O'Reilly admits Limbaugh's McNabb comment was "divisive," but says it wasn't "racist" and defends his NFL bid
October 14, 2009 8:42 pm ET
From the October 14 edition of Fox News' The O'Reilly Factor:
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She is a troll.
And, I'll repeat, Mr. Pickens would be horribly offended by someone who posts the things you do parodying his name. He's a decent human being.
Does anything Joe Biden has done wrong in the past give a free pass to any other wrongdoer? Nope. Two wrongs don't make a right, and it doesn't excuse your guy from blame if others have also sinned.
So, you got nothing.
Please explain to me how the above is not expressing astonishment that black people are acting civilized. Like most of your kind, you clearly have no idea what "out of context" means.
Whatever.
He also has many black people on his show regularly and displays no racist attitudes what so ever. Can you point out any other behavior that would indicate he is a racist other than these comments, comments out of context? If he is a racist there should be many examples, wouldn't there?
Bonus question: Put O'Reillys "out of context" comment in the proper context.
Who's inventing what?
Fixed. And no, it doesn't.
Okay, now I know you're a parody troll.
Well-played, funny guy.
Is saying the NAACP should rehearse liquor store robberies "not racist"?
Is not only calling the president a "Halfrican-American" and a "little black man-child" but also lying and claiming he's Arab "not racist"?
Is saying all composite pictures of wanted criminals resemble Jesse Jackson "not racist"?
Is claiming you're going to show footage of welfare recipients and then showing stock footage of apes in a zoo "not racist"?
Is saying that buses should be segregated for the safety of white children "not racist"?
Jeez, troll. You WISH the McNabb thing was the most racist thing Limbaugh ever said.
People can and do say racially insentive things without being a racist, Don Imus , Joe Biden and Barack Obama come to mind.
Rush won;t learn this lesson Im sure but hopefully others will. The first amendment has and always had its limits and they are crystal clear - people have that right but only to the extent that it doesn't infringe on the rights of others. Obviously, football players felt that they didn't want Rush to be involved because his speech is derisive and rightly so. Thus, the players in fact felt that Rush has crossed a line.
I for one, thought that the comments about re-segregating buses and that this is Obama's America where the white kids get beat up by the black kids was far more racist in nature than the comment about mcnabb although they certainly were both mean-spirited snipes and propping up a racial divide that people have worked so hard to knock down. But it is more likely that the summation of all his racially tinged comments over the years have only made him enemies and a lot of minorities for that matter. So Rush became rich and famous for his fear mongering and his reckless disregard for the rights and feelings of others and finally, he has to face some consequences.
Im glad that he is being banned from this obviously as I think punishment for Rush's stupidity, intolerance, hate speech and indifference to the plight of others has been a long time coming. I just wished that the impact would actually result in some noticeable change in Rush's rhetoric. Im sure this one didn't draw blood though.
Only those whose mamas raised them right...
BTW, I was raised by a white lady... ;>)
Pool your resources and start your own league. Hire Jim McMahon to formulate your business model. He's got experience in this sort of thing.
The NFL was eager? To what end? Aside from disciplinary measures, do you have anything that even begins to prove that the league exerts any power or influence over each team's internal operations regarding player rosters and lineups? And how was it instrumental in McNabb's supposed preferential treatment?
Unless he's got something concrete and substantial, Rush's unproven allegation of preferential treatment by the NFL due to a person's skin color IS, in my opinion, an implication of racial superiority, and therefore IS racist.
Until I see something that proves otherwise, McNabb's career stats speak for themselves and they are a product of hard work and dedication.
When Donovan McNabb was drafted by the Eagles out of Syracuse U. I thought it was a bad pick. I thought McNabb was just an athlete and not an NFL calibre quarterback. I was wrong and the NFL scouts were right. That's why they get paid to evaluate talent. Rush Limbaugh doesn't know any more about football than the average fan. He just pretends to know everything about everyrhing...it's his schtick, but not to be taken seriously.
And what Limbaugh said about McNabb was so gratuitous that it's hard to imagine that it wasn't racially motivated.
The color of McNabb's skin have everything to do with Limbaugh's comment. That's what makes Limbaugh's comment problematic and Irony's not.
There's no MMFA 'regular' who doesn't understand the difference except for dum-dum's like you and your ilk.
He's good, huh?
And who knows more about racism than you?
by zamfir273114 (April 09, 2007 9:19 pm ET)
...I want racial quotas in basketball so that there is an equal number of non-black athletes. Am I going
to get any of those things? Didn't think so.
by zamfir273114 (April 09, 2007 11:33 pm ET)
People are still people. When people talk before they think, they can say stupid and derogatory
things. To cite every incidence as "racism" is overreaching.
by zamfir273114 (August 05, 2008 9:14 pm ET)
Savage has a point. Every neighborhood that illegals have migrated to has gone down the tubes. My birthplace of Van Nuys, CA is like "little Mexico" now. Shootings, rapings, pillaging, drive-by's, grafiti,
prostitution, drugs, (you know, all the things that go along with the Mexican-illegal population. Even
the African-American neighborhoods are in awe!
by zamfir273114 (August 05, 2008 9:27 pm ET)
Then why is it that every one of these Mexican populated areas crime-ridden? Really, all P.C. aside,
can you tell me why the real estate prices decrease in these areas? One more thing, why are the
prisons filled with Mexicans? P.C. aside. See, nothing ever gets done because everybody is afraid to
talk about these things.
by zamfir273114 (February 15, 2008 12:38 am ET)
I don't have to agree with someone in order to value free speech. Sure, Imus et. Al. say some nasty
comments; however, unless you can diminish his listenership or his value, your barking up the wrong
tree. If Hillary were black, you could resort to using Jesse Jackson or Al Sharpton. Unfortunately, they
only come running when black folk are ridiculed. Hmm, that seems a little "racist" in and of itself.
by zamfir273114 (February 14, 2008 6:35 pm ET)
That is Mr. Hussein's, I mean Obama's, name. Coulter only speaks what millions of American's think.
The American people have a right to know who they are voting for. Barack Hussein Obama.
by zamfir273114 (July 08, 2009 6:53 pm ET)
If Kilmeade had known the P.C. police were going to take him out of context, he should have rephrased
his statement in a more P.C/B.S. way. What he is saying might be correct though: research
done in Sweden might have no correlation to research done in the United States because the United
States is a much less limited gene-pool. MMFA inferred that he was somehow saying one was
greater than the other.
"I just wonder if Sotomeyer looks down on other ethnicities as well, like Asian, Black or even Mestizo. Afterall, in is well-known that in many Latin American countries, many predominantly "Spanish" individuals look down on the darker "Mestizo" varieties. It's disgusting. Sotomeyer is very white looking. I hope they check this woman."
- zamfir273114, May 30, 2009 6:06 pm ET
"He is actually incorrect. Some of the best foods in America from other ethnicities."
- zamfir273114 (June 18, 2009 7:24 pm ET)
"Music wasn't very good before different ethnicities started performing either."
- zamfir273114 (June 18, 2009 10:40 pm ET)
His Troglodyte Radio audience would have drooled and applauded, but the ESPN folks saw him for the obnoxious, worthless boor that he is.
I do think we need to lighten up on the reich-wing sockpuppets here defending O'Reilly and Limbaugh, they just had lobotomies and their brains don't work so good anymore.