About us Login Get email updates
County Fair
Print

National Review's Mark Steyn can't find the transcripts

October 14, 2009 6:08 pm ET by Eric Boehlert

Earlier today, Steyn was completely stumped as to why anyone would think Rush Limbaugh has a history of making race-baiting statements. Steyn just can't understand where this notion, now being discussed in the context of Limbaugh's dubious attempt to become an NFL owner, was coming from.

Specifically, Steyn couldn't understand why sportswriter Jason Whitlock claimed that "Limbaugh doesn't get the benefit of the doubt on racial matters."

Maybe this is why:

"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."

"I do believe" Obama is an "angry black guy."

"[I]n Obama's America, the white kids now get beat up with the black kids cheering."

"Obama's entire economic program is reparations."

Obama is "Halfrican-American."

"Obama has disowned his white half ... he's decided he's got to go all in on the black side."

"Here you have a black president trying to destroy a white policeman." [Limbaugh on Gates controversy]

"NFL all too often looks like a game between the Bloods and the Crips."

"African-American tribe" worst swimmers, Hispanics "will do things other people won't do." [Limbaugh on Survivor series]

Maybe that's why the NFL, where nearly 70 percent of the players are African-American, has a problem with Limbaugh.

UPDATED: Steyn's item centered on a handful of racist quotes attributed to Limbaugh which the host claims are phony. All the above quotes are legitimate and verified.

Support Our Work


Expand All Expand 1st Level Collapse All Add Comment
    • Author by wzwriter (October 14, 2009 6:27 pm ET)
      1  
      Don't forget years gone by, when Rush told an African-American caller to "take the bone out of your nose" and call back. This has been well-documented on the Snopes web site.
      Report Abuse
    • Author by all your eyes (October 14, 2009 6:40 pm ET)
      2  
      He hates gay people too. He admitted it once, years ago, as I was riding helplessly in my grandfather's car one afternoon, and this is a direct quote: "If there's one group I hate more than gays, it's metrosexuals."
      Report Abuse
      • Author by reanna-mator (October 14, 2009 7:04 pm ET)
        2  
        Rush is a classic example of a bully. He's so terrified at being seen as anything but a prime specimen of masculinity, he disparages anything that he sees as effeminate in order to distance himself. I wonder if he actually buys into his own bull.
        Report Abuse
    • Author by political_left-religious_right (October 15, 2009 12:06 pm ET)
         
      a handful of racist quotes attributed to Limbaugh which the host claims are phony

      You mean there's someone out there making things up that are even worse than what Rush has actually said? That's amazing.

      And over on another thread, one of our semi-regular neoclowns said that 'just because Limbaugh's statements may seem racist to you, doesn't mean they are,' and coupled this with, 'even if Limbaugh made racist statements, that doesn't mean he's racist.' (paraphrases from memory)
      Report Abuse