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SPLC's Potok suggests Limbaugh's and Beck's racially charged remarks activate "hate criminals"

September 17, 2009 7:00 pm ET

From the September 17 edition of MSNBC's Hardball with Chris Matthews:

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Earlier, the Southern Poverty Law Center's Mark Potok said that "yesterday, Rush Limbaugh was on the air talking about an incident in which black kids attacked a white kid on a school bus, an incident the police said was not racially motivated, and saying that what we need are segregated buses, that this is the only way, I suppose, that white people can be protected from black people. I think when we have characters like Limbaugh saying that on the air to millions of Americans, many of whom actually revere the man, you know, it's not surprising that people feel that, you know, the race war is around the corner and that we're allowed to say these kinds of things."

Previously:

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

Beck: Obama has "exposed himself as a guy" with "a deep seated hatred for white people"

CNN's Martin says Limbaugh, Beck "playing into others' racial fears"

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    • Author by AB-001 (September 17, 2009 7:13 pm ET)
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      This message can't be repeated enough! Limbaugh and his ilk sound eerily like the fringe figures formerly found exclusively on shortwave radio broadcasts. Now that loose cannon rhetoric has emerged from its hole and generates millions in income for its practitioners.

      And the audience essentially remains the same: disaffected individuals who live in fear of "the other." Limbaugh et al can protest all they wish, but they know damn well that they're aiming at deeply rooted prejudices. While their audiences certainly include a vast majority of decent (albeit misguided) folks, they know there's that fringe element being fired up.

      SPLC is spot on. I hope more organizations and people of good will continue to expose the raw ugliness in today's top rated radio hosts.
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    • Author by wolf kotenberg (September 17, 2009 7:22 pm ET)
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      Ya think ?????
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    • Author by liberalXtian (September 17, 2009 7:22 pm ET)
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      Those who sow the wind will reap the whirlwind.

      As much as Obama needs to be concerned about the hated and racism being seen, the conservative politicians who have been pandering and exploiting this hatred should fear more. If they are successful and regain the White House and Congress, the haters and crazies who elected them will expect them to act on their extreme ideas. When they don't, well, it will be nothing like liberal dissatisfaction with Obama (we're unarmed). Apologies to Shakespeare, but "hell hath no fury like a right wing radical with a gun scorned!"
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      • Author by SAR (September 18, 2009 5:57 am ET)
           
        It wasn't William Shakespeare that coined that phrase, it was William Congreve.
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    • Author by DAWUSS (September 17, 2009 7:57 pm ET)
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      With the volume on full blast, I can barely hear this
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    • Author by oscar the grouch (September 17, 2009 8:15 pm ET)
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      So if we are going to blame all the violence against certain class of citizens on Lush and Eddie, how do we explain the shooting of a capitalist last week (on the same day as the anti-abortionist) in Michigan. Is that the fault of Michael Moore and his latest "documentary". About the same time as the three policemen were shot in Pittsburg by a real nut (blamed on Eddie), three policemen were gunned down in Oakland by what appeared to be a drugged out loser. Who is to blame for that?
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      • Author by Hasa Diga Eebowai (September 17, 2009 8:24 pm ET)
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        They don't know if it was because he was an anti-abortion protester.
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        • Author by oscar the grouch (September 17, 2009 9:18 pm ET)
             
          But we do know the second victim was a business owner.
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          • Author by eweston8542983 (September 17, 2009 11:37 pm ET)
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            His attacks seem more personal than ideological. He was not taking on the MAN. He was acting on personal grevance.
            A loser and an easy killer.
            My opinion only.
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            • Author by oscar the grouch (September 18, 2009 12:24 am ET)
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              Aren't most of these random shooters losers, just looking for some small excuse to justify (in their warped minds) their actions? This can apply to the Pittsburg nut, the Oaklannd nut, the Michigan nut and the daily (in a lot of the larger metro areas) drive-bys and such. And we and the media help them out by pointing out all the reasons why they might have been driven to such action. There is a certain lack of moral clarity in this land. I've been mad at people in my life, traffic cutoffs, rude, insulting people and the like, but not once have I gone after a gun to "settle" the differences. Where/when did we return to the old west mentality (as depicted in print and on screen) of the fastest (or sneakiest) gun is the winner?
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              • Author by eweston8542983 (September 18, 2009 10:24 am ET)
                   
                There is a continuity in the killers yes. There are also differences. I going to have to wait on more information on the most recent killer before I'll wiegh in on his deeper motivations.
                I can't think of any progressive thought/writing/talking that insires violence. There are many examples of NeoCon calls for violence, but we'll see what the man has to say.
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    • Author by oscar the grouch (September 17, 2009 8:16 pm ET)
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      From the picture above, looks like Potok could use a good shot of prune juice.
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    • Author by irishwarlord (September 19, 2009 1:26 am ET)
         
      Potok is nothing more then a hate monger. peddling his filth for money. S southern not a chance. P poverty never has been worth less then 2 million. L law right who's law does he follow. C center of amusement that part is true.
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    • Author by Joe Carlton (September 19, 2009 5:32 am ET)
         
      Rush is absolutely right. "In 2005, there were more than 645,000 victims of cross-racial violent crimes between blacks and whites in the U.S. In 90 percent of those crimes, black offenders attacked white victims." That's from the Chicago Tribune. Don't fool yourself on who the real victims of hate crime are.

      The liberal media has an explicit policy of hiding these crimes by burying the stories, and not reporting the race of the perps. White people are sick of it. We're sick of being preyed on like sheep.

      When white people peacefully demonstrate against the president's policies...
      ==> That's deep-seated, ugly racism
      When 4 blacks in Knoxville carjack a young white couple, gang rape the boy in front of his girlfriend, mutilate the girl's genitals and anus with an object, shoot and burn the boy, and suffocate the girl in a trash can...
      ==> Race had nothing whatsoever to do with it
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    • Author by BrianTim (September 20, 2009 11:21 am ET)
         
      For those who would like to learn about the motivations of the Mark Potoks and Gerald Posner's, I would refer to California State University Professor Kevin MacDonald's "The Culture of Critique: An Evolutionary Analysis of Jewish Involvement in Twentieth-Century Intellectual and Political Movements"

      They have a Jewish agenda and here is the proof!
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