Limbaugh compares Sotomayor nomination to nominating David Duke
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Also states that the way to "get promoted in the Barack Obama administration" is "by hating white people."
LIMBAUGH: I care about whether she's qualified, and I think she's disqualified herself. Not only does she lack the often-discussed appropriate judicial temperament, it's worse than that. She brings a form of bigotry or racism to the court. I don't care -- we're not supposed to say it, we're supposed to pretend it didn't happen, we're supposed to look at other things, but it's the elephant in the room. The real question here that needs to be asked -- and nobody on our side, from a columnist to a TV commentator to anybody in our party has the guts to ask: How can a president nominate such a candidate? And how can a party get behind such a candidate? That's what would be asked if somebody were foolish enough to nominate David Duke or pick somebody even less offensive.
He's such a sad, angry little man...
Vietnam Veteran
What world do the dittoheads inhabit?
Comparing Sotomayor to David Duke???
One quick scan of David Duke's website and you'll instantly see how well the comparison holds up.
Unbelievable.
I think Snerdley is just another of Rush's lies.
Listen to all Rush said in context. The point Rush is making is the double standard of Dem. nominations compared Rep. nominations. Sotomayor could never be nominated by a Rep. due to these comments. Rep's would get blasted, buy the media like they did for Roberts and Aito who where very qualified and didn't make a statement that said they were superior based being male and white, which Sotomayor made b/c she is female and hispanic.
There are a lot of nice stories out there based on how many politicians have made and "it" from the most difficult of up bringings. But that doesn't all of a sudden qualify her for a life time appointment for the highest court in the nation.
Crazy idea, lets look at the record and not at her ethnicity to determine qualitications and stop blasting the messenger who's using statements like these to draw attention to his point of view.
Why do you believe she's not qualified? What makes you think anyone is saying she should be on the bench simply because of her race, exactly?
I think Serve1 thinks she's not qualified because she's not a white man...
You must be shocked that George H. W. Bush still managed to nominate Sotomayor as a federal judge despite her socialist college yearbook quotes!!!
Except that Roberts and Alito were not 'blasted by the media.'
Was there a point you wanted to make? Oh, maybe here it is:
"There are a lot of nice stories out there based on how many politicians have made and "it" from the most difficult of up bringings. But that doesn't all of a sudden qualify her for a life time appointment for the highest court in the nation."
No one is saying it does. What you have done here is called a 'straw man fallacy,' wherein you attack a statement nobody made. And you have done it in defense of someone who has baselessly equated Sotomayor with a white supremacist, which is also a fallacy.
See, Limbaugh isn't going crazy or anything. What he's doing is making it easy for people like Serve1 here to be confused about what is real and what is not real. That's how the Republicans get people to vote for them.
To compare a group of RICH WHITE MEN who have merely been out of office for a couple of months to MINORITIES DURING THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT is sick. I don't see many rich white guys being arrested for drinking out of the wrong water fountain or sitting to close to the front of a public bus.
Free speech is paramount in America, but something has to be done about this. I wish I could apologize for this kind of hate speech. I just can't imagine what it must be like to be as angry as some of these talking heads. It must be awful.
On the other hand, maybe Rush is doing what he always does... demonstrating just how brain-dead his drooling sycophants really are.
In reality, I think he's giving the rest of us a sidelong glance and a wink, as if to say "See? I can tell them ANY F***ING THING...and they still believe it!"
I'm sick of people comparing current event to past events.
Fat a** Limbo doesn't have a freaking clue what life was like when the Klan was around.
African Americans who lived through the Klan period survived every day terrorism. You NEVER knew when a family member or a friend might disappear. You want to talk about fear? Try walking on egg shells, never knowing if something you did would garner you a night time visit.
Fat a** Limbo, just simply say, you long for the days of David Duke and the Klan when those minorities knew there place. After all, it's not like we don't know you don't want the first African American president to succeed or the first Hispanic woman on the court.
Those smart enough to realize this know that you didn't have to do anything to garner a nighttime visit from the Klan, you just had to exist and be alive, that was enough.
After all, both Sotomayor and Duke wear robes.
Sotomayor just doesn't wear a hood, is all . . .
If you want to complain about the garbage they spew, complain to their advertisers.
But, that's just me.
And really, why is Limbaugh disparaging Duke? His arguments about race relations are very close to those of Duke.
Yeah Sotomayor is so much like Duke. You know, when I kinda think about, that reminds me a who lot like Rush. "That's not racist!"
Rush really tries to upset everyone and start a fire. He is good at it, but what he doesn't realize is that it's not good for his party. I am convinced at this point Rush doesn't care about politics, only a paycheck.
Think about it. The press is happy to oblige the racists, bigots and total ignorance being presented by these people as though they couldn't be happier about the idea of bringing down a nominee through lies and racism. ANYONE with two brain cells to rub together knows exactly what she meant and so do the cons and their lapdogs in the media.
And the press wonder why the public has such disdain for them.