Milwaukee Weather
SLIMING LIMBAUGHBy Charlie SykesIt's not enough to disagree with Limbaugh, or even oppose his bid to become an owner of an NFL team. Journalists have been flogging bogus quotes in their effort to blacken the conservative talk show host. I first became aware of this latest brouhaha when I opened FoxSports.com this morning as I typically do to check and see if anything interesting happened in the previous evening of sports. I was greeted with a huge front-page box featuring this insipid column from the execrable Jason Whitlock. By way of reminder, Jason Whitlock recently wrote this ridiculous column, which somehow passes for insightful commentary while Limbaugh’s comments about McNabb are evil, thoughtless, and racist. But I digress. The newest basis for the assertion that Limbaugh is an eeeeeevil racist is as follows, according to Whitlock:
The first of these quotes has already been debunked most thoroughly, long before Rush’s bid to buy the Rams. It is self-evidently the complete fabrication of someone with a wiki account, which was then picked up by the unscrupulous Huberman and reported as fact (with no citations at all) in his book. The other, also attributed to Huberman, has never been sourced, and Huberman has never cited any original article, or even given any indication as to when this alleged statement was made. |
|
Friday, Oct 16 at 8:10 PM Also wrote ...
yes, flair is definitely a bird-brain
30700427 Flag for moderationFriday, Oct 16 at 11:24 AM LD to Walt wrote ...
I'm afraid 'flair' may not have understood your post. You didn't type it in Owl language...
30677822 Flag for moderationFriday, Oct 16 at 8:01 AM Walt to flair wrote ...
OK, OK so we’ve already established that. Liberals like you believe anyone who expresses their Free Speech rights by attending a Tea Party, watches Fox News, shops at non-union Wal-Mart stores, is against Obama’s public option socialized “health care” bill, against killing babies in the womb, doesn’t like ACORN or listens to Rush Limbaugh is a racist. OK we get it. Can you now go back to your village idiots' web page (moveon.org) and talk to them because frankly, you're not looking good here.
30665777 Flag for moderationThursday, Oct 15 at 9:52 PM Jordan wrote ...
JPH is a SMF...
30650643 Flag for moderationThursday, Oct 15 at 6:41 PM MADDOG wrote ...
What are you talking about?
30644203 Flag for moderationThursday, Oct 15 at 5:43 PM JPH to Maddog wrote ...
You still on the dole?
30642158 Flag for moderationThursday, Oct 15 at 4:45 PM flair wrote ...
walt you are a racist whooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo
30639707 Flag for moderationThursday, Oct 15 at 3:24 PM LD wrote ...
Sorry Steve. I'm not just taking your word for it. I don't check my brain at the door and let some George Soros funded web site staffed by ex-Clinton aides do my thinking for me. I know what Limbaugh says and also what he doesn't say because I have actually listened to him - something I very much doubt you have ever had the intellectual honesty to do.
30636063 Flag for moderationThursday, Oct 15 at 3:19 PM Anonymous wrote ...
Steve, he proves it every time he opens his mouth. Unassailable logic, huh?
30635777 Flag for moderationThursday, Oct 15 at 2:51 PM Steve wrote ...
LD-he proves it every time he opens his mouth. Anonymous-Clever. Did you think that up by yourself, or did Sykes help ya?
30634397 Flag for moderationThursday, Oct 15 at 2:07 PM Walt to flair wrote ...
You know you are absolutely right about Rush and since you bleeding heart liberals have recently just branded me and the THOUSANDS of Tea Party goers as bigots and racist for opposing your new fearless leader’s, Der Fuhrer, health care and “stimulus” spending; I am proud to have you call me a racist and bigot because I’d rather be seen as a racist and bigot in your eyes than a nincompoop to everyone else in Wisconsin.
30631877 Flag for moderationThursday, Oct 15 at 1:17 PM Brian H. wrote ...
There you go Horse-Puckey: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xpFC9uziVhE&feature=related - An honorable man.
30629162 Flag for moderationThursday, Oct 15 at 12:51 PM lugar wrote ...
rush limbaugh has no respect for nobody but himself and is disrespecful of minorities. and larry horse
30627602 Flag for moderationThursday, Oct 15 at 12:46 PM flair wrote ...
rush limbaugh has no respect for nobody but himself disrespectful to minoritys , typical me myself and I right wing mentality whooooooooo
30627322 Flag for moderationThursday, Oct 15 at 12:39 PM flair wrote ...
rush limbaugh only respects himself he,s a certified bigot , racist , and fits the right wingers in wis agenda ,towards minoritys,,, whooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo whooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo
30626842 Flag for moderationThursday, Oct 15 at 12:16 PM Walt to LD wrote ...
Steve believes Rush is a disgrace to US citizenship because Rush is a Conservative and he is still drawing breath into his lungs, no other reason. He looks at politics as Obama see politics, don’t engage in the exchange of ideas just eliminate the opposition
30625483 Flag for moderationThursday, Oct 15 at 11:40 AM MADDOG @ JPH wrote ...
And by the way.... Rush does not have to step outside the box to get people to listen. The lefties do that for him. Thanks
30623103 Flag for moderationThursday, Oct 15 at 11:38 AM MADDOG to JPH wrote ...
Let me put it a different way. I have not talked to anybody who HAS listened to his show that thinks he is a bigot or racist or knob for that matter. The onl;y people who DO seem to be people who have never listened to his show for more than a few seconds. There happy?
30622998 Flag for moderationThursday, Oct 15 at 11:37 AM MADDOG to JPH wrote ...
OK I have not heard him say anything stupid. The left is making crap up.
30622843 Flag for moderationThursday, Oct 15 at 11:20 AM LD wrote ...
Would Steve care to offer any evidence for that assertion, or is the rest of the world just supposed to bow to his divinely inspired utterance?
30621688 Flag for moderationThursday, Oct 15 at 11:16 AM Anonymous wrote ...
Obama is a disgrace to Kenyan citizenship.
30621397 Flag for moderationThursday, Oct 15 at 10:58 AM Steve wrote ...
Limbaugh is a disgrace to US citizenship.
30620167 Flag for moderationThursday, Oct 15 at 10:08 AM How true wrote ...
John Adams quote: When people talk of the freedom of writing, speaking or thinking I cannot choose but laugh. No such thing ever existed. No such thing now exists; but I hope it will exist. But it must be hundreds of years after you and I shall write and speak no more.
30616842 Flag for moderationThursday, Oct 15 at 10:06 AM TWP wrote ...
Given the same degree of latitude in inferring intent and interpreting "coded" language to which RL's detractors feel entitled, it's a trivial exercise to "prove" Barack Obama is a Marxist. Everybody OK with that? Sauce for the goose...
30616692 Flag for moderationThursday, Oct 15 at 10:00 AM TWP wrote ...
RL is very good at staying (barely) "within the box." Five days a week, 3 hours a day, 21 years, under systematic opposition monitoring for that magical "gotcha" quote; yet his detractors must resort to invented utterances to get anything that most would agree to be outside it. And we are to believe those things were said over ten years ago and NO ONE POINTED IT OUT AT THE TIME? Just what turnip truck do these people think we fell off of?
30616322 Flag for moderationThursday, Oct 15 at 8:50 AM JPH to Maddog wrote ...
Like all talk show hosts they want to be listened to. For that happen with consistency they on occasion step outside the box. Then when someone accuses them of saying something stupid it is not their fault. It is the MSM, the left, every liberal who ever lived, but not them. You are like him "most people you talked to" what was that 2 or 3. And if you can read so well when did I ever say he was ever embarrassed about anything.
30612317 Flag for moderationThursday, Oct 15 at 8:36 AM Soso wrote ...
We will mercilessly destroy anyone who, by his deeds or his thoughts – yes, his thoughts – threatens the unity of the socialist state. To the complete destruction of all enemies, themselves and their kin!
30611508 Flag for moderationThursday, Oct 15 at 8:10 AM Walt to JPH wrote ...
“…he may not be a bigot or a racist but he knows how to TALK LIKE ONE…” WHAT??? Are you locked up in some basement someplace without access to TV or a radio. You just proved to all of us that you NEVER listened to his show and therefore don’t know anything about what he says. By your standard you should also feel the same about Charlie Rangle, Al Sharpton, Jeremiah Wright, Jesse Jackson AND Van Jones, but I doubt it. I could name more of Obama’s supporters but I’m out of room.
30609958 Flag for moderationThursday, Oct 15 at 7:38 AM DG wrote ...
Rush, Bush they sound the same and look the same. The Dems are against Rush becuase they think it is the same as Bush.
30608368 Flag for moderationThursday, Oct 15 at 7:04 AM Jordan to DTM wrote ...
It's about a league whose has Keith f-ing Olberman, a first class horse's ass AND DIVISIVE TALK SHOW HOST, as host of it's flagship game of the week. It's about a league that has as it's main representatives (ie, the players) dozens and dozens of criminals, several felons, all sorts of ne'er do wells who are act in boorish ways on and off the field. It's about a leaugue with slimey and shady owners past and present. Translation: It's about raging hypocrisy. So u grow up u idiot.
30606632 Flag for moderationThursday, Oct 15 at 5:41 AM MADDOG to JPH wrote ...
I can read just fine thank you. He has never said anything meant to be taken as racist. Most people I talk to who think he is a bad person have NEVER listened to him so I am not imperessed with all the bashing.
30603568 Flag for moderationThursday, Oct 15 at 5:40 AM DTM, B wrote ...
It ain't about Free Speech, kids. It's about two dozen good American capitalists not wanting Rush associated with their product. The NFL is NOT a Democracy. Grow up.
30603547 Flag for moderationThursday, Oct 15 at 2:27 AM up nort' wrote ...
The part I find hard to believe is that Rush was "banned" for what he might have said. Ding ding? free speech? Oh thats right its ok to be a black and talk poorly of god damn america (reverend wright) but for a person thats white to criticize a black man in any form he's a filthy racist. Listening to Rush for close to 20yrs now he is not a racist, look how he supported clarence thomas, condy rice,others, its not about skin color, its ideas and idology. But the left loses everytime logic is used.
30600502 Flag for moderationWednesday, Oct 14 at 9:52 PM LD wrote ...
The likes of Brian, Anonymous, Obamafan and others of the rabidly frothing fringe never let a good, honest fact get in the way of defamation. They tell each other stories and then persuade themselves that, since they've all heard it, it must be so. No evidence is allowed to penetrate the bubble. It might ruin the illusion - and if the facade ever starts to crack, their whole unbalanced house of cards might come tumbling down. It's so much easier to ignore an inconvenient truth than confront it.
30595743 Flag for moderationWednesday, Oct 14 at 9:06 PM Mark wrote ...
I don't listen to Rush, so I don't know if he said these comments or not. And sorting through the garbage I tend to side with Limbaugh. But that aside, let me ask obamafan, Brian H and anon this: Do you REALLY believe that these comments were kept under the rug for all this time? With the Clinton machine in power, and the loony left on the blogsphere, don't you think these comments would have been repeated AT THE TIME HE SAID THEM?
30594243 Flag for moderationWednesday, Oct 14 at 9:04 PM Jordan wrote ...
Moron H., he's damn straight on when he said bloods v. crips (although I think now it applies more to the nba). Athletes emulating ghetto gang thugs on the field is an accurate observation... MJ Fox whored himself out for the stem cell lie about bush... gee now it appears there is zero need for dead fetuses to advance stem cell research.. and the Nagin thing is a ludicrous reach moron..if he said it at all it was misspeak, say mayor ray nagin fast u idiot...
30594198 Flag for moderationWednesday, Oct 14 at 8:54 PM @Brian Horse-pucky wrote ...
There you go again - prove those allegations - Rush disagreed with Michael Fox about stem-cell research, but I'm sure he never made fun of Fox's twitches - when did he call Nagin "Nager"? (And even if that one's true, it's a big stretch to see anything beyond a slip of the tongue.) Awaiting your proof, just like the other recently made up quotes
30593887 Flag for moderationWednesday, Oct 14 at 8:38 PM Brian H. wrote ...
"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." There, Done. Are you folks serious? The same guy that made fun of a person with Parkinson's disease and actually imitated his twitches? You're defending that? The same guy who referred to the black Mayor of New Orleans as Mayor "Nager" instead of Nagin? With him at the helm of your GOP Ship, get use to the democrats running things for a long time.
30593338 Flag for moderationWednesday, Oct 14 at 8:30 PM Phil to obummerfan wrote ...
I'll bet you don't even know where the "Barack the magic negro" came from do you' it came from the L.A. Times in their craptorial page. I would advise you to your facts RIGHT before you comment on something, but then we'd never hear from you and forget what it's like to have someone of your intellect around.
30593063 Flag for moderationWednesday, Oct 14 at 8:17 PM Allen wrote ...
I here Rush is off the business group to purchase the team. So now they can proceed without his millions and find another millionaire who is the right millionaire. Good luck St. Louis on the low ball formula.
30592647 Flag for moderationWednesday, Oct 14 at 8:08 PM Troy wrote ...
So JPH,he may not be a racist,but cause he talks like one{even though the quotes so far has been a lie} but because people lie,its Rush's fault and he should be punished.Wow,yea that sounds fair.What makes you so mad about Rush,is it that when the left screws up,he lets people know about it,or he makes more money then you?
30592303 Flag for moderationWednesday, Oct 14 at 7:46 PM Truther wrote ...
Rush is parodying the Liberal LA Times columnist who called Obama "The Magic Negro" - Rush didn't make that up - he's making fun of those types of ridiculous statements about Obama - the guy who does the song-parodies is brilliant, especially to use "Puff, the Magic Dragon" as his template - we all know Obama has said he did drugs in college...
30591448 Flag for moderationWednesday, Oct 14 at 7:22 PM RxFire wrote ...
Does anyone here have an ACTUAL quote from Rush that is racist? You don't have to like the man but at least be honest about what he has or has not said.
30590528 Flag for moderationWednesday, Oct 14 at 5:46 PM Jordan wrote ...
You're right JPH, he's not a bigot or a racist, but he doesn't talk like one either as you assert. He makes fun of buffoon race-hustler-shakedown-artists like Jackson and Sharpton, to which I reply... Bravo! But it's not racist.. it's hilarious and apropos when it comes to those two clowns. He is more talented than anyone in the history of radio and that makes libs flat out sick. The irony is this kind of crap just makes his listeners more loyal and his ratings soar...
30586978 Flag for moderationWednesday, Oct 14 at 5:41 PM ijeff wrote ...
There is no doubt that the demented liberal mind sees nothing wrong with lies and distortion if the target is someone like Rush. My fear for this country is we have may not have a majority of dillusional liberals in this country, but they do have a majority of power at this time.
30586802 Flag for moderationWednesday, Oct 14 at 5:24 PM JPH to Maddog wrote ...
I didn't say anything about him being embarrassed. I doubt if he ever gets embarrassed. The fact is he may not be a bigot or a racist but he knows how to talk like one and now it has come back to haunt him. And that is no one's fault but his. Perhaps you should be embarrassed by the fact you can't read a blog.
30586207 Flag for moderationWednesday, Oct 14 at 5:09 PM Troy wrote ...
If that is your position about Rush,fine.Here is my point,when obama made the comment about special needs kids,did you say anything about that,or do you just hate special needs kids.Why would the USA vote for a prez that makes fun of a group that can't fight back.If you have the same feeling about Rush and obama,then you have a point,otherwise you are just like the other haters of special needs kids like the prez on down.
30585627 Flag for moderationWednesday, Oct 14 at 4:59 PM Mark wrote ...
Look, this just speaks to the desperation of the left. Their dreams of a nanny state are coming undone and they came just THIS close. Truth is the casualty in this latest, futile exercise. Limbaugh is a mench, IMO. He enjoys sticking it to the big government types and they are driven nuts by his success. That includes financial success, BTW.
30585257 Flag for moderationWednesday, Oct 14 at 4:28 PM Dragondazin wrote ...
El Rushbo knows how to get the left to admit their hypocrisy, And thats what the little lefties don't like. It is a proven fact that the left is most concerned when it is confronted, Just because they are too simple minded to put up an honest and verifiable argument!
30583883 Flag for moderationWednesday, Oct 14 at 4:21 PM Walt to 8rent wrote ...
It’s only considered satire when liberals do it. Liberals say this stuff all the time and when they get caught they say it was just a joke or satire, even though they really mean it. I happen to know that if this is the Anonymous I am thinking of he is telling the truth as he sees it.
30583577 Flag for moderationWednesday, Oct 14 at 3:50 PM LD wrote ...
Go to MediaMatters.org for accurate information? You're a mighty funny guy, Obamafan. We should go to a known source of lies to verify the accuracy of an already long discredited lie. I know it is a foreign concept to savants like you, but logical thinking is not supposed to follow a circular path.... The fact you wish something were true doesn't make it so, regardless of how many other little Obamafan clones might wish it, too.
30582283 Flag for moderationWednesday, Oct 14 at 1:01 PM MADDOG TO JPH wrote ...
I don't recall Rush ever saying anything that he needed to be embarrassed about.
30572497 Flag for moderationWednesday, Oct 14 at 1:00 PM 8rent wrote ...
Apparently the satire alert didn't go off. Sheesh!
30572413 Flag for moderationWednesday, Oct 14 at 12:36 PM Walt to Anonymous wrote ...
“Lying about Rush is fine because I don't like him.” Can you possibly blame us now for thinking you are a direct offspring of one of the Three Stooges, my guess is Curly.
30570837 Flag for moderationWednesday, Oct 14 at 12:30 PM JPH wrote ...
I doubt if many people really care whether or not Rush owns the Rams, as long as he doesn't own a team they root for. Rush is simply a guy who when he gets caught or accused of saying stupid, he just passes it off as "entertainment". He should simply pick a better team than the Rams, that alone, doesn't show too much savy.
30570543 Flag for moderationWednesday, Oct 14 at 12:12 PM obamafan wrote ...
go to media matters.org they have all the quotes and dates, kudos to colts owner jim irsay for saying he would be a no vote
30569448 Flag for moderationWednesday, Oct 14 at 12:10 PM obamafan wrote ...
yeah those innoncent limbaugh comments like the magic negro song about obama or calling the nfl a bunch of crips and bloods, why would they want that moron as a owner the nfl owners might be alot of things but stupid isn't one of them. why they would want a race baiting fool
30569313 Flag for moderationWednesday, Oct 14 at 11:51 AM MADDOG wrote ...
"Lying about Rush is fine because I don't like him." This comment says it all. They HAVE to make up crap about him because they don't have any real dirt other than he was once hooked on pain killers, the same ones that Bret Favre was. I don't remember anyone ragging on Favre about it. At least we DON'T have to make up crap about liberals. The give us all the fodder we could ask for by just breathing.
30568247 Flag for moderationWednesday, Oct 14 at 11:04 AM James wrote ...
"Lying about Rush is fine because I don't like him." Thank you for that refreshing honesty. That sentiment is pretty much how most liberals feel, not only about Rush, but also about anyone they disagree with and what to destroy. Chris Matthews also provided this insight when he said he want someone to kill Rush. Liberals hate anyone that doesn't think like them and will use any means to destroy them, including lies, imprisonment, and execution.
30565243 Flag for moderationWednesday, Oct 14 at 10:47 AM Anonymous wrote ...
Lying about Rush is fine because I don't like him.
30564227 Flag for moderationWednesday, Oct 14 at 10:40 AM Anonymous wrote ...
Someone lies about Rush-god forbid. Death panels?
30563748 Flag for moderationWednesday, Oct 14 at 10:21 AM jenni wrote ...
OK. I admit it. I do not listen to Rush with any regularity. However, I do recognize that El Rushbo has been another target by the far left. His methods make my head hurt, but Rush is true to his beliefs and it drives them nuts.
30562707 Flag for moderationWednesday, Oct 14 at 10:14 AM karliots wrote ...
Is journalistic integrity dead in America? The least these lazy, unethical, Liberal "journalists" could do is take the time to find a real quote by Rush that they could take out of context. At least that shows some effort.
30562198 Flag for moderationWednesday, Oct 14 at 10:12 AM Truth Seeker wrote ...
Rush is very careful about what he says and uses satire to repeat what liberals themselves say in their frequent moments of hyprocrosy, which makes him successful in what he does for a living. He knows liberals have been watching and waiting for for over 20 years for the opportunity to lynch him. Whatever you think of him, you can not argue that he is not intelligent. I can respect that.
30562052 Flag for moderationWednesday, Oct 14 at 10:05 AM Whitefish Bay Mike wrote ...
Anyone listening to Rush for a good length of time (for me August 1989) knows he is honest, and faithful to the ideals of America. He’s been a shining light of truth for all the years I’ve been a fan, and he’s been optimistic for every year but this one. He is legitimately a national treasure.
30561687 Flag for moderationAdd a comment
Most Popular