Al and Jesse ride again...

[Turd_Ferguson]

unbelievable....



ST. LOUIS (http://www.newsok.com/keysearch/?er=1&CANONICAL=St.+Louis+Rams&CATEGORY=ORGANIZATION) (AP) — The Revs. Al Sharpton (http://www.newsok.com/keysearch/?er=1&CANONICAL=Al+Sharpton&CATEGORY=PERSON) and Jesse Jackson (http://www.newsok.com/keysearch/?er=1&CANONICAL=Jesse+Jackson&CATEGORY=PERSON) attacked the bid by Rush Limbaugh (http://www.newsok.com/keysearch/?er=1&CANONICAL=Rush+Limbaugh&CATEGORY=PERSON) to buy the St. Louis Rams on Monday, saying the conservative radio host's track record on race should exclude him from owning an NFL team.
Sharpton sent a letter to NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell (http://www.newsok.com/keysearch/?er=1&CANONICAL=Roger+Goodell&CATEGORY=PERSON), arguing that Limbaugh has been divisive and "anti-NFL" in some of his comments.
Jackson said in a telephone interview that Limbaugh had made his wealth "appealing to the fears of whites" with an unending line of insults against blacks and other minorities.
"The National Football League (http://www.newsok.com/keysearch/?er=1&CANONICAL=National+Football+League&CATEGORY=ORGANIZATION) has set high standards for racial justice and inclusion," Jackson said. "He should not have the privilege of owning an NFL franchise — and it is a privilege." The civil rights leader said he's had contact with numerous players and ex-players concerned about the bid.
Limbaugh shot back at Sharpton on his radio show.
"Now, this saddens me as well this disappoints me," he said. "I know Rev. Sharpton. Sharpton is better than this. He knows better than this. You know, I didn't judge Al Sharpton's fitness to be in radio when he wanted to earn an honest living for once, given his well-documented past as the author of the Tawana Brawley (http://www.newsok.com/keysearch/?er=1&CANONICAL=Tawana+Brawley&CATEGORY=PERSON) hoax. I believe in freedom and I also don't discriminate."
Limbaugh said last week that he is teaming up with St. Louis Blues (http://www.newsok.com/keysearch/?er=1&CANONICAL=St.+Louis+Blues&CATEGORY=ORGANIZATION) hockey team owner Dave Checketts (http://www.newsok.com/keysearch/?er=1&CANONICAL=Dave+Checketts&CATEGORY=PERSON) in a bid to buy the Rams. He has declined to discuss details of the offer, citing a confidentiality agreement.
In 2003, Limbaugh worked briefly on ESPN's NFL pregame show. He resigned after saying Philadelphia Eagles (http://www.newsok.com/keysearch/?er=1&CANONICAL=Philadelphia+Eagles&CATEGORY=ORGANIZATION) quarterback Donovan McNabb (http://www.newsok.com/keysearch/?er=1&CANONICAL=Donovan+McNabb&CATEGORY=PERSON) was overrated because the media wanted to see a black quarterback succeed.
Transcripts posted on the radio host's Web site also say that on a January 2007 show, Limbaugh commented: "The NFL all too often looks like a game between the Bloods and the Crips (http://www.newsok.com/keysearch/?er=1&CANONICAL=Crips+Street+Gang&CATEGORY=ORGANIZATION) without any weapons. There, I said it."
Asked about Limbaugh's bid to purchase the winless Rams, McNabb said: "If he's rewarded to buy them, congratulations to him. But I won't be in St. Louis any time soon."
NFL spokesman Greg Aiello (http://www.newsok.com/keysearch/?er=1&CANONICAL=Greg+Aiello&CATEGORY=PERSON) said the league is aware of the concerns voiced by Sharpton and Jackson.
"It is very early in the process and no transfer of ownership of the Rams has been presented to the league for review," Aiello said.
The latest complaints came a day after executive director of the NFL Players Association (http://www.newsok.com/keysearch/?er=1&CANONICAL=NFL+Players+Association&CATEGORY=ORGANIZATION), DeMaurice Smith (http://www.newsok.com/keysearch/?er=1&CANONICAL=DeMaurice+Smith&CATEGORY=PERSON), urged players to speak out against Limbaugh's bid.
"I have asked our players to embrace their roles not only in the game of football but also as players and partners in the business of the NFL," Smith said in a statement Sunday. "They risk everything to play this game, they understand that risk and they live with that risk and its consequences for the rest of their life.
"We also know that there is an ugly part of history and we will not risk going backwards, giving up giving in or lying down to it."
Players on the 0-5 Rams, who were routed by the Minnesota Vikings (http://www.newsok.com/keysearch/?er=1&CANONICAL=Minnesota+Vikings&CATEGORY=ORGANIZATION) 38-10 on Sunday, tried to distance themselves from the controversy.
"I'm paying attention, but I'm not even touching that one," running back Steven Jackson (http://www.newsok.com/keysearch/?er=1&CANONICAL=Steven+Jackson+%28Running+Back%29&CATEGORY=PERSON) said. "Because if I start touching it I might go somewhere I don't want to go."
Defensive end Chris Long (http://www.newsok.com/keysearch/?er=1&CANONICAL=Chris+Long+%28Football%29&CATEGORY=PERSON) said he just heard Monday that Limbaugh was part of a group seeking to purchase the team. His reaction: "Oh, is that the guy on the radio?"
Reminded of Limbaugh's statements about McNabb, Long seemed to disapprove while adding he didn't care who owned the team.
"I mean, those weren't great comments at all," Long said. "But it's not my job to really comment on that."
Defensive end Leonard Little (http://www.newsok.com/keysearch/?er=1&CANONICAL=Leonard+Little&CATEGORY=PERSON), the last remaining player from the Rams' Super Bowl championship after the 1999 season, didn't want to talk about it.
"We've got a lot more things to worry about than who's going to be our owner," he said.




http://www.newsok.com/al-sharpton-wants-nfl-to-block-rush-limbaugh-bid-for-st.-louis-rams/article/3408430?custom_click=headlines_widget

[SanJoaquinSooner]

Do owners take random drug tests?

[KABOOKIE]

No. They get their drugs from crackhead reverends though.

[Turd_Ferguson]

Do owners take random drug tests?Does the owner of your company take one smart ***?

[picasso]

It's funny that for years Limbaugh's call screen sidekick was a person of color.

He may be many things but he's not racist.

[Fraggle145]

I just dont want to hear about the blowhard anymore than I have to... I especially dont want him having a chance to ruin anything associated with football.

[Leroy Lizard]

Limbaugh's money is as green as anyone else's. If he wants to buy a team, I don't see why anyone in the NFL front office would oppose it.

[Scott D]

Limbaugh's money is as green as anyone else's. If he wants to buy a team, I don't see why anyone in the NFL front office would oppose it.

yeah...ask the NHL about Jim Balsillie.

[Leroy Lizard]

I don't know anyone in the NHL's front office. I looked up his bio and didn't see anything totally alarming. What's the scoop?

[badger]

The Colts owner said he wouldn't vote for Rush.

Then again, the Eagles said they weren't interested in Mike Vick :D

[Turd_Ferguson]

The Colts owner said he wouldn't vote for Rush.:DHe must be racist.

[Jello Biafra]

funny they state that the NFL has set high standards for racial justice and inclusion

but it wasnt all that long ago that those popus fuggtards were claiming that the NFL were a bunch of biggots because there we so few black head coaches...please, when will thse two die?

[badger]

To be fair, after the Rooney rule, a lot of minority head coaches started getting hired... you can blame the Rooney rule's success for civil rights' leaders continued pressure for a similar rule to get adopted by colleges.

Players will have no problem playing for the Rams - and cashing plenty of big checks in the process - whether Rush is co-owner or whoever the incompetent person that owns the team now is. NFL roster spots are limited. There will be 65 players out there that want to play for the Rush co-owned Rams.

[I Am Right]

I just dont want to hear about the blowhard anymore than I have to... I especially dont want him having a chance to ruin anything associated with football.

And how exactly would he ruin anything associated with football?

[iwannabelikesam]

Al and Jesse lost whatever credibility they had loooong ago. They are still good to laugh at though.

[Fraggle145]

And how exactly would he ruin anything associated with football?

That guy could **** up a wet dream.

[Jacie]

Al and Jesse lost whatever credibility they had loooong ago. They are still good to laugh at though.

Some would say the same thing about Rush Limbaugh . . .

[Leroy Lizard]

That guy could **** up a wet dream.

If I could just figure out how he does it, then maybe I will have enough money to buy an NFL franchise.

[Bourbon St Sooner]

I just dont want to hear about the blowhard anymore than I have to... I especially dont want him having a chance to ruin anything associated with football.

Dude, this is the Rams we're talking about. Have you seen them play lately?

[iwannabelikesam]

Some would say the same thing about Rush Limbaugh . . .

So...he can't own a football team?

[iwannabelikesam]

That guy could **** up a wet dream.

Rush shows up in your sex dreams?

[Scott D]

I don't know anyone in the NHL's front office. I looked up his bio and didn't see anything totally alarming. What's the scoop?

Outside of the fact that his MO is to buy a team (currently chasing the Phoenix franchise) and relocate it to Hamilton, Ontario (a move that would be repeatedly blocked by both Toronto and Buffalo) he's attempted in the past underhanded attempts to strongarm purchase other franchises (Pittsburgh at one time, and Nashville at another).

The point mainly is that just because someone has the green, doesn't mean that a league will just blindly allow that individual to purchase a franchise. The Phoenix situation has gotten very ugly in the courts with the NHL brass actively doing what they can to block every attempt by Balsillie from owning that franchise.

More to the NFL thing, I don't care if Limbaugh wants to waste his money on the Rams. I think it's a long shot, and his best chance is if he can prove to owners that Dave Checketts is going to be the more visible of the two partners in ownership and he'll be more of a background thing. The NFL already has enough of a time dealing with the two nutjobs Al Davis and Jerry Jones to really want another outspoken blowhard as a visible owner.

[Chuck Bao]

If Al and Jesse are against the franchise purchase by Rush and friends, it is one thing. But, if the Players' Association is against it, that is an entirely different thing. And you know the NFL commissioner and franchise owners are not wanting to unnecessarily **** off the Players' Association.

Rush Limbaugh is the one who has made a very bad mistake here. Does he really want his old quotes to be dredged up again? And, is that good for the NFL? Is that good for the US at this time?

Seriously, PEOPLE. If Al and Jesse bought a football team it would not be as divisive as Rush buying a team. Red flag please meet a bull.

[Chuck Bao]

Outside of the fact that his MO is to buy a team (currently chasing the Phoenix franchise) and relocate it to Hamilton, Ontario (a move that would be repeatedly blocked by both Toronto and Buffalo) he's attempted in the past underhanded attempts to strongarm purchase other franchises (Pittsburgh at one time, and Nashville at another).

The point mainly is that just because someone has the green, doesn't mean that a league will just blindly allow that individual to purchase a franchise. The Phoenix situation has gotten very ugly in the courts with the NHL brass actively doing what they can to block every attempt by Balsillie from owning that franchise.

More to the NFL thing, I don't care if Limbaugh wants to waste his money on the Rams. I think it's a long shot, and his best chance is if he can prove to owners that Dave Checketts is going to be the more visible of the two partners in ownership and he'll be more of a background thing. The NFL already has enough of a time dealing with the two nutjobs Al Davis and Jerry Jones to really want another outspoken blowhard as a visible owner.

Okay, I defer to Scott D

[LosAngelesSooner]

Rush Limbaugh is a hate spewing racist. He's said racist things in the past and he'll say more in the future.

He wants to "own a bunch of blacks" who, when they're playing football in the NFL more "resemble a gang war with a bunch of crips and bloods" and have them work for him. "There...I said it."

I don't blame ALL the black players from staunchly opposing him owning a team. After all, the NFL Players Association was against him getting a team before Al and Jessie were. Who'd wanna be "owned" by a racist fat pig bigot? ;)

[Gresho Murford]

can u post these racist statements?

[badger]

Just picture now... an all-white NFL football team. You know, because all of the black players signed elsewhere and nobody is that desperate to play in the league, even if all 31 other teams said "YOU'RE CUT," they still won't go to St. Louis, all because of Rush.

:rolleyes: It wouldn't happen. There are too many ex-NFL players trying to get back in the league. They will swallow their pride and play for this guy, just like players can overcome other feelings to play for Al Davis, or the guy that owns the Clippers, or that crazy lady that used to own the Reds.

[Jacie]

can u post these racist statements?

Here's a link to the story about the McNabb comment. You can read the article yourself or do what Rush does and simply not consider it racist.

Here's the big guy's take on it: "My comments this past Sunday were directed at the media and were not racially motivated," Limbaugh said in a statement issued late Wednesday night. "I offered an opinion. This opinion has caused discomfort to the crew, which I regret.

http://espn.go.com/gen/news/2003/1001/1628537.html

So LAS, if Rush doesn't consider his comments to be racist then they aren't. It's not his fault the guy he was talking about took it that way.

It's all so clear now.

[Chuck Bao]

Rush Limbaugh is a hate spewing racist. He's said racist things in the past and he'll say more in the future.

He wants to "own a bunch of blacks" who, when they're playing football in the NFL more "resemble a gang war with a bunch of crips and bloods" and have them work for him. "There...I said it."

I don't blame ALL the black players from staunchly opposing him owning a team. After all, the NFL Players Association was against him getting a team before Al and Jessie were. Who'd wanna be "owned" by a racist fat pig bigot? ;)

OMG. Life intimidates art. I mean life immitates art. You guys are just way, way too crazy. That Rush dude is bringing it back into perspective. God bless him for bringing it back to that focus.

I gots my own beef here. I was like trying to promote multiple ear, nose, nipple and other piercings and some posters said that men of color can do it and do it well, but white guys cannot. Is that not rascist or not?

Mustaches are a pretty test on that. Some people can grow pretty mustaches and some cannot.

Some can open up an can of whoop *** on the opposition and some cannot.

Lip hair is only meaningful if it is effective.

Silly people getting strange ideas about lip hair, funny. This has nothing to do with sports fans and all to do with individual choice.

[KABOOKIE]

Senator Byrd needs to start an immediate investigation into this!!! :rolleyes:

I'm afraid most people think any disagreement, opinion, or otherwise intelligent discussion involving someone that happens to be of the black race is well....racist.

http://lofive.files.wordpress.com/2009/08/obama-joker-poster-photos.jpg

[picasso]

That guy could **** up a wet dream.

Well he actually worked for the Royals organization before he more or less saved AM radio in the 80's. He also paved the way for many folks who make a fine career in broadcasting. Yeah, he's a **** up.:rolleyes:

[picasso]

Rush Limbaugh is a hate spewing racist. He's said racist things in the past and he'll say more in the future.

He wants to "own a bunch of blacks" who, when they're playing football in the NFL more "resemble a gang war with a bunch of crips and bloods" and have them work for him. "There...I said it."

I don't blame ALL the black players from staunchly opposing him owning a team. After all, the NFL Players Association was against him getting a team before Al and Jessie were. Who'd wanna be "owned" by a racist fat pig bigot? ;)

I haven't listened to him in years but I most certainly did when I worked in the oil business out of college. The guy is far from a racist and those who think so don't listen to him in context.

[Fraggle145]

Well he actually worked for the Royals organization before he more or less saved AM radio in the 80's. He also paved the way for many folks who make a fine career in broadcasting. Yeah, he's a **** up.:rolleyes:

I didnt say he's a **** up. Although when you are addicted to pain meds and have been divorced three times some might call you that.

I merely said he could **** up a wet dream. Which he would. Tell me that guy showing up in a wet dream wouldn't **** it up for everyone except for RLIMC/I am Right.

[Ike]

I fail to see how Limbaugh can make the Rams worse. That would be pretty hard to do, even for him.

That said, if he does wind up owning a team, I fully support any player signing with the team demanding a "gasbag tax" in their contract that pays the player to put up with his bloviations.

[picasso]

I didnt say he's a **** up. Although when you are addicted to pain meds and have been divorced three times some might call you that.



Can't argue with that. I think people have him wrong though. He's not a racist, he just hates liberalism.

And I don't get people making a biggie about anybody wanting to own a team. Look at what a goofball Mark Cuban is.

[Gresho Murford]

I haven't listened to him in years but I most certainly did when I worked in the oil business out of college. The guy is far from a racist and those who think so don't listen to him in context.

exactly. and as for the mcnabb comments...i feel the same way about mike vick. I disagree with him on mcnabb b/c I think he is a great QB.

[LosAngelesSooner]

I haven't listened to him in years but I most certainly did when I worked in the oil business out of college. The guy is far from a racist and those who think so don't listen to him in context.Really?

Okay:


1. I mean, let’s face it, we didn’t have slavery in this country for over 100 years because it was a bad thing. Quite the opposite: slavery built the South. I’m not saying we should bring it back; I’m just saying it had its merits. For one thing, the streets were safer after dark.
Okay Rush, slavery was not a good thing for the millions of African Americans who were enslaved, raped and beaten. The streets weren’t at all safe for African Americans. Slavery not a bad thing? Someone should put Rush on a plantation for him to see how great it is. Keep on fear and race mongering Rush, you might get to Goebels status.

2. You know who deserves a posthumous Medal of Honor? James Earl Ray [the confessed assassin of Martin Luther King]. We miss you, James. Godspeed.
Martin Luther King is a national hero, not a black hero. Everybody in the United States celebrates his birthday, children are taught to look up to him as a hero in school. He’s earned the respect and admiration of the world and you believe the man who killed him was a hero? This is beyond racist. This is evil, mean spirited, subhuman. Praising the assassin of one of our great American heroes is beyond the scope of regular racism.

3. Have you ever noticed how all composite pictures of wanted criminals resemble Jesse Jackson?
No but I’ve noticed that all racist bigots think like Rush Limbaugh. Comparing a respected black politician and minister to common criminals is Jim Crow racism. Maybe all black people look alike to him, but I’ve never seen a picture of a wanted criminal that looks like Jesse Jackson.

4. Right. So you go into Darfur and you go into South Africa, you get rid of the white government there. You put sanctions on them. You stand behind Nelson Mandela — who was bankrolled by communists for a time, had the support of certain communist leaders. You go to Ethiopia. You do the same thing.
The communist connection is an old way of dealing with black leaders. They used it on Martin Luther King, they’re using it on Barack Obama and Limbaugh used it on Nelson Mandela. By siding with the racist apartheid regime over a world-wide symbol of peace and freedom, Limbaugh has shown he’s a global racist.

5. Look, let me put it to you this way: the NFL all too often looks like a game between the Bloods and the Crips without any weapons. There, I said it.
Limbaugh is once again fear mongering and race baiting by associating professional black athletes with criminals and gangmembers. He continues the fear mongering association of good, decent, hard working African Americans as criminals.

6. The NAACP should have riot rehearsal. They should get a liquor store and practice robberies.
Now Limbaugh is saying that an organization with a storied tradition of representing the positive black people for change in their communities are criminals and rioters. An organization that has been represented by intelligent professional African Americans, that has played a part in the Civil Rights movement and continues to be an intelligent, concerned voice for the African American community is degraded to common criminals. There you go Rush. Keep racism alive!!!!

7. They’re 12 percent of the population. Who the hell cares?
Decent human beings care Rush. Someone out of that 12% may just become President of the United States. Not caring about black people? Even George Bush wouldn’t admit to that.

8. Take that bone out of your nose and call me back(to an African American female caller).
Okay Rush that’s classy. The old African bone in the nose stereotype. Wasn’t funny when the racist white school kids called the black kids that and it’s definitely not funny when a grown man with audience of millions of easily influenced dittoheads says it either.

9. I think the media has been very desirous that a black quarterback do well. They’re interested in black coaches and black quarterbacks doing well. I think there’s a little hope invested in McNabb and he got a lot of credit for the performance of his team that he really didn’t deserve.
I wasn’t super offended by this, the whole black quarterback/coach thing has been going on for years in sports, but the quote was so offensive that Retired General Wesley Clarke said:
There can be no excuse for such statements. Mr. Limbaugh has the right to say whatever he wants, but ABC and ESPN have no obligation to sponsor such hateful and ignorant speech. Mr. Limbaugh should be fired immediately.
When a respected, retired general condemns the statement of a sportscaster, you know he’s gone too far.


10. Limbaugh attacks on Obama. Limbaugh has called Obama a ‘halfrican American’ has said that Obama was not black but Arab because Kenya is an Arab region, even though Arabs are less than one percent of Kenya. Since mainstream America has become more accepting of African-Americans, Limbaugh has decided to play against its new racial fears, Arabs and Muslims. Despite the fact Obama graduated magna cum laude from Harvard Law school, Limbaugh has called him an ‘affirmative action candidate.’ Limbaugh even has repeatedly played a song on his radio show ‘Barack the Magic Negro’ using an antiquated Jim Crow era term for black a man who many Americans are supporting for president. Way to go Rush.


So Rush Limbaugh has managed to make racist attacks on four of the most admired and respected people of African descent in the past one hundred years, in Martin Luther King, Nelson Mandela, Colin Powell and Barack Obama. He has called for the assassin of Martin Luther King to be given a medal, and said slavery was a good thing. He has claimed that Joe the Plumber, who isn’t even a plumber is more important in this election than Colin Powell, a decorated military veteran who has served honorably in three administrations. How can the Republican party stand by this man and let their candidates appear on his show? Rush Limbaugh’s comments are so racist, they’re funny, in a Borat, Archie Bunker kind of way. What is not funny is the millions of dittoheads who listen to him, who take in and re-spout all the racist rhetoric that he spits. Limbaugh’s statements are echoed in the racist, angry Palin/McCain supporters who shout ‘kill him,’ ‘terrorist,’ ‘communist,’ ‘traitor,’ ’socialist’ and ‘off with his head.’
http://newsone.com/obama/top-10-racist-limbaugh-quotes/


"You put your kids on a school bus bus, you expect safety, but in Obama's America, white kids now get beat up, with the black kids cheering," Limbaugh said on his show Wednesday, sarcastically clapping and mimicking the accent of an African American saying "right on, right on." "I wonder if Obama is going to come to the defense to the assailants the way he did for his friend Skip Gates (http://www.hispanicbusiness.com/news/2009/7/24/a_beer_with_obama_a_balm.htm) up there at Harvard. The assailants are presumed innocent due to the white racism we all know runs rampant in America."

During the tirade, Limbaugh sarcastically suggested that the white kid deserved it, and suggested -- again, in a sarcastic characterization of the liberal perspective -- that if white students don't want to get beat up they should have their own bus.

Yep...he's not a racist. He's never said anything racist.


Why on earth WOULDN'T black Americans want to work for the guy? :rolleyes:

[I Am Right]

can u post these racist statements?

No he can't. The only thing LAsooner can post on this subject are things from liberial blogs, huffington-puffington post etc.

[Gresho Murford]

Really?

Okay:

http://newsone.com/obama/top-10-racist-limbaugh-quotes/



Yep...he's not a racist. He's never said anything racist.


Why on earth WOULDN'T black Americans want to work for the guy? :rolleyes:

those are pretty bad. Do you have them in context though? I could see alot of those being tongue in cheek type comments.

[I Am Right]

Really?

Okay:

http://newsone.com/obama/top-10-racist-limbaugh-quotes/



Yep...he's not a racist. He's never said anything racist.


Why on earth WOULDN'T black Americans want to work for the guy? :rolleyes:

LA, ever owned a slave? Do you know anybody who has owned anybody else? Ok, do you know anybody who has ever been a slave? Remember we lost over 500,000 people to free those under slavery. "I would rather you just said thank you and went on your way"

[I Am Right]

Rush Limbaugh is a hate spewing racist. He's said racist things in the past and he'll say more in the future.

He wants to "own a bunch of blacks" who, when they're playing football in the NFL more "resemble a gang war with a bunch of crips and bloods" and have them work for him. "There...I said it."

I don't blame ALL the black players from staunchly opposing him owning a team. After all, the NFL Players Association was against him getting a team before Al and Jessie were. Who'd wanna be "owned" by a racist fat pig bigot? ;)

Wow, are football players "owned"?

[LosAngelesSooner]

LA, ever owned a slave? Do you know anybody who has owned anybody else? Ok, do you know anybody who has ever been a slave? Remember we lost over 500,000 people to free those under slavery. "I would rather you just said thank you and went on your way"Right, Rush. Because that like...is relevant and makes sense.

Really...it does...:rolleyes:


Wow, are football players "owned"?
HENCE...THE...QUOTES...TROLL.

[I Am Right]

Rush's First 35 Undeniable Truths of Life


#1: The greatest threat to humanity lies in the nuclear arsenal of the USSR.

#2: The greatest threat to humanity lies in the USSR.

#3: Peace does not mean the elimination of nuclear weapons.

#4: Peace does not mean the absence of war.

#5: War is not obsolete.

#6: Ours is a world governed by the aggressive use of force.

#7: There is only one way to get rid of nuclear weapons - use them.

#8: Peace can't be achieved by "developing an understanding" with the Russian people.

#9: When Americans oppose America, it is not always courageous and sacred; it is sometimes dangerous.

#10: Communism Kills.

#11: Neither the US, nor anyone, imposes freedom on peoples of other nations.

#12: Freedom is God given.

#13: In the USSR, peace means the absence of opposition.

#14: To free peoples, peace means the absence of threats and the presence of justice.

#15: The Peace Movement in the US - whether by accident or design - is pro-Communist.

#16: The collective knowledge and wisdom of seasoned citizens is the most valuable - yet untapped - resource our young-people have.

#17: The greatest football team in the history of civilization is the Pittsburgh Steelers of 1975-1980.

#18: There is no such thing as war atrocities.

#19: There are no such things as "war atrocities." War itself is an atrocity.

#20: There is a God.

#21: Abortion is wrong.

#22: Morality is not defined and cannot be defined by individual choice.

#23: Evolution cannot explain Creation.

#24: Feminism was established so as to allow unattractive women access to the mainstream of society.

#25: Love is the only human emotion that cannot be controlled.

#26: The only difference between Mikhail Gorbachev and previous Soviet leaders, is that Gorbachev is alive.

#27: Soviet Leaders are just left-wing dictators.

#28: Abe Lincoln saved this nation.

#29: The L.A. Raiders will never be the team that they were when they called Oakland home.

#30: The US will again go to war.

#31: To more and more people, a victorious US is a sinful US.

#32: This is frightening and ominous.

#33: There will always be poor people.

#34: This is not the fault of the rich.

#35: You should thank God for making you an American; and instead of feeling guilty about it, help spread our ideas worldwide.

[LosAngelesSooner]

No he can't. The only thing LAsooner can post on this subject are things from liberial blogs, huffington-puffington post etc.^^^ THIS ^^^
....shows that RUSHLIMBAUGHisMyClone!'s Troll cannot read THIS:
http://blogs.venturacountystar.com/vcs/dennert/archives/Down-arrow.gif


Really?

Okay:


1. I mean, let’s face it, we didn’t have slavery in this country for over 100 years because it was a bad thing. Quite the opposite: slavery built the South. I’m not saying we should bring it back; I’m just saying it had its merits. For one thing, the streets were safer after dark.
Okay Rush, slavery was not a good thing for the millions of African Americans who were enslaved, raped and beaten. The streets weren’t at all safe for African Americans. Slavery not a bad thing? Someone should put Rush on a plantation for him to see how great it is. Keep on fear and race mongering Rush, you might get to Goebels status.

2. You know who deserves a posthumous Medal of Honor? James Earl Ray [the confessed assassin of Martin Luther King]. We miss you, James. Godspeed.
Martin Luther King is a national hero, not a black hero. Everybody in the United States celebrates his birthday, children are taught to look up to him as a hero in school. He’s earned the respect and admiration of the world and you believe the man who killed him was a hero? This is beyond racist. This is evil, mean spirited, subhuman. Praising the assassin of one of our great American heroes is beyond the scope of regular racism.

3. Have you ever noticed how all composite pictures of wanted criminals resemble Jesse Jackson?
No but I’ve noticed that all racist bigots think like Rush Limbaugh. Comparing a respected black politician and minister to common criminals is Jim Crow racism. Maybe all black people look alike to him, but I’ve never seen a picture of a wanted criminal that looks like Jesse Jackson.

4. Right. So you go into Darfur and you go into South Africa, you get rid of the white government there. You put sanctions on them. You stand behind Nelson Mandela — who was bankrolled by communists for a time, had the support of certain communist leaders. You go to Ethiopia. You do the same thing.
The communist connection is an old way of dealing with black leaders. They used it on Martin Luther King, they’re using it on Barack Obama and Limbaugh used it on Nelson Mandela. By siding with the racist apartheid regime over a world-wide symbol of peace and freedom, Limbaugh has shown he’s a global racist.

5. Look, let me put it to you this way: the NFL all too often looks like a game between the Bloods and the Crips without any weapons. There, I said it.
Limbaugh is once again fear mongering and race baiting by associating professional black athletes with criminals and gangmembers. He continues the fear mongering association of good, decent, hard working African Americans as criminals.

6. The NAACP should have riot rehearsal. They should get a liquor store and practice robberies.
Now Limbaugh is saying that an organization with a storied tradition of representing the positive black people for change in their communities are criminals and rioters. An organization that has been represented by intelligent professional African Americans, that has played a part in the Civil Rights movement and continues to be an intelligent, concerned voice for the African American community is degraded to common criminals. There you go Rush. Keep racism alive!!!!

7. They’re 12 percent of the population. Who the hell cares?
Decent human beings care Rush. Someone out of that 12% may just become President of the United States. Not caring about black people? Even George Bush wouldn’t admit to that.

8. Take that bone out of your nose and call me back(to an African American female caller).
Okay Rush that’s classy. The old African bone in the nose stereotype. Wasn’t funny when the racist white school kids called the black kids that and it’s definitely not funny when a grown man with audience of millions of easily influenced dittoheads says it either.

9. I think the media has been very desirous that a black quarterback do well. They’re interested in black coaches and black quarterbacks doing well. I think there’s a little hope invested in McNabb and he got a lot of credit for the performance of his team that he really didn’t deserve.
I wasn’t super offended by this, the whole black quarterback/coach thing has been going on for years in sports, but the quote was so offensive that Retired General Wesley Clarke said:
There can be no excuse for such statements. Mr. Limbaugh has the right to say whatever he wants, but ABC and ESPN have no obligation to sponsor such hateful and ignorant speech. Mr. Limbaugh should be fired immediately.
When a respected, retired general condemns the statement of a sportscaster, you know he’s gone too far.


10. Limbaugh attacks on Obama. Limbaugh has called Obama a ‘halfrican American’ has said that Obama was not black but Arab because Kenya is an Arab region, even though Arabs are less than one percent of Kenya. Since mainstream America has become more accepting of African-Americans, Limbaugh has decided to play against its new racial fears, Arabs and Muslims. Despite the fact Obama graduated magna cum laude from Harvard Law school, Limbaugh has called him an ‘affirmative action candidate.’ Limbaugh even has repeatedly played a song on his radio show ‘Barack the Magic Negro’ using an antiquated Jim Crow era term for black a man who many Americans are supporting for president. Way to go Rush.


So Rush Limbaugh has managed to make racist attacks on four of the most admired and respected people of African descent in the past one hundred years, in Martin Luther King, Nelson Mandela, Colin Powell and Barack Obama. He has called for the assassin of Martin Luther King to be given a medal, and said slavery was a good thing. He has claimed that Joe the Plumber, who isn’t even a plumber is more important in this election than Colin Powell, a decorated military veteran who has served honorably in three administrations. How can the Republican party stand by this man and let their candidates appear on his show? Rush Limbaugh’s comments are so racist, they’re funny, in a Borat, Archie Bunker kind of way. What is not funny is the millions of dittoheads who listen to him, who take in and re-spout all the racist rhetoric that he spits. Limbaugh’s statements are echoed in the racist, angry Palin/McCain supporters who shout ‘kill him,’ ‘terrorist,’ ‘communist,’ ‘traitor,’ ’socialist’ and ‘off with his head.’
http://newsone.com/obama/top-10-racist-limbaugh-quotes/


"You put your kids on a school bus bus, you expect safety, but in Obama's America, white kids now get beat up, with the black kids cheering," Limbaugh said on his show Wednesday, sarcastically clapping and mimicking the accent of an African American saying "right on, right on." "I wonder if Obama is going to come to the defense to the assailants the way he did for his friend Skip Gates (http://www.hispanicbusiness.com/news/2009/7/24/a_beer_with_obama_a_balm.htm) up there at Harvard. The assailants are presumed innocent due to the white racism we all know runs rampant in America."

During the tirade, Limbaugh sarcastically suggested that the white kid deserved it, and suggested -- again, in a sarcastic characterization of the liberal perspective -- that if white students don't want to get beat up they should have their own bus.Yep...he's not a racist. He's never said anything racist.


Why on earth WOULDN'T black Americans want to work for the guy? :rolleyes:


those are pretty bad. Do you have them in context though? I could see alot of those being tongue in cheek type comments.Please show me how saying something "tongue in cheek" or "in context" would make either of the first two quotes okay?

[Gresho Murford]

^^^ THIS ^^^
....shows that RUSHLIMBAUGHisMyClone!'s Troll cannot read
THIS:
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Please show me how saying something "tongue in cheek" or "in context" would make either of the first two quotes okay?

The first one I could see in him trying to make a joke. IN poor taste sure. You can't deny that most crimes period happen involving blacks.

The second one I don't know. I would love to see the context though

[I Am Right]

HOW ABOUT A NATIONAL CONVERSATION ON RACE HOAXES?
July 29, 2009


You could not ask for a more perfect illustration of the thesis of my latest book, "Guilty: Liberal Victims and Their Assault on America," than the black president of the United States attacking a powerless white cop for arresting a black Harvard professor -- in a city with a black mayor and a state with a black governor -- as the professor vacations in Martha's Vineyard.

In modern America, the alleged "victim" is always really the aggressor, and the alleged "aggressor" is always the true victim.

President Barack Obama planted the question during a health care press conference, hoping he could satisfy the Chicago Sun-Times, which has been accusing him of not being black enough. He somehow imagined that the rest of the country might not notice the president of the United States gratuitously attacking a cop in a case of alleged "racial profiling."

Oops.

Suddenly, with the glare of the national spotlight being turned on a small local story, it became clear that there was no "racial profiling" involved -- other than by the black Harvard professor, who lorded his credentials and connections over a white working-class cop.

We wouldn't have known about this case at all if the professor, Henry Louis Gates Jr., hadn't blast e-mailed the universe that he was harassed by racist cops. Gates thought it would be a feather in his cap, not realizing there are huge areas of the country where people don't think it's heroic to browbeat cops checking on you after you break into your own house, such as 99 percent of the country outside of Cambridge.

Contrary to liberals' ardent desire, Sgt. James Crowley was not on tape saying, "I know it's his house, but let's stick it to this uppity negro." (Curiously, the tape of Gates' call demanding to talk to the chief of police to "report" Crowley has been withheld. Some watchdog group has got to demand that tape.)

But what if Crowley hadn't been a model policeman who taught diversity classes and once famously gave mouth-to-mouth resuscitation to a black athlete?

What if the 911 caller had identified the suspected burglars as black, which it turns out she did not?

What if Crowley hadn't been fully supported by other cops at the scene, one Hispanic and one black? (Liberals will say cops stick together, but I say liberals stick together.)

What if, at some point in his life, Crowley had been accused -- falsely or not -- of racism?

His life would be ruined.

Desperate to blame the cop, despite the facts, some liberals have begun making up their own facts. Radio talker Opio Sokoni claimed Crowley told Gates to "shut up" and "I'm going to win, you're going to jail." Even Gates doesn't claim the cop said that.

On MSNBC's "Hardball," Chris Matthews said that Gates did not say, "I'll speak with your mama outside," as stated in the police report.

"He didn't say this," Matthews asserted as fact. This invented fact allowed Matthews to accuse the cop of engaging in "projection" and to conjure Crowley's psychological state, saying, this is "what a white guy thought a black guy would say."

Eugene Robinson endorsed Matthews' invented fact, saying: "I cannot imagine in this universe Skip Gates saying, 'I'll speak with your mama outside.'" As proof, Robinson explained that Gates "rolls with kings and queens and Nobel Prize winners." (I'm not "projecting" what I think a black man would say; he really said that.)

And then they both had a laugh about the cop applying racist stereotypes to such an esteemed figure as Professor Gates, who apparently would NEVER use the phrase "your mama."

First, unlike these aesthetes, I don't consider "your mama" such an implausible expression for someone to use.

Second, Sgt. Crowley wrote his police report, including the "your mama" line, long before he, or anyone else, could have imagined the arrest was going to become nationwide, front-page news.

Third, there's a video of Gates using the N-word all over the Internet, and in that short, three-minute video, Gates uses the phrase "your mama."

The only contrary evidence is that Gates recently denied that he told the cop he'd "speak with your mama outside." He also desperately wants to drop the subject.

The left's last-ditch attempt to defend a powerful black man's attack on a powerless white man is to say the arrest was improper. In Time magazine, Lawrence O'Donnell factually announced, "Yelling does not meet the definition of disorderly conduct in Massachusetts."

You can argue the facts in court, but there's no question that the police report described the misdemeanor offense of "disorderly conduct" under Massachusetts law, which includes engaging in "tumultuous behavior" in "any neighborhood," thereby causing public "inconvenience, annoyance or alarm."

As everyone who's read the police report knows, Gates is described as going on an extended tirade against the officer, calling him a racist, saying the officer didn't know who he was messing with, acting irrationally, following the officer outside to continue haranguing him, and engaging in "tumultuous behavior" in and outside his house, drawing a small crowd of alarmed onlookers and police.

Suppose a cop didn't arrest a guy who was ranting and raving -- in his own home -- and, an hour later, the hothead assaults someone. Policeman: I was as surprised as anyone that he shot his girlfriend! Every liberal in the country would demand the cop's head.

And by the way, try screaming at a judge that he's a racist and see what happens. Why should police officers deserve less protection than judges? They're in more danger.

The disorderly conduct charge was not dropped because it wasn't a good arrest. It was dropped, according to Gates' own lawyer, because of Gates' connections.

Before liberals declare that this a case of racial profiling and move on, how about liberals produce one provable example of racial profiling that isn't a hoax?

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[LosAngelesSooner]

Rush's First 35 Undeniable Truths of Life


#1: The greatest threat to humanity lies in the nuclear arsenal of the USSR.

#2: The greatest threat to humanity lies in the USSR.

#3: Peace does not mean the elimination of nuclear weapons.

#4: Peace does not mean the absence of war.

#5: War is not obsolete.

#6: Ours is a world governed by the aggressive use of force.

#7: There is only one way to get rid of nuclear weapons - use them.

#8: Peace can't be achieved by "developing an understanding" with the Russian people.

#9: When Americans oppose America, it is not always courageous and sacred; it is sometimes dangerous.

#10: Communism Kills.

#11: Neither the US, nor anyone, imposes freedom on peoples of other nations.

#12: Freedom is God given.

#13: In the USSR, peace means the absence of opposition.

#14: To free peoples, peace means the absence of threats and the presence of justice.

#15: The Peace Movement in the US - whether by accident or design - is pro-Communist.

#16: The collective knowledge and wisdom of seasoned citizens is the most valuable - yet untapped - resource our young-people have.

#17: The greatest football team in the history of civilization is the Pittsburgh Steelers of 1975-1980.

#18: There is no such thing as war atrocities.

#19: There are no such things as "war atrocities." War itself is an atrocity.

#20: There is a God.

#21: Abortion is wrong.

#22: Morality is not defined and cannot be defined by individual choice.

#23: Evolution cannot explain Creation.

#24: Feminism was established so as to allow unattractive women access to the mainstream of society.

#25: Love is the only human emotion that cannot be controlled.

#26: The only difference between Mikhail Gorbachev and previous Soviet leaders, is that Gorbachev is alive.

#27: Soviet Leaders are just left-wing dictators.

#28: Abe Lincoln saved this nation.

#29: The L.A. Raiders will never be the team that they were when they called Oakland home.

#30: The US will again go to war.

#31: To more and more people, a victorious US is a sinful US.

#32: This is frightening and ominous.

#33: There will always be poor people.

#34: This is not the fault of the rich.

#35: You should thank God for making you an American; and instead of feeling guilty about it, help spread our ideas worldwide.
Welcome to 1985, Rush. :rolleyes:

[LosAngelesSooner]

COPYRIGHT 2009 ANN COULTER
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1130 Walnut, Kansas City, MO 64106Ah...someone who espouses the beliefs of Ann Coulter and Rush Limbaugh, two of the most vile and hate spewing Conservative Nationalists ever to defile the U.S. flag.

Good jorb, RLiMC.:rolleyes:

[I Am Right]

NAPPY-HEADED HOAX
July 11, 2007


The New York Times alone has mentioned the Scottsboro Boys case from the 1930s nearly 20 times since 2002 (expanding the "news" part of "newspaper" just a bit), so I think I'm entitled to spend at least one more week luxuriating in the Duke lacrosse players' total vindication and the exposure of a Southern liberal prosecutor as a corrupt hack.

Twenty years ago, disbarred Duke prosecutor Mike Nifong would have been Time magazine's Man of the Year. Vanity Fair would have photographed him sitting in a Porsche under the headline: "Speaking Truth to Power."

One hundred years ago, he would have been lynching innocent black men. Southern liberals have stayed the same; only their victims have changed.

To watch the complete destruction of this foolish and evil man, Michael Nifong — despite the mainstream media's best efforts to portray him as a modern-day Atticus Finch — is as great a moment as the annihilation of Dan Rather. Katie Couric's self-immolation is just a bonus — when it rains, it pours!

It is as great as Clinton's impeachment (which The New York Times is already claiming never happened in a front-page Week in Review article by Sam Tanenhaus on May 20).

The fact that we keep catching liberals in such blatant falsehoods shows you what they used to be able to get away with.

When the falsely accused Duke lacrosse players Reade Seligmann and Collin Finnerty were indicted, Newsweek put their mug shots on its cover.

Months after the story first broke and most of the exculpatory evidence was known, an opinion piece — I assume it was an opinion piece — in The Washington Post began: "She was black, they were white, and race and sex were in the air." No, that's not the tagline for a new reality show — it's the first line of a legitimate story in a U.S. paper. It was downhill from there. The Duke case was "reminiscent of a black woman's vulnerability to a white man during the days of slavery, reconstruction and Jim Crow."

In fact, the case was reminiscent of the Scottsboro Boys case, but this time the falsely accused rape defendants were white. If only the press had dubbed them the "Durham Boys," that would be a great title for the Lifetime TV movie about this case that will never be made.

The accuser's history of making false accusations of gang rape, the players' alibis and the prosecutor's lies were all known to The New York Times when it reported on Aug. 25, 2006, that "while there are big weaknesses in Mr. Nifong's case, there is also a body of evidence to support his decision to take the matter to a jury." By "body of evidence," the Times was apparently referring to a smattering of racial and sexual stereotypes earnestly believed in Hollywood and in newsrooms across America in defiance of the facts.

The Times article also noted, "In several important areas, the full files, reviewed by The New York Times, contain evidence stronger than that highlighted by the defense." The "stronger" evidence consisted of obvious lies told by the prosecution and lustily repeated by the Times.

Shockingly, even when the jig was up, and the attorney general of North Carolina announced that the accused were innocent, much of the mainstream media continued to withhold the accuser's name.

According to various postings on the Internet, Fox News Channel was the only national television station to show the false accuser's photo, and CNN never even revealed her name.

From my research, it appears that CBS News named Crystal Gail Mangum and showed her picture. (Of course, this being CBS, the picture may have been forged.) But the only time her name came out on CNN was by non-CNN employees during live press conferences and one time when a guest slipped it in — you should pardon the expression — during a discussion of Nifong's disbarment hearing, unaware of CNN's policy of protecting the names of women who make false accusations of rape.

The New York Times has yet to name the woman who falsely accused three men of committing a brutal gang rape.

The Times "public editor" described the paper's delusional coverage of the Duke case after the first several weeks as "basically fair." The Times Sports editor, Tom Jolly, said he was "very comfortable" with the coverage, saying the case had two main elements: "One was the allegation of rape; the other was the general behavior of a high-level sports team at a prestigious university." That's when you know your newspaper might have a wee hint of a liberal bias: when even the sportswriters are left-wing crackpots.

Apparently, the Times editor did not see this possibility as an "element" of the case: A liberal prosecutor incites a racial conflagration weeks before an election in a heavily black voting district by using the incredible claims of a stripper to falsely accuse three innocent white men of gang rape.

After the dust clears, perhaps we can expect a Mary Mapes-type book from Nifong explaining how the rape really did happen after all, or a book from Joe Conason on how the people who brought Nifong down were a conspiracy of "Nifong-haters."

You can't win a victory like this without some liberals being affected. Bush may be an ineffective communicator, but that doesn't mean all thought stops in the rest of the country. Well-educated liberals, who have wealth and homes and children, begin to freak out as they get to know their apparent allies. They have something to lose from allowing insane people to run the country.

Even now, in conservatism's darkest hour, we continue to see the transformation of responsible liberals. It happened with Clinton, with Gore's election tantrum, with 9/11, with the Swift Boat Veterans, with Dan Rather and now with Michael Nifong. The rolling reconfiguration of the country can't help but to proceed in a molecular way.

A few more victories like this, and someday the phrase "sensible liberal" may make sense again.

COPYRIGHT 2007 ANN COULTER
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[LosAngelesSooner]

I'm wondering...what made RLiMC feel the NEED to create his new Troll handle? It's not like it offers anything DIFFERENT than his OLD handle. *shrug*

[LosAngelesSooner]

Oooh...somebody's on a Google/Cut-n-paste tantrum!

:D

[swardboy]

Rush's assistant is black. He has black educators and commentators host his show in his absence....hardly marks of a racist.

He is launching a lawsuit on the false quotes attributed to him, because he has tolerated these lies long enough.

Steven Smith, BLACK newspaper columnist IN PHILADELPHIA, says anyone who believes a black player revolt will happen If Rush assumes ownership of an NFL team, is dead wrong.

[KABOOKIE]

Sam Spade and Cut-n-Paste. Oh this is rich!

[KABOOKIE]

Ooops. Looks like somebody has fallen for their own ignorant hate filled ideals. Typical.

[SCOUT]

Welcome to 1985, Rush. :rolleyes:

Close, he wrote them in 1988.

:rolleyes: indeed

[I Am Right]

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“You know who deserves a posthumous Medal of Honor? James Earl Ray…” Quotation attributed to Rush Limbaugh is a damnable lie
March 4, 2009 · 27 Comments

This is news that you will not see anywhere else.

First, the quote and the date that it was supposedly made by Rush: “You know who deserves a posthumous Medal of Honor? James Earl Ray. We miss you, James. Godspeed. [4/23/98]” Rush never said it. It was made up back in about 2005 and this article proves it.

I am no computer research guru, but I was able to track down enough to prove that this quote first arose back in the fall of 2005, and there is no evidence of the quote before that date. Bottom line, it is inconceivable that such a quote was made by Rush Limbaugh back in 1998 and then never got any attention on the internet or elsewhere until 2005.

Here is what I found, taken directly from articles found on the internet, with citations so you can look it up if you want.

The earliest mention of the alleged quote was on September 9th, 2005 by zedlappy who wrote this about what Rush allegedly said:

“You know who deserves a posthumous Medal of Honor? James Earl Ray. We miss you, James. Godspeed. [4/23/98]”

”zedlappy” cited to a Wikipedia article as his source. For those newbys, Wikipedia is a cite that anybody can make **** up and it gets quoted as authority by idiots. Hereafter, every time I reference the Wikipedia article I am talking about this one. Unfortunately, it apparently has been edited many times since 2005, so we can’t know exactly what it said then. But now it attributes the quote to Rush Limbaugh, but lists it as “DISPUTED” because the article currently lists the source of the quote to a book “101 Persons who are really SCREWING up America“ by (2006) by Jack Huberman. Hereinafter I’ll call the book “101 Persons.” But note, the book came out in 2006 so it could not possibly be the source of the original Wikipedia article! ALSO NOTE: The Huberman book does not list a source!

On 9/22/05 [again before the book "101 Persons" was published] somebody calling himself “Cobra” lists the exact same quote and cited as his authority the exact same Wikipedia article!

“You know who deserves a posthumous Medal of Honor? James Earl Ray. We miss you, James. Godspeed. [4/23/98]”

A few days later on 10/08/05, on another blog site, the same guy, “Cobra” made the same quote (hard to read because print is so small)! And guess what, he cited the same Wikipedia article that lists the quote as disputed! Again, this was before the book “101 People…” came out.

A week later, on a different blog, “Cobra” did the same thing!

On 11/12/05 [STILL before the book came out] someone calling themselves “Voter” wrote the exact same quote: “You know who deserves a posthumous Medal of Honor? James Earl Ray. We miss you, James. Godspeed.? [The Rush Limbaugh Show 4/23/98]

Evidently, “Cobra” was still making this exact same claim in 2006 ON A STILL DIFFERENT blog site, when he was contemporaneously busted for making this **** all up! Pay attention, the following is taken directly from a comment back on 7/31/06:

2/3 way down the site:

[Cobra wrote:] “myself find it hard to have sympathy for a guy who makes quotes like:

““You know who deserves a posthumous Medal of Honor? James Earl Ray. We miss you, James. Godspeed. [4/23/98]”

“Cobra

“It took me five minutes to research google on that quote and in several of the links on the very first google page it was cited by, guess who… Cobra himself. (And that is without adding “cobra” to the search terms.) And he’s been citing it going on a year now. If anyone is wondering why Cobra doesn’t provide a link, it’s not because he doesn’t want to. You see, he did often link, in the prior citations ( at LaShawn’s, for instance, on 10/08/06) to a Wikiquote article that now does not contain his cited quote. My guess is that someone edited a phony Limbaugh quote into Limbaugh’s entry and then Wikiquote removed it when they realized that it was a phony. No media source links. No transcript links.



“Limbaugh never said any such thing, obviously, or it would have been all over the media, and certainly I would not have found Cobra himself to be a main source on so many blogs if it was even considered a decent, if dishonest, slander against Limbaugh.”





“Limbaugh is a loud brash voice, one that I sometimes find myself in disagreement with, and one whose tone I quite often disagree with, but he would never falsely quote even his worst antagonist, especially with such ugly words. But such behavior seems to be within the bounds for Limbaugh’s critics.”


“I can’t say I’m surprised to see your fingerprints on something as despicable as this, Cobra. I’m not shaking off any sense of shock.



“I think that falsely quoting anyone, let alone a public figure, is scumbag behavior. And Cobra has been making a habit of doing it to Limbaugh for a year now.



[Cobra tries to defend himself, saying he was citing Huber the author and an article on HuffPo discussing the book and which cited it, but the writer was relentless, saying it was Cobra who first made up the quote and the author then put it in his book. NOTE: Cobra was trying to attribute the quote to "101 Persons" and a HuffPo article about the book but both the book and HuffPo article came out in 2006! And Cobra had been repeating the quote since 2005.]



“Cobra, I did a little search on that James Earl Ray quote from Limbaugh. What I see is you, over and over, quoting that temporary Wikipedia thing like it’s the Encyclopedia Brittanica, and spreading it all over the blogosphere.



Thou shalt not bear false witness.”



AND, as if that wasn’t enough, I found where two other people discredited the quote back in 2005!














First, one person did not believe the quote and did some research about it back on or before 10/13/05 (comment is not dated, but a comment about the comment is dated 10/13/05):



Quote:










Originally Posted by Mike Smash!



“You know who deserves a posthumous Medal of Honor? James Earl Ray. We miss you, James. Godspeed.” [4/23/98] – Rush on Martin Luther King’s assassin.

[I Am Right]

LA- before making up quotes or reporting others quotes as fact. Look up thngs, just maybe they are not true. But, I expect you to defame and debase.

[I Am Right]

http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/home/daily/site_101309/content/01125108.html

[tommieharris91]

Do owners take random drug tests?

Since Al Davis is still an owner, I would say no.

[olevetonahill]

Rush Limbaugh is a hate spewing racist. He's said racist things in the past and he'll say more in the future.

He wants to "own a bunch of blacks" who, when they're playing football in the NFL more "resemble a gang war with a bunch of crips and bloods" and have them work for him. "There...I said it."

I don't blame ALL the black players from staunchly opposing him owning a team. After all, the NFL Players Association was against him getting a team before Al and Jessie were. Who'd wanna be "owned" by a racist fat pig bigot? ;)

Way to take what he said Out of context

Post some of yer Hollywood stories :pop:

[tommieharris91]

those are pretty bad. Do you have them in context though? I could see alot of those being tongue in cheek type comments.


Limbaugh even has repeatedly played a song on his radio show ‘Barack the Magic Negro’ using an antiquated Jim Crow era term for black a man who many Americans are supporting for president. Way to go Rush.
Do you really need context for this?

[picasso]

Rush is so full of hate and racism that he's got the most listened to radio show in the country.

Amazing.

[olevetonahill]

I didnt say he's a **** up. Although when you are addicted to pain meds and have been divorced three times some might call you that.

I merely said he could **** up a wet dream. Which he would. Tell me that guy showing up in a wet dream wouldn't **** it up for everyone except for RLIMC/I am Right.

I been DEvorced 3 times , Not much on the meds but I like My beer :P

[Fraggle145]

I been DEvorced 3 times , Not much on the meds but I like My beer :P

See I said, "I didnt say he's a **** up." I just dont like the guy.

Now you on the other hand... we get along just fine :D

[olevetonahill]

See I said, "I didnt say he's a **** up." I just dont like the guy.

Now you on the other hand... we get along just fine :D

Cause Im an Irreverent bastage right ? :D

Hell I dont listen to him either :D

[tommieharris91]

Rush is so full of hate and racism that he's got the most listened to radio show in the country.

Amazing.

Why do Republicans love red herrings these days?

[Fraggle145]

Cause Im an Irreverent bastage right ? :D

Hell I dont listen to him either :D

And you make some damn fine juice. :D

[LosAngelesSooner]

Way to take what he said Out of context

Post some of yer Hollywood stories :pop:Context?

Those quotes couldn't BE put in a positive context.


http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/home/daily/site_101309/content/01125108.htmlThe quotes were taken from his OWN WEBSITE from his OWN TRANSCRIPTS.

He's since removed them. That's why he's not suing anyone over this. ;)

[LosAngelesSooner]

Rush is so full of hate and racism that he's got the most listened to radio show in the country.

Amazing.*Ahem*


Pew researchers found in 2004 that 17% of the public regularly listens to talk radio. This audience is mostly male, middle-aged and conservative. Among those who regularly listen to talk radio, 41% are Republican and 28% are Democrats. Furthermore, 45% describe themselves as conservatives, compared with 18% who say they are liberal.
Gee...I wonder WHY he's got the number one talk radio show in the country.AMAZING! It's because he's...JUST...THAT...GOOD.

:rolleyes:

[MrJimBeam]

Do you really need context for this?
Parody of this L.A. Times column

By David Ehrenstein

L.A.-based DAVID EHRENSTEIN writes about Hollywood and politics.

March 19, 2007
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AS EVERY CARBON-BASED life form on this planet surely knows, Barack Obama, the junior Democratic senator from Illinois, is running for president. Since making his announcement, there has been no end of commentary about him in all quarters — musing over his charisma and the prospect he offers of being the first African American to be elected to the White House.

But it's clear that Obama also is running for an equally important unelected office, in the province of the popular imagination — the "Magic Negro."

The Magic Negro is a figure of postmodern folk culture, coined by snarky 20th century sociologists, to explain a cultural figure who emerged in the wake of Brown vs. Board of Education. "He has no past, he simply appears one day to help the white protagonist," reads the description on Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magical_Negro .

He's there to assuage white "guilt" (i.e., the minimal discomfort they feel) over the role of slavery and racial segregation in American history, while replacing stereotypes of a dangerous, highly sexualized black man with a benign figure for whom interracial sexual congress holds no interest.

As might be expected, this figure is chiefly cinematic — embodied by such noted performers as Sidney Poitier, Morgan Freeman, Scatman Crothers, Michael Clarke Duncan, Will Smith and, most recently, Don Cheadle. And that's not to mention a certain basketball player whose very nickname is "Magic."

Poitier really poured on the "magic" in "Lilies of the Field" (for which he won a best actor Oscar) and "To Sir, With Love" (which, along with "Guess Who's Coming to Dinner," made him a No. 1 box-office attraction). In these films, Poitier triumphs through yeoman service to his white benefactors. "Guess Who's Coming to Dinner" is particularly striking in this regard, as it posits miscegenation without evoking sex. (Talk about magic!)

The same can't quite be said of Freeman in "Driving Miss Daisy," "Seven" and the seemingly endless series of films in which he plays ersatz paterfamilias to a white woman bedeviled by a serial killer. But at least he survives, unlike Crothers in "The Shining," in which psychic premonitions inspire him to rescue a white family he barely knows and get killed for his trouble. This heart-tug trope is parodied in Gus Van Sant's "Elephant." The film's sole black student at a Columbine-like high school arrives in the midst of a slaughter, helps a girl escape and is immediately gunned down. See what helping the white man gets you?

And what does the white man get out of the bargain? That's a question asked by John Guare in "Six Degrees of Separation," his brilliant retelling of the true saga of David Hampton — a young, personable gay con man who in the 1980s passed himself off as the son of none other than the real Sidney Poitier. Though he started small, using the ruse to get into Studio 54, Hampton discovered that countless gullible, well-heeled New Yorkers, vulnerable to the Magic Negro myth, were only too eager to believe in his baroque fantasy. (One of the few who wasn't fooled was Andy Warhol, who was astonished his underlings believed Hampton's whoppers. Clearly Warhol had no need for the accouterment of interracial "goodwill.")

But the same can't be said of most white Americans, whose desire for a noble, healing Negro hasn't faded. That's where Obama comes in: as Poitier's "real" fake son.

The senator's famously stem-winding stump speeches have been drawing huge crowds to hear him talk of uniting rather than dividing. A praiseworthy goal. Consequently, even the mild criticisms thrown his way have been waved away, "magically." He used to smoke, but now he doesn't; he racked up a bunch of delinquent parking tickets, but he paid them all back with an apology. And hey, is looking good in a bathing suit a bad thing?

The only mud that momentarily stuck was criticism (white and black alike) concerning Obama's alleged "inauthenticty," as compared to such sterling examples of "genuine" blackness as Al Sharpton and Snoop Dogg. Speaking as an African American whose last name has led to his racial "credentials" being challenged — often several times a day — I know how pesky this sort of thing can be.

Obama's fame right now has little to do with his political record or what he's written in his two (count 'em) books, or even what he's actually said in those stem-winders. It's the way he's said it that counts the most. It's his manner, which, as presidential hopeful Sen. Joe Biden ham-fistedly reminded us, is "articulate." His tone is always genial, his voice warm and unthreatening, and he hasn't called his opponents names (despite being baited by the media).

Like a comic-book superhero, Obama is there to help, out of the sheer goodness of a heart we need not know or understand. For as with all Magic Negroes, the less real he seems, the more desirable he becomes. If he were real, white America couldn't project all its fantasies of curative black benevolence on him.
Copyright © 2009, The Los Angeles Times

[LosAngelesSooner]

Okay. I'll tell every black person who I know who was offended by that song that they are wrong. It wasn't racist.

Stupid minorities and their feelings always ruining our fun. Why can't they just feel the way Whitey wants them to? :rolleyes:

[MrJimBeam]

Okay. I'll tell every black person who I know who was offended by that song that they are wrong. It wasn't racist.

Stupid minorities and their feelings always ruining our fun. Why can't they just feel the way Whitey wants them to? :rolleyes:

How could they be offended by a song none of them heard? Remember, only 17% of Americans listen to talk radio and only 25% of those are Demos.

[I Am Right]

Way to take what he said Out of context

Post some of yer Hollywood stories :pop:

Context? He did not even say it.

[Condescending Sooner]

Okay. I'll tell every black person who I know who was offended by that song that they are wrong. It wasn't racist.

Stupid minorities and their feelings always ruining our fun. Why can't they just feel the way Whitey wants them to? :rolleyes:

You lifted all your quotes from a Jason Whitlock article, then laughed at others for cutting and pasting. After your, I mean Jason's "quotes" were proven wrong, you continue the argument. Classic.

[I Am Right]

Cut and Paste, what, LASooner Cut and Paste?

[tommieharris91]

Parody of this L.A. Times column

By David Ehrenstein

L.A.-based DAVID EHRENSTEIN writes about Hollywood and politics.

March 19, 2007
E-mail Print Share Text Size

AS EVERY CARBON-BASED life form on this planet surely knows, Barack Obama, the junior Democratic senator from Illinois, is running for president. Since making his announcement, there has been no end of commentary about him in all quarters — musing over his charisma and the prospect he offers of being the first African American to be elected to the White House.

But it's clear that Obama also is running for an equally important unelected office, in the province of the popular imagination — the "Magic Negro."

The Magic Negro is a figure of postmodern folk culture, coined by snarky 20th century sociologists, to explain a cultural figure who emerged in the wake of Brown vs. Board of Education. "He has no past, he simply appears one day to help the white protagonist," reads the description on Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magical_Negro .

He's there to assuage white "guilt" (i.e., the minimal discomfort they feel) over the role of slavery and racial segregation in American history, while replacing stereotypes of a dangerous, highly sexualized black man with a benign figure for whom interracial sexual congress holds no interest.

As might be expected, this figure is chiefly cinematic — embodied by such noted performers as Sidney Poitier, Morgan Freeman, Scatman Crothers, Michael Clarke Duncan, Will Smith and, most recently, Don Cheadle. And that's not to mention a certain basketball player whose very nickname is "Magic."

Poitier really poured on the "magic" in "Lilies of the Field" (for which he won a best actor Oscar) and "To Sir, With Love" (which, along with "Guess Who's Coming to Dinner," made him a No. 1 box-office attraction). In these films, Poitier triumphs through yeoman service to his white benefactors. "Guess Who's Coming to Dinner" is particularly striking in this regard, as it posits miscegenation without evoking sex. (Talk about magic!)

The same can't quite be said of Freeman in "Driving Miss Daisy," "Seven" and the seemingly endless series of films in which he plays ersatz paterfamilias to a white woman bedeviled by a serial killer. But at least he survives, unlike Crothers in "The Shining," in which psychic premonitions inspire him to rescue a white family he barely knows and get killed for his trouble. This heart-tug trope is parodied in Gus Van Sant's "Elephant." The film's sole black student at a Columbine-like high school arrives in the midst of a slaughter, helps a girl escape and is immediately gunned down. See what helping the white man gets you?

And what does the white man get out of the bargain? That's a question asked by John Guare in "Six Degrees of Separation," his brilliant retelling of the true saga of David Hampton — a young, personable gay con man who in the 1980s passed himself off as the son of none other than the real Sidney Poitier. Though he started small, using the ruse to get into Studio 54, Hampton discovered that countless gullible, well-heeled New Yorkers, vulnerable to the Magic Negro myth, were only too eager to believe in his baroque fantasy. (One of the few who wasn't fooled was Andy Warhol, who was astonished his underlings believed Hampton's whoppers. Clearly Warhol had no need for the accouterment of interracial "goodwill.")

But the same can't be said of most white Americans, whose desire for a noble, healing Negro hasn't faded. That's where Obama comes in: as Poitier's "real" fake son.

The senator's famously stem-winding stump speeches have been drawing huge crowds to hear him talk of uniting rather than dividing. A praiseworthy goal. Consequently, even the mild criticisms thrown his way have been waved away, "magically." He used to smoke, but now he doesn't; he racked up a bunch of delinquent parking tickets, but he paid them all back with an apology. And hey, is looking good in a bathing suit a bad thing?

The only mud that momentarily stuck was criticism (white and black alike) concerning Obama's alleged "inauthenticty," as compared to such sterling examples of "genuine" blackness as Al Sharpton and Snoop Dogg. Speaking as an African American whose last name has led to his racial "credentials" being challenged — often several times a day — I know how pesky this sort of thing can be.

Obama's fame right now has little to do with his political record or what he's written in his two (count 'em) books, or even what he's actually said in those stem-winders. It's the way he's said it that counts the most. It's his manner, which, as presidential hopeful Sen. Joe Biden ham-fistedly reminded us, is "articulate." His tone is always genial, his voice warm and unthreatening, and he hasn't called his opponents names (despite being baited by the media).

Like a comic-book superhero, Obama is there to help, out of the sheer goodness of a heart we need not know or understand. For as with all Magic Negroes, the less real he seems, the more desirable he becomes. If he were real, white America couldn't project all its fantasies of curative black benevolence on him.
Copyright © 2009, The Los Angeles Times

So he's spreading some racist drivel that the liberal MSM put out? Nice. Stay classy, Rush.

[OklahomaTuba]

LA- before making up quotes or reporting others quotes as fact. Look up thngs, just maybe they are not true. But, I expect you to defame and debase.making up quotes is fun, fun, fun!!!!

[KABOOKIE]

It's the liberal way. Don't agree with them? They'll call you a racist and make up things to prove it.

[Scott D]

Sounds like this is going to become much ado about nothing. Reports are that the group led by Dave Checketts is going to drop Rush as part of their bidding group.

[C&CDean]

Sounds like this is going to become much ado about nothing. Reports are that the group led by Dave Checketts is going to drop Rush as part of their bidding group.

That's racist.

[49r]

Boy, there sure are a lot of words in this thread. I guess there is certainly ONE thing that Rush Limbaugh can do very well at least.

[Scott D]

That makes no damn sense Dean.

[LosAngelesSooner]

Context? He did not even say it.Yes he did. They were taken from transcripts of his own show.

That's why he can't sue anyone over it. Oh, he can lie and deny it, but sue someone for libel? Not a chance. ;)


You lifted all your quotes from a Jason Whitlock article, then laughed at others for cutting and pasting. After your, I mean Jason's "quotes" were proven wrong, you continue the argument. Classic.Again, nope. They weren't proven ANYTHING. He denied them, sure, but he didn't prove a thing. Why? Because he SAID THEM.

That's why he ain't suing anyone. :D


How could they be offended by a song none of them heard? Remember, only 17% of Americans listen to talk radio and only 25% of those are Demos.Because the media never ever pics anything up and replays it every five minutes in order to fill their 24 hour news cycle, do they? :rolleyes:


Cut and Paste, what, LASooner Cut and Paste?Apparently that's all you know how to do. ;)


making up quotes is fun, fun, fun!!!!Apparently that's all you can do since the facts never back up a single thing you say.


It's the liberal way. Don't agree with them? They'll call you a racist and make up things to prove it.Calling someone a racist who IS a racist is just honesty. As for making stuff up, how's that Yellow Cake Uranium coming? Or those WMD's? Lemme know when you find them. ;)

Stalker.

[Gresho Murford]

Yes he did. They were taken from transcripts of his own show.


Calling someone a racist who IS a racist is just honesty. As for making stuff up, how's that Yellow Cake Uranium coming? Or those WMD's? Lemme know when you find them. ;)

Stalker.

can you link me to those transcripts? and i know your response is going to be that they took them down already. OK well did you see them on his website or are you just taking another websites word for it?

There is a difference b/t making stuff up and being wrong. And just in case you forgot iSwSDvgw5Uc

[LosAngelesSooner]

Why ask a question you already know the answer to?

[LosAngelesSooner]

There is a difference b/t making stuff up and being wrong. And just in case you forgot.Make sure you tell that to John McCain's illegitimate black child. ;)

[Gresho Murford]

Make sure you tell that to John McCain's illegitimate black child. ;)

nice detour

[KABOOKIE]

Rush is so full of hate and racism that he's got the most listened to radio show in the country.

Amazing.


Why do Republicans love red herrings these days?

I don't think the Republicans are shouting racism everytime they disagree with someone. :D

[tommieharris91]

I don't think the Republicans are shouting racism everytime they disagree with someone. :D

Dear God, you really are stupid enough to make that connection.

[KABOOKIE]

Oh dear God. :rolleyes:

[LosAngelesSooner]

nice detour"Detour?" Hardly. I can come up with about a dozen more blatant lies from the previous administration without even using Google.

Nice denial. :D


Dear God, you really are stupid enough to make that connection.Yup. :rolleyes:

[I Am Right]

Yes he did. They were taken from transcripts of his own show.

That's why he can't sue anyone over it. Oh, he can lie and deny it, but sue someone for libel? Not a chance. ;)

Again, nope. They weren't proven ANYTHING. He denied them, sure, but he didn't prove a thing. Why? Because he SAID THEM.

That's why he ain't suing anyone. :D

Because the media never ever pics anything up and replays it every five minutes in order to fill their 24 hour news cycle, do they? :rolleyes:

Apparently that's all you know how to do. ;)

Apparently that's all you can do since the facts never back up a single thing you say.

Calling someone a racist who IS a racist is just honesty. As for making stuff up, how's that Yellow Cake Uranium coming? Or those WMD's? Lemme know when you find them. ;)

Stalker.

Nope, wickapeida, or how ever you spell it.

[LosAngelesSooner]

^^^ THIS (like all of your posts, Rush) makes no sense. ^^^

[Gresho Murford]

"Detour?" Hardly. I can come up with about a dozen more blatant lies from the previous administration without even using Google.

Nice denial. :D

Yup. :rolleyes:

ok man. you ignore EVERYTHING that goes against you. very ***** like

[LosAngelesSooner]

ok man. you ignore EVERYTHING that goes against you.:rolleyes:

I'm still waiting for the first one...

[LosAngelesSooner]

Still more racism from Die Fat Fuher!:



A decade ago, after becoming nationally syndicated, Limbaugh mused on the air: "Have you ever noticed how all newspaper composite pictures of wanted criminals resemble Jesse Jackson?" In 1992, on his now-defunct TV show, Limbaugh expressed his ire when director Spike Lee urged that black schoolchildren be given time off from school to see his film "Malcolm X": "Spike, if you're going to do that, let's complete the education experience. You should tell them that they should loot the theater, and then blow it up on their way out."

In a similar vein, here is Limbaugh's mocking take on the National Assn. for the Advancement of Colored People, a group with a 90-year commitment to nonviolence: "The NAACP should have riot rehearsal. They should get a liquor store and practice robberies."

When Carol Moseley-Braun (D-Ill.) was in the U.S. Senate--the first black woman ever elected to that body--Limbaugh would play the "Movin' On Up" theme song from TV's "Jeffersons" when he mentioned her. Limbaugh sometimes still uses mock dialect--substituting "ax" for "ask"--when discussing black leaders.

Such quotes and antics--many compiled by Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting, or FAIR, for our 1995 book--offer a whiff of Limbaugh's racial sensibility. So does his claim that racism in the United States "is fueled primarily by the rantings and ravings" of people like Jesse Jackson. Or his ugly reference two years ago to the father of Madonna's first child, a Latino, as "a gang-member type guy"--although he had no gang background.

In 1994, Limbaugh mocked St. Louis for building a rail line to East St. Louis "where nobody goes." East St. Louis is home to roughly 40,000 residents, 98% of whom are African Americans. One of those 40,000 "nobodies" is NFL linebacker Bryan Cox.


Perhaps Limbaugh’s most notable remark in the St. Louis context was his 1994 response to learning from a caller to his show that St. Louis would be extending a light rail system into East St. Louis--a community of some 40,000 residents, almost all of whom are black. Said Rush (The Way Things Aren't: Rush Limbaugh's Reign of Error, New Press, 1995): "They got a light rail system to East St. Louis where nobody goes?"

Reporters might ask East St. Louis residents what they think about the prospect of Rush Limbaugh owning their local football team.

Once, in response to a caller arguing that black people need to be heard, Limbaugh responded: "They are 12% of the population. Who the hell cares?" That's not an unusual response for a talk radio host playing to an audience of "angry white males." It may not play so well among National Football League players, 70% of whom are African American.Yeah...let's keep trying to play the "out of context card." ;)

[MrJimBeam]

Still more racism from Die Fat Fuher!:

Yeah...let's keep trying to play the "out of context card." ;)

Monday Morning Quarter-backtrack [Mark Steyn]


My old London Telegraph colleague, Toby Harnden, has a piece on Rush and the fake slavery/James Earl Ray quotes that's better than anything you're likely to read in the dying US monodailies:

Even those who have been primary movers in spreading these malicious falsehoods – which would lead to payouts of hundreds of thousands in British libel courts if lawsuits were ever filed there – are brazenly unapologetic.

Thus, St. Louis Post-Dispatch columnist Bryan Burwell pens this column containing the slavery quote and then follows up with another column with a kind-of-sort-of-well-not-really-at-all mea culpa in which he states that the quote seemed “so in character with the many things that Limbaugh has said before that we didn’t verify it beyond the book”.

OK, so it sounded right and it was on the internet or in a book or something so it was fine to just go ahead and print it as stone-cold fact without any attribution? I wonder which journalism school teaches that?

And Burwell caps it off by implying – nudge, nudge, wink, wink – that Limbaugh’s really lying: “Fine, let’s play along for the time being and take him at his word that he was inaccurately quoted in the Huberman book.” I’m no fan of British libel laws but, again, if that had been printed in the UK it would have led to a hefty payout for aggravated damages.

Can anyone play this game? Bryan Burwell says, "I like to have sex with donkeys." What's that? He didn't actually say it? Fine, let's play along for the time being and take him at his word that he was inaccurately quoted...

Rush should buy The St Louis Post-Dispatch.

Meanwhile, the geniuses at Media Matters say: You want chapter-and-verse on those "Slavery was great/Give James Earl Ray the Medal of Honor" quotes? Okay, here's some stuff Limbaugh has said about Obama...

The race deck is all trump cards:

Step One: You can't say that. It's racist.

So you don't. Next:

Step Two: You're using "code language".

As I always say, "code language" is code language for "I’m inventing what you really meant to say because the actual quote doesn’t quite do the job for me." Still, you steer clear of "code language". So then:

Step Three: We'll just concoct it out of whole cloth, and, after running for a week with "Slavery Advocate Wants Medal Of Honor For MLK Killer", our fact-checkers will confirm the accuracy of that statement by citing something you said about Donovan McNabb or Obama's economic policy. Close enough.

PS Can Rush buy the St Louis Rams if he gets Roman Polanski to front the deal?

[SanJoaquinSooner]

Well, poor Big Boy Reagoniod Rush has been dropped from the group of potential owners. I guess he failed the drug test!

[I Am Right]

Which public figure can be quoted as having said something bigoted and disgusting and it doesn’t matter whether he did or not because he might have? Who can Big Media brand a racist without checking the facts? Who has to prove he did not say something racist, rather than the accuser proving he did?

A pat on the back for anyone who guessed the answer: Rush Limbaugh (OK, the blog headline was a clue). From CNN to MSNBC to ABC, it’s been put about that Limbaugh said this:

I mean, let’s face it, we didn’t have slavery in this country for over 100 years because it was a bad thing. Quite the opposite: slavery built the South. I’m not saying we should bring it back; I’m just saying it had its merits. For one thing, the streets were safer after dark.

It’s also been spread around that he said this, about the death of the man who assassinated Martin Luther King:

You know who deserves a posthumous Medal of Honour? James Earl Ray. We miss you, James. Godspeed.

Here’s CNN’s Rick Sanchez baldly stating at the 1.14 point that Limbaugh made the slavery comment:


Trouble is, he didn’t say either of these outrageous things. And it wasn’t difficult to check, as protein wisdom shows here. They originated from, er, Wikipedia and Wikiquotes. Both quotes ended up in this book - a hit job that doesn’t cite any sources. They’re also included in this internet list posted a year ago and endlessly ripped off ever since.

The irony is, of course, that the people reporting this as fact are the same types who are always denouncing bloggers and the internet as forces of evil intent on destroying proper journalism – proper journalism being the kind that involves checking facts. In the case of Rush Limbaugh, however, it seems to be enough that the intention (i.e. to show the talk radio host is a racist) is considered pure.

Even those who have been primary movers in spreading these malicious falsehoods – which would lead to payouts of hundreds of thousands in British libel courts if lawsuits were ever filed there – are brazenly unapologetic.

Thus, St. Louis Post-Dispatch columnist Bryan Burwell pens this column containing the slavery quote and then follows up with another column with a kind-of-sort-of-well-not-really-at-all mea culpa in which he states that the quote seemed “so in character with the many things that Limbaugh has said before that we didn’t verify it beyond the book”.

OK, so it sounded right and it was on the internet or in a book or something so it was fine to just go ahead and print it as stone-cold fact without any attribution? I wonder which journalism school teaches that?

And Burwell caps it off by implying – nudge, nudge, wink, wink – that Limbaugh’s really lying: “Fine, let’s play along for the time being and take him at his word that he was inaccurately quoted in the Huberman book.” I’m no fan of British libel laws but, again, if that had been printed in the UK it would have led to a hefty payout for aggravated damages.

Limbaugh is, understandably, on the war path because the smear of racism is one is very, very difficult to wipe clean:

When race is brought into it, that you can’t let stand. I mean, if you, if people are trying to destroy your reputation and your credibility, your life, and your career by attacking you as a racist, then you have to stand up and, like that.

Now we are in the process behind the scenes working to get apologies and retractions, with the force of legal action, against every journalist who has published these entirely fabricated quotes about me, slavery, and James Earl Ray.

I never said them. We have tracked them. We know where they came from. We don’t know the identity, but we know where they came from – a single blogger who posted the stuff on my Wikipedia page and Wikiquotes, unsourced.

Wikipedia says, ‘Well, this is in dispute.’ It’s not in dispute. They were never uttered. I never said them. And I’ve even told reporters I never said them.

As Mark Steyn points out, in this instance it’s for Limbaugh to prove the negative – an impossible task. And Dan Calebrese asks why if Limbaugh really is a racist then it takes bogus quotes to “prove” that he is?

What’s the term for those who are setting about “racist” Rush Limbaugh right now? Ironically, it seems to be “lynch mob”. And they’ve succeeded – word is that Limbaugh’s been dropped from the consortium seeking to buy the St Louis Rams.

Tags: ABC, CNN, James Earl Ray, lynch mob, Martin Luther King, MSNBC, Rick Sanchez, Rush Limbaugh, slavery

[I Am Right]

Don't worry LS sooner your posts are on the way to the Limbaugh legal team.

[I Am Right]

Thanks to an intrepid blogger with the tag Trapdoc posting a letter to Mark Steyn, the search for the Wikipedia Libelist responsible for damaging posts to the Rush Limbaugh account has been narrowed to the IP address of a New York City law firm:


"The quotes were added by a user with the IP address of 69.64.213.146. This address has been used mostly to make changes to the article about Rush, but also Karl Rove, Sean Hannity,.. James Dobson and Sara Palin from 2005 until earlier this year.


"While others have noted this in various forums, no one seems to have made the connection that this IP address is used as a gateway by the law firm Patterson Belknap Webb & Tyler LLP (see here, for example) that all users from that IP address come from the pbwt.com domain.)"

The firm provides a wide array of legal services with a broad spectrum of politically correct causes served:

"It is one of the first major firms in New York City to elect a woman as managing partner. In addition to its Diversity Committee, a group of Patterson Belknap attorneys formed PAC -- Patterson Attorneys of Color -- to assist with the enhancement of workplace diversity and the recruitment, retention and promotion of attorneys of color. Another group, Out at Patterson, focuses on issues relevant to the firm's lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender individuals, and Women Lawyers at Patterson (WLAP) focuses on women's issues."


Considering Rush's militant political incorrectness, there may be a large number of potentially culpable attorneys and/or staffers to choose from. However, a forensic data retrieval technician should surely be able to narrow the focus and identify the likely poster. Perhaps Rush can enlist the aid of PBWT alumni, Rudy Giuliani, Manhattan District Attorney Robert Morgenthau or firm partner, Edward F. Cox, (son-in-law of former President, Richard M. Nixon) in his search for justice.


There is no question that Mr. Limbaugh has been damaged by the salacious quotes added to his Wikipedia profile and their dissemination in the PC-stream media. Hope this helps, Rush.


You know they say the only cure for a lawyer is another lawyer.....


Ralph Alter blogs at Right On Target

Update from Thomas Lifson:

Well, well, well, lookee here (from the firm's own website)



Firm Establishes Sports Group
September 21, 2009


Growing Cross-Disciplinary Practice Handles Disputes and Transactions for Numerous Sports-Related Entities

NEW YORK, NY - September 21, 2009. Patterson Belknap Webb & Tyler LLP is pleased to announce the formal establishment of its interdisciplinary Sports Group. The firm's work in this area dates back decades and includes high-profile disputes and transactions involving professional baseball, basketball, hockey, tennis and golf, as well as the representation of sports-related media entities. Among other matters on behalf of various leagues, teams, and other sports-related entities, over the last several years our attorneys regularly have litigated complex commercial matters, handled sensitive internal investigations issues, and provided corporate, intellectual property and charitable giving advice both in high-profile transactions and as day-to-day legal advisors.

Our Sports Group attorneys' specific experience includes the representation of:


•A leading sports news network as a defendant in a case in which the plaintiff argued that fantasy sports games offered on its website constituted illegal gambling. The court dismissed this case of first impression with prejudice.
•Various investor groups as intellectual property counsel in their acquisitions and proposed acquisitions of Major League Baseball, National Hockey League and NASCAR teams.
•A professional sports league in an investigation of and issuance of a report concerning allegations made by a member team that a rival team violated the league's anti-tampering rules.
•A professional sports hall of fame as plaintiff in a trademark infringement litigation culminating in a successful settlement requiring a change to defendant's use of its mark.
•A major U.S. professional soccer league in its formation and launch.
•The seller of a Major League Baseball franchise in a breach of contract litigation with an investment bank.
•A leading regional sports network in connection with its broadcasting rights agreement to license professional baseball and basketball games to local television stations.
•A professional basketball team's foundation in connection with its charitable activities.
•A not-for-profit organization formed to further New York City's bid to host the 2012 Summer Olympic Games in connection with intellectual property matters.
Patterson Belknap's Managing Partner, Bob LoBue, said, "To provide maximum value to our clients, it makes sense to combine in a single working group the full range of skills and experience that the firm has to offer to our sports industry clients. We believe our broad experience advising these entities will be a great asset to them going forward in today's fast-paced and dynamic business environment."

The Sports Group includes leading Litigation, White Collar Defense and Investigations, Intellectual Property, Tax-Exempt Organizations and Corporate attorneys, including:

Litigation:

Peter C. Harvey is the former Attorney General of the State of New Jersey and the first African-American to hold that position. He is active in investigations and complex commercial litigation nationwide. His clients include sports-related and media and entertainment entities. Prior to becoming Attorney General, Mr. Harvey served as First Assistant Attorney General and the Director of the Division of Criminal Justice. He previously served as an Assistant U.S. Attorney for the District of New Jersey.

Robert W. Lehrburger is a trial and appellate attorney who handles commercial and intellectual property matters, including false advertising, infringement (trademark, copyright and patent), licensing, unfair competition and other complex business disputes. He has written and lectured on a number of intellectual property and litigation topics ranging from deceptive advertising on the internet to domain name cybersquatting to trademark issues lurking in song titles and lyrics.

Daniel S. Ruzumna spent six years at the United States Attorney's Office for the Southern District of New York, where he last served as Acting Chief of the Major Crimes Unit. His practice focuses on white collar criminal defense and related regulatory proceedings, internal investigations, and complex financial litigation. He has represented corporations and corporate executives in many recent high-profile criminal and regulatory investigations involving alleged violations of the securities laws, antitrust laws, and Foreign Corrupt Practices Act.

Saul B. Shapiro is a nationally recognized litigator and veteran of several high-profile sports industry disputes and investigations. His work includes the representation of professional sports leagues and television networks. He is noted consistently as a leading practitioner in Chambers USA, as well as a "Litigation Star" in Euromoney / Institutional Investor's Benchmark: America's Leading Litigation Firms and Attorneys. Mr. Shapiro is co-Chair of the firm's Media and Entertainment Practice.

Transactional:

Karen R. Berry focuses her practice on intellectual property counseling, transactions, and licensing matters, and has particular skill in internet and new media, including "virtual world" issues. She handles software licensing, trademark licensing and a broad range of other agreements for clients that include sports-related entities and individuals. Ms. Berry is a frequent speaker

[85Sooner]

Rush Limbaugh is a hate spewing racist. He's said racist things in the past and he'll say more in the future.

He wants to "own a bunch of blacks" who, when they're playing football in the NFL more "resemble a gang war with a bunch of crips and bloods" and have them work for him. "There...I said it."

I don't blame ALL the black players from staunchly opposing him owning a team. After all, the NFL Players Association was against him getting a team before Al and Jessie were. Who'd wanna be "owned" by a racist fat pig bigot? ;)

Well said by someone who has never listened to him and typical of a liberal who still can't produce one iota of proof that Rush said anything racist just like the MSM. Hope he sues the **** out of every media outlet that did that.

You can disagree with him but the racist label is just plain ignorant. His partner on the show, who has been with him for over 20years is black FGS.

Snopes said he said something racist back in the seventies when he wasn't even on the radio which shows how bad snopes has gotten. Meanwhile Fergie who uses the N word and B word conssistantly in her songs is OK.

[85Sooner]

Yes he did. They were taken from transcripts of his own show.

That's why he can't sue anyone over it. Oh, he can lie and deny it, but sue someone for libel? Not a chance. ;)

Again, nope. They weren't proven ANYTHING. He denied them, sure, but he didn't prove a thing. Why? Because he SAID THEM.

That's why he ain't suing anyone. :D

Because the media never ever pics anything up and replays it every five minutes in order to fill their 24 hour news cycle, do they? :rolleyes:

Apparently that's all you know how to do. ;)

Apparently that's all you can do since the facts never back up a single thing you say.

Calling someone a racist who IS a racist is just honesty. As for making stuff up, how's that Yellow Cake Uranium coming? Or those WMD's? Lemme know when you find them. ;)

Stalker.
You havn't backed up a single quote and the problem is you can't because he has never said what you are accusing him of.

[Turd_Ferguson]

You havn't backed up a single quote and the problem is you can't because he has never said what you are accusing him of.Just wait, he'll spew out some drivel to show you that your nothing but a bigoted racist homophobe:D

[I Am Right]

Churchill, a tall, raven-haired woman who, like Obama, grew up in Hawaii, wrote to the president after winning her university's beauty pageant last week.

"It would be much easier to say that possibly some were not accepting of the news because I wasn?t the most qualified contestant; however, the true reason for the disapproval was because of the color of my skin. I am not African American," the nursing student wrote to the president.

She asked the president for help, suggesting that he visit Hampton University to convince students to "stop focusing so much on the color of my skin and doubting my abilities to represent, but rather be proud of the changes our nation is making towards accepting diversity.

"I am hoping that you can assist me in opening some closed minds," Churchill said.

[LosAngelesSooner]

Well said by someone who has never listened to him and typical of a liberal who still can't produce one iota of proof that Rush said anything racist just like the MSM. Hope he sues the **** out of every media outlet that did that.

You can disagree with him but the racist label is just plain ignorant. His partner on the show, who has been with him for over 20years is black FGS.

Snopes said he said something racist back in the seventies when he wasn't even on the radio which shows how bad snopes has gotten. Meanwhile Fergie who uses the N word and B word conssistantly in her songs is OK."Blah blah blah! I'm not racist...I've got a black friend!!!" LMFAO :D

Dude...I've backed it up. All those quotes. He said 'em, he's crawfishing like a mofo because he knows it hurts him.

I gave you a list of 10 racist quotes and you could only come up with a weak, half-assed debunking of TWO OF THEM! LOL What about the other eight? "Oh...we'll just ignore those..."

No...you won't. Because Rush Limbaugh is a racist hate spewing fat assed piece of trash.

And you can send THAT to his lawyers, too. :D

[I Am Right]

So, which water fountain does Rush get to drink out of?

[SoonerNate]

"Blah blah blah! I'm not racist...I've got a black friend!!!" LMFAO :D

Dude...I've backed it up. All those quotes. He said 'em, he's crawfishing like a mofo because he knows it hurts him.

I gave you a list of 10 racist quotes and you could only come up with a weak, half-assed debunking of TWO OF THEM! LOL What about the other eight? "Oh...we'll just ignore those..."

No...you won't. Because Rush Limbaugh is a racist hate spewing fat assed piece of trash.

And you can send THAT to his lawyers, too. :D

LOL. Last I checked it was a Republican that freed the slaves and it was a democrat that currently sits in the Senate who is a former Klan member!!!