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Limbaugh: His ‘Call for Segregation’ Was Made in JestPosted on Sep 18, 2009
Conservative radio behemoth Rush Limbaugh took to the airwaves Friday to refute reports that he had called for racial segregation the previous day while commenting on a school bus brawl between black and white teenagers. Limbaugh argued that he had been joking and that liberals with “no sense of humor” had recast his sarcastic riff in a literal light. Hmmmm. —KA
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By suciocabrone, January 10, 2010 at 6:47 pm Link to this comment
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Why does anyone listen to this closet queen draft dodger. He got out of military service because of…drum roll please…an ASSSORE? LMAO
Report thisBy Paracelsus, September 19, 2009 at 10:55 pm Link to this comment
Rush should be segregated…
Rush should be well medicated. He has all the money in the world to build a first class opium hookah. I think there is enough opium in the world to sweeten him into lovable passive blob of jelly. He comes with his own fortune, so he will be able to pay out his own disability payments. We could pass a law in Congress that would only legalize opiates for Rush. Why not?
Report thisBy Outraged, September 19, 2009 at 10:39 pm Link to this comment
Re: rollzone
Your comment: ” I want to live. globalists can attack instead of defend globalism; but I need the liberties and freedoms to pursue my happiness and enrich my soul to progress peacefully in my galactic spiritual habitat, in a multiverse of future dimensions. globalists need to go home. i am way further out there than they want to explore: in our America. Mr. Limbaugh has proven he is capable of defending himself. it is a trend toward obfuscating global objectives that need full disclosure: to allow a public format to decide on the direction of its global politics; and define what are American interests. this is not unspeakable territory: where discussion and debate should not influence government policy. maybe globalists don’t exist. nut job on the rant. never mind.”
Specifically this portion of your comment, (among others) “i am way further out there than they want to explore: in our America. Mr. Limbaugh has proven he is capable of defending himself. it is a trend toward obfuscating global objectives that need full disclosure”
While I can agree that you are “way further out there” than in MY OPINION most of AMERICA dares to venture (lol). This has absolutely NO BEARING UPON THE CURRENT STATE OF AFFAIRS.
You claim, that “Mr. Limbaugh has proven he is capable of defending himself.”
I disagree. I believe…. and it has been shown, that Mr. Limbaugh LIES and is also backed by MONIED INTERESTS. Your claim of Rush being “able to hold his own” (paraphrased) is BS of the Nth degree. Rush is a LIAR, a FRAUD and eschews the mantra of monied interests….again, again and again. He is Anti-American. America is about a REPRESENTATIVE DEMOCRACY…. Rush is not about that at all. He’s nothing more than a hack of phenomenal proportions.
What a joke. America finds Limbaugh distasteful, that would be my kindhearted, supposition. I won’t tell you where that “stokie” ought to be permanently lodged.
Report thisBy archeon of thrace, September 19, 2009 at 9:01 pm Link to this comment
Rush should be segregated…
Report thisBy Paracelsus, September 19, 2009 at 7:22 pm Link to this comment
Parcelsus you are exactly right. Obama is a bookend to Bush, leading the Dems to continue the Gop policies the Bushites initiated.
Thank you. Sometimes I feel as confused as Prisoner #6 in the Village, whenever the new #2 tries out a new mouse maze.
Report thisBy Dave, September 19, 2009 at 5:50 pm Link to this comment
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Just once I would like to see one of you idiots actually listen to the part of Rush’s show that is discussed.
Report thisBy Folktruther, September 19, 2009 at 3:47 pm Link to this comment
Parcelsus you are exactly right. Obama is a bookend to Bush, leading the Dems to continue the Gop policies the Bushites initiated.
Report thisBy ardee, September 19, 2009 at 3:15 pm Link to this comment
rollzone, September 19 at 3:07 pm
Please take pity on your readers and use paragraphs….
Report thisBy Sofia Sanchez, September 19, 2009 at 1:19 pm Link to this comment
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It seems that every time we turn around, we have to dissect words and put it into a different meaning, whether it be Obama or Limbaugh, and then we call it “news”. Isn’t it more important to discuss the big issues, not the petty comments? I, in no way, like or accept what Limbaugh says, but I am smart enough to look beyond all of the rumors and BS that we call news and study the bigger issues.
Report thisBy Paracelsus, September 19, 2009 at 1:13 pm Link to this comment
Limbaugh is doing well to shine up the halo of the current regime in power. Meanwhile nothing has been done about the prior administration’s abuses. The current regime seems intent to ratify what is unconstitutional and unethical into its mode of operation.
http://yournetwork.tv/expose_bush.php
Report thisBy Folktruther, September 19, 2009 at 12:27 pm Link to this comment
Actually Martha is essentially right, always allowing for her caps, bold face type, and her inimitable style. Limbaugh is a dangerous propagandist to the right wing dingbats, instilling support for White racism. This racism is led on the edge of Gops by Buchanan, who leads the isolationist wing of the paleoconservatives.
But Buchanan was raised as a Franco fascist and his form of isolationism is not possible without a White Christian police state to replace the low intensity war diversion. Limbargher, etc, are strengthening this wing, which is anti-semitic racism, as opposed to the neozinist racism of both political parties.
Report thisBy rollzone, September 19, 2009 at 12:07 pm Link to this comment
hello. i do not listen to Mr. Limbaugh, but i did many years ago. i am familiar with his facetious humor, so when i was directed to his home page! and read the transcript, i was astonished at how poorly it read; but i could in my mind hear it coming from his presentation voice, and get the sarcastic point he was trying to make. it is my opinion he is being attacked by globalists. there are globalists determined to undermine our government, to establish global laws that will leave us at their mercy, and the racist issue is one of many tactics being implemented to wage a war against the moral institutions of our nation. Mr. Limbaugh is characterized as one of the leaders of opposition to the globalists, along with talk radio; and Fox news: where the globalists have been losing their power of influence (the Internet is also facing regulatory ‘reform’). this verbiage by Mr. Limbaugh being spun into a personal attack, is one of many attacks to discredit powerful opposition to the globalists whom are attempting to subjugate the American Constitution to a new world order. last week’s peaceful march on Washington D.C., has demonstrated to the media controllers that: they do not control talk radio, they do not want to appear on Fox news, and they want to do something to control freedom of speech on the Internet; because that many people is too much opposition to get what they want done. discredit the talk show hosts (and lesson their audience), keep the public separated (against itself), and spin every argument around against the opposition- because they can not publicly support their own objectives. full disclosure may or may not support their cause, so they will not risk defeat by illuminating the public. yes i am a conspiracy theorist: and my conspiracy is for full disclosure, because i can not achieve this on my own. i like living under the Constitution of this D.R. of these U.S. of A., and i will not allow global interests to integrate my government into their vision of existence. the spirit of our foundation is the life (paid in blood) I want to live. globalists can attack instead of defend globalism; but I need the liberties and freedoms to pursue my happiness and enrich my soul to progress peacefully in my galactic spiritual habitat, in a multiverse of future dimensions. globalists need to go home. i am way further out there than they want to explore: in our America. Mr. Limbaugh has proven he is capable of defending himself. it is a trend toward obfuscating global objectives that need full disclosure: to allow a public format to decide on the direction of its global politics; and define what are American interests. this is not unspeakable territory: where discussion and debate should not influence government policy. maybe globalists don’t exist. nut job on the rant. never mind.
Report thisBy MarthaA, September 19, 2009 at 11:54 am Link to this comment
Patrick Henry,
Charles Manson controlled his girls in like manner as FOX, Rush Limbaugh, Glen Beck, Sean Hannity, Bill O’Reilly, Newt Gingrich, et al, and didn’t actually do the dirty work——but his girls did——Charles Manson was put in prison; what the Right-Wing Conservative EXTREMIST Republican Movement is doing is the same thing for a much different purpose—POWER to the Right-Wing Conservative EXTREMIST Republicans. Can you imagine what Charles Manson could have done if he had had the use of mass media and the resources of the American Aristocracy? If the application of “the science of human behavior” can put Charles Manson in prison for CRIMINAL ACTION, then it would also seem reasonable that the application of “the science of human behavior” should be expected to put the Right-Wing Conservative EXTREMIST Republicans in prison for their ORGANIZED sophist propangadistic CRIMINAL behavior that is threatening the National Security of the United States.
Report thisBy MarthaA, September 19, 2009 at 11:52 am Link to this comment
Patrick Henry,
Charles Manson controlled his girls in like manner as FOX, Rush Limbaugh, Glen Beck, Sean Hannity, Bill O’Reilly, Newt Gingrich, et al, and didn’t actually do the dirty work——but his girls did——Charles Manson was put in prison; what the Right-Wing Conservative EXTREMIST Republican Movement is doing is the same thing for a much different purpose—POWER to the Right-Wing Conservative EXTREMIST Republicans.
Can you imagine what Charles Manson could have done if he had had the use of mass media and the resources of the American Aristocracy? If the application of “the science of human behavior” can put Charles Manson in prison for CRIMINAL ACTION, then it would also seem reasonable that the application of “the science of human behavior” should be expected to put the Right-Wing Conservative EXTREMIST Republicans in prison for their ORGANIZED sophist propangadistic CRIMINAL behavior that is threatening the National Security of the United States.
Report thisBy Woody, September 19, 2009 at 9:44 am Link to this comment
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Fat Freddy wrote: ...I doubt the uneducated, college dropout even knows the difference. And neither does his audience.
The angry, white, uneducated drop-outs ARE his audience…
Report thisBy PatrickHenry, September 19, 2009 at 8:36 am Link to this comment
Rush is a sensationalist much like another shit talker Howard Stern, just another venue.
There are people who hang on every word awaiting the next audacious comment. At a certain point in the brain washing the listener begins to associate with the blatherer.
Report thisBy Rodger Lemonde, September 19, 2009 at 8:28 am Link to this comment
Rush is scarier than Beck. In the clips you can see
Report thishim editing himself as he speaks for maximum effect,
calculating what will stir his audience. His goal is
to build enthusiasm for his drivel.
Beck follows his bullet points and embellishes with
theatrical flourishes in the moment. Glenn is seeking
approval, he knows that some detest him but the
unconditional adoration of those who buy his brand is
what drives him.
The cynic and the hand wringer, both are dangerous.
Care to take bets on which will be still operating
five years from now?
By MarthaA, September 19, 2009 at 8:21 am Link to this comment
Saying Limbaugh’s politically racial statements were made in jest is like saying Charles Ponzi saying that his claims, when he was selling Florida swampland, were made in jest, and if you really think Limbaugh’s statements were made in jest, you need to visit the Pyramid Securities Corporation of Bernard Lawrence Madoff, #61727-054, Butner Medium I FCI, Old NC Highway 75, Butner, NC 27509 and see if you can get in on a deal.
Limbaugh, Beck, Gingrich, et al are hired by the Right-Wing CONSERVATIVE EXTREMIST Republicans for “organized political sophist propaganda” to stir up hate against the Liberals, against diversity, against the blacks, against the unions, against anything or anybody Liberal.
“ORGANIZED political sophistry” is an “ORGANIZED criminal propaganda enterprise”.
Organized political sophistry intentionally perpetrated by sophists bought by the RIGHT-WING CONSERVATIVE EXTREMIST REPUBLICAN PROPAGANDA MOVEMENT is an “organized criminal political sophist propaganda enterprise” that has been used to subvert the government of the United States, destroy the U.S. Economy and “borrow and spend” the United States into bankruptcy; these acts are “conspiratorial high felonious crimes”, and no amount of “organized sophist contention” will change the effects of these crimes upon the masses of the 70% MAJORITY COMMON POPULATION of the United States.
The organized sophists and propagandists of the RIGHT-WING CONSERVATIVE EXTREMIST REPUBLICAN POLITICAL PROPAGANDA MOVEMENT from Goldwater to Reagan, Bush I and Bush II and all of their organized sophist minions of the media’s propaganda echo-chamber and the cooperators that enabled the “organized sophist political propaganda agenda” that are the Democratic Leadership Council, DLC, of the Democratic Party are all complicit in an organized political sophist conspiracy by the RIGHT-WING CONSERVATIVE EXTREMIST REPUBLICAN SOPHIST PROPAGANDA MOVEMENT, that intentionally, over the past 40 years, have engaged in an “organized criminal political sophist propaganda enterprise” to subvert the government of the United States for their own greedy self-serving interests that is contrary to the best interest of the United States and the people of the United States, to leave the 70% MAJORITY COMMON POPULATION holding the bag to pay for the bankruptcy of the United States and “economic collapse” that the Right-Wing CONSERVATIVE EXTREMIST Republican sophists and DLC cooperators perpetrated for their own greedy self-interest; this use of “sophism and propaganda” was and is an “organized crime” and must be both recognized and punished as an “organized crime”, so that the use of organized sophist propaganda does not continue to recur against the people of the United States as what the RIGHT-WING CONSERVATIVE EXTREMIST REPUBLICANS sophistly term an “economic cycle” that is always against the best interest of the 70% MAJORITY Common Population.
Report thisBy Fat Freddy, September 19, 2009 at 7:58 am Link to this comment
Well, WTF is he? A political Satirist or a major leader of the Conservative movement? I doubt the uneducated, college dropout even knows the difference. And neither does his audience.
Report thisBy thelibertarian, September 19, 2009 at 7:52 am Link to this comment
The left/right, gop/dem, progressive/conservative ‘let them eat cake’ brawl is only bread and circuses. On booktv, I heard Chris and wanted to inform him… PBS also has a monopoly on news and many, many will only listen to PBS as others only listen to Rush.
Report thisAs the central planners grow in power and remove the options of the individual while ‘caring for us’, look for this rhetoric to move from jest to actual ‘elimination’ of one group or another.. all the central planning ‘ism’s end there.
More and more the seething anger tells me its going to be the ‘rich’ who are demonized and possibly ‘eliminated’ here in the US. Read ‘The Road to Serfdom’ readers’ digest version some time (its free online) and you will see the steps and how far we have moved down the road.
I’m scared for our future and that of my grandchildren.
By pikawicca, September 19, 2009 at 7:23 am Link to this comment
How about a boycott of this cretin’s sponsors?
Report thisBy Howie Bledsoe, September 19, 2009 at 7:23 am Link to this comment
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Here´s a novel idea. Lets segregate the right wing nuts from the rest of us. We can send them down south, and… oh, wait a minute…
Report thisHave we already done that??
By Jim Yell, September 19, 2009 at 7:04 am Link to this comment
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I saw the tape of the beating and it was very one sided. As to why the child was beaten I haven’t a clue, one article said it wasn’t racial, but a response to argument over seating. I also noticed that most if not all the black kids were cheering.
It appears to me that if the attack was unprovoked by the white kid, than he may, if he didn’t already feel hostile, to blacks, have a negative opinion now.
The biggest problem with this episode is the passiveness of the bus driver. If the bus driver doesn’t maintain order than it is time to hire a guard on each bus to keep order. No child, black or white should be set upon. I think the appauling thing about “Gush Limbaugh” is he has misdirected the conversation about the attack.
Report thisBy bogi666, September 19, 2009 at 7:03 am Link to this comment
He’s just a fat ass drug addict whose pre frontal brain lobes and its synapses have been damaged and he no longer has the ability to realize the human capacities which separate humans from the inferior life forms which he represents and caters to.
Report thisBy TheRealFish, September 19, 2009 at 5:59 am Link to this comment
It certainly seems a great way to educate Rush is if his mother were subjected to “enhanced interrogation” to find out how he came out so wrong—especially since he promotes how great a technique that is for getting reliable intel, Right?
Just kidding, Rushie!
Report thisBy Inherit The Wind, September 19, 2009 at 5:58 am Link to this comment
Limbaugh likes to hide behind the fact that most forget: He’s really nothing but an entertainer, whom idiots take seriously.
Whenever he puts his foot in his big, fat mouth he ALWAYS uses the defense that it was done in jest…Remember him imitating Michael J. Fox’s Parkinsonian twitching. Rush said Fox had deliberately not taken his meds to enhance the twitching, not realizing that the med CAUSES the twitching to prevent rigidity.
IF the Rethugs make it back in 2010, it will be solely because the Dems didn’t have the brains to stick a stake through the GOP’s racist, fascist heart, a stake Rush Limbaugh HANDED to them on a silver platter.
Report thisBy Tom Degan, September 19, 2009 at 5:30 am Link to this comment
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Why is so much hatred hurled toward President Obama? That’s a no-brainer!
He’s a Kenyan born Arab terrorist who wants to bring DEATH PANELS to this grand and glorious land of ours so he can pull the plugs on Granny and Gramps.
HE’S A LEFT WING SOCIALIST whose education was funded by the American Communist Party, MoveOn.Org, Barbara Streisand and Ed Asner.
He named his daughters Sasha and Malia - WHAT’S UP WITH THAT???
He would prefer to have dinner with Mahatma Gandhi over Ronald Reagan.
He wants to start a TROTSKY FOR TOTS program for our children.
He’s just an evil person!
EVIL, I TELL SAY!
The Big, Black, Bolshevik Bogeyman is gonna git’cha!
It has not a thing to do with race.
But seriously, folks….
http://www.tomdegan.blogspot.com
Tom Degan
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By John Hall, September 19, 2009 at 5:25 am Link to this comment
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Rush knew there was backlash coming, advertisers might
Report thisbail on his show, and as a way to cover his ass he
decides to tell everyone he was joking and that
liberals have no sense of humor? And you, Rush, have no
sense of decency.
By ardee, September 19, 2009 at 4:28 am Link to this comment
Limbaugh is, in the end, a symptom and not the sickness itself. In a healthy political climate the likes of he and Beck, O’Reilly and Savage, Hannity and the rest of the bottom feeding hate mongers couldn’t survive.
But we should not overlook the fact that there are many who call themselves Progressives, even Leftists, who are equally culpable in spreading hatred rather than criticizing in order to effect change.
This is most evident in the few who use the terrible actions of the State of Israel towards the Palestinian people as an excuse to further their anti Semitic hatreds. We have seen here links to outrageously anti Semitic sites used as supposed political discourse.
Hatred is hatred, no matter from which side of the political spectrum it derives. I condemn the divisiveness of the demagogues like Rush and equally condemn those who think the actions of an unfit govt like that of Israel indicate some sort of world wide Jewish conspiracy.
Physician heal thyself.
Report thisBy Paracelsus, September 19, 2009 at 2:03 am Link to this comment
Limbaugh is feeding into the zeitgeist that will make legitimate criticism of Obama impossible because such a reaction will be conflated with Rush’s racism. Rush is in his way an ally to to the Democratic machine. It takes two supports in an arch to hold the keystone.
Report thisBy C.Curtis.Dillon, September 19, 2009 at 1:27 am Link to this comment
My uncle’s brother (not relation thank God) sits by the radio every day and feeds on every word this slug says. His wife has gotten so disgusted with the garbage, she forces him to wear headphones. He thinks Rush is the greatest thing going and believes it all. Limbaugh is a bigot and worse but mostly a graven, greedy crook who knows what to say so as to keep his ratings up. He doesn’t care for even a minute what his words do to people or the damage they cause. He is just an “entertainer”!
Unfortunately, he is talking to a segment of the population that is angry and often poorly educated. They don’t possess any critical listening skills so take everything at face value. He knows this but doesn’t care. Same with Beck.
Report thisBy Commune115, September 19, 2009 at 12:32 am Link to this comment
The fact that these radio clowns, who only sit in front of a mic all day yapping, are considered serious political figures is very, very sad.
Report thisBy jack, September 18, 2009 at 11:31 pm Link to this comment
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Pure theatre - integral to the overarching Left-vs-Right psy-op, designed to
Report thisdistract and engage us in petty infighting, when our common enemy is the Global
Finance Oligarchy - Limbaugh, Hannity, Beck, Huffington, Green and the
foundation-funded Goodmen are all monkeys on a string, inflaming the Left/Right
paradigm…pure theatre designed to distract, from what: expanded war in the
Middle East and Africa - and most importantly, Global Depleted Uranium
Poisoning.
By Folktruther, September 18, 2009 at 9:00 pm Link to this comment
the open racism indicates that a section of the plutocracy wants to strengthen a racist right wing,using Obama as a point of reference. A serious matter with only the Dems, themselves racist, to resist this mmovement.
Report thisBy Anoosh Hambarsumian, September 18, 2009 at 8:41 pm Link to this comment
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He is a F—-ng racist!! He is an abnoxious human being and has no rights to have a radio voice!! SHAME ON YOU RUSH!!!! You are a drug addict and getting away with being a racist pig!!! Why don’t you take a whole bottle of aspirin and let’s see what happens!! Oh! sorry, I was joking!!
Report thisBy Russian Paul, September 18, 2009 at 6:03 pm Link to this comment
Good one, Lemonade.
Report thisBy msgmi, September 18, 2009 at 4:54 pm Link to this comment
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Rush has garnered all the nuances of Goebbelesque sponsored propaganda and he has succeeded to indoctrinate his dedidicated listeners to the point of hysteria, bias and racism. Well done Rush, your vision of America is quite remarkable.
Report thisBy Rodger Lemonde, September 18, 2009 at 4:52 pm Link to this comment
Knowing what a jolly jester Rush is I’m certain he wont
Report thisbe offended by the following suggestion.
Take a bottle of aspirin (not oxycondon) and slit your
wrists. Haa, haa just kidding, I wouldn’t want you to
harm yourself. Wasn’t that funny just like spewing
unwelcome racist garbage and claiming it was satire.