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October 14th, 2009 | 
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I guess it’s no wonder so many people are buying the insinuation that Rush Limbaugh is a racist – a notion that is fueling opposition to his quest to buy the St. Louis Rams.
If Limbaugh had really uttered the following quotes, it would be hard to deny that he is a racist:
Where there's smoke, there's . . . smoke.
- “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.”
- “You know who deserves a posthumous Medal of Honor? James Earl Ray (the murderer of Martin Luther King Jr.). We miss you, James. Godspeed.”
Yep. Only a racist would make those statements. The problem is that there’s no evidence whatsoever that Limbaugh ever said either one. Actually, that’s not the biggest problem. The biggest problem is that CNN and MSNBC are quoting both as if they are authoritative.
The first quote was attributed to Limbaugh by Pittsburgh Steelers player James Farrior as part of his explanation for why he would never play for a team Limbaugh owned. Both networks took the quote and ran with it, with no authority other than Farrior himself.
Limbaugh says he never made the statement and has challenged any journalists who are using the quote to prove that he said it or apologize and/or face legal action for libel and slander.
The second quote, which was supposedly uttered in 1998, appears to have first appeared in a Wikipedia entry about Limbaugh in 2005. It was then cited as authoritative in 2006 in a book by Jack Huberman titled 101 People Who Are REALLY Screwing Up America.
Of course, any idiot can write anything on Wikipedia, and supposedly the mainstream media lament the proliferation of such unchecked sources of “information,” except, it appears, when they aid in their pursuit of a political agenda.
The other story that’s going around is that Limbaugh is a member of a country club in Florida that has never had a black member. It appears that this may be true, but there’s one important fact you need to know that neuters this angle as proof that Limbaugh is a racist.
Supposedly, throughout the years, members who have tried to bring black people to the club have been asked to leave – including a man who brought Sammy Davis Jr. to the club in the 1970s.
But there was one member who brought a black man to the club and was allowed to stay and have lunch. That member was Rush Limbaugh, and his guest that day was Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas.
I said it on Monday and I’ll say it again now: Rush Limbaugh is not a racist, plain and simple. If you don’t agree with his politics, fine, but if he was really a racist, there would surely be actual statements he’s uttered over the course of more than 20 years on national radio that would demonstrate it. The fact that his media critics have to rely on these two fictional ones as part of their campaign to deny him ownership of the Rams tells you how thin the charge really is.
Oh, and those of you who plan to offer “real” Limbaugh racist quotes in the comment section, you’d better make sure you can demonstrate the quotes’ authenticity. The False Limbaugh Racist Quote Campaign is operating at full speed. Don’t be part of it.
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Rush Limbaugh is the most popular radio talk show host in history and that makes him Public Enemy No. 1 to his political foes. They will stop at nothing to remove his voice of opposition from the airwaves and this includes lying.
I do not expect critics to recant but rather demand YOU prove he didn’t say those things.
The burden of proof lies on the accuser unless it is a liberal and/or democrat and “Anything goes” applies.
If Rush actually made this statement honoring Kings assassin – “You know who deserves a posthumous Medal of Honor? James Earl Ray (the murderer of Martin Luther King Jr.). We miss you, James. Godspeed.” – on any public, the media would have been all over it at the time. Additionally, Limbaugh would have been facing some serious legal consequences.
In addition to that, every mainstream Republican would have been distancing themselves from Rush Limbaugh. David Duke is a known – self proclaimed – white nationalist and he would never say anything that brutal.
I am a black American and I do not agree with much of Limbaugh’s politics, but I wouldn’t say he is a racist.
This is getting tired. I thought we had put to rest for the most part playing the race card in the late 90′s. Sure a few that make a living on race baiting like Sharpton and Jackson have somehow survived, but it seemed like it peaked and died down for a good 5-7 years. It reared its ugly head again 6 most before the 2008 election and has now surpassed anything I’ve seen before. From Jimmy Carter, the media on down, race baiting has reared its ugly head. In this case it’s not remotely President Obama’s fault! He has stayed away from playing the race card as President which tells me his advisors have made sure he doesn’t mess with that. Many on the left however are using this issue to sway the many weak American minds that believe everything they see. Fact finding matters not to these shameless, lying, disgusting individuals and before its all said and done they will lose. Watch what happens to the rest win dozens of liberal senators, congressmen, and other political figures get throw out of office on reelection over the next 12 months. Believe me that will be all it takes for these sellouts to realize that the power of the vote is greater than they are. After this election they assume that they are untouchable which is not the case. Let’s go see them work for a living now.
It’s my understanding that someone of celebrity status cannot possibly win a slander suit unless they can prove malicious intent.
I hope Mr. Limbaugh can 1) prove that he never uttered those terrible words, and 2) that he can prove malicious intent.
In a separate article this morning, Mark Steyn claims that there are absolutely no tapes or transcripts to authenticate the “qoutes.” As a guest host on Limbaugh’s radio show, he has something of an inside track. I hope he’s right.
At any rate, I hope CNN and MSNBC are lawyering up. I don’t think Rush is going to take this lying down.
First time visitor, first time poster. Just an observation: if Rush isn’t a racist, why does your page’s web address say “rush-limbaugh-racist-cnn-msnbc-quotes-prove-it”?
Rush should take them to court and make them prove that he said what they’re accusing of. Since they can’t (since he didn’t say them) they’ll lose. Rather than financial damages, the court should force all of the offending broadcasters to have a permanent banner over their broadcasts stating “Federal court has determined that MSNBC/CNN/CBS etc. is not a credible source of news.”
Limbaugh should sue for malicious intent; take all their money & set up scholarships for inner city youths to get them out of the left wing schools that probably use Wikipedia as a viable source of instruction.
Can you imagine is these quotes were true? They ran Imus out of his job & had Michael Richards kissing the boots of Jesse Jackson for stuff as equal or not as bad as the stuff attributed to Limbaugh. If Limbaugh lets them get away with this, how hard would it be for the Left wing media to make up anything they like about any public figure from this point out. This is people vs. Larry Flint stuff & Limbaugh needs to set the agenda.
Rush MUST sue. He has the financial resources to do so, and his financial resources will be so much greater after he wins. Actually, NBC and CNN will settle out of court with him. They’re 100% wrong and they know it. This is a great opportunity to shake the “mainstream media” to its core.
Oddly enough, I’ve not seen those quotes cited before in accusations that Rush is a racist.
What I HAVE seen are the following:
“[I]n Obama’s America, the white kids now get beat up with the black kids cheering.”
He didn’t say that?
“”NFL all too often looks like a game between the Bloods and the Crips.”
He didn’t say that?
He didn’t sing “Barack the Magic Negro?”
He didn’t call Barack Obama an “Halfrican American?”
He didn’t tell a black caller to his show to “take the bone out of your nose?”
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The term Barack the Magic Negro originated in the Los Angeles Times, and was then lampooned in a parody song by Paul Shanklin, which Rush played on his show.
The others I don’t know. Did you hear him say them while listening to the show?
Whether you’re willing to accept it or not, here’s his explanation of the Bloods and Crips comment:
http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/home/daily/site_101409/content/01125113.guest.html
Dan,
Yes, I know where “The Magic Negro” originated. So what? I’ve not claimed that Rush himself wrote it.
No, I did not hear these quotes while listening to the show. I did take “The Klavan challenge” some months ago, however, and have listened to Rush enough to know that they are in no way out of character.
Here is the audio of him referring to Obama (and Halle Berry) as “Halfrican American.”
http://mediamatters.org/research/200701240010
The other quote, about the bone in the nose is from too far back for an audio to be available. And yes, I read his “explanation” of the Blood and Crips comment. What, exactly, did you find in that long web of words that you considered compelling? it looks to me like the same-old same-old I hear from people when they get called on racist comments.
[I]n Obama’s America, the white kids now get beat up with the black kids cheering.”
*Rush said this in the context that America was supposed to be in a post racial period. he satirized the Jesse Jackson Modus O.
“”NFL all too often looks like a game between the Bloods and the Crips.”
*Rush said this after witnessing a player costing his team a win after getting in another players face with a “don’t diss me” attitude. The ensuing penalty for the conduct gave the opposing team a second last second scoring chance in which they did score.
He didn’t sing “Barack the Magic Negro?”
*No, Rush’s friend Paul Shanklin did and it was a parody of a column in the LA Times, written by a black film critic.
He didn’t call Barack Obama an “Halfrican American?”
*I’ve not heard of this one.
He didn’t tell a black caller to his show to “take the bone out of your nose?”
Not to his present show. Rush worked on another show earlier in his career and it’s premise was more in tune with general outrageous, like many morning shows are, this was blurted out during a back and forth with a caller he could not understand. Rush has regretted saying this.
Not enough for tho is it?
well I’m back to “Hymietown” as the wonderful Jesse Jackson has noted. I’ll probably get a coffee at Dunkin’ donuts from the guy with an Indian accent, as Joe Biden noted. But first, I’ll get Ghandi to pump me some gas, as Hillary noted.
No, No let’s pass final Judgement on rush…
you don’t find it curious that Halle Berry and Obama, despite being abandoned by their African parent(s), only to be raised by their White parents, have chosen to be known as African American? And both have denigrated their white parents at one point or another.
I find it curious.
Perry: [I]n Obama’s America, the white kids now get beat up with the black kids cheering.” *Rush said this in the context that America was supposed to be in a post racial period. he satirized the Jesse Jackson Modus O.
Rush took a garden variety incident of schoolyard bullying and pushed it as a racist incident, implying that black schoolkids were so violent and dangerous that, now that our president is black, white schoolkids needed to be protected from them.
Perry:“”NFL all too often looks like a game between the Bloods and the Crips.”*Rush said this after witnessing a player costing his team a win after getting in another players face with a “don’t diss me” attitude. The ensuing penalty for the conduct gave the opposing team a second last second scoring chance in which they did score.
Another example of Rush attempting to “make a point” by invoking racist stereotypes, this time the one of black men as violent thuggish gang members.
Perry: (He didn’t sing “Barack the Magic Negro?) *No, Rush’s friend Paul Shanklin did
Uh, yes he did.
http://mediamatters.org/mmtv/200703200012
(at the 11.32 point)
Perry: and it was a parody of a column in the LA Times, written by a black film critic.
Uh, no, David Ehrenstein is not black, and the term “Magic Negro” was coined by Richard Brookhiser in THE NATIONAL REVIEW — hardly a liberal source, or one known
Perry: He didn’t call Barack Obama an “Halfrican American?” *I’ve not heard of this one.
I’ve already posted the audio in a response to Perry. His use of the term is especially interesting given the fact that in that very broadcast about “Obama the Magic Negro” included describing liberals as “racist” because someone had claimed Obama was not “black enough.”
Perry: (He didn’t tell a black caller to his show to “take the bone out of your nose?”) Not to his present show.
So what?
PFT: Rush worked on another show earlier in his career and it’s premise was more in tune with general outrageous, like many morning shows are, this was blurted out during a back and forth with a caller he could not understand. Rush has regretted saying this.
Which, if he had not followed it up over the years with numerous statements along the same lines, would be worth mentioning. That “regret” he expressed has not prevented him from continuing to make racist comments.
Perry:Well I’m back to “Hymietown” as the wonderful Jesse Jackson has noted.
And has Jesse Jackson consistently and repeatedly made anti-Semitic comments over the years?
Perry:you don’t find it curious that Halle Berry and Obama, despite being abandoned by their African parent(s), only to be raised by their White parents, have chosen to be known as African American?
No, and I doubt most African Americans would find it curious either. Both Halle Berry and Barack Obama know, as pretty much all black Americans know, that whatever the race of one of their parents, they, Halle and Barack, will be perceived by most Americans as “black.” If they were not famous, but ordinary people, and someone was called to describe them, they would be referred to as black. That’s the reality.
Perry: And both have denigrated their white parents at one point or another.
How has Obama “denigrated” his white mother?
So CNN reported the quote without checking first to see if he actually said it. What, were they too busy fact checking SNL skits?
Pamela Troy:
At the risk of being called racist, let me ask:
How do you explain Obama throwing his white grandmother under the bus?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bEd0Wg_QMrg
Oh, Pamela:
Denigrated is a perfectly good latin derivative word that is not, and never has been, racist and does not have to be placed inside quotation marks. Well, maybe I am wrong . . . you never know what to expect from those uncivilized Romans. Political correctness wasn’t much in vogue back then.
Rick Sanchez is a far worse human being than Rush Limbaugh. Rick Sanchez got drunk, got in a car and ran someone over and then lied about it over the dead body.
Rush never did anything like that.
CNN’s Rick Sanchez is the real scum bag. CNN is scum for putting him out as their face.
Pamela: Yes, Jesse Jackson has made anti-Semitic comments repeatedly over the years. One year ago:
‘The “Zionists who have controlled American policy for decades” would lose much of their power if the Democratic presidential candidate entered the White House, Tuesday’s New York Post quoted Jackson as saying.’
He is still anti-Semitic, he has just gotten better at hiding it.
The school bus incident is comparable to the Duke Lacrosse rape hoax. As a reminder, a young black female stripper accused a group of young white males of gang raping her. Jesse and Al jumped on this story and declared the boys guilty. Of course, we all found out later the story has a hoax. I’m sure some of those boys are still suffering backlash from that lie, but Jesse and Al have moved on. Good for Jesse and Al, it must have been tragic for them to go through that. Of course, the stripper’s lie fit the template and that’s all that mattered (they probably still think those white boys are guilty based on the fact that some white people are racist).
The bus incident: A white boy, bothering no one, gets on a bus and is almost immediately punched several times in the face by at least two different black boys all while being cheered on by several other students (most black from what I could tell). Just reverse the roles of the white and black on that bus and tell me Jesse and Al would not have been on that like flies on shit because it would have been yet another clear case of a white male racist. But somehow, two young black boys are incapable of being racist when they beat up a white boy for no apparent reason? Tell me then, Pamela, what was their reason?
Pamela, you must be older because, as SE Cupp (yes, a white girl, yeesh!) pointed out, all charges of racism these days are made by old racists like Jimmy Carter and old race baiters like Jesse and Al. We younger folks do not think of everything in terms of race but you older people make it hard for us to ignore the color of skin since you are always bringing it into issues when it fits your template. It is people like Pamela, Jesse, and Al, that will never let racism die in this country. And I despise you for that.
Oh, and Pamela, David Ehrenstein most certainly is black (unless he uses someone else’s picture on huffpo)
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-ehrenstein
Also, Pamela, you or someone you are quoting has misread the wikipedia page: Richard Brookhiser of THE NATIONAL REVIEW did not coin the phrase “magic negro”. If you can believe wikipedia, they claim Brookhiser coined the term “Numinous Negro” which is positive term that has nothing to do with “magic negro”. Pamela, you are very wrong about many things.
After reading all the comments… my conclusion is Rush is a racist. Do you ever wonder why they keep calling non-Whites as “African American”, “Native American”, Latino-American”, “Asian American”? But nobody calls White as “European American”?
“Gadfly”
Exactly how does this quote from Obama about his grandmother qualify as “throwing her under the bus?” He’s simply stating a reality that his grandmother and many others of her generation would — and did — readily admit to. I could say much the same about my own grandparents, with as much love and respect as Obama showed.
“gadfly”: Denigrated is a perfectly good latin derivative word that is not, and never has been, racist and does not have to be placed inside quotation marks.
It is perfectly appropriate to put a word in quotation marks when it is being quoted, and when it’s application is being questioned.
Where, in the name of the Twelve Apostles, do you imagine I claimed the word “denigrate” was racist?
Well, maybe I am wrong . . . you never know what to expect from those uncivilized Romans. Political correctness wasn’t much in vogue back then
Andy:
“Yes, Jesse Jackson has made anti-Semitic comments repeatedly over the years. One year ago: ‘The “Zionists who have controlled American policy for decades” would lose much of their power if the Democratic presidential candidate entered the White House, Tuesday’s New York Post quoted Jackson as saying.’ He is still anti-Semitic, he has just gotten better at hiding it.
So that qualifies as “anti-Semitic” — but Rush claiming that Obama’s entire economic program is “reparations,” calling Obama “Halfrican American,” accusing him of “behaving like an African colonial despot,” and claiming that Obama wouldn’t have acted on the Somali Pirates if he’d known they were “young black Muslim teenagers” does not qualify as “racist?”
a: The school bus incident is comparable to the Duke Lacrosse rape hoax.
As a reminder, a young black female stripper accused a group of young white males of gang raping her. Jesse and Al jumped on this story and declared the boys guilty. Of course, we all found out later the story has a hoax. I’m sure some of those boys are still suffering backlash from that lie, but Jesse and Al have moved on. Good for Jesse and Al, it must have been tragic for them to go through that. Of course, the stripper’s lie fit the template and that’s all that mattered (they probably still think those white boys are guilty based on the fact that some white people are racist).
And this makes it okay for Rush to attempt to inflate a non-racist incident into a racist incident…how?
a: The bus incident: A white boy, bothering no one, gets on a bus and is almost immediately punched several times in the face by at least two different black boys all while being cheered on by several other students (most black from what I could tell). Just reverse the roles of the white and black on that bus and tell me Jesse and Al would not have been on that like flies on shit because it would have been yet another clear case of a white male racist.
You think this never happens in reverse, eh? No black kid ever gets beat up by white bullies without it being inflated into a “hate crime?”
Andy: But somehow, two young black boys are incapable of being racist when they beat up a white boy for no apparent reason? Tell me then, Pamela, what was their reason?
Garden variety schoolyard bullying, according to the officials who got involved. You are aware, right, that kids frequently get beat up by other kids for reasons other than race hatred?
A: Pamela, you must be older because, as SE Cupp (yes, a white girl, yeesh!) pointed out, all charges of racism these days are made by old racists like Jimmy Carter and old race baiters like Jesse and Al.
We’re old enough to know it when we see it. Being able to remember the Jim Crow south, and the lessons it taught about exactly how racism worked, is a definite plus.
A: We younger folks do not think of everything in terms of race but you older people make it hard for us to ignore the color of skin since you are always bringing it into issues when it fits your template. It is people like Pamela, Jesse, and Al, that will never let racism die in this country. And I despise you for that.
“You” younger folks don’t have a clue. You repeat exactly the same crap I’ve been hearing from racists all my life, and imagine you’re saying something new and revolutionary.
Sorry, kiddo, it’s not new, and “you’re OWWWULLLLD” is not a compelling argument. What I’m hearing from many in your generation is the same old same old from people too insulated and ignorant about history to recognize it.
A: Oh, and Pamela, David Ehrenstein most certainly is black (unless he uses someone else’s picture on huffpo)
You’re right. My apologies. I’d confused a picture of Shankin for a picture of Ehrenstein.
Pamela,
I actually don’t have a problem with Jesse Jackson’s Zionist paranoia (i.e. that they’ve been controlling American policy for decades). Maybe he even has a point, but you must admit his choice of words is provocative (similar to Rush). In fact, though, it was Obama’s own Jewish supporters that called Jackson’s statement anti-Semitic.
The bus incident: yes it does happen in reverse and that is precisely my point. The difference is that it isn’t often caught on camera. You must admit that if the situation were reversed, i.e. white on black, and it was caught on camera, Jesse and Al would be there to ensure the situation was treated as racism. And it would be treated as racism even though, as you point out, it is most likely just good ole fashioned bullying.
Question Pamela: is it possible for a black person to be charged with a hate crime for beating/killing/harassing a white person? Or, put another way, would you or society in general EVER view black on white crime as being motivated by hate?
I happen to think most crime is simply crime with no real concern for the color of skin for the victim. But we always view the shocking and public white on black crime as racism (i.e. Duke lacrosse hoax) but never view shocking black on white (bus incident) as racism. It’s just good-ole fashioned bullying. BTW, beating on a kid that isn’t fighting back is not bullying, it is good ole fashioned thuggery.
Last question Pamela: what exactly am I saying that is “exactly the same crap I’ve been hearing from racists all my life”? And, no, I don’t think I’m saying something revolutionary. I just Hope someday people like you that see racism in everything will be become such a minority that we can all ignore you as the kooks that you are. Yes, there are racists in this country but they are the minority and those racists come in all colors: white, black, yellow, and brown.
Andy:
Jackson was speaking specifically of American policy regarding Israel—not American policy in general. Saying that a large pro-Israel lobby in this country has had a significant effect on our Middle-Eastern policy is not “paranoia,” but reality.
His ”choice of words” would be similar to Rush’s only if, in addition to this, he had declared that a prominent Jewish politician was “acting like a scheming pawnbroker,” taken a case where a Jewish kid had been caught stealing from a gentile student and used it as a platform to declare that all gentile kids would now have to keep their belongings locked in safes at their schools, claimed that a Jewish politician working for healthcare reform “wants the same health care plan he had in Israel,” and in general repeatedly dragged the word “Jew” and invoked anti-Semitic stereotypes like greed and deviousness into his commentary about Jewish politicians or public figures.
There was an incident that occurred at roughly the same time as the schoolbus kerfuffle. Maybe you remember it? A black single mother got beaten up by a white man screaming racial epithets at her at a Cracker Barrel Restaurant in Georgia. Did Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton appear before the cameras in that case? If they did, it was a mighty quiet photo-op, one that got very little publicity. It would seem that the image of Jackson and Sharpton eagerly exploiting every case of white on black violence is more the stuff of Internet comments sections than reality.
A: Question Pamela: is it possible for a black person to be charged with a hate crime for beating/killing/harassing a white person?
Yep. I realize it’s a treasured article of faith among some white Americans that no person of color ever gets charged with a hate crime, but the facts indicate otherwise. Black on white hate crimes, however, are relatively rare because they lack a vital component of what makes a hate crime a hate crime – a sense of impunity.
A white racist, for instance, who beats up a black citizen in some parts of the south will frequently do so under the assumption that the police and DA will share his or her racist beliefs and will not investigate or prosecute the crime vigorously. (Unfortunately, this is an assumption sometimes grounded in fact.) For that reason, when people of color are charged with hate crimes, it tends to involve incidents against other minorities.
A: Or, put another way, would you or society in general EVER view black on white crime as being motivated by hate?
Sure, if it fit the definition of a hate-crime, that is, a crime motivated solely by the fact that the individual was white. The Zebra Killings in the 1970s would be an example.
Do you understand what makes a “hate crime” different from other crimes?
A: Last question Pamela: what exactly am I saying that is “exactly the same crap I’ve been hearing from racists all my life”?
So after having framed this as a “younger generation vs. older generation” debate, you suddenly want my observations about many of you in that younger generation have said to be narrowed down to what you, personally have said. You don’t see the inconsistency here?
In answer to your question, what I have heard “you” in the younger generation say (please note the scare quotes) includes the old “some of my best friends are black” plea, the old “blacks in general are lazy/stupid/violent” wheeze, the venerable “those people just whine, whine WHINE all the time!” baloney, and the “I base my nasty opinions of black people on my PERSONAL EXPERIENCE because a black guy once mugged me/called me a name/pushed me in the hallway/looked at me funny on the bus” crap.
The primary difference I perceive is that the people who said these things in my youth were less likely to deny being racists.
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@ Pamela Troy:
In Obama’s America, a white family was swarmed and assaulted by a large group of young blacks on the 4th of July, who were screaming “This is a Black world!” The incident was not treated as a hate crime. So Rush’s point about Obama’s “post-racial” America is a sound one, and is in no way racist.
What’s wrong with comparing sports stars to crips and bloods? NFL stars are regularly arrested for assault, sexual assault, illegal possession of firearms, drug possession, etc. As another commenter pointed out, the actions of many NFL players on the field are arrogant and aggressive. So how is that racist? Would it be racist for me to compare the actions of some thuggish white sports stars to the Mafia? No, it wouldn’t. You are a one track horse.
The “Magic Negro” song was a parody of something a pro-Obama liberal said. The liberal in question wasn’t black but I notice you aren’t accusing that liberal being parodied of racism, only Rush.
The Bone comment Rush has apologized for. Howard Stern regularly says much worse but of course he had the forsight to get a black co-host so you don’t bother with him.
You are upset about him using the term “Halfrican”, yet you make excuses for Jackson’s use of “Hymie”, which is a much harsher racial slur than “Halfrican” and which has a much more vile history. You say Jackson was talking about Israel but the fact remains, he was blanketly smearing Jews when he said it and the fact remains that Hymie is a vile racial slur. So it’s obvious to anyone reading this who hasn’t been blinded by racial double standards that you are advocating one standard for whites, and a different standard for blacks. It’s ok for blacks to be racist but not whites. You, in fact, are the racist.
The fact that you use MediaMatters as a source only proves that you are a mindless, vacuous shell fit only for being filled with left wing lies. MediaMatters claims to be non-partisan when they are a hard-left organization, and they regularly make accusations that take quotes wholly out of context, when they aren’t straight making things up.
Pamela Troy, you are nothing but the worst kind of left wing, race card playing goof. You are what’s wrong with the political discourse today, not Rush Limbaugh.
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