Actually there is plenty to make the case against him that aren't listed there. The fact that he played Magic Negro song would be one. The fact that he continued to hype an incident where black youths beat a white one as racial motivation and claim it was a vision of Barack's America even though it was determined by police that the beating didn't have any racial motive. The fact that Rush said something racist in the 70's but hasn't ever apologized for it, doesn't somehow make it insignificant or discount it. Also the 4th one is actually racist.
"Halfrican American " doesn't bother you? <object type="application/x-shockwave-flash" data="http://cloudfront.mediamatters.org/static/flash/player.swf" height="20" width="280"> <param name="flashvars" value="file=http://mediamatters.org/static/audio/limbaugh-20070124-obama.mp3&autostart=false"> <!--<![endif]--> <p><strong>Please upgrade your flash player.</strong> The audio for this item requires a newer version of <a href="http://www.adobe.com/go/getflashplayer">Flash Player</a>. If you are unable to install flash you can download a <a href="http://mediamatters.org/static/audio/limbaugh-20070124-obama.mp3" class="vid_link">MP3</a> version of the audio. <!--[if !IE]>--> </p></object><a style="left: 413px ! important; top: 137.35px ! important;" title="Click here to block this object with Adblock Plus" class="ltxpfnsxutemgamspsdf ibymqcaupqsuelsgrkxd" href="http://cloudfront.mediamatters.org/static/flash/player.swf"></a><a class="ltxpfnsxutemgamspsdf" href="http://cloudfront.mediamatters.org/static/flash/player.swf"></a> <!--<![endif]--> </object> Get it? Halle Berry and the president are each half an American, because they were born to white mothers and black fathers. I'll leave it up to you to decide which race Limbaugh considers un-American.
You are ascribing the "half an american" part. It is clearly a pun based on their biracial status and nothing more.
Because a minority, particularly a minority that votes monolithicly and won't like you no matter what you say or do, is not worth pandering to. "Who the hell cares", he is talking about caring in a political sense. Why care or worry about the political reaction from a group that is a relative minority and is unpersuadable in the first place.
Whitlock calling someone out for being racist is like me calling out someone for smoking cigarettes. Whitlock has a knack for invoking race into non-race issues. he is a self-serving ass clown who makes audacious statements to garner attention....just like Limbaugh. and I'm a Kansas City Chiefs fan. F* Jason Whitlock.
Descriptively the term is accurate, Obama and Berry both have white parents. Not sure what's racist about pointing it out. If anything it's a mockery of the African-American label, which is a silly PC way of calling someone black. Anyone who listens to Rush regularly knows he isn't racist. It's really weak to take some marginally controversial quotes about race and extrapolate that as being racist. Read Obama's books and his thoughts on typical white people and white culture.
Yes, I'm listening to the words that spill from Limbaugh's mouth. He does go on and on about his golden-voiced, golden-microphoned "excellence" in broadcasting, no? Given that he is paid for his oratory, I don't think it exceptional to criticize him based on his choices of phrase. You are contorting yourself, pretzel-like, in extending serious benefits to some well-earned doubt. What about out-and-out racist slurs (40 seconds in)? <param name="movie" value="http://cloudfront.mediamatters.org/static/flash/player.swf"> <param name="flashvars" value="file=http://mediamatters.org/static/audio/limbaugh-200508180006.mp3&autostart=false"> <!--[if !IE]>--> <object type="application/x-shockwave-flash" data="http://cloudfront.mediamatters.org/static/flash/player.swf" height="20" width="280"> <param name="flashvars" value="file=http://mediamatters.org/static/audio/limbaugh-200508180006.mp3&autostart=false"> <!--<![endif]--> <p><strong>Please upgrade your flash player.</strong> The audio for this item requires a newer version of <a href="http://www.adobe.com/go/getflashplayer">Flash Player</a>. If you are unable to install flash you can download a <a href="http://mediamatters.org/static/audio/limbaugh-200508180006.mp3" class="vid_link">MP3</a> version of the audio. <!--[if !IE]>--> </p></object><a style="left: 413px ! important; top: 335.933px ! important;" title="Click here to block this object with Adblock Plus" class="ltxpfnsxutemgamspsdf ibymqcaupqsuelsgrkxd" href="http://cloudfront.mediamatters.org/static/flash/player.swf"></a><a class="ltxpfnsxutemgamspsdf" href="http://cloudfront.mediamatters.org/static/flash/player.swf"></a> <!--<![endif]--> </object> Or is that, too, meant to be taken ironically? Let me guess: every time Limbaugh says something outrageously racist, he's really only joshing, and the listener should be in on the joke? And all the rest of the time, he's to be taken as a serious prognosticator of politics and all of that which affects the body politic?
aghast is not talking about racism.. he's talking about somehow rush is using HALFrican AMERICAN to label someone as un-american
So... it's clear that he's meaning something completely other than what he is actually saying in the first instance, but it's a huge leap to think that he could be doing that in the other? Who's the pretzel again?
Instances in which it's possible to use the racial slur, "Injun," and not be considered racist: 1. a revival of the middle school play, "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer" 2. 3. ???
Being insensitive to racial slurs doesn't necessarily make you a racist, but it does point towards the much lesser offense of dumbassery.
I tend toward the former explanation (there's probably a causal link between the two), but all right. If Limbaugh himself isn't racist, I think he certainly tailors certain segments of his radio program to allaying the fears (usually, in his "[Black Person(s) X] won't make me bend over and grab my ankles" recurring homosexual panic motif) of the racist portion of his audience. He's been in overdrive on that front with the rise of Obama. Even if he only objects to Obama only on a political level, he certainly plays up the racial angle to (likely) throw red meat to a certain segment of his aggrieved white audience. Whatever it takes for ratings, I guess.
For a wealthy man with presumably tight security and several heavily armed bodyguards, the man spends a lot of his time voicing concerns over being forcibly sodomized. <object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/tVeoUKyaaD8&hl=en&fs=1&start=37"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/tVeoUKyaaD8&hl=en&fs=1&start=37" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object> Thinkprogress: In fairness, you're correct, it's not just black people. He imagines pretty much everyone performing the deed, both to himself and others: http://www.google.com/search?q=limbaugh+grab+ankles&ie=UTF-8
Which is slightly racist in itself. It's ascribing the idea that blacks are too stupid to vote in their interest and will only vote for Democrats. This of course ignores the fact that the most recent Republican President had the gall to put a blatant racist in charge of the civil rights division of the Justice department, amongst other things. Why should anyone vote for a party that makes a mockery of the civil rights movement by appointing racists like Schlozman, and Tanner to the civil rights and Justice Department? Sorry, Rush has said racist things. Again I bring to the forefront the fact that he delighted in playing the Magic Negro song.
Who the hell are you to decide how a group prefers to be called? What gives you the right to decide it's silly? What gives the white Rush Limbaugh the right to decide that communities he isn't a part of, and has no idea about, should or shouldn't address themselves.
I don't want rush to buy the team so people will stop talking about it. The less Rush enters my mind, the fewer headaches I have.
Rush has over several years antagonized people using bully tactics to make it seem as he and his ilk are the victims. The truth is those who does not relate can never understand. Those who have no compassion refuse to understand. After years of going after Sharpton and Jackson saying they use the race card he has used the race card way more in recent years with no validity to his claim. Comments like "Barack the magic negro, black kids are attacking whites so they need to put them on lockdown and blacks want to take over the country" are unjustified and he should be put in his places for what he is. Rush is simply a man who wrote some checks that his ass have to cash.
