving v. Virginia case. In the unanimous decision, the court said that "Under our Constitution, the freedom to marry, or not marry, a person of another race resides with the individual and cannot be infringed by the State."
Bearing that in mind, who does this asshole think he is?
OCTOBER 3--Meet Louis Beshara and his wife, Gloria Rodriguez. The Florida couple are at the heart of the drug scandal now enveloping radio superstar Rush Limbaugh. Investigators allege that the duo illegally sold hundreds of thousands of prescription painkillers from a Palm Beach-area pharmacy they owned. According to a Palm Beach County Sheriff's search warrant affidavit, Beshara provided Hydrocodone, the powerful and addictive painkiller, to middlemen drug dealers like Joseph Coppola who then resold the pills to users. It has been reported that Limbaugh scored some of the Beshara pills via Wilma Cline, a former maid at the radio star's Palm Beach mansion. Beshara and Rodriguez, who each face two felony drug trafficking charges, are free on bail, though Beshara is under house arrest. (8 pages)
Actually I think the sad part is they are not taking anything. I have to believe the folks that work there think they are doing a great service, exposing the vast left wing conspiracy etc. How else could they keep saying fair and balanced with a straight face year after year.
I knew this would happen -- after I posted the comment last night about the fact Paypal donations are not even coming close to paying my expenses, the stalker blog gleefully seized on this as evidence that I'm "hurting for money."
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At some point all the flouncers will have flounced.
Well, since we are still getting new registrations at times, there will be always be a be small number of flouncers and sleepers. But, they will go down in numbers, you're right about that.
I knew this would happen -- after I posted the comment last night about the fact Paypal donations are not even coming close to paying my expenses, the stalker blog gleefully seized on this as evidence that I'm "hurting for money."
Actually, no -- I'm not hurting for money. The ads are more than paying LGF's expenses at this point.
However, if I were to charge by the hour for the work I do at LGF, let's just say -- I'm working pretty cheap.
If more people would donate or subscribe through Paypal, I wouldn't have to inflict so many advertisements on you, gentle readers. And I would like very much to get rid of some of them, because they're not that wonderful from an aesthetic standpoint.
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I think you should make an LGF store, sell T-shirts and stuff. Also partner with Linkshare and sell more merchandise just like you do with Amazon.
C'mon, somebody troll a bit. We need some activity.
Don't you people get sarcasm?
Its all tongue in cheek.
Satire of the highest order.
Rush is colorblind.
He is not racist why he even lets a black guy work for him.
/
Well...yes all those quotes are race baiting and/or racist, but they are just being used out of context/were not the disputed ones being used in the media attacks, therefore the media attacks were wrong!
/apologist
Honestly, that is all I see anyone saying everywhere I go (except here), kind of sickening really. These feeble attempts to divert from and then obfuscate away from the heart of the matter are pretty damn transparent. Does Rush consistently use race baiting as a component of his show? The answer to that is yes, end of story, period.
Don't you people get sarcasm?
Its all tongue in cheek.
Satire of the highest order.
Rush is colorblind.
He is not racist why he even lets a black guy work for him.
/
How's that?
I don't know.
Maybe if you put on the pirate hat...
Don't you people get sarcasm?
Its all tongue in cheek.
Satire of the highest order.
Rush is colorblind.
He is not racist why he even lets a black guy work for him.
/
How's that?
/well he sounds black on the raido... anyone ever seen him?
I find it interesting the the woman (sorry I don't know all the names of the F&F folks) assumes that the players that spoke out against playing for Rush have criminal records... Not that F&F would ever stereotype anyone.
First of all, I'm happy to be a part of this community. I've seen many open registration posts but have missed all of them until now.
Second, and relative to the post topic, all of the whining and self pity Limbaugh has been spewing since he was dropped by the Rams' ownership bid - as well as all of the right wingers apologizing for him - seems to undercut the primary (and most venerable) of all conservative tenets - personal responsibility.
Rush needs to man up and realize that he brought this on himself.
But doing that would alienate his core audience - people who need someone or something to blame, fear, and hate, so don't expect it anytime soon.
This is the one that makes me angry. The rest just make him look like a racist idiot, but this one pisses me off. It's dehumanizing.
Every kid who's a product of biracial parents has at least one jackass on each side of the family that is hung up on the kid's "other half". Worst-case scenario is that the kid gets to go through life with a permanent identity crisis that's inflicted upon her by others.
Beside that, it's ignorant. The best evidence we have today indicates that we're all more or less cousins anyway.
Jumpin' Jesus on a pogo stick, even Star Trek (ffs!) addressed the problems of 'mixed-race' children with the character of Mr. Spock. That was 40 years ago, and apparently we still don't get it.
I call BS on that remark. She said one thing that could be interpreted more than one way. He's said a whole bunch of things, many of which can only be interpreted as racism.
Fox & Friends focused on the fake quotes and implied tu quoque arguments,
but don't address the full body of Limbaugh's work.
Correct and I think it is very interesting that Rush is trying to spin this as an attack on his "conservitism." I find that interesting. So is the new mantra from the Right going to be my [insert X project, buisiness, cause] was attacked and failed becase the Liberals don't like me?
I think it would be hilarious if you would follow the NPR model: Have a "pledge drive" once per quarter where you interject requests for contributions at least once in every post. Have a tiered system: $15 gets you a "basic membership", $35 gets you that plus a bumper sticker with the LGF logo on it, $50 gets you the bumper sticker plus a coffee mug, $100 gets you an autographed copy of whatever book you're reading at the moment, and so on. Museum day-passes, theatre tickets, etc.
The reactionary head explosions would be priceless, and hell... it might even work.
Don't you people get sarcasm?
Its all tongue in cheek.
Satire of the highest order.
Rush is colorblind.
He is not racist why he even lets a black guy work for him.
/
How's that?
oh, well in that case, it's ok: Some Of His Best Friends Happen to be Black.
What I wonder is how did these guys survive and Savage get shut down so fast on tv?
Limbaugh doesn't act as nasty as Savage. He's not hostile all the time nor is he quite as out there politically. Thus he's been able to succeed better, though now that may be coming to an end.
After 21 years' occasional listening, I think he is not racist, but will do race baiting when it gets him what he wants, then play nice again when it gets him what he wants. He is a race mercenary.
Some of his rants can be excused as painfully naive and shallow, but not racist. Some rants can be excused as attempted witty political commentary with racist trappings, but ultimately not racist in intent - kind of the way Disney used swastikas and Nazi buffoons in anti-Nazi propaganda. You can squint your eyes and turn your head just right, and see how "Barrack the magic negro" could be intended to expose racist paternalistic left wing attitudes rather than be racist itself, though it remains exceedingly ham-fisted. The problem is how long can you make excuses for him until you see the underlying trend?
For years, whenever in some situation where I was forced to have my brain polluted by Rush--in someone else's vehicle or in a shop, I have found him offensive. He's been saying 'Feminazi' for at least ten years, as a woman, I find that pretty appalling and his racist stuff goes way back. I think it is interesting that it is finally getting the attention it has long deserved, but is it all due to his NFL dreams being thwarted? Rush has been a lying, racist, sexist, hypocrite since he took the airwaves as an 'entertainer', why is LGF taking issue, now. I applaud it, just wondering what the straw was.
Don't you people get sarcasm?
Its all tongue in cheek.
Satire of the highest order.
Rush is colorblind.
He is not racist why he even lets a black guy work for him.
/
Sure, his whole formula for success is that he keeps those victim feelings stoked.
The Hell of it is, is that this controversy about being dropped from the bid group will actually help Rush-I would bet anything that his ratings have spiked this week with all the publicity he's getting.
The Hell of it is, is that this controversy about being dropped from the bid group will actually help Rush-I would bet anything that his ratings have spiked this week with all the publicity he's getting.
I don't think that's right.
This was a really public rebuke from really successful people.
It's one thing when your battling your enemies (real or imagined) and get beat.
It's another when people who are supposed to be your allies publicly abandon you in the face of relatively weak pressure.
Rush has been openly race baiting ever since a black man was elected president. When you lay the quotes out like that, the quotes of the last 9 months, it's really damning. He is a yoke around the neck of every Republican. Until he is no longer their default standard bearer and kingmaker, Republicans will not be a serious party in America.
I agree with Dark Falcon - Savage seems to drink his own Koolaid. He goes on rants about Muslims that are beyond the pale. Rush has always discerned the 'good ones' from the enemy, and never delved into Islamic religious minutae.
Savage rants about random nonsense that cannot possibly be good for business - like his dietary theories, how autism is a big scam by (in part) lazy feminist women who can't be bothered to discipline their own kids. In short, Rush has a problematic record, but Savage is worse.
You can squint your eyes and turn your head just right, and see how "Barrack the magic negro" could be intended to expose racist paternalistic left wing attitudes rather than be racist itself, though it remains exceedingly ham-fisted.
The problem with this is that for years Rush himself has made a mantra out of the phrase, "words mean things". The inference one draws is that Rush is fully aware of the immense amount of baggage the word "negro" carries today. For those not following along, the word fell into disrepute during the Civil Rights movement in the 60s, and using it today (in my opinion) intentionally conjures up images of an extremely ugly period of recent American history.
You're the only one in this thread who is using the word "shocking."
The quotes actually are "racist and/or race-baiting, verified, cited and attributed."
[A]ny Drive-By Media outlet that relies on Media Matters in the future has got to admit that they're relying on a Hillary Clinton front group for news. --Rush Limbaugh, October 2, 2007
Rush Limbaugh says inflammatory things on the radio, that's for sure.
[A]ny Drive-By Media outlet that relies on Media Matters in the future has got to admit that they're relying on a Hillary Clinton front group for news.
--Rush Limbaugh, October 2, 2007
After 21 years' occasional listening, I think he is not racist, but will do race baiting when it gets him what he wants, then play nice again when it gets him what he wants. He is a race mercenary.
Some of his rants can be excused as painfully naive and shallow, but not racist. Some rants can be excused as attempted witty political commentary with racist trappings, but ultimately not racist in intent - kind of the way Disney used swastikas and Nazi buffoons in anti-Nazi propaganda. You can squint your eyes and turn your head just right, and see how "Barrack the magic negro" could be intended to expose racist paternalistic left wing attitudes rather than be racist itself, though it remains exceedingly ham-fisted. The problem is how long can you make excuses for him until you see the underlying trend?
In my honest opinion a race mercenary and a racist are operationally identical, and it serves little purpose to attempt explanation by way of a concurrent motive of financial gain. Do we look back at someone like Father Charles Edward Coughlin any less harshly because he was also in it for the money?
It wasn't a good one. Just a loser equating Rush Limbaugh and Anita Dunn. He clearly did not understand the situation and did not want to.
Oh, lame. Happy to miss ones like that. I'm learning most flounces aren't as funny as I would imagine, they're just kind of sad. You have to have a good sense of humor at LGF. Most founcers don't.
That's one of the best descriptions of Rush's schtick I've read. The Magic Negro bit he does is an excellent example. It's a bit like Fox (and just about every local news outlet) telling us how horrible some sex scandal is but showing us over and over again the salacious pictures to drive the point home. There's a legitimate point to the story but come on now.
I'm not sure Rush is a racist - although as keloyd has pointed out - that really is not the point. I am however 100 percent convinced that he is a misogynist which has bothered me to no end. There's a reason he has been divorced three times. His dismissiveness of women is obnoxious.
...a race mercenary and a racist are operationally identical, and it serves little purpose to attempt explanation...
I agree on the first part, disagree on the second. There are many colors in the racist rainbow. If his corporate bosses, other pundits, or political big shots want to use him/exploit him/neuter him/ostrasize him, one must first get in his head.
A smart right wing pundit would go out of his way to critisize Obama and the left but not tick off right-of-center black listeners. If he is acting rationally, he must believe it is in his interest to sacrifice a pawn to save a rook, as it were. If he benefits from more rabid wingnuts, he will do act more racist. If his sponsors tire of his nonsense, he will tone it down again. I see Rush as a modern Strom Thurmond. Ol' Strom was progressive on race issues in the 30s, then figured out he could get more fame and glory with race baiting, then in his old age, when his black constituents could vote, finally made an apparently genuine attempt to evolve and earn their respect. Both the racism and good behavior were species of self-interest for Strom - likewise for Rushbo.
His bigotry has been on display for years...
His nuance is now comin’ into play...
I had been accustomed to vote for Republicans more frequently than for Democrats, but I was never a Republican and never a Democrat. In the community, I was regarded as a Republican, but I had never so regarded myself. As early as 1865 or '66 I had had this curious experience: that whereas up to that time I had considered myself a Republican, I was converted to a no-party independence by the wisdom of a rabid Republican. This was a man who was afterward a United States Senator, and upon whose character rests no blemish that I know of, except that he was the father of the William R. Hearst of to-day, and therefore grandfather of Yellow Journalism - that calamity of calamities.
- Autobiographical dictation, January 24, 1906
So is this the Genn Beck rule of racism? If you accuse someone of being a racist and they are not racist, then you are a racist? I am starting to think that the definition of racism is more like pornography, you know it when you see it. I no longer trust anyone who identifies themself an expert on racism.
I'd say Rush is as racist or bigoted as Jackson, Shaprton, Gates, Obama and Sotomayor. All have race based ideologies that are presented through the message they speak or actions they do. People don't have to come out and call someone a N or honky or whatever to be classed as a racist or bigot.
I'm glad you went to the effort to put all of this in one place Charles. It's going to be much harder for his disciples to deny with such a compendium available. While many of these folks will defend him evne in light of all this evidence, the truly sad thing is, I suspect many of them have no real issues with the quotes in the first place.
One thing is certain, the Limbaugh vs. Sharpton civil suit will be very fun to watch, if it happens. They are of similar depth, similar skeletons in their closets if you correct for their demographics. Even their weight has gone up and down dramatically. Rush is nearly deaf; Sharpton can talk really loud. They are carnival mirror images of each other.
For the low brow crowd - make a bizarro reference; for the latte sipping erudite chattering classes, they are Napoleon and Pilkington.
That's your first comment since March, 2008. What "real issues" are you waiting for? We've had an election, and a few other things have happened since then...
I'm glad you went to the effort to put all of this in one place Charles. It's going to be much harder for his disciples to deny with such a compendium available. While many of these folks will defend him evne in light of all this evidence, the truly sad thing is, I suspect many of them have no real issues with the quotes in the first place.
I can't take credit for the whole list -- if you follow the first link in my post (before the blockquote) you'll see where it originally appeared.
Here's an example from the office of Devil's Advocacy. Donovan McNabb's performance was very mediocre when Rush made his infamous comments. We have the benefit of history to know he improved a great deal later. It is likely that McNabb was criticized by other commentators a bit more gently than a white quarterback with the same performance to date. Keith Olbermann could have made the same observation about his mediocrity and the lack of black quarterbacks, with a more gentle choice of words, and got away with it. Rush had enemies who were looking for excuses to pounce, and Rush himself chose his words in a way that could be interpreted as insensitive, racist, crypto-racist, or merely blunt. Still, the totality of his record speaks for itself.
20% of the quotes on Charles' list can be excused as bluntness or something other than racism, but for the fact that Rush's list is sooo long. This is why courts allow circumstantial evidence. Each bit can be explained away. The thing as a whole still paints a clear picture.
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