Limbaugh on "stories" about how "the black frame of mind is terrible": "Tiger Woods' choice of females not helping 'em out"
From the December 8 edition of Premiere Radio Networks' The Rush Limbaugh Show:
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LIMBAUGH: I got two more stories in the stack today about how black unemployment is through the roof. Black unemployment is terrible. The black frame of mind is terrible, they're depressed, they're down -- Obama's not doing anything for 'em. How is that hoax and change workin' for ya? They're all livid. I mean, they thought there were gonna be an exact 180-degree economic reversal and it's done nothing but get bad for everybody, but they're especially upset about it because they look at him as one of them, and now they feel abandoned. And I'm sure Tiger Woods' choice of females not helping 'em out with their attitudes there either.
Previously:
Limbaugh's "colorblind" history of racially charged comments
CNN reports Limbaugh dropped from Rams bid, cites his "comments in years past about race"
















"They" and "Them" and "Their"
See, blacks are different than you and me, Limbaugh seems to be saying through his third-person references
The point of my question was to see what you thought of Rush's point: "they thought there were gonna be an exact 180-degree economic reversal and it's done nothing but get bad for everybody, but they're especially upset about it because they look at him [President Obama} as one of them, and now they feel abandoned."
Do you think that black people feel abandoned since their personal economy has not changed with the election of Obama?
He loses his audience? Umm you may want to check out his ratings:
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As an African American, I just wanna say how PLEASED I am whenever a privileged white man such as Limpballs, Hannity, or Beck demonstrates how in TOUCH they are with the pulse of the black community . . . ;~)>
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You are to be commended for your restraint. I'm not even African American and I'd like to ... oh, never mind.
Wonder if Rush was saying this stuff when whiter-than-white Steve Garvey was pulling all of his crap with several mistresses behind his wife's back. Something tells me probably not.
Jack@ss wonders how come no one wanted him to own a NFL team. Friggin Pig
I just spit my coffee all over my monitor . .
it's twue, it's twue . .
No, thank you. Fifteen is my limit on schnitzengruben.
I'm sure at least one of them has an artist working on one right now....
Stupid comment, Rush. A very racist, stupid comment. But then, what else is new.
[Oh, and Rush, I wouldn't be talking about anyone else's "choice of females," if I were you. Your track record is pretty dismal.]
Just ask Limpballs; he knows. He's always talking about what Obama is "feeling" and "thinking" -- despite not having ever met or talked to him . . .
Me too. Which is why I find talk like Rush's so outrageous. It just inflames race relations. Let every African American reading this know that this A-hole does not speak for me!
They still refuse to accept that our country in overwhelming numbers decided it was time to put this sort of racism behind us and enter a new era - old habits are hard to break.
Barack Obama is a serious man of high intellect who is qualified to hold the high position of importance he attained.
Tiger Woods is a great athlete who has been turned into a money-making, brand name celebrity machine by corporate America.
srichardson, did somebody post that idiotic American Thinker article here? (I think it's been deleted). I heard Boss Hogg reading that on the radio this morning, and somebody posted it on another thread.
I believe the "writer" said that it was "ironic" that race wasn't the reason for the parallel, which said as much as Rush's "them" and "they" mentioned above.
And besides, who went and told Rush that Tiger is black? Don't these right wing Kloset Klansmen always insist that they don't even see color? Why do they get so excited about trying to slam non-whites ?
And these racists still live in the day when anyone who wasn't white was considered a person of color. They can't even understand why someone wants to identify with their race. Another way to degrade the minorities. Too bad we can't fine stupidity or we could pay OFF the deficit.
Obama is a Harvard Law grad, he was a civil rights attorney and a professor who taught Constitutional law. If you think a Constitutional law professor does not not have a high intellect or a framework of qualifications to be President of the United States of America, consider moving to another country.
Maybe you voted for a president you'd like to sit down and have a beer with. I voted for a president who knows more about the Constitution than you or I or Bush or McCain ever will.
I have seen very little from this man that screams "intellectual." I guess between the constant "umms" and "uhhs" when he is without his prompter, it got lost in the shuffle. It isn't always high intellect that gets someone through a tough educational program. Believe it or not, sometimes hard work makes it happen.
BTW, nice strawman with the McCain and Bush line. These idiotic points like, "If you are against Obama, you must love Bush and McCain" are so stupid I am surpised the people who make them even know how to type out their thoughts.
There are so many knee-jerk Obama-bashing right-wingers who troll around here that I unfairly lumped you into that category.
I'm not sure what you point is in your 2nd paragraph. Do you believe that hard work and not high intellect got Obama through law school? Is this necessarily a bad thing?
So if being well-schooled in Constitutional law does not stand out to you as having some qualification to defend and uphold the Constitution (and granted, one must have more qualifications than simply this - I was just citing it as a stark contrast to the 'qualifications' of our previous President), then who do you suggest is a more qualified candidate?
It's easy to point fingers and cite problems (I do it all the time), but finding solutions is the hard part. If know of a person out there who's got solutions and is worth looking at for 2012, I'm interested.
HAHAHAHA, you gotta love wingnuts . . .
Apparently, they're trying to claim Woods is some sort of "divine" being -- much like they like to mock Obama as "the Obamamessiah."
Yet -- why are THEY the ONLY ones who EVER refer to them in these terms?
Those of us in the reality-based world regard Woods and Obama as what they are: human beings. We admire one for his athletic ability and the other for his personal charisma {and, despite claims to the contrary, are able to maintain such admiration even along with occasional criticism of either one}, but its only the far right that seems to confuse such admiration for deifying . . .
Okay I give up, where's the valid points?
This was a trick question, wasn't it?
Here's the real facts. Woods was admired as a sports star by many, but idolized by few. Obama is admired by many, but most of us see him very clearly and have our points of agreement and disagreement. When he has acted contrary to what we'd like to see we've been disappointed, but we've never had to take him down from a pedestal because we've never had him up on one.
Your article doesn't reflect reality in its references to Obama.
HAH! Perfect for a thread on Tiger Woods.
Which reminds me of a classic Les Nessman sports report: "Here's hoping [golfer name] will be playing up to par".
The dirty little secret is that the "prosperity" we enjoyed before the current recession had nothing to do with Bush's tax cuts, but a consumer spending spree fueled by easy credit. It was a classic bubble, the wreckage of which we are now trying to sift our way through.
I don't know how to do links, so here's the url.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091206/ap_on_sp_ot/us_tiger_woods_race;_ylt=At.acg7pLyvxiQ.brlxlQe1vzwcF;_ylu=X3oDMTJrN2FqMjE1BGFzc2V0A2FwLzIwMDkxMjA2L3VzX3RpZ2VyX3dvb2RzX3JhY2UEY3BvcwMxBHBvcwMzBHNlYwN5bl90b3Bfc3RvcnkEc2xrA2Z1bGxuYnNwc3Rvcg
If you will look at my post above, you'll find that Tiger is like most Americans, a blend of many different races and/or nationalities. Skin color should not be used as an identifier of a person. It's just different levels of melanin.
rush is only suggesting what much of black america already has... check out this article by jesse washington, appointed AP's official race and ethnicity writer last summmer:
tiger's troubles widen his distance from blacks
media matters contributes nothing to advance race relations in this country with their whiney-ass divisive posts...
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Once again -- as an African American, I am PLEASED whenever a pasty white, drug addicted radio shock jock {or one of his troglodyte listeners, like zipper here}, purports to KNOW what the {entire} state of "black america" is . . .
And calling out bigots and racists like this does further race relations. The quicker we can inform people about this nonsense that poisons our national debates, the better.
Umm...simply posting the audio of what Rush said is "whiney" and "divisive". Since all MediaMatters did was let Rush's words speak for themselves, it seems to me Rush is the one you're calling names.
I'll bet that everyone who attends this website already knows what "wedge issues" are in politics, particularly in campaign politics, but I'll offer a definition anyway, just so as to be sure.
"Wedge issues" in campaign politics are issues that are terribly divisive among people, but are not truly political (not truly issues of Public Policy): they are issues that provoke anger and fear and suspicion and even hatred, and divide the crowd into opposing camps, antagonized against each other.
The people, who might otherwise be of a singular mind on most if not all real Public Policy issues, are driven asunder by these emotionally charged but truly irrelevant "wedge issues".
It's nothing but a politically destructive manipulation of people, based upon their fears and suspicions etc.
You knew this already.
Religion is a "wedge issue" ("it's us against them"), despite religion having no true or even legal place in our Public Policy agenda.
Matters of sexuality are also a "wedge issue" ("it's us against them"), despite sexuality having little or no place in Public Policy.
Also birth control (sometimes called "reproductive rights") is used to divide the crowd along their most emotional gut lines, despite the fact that such things are as truly private and personal as are religious or sexual matters.
You already know this.
You also know that Republicans lost just enough political (people) support in what we call "Red State America" (namely Virginia and particularly Florida and other such States that Republicans can sometimes count on), they lost just enough electoral support in those places, to lose their majorities in Congress and lose the administration of our federal government, in the 2006 and 2008 national elections.
Well, Republicans (and their many highly paid hacks and minions in the media) are hell bent on getting back that lost support in "Red State America", and getting back majorities in the House and the Senate, and getting back their crooked administration of our U.S. Government, and they'll use any "wedge issue" they can to do it.
And so you know what's going on here, you know why race or ethnic heritage or whatever you'd call it (it doesn't really matter anyway does it), you know why they're doing this, you know what it is they're doing and to whom they're doing it, don't you?
Sure you do.
It's as easy to see as are the colors black and white.
But did you know they (Republicans and their malicious media hacks) are using the Public Airwaves, our property, a public resource, to do this, to drive this 'wedge' nationally, across the broadcast spectrum...
You knew this too, right?
I hope so.
We-el . . .
seeing as how it was George Dumbya Bush who made the statement: "you're either for us, or against us",
seeing as how it was Tommy Tancredo who demonized an entire subculture by characterizing the Cuban population of Miami as "a third-world city",
seeing as how Uncle KKKarl Rove, aided and abetted by various rightwing radio and teevee talkers, used the "wedge issue" of immigration as a stepping stone to defeating Kerry in '04,
THANK YOU for admitting that they aren't "real conservatives" . . .
Right. They champion white individuals, and denigrate minority groups, inclusing gays and women.
I'm foaming at the mouth---he's so racist!
Rush is a joke, and its a disgrace how the rubdish that comes out of his mouth has made him millions, but on the other hand, its funny in a way to see people like dork embarassingly defend his sh!t talk, ha ha pathetic.
I agree that he [Limpballs] is racist -- but, somehow, I don't think that's the reason you're foaming at the mouth . . .
Or is it that he chose white women, and as a man of color, he should only have chosen women of color? Because everyone is as concerned with not mixing races as you are, huh, Rush? I mean, a guy who's got about 5 different ancestries in him and who's just more Asian than he is black has to have black women as his mistresses, Rush? Really?
The problem is that Tiger Woods chose to have mistresses. It wouldn't resolve anything if he had chosen more discrete women or black women, as the problem is that he violated his marital vows, Rush.
Could he have violated his marriage vows, or maybe it was because his little blue pills weren't potent enough, and his exes got tired of being short-changed?
Let him try to deny his race baiting tendacies.
Whoever posted the link to the article stating that Obama and Woods want to be viewed as "human gods" is off their meds. The only time I ever read anything about the deification of the president it comes from a far rightwinger.
I could care less about Tiger Woods' female playmates. That's his business, and I'm going to let him handle it. If I tried to advise him, he wouldn't listen anyway. LOL
As for Limbaugh, I let whatever he vomits go in one ear and out the other. He's not worth getting my blood pressure up. He's a member of my Persona Non Grata Club.
And for good reason! Not that it'll make a dent on Limbaugh or his sycophantic listeners
Thats then gonna be knocked off as you just supportin Obama cause he's black or whatever, whereas Rush, the man who as far as I know, has no qualifications, in well, anything, is a credible source because he "tells it like it is" which is basically whatever his ignorant fans wanna hear, guess why?
Rush, get out of your hole and maybe you might have a different outlook on life.
Rush, get out of your hole and maybe you might have a different outlook on life.
The only reason Rush says the things he does is that he gets paid to manipulate the minds of fools.