I wonder how many white racists just skipped the vote altogether? Or rallied themselves to vote for McCain?
Right, how many angels on a pinhead…so we’ll add that qualifier, those that voted…which can’t be quantified. Racism is not as overt these days, it is more subtle, and when the leading voice of the party freely engages in race baiting, I don’t find it a stretch to equate racism and Republicans.
I don’t consider Rush Limbaugh to be “the leading voice of the party” at all. I prefer to think of guys like Ron Paul and Mitt Romney to be more representative of what Republicans should be more like. The neocons hijacked the party, and people like me bailed on them as a result.
Then why do Republican leaders constantly kowtow to him?
That website is ridiculous, partially because the article is unprofessionally written and filled with mistakes that I would expect a real writer to not make, and also because it has a big advertisement for Al Sharpton on the right-hand side - a man who directly encouraged and contributed to anti-Semitic riots in Crown Heights and Freddie’s Fashion Mart, which actually led to Jews being murdered. That man is a gigantic bigot, and it absolutely reeks of hypocrisy that this website which is supposedly against racism is endorsing and actively promoting Sharpton.
So, can you address how any of the **quotes ** weren’t racist, or are you going to stick with criticisms of the medium in which the citation appears?
Beats me. I suppose because of Rush’s popularity to the empty heads in Steele’s voting bloc?
Apparently the power of being a blowhard fatass douchebag is constantly underestimated by me.
From David Brooks’ column today in the N.Y. Times:
*"The populist tendency has always used the same sort of rhetoric: for the ordinary people and against the fat cats and the educated class; for the small towns and against the financial centers…
Barack Obama leads a government of the highly educated. His movement includes urban politicians, academics, Hollywood donors and information-age professionals. In his first few months, he has fused federal power with Wall Street, the auto industry, the health care industries and the energy sector.
Given all of this, it was guaranteed that he would spark a populist backlash, regardless of his skin color. And it was guaranteed that this backlash would be ill mannered, conspiratorial and over the top — since these movements always are, whether they were led by Huey Long, Father Coughlin or anybody else.
What we’re seeing is the latest iteration of that populist tendency and the militant progressive reaction to it."*
Of the examples Brooks cites, you’d surely have found some flaming bigots among the supporters of Huey Long and Father Coughlin. Dismissing all those people solely on the basis of bigotry would have been a mistake then. And dismissing all of the backlash against Obama as due to racism is an even bigger mistake now.
We’ve come a ways since the '30s. Not far enough, but quite a distance.
Forget the quotes themselves - I know they’re the focus of this Limbaugh sidetrack, but really, if anyone linked to a list of quotes, even if the quotes were all completely real, which was posted up on Stormfront, would anyone not comment on that?
From where I sit he is “the leading voice”. I do wish that he weren’t and that there was an honest conservative movement, not one that relies on fear mongering and race baiting to round up support.
Ummmmm, no. Here they are:
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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.
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You know who deserves a posthumous Medal of Honor? James Earl Ray [the confessed assassin of Martin Luther King]. We miss you, James. Godspeed.
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Have you ever noticed how all composite pictures of wanted criminals resemble Jesse Jackson?
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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.
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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.
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The NAACP should have riot rehearsal. They should get a liquor store and practice robberies.
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They’re 12 percent of the population. Who the hell cares?
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Take that bone out of your nose and call me back(to an African American female caller).
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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.
OK, those are all very bad. Especially number two (?!?!) Even for Limbaugh, that one took my by surprise. I just wanted to point out how hypocritical the website which hosted them was, if they’re going to have an ad for Al Sharpton.
I would confirm it first, not assume that just because it is posted there one should dismiss all.
BWT, some of those quotes are confirmed, but others are not.
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The Other Jeffrey Lebowski**, number 2 is one that has had no confirmation. There is confirmation AFAIK of only 3,8 and 9; but other quotes are not so clear regarding where they came from.
I don’t know, Jodi, but I don’t think it can’t be found here. Or maybe it just can’t be heard over all the same old bullshit from either side.
Someone called me a brainless righty (or somesuch) the one time I deviated from the groupthink. When I pointed out that I wasn’t a righty, I was told “if it walks like a duck and quacks like a duck…” Seriously.
BTW Argent Towers, after my weak attempt to defend Rush (it really feels icky), one has to mention that very recently Rush came with some real doozies:
According to this, the quote was originally seen in a 2006 book by Jack Huberman. Perhaps that particular quote is fictitious, but the fact remains that he engages in race baiting and hate speak, which he never gets called on by anyone but his opposition, and he has an enormous amount of influence of a sizable voting bloc.
Darn it, sorry about that, the right cite for my last quotes is coming from here:
Being one of the representatives of the rational middle ground (I’m very much a centrist), I’ll give my vote.
This whole thing sickens us. Without their being any prevalent, intelligence right wingers, we’re left without a balance for the left wing. We know that the left wing can’t be entirely right, so we actually are starting to become more conservative to fight what we see as a leftward bias.
I will withdrawal my comments that no personal insults against Bush were out there. I was most definitely wrong there – especially when I myself was guilty of it. (I think I mostly jokingly called him or Cheney a Sith Lord)
That being said, I don’t recall any accusations of him attempting to kill Barbara for sympathy votes. Or that he was the devil, or a Nazi.
Starting a war based on false premises? Oh yeah, that’s DEFINITELY a legit protest (similiar to “Hey hey, LBJ, how many kids did you kill today!”) Having family in Iraq, you better BELIEVE I’m going to blame Bush for this war.
I don’t know about you, Jimmy Joe, but I think starting a war on false premises counts a HELL of a lot worse than suggesting healthcare reform. :rolleyes:
But how many protestors did you see marching on Washington claiming he knew about 9/11, that he was RESPONSIBLE for 9/11, or that he was going to cancel the election and rule as a dictator? And how much attention did they get? I don’t recall all that many posters of Bush as Hitler or Stalin or Lenin. (Mostly as Vader or Palpatine.)
While we don’t see nearly the numbers they’re claiming, the “teabaggers” far out-number the former nutjobs. Nor did they get nearly the coverage, or did you see big name media personalities paying them attention.
Look, Obama is more popular than Bush, oh yeah. But his detractors are far, far more passionate, they’re more intense, and far, far more hateful. And definitely less informed.
(Oh, and the African “bone in the nose” thing? I know quite a few people with septum piercings. They’re all white. I’ve known some black people with pierced noses, but they’re all nostril piercings, like mine. Not that this proves anything, I’m just sayin’.)
I’m not quite sure I get that. If we were right for the past eight long years, and mostly we were, how does that equate to a “bias”?