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

September 15, 2009 2:13 pm ET

From the September 15 edition of Premier Radio Network's The Rush Limbaugh Show:

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    • Author by captfoster2 (September 15, 2009 2:16 pm ET)
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      And this class is what is commonly referred to as... race baiting!

      Just a thought here... but I think it might be time for someone to take Rush's pills away from him?
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      • Author by raine315 (September 15, 2009 2:28 pm ET)
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        WTH? Rush said the black kids were shouting "Right on! Right on! Right on!" What YEAR did this happen- did the phrase 'right on' make a come back...I dont mean to make like of the situation- the kids who did the butt whupping should be punished BUT Rush's discription of the kids shouting a 1960s-70s slang phrase is sooooooo darn-racist within itself as if it was a bus load of little Black Panthers
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        • Author by dmhack (September 15, 2009 3:34 pm ET)
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          What's disturbing isn't that he's a liar, it's the fact that after so many years of doing it, he's not a very good liar.
          Right on! Power to the People! Groovy!
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          • Author by Don Hussein Fabuloso (September 15, 2009 4:14 pm ET)
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            Solid , My Man!

            I can't believe Boss Hogg tries to do some thoughtful commentary about a bunch of imaginary things that happen in the decrepit little movie theater in his skull, and you libruls go and play the race card.

            Jive turkeys !
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            • Author by raine315 (September 15, 2009 4:41 pm ET)
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              I think Rush plays the theme from the 1970s movie Shaft in his head:

              Who is the man that would risk his neck
              For his brother man?
              *OBAMA*!
              Can you dig it?

              Who's the cat that won't cop out
              When there's danger all about?
              *OBAMA*!
              Right On!

              They say this cat *OBAMA* is a bad mother
              SHUT YOUR MOUTH!
              I'm talkin' 'bout *OBAMA*.
              THEN WE CAN DIG IT!

              He's a complicated man
              But no one understands him but his woman
              *BARACK OBAMA*!
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          • Author by Bronwyn (September 16, 2009 11:14 pm ET)
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            What's disturbing is that anyone, anywhere, tunes into this freaks show.
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      • Author by fawltylogic (September 17, 2009 7:14 pm ET)
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        So to prove that Rush is not a racist, he comes up with the most classical racist victimology possible.

        Rush has said a lot of race-baiting things before, but I think this one takes the cake.
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    • Author by raine315 (September 15, 2009 2:20 pm ET)
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      Well in Obama's America this housewife wants to beat up fat, nasty, loud mouthed, race baiting, pill popping conservative radio talk show host
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    • Author by dr. matt (September 15, 2009 2:21 pm ET)
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      Just remember, teabaggers NEVER evoke race.....ever. Really. And, there were 10 gazillion people in DC on 9/12. For real.
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    • Author by neon desert (September 15, 2009 2:22 pm ET)
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      "Rat own", Rush! I'm tired of the libs stereotyping conservatives as racist. Rat own, rat own, rat own, rat own...
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    • Author by jgibson349687 (September 15, 2009 2:23 pm ET)
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      Boss Limbaugh was referring to the school bus beating in Belleville, Illinois. It was unjustified by Mr. Porky.
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    • Author by Boxer1979 (September 15, 2009 2:24 pm ET)
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      Oh and I guess that slavery and the struggle for African-Americans and any other minority never existed in the last 300 years in this country?!? Is he taking his meds? Oops I am talking about regular user.
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    • Author by mk3872 (September 15, 2009 2:36 pm ET)
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      Straight-on full-out race baiting now on full display from Mr. Limbaugh & Mr. Drudge. Fear & loathing will turn you into this kind of an empty shell of a human being.
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    • Author by snoopy (September 15, 2009 2:39 pm ET)
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      So limbaugh wants it back to the old ways where it was the black kids getting lynched while the white kids cheered?
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      • Author by Easy to refute wingnuts (September 17, 2009 4:08 pm ET)
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        Yes. The white kids survived, Rush. The whites who cheered on the lynchings made sure their victims didn't.
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    • Author by rwmacdonald2091 (September 15, 2009 2:41 pm ET)
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      How does El-Rushbo know the kids were yelling, "right on". I just watched the video and there is no sound.

      Furthermore how does Obama being president cause this. Sounds to me the dog whistle here, watch out whitey, we're coming to get you.

      Go to google news and search bus fight. Doggone it, there were some other school bus fights in the last 24 hours. It was just white kids fighting, so that is what it's like in Limbaugh's America.

      Van Jones was right, republicans are a**holes.

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    • Author by dolfan (September 15, 2009 2:41 pm ET)
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      Why does he get away with this junk?
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      • Author by Easy to refute wingnuts (September 17, 2009 4:08 pm ET)
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        Because the Republican Party is afraid to call him out on his lies.
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    • Author by shaggles (September 15, 2009 2:53 pm ET)
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      Can't hear the audio so I don't know if Rush is just making sh!t up or if he's exagerrating the importance of an isolated incident. Either way I've heard of no wide spread increase in black-on-white violence since Obama took office. But I suppose that's just because the liberal media refuses to report on it. ;)
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    • Author by donwelty (September 15, 2009 3:03 pm ET)
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      I thought Glenn Beck had the prize for irrelevance of facts, racism, and idiocy. Today, Rush gets the prize.
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      • Author by pete592 (September 15, 2009 3:58 pm ET)
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        You've recognized the trend. They're all trying to one-up each other in order to avoid sounding boring, redundant and just like the next right-wing professional liar down the dial.
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      • Author by PurpleState (September 15, 2009 5:06 pm ET)
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        Glenn is still bigger than Rush, as of right now.

        Although Glenn is taking a page out of Rush's handbook and not appearing too far outside of the Fox studios. Pretty sure he wasn't in Washington DC this past weekend.
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    • Author by MatthewTexas (September 15, 2009 3:06 pm ET)
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      White republicans are the new "oppressed minority" under the Obama admin
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    • Author by AB-001 (September 15, 2009 3:14 pm ET)
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      Why can't we go back to the good old days, like this picture (and note the smiling faces):

      [http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_ouPoNevcJ1I/SO5_UMyyHAI/AAAAAAAAAJU/VCfj7fqAJBE/s320/lynching.jpg]
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      • Author by What9000 (September 17, 2009 2:18 pm ET)
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        =/ That was unnessacarily graphic. In the future, please post such pictures as a hyperlink only with a **Warning: Graphic**

        While I'm not one to bury my head in the sand and refuse to face what has happened in the past, this picture is nothing but an appeal to emotion, and trivializes the tragedy and injustice done towards those two men.
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      • Author by TroutSeason (September 17, 2009 11:23 pm ET)
           
        This comparison is actually really interesting to me because this photo was exactly what I thought about when I saw this video. The way that the onlookers just laughed smiled and pointed in the lynching photo and in the bus (plus camera phones).

        That was YEARS ago and that vast majority of Americans are extremely embarrassed by the events that took place then, just as we should be embarrassed by this brutal beating. I know progress is slow, but payback is not progress...
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    • Author by justanoldliberal (September 15, 2009 3:17 pm ET)
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      where is the fcc now with all the obscene things being said over the airwaves? Bring back Howard Stern to free radio---he never said anything nearly as bad as these bozos.
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    • Author by mapmaker7 (September 15, 2009 3:34 pm ET)
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      In Rush's America, black kids would be hanging from trees with teabaggers cheering.
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    • Author by PurpleState (September 15, 2009 3:46 pm ET)
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      In Obama's America, fat conservative talk-show hosts who don't venture outside of their own castles still make $50 million a year, while black families still earn the lowest income of all races.
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    • Author by New Frontier (September 15, 2009 3:48 pm ET)
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      If Rush says Obama dressed up as a student and beat up a white kid just for the hellofit, I believe it! Mega dittos!!

      Then again:

      Police in the southwestern Illinois city of Belleville say the videotaped attack on a 17-year-old student by two other riders on a school bus doesn't appear to have racial overtones after all.

      Police Capt. Don Sax told media outlets Monday the beating of a white Belleville West High School student by two black schoolmates on the bus occupied mostly by black students appeared to be racially motivated.

      But on Tuesday, Sax said the attack appears to have been about where the victim wanted to sit on the bus, with no racial underpinnings.

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      • Author by justanoldliberal (September 15, 2009 4:01 pm ET)
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        A Rush to judgemnt?????
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      • Author by foghornleghorn (September 15, 2009 6:49 pm ET)
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        I think I'm going to be dress as a clueless racist teabagger for halloween this year. It'll continue my streak of bad taste costumes. Last year I was a lawn jockey.

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        • Author by Don Hussein Fabuloso (September 15, 2009 7:06 pm ET)
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          You're reading my mail, Foghorn. I already have my eye out for star-spangled plus -size clothes, and I've hired some three- year- olds to make signs for me.
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      • Author by Skeptic (September 16, 2009 12:29 am ET)
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        New Frontier: Why did you feel the need to dress up the actual news story linked in your post? What you present as a quote from the article is NOT what the article says; you embellish, greatly, the actual backaway.

        Will anyone on this site actually contemplate that racism MIGHT have played a role in this horrible beating? Seems to me that if Joe Wilson's outburst MIGHT have racist undertones (per President Carter), the vicious attack by black kids on a white kid, visibly cheered by at least some other black kids, MIGHT also have racist undertones. Am I wrong?
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      • Author by Easy to refute wingnuts (September 17, 2009 4:12 pm ET)
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        But on Tuesday, Sax said the attack appears to have been about where the victim wanted to sit on the bus
        I predict that by next week, Beck and Limbaugh will be comparing this kid to Rosa Parks.
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        • Author by emcfarla1 (September 18, 2009 10:34 am ET)
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          And why wouldn't the black children let him sit next to them oh great one of knowledge? Could it be that he was a "white-boy?" You're right though, there is no way that the color of the kids skin EVER crossed their mind.

          Oh and please don't forget to add your hilarious one liners with your knee slapping sarcastic wit. DB
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    • Author by kfraz43 (September 15, 2009 4:43 pm ET)
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      I bet you the entire time he's talking about this story, he's thinking "well, there goes the shutout..."
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    • Author by stella says (September 15, 2009 5:46 pm ET)
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      This incident did happen here in the St. Louis/Illinois area. Two black kids beat up a white kid who no one wanted to sit next to. It is tragic. And there's no excuse for it. But to tag it as "Obama's America" as the reason for the incident is racist in and of itself.
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    • Author by Groucho_222 (September 16, 2009 1:46 pm ET)
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      Is there not a point at which some government body (FCC?) would investigate what these hate mongers are doing and determine that they are stepping over the line when they do things like call Obama a "racist" with absolutely no basis for such a claim, and when you take a random act of violence and say this is "Obama's America"? It's the same as saying that black on white violence is the result of electing a black man for President. Psychologically these instigators are connecting everything wrong in America with the President..whether or not he had anything to do with it, or if he has any control over it. This stuff can't go on! Is it OK to get on some media outlet and use language to divide America based on race and human rights beliefs? Can't someone do something? If our government won't, then we need to rise up and say, "I'm mad as hell, and I'm not gonna take it anymore!"
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    • Author by easilyamused65 (September 17, 2009 12:11 pm ET)
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      classic "reformed" drug addict
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    • Author by fawltylogic (September 17, 2009 7:11 pm ET)
         
      I bet they were fight-trained by ACORN too!

      This is just sad in every way.
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    • Author by OOzinEvil (September 17, 2009 8:19 pm ET)
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      After reading all the comments, no one considered that it just might have been racially motivated. If the roles were reversed, Jackson, Sharpton and most here would have their verbal pitchforks out.
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    • Author by MagCynic (September 17, 2009 11:05 pm ET)
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      [http://angela-stevens.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/racism.jpg]

      The only way for a conservative to not be labeled racist is to stop talking. That's the crux of it, too. Liberals can't argue against conservatives in the arena of ideals so they must distract and attack.
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      • Author by fawltylogic (September 18, 2009 1:43 am ET)
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        Liberals can't argue against conservatives in the arena of ideals so they must distract and attack.

        Let's argue. I'll start: do you believe that the statement "[I]n Obama's America, the white kids now get beat up with the black kids cheering" is in any way factual - that is, do you believe that "white kids" now have a harder time in this country because Obama is president? Do you believe that describing "white people" as victims of widespread racism is correct?
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    • Author by 32beingblack (September 18, 2009 11:08 am ET)
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      In defense of Rush Limbaugh and being a black man who listens to his radio program, he has allowed a lot of "closet bigots" to come out be counted. No longer do they have to be afraid of displaying their true feeling.

      Anyone who claims to be 99.1% right all the time, and on loam from "GOD", sooner of later something stupid will come out of their mouth. During the 2nd or 3th week in May, Rush referred to the president as, "THAT BOY". I see no one picked up on that. I'm still listening and sooner or later he'll do it again and I will have it on tape.
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