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Report: Rush Limbaugh taken to Hawaii hospital

ludahai said:
And the left has some nuts who only attack people they don't like with quotes taken out of context, but won't go after their own -- Sotomayor, Ried, et. al.
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You are right.. But.. I am not one of those on the left. I HATE Nancy Pelosi and I cannot stand Ried. :2razz:
 
Zimmer, you are just being nasty. Rush is a racist and anyway you cut and slice it via context does not matter. What is so hard to understand if you spew vile, racist things that makes you a racist? Maybe you are the one with the problem.
 
zimmer said:
Do you have a learning problem?
If so, don't be ashamed to tell us. We won't use it against you.
It'll just help us when dealing with you and your posts.

1. Rush isn't a racist. You can't hold a 20-million audience, largely Republican, nationwide for 20-years by spewing racist filth... even some of the time.

2. Rush doesn't want America to fail. I know it is complicated for you to understand, but he wants OBAMA to fail, because his policies are detrimental to Americans and America. You see, his ideas have already been tried in many places, and have failed. So Rush wants Obama's ideas to fail in the halls of Congress, so we aren't subjected to them.

Understand?
If not I can make a coloring book for you with balloons so it is easier to understand. The time spent coloring within the lines will allow you to ponder each page.

Kali,
Were the words too large for you? If so I can use words with only one syllable.

Just let us know, we appreciate your sincere comments and are willing to assist you with any learning disability you may have.

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Moderator's Warning:
Stop these kinds of personal attacks, now.
 
Aye, aye Cap'n.

Kali said:
Zimmer, you are just being nasty. Rush is a racist and anyway you cut and slice it via context does not matter. What is so hard to understand if you spew vile, racist things that makes you a racist? Maybe you are the one with the problem.
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LOL... I'm tempted to go for another three points... ROTFLMAO.

OK. You throw about accusations.
Give me factual evidence of his being racist. Youtube should be filled with them. Have at it.

I've listened to the guy for 20-years, and cannot recall any racist comments.
None, nada, nix.

I wouldn't tolerate listening to a racist.

So, instead of violating us with your keyboard abuse... let's have some proof.
You seem to be the expert.
prove it.
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The man played Magic Negro and made a bone in nose comment. What more do ya need?

You have been giving plenty of proof!
 
Kali said:
Zimmer, you are just being nasty. Rush is a racist and anyway you cut and slice it via context does not matter. What is so hard to understand if you spew vile, racist things that makes you a racist? Maybe you are the one with the problem.
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Kali -> If I HONESTLY thought Rush was a racist, I would be right there with you criticising him. I am also not a Dittohead, so I am actually open to persuasion on this point. However, you have not sought in engaging in persuasion. You simply state he is a racist and then expect everyone to accept your opinion as fact. That simply won't fly with most reasonably educated people of any political persuasion.
 
Kali said:
The man played Magic Negro and made a bone in nose comment. What more do ya need?

You have been giving plenty of proof!
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The Magic Negro song is a parody on an article by The Liberal LA Times claiming he wasn't black enough. The comic doing the piece used Sharpton in it... see why below...

It was a spoof on the left. And their comments and questions whether Obama was BLACK enough

Git it?
Of course not.

I have the right mind to start charging you for this education.

Obama the 'Magic Negro'
Obama the 'Magic Negro' - latimes.com

"He has no past, he simply appears one day to help the white protagonist,"

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.

Consequently, even the mild criticisms thrown his way have been waved away, "magically."

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...
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Kali said:
The man played Magic Negro and made a bone in nose comment. What more do ya need?

You have been giving plenty of proof!
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Wasn't that whole magic negro thing started by the LA Times?
 
ludahai said:
Kali -> If I HONESTLY thought Rush was a racist, I would be right there with you criticising him. I am also not a Dittohead, so I am actually open to persuasion on this point. However, you have not sought in engaging in persuasion. You simply state he is a racist and then expect everyone to accept your opinion as fact. That simply won't fly with most reasonably educated people of any political persuasion.
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I find it disturbing that people who have listened to him for years cannot see anything racist about his attitude and have not come across any racist remarks.

Here's 10 incidences to start with:
Top 10 Rush Limbaugh Racist Quotes | News One

zimmer said:
The Magic Negro song is a parody on an article by The Liberal LA Times claiming he wasn't black enough. The comic doing the piece used Sharpton in it... see why below...

It was a spoof on the left. And their comments and questions whether Obama was BLACK enough

Git it?
Of course not.
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There is a world of difference between the LA Times commentary and performing a song like Rush did.
Declaring this to be a "spoof" is a cheap attempt to get off the hook.
More here:
[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8-Bao4VUQmI"]YouTube- Rush Limbaugh: "Barack The Magic Negro"[/ame]
 
roderic said:
I find it disturbing that people who have listened to him for years cannot see anything racist about his attitude and have not come across any racist remarks.

Here's 10 incidences to start with:
Top 10 Rush Limbaugh Racist Quotes | News One

There is a world of difference between the LA Times commentary and performing a song like Rush did.
Declaring this to be a "spoof" is a cheap attempt to get off the hook.
More here:
YouTube- Rush Limbaugh: "Barack The Magic Negro"
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Rush played the song on the air, he did not perform or write it.
 
Kali said:
Zimmer, you are just being nasty. Rush is a racist and anyway you cut and slice it via context does not matter. What is so hard to understand if you spew vile, racist things that makes you a racist? Maybe you are the one with the problem.
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You cannot prove that Rush is a racist.
 
roderic said:
Here's 10 incidences to start with:
Top 10 Rush Limbaugh Racist Quotes | News One
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I think this is the THIRD time this link has been posted on this thread. #2 is demonstratively NOT racist. Most of the others are not well sources NOR do they contain proper context -- something you would know if you had been reading this thread. Now, while some people think context does not matter, most educated, critical people DO realize that context is important. Now, provide it. If he is a racist, I will join in the criticism. However, just saying he is a racist and/or providing poorly sourced lists does not cut it.
 
I'm amazed how many times that same pathetic "10 quote" list gets posted EVERY....SINGLE....TIME Rush becomes a topic. I've not even bothered countering it anymore because in 3 months when another Rush thing happens people will swarm out going "racist, racist! See, 10 quotes from some website i just read and I never thought to take the time to look any deeper at it".

At least the website took away the two completely, 100%, factually incorrect ones that were lies made up and put in a bo ok that people on the left continually liked to use to insult Rush.

The McNabb comments weren't racist. Controversial, racial focused in tone, yes. Racist, no.

The bone in nose comment was from over 30 years ago. I'm sorry, but at this point I'm not going to hold something someone said in their 20's and 30's more than 3 decades ago proof that they're "X" today. If Fred Phelps at one point 30 years ago called a guy that was homosexual his "friend" it wouldn't suddenly make him less of a homophobic bigot today. Rush saying something racist 30 years ago, and since apologizing for it, doesn't magically make him racist today.

The bloods and crips comment is a typical, pathetic attempt at a liberal think tank to take something out of context which then a highly partisan blog reports and mindlessly hyper partisan liberals spew. The comment came about in the context of a discussion talking about the NFL cracking down on gang signs and other gang related things done by their players and Rush commenting on his percieved increased physicality, cheap shots, and actions after plays making many seem thuggish. OMG! many football players are black, and many bloods and crips are black, and Rush said the NFL looks like bloods and crips. IT MUST BE RACIST

:roll:

Its ****ing idiotic. At this point I'd dare say that the vast majority of legitimately racially controversial statements he makes at this poitn too are less his actual beliefs and more attempts to stir up controversy and tweak the other side....making him, as Tucker pointed out, a jackass but not a racist.
 
Zyphlin said:
I'm amazed how many times that same pathetic "10 quote" list gets posted EVERY....SINGLE....TIME Rush becomes a topic. I've not even bothered countering it anymore because in 3 months when another Rush thing happens people will swarm out going "racist, racist! See, 10 quotes from some website i just read and I never thought to take the time to look any deeper at it".

At least the website took away the two completely, 100%, factually incorrect ones that were lies made up and put in a bo ok that people on the left continually liked to use to insult Rush.

The McNabb comments weren't racist. Controversial, racial focused in tone, yes. Racist, no.

The bone in nose comment was from over 30 years ago. I'm sorry, but at this point I'm not going to hold something someone said in their 20's and 30's more than 3 decades ago proof that they're "X" today. If Fred Phelps at one point 30 years ago called a guy that was homosexual his "friend" it wouldn't suddenly make him less of a homophobic bigot today. Rush saying something racist 30 years ago, and since apologizing for it, doesn't magically make him racist today.

The bloods and crips comment is a typical, pathetic attempt at a liberal think tank to take something out of context which then a highly partisan blog reports and mindlessly hyper partisan liberals spew. The comment came about in the context of a discussion talking about the NFL cracking down on gang signs and other gang related things done by their players and Rush commenting on his percieved increased physicality, cheap shots, and actions after plays making many seem thuggish. OMG! many football players are black, and many bloods and crips are black, and Rush said the NFL looks like bloods and crips. IT MUST BE RACIST

:roll:

Its ****ing idiotic. At this point I'd dare say that the vast majority of legitimately racially controversial statements he makes at this poitn too are less his actual beliefs and more attempts to stir up controversy and tweak the other side....making him, as Tucker pointed out, a jackass but not a racist.
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The same argument could be made to vindicate Hitler.
 
Zyphlin said:
The bloods and crips comment is a typical, pathetic attempt at a liberal think tank to take something out of context which then a highly partisan blog reports and mindlessly hyper partisan liberals spew. The comment came about in the context of a discussion talking about the NFL cracking down on gang signs and other gang related things done by their players and Rush commenting on his percieved increased physicality, cheap shots, and actions after plays making many seem thuggish. OMG! many football players are black, and many bloods and crips are black, and Rush said the NFL looks like bloods and crips. IT MUST BE RACIST
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I never knew the NFL had a problem with gang signs and "other gang related things". Apparently it all stems from Paul Pierce being fined $25,000 for a sign he made in an NBA game. All I have found is that they (The NFL) were investigating footage for gang signs. I can't seem to find any punishments levied in this supposed "cracking down" on gang signs. The stories I read say they handle it privately by talking to the player and team. It really seems to me to be a PR stunt to uphold the family image of the league.

I would argue that hockey has more cheap shots and unnecessary violence. Football doesn't have "enforcers" whose primary job is to start fights and perform cheap shots. Yet we would have to laugh if hockey players were called Bloods and Crips because they are white. It's not a coincidence that the NFL is predominantly black and he used the comparison that he did. Short of Albert Haynesworth's actions with kicking a helmetless player while down, Night Train Lane was much more violent than anything you see today.

While Rush may not say things that place white people as superior to other races, he will discuss racial issues in an insensitive manner. Some speculate that he may do this in a race baiting manner. I liken it to Al Sharpton. Al Sharpton doesn't claim that blacks are superior to whites, yet people call him a racist a lot. It's a side effect of using race to achieve an alternate agenda.
 
ludahai said:
I think this is the THIRD time this link has been posted on this thread.
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Ok, my mistake, I have not read all of this thread. I hate it when people do this in threads I subscribed to from the beginning.
It was simply the first link which showed up, but there is plenty more.
#2 is demonstratively NOT racist. Most of the others are not well sources NOR do they contain proper context -- something you would know if you had been reading this thread. Now, while some people think context does not matter, most educated, critical people DO realize that context is important. Now, provide it. If he is a racist, I will join in the criticism. However, just saying he is a racist and/or providing poorly sourced lists does not cut it.
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I suppose I'll have to read back, but I don't see how #2 is not racist, the context of the quote is given in the provided link. I do think context is important, no need to make suggestive remarks about my educational background, but the sheer amount of racist remarks which are passed off a "humour" or not really being "racist" in context make me question the intellectual honesty of his defenders and wonder if they really know the cultural background which supports racism.

Zyphlin said:
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The bone in nose comment was from over 30 years ago. I'm sorry, but at this point I'm not going to hold something someone said in their 20's and 30's more than 3 decades ago proof that they're "X" today.
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It could not reaonably be held against him if this was an isolated incidence which happened a long time ago, but as it is, it adds to show the continuity of racist remarks which one could describe as a characteristic of his speeches.

Its ****ing idiotic. At this point I'd dare say that the vast majority of legitimately racially controversial statements he makes at this poitn too are less his actual beliefs and more attempts to stir up controversy and tweak the other side....making him, as Tucker pointed out, a jackass but not a racist.
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So, racist speech made to wind listeners up isn't really racist?
Well, I won't hire you to defend me if I ever found myself in court...:roll:
 
So Rush and Lott are racist but Reid is not?
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Well, it's nice to see I somehow managed to provide a source of amusement for you, but I don't recall ever having commented on Lott, and what does this have to do with this thread anyway?
 
roderic said:
Well, it's nice to see I somehow managed to provide a source of amusement for you, but I don't recall ever having commented on Lott, and what does this have to do with this thread anyway?
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Just shows the hypocrisy. When the GOP say anything slightly off they are racist but the dems can say anything and are never called racist.
 
Zyphlin said:
I'm amazed how many times that same pathetic "10 quote" list gets posted EVERY....SINGLE....TIME Rush becomes a topic. I've not even bothered countering it anymore because in 3 months when another Rush thing happens people will swarm out going "racist, racist! See, 10 quotes from some website i just read and I never thought to take the time to look any deeper at it".

At least the website took away the two completely, 100%, factually incorrect ones that were lies made up and put in a bo ok that people on the left continually liked to use to insult Rush.

The McNabb comments weren't racist. Controversial, racial focused in tone, yes. Racist, no.

The bone in nose comment was from over 30 years ago. I'm sorry, but at this point I'm not going to hold something someone said in their 20's and 30's more than 3 decades ago proof that they're "X" today. If Fred Phelps at one point 30 years ago called a guy that was homosexual his "friend" it wouldn't suddenly make him less of a homophobic bigot today. Rush saying something racist 30 years ago, and since apologizing for it, doesn't magically make him racist today.

The bloods and crips comment is a typical, pathetic attempt at a liberal think tank to take something out of context which then a highly partisan blog reports and mindlessly hyper partisan liberals spew. The comment came about in the context of a discussion talking about the NFL cracking down on gang signs and other gang related things done by their players and Rush commenting on his percieved increased physicality, cheap shots, and actions after plays making many seem thuggish. OMG! many football players are black, and many bloods and crips are black, and Rush said the NFL looks like bloods and crips. IT MUST BE RACIST

:roll:

Its ****ing idiotic. At this point I'd dare say that the vast majority of legitimately racially controversial statements he makes at this poitn too are less his actual beliefs and more attempts to stir up controversy and tweak the other side....making him, as Tucker pointed out, a jackass but not a racist.
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To top it off, Rush's comment that McNabb was overrated was a hit on THE PRESS.

He was making the point that the press was overhyping him... when the facts didn't stack up. McNabb was overrated, and by whom? The press... those doing the rating and writing and talking.

It's what... 8-years since then... and libs still can't get the most basic facts right.

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