As you’ve undoubtedly heard by now, conservative talk radio host Rush Limbaugh is putting together a bid to purchase the St. Louis Rams in partnership Dave Checketts. Believe it or not, some people seem to think that this isn’t such a good thing. Countless writers have chimed in with their thoughts on why an overtly racist windbag might not be the best fit for the NFL, and now Reverend Al Sharpton is is on the case. The opinions at KSK are varied as to whether Limbaugh’s bid to become the NFL’s newest owner should be considered, so let’s break this down with a little point/counterpoint.
Point: It’s a free country so why shouldn’t he have an opportunity to own an NFL franchise? Besides, trying to block Limbaugh’s bid would just give him more crap to bitch about on the radio.
Counterpoint: In a league dominated by black players and with its own racial problems, this is exactly the kind of owner we can ill afford to have.
Counter-counterpoint: HOLY SHIT, look at the tits on Susan Sarandon’s daughter!
At least that’s something we can all agree on.
Have at it in the comments, but please try to keep it relatively civil.
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I can haz last interwebs post here… k bai
/what we REALLY need is a Titsocracy
No way man, I get to be last… I win!
Last !!!1!!!!11!!
/hopefully
clmetsfan writes: “Rush isn’t a racist? The dude once said that James Earl Ray (MLK’s assassin) deserves a posthumous Medal of Honor, and that one of the ‘merits’ of slavery was that the streets were safer after dark.”
Another phony quote. Rush never said that either.
Whoops. I already pointed that out.
sonofspam writes: “As for the “bone through the nose” quote…the exact quote was (said to a Black female caller): “Take that bone out of your nose and call me back.”
In context: Rush was forced to say that by radio management. He was still an unknown radio DJ at the time, and management wanted to try to make him into a shock jock, which Rush didnt really want to do as he knew that wasnt his style and he had no future in being a shock jock.
“Also, there was this gem: “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.”
Phony quote. Rush never said that.
clmetsfan writes: “Rush isn’t a racist? The dude once said that James Earl Ray (MLK’s assassin) deserves a posthumous Medal of Honor, and that one of the ‘merits’ of slavery was that the streets were safer after dark.”
Another phony quote. Rush never said that either.
“I think you’d have a hard time keeping your job if you uttered statements like that in a small office setting… let alone on the air to 20 million listeners. How gullible are you people?”
Apparently not as gullible as the 20 million cretins who keep this human dirigible in Oxycontin scripts and sex tourism trips to the Dominican Republic.
Rush Limbaugh is a racist, murderous vampire who has been known to dabble in necro-bestiality and cake farts. These facts have been corroborated numerous times by reliable sources. Just take a look at the following quote from 1998: “I’ll tell you what… you show me a man that doesn’t get at least somewhat aroused by the sight of a recently deceased well-groomed labrador retriever, & I’ll show you a liar. I mean, it really doesn’t get any better than that, does it? Well, let me take that back… because, while I’ve never seen it happen- imagine, if you will, that the nether regions of said canine corpse were to be smothered with chocolate cake & that somehow a reserve of flatulence were to be released from the egress of the alimentary canal… umm… ladies and gentlemen, I’m going to have to excuse myself for a moment. Let’s take a short break.”
Okay, now copy and paste the above quote (which he said ON THE AIR) on several liberal websites and blogs… then see if you can have someone plant the quote in his Wikipedia page (even if it’s only there for a few hours, it can still be referenced as a credible source). Let’s see one of these stupid, racist, homophobic, xenophobic, conservetards try to defend this sick fat fuck now!!
/sorry to get all “aristocrats” on you, but I needed an example slightly more outrageous than claims that he wanted James Earl Ray to be awarded the medal of honor & that slavery was a good thing. I think you’d have a hard time keeping your job if you uttered statements like that in a small office setting… let alone on the air to 20 million listeners. How gullible are you people?
Aaaaaaand here come the Paultards.
@clmetsfan:
If those comments (regarding James Earl Ray and slavery) were even remotely played straight, they would have run Rush off the air in no time flat. Guaranteed.
As it is, what are the odds that those comments were stated to illustrate a double standard and were taken out of context (like practically every other time Rush is quoted)?
/pretty-damn-high
Wow, this is more slander and libel. No suprise; I’ve once again mistakenly thought a relatively funny NFL blog would not be yet another extension of our mainstream media. What crap. I can get NFL jokes elsewhere. Goodbye.
“I think what we’ve had here is a little social concern in the USA. The media has been very desirous that a black president do well. There is a lot hope invested in Obama, and he got a lot of credit for his performance even though unemployment is sky rocketing, the dollar is down, the fed keeps printing money, the take over of GMC, the stimulous doing jack shit, him wanting another stimulous even though the first one was a failure, a 2 trillion dollar deficit for this year…4 times biggest yearly deficit during the Bush Administration. The Chinese carried this team.”
If Rush just goes back to this quote, switches around McNabb with Obama, changes a word or 2, the quote would fit perfectly.
In all honesty though, fuck most Repubs *except Ron Paul* and all Democrats *if Pelosi died I would call in sick the next day because I would be celebrating…hard* We should replace the entire Congress and Senate, get some fresh faces and ideas in there. First off, we need term limits so we don’t get these asshole career politicians, who vote themselves pay raises even though most other people in the US are struggling.
But in almost all instances, most politicians have money before they became a politician, and that’s the only reason they were really elected. Fuck em all is what I say, we’d be better off if all of them were replaced like a used tampon.
I think someone (coughreggiecough) has a man crush on the Rush. Why don’t you two just get a room.
I think Rush Limbaugh deserves to own the Rams.
Rush isn’t a racist? The dude once said that James Earl Ray (MLK’s assassin) deserves a posthumous Medal of Honor, and that one of the ‘merits’ of slavery was that the streets were safer after dark.
Oh, and just in case someone doesn’t think that such statements have nothing to do with his qualifications to own an NFL team, he once said, “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.”
I think the Sarandon spawn tits are over-rated because they are white. In the interests of equality she should have a black one.
/doesn’t know or care who Rush Limbaugh is.
I second Mike’s suggestion of sending in Rex Ryan.
1. Using the word “libtard”=automatic fail.
2. Tits.
Sweet motherfucking teabagging Jesus, make it stop.
UM, suspend the thread. Superimpose Eva Amutti’s tits. Send Rex Ryan through the door. SOMETHING, just stop Reggie and Whatever and Clayton Bigsby from writing another word.
You tell ‘em Nate Newton!!
Rush probably has a similar worldview to the average NFL team owner, but as a radio personality we have access to soundbytes that some would call racist. The NFL could, but shouldn’t prevent him from buying the team.
The McNabb controversy was stupid. It’s okay to say Welkah gets too much credit for being a WHITE WR, or Jason Seahorn gets too much credit for being a successful WHITE CB, but it’s not okay to say McNabb gets too much credit for being a successful BLACK QB?
I think Rush would be a successful owner. He’s a business man. He wouldn’t try to do everything but would put the right people in place to make the organization profitible.
+10000000 HadEnough!!!!!
I have only the vaguest idea who Rush Limbaugh is, other than somebody fat with a silly name, but so far as I know he won’t make the Rams any better as a team and I enjoy seeing them fail. Since I also enjoy firestorms of controversy, I approve of this idea.
OK…I’ve had enough bullshit about politics. Everyone who actually thinks that Democrats and Republicans are different is FUCKING RETARDED. They all do the same shit…Dems get control, they screw up the country!…GOP gets control, they screw up the country! The problem is, they know we are STUPID enough to pick a side! IDIOTS, please stop with the politics and lets get back to the wonderful melons!
@Ryan
Oh that’s lovely, let’s go ahead and malign the beliefs of over one half of the world’s population (combining both Christianity and Islam).
Is it so hard to believe that people realize that humans don’t know/understand everything, and that there might be something (or someone) above and beyond our ability to comprehend?
Besides, the mathematical odds of the universe coming into being on its own without any guiding hand (aka, the ‘it just happened’ school of thought) are so infinitesimally minuscule that to believe that requires a high degree of faith all on its own.
/an unabashed Catholic
Hey, did anybody win the PoRaFlaWa yet?
@Reggie-If liberalism is the mental disorder, then why are the majority of conservatives religious nutjobs who think a big invisible man is talking to them? That and the whole entire continent of Europe will gladly give you the finger.
Ummm… no. They absolutely were demonized as all of those things… by political commentators, pundits, and fellow citizens.
Oh I see. The demonization doesn’t count because it was merely the political party, friends, supporters and cheerleaders of the Administration that did it, and not the Administration itself, which merely put out the talking points and the milk and cookies. And were also dismissive of any and all criticism or concerns as the worrying of a bunch of nancy pants who just didn’t understand that Saddam had to be stopped WMD 9/11!!!!!
he lapdog media, Congressmen, Press Secretary Gibbs, & Obama himself have all belittled and dismissed people with opposing views as mindless “angry mobs” that were dispatched by political strategists.
So that memo from Dick Army’s lobbying agency about how to stir up teabagging mobs was a fake? Good to know. And its a damn nice coincidence that all these “grassroots” efforts seem to have found a network as willing as Fox to cover their every movement.
Now, suddenly, protesters are the scum of the earth
That’s not new. There were plenty of conservatives that were way ahead on that theme. Try circa 2003-2008. Strangely, a lot seem to have changed their minds on the value of protest. Odd.
There were large groups of people that shouted on a daily basis- among other things- that Bush willingly allowed (or had an active role in) an attack that took the lives of thousands of his own citizens…
And those people are idiots who gave other Bush critics a bad name. Sort of like how teabaggers are giving conservatives a bad name. But I don’t recall the liberals at MSNBC championing “truthers” the same way that conservatives have taken up the standard for “birthers” and the like.
yet, I don’t recall “Mr. spit on the Constitution & revoke our civil liberties” Dubya ever establishing a hotline or a website to report people or websites that spread “misinformation” (RE: viewpoints or data that run counter to what the administration claims).
Who needs a website when you got illegal wiretaps!
Seriously though, if that’s honestly what you think that website was then I can’t help you. The POTUS puts forth a policy proposal. Wingnuts come back with shit about “death panels” and mandatory abortions and all sorts of crazy. The Administration thinks “Hmm, maybe if we could correct some of this BS it might help things”. So they make a resource available to people to try and respond to this crap. And conservatives respond with ZOMG HE’S MAKING AN ENEMIES LIST LIKE STALIN!!!!!!!!!
Even if he was, I wouldn’t worry about it too much. Those damn White House servers can’t seem to save any emails anyway.
/limbaugh joke
@ Whatever: “As for the Iraq war thing, are you going to honestly say that the critics of the administration and its plans weren’t demonized as traitors, commies, terrorist lovers and pretty much everything else negative under the sun?”
Ummm… no. They absolutely were demonized as all of those things… by political commentators, pundits, and fellow citizens. The point I was making was that the President himself, as well as prominent political figures from his party are now openly attacking & criticizing people for questioning them (all under the protective umbrella of racial sensitivity). The lapdog media, Congressmen, Press Secretary Gibbs, & Obama himself have all belittled and dismissed people with opposing views as mindless “angry mobs” that were dispatched by political strategists. It is inevitable that any protesting crowd is going to have it’s share of wackos & morons with hateful signs that hurt their own cause worse than anything, but I remember hearing on a daily basis about how “protesting your government when you disagree is the most patriotic thing you can do”. Now, suddenly, protesters are the scum of the earth (and obviously motivated by racial bigotry).
The funny thing is, not even the most libtardiest among you here can dispute that there were several inappropriate, “over the line” signs & demonstrations at EVERY SINGLE LOCATION Bush visited in our country… yet, I don’t recall him ever speaking negatively about his critics. There were large groups of people that shouted on a daily basis- among other things- that Bush willingly allowed (or had an active role in) an attack that took the lives of thousands of his own citizens… yet, I don’t recall “Mr. spit on the Constitution & revoke our civil liberties” Dubya ever establishing a hotline or a website to report people or websites that spread “misinformation” (RE: viewpoints or data that run counter to what the administration claims). It all seems like a well-organized strategy to limit or eliminate dissent.
@ Reggie – I’m actually referencing Val James, but don’t let me stop your furiously researched rants on ex-Black Panthers.
and, BTW, Eldridge Cleaver became a conservative Republican.
Anyhow, just for the sake of ‘balance’, here’s Rush’s take on the whole controversy.
http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/home/daily/site_101209/content/01125115.guest.html
(And here’s the Stephen Smith segment mentioned in the article)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IeZQ8tChMUg
Besides, everyone’s missing the comedic potential here. Imagine if Rush does become owner. And the Rams win the Super Bowl the year NBC hosts it.
Rams winning the Super Bowl! That is funny!
Limbaugh’s proposition was that the sports media is full of guilty white liberals who are eager to see a black QB succeed, because most successful QBs have been white.
Which is fucking stupid.
He didn’t say “McNabb is black, therefore he sucks.”
No, he basically said “He sucks, and the only reason people think he’s good is because of some sports media affirmative action which is taking away notoriety from some deserving white QB”. Coming from a guy who
Your opinion. Others disagree.
Yes they do. And they’re wrong. Sorry, but McNabb was and is a good, sometimes great, QB. Calling him overrated because of some media conspiracy is stupid.
If he was saying “overtly racist” things for 20 years, he wouldn’t be on the radio anymore. He wouldn’t have advertirsers or an audience.
You wouldn’t think so, and yet here we are.
It wasn’t racist. MICHAEL IRVIN AGREED WITH HIM! And it was stupid to you, but it was spot-on to many others.
Jesus Christ you’re gonna go with MICHAEL FUCKING IRVIN as your voice of reason? A coked out retard? And again, its not racist to say so, because Michael Irvin is a coke user and he is retarded. If he were white he would still be a coke user and retarded.
HIS CRITICISM WAS DIRECTED AT THE MEDIA!
And for the nteenth time, it was stupid. The sports media isn’t full of bleeding hearts who are just dying to make Dr. King’s dream a reality through box scores and carefully crafted game recaps. Its full of idiots like SAS, Kornheiser, PK, Cowherd, Rome, Salibury, Berman, Reilly and a thousand others who bitch about blogs, fellate a select number of big market stars and teams while ignoring the rest, and spew out so much stupidity that a thousand FJMs working at a thousand websites couldn’t possibly fisk it all. You really think these people are part of some big conspiracy to elevate a black QB to sainthood?
You know, when your hero Eldridge Cleaver wrote Soul On Ice, he admitted that he targeted white women for rape because he wanted to defile the daughters and wives of white men. If that isn’t a racist hate crimel, I don’t know what is.
Seriously, aren’t people getting sick of the race card yet? Shouts of “IT BEEZ RASSISM!!!11!!” just don’t affect anyone other than guilty white liberals and small children anymore.
Reggie sez:
“But since baseless name-calling is what libtards do best….”
Pot, you remember Kettle, don’t you? From the stove?
“closet fag, holier-than-thou, repubs and conservaqueers”
And homophobic, too. You’re a real piece of work.
“just because you assholes are friends with some loser, sellout, uncle tom doesn’t excuse your racism. so the fuck what! oooh, we let ONE black guy in our house we’re cool right? FUCK YOU PECKERWOOD!”
I believe we’ve just been visited by a semi-literate black nationalist. (Is there any other kind?)_
C-student sounds white.
Sorry that not even the Jamarcus russell can get love because nobody other than al davis can defend sub 30% completion rates.
Hard to swallow that the media is racist? Really? How about the idea that the media pushes that Sanchez is the embodiment of Mexican culture when he doesn’t even speak spanish or understand his own grandmother.
“cracka-ass can run 53 other crackas, i mean caucasian athletes, out on the field on sundays. then we can all laugh as the other 31 teams and their “colored” people he loves to disrespect, embarrass his master race week in and week out.”
See, now THAT is racism. Congrats.
America in 2009 is like Bizarro World. Rush Limbaugh is being falsely accused of racism by a racist anti-Semite like Al Sharpton, who is falsely considered a “civil rights leader” by our media elites.
People are more concerned with who runs a shitty team like the Rams than in who is running our country. Remember Jeremiah Wright? Van Jones? Bill Ayers? Communists, black nationalists, anti-Americans, and terrorists. But that’s not important. What’s REALLY important is that Rush Limbaugh once used Donovan McNabb as an example in a criticism of media bias six years ago!
fuck limbaugh. i hate when you closet racist, closet fag, holier-than-thou, repubs and conservaqueers say oh, he has a black friend so he can’t be racist. just because you assholes are friends with some loser, sellout, uncle tom doesn’t excuse your racism. so the fuck what! oooh, we let ONE black guy in our house we’re cool right? FUCK YOU PECKERWOOD!
uhhhh, GO COWBOYS
as a black guy, (a tall, dark, and handsome one at that) i want Rush to get his own nfl team. then his racist, cracka-ass can run 53 other crackas, i mean caucasian athletes, out on the field on sundays. then we can all laugh as the other 31 teams and their “colored” people he loves to disrespect, embarrass his master race week in and week out.
“No, but it is racist to suggest that a black quarterback is overrated simply because he is black.”
Limbaugh’s proposition was that the sports media is full of guilty white liberals who are eager to see a black QB succeed, because most successful QBs have been white. Therefore they hype “the great black hope” at quarterback, which at the time was McNabb. You may agree or disagree with his position, but it’s not “racist.” He didn’t say “McNabb is black, therefore he sucks.”
“Especially when its not fucking true,”
Your opinion. Others disagree.
“and especially when it comes from someone with a history of saying racist things.”
Bullshit. Remember: Repeating a bald assertion does not do anything to prove a claim. Limbaugh has had the top-rated radio show in the country for about 20 years. If he was saying “overtly racist” things for 20 years, he wouldn’t be on the radio anymore. He wouldn’t have advertirsers or an audience.
“Hey, its not the worst racist thing that ever happened, no one died or was lynched or whatever, but it was a little bit racist. And stupid. Did I mention stupid?”
It wasn’t racist. MICHAEL IRVIN AGREED WITH HIM! And it was stupid to you, but it was spot-on to many others.
“Maybe because Irvin is a coked out retard?”
YOU are the racist! You are repeating the stereotype that black men are stupid drug-addicted criminals! RACIST!!!11!!
(See how easy it is to demonize someone?)
“See that’s not racist, because he is, in fact, coked up and retarded. It has nothing to do with his skin color.”
Again, I get the feeling I’m wasting my time discussing this with you, but Limbaugh didn’t say “McNabb has dark skin, therefore he’s a lousy quarterback.” Limbaugh simply offered his opinion that it was the Eagles defense (mostly black guys, by the way) that was the main reason for their success, but the sports media gave too much credit to McNabb because he’s black and guiltly white liberals in the sports media were eager to see a black QB succeed. HIS CRITICISM WAS DIRECTED AT THE MEDIA!
“I’m really not sure how you can’t understand the nuances here.”
My irony meter just went into orbit.
ProTip: Limbaugh regularly has a black guy sub for him on his radio show when he goes on vacation. (Walter Williams I think his name is.) Also, Clarence Thomas, the lone black Supreme Court Justice, officiated at Rush Limbaugh’s third wedding in 1994, which was held at CT’s house.
Sounds like a regular KKK supporter to me!
But since baseless name-calling is what libtards do best, I guess we can expect them to ignore all those annoying little facts, and continue to call him names like a bunch of low IQ preteens.
Liberalism is a mental disorder.
Context is always missing when people ‘quote’ Rush (usually sourced via MediaMatters, FAIR, etc.); given his usual use of satire and sarcasm on the air (YMMV as to how effective it is), most play those quotes straight when they’re not meant to be. It takes at least a couple of weeks of listening to ‘get’ the show.
In any case, Rush doesn’t discriminate on race; he discriminates by ideology (you know, like everyone else). Hence why he often has glowing words for Thomas Sowell and JD Watts as compared to satirical/literal criticism of Barack Obama, Jesse Jackson, Van Jones, and so on. He’s also always been antagonistic towards the mainstream media (given how often they’ve misquoted him and played the game of double standard, can you blame him?).
Besides, everyone’s missing the comedic potential here.
Imagine if Rush does become owner. And the Rams win the Super Bowl the year NBC hosts it. Now picture this scene: Keith Olbermann interviewing Rush as he holds the Lombardi Trophy.
/wonders if the fact that the Rams donate more to Democrats than any other team in the NFL has anything to do with this
Seriously, couldn’t give a shit about Limbaugh owning the Rams. I mean, if he wants to light his money on fire, which is basically what owning the Rams is, go for it.
In other news, HOLY SHIT TITS. That is all.
Are you suggesting that it’s inherently racist for a white person to suggest that a black quarterback is overrated?
No, but it is racist to suggest that a black quarterback is overrated simply because he is black. Especially when its not fucking true, and especially when it comes from someone with a history of saying racist things. Hey, its not the worst racist thing that ever happened, no one died or was lynched or whatever, but it was a little bit racist. And stupid. Did I mention stupid?
Oh, and if Rush’s McNabb statement was “racist” then why did Michael Irvin immediately agree with it, at least in part?
Maybe because Irvin is a coked out retard? See that’s not racist, because he is, in fact, coked up and retarded. It has nothing to do with his skin color.
Was all the criticism of Barry Bonds “racist” in your opinion? Is anyone who didn’t vote for 0bama “racist?”
Not at all. I hate Barry Bonds cause he’s a cheating asshole who plays for a team I hate. Its a nice trifecta. The fact that he’s black has nothing to do with it. And lots of non-racists voted against Obama, and some racists did vote for him. But there were also a lot of people who didn’t vote for him because he was black. I’m really not sure how you can’t understand the nuances here.
How the fuck was it racist, Whatever? Just repeating a bald assertion doesn’t prove it, genius.
Are you suggesting that it’s inherently racist for a white person to suggest that a black quarterback is overrated? Does this apply to black football players at all positions, or just quarterback? Does it apply to all black athletes in any sport? Does that apply to other races as well? If a black person thinks Brian Urlacher is overrated, is that n”proof” that he hates whites? Or is there a racial double-standard, in that it only applies to whites who criticize blacks?
Is all criticism of black people “racist” in your world? If I point out that OJ Simpson murdered two white people and was acquitted by a mostly black jury, is that “racist” to your mind? Can facts be “racist?”
Was all the criticism of Barry Bonds “racist” in your opinion? Is anyone who didn’t vote for 0bama “racist?”
Oh, and if Rush’s McNabb statement was “racist” then why did Michael Irvin immediately agree with it, at least in part?
Liberalism is a mental disorder.
The whole “Limbaugh is racist” meme started over the comments he made about Donovan McNabb years ago, which a)weren’t racist, and b)weren’t really even directed at McNabb, but instead were directed at the media.
No, it started because he has said a lot of racist shit over the course of his career. You did know that Rush was a well know radio personality before he got to ESPN, right?
And the comment 1) was racist (and even more fucking stupid from a football perspective) and 2) was directed at both McNabb and the media, and was off base in each case.
ITT blacks never put bones through their noses.
Google “National Geographic” sometime.
I can say nothing while using big words to make it look like I’m saying Important Things, too. Look: uh, descrut…ahh, uhm, nevermind.
There has been one white QB on the cover of a Madden game – Brett Favre.
There have been four black QBs on the cover of a Madden game – Daunte Culpepper, Michael Vick, Donovan McNabb, and Vince Young.
Guess which one actually won a Super Bowl?
No Tom Brady. No Peyton Manning. No Ben Roethlisberger.
But it’s RAAAAAAAAAAAACIST!!!11!! to suggest that there is a bias in favor of black quarterbacks in the sports media culture. Riiiiiiiiight.
1) Outstanding analysis… tough to argue with that undisputable fact!
Thanks! I see we can agree on some things. I mean, those guys are clearly angry, and they are clearly bigoted (Hannity especially, who is currently having wet dreams about his gay bashing of Kevin Jennings). I guess the only thing we don’t really know for sure is that they are actually men, but I’m gonna go ahead and take their word for it. Not everything needs to be fact checked.
2) While many conservatives (myself included) may disagree with some of their more attention-grabbing stances & their pompous demeanor, it’s pretty difficult to argue that they are the “most popular spokesmen” based upon viewership/listenership numbers alone.
And you don’t see a problem with this? Yes, I agree they are the “most popular”, by far. They’re also a bunch of fucktarded assholes. Doesn’t it reflect pretty damn poorly on conservatives that millions of them are willing to listen/watch them spout of their BS talking points every single day. Seriously, Rush fans call themselves “dittoheads”. How is this a good thing?
Its also especially bad than any conservative who tries to speak up and say something that contradicts Rush is swiftly smacked down by Don Limbaugh.
As for the Iraq war thing, are you going to honestly say that the critics of the administration and its plans weren’t demonized as traitors, commies, terrorist lovers and pretty much everything else negative under the sun?
But I did notice you’re getting better about paragraphs. Good on you.
Limbaugh isn’t “overtly racist” and it’s borderline libel to write that he is.
In fact, the ironic thing is that this very website regularly displays overt racism towards Asians (smirre)!
The whole “Limbaugh is racist” meme started over the comments he made about Donovan McNabb years ago, which a)weren’t racist, and b)weren’t really even directed at McNabb, but instead were directed at the media.
And something people seem to forget: Immediately after Limbaugh made those comments, Michael Irvin chimed in with “Rush has a point.” Are you telling me Michael-fucking-Irvin doesn’t like black people?
But, hey, since repeating completely bogus memes is apparently perfectly acceptable on here, I guess it’s okay if I point out that Unsilent Majority likes to watch his 350-pound girlfriend get gangbanged by blacks after which she makes him lick up her creamy filling while wearing a dirty diaper.
No way is Rush really that racist. He must have stopped taking his oxycontin or was just faking it. Obviously Rush is exploiting his racism just for dramatic effect, in order to purchase the St. Louis Rams. He is a racist, after all.
/making fun of parkinson’s disease is classy
//more tits, please
OH GOD THOSE TITTIES ARE AMAZING
I don’t see what the big deal is. Just let Rush start his own league that is both separate from the NFL and equal in talent and entertainment. And only allows white players.
oops… I meant “delegitimization”. I’m sure my english professor (Whatever) would have nailed me had I not corrected that.
less politics more tits. cmon people lets do this.
Too many buzz words from the edges.
More tits!
@ Whatever: What brilliant in-depth analysis you have incorporated into the discussion. With your ability to inject silly overused slogans into any discussion- regardless of whether they have any relevance to the topic in question- I’d say you have a bright future as a future panelist on Real Time w/ Bill Maher.
“Ya, like starting a stupid war for no fucking reason! YEEHAW!!!!”. You have done your faithful duty as a kool-aid drinking liberal sheep by dragging the Iraq war into a discussion that was neither about the war in Iraq nor the man who “started” it (I would have said “declared”, but the Constitution says that only CONGRESS can declare war but, since there was an election coming up- & they feared casting an unpopular vote- they decided to transfer their legislative obligation off on the President… which conveniently left open the option to either take credit or criticize the decision depending upon the outcome). The only problem is that your example makes absolutely no sense. Far from any type of partisan delegitization of either party, Bush was in the midst of a wave of national unity brought on by our country being attacked. Maybe next time you should just post “Bush lied, kids died” apropos to othing rather than attempting to link your mindless rhetoric to someone else’s coherent thought.
“1) Probably because they are angry, bigoted men
2) If these are your “most popular spokesmen” then god help conservatism”
1) Outstanding analysis… tough to argue with that undisputable fact!
2) While many conservatives (myself included) may disagree with some of their more attention-grabbing stances & their pompous demeanor, it’s pretty difficult to argue that they are the “most popular spokesmen” based upon viewership/listenership numbers alone.
/your punctuation criticism was the only part of your post that made any sense whatsoever… but still falsely waged.
/ I’m curious as to which parts of my post were deemed by you to be dishonest… or devoid of logic for that matter.
@SonOfSpam: Almost your entire post is lifted from the web site for FAIR, a left wing media “watchdog”. Sorry, but that doesn’t count as “well-sourced”. Try again.
Know how I know you’re stupid? You need to be told what to think by a drug-addicted blowhard radio personality.
@Shinons, Unsilent: Ok, I don’t have a source for the slavery quote. The “bone through the nose” quote has never been disputed, nor has the instance below…
In 1992, on his now-defunct TV show, Limbaugh expressed his ire when Spike Lee urged that black schoolchildren get off from school to see his film Malcolm X: “Spike, if you’re going to do that, let’s complete the education experience. You should tell them that they should loot the theater, and then blow it up on their way out.”
In a similar vein, here is Limbaugh’s mocking take on the NAACP, a group with a 90-year commitment to nonviolence: “The NAACP should have riot rehearsal. They should get a liquor store and practice robberies.”
So I guess you win. I was only able to find several racist, well-sourced Limbaugh quotes. Clearly, he has been a victim of my slander.
The problem with your argument Shinons, is that you assume – among other things – the media has any interest whatsoever in disseminating the facts of the policy arguments at hand. Unfortunately, just like it was easier to get points in the eighth grade cafeteria by calling someone a “fag” instead of rationally deconstructing their argument, it’s easier to get eyes on a newspaper article by either saying or quoting something preposterous than to do an actual breakdown of the numbers.
But I mean, hey, a pox on both their houses!
ive been treated like a punching bag since he put that bid in…
Yes, I’ll go ahead and read that thousand page bill that offers no insight into why the pieces written into it are there and what those pieces are meant to accomplish. That sounds like a great use of time that I might one day be able to include into a douchey, snarky comment.
@Shinons: You could, you know, read the health care bill and find out for yourself. I know reading is something only faggy liberals and socialists and “Yurpians” go for, but just sayin’.
Holy shit, a political debate @ KSK? When there is a fantastic specimen of tits to look at over @ WWTDD? Blasphemy.
Strong enough argument? How about having an argument at all? That’s the point. Lots of people are citical of him, myself included. Criticize him to death for all I care, but at least have something more coherent to say than ZOMG OBAMA OSAMA KENYA SOCIALIST MUSLIM LIBERAL DEATH PANELS!!!!@!!!@@!!!#@#@! When you pull that shit over and over without any logic, consistency or getting to the fucking point, people start to wonder what other motivations you might have.
People who STILL refuse to believe the plain and simple fact that our President was, in fact, born in the US and is not a muslim. It is (a subset of) conservatives who created, nurtured, and continue to jerk off to these blatant falsehoods.
Yes, the truthers, muslim, death panels, etc. are retarded. But you’re ignoring the fact that the left, instead of presenting THEIR message with logic, consisency, or getting to the fucking point, just spend all their time attacking their attackers. The healthcare bill? They’ve never explained how it’s going to work or how they’ll pay for it – important components. Remember Paygo? What ever happened to that? What about the stimulus, spending bill, or TARP? Any reason we haven’t heard why none of that shit worked? Maybe there’s reasonable, rational explanations for these things – but we haven’t heard it, we’ve only heard criticisms about truthers, protesters, and talk show hosts. So are they, Obama and those democrats, racist for not having a message that’s logical, consistent, or concise like you say republicans are? NO! They’re just retarded! They’re all fucking retarded!
Take your argument for instance. If you only apply it to one side of the aisle, you’re not being consistent. You bigot.
black population is roughly 13%. NFL black population is, what?, 70%. where’s the quotas and rooney rule for white players. all those darkies making big bucks, while poor whites can’t get a job…. quota quota quota!!!! it’s unfair, make whites mandatory 60% of NFL players. it’s not fair they’re denied big paychecks. affirmative action for white NFL’ers now!
Fuck Rush, who gives a shit? The Rams are a failure and will continue to be with/without that idiot.
We should be talking more about 3 things:
1.) Susan Sarandon’s daughter
2.) How many times Chucky will say “WildCat” tonight
3.) Which QB Jaws tries to blow on the air
I can’t believe there’s a real discussion going on about race and Rush and Rams. The tits on Surandon’s daughter are a gift from God. Let’s focus more on that.
Oh, and Reggie’s Pimp: small frame, big boobs. Good call on those. Those girls have excellent genetics (or just really fake boobs).
@Unsilent Majority – You are too kind. That quote is slander.
Talk about needing to figure out how to use Google. Still waiting to see somebody post a racist quote from Rush Limbaugh that isn’t fiction…
Saying that the media is racist and coddles black quarterbacks isn’t stupid (ad hominen again….) it is true
JaMarcus Russell is feeling the love!!!!
Seriously though, the idea that the sports media, the same idiots like PK who we rip on every single day, has some hidden liberal agenda is pretty hard to swallow. Most of them are too busy chasing down Farve’s cock or railing against how blogs represent the downfall of civilization.
Limbaugh’s timing in the matter is suspicious- it is after all, Hispanic Awareness Month.