re: #874 LudwigVanQuixote

He said in a non sarcastic tone multiple times….

He has also said, for example, “in a non sarcastic tone multiple times” that he has seen the light and joined the Democratic Party - for ALL 3 hours of his show, never giving the slightest hint at what he was getting at - to the point where people were going insane over his announcement. It was to make a point. Period.
He was calling out the media, pop culture -anyone that has contributed to the ‘the world will change when ‘the one’ becomes POTUS nonsense. If he has issues with Obama its based on issues/policy - not that hes ‘black’.He has always been of the mind that being ‘black’ doesn’t get you points not does it, or should it, take away points. COLOR BLIND. Get it ? He has also stated that ‘blacks’ have been insulted and demeaned by the ‘they need help because (because they aren’t white like us) mentality of many Libs. Actually race has been a ‘non issue’ on his show in that he has never ID’d anyone he’s been associated with as ‘black’ or ‘white’ (except for maybe the experiment with Snerdly
doing the news - and I don’t think IIRC it was Rushs idea).Anyhow, his guests/guest hosts have been accomplished people ‘from the black community’ (not his words). Would a true racist ever allow a ‘black’ man to marry he and his wife ? Would a man use his wedding day as a ‘stunt’ to ‘prove’ how ‘accepting’ he is of ‘da blacks’ ? Surely there would be other ways… and yes, I know ‘closet racists’, racists who are guarded in their views etc. but no one would have called him a racist for having a ‘white’ man marry ‘em,so why do it ? For the audience ?
C’mon. And I can’t ell you how uncomfortable this is writing this - it absolutely sux to even bring these things up but I don’t know what else to say, how to prove a negative ? Please don’t lecture me how racists come in all varieties - he did this just because…etc. I’m NOT naive. My entire life has been devoted to helping minorities in need. I know all about racists, racism…name it, been there, met them, fought them, demonstrated against them. This is why
I’m so emotional about this story.
If I haven’t already said this…
I openly listened to the clip. I’ve not listened to Rush for approx a year. I’m old enough to know ANYONE can go off the deep end. If he has I wouldn’t know about it - I just recognize his trademark dead pan, sarcastic humor and this sounds typical for him. The only wink and nod going on is between him and the audience that knows the point he is making - and its NOT to a ‘racist’ audience.The only ‘baiting’ he’s doing is to get someone that’s either ignorant, naive or truly racist (no matter their pol. affiliation I might add) to call in and debate him. Period end of story. If you listened to the entire show you
might have discovered their was an angle you missed about this story or that your thoughts on the story were corrupted by ‘spin’ orslanted reporting. If he’s good at anything he’s good at seeing all the angles. It’s in his nature, he si very good at stripping away the BS and getting to the essence of a story/situation etc. What I really liked about him is he would withhold his insights to a given story, ask some thought provoking questions and then field phone calls and let the audience ‘have at it’.By the end of the show he’d share his observations and quite often I found he’d thought of an angle that had never occurred to me. Beats the hell out of listening to what passes for music these days on the car radio. I believe his father was a judge and I know his brother is a lawyer - some traits run in families.
* I should add that I’m talking about the ‘personality’ Rush The way of the world is we should expect a ‘tell all’ book from one of his ex’s stating he preferred taking the pillow case off his pillow and wearing it over his head when they made love. 9/11 was a ‘wake up call’, and so was the ‘OJ Simpson story’. ‘Nuff.