Limbaugh's on caller's theory that "minorit[ies]" use anger to be successful: "This is pretty good"
June 05, 2009 3:44 pm ET
From the June 5 edition of Premiere Radio Nerworks' The Rush Limbaugh Show:
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Wow, you want to revisit that losing argument again? Sure, be my guest. After all, it was so effective in the 2008 election.
First of all, I'm unaware of any person of note who argued seriously that any reference to Hussein or any reference to Obama's background was necessarily racist. That, you see, would be an unfair generalization.
There were, however, specific instances of media figures, such as Ann Coulter in this clip, who clearly did mean to call attention to Obama's middle name as a symbol of foreignness.
As for his "Muslim roots"... Hold on. Specifically, to what "Muslim roots" would you be referring? You mean his childhood when he attended a Madrassa? Oh, wait, that's right, that was a thoroughly debunked story. Perhaps you mean his Muslim father? The one who had become an atheist by the time he met Obama's mother?
But if you truly think generalizations are unfair, then by all means, let's address specific issues. Why, perhaps we could even discuss the specific topic of this thread, Rush Limbaugh and his comments.
And these "people" claim Sotomayor is a "racist"? Seriously?
If you read your history books certain groups of people always put the angry savage term on ethnics....this is angry savage talk 2009.
If, as you insist, one cannot get ticked off and succeed in business, then how pray tell can minorities get ahead by being ticked off?
These arguments of theirs never make any sense at all. I don't think they even try to. This is what happens when you work back from the answer you want to ask the "theoretical" question.
I don't really think that is how it works. In Limbaugh we have a case in which a slothful, resentful, drug-addled, lazy, lump of a sociopathic parasite has used stupidity to be successful. And it's spreading like a wildfire. If a virus were as contageous as Limbaugh's ignorance of reality the CDC would declare a public health emergency.
That overstuffed, misogynistic, KKK-ist, hippo-critic, seditionist, Rush Limbaugh, might be interested to learn that one of the official languages in parts of Africa is LIMBA! (Sierra Leone and Guinea).
Limba,East: North central. Alternate names: Yimba, Yumba. Dialects: Northern Limba (Warawara, Ke-Woya-Yaka), Southern Limba (Biriwa-Saroko-Kalantuba-Sunko). Classification: Niger-Congo, Atlantic-Congo, Atlantic, Southern, Limba
Limba,West-Central: Population includes East Limba. North central area north of Makeni. Alternate names: Yimba, Yumba. Dialects: Western Limba (Tonko, Sela), Central (Tamiso, Gbongogbo). Classification: Niger-Congo, Atlantic-Congo, Atlantic, Southern, Limba
That has to be a hater's worst nightmare - being connected to the very object of his hate. Not only are the majority of the native speakers of Limba's lingo predominately NON-whites, but many are practioners of Islam. That's right! In parts of Africa Limba is synonomous with DARK skin and MUSLIM faith!
Much like that ignorant, ubber-right, anti-choice, Palin, having to explain the pregnancy of her own unwed teenage daughter, THIS is what I call "poetic irony."
He seems so perpetually angry these days, what makes it different when he's mad about injustice versus a woman or minority?
Or wait, it's because he's a white man of course. Is anger is justified. My bad.