No matter how much weight he loses, I am happy to see that Gawker, like myself, will always think of Limbaugh as a giant tub of Right-Wing lard. Thanks for posting the fat pics! #rushlimbaugh
Poor Rush Limbaugh. The other ridiculously wealthy multimillionaire owners of other NFL teams didn't want him to join their club.
It just makes sense, though. With the Dalai Lama owning the Dolphins outright and the estate of Mother Theresa mainitaining a controlling interest in the NY Giants, it'd be unseemly to have him in that group. #rushlimbaugh
Of course Rush would be the type of man to think of being "color blind" as a good thing. Maybe I'm alone in thinking that such thoughts do nothing to encourage cultural and ethnic awareness and appreciation. Refusing to acknowledge the fact that someone is black or white (which I somehow doubt Rush does anyway...) does not automatically mean that you're not racist. It's merely another form of repression in this already incredibly repressed society. #rushlimbaugh
If I remember correctly, this is the same guy who went on non-stop hours-long tirades during the Rodney King riots. The racist invective coming out of his filthy gob could have filled books.
And quite frankly, if anyone can dig up audio files from that time frame it would probably lay this whole thing to rest.
Speaking only for myself as a 40-something white Oaklander who's lived through some particularly disheartening periods in this country's past, I feel wholeheartedly that Limbaugh is a thoroughly disgusting individual and a sick-minded bully.
Hopefully history will put him where he belongs - in the same round file as the likes of Father Coughlin and Joe McCarthy. #rushlimbaugh
Uggh, does he really think of himself as someone who is color blind? He seems obsessed with the idea that blacks and other minorites are taking over and that white guys are becoming an oppressed minority. He is constantly making himself the victim of things like "reverse racism". #rushlimbaugh
@heywhat: He's a mediocre white guy w ho fears that if minorities are ever given a fair chance, loser scumbags like him will have to scrounge for jobs more appropriate to their skill level. And his skill is hatred. #rushlimbaugh
Rush depends on his critics not being as smart as he is and, most of the time, they're not. He's an asshole, but he's a diabolically smart one. #rushlimbaugh
@MrInBetween: Completely true. This is always overlooked. He's careful not to say anything TOO blatantly racist, so he can weasel his way out later.
That being said, he's constantly saying race baiting garbage that he knows will grab headlines. His whole McNabb thing is a perfect example. His point was something he could argue wasn't racist at all, and yet the entire argument depended on a somewhat racist diatribe. He wasn't off attacking a white top-1o quarterback he felt was overrated. There are plenty he could have picked. But he purposefully chose the black one and tried to make the argument that the overrating was based on race.
I don't know what else to say... but... uh... he's gross. #rushlimbaugh
@MrInBetween: Sure if by 'diabolically smart' you mean being able to know what the lowest common denominator wants, probably because he's about as low as you can get. His education, qualifications and abilities are fairly limited. Limbaugh has what was called 'a low cunning'. He's smart like Chuck Barris was smart. Limbaugh's show is the Gong Show of the 21st century. #rushlimbaugh
@MyNameIsChris: Umm, many of those quotes are undeniably racist. I'm thinking particularly of the one about "Obama's America," acting as though this one black-on-white assault is now a bona fide phenomenon, and crediting it to Obama for no other reason than that Obama is black, like the kids who participated in the assault.
What world do we live in that this kind of statement can pass under the radar as merely maybe, possibly, supposedly, kinda-sorta racist. It's plainly, clearly, and directly racist to hold Obama responsible for black-on-white crime merely because he shares the skin color of the perpetrator. I mean, isn't it?
I don't think it's as much a matter of Rush Limbaugh being this super-intelligent bigot, but rather of a society so far into post-racial la-la land that you basically can't be considered a racist unless you call somebody a nigger. This is like the Polanski defenders who say "well, it wasn't rape-rape." I guess this kind of stuff just racism-racism.
@topsy: I think he's should be awarded an honorary JD. He is a classic aggressive lawyer type (no offense to lawyers) whose mouth can run for HOURS spouting things as if they are fact just to obsfuscate the issues.
That's his job. Like an attorney, I don't hold it against him.
The attacks from Sharpton and Jackson played right into his hands. He gets free publicity and compared to them looks like an angel.
And if you review his response to the whole thing carefully, you will see that his PR team (who earn their millions) put out an INSTANT and aggressive defense based soley on attacking his accusers, and 'impeaching' the two basic quotes that were false. Which of course makes the rest of the evidence look false also, and hence, the case is won. #rushlimbaugh
@skt.smth: Oh I agree with you. But when you ask what world we live in where this shit passes under the radar... well... it's THIS world. It's unfortunate, but I wouldn't say Rush isn't smart enough to know exactly what he's doing. Just because our world is fucked up and it takes very obvious tricks to rile up the unwashed masses, doesn't mean Rush isn't skilled at doing it.
Also... I tend to find that most of these quotes pulled are the super inflammatory nugget dropped in the middle of a big rant... the rest of which we don't usually hear, but is usually his fallback to explain how he was taken out of context. #rushlimbaugh
@MyNameIsChris: You say it's Rush's skill. I say it's everyone else's stupidity. Taking advantage of stupidity is often a "smart move," but it doesn't usually take much actual smarts to pull it off. #rushlimbaugh
"My jowlsy views? You mean, my belief in a jowl-blind society where every individual is treated as a precious human being without regard to his jouwliness? Where football players should earn as much as they can and keep as much as they can, regardless of jowls? Those controversial jowlsy views?" #rushlimbaugh
About 20 seconds after they "lost" the Civil Rights Movement, old fat guys started arguing that everyone is, in fact, equal, even old fat white guys. No one is more about everyone being equal than people who used to think (and, don't tell anyone, still do think) that no one was equal to them. #rushlimbaugh
I wonder if he would, when calling any other man angry, qualify the statement by mentioning that man's race. Like if George W. Bush were angry, would he call him "an angry white man?" #rushlimbaugh
THe Wall Street Journal is turning into the fucking Fox of newspaper oh wait, Murdoch. Last week it was the "Nobel should have gone to the dead Iranian protestors" piece. Even though it is never awarded posthumously . Rush actually saying he is color blind? This should be a federal crime of some sorts, I mean his pants and his whole house should be on fire. The Magic Negro Rush Limbaugh? HE has actually made statements about the NFL that are offensive, that alone should have done it. I really cannot believe the nerve of this jack ass. #rushlimbaugh
Among those 400,000 petition-signers are included such noteworthy patriots as Albert Grindstein, Pizza T. Hut, and the entire cast of Scooby's All-Star Laff-A-Lympics.
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It just makes sense, though. With the Dalai Lama owning the Dolphins outright and the estate of Mother Theresa mainitaining a controlling interest in the NY Giants, it'd be unseemly to have him in that group. #rushlimbaugh
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He has two assholes.
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ASSHOLES.
And yet he's something other than a punchline on a sub-par Leno episode. #rushlimbaugh
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And quite frankly, if anyone can dig up audio files from that time frame it would probably lay this whole thing to rest.
Speaking only for myself as a 40-something white Oaklander who's lived through some particularly disheartening periods in this country's past, I feel wholeheartedly that Limbaugh is a thoroughly disgusting individual and a sick-minded bully.
Hopefully history will put him where he belongs - in the same round file as the likes of Father Coughlin and Joe McCarthy. #rushlimbaugh
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That being said, he's constantly saying race baiting garbage that he knows will grab headlines. His whole McNabb thing is a perfect example. His point was something he could argue wasn't racist at all, and yet the entire argument depended on a somewhat racist diatribe. He wasn't off attacking a white top-1o quarterback he felt was overrated. There are plenty he could have picked. But he purposefully chose the black one and tried to make the argument that the overrating was based on race.
I don't know what else to say... but... uh... he's gross. #rushlimbaugh
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What world do we live in that this kind of statement can pass under the radar as merely maybe, possibly, supposedly, kinda-sorta racist. It's plainly, clearly, and directly racist to hold Obama responsible for black-on-white crime merely because he shares the skin color of the perpetrator. I mean, isn't it?
I don't think it's as much a matter of Rush Limbaugh being this super-intelligent bigot, but rather of a society so far into post-racial la-la land that you basically can't be considered a racist unless you call somebody a nigger. This is like the Polanski defenders who say "well, it wasn't rape-rape." I guess this kind of stuff just racism-racism.
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That's his job. Like an attorney, I don't hold it against him.
The attacks from Sharpton and Jackson played right into his hands. He gets free publicity and compared to them looks like an angel.
And if you review his response to the whole thing carefully, you will see that his PR team (who earn their millions) put out an INSTANT and aggressive defense based soley on attacking his accusers, and 'impeaching' the two basic quotes that were false. Which of course makes the rest of the evidence look false also, and hence, the case is won. #rushlimbaugh
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Also... I tend to find that most of these quotes pulled are the super inflammatory nugget dropped in the middle of a big rant... the rest of which we don't usually hear, but is usually his fallback to explain how he was taken out of context. #rushlimbaugh
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