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Leave Rush alone! [split]
shryke
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Not so much "in on it" as soulless hacks who whose hypocrisy would be cast into stark relief.
Earlier this evening, as most of you now know, one of our own, Rush Hudson Limbaugh, while taking withering fire, crashed and burned.
Tonight, Rush is no longer ‘just' a radio personality.
Tonight, Rush is no longer ‘just' a NFL owner denied
Tonight, Rush is us. And we are him.
Tonight Rush became the metaphor for all of us… every man woman and child in this great nation of ours.
The enemy of this great nation, the enemy of you and me, Rush's enemy… those on the left, inside and outside of this nation abhor success… and when faced with it will destroy it… by any and all means possible.
We all have our dreams in life… such as they might be. Rush dreamed of being an owner in the NFL.
Tonight the left proved that they will stop at nothing to end our dreams. Our dreams of success and happiness devastate their need to dominate and control you and me… and well everything and everyone.
Chrysler bondholders
GM dealers
Bankers and stockbrokers
Small business owners
Medical Doctors
Oppressed people wanting freedom around the world
The left can not and will not allow anyone to realize their dreams
Tonight a light went out… a dream died… it died from political correctness
Tonight we are under withering fire, we on the right those in the middle,
Tonight our values are under withering fire, those thoughts ideas and dreams that made this great nation are under withering fire
Will your light of your dreams be next?
First they came for the communists, and I did not speak out-because I was not a communist;
Then they came for the socialists, and I did not speak out-because I was not a socialist;
Then they came for the trade unionists, and I did not speak out-because I was not a trade unionist;
Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out-because I was not a Jew;
Then they came for me-and there was no one left to speak out for me.
- Pastor Martin Niemöller
Right. So we're using the small common-law powers (that in no way set precedent on their own) of a bigoted Louisiana justice of the peace as a proxy for true judicial officers setting legal precedent?
Tell me another. There are how many political/current event commentators on the air? And Rush and Beck are singled out. Please don't play that bullshit here. This forum (seemingly) prides itself on rising above that kind of nonsense.
Nonsense like vague comments about Rush's brushes with 'racism' in the special goal-post moving quotes? No, we apparently love that bullshitty nonsense.
Beck and Limbaugh are singled out because they're so popular. We don't waste time on the Alex Jones' of the world because nobody gives a shit what they say.
This isn't rocket science.
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Now you're reading into things. You went from defending the singling out of Limbaugh and Beck in a thread about southern racism, to trying to make this an argument about the existence of the language those two employ. Besides one mans "hateful rhetoric" is another mans "inflammatory proselytizing." And is there some sort of barometer for "hateful rhetoric?" Am I to take the usual hateful rhetoric one can find up and down blogs and message boards (from all political stripes) is a-ok?
Vague comments? Rush's removal from NFL ownership over racist comments he supposedly made has been all over the internets. Well I suppose not here, since the quotes aren't true.
So yea, the "bullshit" comment stands.
This one what? A justice of the peace? How is a justice of the peace who hears what - marriage licenses and traffic tickets - even CLOSE to state and federal judges?
ESPN is not the internet.
I had no idea what you were trying to say, really. Rush was the victim of racism, people accuse Rush of racism falsely, Rush rubbed on a girl called Racism. Who knows.
It's not that those blogs are "a-ok," It's that they don't have the sphere of influence that Beck and Limbaugh do.
Racism like the McNabb quote or "Barack the Magic Negro" all of last year. Or:
And those are just the statements since Obama became a serious candidate for President! There's plenty more, all with links, here.
The best one though, with regards to the NFL:
Those quotes are full of racially charged material, but that doesn't make them in and of themselves racist. Stupid sure. Racist not so much.
It'll come to a point where when there is bonafide racism out there, we wont know how to actually respond to it.
And that bit about the "right wing" is just dumb. I'm sorry, I like to use inclusive team building language but come on. Can we please get over the generalizing?
Unless i missed the part that this judge has been linked somehow to Limbaugh or Beck.
I am shocked NFL players spoke out against him. They're probably racists.
I expect they will be similarly incensed about this.
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Thus the split. This is now explicitly a Rush thread.
I'm curious what criteria you use to make such a distinction
That quote seems to indicate that he believes that whites are now threatened by blacks because Obama is president.
This guy is an activist judge?
"I am a racist. There. I said it."
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True. However I can count on one hand (for each man) the comments that each has made that deserve a whiffle bat to the head. It seems the rallying call for the Anti-Beck set is his ". . .prove you're not a terrorist" screed. That is definitely one of the ". . .I should not improvise dialogue" moments in broadcast history, and Beck should've at the least clarified and apologized for how the comment came out; but using that as the foundation for the Beck hate. . .a bit overboard.
Ha! That assumption right there plays into what you just complained about - that the entirety of political dialogue can be parsed down into race matters.
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Which is good because you have to search LONG AND HARD to find a thread bashing the hated Beck/Rush.
Alright, lock this thread then. Can't? Then shut the hell up.
OK, let's hear an alternate explanation as to why he links everything vaguely racial to Obama and links everything Obama does to his race that does not in some way imply that he is either racist or playing to the racists in his audience. I'm curious as to how this works.
I'm pretty sure that would have been in response to the school bus beatdown that got national play. It involved a white kid, getting beaten up by black kids. . .while black kids (and I think I saw a white kid in there) cheered them on.
Man how many justices of the peace do you know who are setting law with their decisions? Nevermind that these folks weren't actually standing BEFORE the justice when he told them this.
Isn't this guy just an obvious racist hack that needs to be purged from the system? There is something very disingenous about this current attack on Rush.
We are all fans of ignorence, breaded and deep fried in old school biggotry, passed off as satire.
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And he generalized the situation to be about race generally in the entire country! For all we know, those two kids were assholes and teenagers + assholes = crowd of immature assholes. But Rush decides that no, this is about having a black President.
I don't think total ignorance and judicial activism are considered the same thing, even by hate mongers like Rush.
Shocked, I am.
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Now, if you take EVERY quote Limbaugh says, that alludes to the race of the president, regardless of context and insist on painting it as racially charged language meant to incite - it does a disservice to real racism and small minded bigotry.
Then we are seriously lowering the bar on "judicial activism." This isn't judicial activism, this is one individual refusing to follow the law and not following through with his sworn duty. There is a difference.
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