Rush: Steinbrenner a “Cracker” who Helped Blacks and fired a lot of white people.

I wonder if Rush applies the same logic to himself. Does he think he made himself rich through his own hard work and talents, or that the guy signing his checks made him rich?

 

His response is that he was ridiculing the Black Panther Party and was only joking:

http://www.mediaite.com/online/rush...comments-were-absurd-to-illustrate-absurdity/

"On his radio program yesterday, Rush Limbaugh took a segment to sing the praises of the recently deceased George Steinbrenner, a “cracker who made a lot of African-American millionaires.” It didn’t take long for Al Sharpton to call for an apology and liberal websites to go on the offensive, and now Limbaugh tells Yahoo News’ Michael Calderone that the fact that he is being attacked for this is a sign of “how bad things are for the left.”

Limbaugh explained to Calderone, who reached out for comment on the matter, that his intention– and his “stock in trade”– is “illustrating the absurd by being absurd,” and that the use of the term “cracker” (and retelling of his help to African Americans around him) was, in essence, an attempt to ridicule the New Black Panther Party:

“In the past two weeks, the President of the NBPP, Malik Zulu Shabazz, has been in the media attacking white crackers. One of the NBPP members from the Philly incident, King Samir Shabazz, appeared at a rally and suggested that blacks would only be free when all the crackers were dead and further said that killing cracker babies was called for [...]

So…George Steinbrenner dies and I, being absurd to illustrate absurdity, make my comments, pointing out that this cracker created many African American MILLIONAIRES (and fired a bunch of white managers) to establish HIS CRED!!!”

He also takes a shot at Media Matters, who he admits actually “does listen” to his show, but “purposefully distort the things I say” and then spread the distortion to reporters who “print the erroneous take.” Vice President of Research & Communications Ari Rabin-Havt responded by arguing that “Rush just hates that his abhorrent remarks are now available to those not in his listening audience.”

It seems like his comments were, as many on his program are, deliberately baiting the other side to take offense, but it is strange to see Limbaugh so frankly admit that he was intending to be absurd, rather than standing by his words as serious in order to further infuriate (or, as he says in the email, make the left “pretend to be offended” by his “clever” comments) the other side.

Calderone has published the full email he received from Limbaugh to avoid taking Limbaugh out of context over at Yahoo , where Limbaugh explains he appreciation for Steinbrenner in detail"

 

Dave Winfield who he gave a 'crazy' at the time contract.
Daryl Strawberry who nobody wanted in baseball anymore that he gave multiple chances to.
Doc Gooden (see above)
Tony Womack
Chris Chambliss
Cecil Fielder
Derek Jeter
CC Sabathia

 

Sabathia wasn't really signed outside of market value - he got a similar amount to Santana. Womack got $2MM a year in the mid 2000's, which is not out really there. Fielder got traded to the Yankees and was never signed as a FA by them. Jeter certainly fits. He won a bunch of World Series and was the face of the franchise so he had extra value for them, and the Yankees did the same for him as what happened with Ryan Howard, Jeff Bagwell, and Joe Mauer. Gooden actually took less money to play for the Yankees - Florida offered him more. Strawberry was a reclamation project, but they mostly signed him to minor league deals - it was never high end money.

But regardless, that's still a handful of players in 25 years that he made millionaires - some of whom would have still been millionaires anyway, but just a bit less rich elsewhere. That makes Rush's statement technically true, but also the case for basically every owner in sports.

 

Besides, Strawberry and Gooden got Yankee deals not because they were black, but because they were ex-Mets. GS would have loved for one of them to recapture the glory and rub it in the noses of the Mets.

 

rush trolled you good

 

His screener would let her talk to him hes a coward and stupid.

 

What he said wasn't racist - but it is eye-brow raising and seems to be indicative of some pejorative views that he is not discussing. There's a lot of innuendo going on there. Not about G.S. but what Rush is saying is that the blacks got "hand-outs" while the hard working whites got "fired". There's that feeling.

Still, you can't call him a racist for it, this isn't controversial in my opinion.

 

Its sad he has millions of listeners ...the losers who claim racism is dead. SMH

 

hilarious, people defending the comments and he admits they were meant to be asburd

 

The term cracker was absurd.

 

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oh, it is.. just not to the ignorant.