Limbaugh: Everyone’s afraid to ‘criticize the little black man-child.’
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Limbaugh: Everyone’s afraid to ‘criticize the little black man-child.’
Continuing his race-based attacks from the day before, Rush Limbaugh declared yesterday that Sen. Barack Obama’s (D-IL) success so far is because people “can’t criticize the little black man-child:”
LIMBAUGH: It’s — you know, it’s just — it’s just we can’t hit the girl. I don’t care how far feminism’s saying, you can’t hit the girl, and you can’t — you can’t criticize the little black man-child. You just can’t do it, ’cause it’s just not right. It’s not fair. He’s such a victim.
Limbaugh has made racist attacks on Obama his forte. In March, he declared Obama had “disowned his white half” and “decided he’s got to go all in on the black side.” Last year, he called Obama “Barack the Magic Negro.”
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LIMBAUGH: It’s — you know, it’s just — it’s just we can’t hit the girl. I don’t care how far feminism’s saying, you can’t hit the girl, and you can’t — you can’t criticize the little black man-child. You just can’t do it, ’cause it’s just not right. It’s not fair. He’s such a victim.
Yeah , because the MSM certainly has treated the supposed POW-tough guy with an iron fist , haven’t they , you stupid porcine piece of shit …………?
August 21st, 2008 at 12:21 pmOMG! How I hate that pig-eyed, racist sack-o-shit!
I’ve really searched, but I can’t seem to find a list of Limpball’s sponsors. Anyone?
PEACE
August 21st, 2008 at 12:22 pmummm… Rush is projecting. Just because his listeners lack the depth to understand any criticism deeper than ‘N-WORD SECRET MUSLIM’, doesn’t mean that we have to lower the bar.
August 21st, 2008 at 12:23 pm‘little black man-child’…. what the hell does that even mean?
August 21st, 2008 at 12:24 pmThis is very discouraging for this country. Not Limbaugh, he is a buffoon. What’s awful is that in 2008, this race baiting appeal is an effective tactic that is largely unchallenged in public discourse. Combined with the acceptance of torture, these are dark days. The election is really a contest for the soul of the country.
August 21st, 2008 at 12:25 pmOh my gosh, Lush Limpballs is a bigot? Who would have thought?
And “some people say*” he is also a druggy, and a Dominican Republic child sex slave abuser who also has sex with animals.
*just using a reichwing excuse for saying just about anything I want.
August 21st, 2008 at 12:26 pmI have $20 that says Limpdick has a Confederate flag on his wall and a KKK Grand Cyclops robes in his closet.
August 21st, 2008 at 12:26 pmFirst Randall Cunningham, now Barack Obama.
Why doesn’t Rush just go ahead and wear the sheet and hood on his show?
August 21st, 2008 at 12:28 pmDaryll-FLAGGED!
August 21st, 2008 at 12:28 pmDaryll, get back the the gay thread, freak.
And “some people say*” ACME_Democrat is also a druggy, and a Dominican Republic child sex slave abuser who also has sex with animals.
*hey, this works every time, cool, sorta like saying “in the bed” on fortune cookies.
August 21st, 2008 at 12:29 pmI thought OXYbaugh likes little black Dominican men children. Maybe that’s only while taking Viagra.
¶ AIO
August 21st, 2008 at 12:29 pmBut he loves the Bush man-child who cut his taxes.
August 21st, 2008 at 12:29 pmFortunately it is still permissible to criticize a bloated drug addict. We should all exercise that right as often as possible.
August 21st, 2008 at 12:30 pmRush isn’t real. Writers just come up with goofy shit for him to say to feed the freaks who think he is real. He just picks up the paycheck. He exploits those oddball dittoheads all the way to the bank just as Rove and crew do to the evangelicals
August 21st, 2008 at 12:30 pmAnd Darlyy – nice call on Huckleberry – you’re REALLY credible when it comes to elections.
Wait! Are you Bill Kristol? You’re correct about as often.
August 21st, 2008 at 12:30 pmDaryll Says:
If Hussein can stop pulling the race card numerous times, maybe we can “somewhat” respect him as a candidate. Until then, he will be considered as a product of affirmative action.
..utters the defender of racists. Obama pointing out the refusal of the reich-wing opposition to debate outstanding issues is not the race card.
Your head is going to explode 4 November 2008, religious freak.
August 21st, 2008 at 12:30 pmThis country sold its soul when Reagan was elected. Trouble is we didn’t get much for it. Trickle down economics of the GOP has proved to be a myth. Cutting taxes and spending the national treasure on war is destroying the economy. Still these greedy pigs will never willingly let go of any power.
August 21st, 2008 at 12:31 pmDaryll Says:
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If Hussein can stop pulling the race card numerous times, maybe we can “somewhat” respect him as a candidate. Until then, he will be considered as a product of affirmative action.
August 21st, 2008 at 12:25 pm
And the last 2 GOP presidential candidates get no respect (and deservedly so) , because they are products of nepotism and wealth ; otherwise , they’d both be working the same peanut stand in some southern traveling circus/carnival…….
Oh , and they’re both moronic lying sacks of crap.
August 21st, 2008 at 12:31 pmDaryll Says
August 21st, 2008 at 12:25 pm
If Hussein can stop pulling the race card numerous times, maybe we can “somewhat” respect him as a candidate. Until then, he will be considered as a product of affirmative action.
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OK — please provide us with your list of times that Obama has pulled “the race card”. And don’t include times where he has merely responded to others who have done so.
August 21st, 2008 at 12:32 pmACME_Democrat
It looks as if Rush did you a favor lately. How else could your face be covered in his excrement?
August 21st, 2008 at 12:33 pmACME_Democrat Says:
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Nothing riles up the Left like Rush Limbaugh!
August 21st, 2008 at 12:26 pm
Yeah
Imagine that , Wile E ; there are those of us who do not find a fat , lying , drug addicted d0uchebag as being in any way informative or entertaining.
Much less “always right” , when he’s not even in the same universe ………….
August 21st, 2008 at 12:33 pmACME_Democrat Says:
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Nothing riles up the Left like Rush Limbaugh!
Yeah, we do have a big problem with racists. Is it hard to see the keyboard with that white hood on?
August 21st, 2008 at 12:34 pmDaryll should stop pulling the I’m a poor abused Christo cult follower card.
August 21st, 2008 at 12:35 pmFlag that fuçken freak Daryll into oblivion so this thread doesn’t go to 400.
¶ AIO
August 21st, 2008 at 12:35 pmEveryone’s afraid to ‘criticize …
REALLY?
then what’s the word for it?
it’s sure hard to tell the ANYone’s afraid to even ‘criticize’…
August 21st, 2008 at 12:36 pmDaryll Says:
If Hussein can stop pulling the race card numerous times, maybe we can “somewhat” respect him as a candidate. Until then, he will be considered as a product of affirmative action.
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Product of affirmative action — is that another way of saying “first in his graduating class at Harvard and editor of the Harvard Law Review”?
And what do we call the family influence that got McCain into the Naval Academy, where he graduated at the bottom of his class?
August 21st, 2008 at 12:36 pmWhat’s funny, is this could be any number of black individuals he’s talking about. Remember the McNabb remarks?
I think this is how Rush regards blacks in general.
Can anyone list the last time Rush praised a black man?
Any black man?
August 21st, 2008 at 12:36 pmmisshusseinmolly Says:
OK — please provide us with your list of times that Obama has pulled “the race card”. And don’t include times where he has merely responded to others who have done so.
August 21st, 2008 at 12:32 pm
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See, in Conserva-logic™, any time Obama defends himself, he’s playing the race card. Cause he’s black and therefore can’t make any statement that isn’t somehow related to his race.
August 21st, 2008 at 12:36 pmWrong. Nothing riles up the Left like an ignorant liar.
Oh, wait. We’re saying the same thing.
Never mind.
August 21st, 2008 at 12:37 pmUgh, I can’t believe that ANYONE listens to this idiotic waste of space anymore. Well, maybe we can match him up against Roseanne Barr. She’s his equivalent on the left in my opinion.
They should do a cage match….
August 21st, 2008 at 12:37 pmWho wants to bet that Rush had to bite his lip when he replaced “sambo” with “man-child”?
August 21st, 2008 at 12:39 pmHow in the world is Roseanne Barr Rush’s “equivalent on the left”?
August 21st, 2008 at 12:40 pmAfter reading through several right wing websites last night, I expected to find well researched arguements and facts to counter what I find here. Instead I find weak opinionated garbage.
Keep up the good work folks. We don’t care if stuff like Rush’s incindiary hate mongering rallies people. Id still rather be correct on the facts.
“Never argue with a fool, onlookers may not know the difference.” -twain
August 21st, 2008 at 12:41 pmI can’t help but chuckle at Mr. OxyContin and his merry band of dittoheads. I sense a bit of desparation (and envy) in his attacks.
If race is fair game, then the discussion of dangerous and unpredictable behaviour, poor memory and overall unstable conduct by the presumptive Republican nominee is on the table. “Whether it is associated with PTSD or age-related, it is a sad affair. But can we risk his finger near the button?”
August 21st, 2008 at 12:41 pmi find it hilarious that the repugnicans are calling *Obama’s* candidacy a result of affirmative action. Isn’t that why McThuseleh is the republican candidate? Oh, you have to forgive him for saying x, he’s having a senior moment. Oh, he doesn’t speak for his own campaign, he can’t be expected to grasp all of these issues.
these are excuses for him, just as the repubs call affirmative action an excuse for minorities.
if you disagree, answer this question: if McCain were 25 years younger and made the same misstatements (think: shi’a versus sunni, iraq/afghanistan border, etc.), the same gaffes (hey, let’s renegotiate the incredibly sensitive water compact even though I’m the only person even talking about it), the same flip-flops (e.g., i oppose Bush’s tax cuts because they only confer benefits on the super-wealthy — no, wait, I *support* Bush’s tax cuts because everyone making less than $5 million a year is poor), the same sexist remarks (the gorilla joke and the names he’s called his own wife), the same unethical/immoral behavior (e.g., cheating and then lying about it in church), and the same disdain for honesty, forthrightness and truth (e.g., his greatest moral failing was the failure of his first marriage, which was neither moral nor really a failing, as opposed to the behavior that precipitated it), would he be the republican nominee?
Would the press have glossed over all this?
THAT’s affirmative action.
August 21st, 2008 at 12:41 pmDarryl
– Grandma and grandpa forking out the cash for your substandard education is affirmative action.
– Athletes who gain admission with full ride “scholarships” with lower GPAs A-OK, that is affirmative action.
– Jocks and sorority types who gain entrance as a return for mom and pop writing checks to the development office, that is affirmative action.
For the purposes of writing this post and seeing into Darryl’s mind, affirmative action is defined as undue influence in advancement. The noble definition of affirmative action otherwise applies.
August 21st, 2008 at 12:42 pmWhy does Daryll only use his “good” material on posts that feature things like Republican bathroom stall toe-tapping? If he’s not careful, he’s going to be typecast as a single issue troll.
On topic, Rush is really too stupid for words. If that’s why Obama has made it so far, perhaps he can explain to us why Jesse Jackson or even Al Sharpton couldn’t get the nom. Obviously we must have been afraid to criticize them too.
August 21st, 2008 at 12:42 pmI personally try to not support any of limpball’s advertisers nor any of the rest of the corpocracy that underwrites the “mighty wurlitzer” and MSM “echo chamber”.
It sometimes feels like a futile thing to do because global corporations do not give a damn about whether any one of us supports them.
Of course, a nation-wide, coordinated boycott would change all of this very quickly. No social change happens without people getting organized and make at least modest sacrifices – peaceful action.
I have been told (and flamed) for even wondering why netroots and superblogs don’t decide to be more than information sources and places to vent.
Until we decide to do more, it’s just another version of atrio’s “101st Keyboarding Brigade”.
Will anyone recognize and accept that unorganized peaceful action and economic boycotts are difficult/impossible to maintain without someone taking the lead?
Does anyone else ever wonder if the things they do not to support Rush’s advertisers is not significant without a national effort?
August 21st, 2008 at 12:42 pmACME seems to be a bit riled up himself, when anyone attacks his BBF the rusher.
A lot of man-love there, ACME?
August 21st, 2008 at 12:43 pmDoes anyone else ever wonder what a blog owned and maintained by Dr. Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr. would look like?
Imagine that…
August 21st, 2008 at 12:44 pmOr if Ghandi had a blog…
August 21st, 2008 at 12:45 pmWow, Limbaugh is really going off the rails. I think he’s having a total meltdown. Couldn’t happen to a nicer guy.
August 21st, 2008 at 12:45 pmFlagging Daryll, he may claim to be black but he is one of the most racist trolls posting.
It would not be the first time he was lying.
August 21st, 2008 at 12:45 pmRussina Limbaugh is a racist POS.
There. I just had to say it.
August 21st, 2008 at 12:46 pmY’know, I always wondered whether the explosions and mishaps that befell Wile E. Coyote in his fruitless quests to nab the roadrunner were his fault, or the fault of the poorly designed equipment he always purchased by mail-order from ACME.
ACME_Democrat’s performance here has gone a long way toward answering that question, and I think I owe Wile E. an apology.
August 21st, 2008 at 12:46 pmHave you guys NOT yet figured out that Rush Limbaugh is a BUFFOON? OsiSpeaks.com
August 21st, 2008 at 12:48 pm…and speaking of the press giving McCain an “affirmative action” pass, i hadn’t yet had a chance to read the story posted right before this one. case in point.
August 21st, 2008 at 12:49 pmYesterday Limpballs went off the rails on Rachel Maddow. Apparently he’s so green eyed with envy that he had to take a shot at Maddow:
Although he didn’t end up with the Worst Person award last night (that spot reserved for Bill O’Reilly), Keith Olbermann put Rush Limbaugh in the “Worser” nod on Countdown last night for the radio host’s comment about the hiring of Rachel Maddow.
What’s the matter Limpballs, are you jealous.
One thing I would love to see before I die. I would love to see a debate between Rachel and Limpballs. She would have him crying and whining within five minutes. She would wipe him out quicker than $hit.
August 21st, 2008 at 12:49 pmDaryll Says:
If Hussein can stop pulling the race card numerous times, maybe we can “somewhat” respect him as a candidate. Until then, he will be considered as a product of affirmative action.
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Hey Darryl, how about some meaningful proof that Obama has “pulled the race card numerous times”…????
Clearly, YOU have no problems playing it at all…
On the other hand, it would appear that Rush is TERRIFIED at the prospect of a black man in the WH, in some capacity other than serving dinner. Why else would El-Rushbo need to MINIMIZE Obama w/ phrases like “little-black man child”?
Strange… the number of times Rush makes sure he has his picture taken while he’s busy sucking on something long, stiff, and black… his cigar, you silly…
August 21st, 2008 at 12:50 pmObama must have no chance of winning, Bilbo. That must be must be why the reich freaks are in full blather mode.
I think big radio upped Limbaugh’s contract so he’ll have a few extra bucks for medical care when his head explodes.
August 21st, 2008 at 12:50 pm#44 Joe, do you have a list of his sponsors? I’m too swamped to do ‘a google’ (h/t McCain)…
>.>
<.<
Please ignore the fact that I am reading this site in my ’swampedness’…
August 21st, 2008 at 12:50 pmCheeseheadliberal Says:
Ugh, I can’t believe that ANYONE listens to this idiotic waste of space anymore. Well, maybe we can match him up against Roseanne Barr. She’s his equivalent on the left in my opinion.
They should do a cage match….
Barbwire cage match, Roseanne would leave Rush in a puddle, lol.
I’d buy a ticket for that one and I don’t watch WWE wrasslin’.
August 21st, 2008 at 12:51 pmalphainfinityomega Says:
Flag that fuçken freak Daryll into oblivion so this thread doesn’t go to 400.
¶ AIO
August 21st, 2008 at 12:35 pm
Amen.
August 21st, 2008 at 12:52 pmObama is half White!
It just amazes me how half Black is enough to qualify someone as Black, but half White isn’t enough to qualify them as White.
This is just a Brown (neither White nor Black) person’s perspective here.
August 21st, 2008 at 12:52 pmhey rush, it’s one thing to go after obama’s Race and Ethnicity, and quite another thing to actually criticize his policy positions.
but, seeing as you’re a FAT RETARD, i’m not surprised to hear this….
August 21st, 2008 at 12:52 pmBilbo,
Rachel has more intelligence in her small toenails than the rusher has in his bloated oversized head.
This guy has a high school ‘eddykachon’ to go against her PhD.
That debate would be over in 5 minutes, if held in a neutral environment.
August 21st, 2008 at 12:52 pmOn topic:
Limbaugh is decompensating. He’s definitely back on the pills.
Absolutely stunning racism…
August 21st, 2008 at 12:54 pmOk, I don’t see any posts here by daryll. Has TP finally banned him? One can only hope.
August 21st, 2008 at 12:54 pmdeebaser Says:
‘little black man-child’…. what the hell does that even mean?
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It’s meant to minimize… like calling women “gals” or a black man “boy”…
August 21st, 2008 at 12:54 pmAwwww, now, poor Rushie!
He’s being so politically correct!! He’s trying so very hard, that poor racist darling!
Look at him! The poor man has to bite his tongue every day instead of coming right out and calling Obama a N****R – we should pity him and admire his restraint!!
/BIG snark
August 21st, 2008 at 12:55 pmScaryBrownHusseinChick (ThinkOutsideTheBush) Says:
Obama is half White!
It just amazes me how half Black is enough to qualify someone as Black, but half White isn’t enough to qualify them as White.
This is just a Brown (neither White nor Black) person’s perspective here.
I like to think of Obama as a lovely shade of caramel.
August 21st, 2008 at 12:55 pmLooks like Darlyy got flushed down the terlet with his bible page toilet paper a followin…
August 21st, 2008 at 12:56 pmZooey Says:
On topic: Limbaugh is decompensating.
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I t’ink ya got da wrong word there, Z.
You must have meant “decomposing”…
August 21st, 2008 at 12:56 pmThe Republic of Stupidity Says:
Zooey Says:
On topic: Limbaugh is decompensating.
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I t’ink ya got da wrong word there, Z.
You must have meant “decomposing”…
August 21st, 2008 at 12:56 pm
One thing at a time… ;)
August 21st, 2008 at 12:57 pm.
“R” is for:
Rush
Racist
Republican
Regressive
Really fat
Rx addiction
Raping little children in far off lands
.
August 21st, 2008 at 12:57 pmBuh-Bye Daryll.
August 21st, 2008 at 12:58 pmdeebaser Says:
‘little black man-child’…. what the hell does that even mean?
Maybe that putrid, bloated devil is trying to say or imply that hateful, hurtful word “boy.”
Down with the Chicken Hawks!
August 21st, 2008 at 12:59 pmMcWars Says:
Obama must have no chance of winning, Bilbo. That must be must be why the reich freaks are in full blather mode.
I’m not sure what you mean by that? Do you think that Obama has no chance of winning or did you mean to say McBush?
I think the right knows there’s no way they are going to win this one. I think they are either 1) going to give up and resign themselves to the fact that McCain is going to lose big or 2) pull a switch at the convention and try again with someone else. I have no idea who that someone would be, though.
August 21st, 2008 at 1:00 pmMore Limbaugh:
The Sherrif is Near! The Sherrif IS NEAR!
No, gadnabbit! The SHERRIF is a N_#$*(&#ER!
August 21st, 2008 at 1:02 pmAlso,
It’s really amazing,
August 21st, 2008 at 1:02 pmIt seems that once these fools felt like they had enough clout due to the hijacking of elections and all, they all started to show their true racist sides.
Bilbo, according to Darlyy, that would be President-Elect, BassPlayer.
August 21st, 2008 at 1:03 pmBut Limbaugh & Company still accusing Obama of playing the ‘race card’.
Media talking heads night after night they accused Obama of playing the ‘race card’…even McCain campaign managers did.
Now who is playing the race card..? !!
August 21st, 2008 at 1:03 pm.
Well in this case, let’s substitute Rush’s own words and see how it can be applied to himself:
Yep, Rush is a victim of his racism, his addiction, his weight, his hair loss, and sexual proclivities…
However, unlike minorities, people can’t change their skin color unlike their attitude toward others… eh Daryll?
“Judge not… unless you’re Republican.”
.
August 21st, 2008 at 1:03 pm#RUCerious Says:
Looks like Darlyy got flushed down the terlet with his bible page toilet paper a followin…
I wonder if he really got banned or if they just kicked him off this thread. If they really did ban him, expect the appearance of daryll1 or 2 soon.
August 21st, 2008 at 1:05 pm“Little black man-child.”
August 21st, 2008 at 1:05 pmKind of an elaborate way of calling Barack “‘boy”, no?
Drug Rush Limbaugh has spent the last 8 yrs smokin’ n cursin’. He’s run out of tricks and every time he’s sped up high on meth he pulls the same rabbitt out of the hat. He’s all for his butt buddy Bush bringing ruin to this nation and the world.
Drug Rush check your briefcase you got speed and poppers that’ll get that racist hatred going. IT IS THE IDIOT FREAK GWBUSH AND HIS COLOSSAL SCREWUPS THAT HAVE PAVED THE WAY FOR OBAMA. ACCEPT IT, DEAL WITH IT! SOBER UP AND GET USED TO IT! NEO-NAZI-TWEAKER-JUNKIE-FROM-HELL!
August 21st, 2008 at 1:09 pmRacism on loan from a dirtward.
August 21st, 2008 at 1:12 pmralph the wonder llama
I think it’s fairly obvious why she’s his equivalent. Have you ever read her blog? She’s a obnoxious fat blow-hard who doesn’t know the facts about 80% of what she’s talking about. Just like Rush.
Hey, it’s just my opinion. If you think she provides thoughtful enlightened commentary, you should check out her raging against Brangelina and their kids from a couple days ago. Borderline crazy imho.
August 21st, 2008 at 1:13 pmOkay, let’s get past the ignorant racism that clouds the real stupidity of Rush’s remark. A radio talk show host sounding like a redneck is nothing new — it’s what he has to do to draw the kinds of listeners he has.
But check out what Rush is saying:
you can’t criticize the little black man-child. You just can’t do it, ’cause it’s just not right. It’s not fair. He’s such a victim.
He’s whining about not being able to criticize a presidential candidate.
Does he think Obama has not been criticized during this campaign?
I don’t know about Rush, but I’ve seen plenty of criticism. Most of it absurd, but plenty of it. So clearly, there is no prohibition on criticizing Obama.
So what is Rush getting at here?
This is clearly an expression of frustration. But frustration with what? It appears to me as if Rush is complaining that he can’t criticize Obama on the things he wants to use — namely, his race. And he can’t use that because society says it’s wrong.
That rankles him, you can tell.
He wants to call him the n-word. You know he wants to.
Rush is just like Col. Jessup in A Few Good Men. He wants to say it so bad, and he knows if he did, it would bring a shitstom down. But he still wants to.
And we know Rush has a real problem with reining in his desires. generally, when Rush wants to do something or say something, he’s gonna do it, and no one is gonna tell him he can’t.
So what about it, kids? Think we can get Rush to say the word he so badly wants to say? Anyone want to call in to Rush’s show and egg him on?
Who’s up for it?
August 21st, 2008 at 1:18 pmBilbo Hussein Baggins Says:
I’m not sure what you mean by that? Do you think that Obama has no chance of winning or did you mean to say McBush?
Completely sarcastic there, Bilbo. The right lectures us that “Obama has no chance of winning”, “We blew it” in an arrogantly presumptive fashion, yet they seem to be turning up the volume on their rhetoric and and looking real scared while doing so. A lack of consistency on their part.
I better use those sarc labels more often. Sorry about that.
August 21st, 2008 at 1:20 pmBut here’s the thing: Rush has a daily nationwide radio show.
Roseanne has a blog.
Rush gets invited to the White House. Roseanne doesn’t.
They may be equivalent in rudeness and ingonrance, but until Roseanne has a forum that’s even comparable to Rush’s they’re hardly equivalent.
The Left has nutcases too, just like the Right. The difference is, people on the Right pay attention to their nutcases. They give them radio shows and TV shows, and they’re not bothered by their ignorance. They’re entertained by it.
August 21st, 2008 at 1:22 pmI like your point, panty squeeze…
August 21st, 2008 at 1:25 pmralph the wonder llama Says:
Who wants to bet that Rush had to bite his lip when he replaced “sambo” with “man-child”?
thought the same thing myself…
August 21st, 2008 at 1:25 pmthanks, db…
Dribbledick hasn’t shown up yet, has he? I can’t wait to see what he looks like in his Level 13 robes.
August 21st, 2008 at 1:30 pmMcWars Says:
Bilbo Hussein Baggins Says:
I better use those sarc labels more often. Sorry about that.
That’s OK. I seem to be easily confused today for some reason. I called the phone company about my phone that doesn’t work and gave them the wrong phone number, after being on hold for 15 minutes. It took another 15 minutes for me to correct my error. Maybe it’s time for me to take a nap.
August 21st, 2008 at 1:32 pmSponsers and stations care less about ignorant talk jocks as long as the ratings bring in the money and rush just got a sweet money deal. Amazing how many people like rush’s redneck philosophy and believe it.
August 21st, 2008 at 1:33 pmralph the wonder llama Says:
Dribbledick hasn’t shown up yet, has he? I can’t wait to see what he looks like in his Level 13 robes.
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Uh… kinda like Botch and the Aussie PM in their Harry Potter/Sorcerer outfits from last fall?
August 21st, 2008 at 1:38 pmWell at least limbaugh doesn’t pretend to be impartial like o’reilly. His congratulatory phone call from papa bush a few weeks ago was loud and clear who plays in his playpen.
August 21st, 2008 at 1:40 pmBilbo, sorry to hear. Dealing with corporate helplines will fluster anyone. One only has to recharge their batteries so they can return in top form. I’m about to take a break myself.
August 21st, 2008 at 1:44 pmPeople like Lintball must be here on earth to remind us of the worst we can produce.
August 21st, 2008 at 1:44 pmIf there is a god, he would have at the very least turned him into a pillar of salt years ago
Anyone else wonder what would happen in your world caught sexually harrassing a co-worker or having your housekeeper buy your drugs for years? Repubs are so afraid that honesty and integrity will replace their world of payoffs. Thats what scares the hell out of conservatives.
August 21st, 2008 at 1:45 pmGrowing up in the South, I was always amazed that people wouldn’t criticise the minorities (or use words that weren’t as euphemized). And how the KKK totally refused to criticize anyone.
More recently on talk radio, how the hosts would refuse to say things like “nappy headed ‘hores” or any other words of disrespect.
And this year on how no one would criticise the Mexicans who came over the border without the proper documentation.
When are we gonna get our spine back ?
August 21st, 2008 at 1:47 pmHuh?
August 21st, 2008 at 1:49 pmWhy are so many Republicans pill-popping racists?
August 21st, 2008 at 1:54 pm“…you can’t criticize the little black man-child.”
This is the drug addict’s way of calling Obama “boy.”
August 21st, 2008 at 1:55 pmMy thoughts exactly.
August 21st, 2008 at 1:55 pmThis moron is the Jerry Springer of radio. The really sad part is, people listen to him and BELIEVE this crap!!! He needs to be stoned, oh wait, he probably is!
August 21st, 2008 at 1:56 pmThe Tighty Righties continually badgered Obama to denounce the comments of Rev. Wright and Father Pfleger.
Is it asking too much for McCain to denounce Limbaugh?
August 21st, 2008 at 1:57 pmRush: the magic *sshole.
August 21st, 2008 at 2:01 pmralph, upon further reflection I think I have got it.
August 21st, 2008 at 2:02 pmdbadass, do tell.
August 21st, 2008 at 2:03 pmIt was intended to be sarcasm. I think. We are talking about the odd post not Rush’s stupid shit right?
August 21st, 2008 at 2:05 pmAfter all of limpdick’s racist comments, people like chimpy, rove, shoot-to-wound cheney and the rest of them go on his show as if his show is viable. These dumbass jerks protect the likes of limpyboy and his overt class of racism.
Lawdy, how they look to the rest of the sane world.
August 21st, 2008 at 2:06 pmY’know, I think you’re right. Yes, the odd post.
August 21st, 2008 at 2:07 pmRush is just frustrated since the black man has more followers than he does. He’s doubling up using Viagra and Cialis and it’s still not working. From no on we can just address him as Rush Limp.
August 21st, 2008 at 2:09 pmIsn’t it time they threw this drug-addled racist hatemonger off the air? What does it take for a right-wing sociopath to get fired in this country?
August 21st, 2008 at 2:10 pmTHAT, my friend, is the question.
My guess is they would have to defend civil rights, or Social Security. That would probably do it.
August 21st, 2008 at 2:14 pmWow, I wonder how much effort it took for Rush to not say BOY?
SO is it just me or did Rush just legitimize domestic violence by whining about how you can’t “hit the girl?”
August 21st, 2008 at 2:18 pmnah… THIS ain’t criticism:
McCain Spokesman’s Retort: Obama Lives in “a Frickin’ Mansion”
August 21st, 2008 at 2:23 pmWashington Post – 48 minutes ago
By Michael D. Shear SEDONA, Ariz. — A spokesman for Sen. John McCain vowed to retaliate against today’s story about how many houses the GOP candidate owns with a renewed focus on Sen. Barack Obama’s ties to a Chicago developer and charges that Obama …
The pressure of that $400MM contract is starting to get to Rush. Obviously, there are performance clauses, electing John McCain is #1. A McCain loss probably trips a renegotiating clause. Rush will then be forced to make do on $20MM/year. He’ll be forced to do fundraising, asking his audience rubes – like Daryll and TK v.13 to help finance his narcotics habit. In return, he’ll continue to feed them his sweet droppings of wisdom.
August 21st, 2008 at 2:25 pmSo is Boss Hogg saying that he WANTS to hit women?! Because that would be telling in-of itself. This macho bravado that these Republican idiots have is highly amusing. Glenn wants to shoot prisoners in the head, Billo thinks a “hitman” is a geeky stalker producer he dispatches to ambush people and now Rush the Rot Gut wants to put on some brass knucks to show dominance over the “lesser” sex, in his eyes.
Did these guys just not get laid at the drive-in when they were watching the westerns and mobster movies they now live in and through because they’re shut-ins after they leave the studios?
August 21st, 2008 at 2:27 pmI think at least three of us here have said that Rush’s “little black man-child” phrase is his crafty way of saying “boy.” Good enough consensus for me!
August 21st, 2008 at 2:27 pmExpect rush to push the agenda that Obama will tax you more to give Blacks more welfare. That always gets the repubs up in arms, after all, “repubs work for a living and pay tons of taxes. ” Never mind the trips, expensive dinners, upscale vehicles that are tax writeoffs. Repubs and wannabees can’t see that as freebies. Sorry, but I have to hear that all the time from a new rich relative, who thinks they are the only ones that have worked and paid taxes.
August 21st, 2008 at 2:31 pmAnyone else wonder why rush hates women, blacks, probably all minorities ?
August 21st, 2008 at 2:33 pmObama worked his way through school and to jobs, no rich wife or daddy’s cronies to help him. Keep that in mind any of you with worries that he is for handouts.
August 21st, 2008 at 2:34 pmIs it going too far to say that Rush is pro-sexual harassment (Remember he did say women wished for sexual harassment) and pro-domestic violence?
August 21st, 2008 at 2:34 pmOK…. so if Rush can dish it, Rush should be able to take it.
How about every time that someone discusses Rush Limbaugh they go out of their way to mention that he’s an old, fat white guy with a nasty drug habit, with erectile disfunction, an adulterer, etc. Oh yeah, and he drove himself deaf with his drug addiction.
August 21st, 2008 at 2:40 pmLimbaugh, a multimillionaire himself because he is the well paid spokesperson for the corporate multimillionaire neocon shills like McCain & Bush…but because Limbaugh is not a politician…he can descend to sheer crassness and hate speech to a degree the others cannot.
August 21st, 2008 at 2:58 pmyou can’t criticize the little black man-child.
What you really meant to call this fully grown black man was boy you racist slime.
http://progressiveworldreview.com
August 21st, 2008 at 3:19 pmTest
August 21st, 2008 at 3:31 pmWhy the hell is my comment, #127 awaiting moderation?
August 21st, 2008 at 3:32 pmRush Limpballs is a perfect representation of the republican party. People like him should be locked up for the hatred that they spew and for their sheer ignorance, Or better yet…beaten senseless and purged from our country.
August 21st, 2008 at 3:35 pmMay Rush Limbaugh have a long healthy happy prosperous life.
(You’re not supposed to wish bad on anybody…No matter how much you might at first want to…You’re supposed to hope they have a change of heart. A miracle, I know…)
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August 21st, 2008 at 3:43 pmRush Limbaugh and the other McCain surrogates are running one of the most racist and divisive campaigns this country has ever seen. This stuff makes Willie Horton look like child play.
August 21st, 2008 at 3:59 pmAl franken is right; RUSH LIMPDICK IS A BIG, FAT, IDIOT.
August 21st, 2008 at 4:09 pmTP clearly has no idea what real racism is. Calling Obama a black man-child is not racist in any way. Obama IS black, and the man-child comment is not racist.
The joke parady song about Barack the magic negro is a reference to the LA Times calling Obama a “Magic Negro”. You people have no clue what your pissed about, per usual.
Just more idiot TP people hanging onto Rush’s every word.
August 21st, 2008 at 4:18 pmTP clearly has no idea what real racism is. Calling Obama a black man-child is not racist in any way. Obama IS black, and the man-child comment is not racist.
The joke parady song about Barack the magic negro is a reference to the LA Times calling Obama a “Magic Negro”. You people have no clue what your pissed about, per usual.
Just more idiot TP people hanging onto Rush’s every word.
August 21st, 2008 at 4:23 pmHi TripleKick13:
August 21st, 2008 at 4:23 pmWhat up my man? What the hell is a panty squeeze? Are Kegels involved?
Tell me what is real racism my all knowledgable friend? Actually pompous people bore the shit out of me but tell me anyway…
August 21st, 2008 at 4:24 pmThe racist Limbaugh licking Thirteentimeskicked is back to try for fourteentimeskicked.
I guess you believe there were WMDs in Iraq too, numbnuts.
Isn’t there a wall socket you haven’t tried sticking a fork into yet?
August 21st, 2008 at 4:31 pmdbadass,
August 21st, 2008 at 4:31 pmPlease explain how calling Obama a black man-child is racist.
TripleKick 13 Says:
TP clearly has no idea what real racism is. Calling Obama a black man-child is not racist in any way. Obama IS black, and the man-child comment is not racist.
The joke parady song about Barack the magic negro is a reference to the LA Times calling Obama a “Magic Negro”. You people have no clue what your pissed about, per usual.
Just more idiot TP people hanging onto Rush’s every word.
You are unbelievably stupid Triplemoron. Yes it IS racist it is calling him BOY a racist taunt with a long history and he MADE UP A SONG about the magic negro reference which was citing Spike Lee’s editorial about a type of fictional character like Bagger Vance or Micheal Duncan Clarkes character in the Green Mile where larger than life black men show up to SERVE white people. YOu are an idiot nothing in the world is more plain than that but you wont make it NOT racist just because you WISH it werent racist. Rush is the racist piece of crap that told a caller to take that bone out of his nose and call him back. Rush is a racist and YOU are a moron.
August 21st, 2008 at 4:32 pmWayne, keep your lame comments relevant to the thread ok? I’ll need to flag you as trolling.
August 21st, 2008 at 4:32 pmEugeneDebs
What a stretch. If you want real racism just google your democratic senate leader Robert Byrd. Byrd refered to blacks as mongrels, which is definately racist.
The point Rush is making is that democrats don’t have the fortitude to challenge a black man, even when they know he’s not qualified. This is in no way racist, its simply an observation.
August 21st, 2008 at 4:37 pmI think you are leaving out the contention that one may not criticize the “black man-child” part thus implying that it is unacceptable do to something. One can presume that the descriptors added by the speaker are intended to indicate why one can not. Otherwise the speaker would have simply said people can’t criticize the Senator Barack Obama. Now about that real racism stuff and might a call you pussy woman-boy white trash without it being both sexist and racist? Not that I would I was just wondering…
August 21st, 2008 at 4:38 pmYou’re highly ignorant of racism in our history, Triplekick…Did you know that black men no matter how old they were were called BOY? Did you know that this was a way to demean them dating back to the Antebellum South?
There is something called a history book. Use it.
August 21st, 2008 at 4:41 pmTripleKick 13 Says:
Please explain how calling Obama a black man-child is racist.
man-child = boy
August 21st, 2008 at 4:43 pmAnd calling a black man “boy” has been derogatory and racist for a long time.
Please explain why else he would call a grown man a “man-child”, except to avoid using the work “boy”.
oops sorry I ment pussy sissy-boy whitetrash. Sorry ladies…
August 21st, 2008 at 4:44 pmTripleKick 13 Says:
Wayne, keep your lame comments relevant to the thread ok? I’ll need to flag you as trolling.
hahaha, funny. Try it, see how far it gets you.
Flagged you for being a racist pos defending a racist pos.
August 21st, 2008 at 4:46 pmTripleKick 13 Says:
EugeneDebs
What a stretch. If you want real racism just google your democratic senate leader Robert Byrd. Byrd refered to blacks as mongrels, which is definately racist.
The point Rush is making is that democrats don’t have the fortitude to challenge a black man, even when they know he’s not qualified. This is in no way racist, its simply an observation.
Funny how you don’t express your outrage at people like Trent Lott who express nostalgia for Strom Thurmond’s 1948 Dixiecrat campaign and how things would have been better if Thurmond was elected…that wasn’t racist, right?…he was just expressing a point that many black people would not have been murdered by the KKK if segregation was still in place, right? /sarcasm
August 21st, 2008 at 4:48 pmSorry Waynerd,
August 21st, 2008 at 4:48 pm“man-child” is not the same as “boy”. It has a completely different meaning, and you’d know it unless your really stupid. Intonation and context is everything. I heard these comments live on the radio and the context was clearly with regards to Obama whining to the McCain campaign, demanding that he be called a patriot. Its hilarious actually. Obama’s a little man-child trying to act like a grown up, meanwhile McCain actually is a grown up who’s lived a much more robust life.
Damn It! I wanna hear about “real racism” from the expert on all things!
August 21st, 2008 at 4:48 pmThis is my first visit to a leftist blog site. I am amazed at the hatred you guys have for anyone who disagrees with you. I thought you supposed to be the party of tolerance. Those who disagree with you should be “beaten senseless and purged from the country”? That sounds a little over the top don’t you think?
August 21st, 2008 at 4:48 pm148 is hilarious…
August 21st, 2008 at 4:49 pmno it isn’t…
August 21st, 2008 at 4:50 pm150. You overgeneralize…
but that’s what you people on the right do. You expect everyone to believe that there are only a few bad apples on the right but heaven forbid anyone on the left say something offending you, because then you can paint everyone on the left as crazed terrorist sympathizers who want dissenters DEAD.
August 21st, 2008 at 4:51 pmcragmoore,
August 21st, 2008 at 4:52 pmIts a real cesspool of hatered in here. Best of luck.
cragmoore
August 21st, 2008 at 4:53 pmOkay let’s say it is your first visit. Might you wanna address the topic. Why do you think Mr Limbaugh felt the need to refer to the Senator as anything other than Mr Obama, Senator Obama or something of the sort? Why do you think he went with “black man-child”?
…you can’t criticize the lying white POW-child. You just can’t do it, ’cause it’s just not right. It’s not fair. He’s such a victim.
August 21st, 2008 at 4:53 pmSo TripleKick13 are you gonna tell me about “real racism” or not?
August 21st, 2008 at 4:54 pmcragmoore Says:
Those who disagree with you should be “beaten senseless and purged from the country”? That sounds a little over the top don’t you think?
Then flag that poster for inciting violence on the thread, but do not lump us all as agreeing with what one poster said.
August 21st, 2008 at 4:54 pmuse a little common sense dude.
one post and you want to paint us as thugs…
Look at free republic and do the same thing too. Are they not thugs for posting that those who dissent should be executed for treason? Pontificate over at Little Green Footballs and Free Republic and then come to us…
August 21st, 2008 at 4:55 pm153 I overgeneralize, “but that’s what people on the right do”? Isn’t that a gerneralization?
155 Whatever the reason, I don’t think he should be killed, that’s all I’m saying.
August 21st, 2008 at 4:57 pm160. fair enough…but all the posters I’ve seen from the right here have made the generalization that we are all hatemongerers…I should have made that clear…
August 21st, 2008 at 4:59 pmdbadass
I already gave an example of real racism. I guess you missed it.
Real racism = Democratic Sr. Senator Robert Byrd, who refers to blacks as “mongrels”
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/06/18/AR2005061801105_2.html
August 21st, 2008 at 4:59 pmand many leading voices like Bill O’Reilly like to paint us and the people over at Daily Kos as hatemongerers by looking at one or two posts…yet remain silent at Free Republic’s hate…
August 21st, 2008 at 5:00 pmRead the whole article 162…there’s something called reading comprehension…Yes he was a racist and he is trying to own up to his mistakes…Whether you believe him or not is your business…but at least acknowledge that he’s trying.
August 21st, 2008 at 5:02 pmCan we get someting from the 21st century? Nevermind just explain to me why Mr Limbaugh did not simple refer to the gentleman as Mr Obama or Senator Obama or any normal reference to another?
August 21st, 2008 at 5:03 pmcragmoore Says:
Whatever the reason, I don’t think he should be killed, that’s all I’m saying.
Neither do I. No one should advocate killing someone else or advocating violence, as Rush himself advocated his dittoheads to cause violence at the DNC Convention, on the air.
Like I said, the abuse flag is there for a reason, if someone advocates violence, use it.
Be careful defending Tripplekick, he is at number 13 because he has been kicked many times for abuse. You may find yourself banned as well.
August 21st, 2008 at 5:04 pmCome on cragmoore don’t take a cop out. Why do you think he choose those words? Do you see where others might see them as racially insensitive. I don’t wish to seem rude but you can come in claiming others are haters and then not be willing to judges the words of the speaker in question.
August 21st, 2008 at 5:06 pmWayne Says:
cragmoore Says:
Whatever the reason, I don’t think he should be killed, that’s all I’m saying.
Neither do I. No one should advocate killing someone else or advocating violence, as Rush himself advocated his dittoheads to cause violence at the DNC Convention, on the air.
Couldn’t have said it better, both of you…
August 21st, 2008 at 5:06 pm162 Really, this is the first time I ever visited a blog site and I was surprised at some of the first postings I read. Someone who signed her post “Peace” wrote, “OMG! How I hate that pig-eyed, racist sack-o-shit!” That seems a little hateful, and “Limpballs” “has sex with animals”? It just struck me as ironic coming from the side that claims to be the party of tolerance.
August 21st, 2008 at 5:07 pmCrush Limbaugh. Its amazing how Limbaugh looks like Archie Bunker.
August 21st, 2008 at 5:09 pmcragmoore Says:
You won’t last long here being a concern troll and derailing the thread on purpose either, just saying.
August 21st, 2008 at 5:12 pm171 I am not sure what a concern troll is. And how is 170 ofering anything of import or even thought?
August 21st, 2008 at 5:15 pmcragmoore, might I trouble you for an answer as I must depart for work soon?
August 21st, 2008 at 5:15 pmcragmoore Says:
And how is 170 ofering anything of import or even thought?
I don’t know, why don’t you ask the person who posted that comment?
And whether you know what a concern troll is or not, your comments show you are one. Sometimes people post stupid sh!t.
And you are following that track right now.
Later.
August 21st, 2008 at 5:22 pmThis is why we need something like the fairness doctrine. You have one grown man (theoretically) calling a Senator and first black presidential nominee a girl, while mocking his race. Combine this with his call for people to mess with the primary and you have a menace to society.
August 21st, 2008 at 5:24 pmcragmoore:
August 21st, 2008 at 5:26 pmI am prepared to call in late. I think that to avert the suggestion of concern troll you might wish to respond. In your opinion why did Mr Limbaugh choose to speak of a US Senator using those words? What was his goal? Was it racially insensitive and if not do you see how it may be preceived by others as such. Addressing the topic as to making judgments of the comments is why your here right?
nothingontv2 Says:
Obama is as left as you can get and if you are in favor of extreme left, you should vote that way,
There is not much to the left about his senate voting record. Especially his vote for the FISA bill with telco immunity.
Why don’t you try posting facts.
And Limbaugh’s comments were racist, no matter what excuse you want to give him.
August 21st, 2008 at 5:32 pmExcusing a racist makes you one in my book.
nothingontv2.
August 21st, 2008 at 5:33 pmThe first sentence sort of throws me. I am willing to offer respect for your opinion as expressed in sentences2 through the end although I would disagree. I am more interested in an explaination of your sentence 1 and why Mr Limbaugh might show such a lack of decency toward a sitting US Senator and presidential candidate. Might you be willing to field the questions our friends seem unwilling or unable to answer?
sort of figured.
August 21st, 2008 at 5:42 pmTake care all-
176 Sorry, I am trying to do my work at the same time as reading this. I think Limbaugh is referring to the way Obama has been treated by the press. For the longest time people hesitated to say anything negative about him for fear of being labeled a racist. Even Bill Clinton was accused of racism. “Little” suggests he is like a little boy in that he lacks the ability to take serious criticism. If youlisten to Limbaugh wioth any regularity I don’t believe you can call him a racist with any credability.
August 21st, 2008 at 5:44 pmTripleKick 13 Says
August 21st, 2008 at 4:37 pm
What a stretch. If you want real racism just google your democratic senate leader Robert Byrd. Byrd refered to blacks as mongrels, which is definately racist.
The point Rush is making is that democrats don’t have the fortitude to challenge a black man, even when they know he’s not qualified. This is in no way racist, its simply an observation.
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In the first place, it’s quite a stretch to compare remarks made by a man well over sixty years ago (especially since Byrd has repudiated them) to inflammatory remarks made by a blowhard talk show host just yesterday.
And second — Obama didn’t win the primaries over a field of eight candidates merely because he is biracial. Do you honestly believe that Democrats went into the voting booth and were afraid to vote for any other candidate because there was a black man on the ballot? Geez — if that was the case, Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton would have easily won the Democratic nomination when they ran.
Obama has more political experience than Dubya had when he ran for president. Also more experience than Ronald Reagan had. And Jimmy Carter. And Dwight Eisenhower. And Abraham Lincoln. We know he’s qualified. Why do you think he isn’t?
August 21st, 2008 at 5:57 pmTripleKick 13 Says
August 21st, 2008 at 4:52 pm
cragmoore,
Its a real cesspool of hatered in here. Best of luck.
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Nobody’s forcing you to stay. Just sayin’…
August 21st, 2008 at 6:01 pmnothingontv2 Says
August 21st, 2008 at 6:05 pm
Why do people keep referring to this place as a cesspool of hatred? We can’t have different opinions? Isn’t that what America is about?
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Of course we can have different opinions. And I welcome opinions presented in a thoughtful, intelligent manner. But when people merely cut and paste RNC talking points, post irrelevant points that have been thoroughly debunked, set up off-topic straw men, or they are here to disrupt the thread, I don’t welcome that.
We do have conservatives who post their opinions here, showing as much respect for others as they expect to receive in return. Keltoi – a fairly regular poster here – is a fairly good example of this. And then there are trolls. We know the difference.
August 21st, 2008 at 6:15 pmI’m sorry cragmoore, but his comments lead me to suggest otherwise…
or perhaps he was parodying racial stereotypes when he told the black caller to “get the bone out of your nose…”
or when he was using the race card constantly when it came to Donovan McNabb…
yeah right…
August 21st, 2008 at 6:16 pmMr. ucsbclasics53, I can’t comment on the bone in your nose remark as this is the first I’ve heard of it. As far as Mr. McNabb goes his comments were taken WAY out of context. As I am certain you have heard but choose not to accept, he was making a statement on how the general media rooted for Mr. McNabb when he (Rush) did not think his talent (McNabb) warranted it.
Seriously, what is a concern troll?
August 21st, 2008 at 6:30 pmWell I think that he was playing the affirmative action card when he was talking about McNabb and seemed to imply that the media wanted to prop him up because he was not good enough…189. Let’s agree to disagree on this one…
A concern troll is according to urban dictionary
A person who posts on a blog thread, in the guise of “concern,” to disrupt dialogue or undermine morale by pointing out that posters and/or the site may be getting themselves in trouble, usually with an authority or power. They point out problems that don’t really exist. The intent is to derail, stifle, control, the dialogue. It is viewed as insincere and condescending.
A concern troll on a progressive blog might write, “I don’t think it’s wise to say things like that because you might get in trouble with the government.” Or, “This controversy is making your side look disorganized.”
August 21st, 2008 at 6:57 pmPerhaps other examples are when Rush called Mayor Villaraigosa a “shoe-shine” boy…
Limbaugh: I want to know. I look at Iowa, I look at Illinois—I want to see the murders. I want to see the looting. I want to see all the stuff that happened in New Orleans. I see devastation in Iowa and Illinois that dwarfs what happened in New Orleans. I see people working together. I see people trying to save their property…I don’t see a bunch of people running around waving guns at helicopters, I don’t see a bunch of people running shooting cops. I don’t see a bunch of people raping people on the street. I don’t see a bunch of people doing everything they can…whining and moaning—where’s FEMA, where’s BUSH. I see the heartland of America. When I look at Iowa and when I look at Illinois, I see the backbone of America.
From Wikiquotes:
The NAACP should have riot rehearsal. They should get a liquor store and practice robberies.
Have you ever noticed how all composite pictures of wanted criminals resemble Jesse Jackson?
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.
* Hugo, Cesar — whatever. A Chavez is a Chavez. We’ve always had problems with them.
o (26 March 2004)
I mean, why didn’t these morons leave New Orleans before the hurricane? I’ll tell you why: because they wanted to rape and loot! That’s just the way some people are! And if they’re black — if the rapists and looters are black — it’s not George Bush’s fault! We’ve had these problems ever since the Emancipation Proclamation. Once the whites leave town, all you’ve got is overwhelming lawlessness. That’s not racism, Mr. Snerdley; it’s a proven, demonstrable fact. Have you even seen a ghetto in Greenwich, Connecticut? I rest my case.
They oughtta change Black History Month to Black Progress Month and start measuring it.
* (27 February 2006)
August 21st, 2008 at 7:07 pmnothingontv2 Says
August 21st, 2008 at 6:31 pm
misshusseinmolly:
So what is your stance on the fairness doctrine?
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To be perfectly honest, some of the current shock talkers cause me to have such a visceral reaction that I’m tempted to support it purely on an emotional level. After all, I DO believe in fairness, and I have a real problem with people like Rush Limbaugh, Michael Savage, et al, being able to say the hateful and inflammatory things they do with the full blessing of their corporate bosses and sponsors, while voices on the other side cannot be heard because they don’t have a big a bullhorn.
However, what I like least about the Fairness Doctrine is that it would create in our media the idea that there are only two positions on everything. Everybody would be pigeonholed into a box labeled either “left” or “right”. Every subject would have two contributors — one from Box “L” and one from Box “R”. Is this really how we want to think? Is this how we want to educate our children? That there are no points of view except two? Or worse — that everybody in the same box thinks exactly alike? That Ron Paul and Ann Coulter march in lockstep? No — this isn’t what I want from our media.
On the other hand, we currently have a situation with fewer and fewer players — each of whom are getting bigger and bigger pieces of the media pie. The corporate media giants have all but squeezed out smaller players, and most of them have a big business agenda and naturally want their mouthpieces to slant their way. Even shows not part of a large business conglomerate are sponsored by big business interests, and this will always favor conservatives sympathetic to them. This isn’t a good situation, either.
We need to find some way to create fairness in the media marketplace without mandating regimented and stifled speech. And it may require going back to the days when there was a limited amount of media any single person, company, or entity could own or control. That would be a start.
August 21st, 2008 at 7:30 pmTripleKick 13 Says:
EugeneDebs
What a stretch. If you want real racism just google your democratic senate leader Robert Byrd. Byrd refered to blacks as mongrels, which is definately racist.
No triplemoron it is NOT a stretch you are just stupid and determined to appologize for anything this cretinous racist says. He lost his job Monday night football for being a racist he told a caller to take that bone out of his nose. He IS a racist you are just an idiot. As for Byrd he was in the KKK what 30 years ago has appologized publicly a dozen times when did Racist Rush appologize? That would be never.
The point Rush is making is that democrats don’t have the fortitude to challenge a black man, even when they know he’s not qualified. This is in no way racist, its simply an observation.
Rush wasnt MAKING a point he was tossing out a racist insult. Its plain STUPID to pretend we needed to ’stand up’ to someone running for president you vote for him or you dont. People listened to him and voted for him. My GOD you are stupid. It doesnt even make sense to claim there was any point there. He was being racist and tossing out red meat to his racist base. BY the way there is no number of times you can repeat something ignorant like it was no way racist that will magically make it be true. That is just you being very stupid
August 21st, 2008 at 8:50 pmcragmoore Says:
This is my first visit to a leftist blog site. I am amazed at the hatred you guys have for anyone who disagrees with you. I thought you supposed to be the party of tolerance. Those who disagree with you should be “beaten senseless and purged from the country”? That sounds a little over the top don’t you think?
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YOUR side has Ann Coulter saying liberals should be beaten with baseball bats and deported. A sitting Supreme Court justice should be poisoned and you want to WHINE about what is said on a message board? Get a life. We understand that the rightwing is nostalgic for the days when they had the exclusive franchise on personal attacks and nastyness. Those days are gone us liberals are tired of being punching bags and we are fighting back. Until you try to riegn in YOUR side the only thing I can think when I see you trying to point out how bad WE are is why dont you go pour yourself a nice cup of STFU. You have no credibility. The rightwing OWNS hate and vitriol. The fact the left is fighting back is a good thing and I couldnt care LESS if you like it.
August 21st, 2008 at 8:57 pmnothingontv2 Says:
Rush for the most part is probably right. He often goes over the line to make his point (which is why I listen to him rarely) but none the less, his points are at least something to think about.
No he DOESNT have a point he has a racist insult you really ought to learn to tell the difference.
Obama is the most unqualified candidate running for office for as long as I can remember.
Really? He has more experience than Abraham Lincoln had. He turned out to be a pretty good president. The elder Bush had TONS of experience and he sucked. There is no reason to go through your rerun of the Rush Limbaugh show. If you ever had an original thought you would mistake it for an aneurism. Try doing something OTHER than tuning into rightwing Hateradio and reading rightwing liEMails to do your thinking FOR you. Most of the rest of what you posted was pure ignorance its ludicrous to even CLAIM he doesnt answer questions or doesnt really have positions. Either you are just to stupid to understand the written word or you believe that because you were INSTRUCTED to believe it. No other option is available since he CLEARLY asnwers questions just with the nuance appropriate to complex policies and that might be a bit over the head of Manichean black/white thinking morons.
August 21st, 2008 at 9:04 pmnothingontv2 Says:
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Wayne – “There is not much to the left about his senate voting record. Especially his vote for the FISA bill with telco immunity.”
Your not talking about his extensive voting record are you? In all his years of representing this country???
Regardless of whether Rush’s statements were racist or not, can’t you agree that sometimes his point is worth thinking about? Or are you that close minded? Do you share the same opinions of John Stewart?
This post was ignorant. He represented his STATE for several years before he came into the Senate and sharing an opinion is one thing just repeating the most ignorant things imaginable because you cant think for yourself is another saying Obama is as left is you can get is pure stupidity. Only a brainwashed moron repeating what he was TOLD to believe could say something so inane. Every hear of Noam Chomsky? You DID know there is a SOCIALIST in the Senate dont you? Obama is no where NEAR as left as a Kucinich a Fiengold or really a Boxer much less Sanders. You are spewing the ignorance you have been TOLD to believe and its more than stupid. So NO I dont have to respect opinions that no one in their right mind could take seriously and that you only REPEAT because you allow others to do your thinking for you
August 21st, 2008 at 9:10 pmhey, nothing…
start here: http://www.barackobama.com/about/
get educated! start helping!
there’s one helluva mess to clean up.
August 21st, 2008 at 10:39 pmnothingontv2 Says:
In response to misshusseinmolly:
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There have been plenty of Left talk show host that spew out garbage (like Savage and Rush do occasionally).
NOT. Left talk doesn’t need to LIE.
The problem is, no one really wants to hear them. If they did, they would still be on the air.
they’re ALL still on the air… and getting stronger everyday…
except al franken, who’s kinda busy these days, working on cleaning up the mess…
The only reason conservative talk radio is still on the air is because of its large committed audience that listens because they can’t get the news anywhere else… and of course the sponsors.
NOT. it’s called media ownership deregulation… thanks to reagan AND bill clinton… which guarentees an oversaturation of fright-wing hate radio stations and their corporate sponsors, of course… that audience doesn’t have much choice…
I charge you to listen to the sponsors that advertise on conservative talk show radio… I think you maybe surprised in who is actually advertising on those stations.
probably not:
can you imagine? an AAR blackout list…
some good information here:
The Fairness Doctrine
How we lost it, and why we need it back
http://www.fair.org/index.php?page=2053
and missmolly’s post was spot on as usual…
g’nite.
August 21st, 2008 at 11:40 pm199. Obama’s move to the right, no make that a lurch to the right has disappointed many of us. Nonetheless, it seems that the Democrats cannot get rid of the mindset that they have to pander to the right to win elections…
I know that people on the right like to paint Democrats as EXTREME FAR-LEFT but if you look at any other country, they would be right-of-center. Obama isn’t doing himself any favors by alienating his base.
August 22nd, 2008 at 2:45 amIf you look at the ratings of many liberal groups, you’ll see that he is more towards the middle and that there are many other senators ahead of him. It’s only the hysterical National Journal’s flawed ratings which it criticized itself that make him the #1 liberal in the Senate, which is funny. Every time a general election comes, the journal seems to rank the Democratic nominee the #1 liberal…
Are those scare tactics? After all, we know being a liberal is one step away from being Satan…
August 22nd, 2008 at 2:50 amCan someone here at Think Progress ask Rush if he is now carrying water for the republicans?
Remember in ‘06 right after the Democratic thumping, (taking majority control of Congres).
Rush Limbaugh stated on his radio (comedy) show, “that I am tired of carrying water for these republicans” , “I am not going to carry water for them any more”.
Will the water boy confess ? Is he ashamed to support David Vitter, Larry Craig and the likes? Why isn’t rush seem with these guys?
August 22nd, 2008 at 3:46 amnothingontv2 Says:
So you are telling me, I should just ignore everything I hear if one part doesn’t fall in line with one of my beliefs?
That is a non sequitur. What I am tellin you is you should learn to read or stop wasting our time. He didnt make a point he made a racist insult. There was no point attached. Basically calling him a boy and spouting some idiocy about not standng up to him isnt a point and only an idiot would keep claiming it was.
So please tell me, specifically what is Obama going to Change? What policies is he going to bring to the White House? I really want to know. What are we hoping for? He takes 2 positions on almost every position, Gay Marriage, Aborton, etc… The only thing I have heard him take a stance on is the war and taxes. Can you tell me what else he is going to do? I’d like to know.
Why should I waste my time. He has clearly talked about what he will do. YOU claim he keeps taking two postions. That is patent nonsense. How are you claiming both no one is farther left AND he is taking both sides of issues. You do understand those two postions are mutually exclusive dont you. Your problem is either that the hivemind hasnt TOLD you what his positions are or you are so stuck in that Manichean, black white thinking that you simply arent bright enough to understand that not every policy position is best described by stupid bumper sticker slogans. If you arent bright enough to understand nuance think everything in the world belongs in either the black box or the white box just vote for My Senator he isnt very bright and he will dumb everything down so you can take a stab at understanding it.
BTW- you sound real tolerant. You are not helping the people you support.
I dont care. I am tired of listening to reruns of the Rush Limbaugh show and dont try to convince me you would ever vote for Obama anyway. I know a troll when I read one.
“Until you try to riegn in YOUR side the only thing I can think when I see you trying to point out how bad WE are is why dont you go pour yourself a nice cup of STFU”
I am simply trying to have a conversation and you talk like this? You are worse than Rush.
No you werent. You come in and give us the hivemind talking points about Obama no matter how utterly stupid they are. We have heard them. Talk to us dont set that sump you have instead of a brain on record and tell us what Hannity or the Oxymoron or the Weinerdog Savage told you to think that ISNT a conversation.
Just so you know, I honestly have not heard more than five of Rush’s shows in my lifetime. I do listen to some conservative talk radio but I work at a newspaper, so I’d say I get my news pretty evenly.
You might SAY so but your stupid talking points are not only familiar they could not POSSIBLY be reached by ANY sort of higher brain function so I dont BELIEVE you get any even news. You are brainwashed that is as obvious as water being wet.
Just checking, anyone else here think that Obama isn’t pretty far LEFT?
Pretty far left is a subjective judgement he isnt as far left as me. Not anywhere NEAR as far left as Sanders, Feingold, Kucinich not even in the BALLPARK with Chomsky or Zinn and you didnt say pretty far left you said “Obama is as left as you can get ” That comment is plain nonsense. The only two ways to get to it are complete idiocy or repetition of some screechmonkey talking point.
August 22nd, 2008 at 8:48 am