Racism and Rush
On the O’Reilly Factor, Juan Williams was told, by Warren Ballantine, to “go back to the porch.” This is a seriously racist code phrase; Ballantine (black) was calling Williams (also black) a house negro because Williams refused to falsely attribute malicious quotes to Rush Limbaugh. In this clip, Williams talks about what Ballantine did with two guests — Rev Hutcherson (black, former NFL player and very close friend of Rush Limbaugh’s) and Tammy Bruce (a gay white female). Williams considers himself a liberal. Hutcherson says he’s conservative. Bruce refers to herself as “formerly liberal” but as a gay, obviously “different” from Hutcherson. Interestingly, they all come to the same conclusion on this issue. This is a REALLY, REALLY good video clip. Definitely worth watching right to the end with the sound on and your ears tuned in fully.
Lori at Snark and Boobs suggested racial slurs like “house nigger” should be added to Godwin’s Law. I’d never heard of it, so googled. FYI: adapted from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Godwin%27s_law
Godwin’s Law is also known as Godwin’s Rule of Nazi Analogies. It is based on a humorous observation made by Mike Godwin in 1990 which has become an Internet adage: “As a Usenet discussion grows longer, the probability of a comparison involving Nazis or Hitler approaches.” Godwin’s Law is sometimes cited in online discussions as a deterrent to the thread degrading into personal attacks. In some Internet discussion forums, any reference to Hitler or Nazis automatically ends the thread and it is considered poor form to raise such a comparison arbitrarily with the motive of ending the thread. A tradition also exists that whoever makes such a comparison has lost the debate, but this ignores the possibility that the reference is apt. Godwin himself has argued that overuse of Nazi and Hitler comparisons should be avoided, because it robs the valid comparisons of their impact.
I think Lori has a good point. And I’d like to add to what Godwin said about overuse re: racism, rape, torture and slavery, all of which I’ve seen over used in ways that seriously demean the seriousness of the real crimes.
One last thought before I let you go. I just read:
“How Rush Limbaugh gave America its Sundays back By Neil Braithwaite – Oct 18, 2009”
http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/10/how_rush_limbaugh_gave_america.html
It’s so ironic that this appears today, which is my hubby’s birthday. I grew up in a football obsessed family and — while I am enormously proud of the fact that there is a league trophy named after my dad — I personally have no interest in football for its own sake. So the fact that my man doesn’t either has always been a plus in my book. 
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Anyhoo, the Braithwaite article is ATTACHED if you want to read it. I just wanted to mention one point he made that I hadn’t come across anywhere else. I.e., “Not one NFL owner or representative came out to denounce the uncivil tone and unfounded slanderous attacks made against Rush, who, as if they were too ignorant to know, happened to be one of the NFL’s biggest supporters as well as a prospective owner. It was the ultimate responsibility of the NFL’s commissioner, Roger Goodell, to put a stop to this nonsense. But did Goodell step forward? No. In fact, he did just the opposite and climbed on the slander train himself.”
He goes on, “The biggest losers are the NFL and the St. Louis Rams, who lost an opportunity to have an awesome new competitor and minority owner. The merry host of media slander slingers also lost the last bit of respect anyone may have ever had for them. And America just lost a little of what makes her the greatest country in the world — civility, respect and fairness. Rush Limbaugh, on the other hand, became a big winner in the eyes of his loyal listeners for the responsible and dignified manner in which he handled the whole situation. But the biggest winners of all are the thousands of families throughout America who just got their husbands and fathers back on Sundays. Picnic anyone?”
Comments
By Paul on October 19th, 2009 at 8:35 pm
It seems to me that all the negative vibes this blowhard (Rush Hudson Limbaugh A.KA. Jeff Christie) has been spewing over these many years has come back to blow back on his face (A classic “Blow Back”). He always tries to give off the airs that he can have anything he wants but as we all witness those with more money and more influence tossed him aside like sack of potatoes and the ultimate insult was that it was done in public (money don’t buy you everything butterball).
Now of course he blames everyone else (Michael J. Fox, Perez Hilton, Al Sharpton, Jesse Jackson, Obama, Oprah Winfrey, Sonia Sotomayor, Hillary Clinton, Olympia Snowe, ESPN, NFL, the media, basically people of color, the handicapped, women and gays) when of course all you have to do is listen to his show and plainly hear his daily prejudices filled sermons. So NFL, I salute you decision, job well done. And to the whaling cry baby perched on his self made pedestal, quit your whining it was your own fault. He is reaping what he has sowed, KARMA, “palin and simple” like his followers. Don’t we all feel better?
By Jedediah Bila on October 20th, 2009 at 4:39 pm
It’s incomprehensible to me that anyone who likely voted for a man who sat in Jeremiah Wright’s Trinity United Church day after day would have the audacity to associate Rush Limbaugh with “daily prejudices filled sermons.” As far as Limbaugh’s “followers,” I personally uphold that anyone who blindly follows another individual needs to immediately go out and purchase two things: a sense of self and some integrity. You know, kind of like if a mass of wide-eyed people voted for someone who shouted things like “hope,” “change,” and “yes we can” without ever bothering to ask hope for WHAT or change HOW.
By Paul on October 23rd, 2009 at 6:43 pm
The NFL decides who becomes an owner not the other way around.
All this blowhard (Rush Hudson Limbaugh A.KA. Jeff Christie) has to offer is his money and his opinions, which in my opinion are on the fringes of racism (one mans opinion). There are many more groups biding for the Rams, not just his group. Lets face it there are more men with money that will gladly fill the slot and the Rams will win or lose depending on how well the team works together and not on whether or not Rush is an owner.
As for Vick, well he is a player (he has talent not like you, Rush or I, unless you are a NFL player?) and he served his time and the NFL decided we live in the land of second chances, so why not (I personally don’t like it but, oh well). Life has never been fair (NEWS FLASH!)
Now as to the “Free Speech” argument, I guess many of you like myself heard Rush on Thursday “Almost in tears”, priceless. But the last two days he now is in his normal ranting and will continue until someone surpasses him, “Free Speech” continues, so quit your whining.
http://www.chasingevil.org/2009/10/rush-limbaugh-in-his-own-words.html
Rush will not sue because he knows they will file a counter compliant and he will be deposed and like Nixon he knows that the tapes will sink him. For so many years he has spent his time on the radio mis-labeling and/ or mis-characterizing others. Poor little “self-centered” Rush, no out except creating the myth that everyone is out to get him. Sorry sucka you can only yourself to blame for your idiot comments. He finally had his judgment day where the NFL wins and tubby loses. Tee, hee….
PS – I am sure someone is working to put the tapes together maybe all you subscribers can help, since you are all about getting to the truth?
PPS- Beauty Pageant Judge – Now I understand why he lost the weight, to find a new wife, creepy.
By Montana on October 24th, 2009 at 1:28 pm
Rush Limbaugh: Transcript of radio broadcast from Oct. 14, 2008
By Keith Vance
TRANSCRIPT OF RUSH LIMBAUGH ON HIS RADIO SHOW FROM OCT. 14, 2008
Editor’s note: This is a verbatim transcript of Limbaugh explaining how ACORN, Barack Obama, Bill Ayers and Jeremiah Wright are all involved in a radical leftwing conspiracy to teach black kids to hate America.
From the time of my birth 57 years ago to today, this country has grown and expanded, prosperity has opened its doors for more and more people around the world, not just people born in this country.
We know the stories of asians immigrating and running rings around people born in this country academically in California. We know all about the immigration, legal and illegal, to get into the country. We know that the standard of living has risen. We know that technological advancement is going along at light speed.
And yet, during this period of time, whether it be the last 57 years, or the last 20 years, it seems that the majority of the black population has remained angry, frustrated and behind – they’ve been left behind. They’re acting like they’ve been left behind, and of course we’ve heard that this is because of racism, natural systemic institutional racism in America. We’re unfair. That this country is just horrible and rotten.
Do you ever ask yourself how it is that people not even born here can come here and in a few short years begin prospering in school, they’re own business, and yet people who are born in this country somehow have been raised to hate it – to still think they’re back in the days of slavery.
I actually think, after studying all this ACORN stuff, and reading what Stanley Kurtz has written about this, I actually believe that what has taken place here, in addition to liberal Democrat legislation – such as the great society and the war on poverty, which a lot of people would now acknowledge really busted up the black family by the government taking the place of a husband and father – he’s free to roam around and bear no responsibility. The mother remained the mother, she got the financial assistance from this legislation from the federal government. The federal government became the father. The father didn’t have to hang around in order for the kids to be OK – depending on how you define OK.
And as you study more and more of this ACORN stuff you find that it has been part of an entire movement that has been going for two maybe three decades right under our noses. We thought that it was just liberal welfare policies and all that that kept blacks from progressing while other minorities grew and prospered but no. It is these wackos from Bill Ayers to Jeremiah Wright to other anti-american afro-centric black liberation theologists, working with ACORN, and Barack Obama is smack dab in the middle of it. They have been training young black kids to hate hate hate this country. And they trained their parents before that to hate hate hate this country. It was a movement. It was a Bill Ayers anti-capitalist anti-american educational movement. ACORN is how it was implemented right under our noses.
They’re doing far more folks than just cheating when it comes to elections and registration. They’re in deep in this mortgage crisis. ACORN and Obama, and Barney Frank and Chris Dodd, the Democrat Party have their fingerprints the sub-prime mortgage crisis. The whole concept of affordable housing was people who can’t afford a mortgage are going to get one, because America is unfair.
It has been a movement. It has been a religion. And Obama and Jeremiah Wright and William Ayers were all up to their big ears in it.
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This is only one example, he real sounds like America’s Uniter, not a Divider, when it comes to race relations. Rush will not sue because he knows they will file a counter compliant and he will be deposed and like Nixon he knows that the tapes will sink him. For so many years he has spent his time on the radio mis-labeling and/ or mis-characterizing others. Poor little “self-centered” Rush, no out except creating the myth that everyone is out to get him. Sorry sucka you can only yourself to blame for your idiot comments. He finally had his judgment day where the NFL wins and tubby loses. Tee, hee…