Citing no evidence, Limbaugh claims NFL “Bloods and the Crips” comment taken out of context Written by Media Matters Staff Published 10/14/09 3:42 PM EDT From the October 14 edition of Premiere Radio Networks' Rush Limbaugh Show: Video file “It was not racial. Bloods and Crips makes it look racial. But the way I chose to describe it. I could have perhaps chosen a different term.” Previously: Limbaugh in 2007: “NFL all too often looks like a game between the Bloods and the Crips without any weapons” Limbaugh on the NBA: “Call it the TBA, the Thug Basketball Association ... They're going in to watch the Crips and the Bloods” Potential NFL owner Limbaugh declares basketball “the favorite sport of gangs”
