It doesn't matter to me if you do or don't. And they're not charges; they're facts. Limbaugh, Nugent, Coulter, Sowell, Hagee. You mounted spirited, pretzel logic defenses of each of them. You make a hobby of defending bigots. Not a charge, a fact. Everybody on this board has seen the proof.
A bigot is in the eye of the beholder. And then you have to ask yourself: what is giddyup defending? Their alleged bigotry... or something else? Yeah, Thomas Sowell is a particularly disgusting bigot...
Sure I agree victimization does occur. Do you then agree that others have been victimized before too or do you only cry victimization when you think it is Rush Limbaugh being victimized by the unions and African Americans? Are you saying then that Rush should sue so he can have his day in court?
i find it hilarious that giddyup got his panties in a wad for me making a joke about his wife's looks, but can spend a weekend crying over rush actually having to suffer a consequence of his 20 years of offensive radio talk. giddyup, why didn't you defend me to such lengths?
Deep down I kind of wish Rush was able to buy a team so I could focus all my hatred on them and laugh as they suck total butt.
can someone pull up a clip of rush limbaugh saying "this is george bush's america!!" after four white men beat up a black man in 1991? we all know that there are some companies that use myspace and facebook to assist in the screening of potential employees. i'm sure giddyup is disgusted by this act.
That really gets to the heart of it. It's not so much that he defends bigots and hate mongers (though that is bad); it's that he defends only bigots and hate mongers. People who say the most hateful, offensive stuff they can think of. And then, after championing those who make money offending entire races of people, when someone says something that he takes personally, he gets all sensitive. He loves those who dish hate, but he can't take the mildest rebuke himself.
It is strange that he defends those people, but I think there is a possible reason other than he just loves those folks. I think sometimes in groups somebody has to fill the role of taking the other side. It's not that it is even a conscious effort on his part. He decides there should be somebody to balance it out, and automatically his mind goes into overdrive trying to find ways to rationalize what these people do. Possibly in addition or instead of this, he is taken back by the fact that on initially hearing or reading the comments he didn't have the same adverse reaction to them that others have. It may be that he just wasn't absorbing the meaning of those things, but once it was pointed out to him, he felt that by admitting the articles, comments, and communications by these people were indeed offensive, there might be a problem with why he wasn't offended in the first place. Rather than deal with that possibility his mind switches into defend and rationalize at all costs mode. I think one or both of those things may be going on, and it's all subconscious and not anything that giddy could explain right now, without a lot more reflection, because he isn't aware that it's happening. Just a possibility given my extensive pshych 101, and sociology 101 classes when I was back in college. The thing I find most disturbing is the "but I have black friends" defense to racism that he always uses. Ted Nugent played music with black people so calling people wetbacks couldn't possibly be racist. Rush had a whole 2 black people support him, so Rush couldn't possibly be racist. That kind of defense of racism has been laughable for so long, that I couldn't believe giddy actually used it. People said that for ages, so much so that it was openly mocked on network television as ridiculous on sitcoms during the 70's and 80's. If it was known to be ludicrous to society in general back then, it's troubling that it would be used now in a serious manner by giddyup.
it's really like saying "I don't have skin cancer, because look at my right forearm -- no abnormal skin cells there, right?!"
I didn't start this thread. I just jumped in when the childish accusations and name-calling started flying. Who is Rush going to sue... and for what? His partners dropped him before any formal action was taken. Somewhere i read that Rush claims to have been vetted by the league before all this broke. So are the inmates running the asylum?
I don't wear panties and my boxers are draping just fine. I'm crying over nothing. I'm trying to have a discussion about the merits of someone that many of you think doesn't deserve that consideration. You all are so busy condemning Rush that you don't even notice that half the tripe you bring up has had its validity questioned.
Googrux insulted my wife on this board. Now who is going to defend that decision really? It is/was/will be inappropriate everytime. How can I not take that personally; wouldn't you? Rush rides all over the ass of people like Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton. They are public figures. My wife is not and I am not. Rush has never offended an entire race of people. Do you just make this stuff up? Well, I'm not going to let it just go by. Rush champions anyone of any skin color who achieves on their own effort. Laughing at goofballs like Jesse Jackson or Al Sharpton does not make him a racist. Those guys have non-supporters in the black community as well.
Wrong. Rush has insulted a whole a race. Also Jesse Jackson certainly has achieved on his own effort. If you think Jackson didn't put in massive effort during the civil rights movement and earlier in his career, you don't know the history. Maybe that's because you listen to the BS of people like Rush.
Can I see the evidence of Rush insulting an entire race? Jesse Jackson has always been an opportunist. Did you read the stuff last week about the other MLK supporters holding him at arm's length over the years because of the self-serving aggrandizement he offers... such as claiming that he held MLK's head in his arms when he died. That was, apparently, patently untrue. It was reported that he wasn't even on the same floor that King was on when shot. When is he going to cut Barack's nuts off?
