Snopes on the Limbaugh Quotes

[Damocles]

No, it does not imply that at all. The "at least" is giving Rush some benefit of the doubt that it was said during his disck jockey days. As in...

At least, the latter was said during his disk jockey days.

The source is clearly the Newsweek article. If they felt a need to make that exception for the first they would have done so. Rush does not claim in the Newsweek article that the first was said during his disk jockey days. Instead his excuse for that one is that his intent was not racist.

That's not what it said. You have to be deliberately doing this now. I know you are more intellectually honest than this.

"The latter, at least, occurred..." blah, blah. They do not cite when the first did, other than he acknowledged it then began reminiscing about the times as an insult jock. The "at least" is saying that that one "at the least" occurred during that, but then they never cite when the first was made, because they simply don't know.

 

[FUCK THE POLICE]

Didn't you say something about strawman and argument from ignorance to somebody else earlier?

It's not an argument from ignorance.

 

[Damocles]

It's not an argument from ignorance.

It is.

 

[Timshel]

Damo, you are not displaying very good reading comprehension.

Further, it does not even matter if it happened during his days as an insult jock, because he owns it right there in the blockquote claiming his intent was not racist. He is not backing off of it or showing remorse for that one.

 

[Damocles]

Damo, you are not displaying very good reading comprehension.

Further, it does not even matter if it happened during his days as an insult jock, because he owns it right there in the blockquote claiming his intent was not racist. He is not backing off of it or showing remorse for that one.

*sigh*

The "I know you are but what am I defense."

I expected better from you.

He talks about the quote says "don't get me on this one" then goes into reminiscing about other statements he made as an insult jock. They don't know when he said it, and are only sure about the latter statement, hence the "at least"...

 

[Onceler]

The Riot rehearsal one was not one of the cited quotes. And the Jessie Jackson and the bone one was when he was hired to be an insult jock, and he apologized and spoke of how he felt bad even though it was his job. At least be true to what snopes is saying, it is bad enough without having to add to it.

It's a tiny bit like Ward Churchill making stuff up about small pox blankets. There's enough there, you don't need to elaborate or make up equivalents to small pox blankets. My guess is that it looked pretty slim once you took those ones out.

I'll never really understand why you do this...

 

[Damocles]

I'll never really understand why you do this...

Accuracy is important. Why do I not allow distortions like that to pass by without a mention?

I do it for distortions from the left and right, especially when nobody else would, as a matter of habit. I do it because words mean something, and decisions should be made with accurate information, not just tons of it. One can collect tons of stuff, but if most of it is BS, the decisions and judgments they make will also be BS. Garbage in, garbage out is the saying.

Why is it necessary to distort? In this case, by mistake was the assertion, or even if it were on purpose?

Why would you want a friend arguing, "Rush is a racist because he said, '<insert phrase here that you know is not cited and cannot be proven>!'?"

 

[Timshel]

*sigh*

The "I know you are but what am I defense."

I expected better from you.

He talks about the quote says "don't get me on this one" then goes into reminiscing about other statements he made as an insult jock. They don't know when he said it, and are only sure about the latter statement, hence the "at least"...

AGAIN, he owns the statement and does not show remorse for it as he does for the bone comment, so your point is not relevant anyway.

 

[Damocles]

AGAIN, he owns the statement and does not show remorse for it as he does for the bone comment, so your point is not relevant anyway.

*sigh*

Again, the two were put together because he acknowledged them together in the same article, which made him start talking about things that made him feel badly and apologetic.

 

[blackascoal]

GIVE ME A FUCKING BREAK !!!

Limbaugh has made numerous racially charged remarks about Obama

•"We are being told that we have to hope [Obama] succeeds, that we have to bend over, grab the ankles ... because his father was black." After Obama's inauguration, Limbaugh said during an interview with Sean Hannity on Fox News that "[r]acism in this country is the exclusive province of the left. We're witnessing racism all this week that led up to the inauguration. We're being told that we have to hope he succeeds, that we have to bend over, grab the ankles. Bend over forward, backward, whichever, because his father was black, because this is the first black president. We've got to accept this. The racism that everybody thinks exists on our side of the aisle has been on full display throughout their primary campaign. So I think they've done a great job, the media has, of covering up his deficiencies."

•"I do believe" Obama is an "angry black guy." Responding to accusations that he had called Obama "an angry black man," Limbaugh said on July 27 "they're finally hearing me -- he's an angry black guy. I do believe that about the president. I do believe he's angry; I think his wife is angry. All liberals are enraged all the time anyways. They're always mad." Previously, Limbaugh had said that Obama is "one angry guy."

•"n Obama's America, the white kids now get beat up with the black kids cheering." On September 15, Limbaugh said: "It's Obama's America, is it not? Obama's America, white kids getting beat up on school buses now. I mean, you put your kids on a school bus, you expect -- you expect safety. But in Obama's America, the white kids now get beat up with the black kids cheering, 'Yay, right on, right on, right on, right on.' And of course everybody says, 'Oh, the white kid deserved it. He was born a racist, he's white.' Newsweek magazine told us this. We know that white students are destroying civility on buses. White students destroying civility in classrooms all over America. White congressmen destroying civility in the House of Representatives. We can redistribute students while we redistribute their parents' wealth. I mean, we can just redistribute everything. Just return the white students to their rightful place, their own bus, with bars on the windows and armed guards. They're racist. They get what they deserve. Newsweek magazine told us this -- post-racial America. I mean, I wonder if Obama's going to come to the defense of the assailants the way he did his friend Skip Gates up there at Harvard."

•"Obama's entire economic program is reparations." On June 22, Limbaugh said, "What they don't know is that Obama's entire economic program is reparations. If I were [Al] Sharpton, if I'd been guest-hosting Sharpton's show, and I got a call like that, somebody complaining, I'd say, 'No, hey, hey, hey. Shh, shh. Let me tell you the truth here. Everything in the stimulus plan, every plan he's got is reparations. He gonna take from the rich, he's gonna take from the -- he's gonna give it to you. It just can't happen overnight. Be patient.' That's what's -- redistribution of wealth, reparations, returning the nation's wealth to its rightful owners, whatever you want to call it, it's reparations."

•Obama is "more African in his roots than he is American" and is "behaving like an African colonial despot." After reading extensively from an American Thinker column smearing Obama, Limbaugh said on June 26 that Obama is "more African in his roots than he is American" and is "behaving like an African colonial despot."

•Obama is "Halfrican-American." On January 24, 2007, Limbaugh referred to Obama and actress Halle Berry as "Halfrican-American," stating that "Barack Obama has picked up another endorsement: Halfrican-American actress Halle Berry." Limbaugh then said: " 'As a Halfrican-American, I am honored to have Ms. Berry's support, as well as the support of other Halfrican Americans,' Obama said." Limbaugh then conceded that Obama "didn't say it."

•"Obama has disowned his white half ... he's decided he's got to go all in on the black side." On March 21, 2008, Limbaugh said of Obama's handling of the controversy surrounding remarks by Rev. Jeremiah Wright: "It is clear that Senator Obama has disowned his white half, that he's decided he's got to go all in on the black side." Limbaugh had earlier said: "[Y]ou know, opening these race wounds like this, taking us back 30, 40 years, making it look like no progress has been made -- what Barack Obama has done -- I'm going to say something here that might offend -- or not offend -- but might make some uncomfortable. But it is clear to me that there has been a major transformation in Senator Obama."

•Sotomayor "a reverse racist" appointed by Obama, "the greatest living example of a reverse racist." On May 26, Limbaugh said then-Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor is a "reverse racist" and that liberals are wrong to assert that "minorities cannot be racists" because Obama is the "greatest living example of a reverse racist and now he's appointed one." On his May 29 show, Limbaugh compared Sotomayor's nomination to nominating David Duke, a former Ku Klux Klan member, and said the way to "get promoted in the Barack Obama administration" is "by hating white people."

•Obama "wants us to have the same health care and plan that he had in Kenya" and "wants to be the black FDR." On August 24, Limbaugh said he "finally figured out why it is Obama's pushing so hard on this health care bill." He asserted: "He just wants us to have the same health care and plan that he had in Kenya. And look, you know, economic anxiety is necessary if you want to become the next black FDR, which is -- well, the black FDR. That's what he wants. He wants to be the black FDR, the next FDR, and FDR fed off of economic anxiety."

•Latching onto LA Times op-ed, Limbaugh sings "Barack, The Magic Negro." On March 19, 2007, Limbaugh highlighted a Los Angeles Times op-ed that described Obama as "running for an equally important unelected office, in the province of the popular imagination -- the 'Magic Negro' " -- a term used by critics of pop culture to describe certain benevolent African-American characters. Limbaugh stated: "The term 'Magic Negro' has been thrown into the political presidential race in the mix for 2008. And the term 'Magic Negro,' as applied to Barack Obama has been done by an LA Times columnist, David Ehrenstein." Limbaugh later asserted: "I'm going to keep referring to him as that, because I want to make a bet that by the end of this week I will own that term," adding, "If I refer to Obama the rest of the day as the 'Magic Negro,' there will be a number of people in the drive-by media and on left-wing blogs who will credit me for coming up with it and ignore the LA Times did it, simply because they can't be critical of the LA Times, but they can, obviously, be critical of talk radio." Limbaugh continued to refer to Obama as the "Magic Negro" throughout the broadcast -- 27 times, to be exact -- and at one point sang "Barack, the Magic Negro" to the tune of "Puff, the Magic Dragon." Limbaugh defended his use of the song, stating, "Well, that's what we always do here. We do parodies and satires on the idiocy and phoniness of the left."

•"God does not have a birth certificate. Neither does Obama"; Obama "has yet to prove he's a citizen." Limbaugh has also advanced the theory that Obama was not born in the United States, saying that "God does not have a birth certificate. Neither does Obama" and that Obama "has yet to have to prove he's a citizen. All he'd have to do is show a birth certificate."
•Limbaugh on Gates controversy: "Here you have a black president trying to destroy a white policeman." On July 24, Limbaugh said Obama "all of a sudden, this guy that [moderates] elected, who they thought was all of these wonderful, perfect things, is now behaving as a community organizer and is fanning the flames of race, and is calling the police stupid. And I guarantee you those people -- we've all been waiting to ask the question, when are the Obama voters going to wake up? Well, this incident might be -- I don't know yet, a little early to say -- this incident might be the wake-up call for some of these moderates. ... You know that there were a lot of people that voted for Obama out of pure guilt. Hoping that that -- the election, his election would just wipe the slate clean, at least make them feel better about it. And this just destroys that. Here you have a black president trying to destroy a white policeman when he doesn't know the facts of the case." Limbaugh also said on July 23 that white policemen are "under assault" "from the East Room of the White House."

•Limbaugh suggests Obama would not have acted on Somali pirates if he'd known they were "actually young, black Muslim teenagers." On April 14, Limbaugh suggested the "correct" way to look at a situation in which Obama sent the military to retrieve American hostages from Somali pirates was that "if only President Obama had known that the three Somali community organizers were actually young, black Muslim teenagers, I'm sure he wouldn't have given the order to shoot."

•Limbaugh suggests Democrats, media believe "you can't criticize the little black man-child." Referring to GOP ads comparing Obama to Britney Spears during the presidential campaign, on August 20, 2008, Limbaugh said: "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." The previous day, Limbaugh had said that "it is striking how unqualified Obama is and, and how this whole thing came about with, within the Democrat Party. I think it really goes back to the fact that nobody had the guts to stand up and say no to a black guy." Limbaugh went on to say, "I think this is a classic illustration here where affirmative action has reared its ugly head against them."

Limbaugh has an extensive history of making racially charged comments

•"The government's been taking care of [young blacks] their whole lives." On February 1, 2007, Limbaugh responded to a Reuters report about a University of Chicago study that found that "a majority of young blacks feel alienated from today's government" by asserting, "Why would that be? The government's been taking care of them their whole lives."

•"The days of [minorities] not having any power are over, and they are angry." On June 4, Limbaugh said, "This has been the argument the Reverend Jackson has proffered throughout my life -- that it's impossible for minorities to be racist because they don't have any power. Well, president of the United States. We're talking now about a Supreme Court justice. The days of them not having any power are over, and they are angry. And they want to use their power as a means of retribution. That's what Obama's about, gang. He's angry; he's going to cut this country down to size. He's going to make it pay for all the multicultural mistakes that it has made -- its mistreatment of minorities. I know exactly what's going on here."

•"[M]inorities never do anything for which they have to apologize." On April 12, 2007, Limbaugh criticized Sharpton and Rev. Jesse Jackson for refusing to apologize to three former members of the Duke University men's lacrosse team who were accused of rape in March 2006 -- all charges were dropped on April 11, 2007 -- and asserted that "minorities never do anything for which they have to apologize." Presumably referring to the decision by CBS Radio and MSNBC to stop airing Imus in the Morning following controversial comments by host Don Imus, Limbaugh stated: "Everybody's demanding that everybody apologize in this country for simply breathing. It's getting to the point some people are not allowed to breathe or exhale, or make syllables." Limbaugh went on to complain about the protests Sharpton and Jackson led condemning Imus' remarks, saying: "They're members of the minority. Don't ever forget that this is the case. Minorities, victims, members of groups, are allowed to do anything to address their grievances and to get noticed, because ... they're so oppressed."

•Limbaugh: "The media has been very desirous that a black quarterback do well." In 2003, Limbaugh resigned from his job as an ESPN commentator after saying that Philadelphia Eagles quarterback Donovan McNabb hasn't "been that good from the get-go" and "got a lot of credit for the performance of this team that he didn't deserve," because "[t]he media has been very desirous that a black quarterback do well." After the Eagles reached Super Bowl XXXIX in 2005, Limbaugh returned to making racial comments about McNabb, saying, "There's no question McNabb has improved and I'm happy to see it," but that "when the defense ... was propping the Eagles up," the media "were still giving McNabb credit -- because there's this social hope."

•Limbaugh says "NFL all too often looks like a game between the Bloods and the Crips." On January 19, 2007, Limbaugh stated: "Look it, 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."

•Limbaugh declares basketball "the favorite sport of gangs." Discussing the government's attempts to curb violence, Limbaugh told a caller on October 7: "It's not reasonable that you should understand the insanity that local and state and federal bureaucracies are doing. It's perfectly normal and understandable that none of what they do would make sense to you. My question -- OK, a 1 cent sales tax to fight gang violence. What do you spend the money on to fight gang violence? Afterschool program -- don't we already have afterschool programs? Don't we already have -- what do you call it, extracurricular events? Midnight basketball -- I mean, we've done it all. We've taken the favorite sport of gangs, and we put it at midnight to get them on the basketball court. We had 100,000 new cops with Clinton -- we've done it all. And the problem still is out of control. Liberalism doesn't work."

•Limbaugh invented "racial component" to Hackett's decision to withdraw from Ohio primary race. During the 2006 Democratic primaries, Limbaugh invented a racial element to explain Iraq war veteran Paul Hackett's departure from the Ohio Democratic Senate primary race against then-Rep. Sherrod Brown, asserting, "And don't forget, Sherrod Brown is black. There's a racial component here, too." In fact, Brown is white -- a point on which Limbaugh was corrected later in the program.

•Limbaugh on Survivor series: "African-American tribe" worst swimmers, Hispanics "will do things other people won't do." On August 23, 2006, Limbaugh suggested that the competition in a season of CBS' Survivor, in which contestants were reportedly divided into competing "tribes" by ethnicity, "is not going to be fair if there's a lot of water events." In support of this assertion, he cited a March 2, 2006, HealthDay article reporting that "young blacks -- especially males -- are much more likely to drown in pools than whites." He later added that Hispanics have "probably shown the most survival tactics," that they "have shown a remarkable ability to cross borders," and that they can "do it without water for a long time, they don't get apprehended, and they will do things other people won't do." On his September 29, 2006, show, Limbaugh claimed "[t]here can only be one reason" Survivor scrapped "segregated" competition after two episodes -- "the white tribe had to be winning."

•Limbaugh suggested Colin Powell only supported Obama because of race. After Limbaugh asserted that Colin Powell should leave the Republican Party because of his support for Obama, Rep. Tom Price (R-GA) said on MSNBC's Morning Joe that "t's not up to Rush Limbaugh to decide who ought to be in the Republican Party." Limbaugh responded on his May 18 show that all Democrats "had to do was nominate an African-American and [they've] got Colin Powell."

•Limbaugh: Gates is an "angry racist." On July 27, Limbaugh said Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates is an "angry racist."

•Limbaugh called illegal immigrants an "invasive species." Referring to an April 1, 2005, federal court ruling that prohibited shipping boats from dumping of ballast water containing "invasive species," including some types of mollusks, into U.S. waters, Limbaugh described illegal immigrants as an "invasive species" that U.S. courts willingly permit to enter the country.

•Limbaugh repeatedly calls Native Americans "Injuns." Media Matters for America documented at least four separate instances of Limbaugh using this slur on his program.

•Limbaugh says Democrats' interest in Darfur is securing black "voting bloc." On August 21, 2007, Limbaugh claimed that Democrats "want to get us out of Iraq, but they can't wait to get us into Darfur." He continued: "There are two reasons. What color is the skin of the people in Darfur? It's black. And who do the Democrats really need to keep voting for them? If they lose a significant percentage of this voting bloc, they're in trouble." A caller responded, "The black population," to which Limbaugh said, "Right."

•Limbaugh says that if "feminazis" had remembered to oppose "affirmative action for black guys ... they wouldn't face the situation they face today." On May 21, 2008, Limbaugh said that "one of the objectives of the feminazis over the last 20, 25 years has been to dominate the public education system so as to remove the competitive nature of boys. You know, there's a crisis of young man-boy education in the schools. And they did this on purpose, to eliminate male competition in the work force. This is part of feminazi grand plan." Limbaugh then said, "They forgot affirmative action for black guys. And because of that, every bit of their plan has gone up in smoke now, because they -- if -- they had to come out in favor of affirmative action for black guys, and that's -- see, this is one of the things that really irritates the women. And there are women all over this country fit to be tied -- trust me on this. ... [L]iberals eventually are going to be devoured by their own policies. And it has happened here. Because Barack Obama is an affirmative action candidate." He concluded, "So, it's just -- they just forgot that one thing: affirmative action for black guys. And if they had remembered to oppose that, then they wouldn't face the situation they face today."
http://mediamatters.org/research/200910130049

NOTE motherfucking NOTE: White women are the biggest beneficiaries of AA, not black men.

You people can continue to defend this OBVIOUS AS HELL RACIST .. but the good news is that the rest of the planet knows better.

 

[Sammy Jankis]

I see no evidence of racism. Calling someone and angry black man may just be factual.

You're an angry black man, blackascoal.

 

[Sammy Jankis]

Sotomayer is a racist. That's just a fact. not "evidence of racism".

 

[Damocles]

BAC, my point was that there is plenty to talk about that is citeable, that there is no need to use ones that were made up and uncited, or even the ones that he apologizes for...

 

[Damocles]

I see no evidence of racism. Calling someone and angry black man may just be factual.

You're an angry black man, blackascoal.

No evidence of racism? "Injuns" is pretty much the same thing as calling them "red-n*ggers"... It's just a different word that racists use to insult Native Americans. Like "savages", as I stated "red n*ggers", "redskins", among others.

However I agree that Sotomayor is also clearly race-conscious and willing to believe that just being Latina makes somebody make "better decisions" if all else is equal.

 

[blackascoal]

BAC, my point was that there is plenty to talk about that is citeable, that there is no need to use ones that were made up and uncited, or even the ones that he apologizes for...

The bottom line is that the man is a racist plain and simple, no question about it.

I agree with you that there is no need to make anything up about him, but that is actually beside the point, beside the question.

Is Limbaugh a racist?

Absolutely.

That's all that really matters. If shit gets made up about him it's because it's believable .. because he's a a racist.

 

[Sammy Jankis]

The bottom line is that the man is a racist plain and simple, no question about it.

I agree with you that there is no need to make anything up about him, but that is actually beside the point, beside the question.

Is Limbaugh a racist?

Absolutely.

That's all that really matters. If shit gets made up about him it's because it's believable .. because he's a a racist.

The bottom line is he's not a racist.

You've presented no evidence of racism. You're hallucinating again, angry black man.

 

[TuTu Monroe]

The bottom line is he's not a racist.

You've presented no evidence of racism. You're hallucinating again, angry black man.

Obama could easily be called a racist with his comment about a typical white woman, along with obvious racists like Louis Farrakhan, Jeremiah Wright and others, with whom Obama has associated.

 

[DamnYankee]

These same liberals who toss the race card at Rush will defend Robert Byrd and Obama for saying worse, obviously racist, things.

 

[DamnYankee]

The bottom line is that the man is a racist plain and simple, no question about it.

I agree with you that there is no need to make anything up about him, but that is actually beside the point, beside the question.

Is Limbaugh a racist?

Absolutely.

That's all that really matters. If shit gets made up about him it's because it's believable .. because he's a a racist.

Circulus in demonstrando (circular argument).

 

[blackascoal]

Circulus in demonstrando (circular argument).

Fuck you and the circular argument that spawned you.