Quotes of the day
posted at 10:35 pm on October 14, 2009 by Allahpundit
“Oh, go ahead, Limbaugh lickers, post your comments about how people have made up quotes or taken them out of context or call everyone a racist. Fire away, you brave anonymous message board flamers. That’s what you do.
(This is said without malice and is my opinion: I believe almost any quote attributed to Limbaugh when it comes to race because he’s said any number of ugly and hateful things. Just my opinion and belief.)…
It’s not about Limbaugh’s politics, it’s about Limbaugh himself. He’s a bad person. That’s it. End of story.”
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“People do not want a bigot as an owner. He’s a racist. He’s a bigot. He’s shown it for years. He’s made his career in a large way off marginalizing black culture and African-Americans, and now he wants to buy into an industry where 70% of the talent, the work-force is African-American and make money off of it? He doesn’t get to do that.”
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I know that Rush did not intend this but he has temporarily taken the heat off Sarah Palin and as Rush always says the pioneers always take the arrows.
technopeasant on October 14, 2009 at 11:22 PM
A couple of days ago I would have agreed with you 100%. But unfortunately, it’s not barren of meaning enough. If it can derail Limbaugh from doing something as innocent as buying a minority stake in a NFL team, with just lies of being a racist, we’ve got some more ground to cover.
And the only thing these liars will feel is a punch in their wallets. Man I hope Rush goes after them in a big way. Surely he’ll have no problem finding a team of lawyers who would take this on for a piece of the settlement. Rush could donate the rest to charity for all I care.
Just make these turds feel it. Make the truth mean something.
Hog Wild on October 14, 2009 at 11:23 PM
Is it a full moon? This orgy of H8 (sorry, reading Meggie’s pathetic whiney tweets) for Rush is over the top. They are going to melt down completely.
Monica on October 14, 2009 at 11:25 PM
Anyone hear Michael Savage tonight? I’d be interested to know what his thoughts are.
SouthernGent on October 14, 2009 at 11:25 PM
We need a colon cleanser.
HornetSting on October 14, 2009 at 11:26 PM
No mention of black Americans, I see. Don’t they count?
OldEnglish on October 14, 2009 at 11:27 PM
I am deeply disturbed by the decision of a few including the commisioner to disparage WITHOUT FACTS the name of Rush Limbaugh. All he wanted to do is assist in keeping the Rams in St. Louis, but Roger rolled over by the liees a few and said he did not think that Rush belonged as a minority owner in the NFL. However, it is ok for rapists, abusers, and people that commit terrible acts to animals are ok. I have been a fan of the NFL for more than 30 years, but what they have done in making false accusations have torn the mask off what the NFL is all about, and I have to say with much sorrow, that I have watched my last game. You know, Rush has over 20 millions listeners in the US, most of which I am sure are fans, Unless there is change of heart by the NFL, the fans will call for a strike and then the NFL will need to get in line for a bailout. So, with that said, go CFL and UFL!
Time to call for a fan strike!!!
ConservativePartyNow on October 14, 2009 at 11:28 PM
Try Colon Blow!
Monica on October 14, 2009 at 11:28 PM
Ugh. Hannity can be so grating. He lacks the intellectual depth to really be effective in debates. He just rattles off talking points and then all of a sudden turns the discussion towards Obama when it was never about him in the first place, just so he can get a criticism from his guests. It’s not that I don’t agree with him, but he comes off as such a simpleton.
Liked both of the guests, though. That Michael Meyer’s guy: bravo to him for condemning Al Sharpton, Jesse Jackson, and especially Farrakhan.
KellyBomelly on October 14, 2009 at 11:28 PM
Unfortunately, the leaders of the black community and the majority of blacks in this country are proving they haven’t escaped slavery at all. They have race baiters as the “leaders” of there community that WILL NEVER ALLOW BLACKS out of the slave shack. It’s an American Tragedy.
They traded the 1960′s rules and regs that denied them rights for a new master. The Federal gov’t that has destroyed the Black family in America. This is the legacy of LBJ and his “great society”. Hey African American community how is that Great society thing working out for you?
Next up for the Feds?
Well they’ve completely destroyed Medicare and Medicaid and Social Security by adding so much stuff onto each program that it now serves millions of illegals and crowded emergency rooms.
So next up?……let them be in charge of 1/5th of the AMERICAN ECONOMY and be in charge of EVERY SINGLE AMERICANS’ HEALTH. What could go wrong?
THE GOP is a lost cause to oppose any of the lefts’ agenda (they just want to be invited to the DC Cocktail parties apparently)…..Dark days for America.
PappyD61 on October 14, 2009 at 11:31 PM
Rush should announce he is interested in buying a hockey team……
……. watch the heads explode!
Seven Percent Solution on October 14, 2009 at 11:31 PM
These people don’t even see the man as human. Whether he said these things or didn’t, they don’t even care. They assume he’s a bad man but don’t even pretend to offer proof.
Esthier on October 14, 2009 at 11:32 PM
Money, my friend. Money. Not that Rush needs it, but…
All the ingredients for numerous large slander/libel lawsuits are here. Mind you, in America, it’s difficult for public figures to prove slander upon preponderance of evidence, but it’s not impossible:
A lie that damaged someone’s reputation — Rush isn’t racist. Period. And *if* the man had a racist bone in his body (and I defy any reasonable person to find one), those quotes that were cited were still made up from whole-cloth.
Malice aforethought — These lies were spread specifically in order to keep Rush from buying a stake in a football team, which segues nicely into…
Actual economic loss — Represented by the painfully obvious blockage of Rush’s ability to lawfully transact business with his partners, and the current owner of the St. Louis Rams.
So to summarize, there is absolutely no way that you can argue that there were not lies, that did not involve malice, and did not cause actual economic harm. All Rush needs to do is lawyer up and give the lawyerly-type dudes a fat contingency fee.
It’s the principle of the thing, after all — these liberal scum wads really need to be taught a lesson in the worst possible way.
gryphon202 on October 14, 2009 at 11:32 PM
Just a wild guess, but I’m betting Freeman danced in the streets when O.J. was acquitted.
fogw on October 14, 2009 at 11:32 PM
Wow. A conservative has been smeared by a circle-jerk of misinformation fueled by blogs. That’s odd.
crr6 on October 14, 2009 at 11:33 PM
Nite everyone,wife needs her quality time on zee net!!:)
canopfor on October 14, 2009 at 11:36 PM
Mike Freeman: “I believe almost any quote attributed to Limbaugh when it comes to race because he’s said any number of ugly and hateful things. Just my opinion and belief.”
Fake but accurate right Mike? You ready with the quotes?
Moron.
csdeven on October 14, 2009 at 11:37 PM
Rush is a real chivalrous guy taking the shots while the Cuda gets her new org. going.
On behalf of Palination, thanks Rush.
And by the way, you are too good for the lowly Lambs anyway.
Buy the 49ers in the heart of rainbowland and really set them off.
Sapwolf on October 14, 2009 at 11:38 PM
Limbaugh didn’t kiss Obama’s ass. That’s hateful and ugly. And he raked the Clintons over the coals throughout the 90′s. Ditto.
ddrintn on October 14, 2009 at 11:39 PM
I think we are on the same page.
It is now almost barren of [just] meaning. As you indicate though, it can, at times, be very useful to those barren of principles.
The Race Card is the most rapid-fire all purpose ad hominem and vapid weapon of smear, mass deception and diversion ever conceived by man. It is a weapon under which weak minds are servilely crouched and can be fired with the greatest of ease by even the most intellectually and sanity challenged, and in fact, was designed especially for use by them. It is void of justice. It is void of liberty. It needs no footing in rationality. It has no expiration date. It doesn’t even appear to have a half life. There are those who theorize that it may continue to exist indefinitely in some form even after time itself has come to an end.
MB4 on October 14, 2009 at 11:40 PM
Fueled more by the Justice Brothers than by blogs, though.
ddrintn on October 14, 2009 at 11:40 PM
I don’t think that was the goal in all this, but it could be construed as a bonus, I guess.
As for Rush being to good for “The Lambs?” The whole purpose of him getting in on this was so that he could help keep a professional football team in his homestate. He’s from Cape Girardeau, Remember?
gryphon202 on October 14, 2009 at 11:41 PM
Rush has to sue – it’ll be EPIC. Is there anyone in the country who isn’t going to be listening to his show tomorrow?
Just like Savage did I bet in discovery he gets his hands on emails that prove they were intentionally spreading the lies and he’ll blast them out to the whole country.
Stephanie on October 14, 2009 at 11:42 PM
Yeah. Sorry, St Louis, but I’m kinda hoping the Rams move. Maybe back to La La Land?
ddrintn on October 14, 2009 at 11:43 PM
Don’t forget about those paragons of Information-processing technology over at Wikipedia. Near as anyone can tell, the false quotes originated there.
Of course, that doesn’t make those who have spread them any less guilty of slander (if spoken publicly) or libel (if printed).
gryphon202 on October 14, 2009 at 11:44 PM
We are.
Hog Wild on October 14, 2009 at 11:44 PM
Eh, I dunno if that will happen. I don’t think Rush usually comes across as being quite as cranky as Savage does. I’m with you thought, Stephanie, in thinking that it would be awesome if that did happen.
gryphon202 on October 14, 2009 at 11:46 PM
Listen. And understand. That
terminatorliberal is out there. It can’t be bargained with. It can’t be reasoned with. It doesn’t feel pity, or remorse, or fear. And it absolutely will not stop, ever, until you are dead.h/t terminator
chewydog on October 14, 2009 at 11:48 PM
As a public figure who must prove malice as an element of any defamation action, Rush faces a tough burden of proof to recover damages. I would not advise him to sue his defamers just to seek money damages. For instance, the blogger who initially posted the false Wikipedia quotes likely is judgment-proof. And anyone sourcing their republication of those quotes to Wikipedia before their falsity became generally known will have the thinnest patina of plausible deniability for malice. Only if they have employed these specific quotes after they became generally known to be fabrications would there be a decent chance of obtaining a malice finding.
As to those commentators who have simply stated that Rush is a racist, there would be an initial difficulty in parsing whether such constitutes a factual statement or mere opinion. My sense is that the courts would tend toward the latter however odious the usage because opinion should be protected under the First Amendment, and that they would make that determination as a matter of law. My guess is that Rush would agree because his entire livelihood is giving his opinion, and if he does not want to end up in the dock on a regular basis he will not pursue litigation that seeks to impose liability for odious opinions.
Finally, my sense is that he need only make his case to the people by formally challenging those who employed the fabricated quotes, including Wikipedia, demanding a public retraction, and publicizing their responses. And everytime Olbie says something hateful about conservatives, he should publicize it and ask the Commish why the NFL continues to permit Olbie to do sports commentary.
Bottom line, I think we are at one of those paradign shifts on race. I think conservative Americans of all races are getting pretty damn tired of being called racist by implication or otherwise. Ironically, I think the election of Presdident Obama may actually spell the death knell for people like Sharpton, hence the Beer Summit walk-back and the growing resentment of the “opposition to the President equals racism” meme.
I like Rush. I listen to him a lot. By implication, I am a racist. And the NFL wants to avoid divisiveness?
Mongo Mere Pawn on October 14, 2009 at 11:48 PM
Has Michael Meyers been praised enough here? Just wondering. A 21-gun salute for him if he hasn’t.
J.E. Dyer on October 14, 2009 at 11:48 PM
late to the thread, but I really liked that guy in the segment with Steven A Smith. I agreed with him completely and they actually were laughing at Hannity at the end. I’d like to get to know more about that NY civil rights dude.
ThackerAgency on October 14, 2009 at 11:48 PM
Naw. Rush would have been toast even if Sharpton and Jackson hadn’t been involved. In fact, he would have been toast even without the fabricated quotes. Many players were vocally against it and that would have been enough by itself.
The sad thing is, there’s no reason to make up quotes with Limbaugh. He smears himself.
etc. etc.
crr6 on October 14, 2009 at 11:48 PM
It just hit me, Obama can have racist statements (typical white person) in his background, sit in Wright’s racist church for 20 years and be president but Rush can make a critical statement and he isn’t qualified to partially own a football team?
Monica on October 14, 2009 at 11:49 PM
Obama is a liberal and Rush is a conservative. I hope this gives you clarity.
LibTired on October 14, 2009 at 11:52 PM
You raise some good points here.
But Rush wouldn’t be doing it for the money. As I stated earlier, there was malice aforethought and actual economic loss involved. The false quotes were in fact presented as fact.
The worst that could happen is that every case gets tossed in summary judgement (and I’m not sure any of them would). The time and money spent would be a pittance to defend one’s honor against such blatant economically impacting backstabbing.
People have been saying “I think Rush is racist” for years, Mongo. It’s the combination of malice and economic damage (both provable in this instance, I think) that pushes it over the edge.
Public figure proving slander? Difficult, yes, but not impossible.
gryphon202 on October 14, 2009 at 11:52 PM
Bing, bing, bing, the Olympics snub, the Nobel debacle, now the race bait industry, all on bright, well lit display.
Its recently been pretty tough to hide the truth of the liberal colors, and they ain’t pretty.
Speakup on October 14, 2009 at 11:53 PM
Not for the first time, you’ve brought the term circle-jerk into the conversation.
Fixated, much?
massrighty on October 14, 2009 at 11:54 PM
If zer0bama makes any sort of mention on this, it means their internal polls are tanking.
SouthernGent on October 14, 2009 at 11:55 PM
I didn’t know the players had final say over the owners and the commissioner. What planet are you on?
fogw on October 14, 2009 at 11:55 PM
Probably the only type of loving he can relate to.
gryphon202 on October 14, 2009 at 11:56 PM
Obama is a half black socialist/marxist.
Rush is a white conservative.
Schadenfreude on October 14, 2009 at 11:56 PM
It’s OK that you were late.
We didn’t miss you.
massrighty on October 14, 2009 at 11:56 PM
The player’s association is a union. I’m sure Roger G. doesn’t want a pain the next time there is a collective bargaining issue (which, much of the time, involves salary caps). All politics.
gryphon202 on October 14, 2009 at 11:58 PM
So, CNN, MSNBC, and even a house rep are blogs now? Well, maybe in the not so distant future.
chewydog on October 14, 2009 at 11:58 PM
This is outrageous and sickening…taken to its logical conclusion in a few years we conservatives who support conservatives will not be able to work or own businesses…I keep saying that Obama is ruining rae relations an he is. I saw the Hannity clip and the guy with the beard earned my respect!
CCRWM on October 15, 2009 at 12:00 AM
Why the fuck is AP quoting an unknown blog commenter and an unknown “Yahoo sports” commenter on this subject? Who knew that Yahoo had a sports commenter?
Jaibones on October 15, 2009 at 12:04 AM
I would hope that fans are disgusted with the NFL and boycott their games until they all go broke, including the leech sportswriters who are attacking Rush.
But, seeing how most of these professional sports figures have turned out to be nothing but cheaters, in recent years, and how fans have still patronized them, I wouldn’t hold my breath for a fan strike starving these slimeballs. Shame.
progressoverpeace on October 15, 2009 at 12:05 AM
Why does AP do anything he does? I suppose because it drives hits, while allowing him to remain utterly anonymous.
gryphon202 on October 15, 2009 at 12:06 AM
Do you have a source for that quote? I mean, other than wikipedia or DU.
ddrintn on October 15, 2009 at 12:08 AM
I seem to recall a similar situation with another group of people a little while ago.
OldEnglish on October 15, 2009 at 12:10 AM
Hornet @10:52 – Amen,amen,amen!!!Today I’ve been so angry that this crap worked for them. So before saying anything I read comments. You hit it on the head, thank you
conmo on October 15, 2009 at 12:14 AM
I love the first citation “Rush on the Radio.”
Classic.
29Victor on October 15, 2009 at 12:14 AM
Zackly!!!
44Magnum on October 15, 2009 at 12:19 AM
I assume for the same reason he puts NYT, MSNBC, CNN, WaPo, Politico, HuffPost etc. on here…we are conservatives and don’t go to those sites because of the garbage, hate and vulgarity there against conservatives so it gets brought here. I’m clicking less and less.
CCRWM on October 15, 2009 at 12:19 AM
Yes, the Jews during WWII…
CCRWM on October 15, 2009 at 12:21 AM
sorry forgot to put it in the post above
CCRWM on October 15, 2009 at 12:22 AM
This site gets a little more LGF every day.
MES401067 on October 15, 2009 at 12:33 AM
Same old. Same old. Most of it boils down to envy that Limbaugh has that others do not.
Rush’s wealth will be invested in something. Maybe not this particular market segment of interest to him but in something which will make those already envious of him even more envious of him.
The race card is a canard. So overplayed and reflexively used that it typically has the legitimacy of Zero’s Nobel. Little more than the insecure wishing they had what somebody else has and willing to play another tired victim’s game to try to deprive others further enjoyment of life.
viking01 on October 15, 2009 at 12:35 AM
“Brave New Films”.
How appropriate.
They probably think the Huxley book depicts a utopian future.
Chickyraptor on October 15, 2009 at 12:38 AM
Hmm, so now Yahoo Sports believes that race should be the determining factor in team ownership? And they are attacking Limbaugh for racism? UFB.
18-1 on October 15, 2009 at 12:41 AM
Oh don’t worry this time national socialism will work – after all the adults are in charge.
/Jonah Goldberg gets proven more right every single day.
18-1 on October 15, 2009 at 12:43 AM
“I’m afraid there is a certain class of race problem solvers who don’t want the patient to get well, because so long as the disease holds out they have not only an easy means of making a living, but also an easy medium through which to make themselves prominent before the public”.–Booker T. Washington
Period.
warbaby on October 15, 2009 at 12:46 AM
Re: CBS Mike Freeman — Hard to find a place to start, let alone finish, so I’ll just touch on one point:
Irony seems too tame a word for a black liberal Democrat denigrating conservatives as mindless robots, when he and his fellow African-Americans voted 97% for one presidential candidate and traditionally vote just slightly less monolithic, for one political party under one ideology.
Any black person brave and intellectually curious enough to challenge the collectivist liberal dogma is roundly vilified as a race-traitor or “oreo.”
Like a good little Stalinist he no doubt shares that typical leftist intolerance for anything not conforming to the accepted worldview, ending with “Hopefully the
sportsworld will never hear from you again.”jjraines on October 15, 2009 at 12:46 AM
Liberal fascism has won big today, and freedom and liberty took it right in the ass.
We cannot afford to lose too many more of these.
I wonder when you so-called conservatives are going to stop making jokes, and start putting your money where your mouth is.
You do not have nearly as much time to decide as you might think.
Dave R. on October 15, 2009 at 12:47 AM
All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.
If we had an independent media or that coward Obama would talk to none fawning reporters, I would love to see someone ask Obama what he thinks of Wright’s quotes. Then, when Obama tried the old, “I wasn’t there THAT day” schtick, our intrepid reporter would lean in and say “Mr President, others may let you get away with these sorts of evasions, but I will not. Tell me what you think of these quotes, and presuming you are disgusted by them, why did you spend 20 years listening to this lunatic?”
Oh how sweet it would be…and only marginally less likely then me owning the Rams…
18-1 on October 15, 2009 at 12:49 AM
I like Stephen Smith. I like how he stayed on everybody in that clip without succumbing to another all-inclusive narrative. I probably wouldn’t agree with him on everything, but you can at least talk to the guy and expect that he’s taking stuff in.
I’m like Smith. I can’t deny that Rush has said some insensitive things over the years and I agree it’s in the NFL’s interest to back away from even manufactured controversy when it feels it has to.
Axeman on October 15, 2009 at 12:50 AM
Amen, brother.
This shit needs to come to a screeching halt.
warbaby on October 15, 2009 at 12:51 AM
Yeah. Sorry, St Louis, but I’m kinda hoping the Rams move. Maybe back to La La Land?
ddrintn on October 14, 2009 at 11:43 PM
You can have them! Screw the NFL!
Vince on October 15, 2009 at 12:54 AM
Sad but true… with all of these Republican sites that seem to be moving left, I’m actually believing that there is absolutely no difference in the two parties anymore.
Forget moving to New Zealand, I’m ready to leave this earth. The world has literally gone completely insane.
MobileVideoEngineer on October 15, 2009 at 1:01 AM
By the way folks, before the Right eagerly embraces Stephen A. Smith, here’s a less…Hannity-friendly view on Rush: http://stephena.com/?p=310 Among other things, he regurgitates the same slavery smear against Limbaugh we’ve seen everywhere else. Old habits die hard.
jjraines on October 15, 2009 at 1:04 AM
You guys do realize these things are published here not because they are endorsed, but just the opposite? Isn’t that obvious???
jjraines on October 15, 2009 at 1:06 AM
It has happened before. I often wonder how conservatives in the 30s got through the era. FDR, Hitler, Mussolini, Stalin, etc. The west was abandoning its traditions and values for the “hope and change” of national and international socialism.
18-1 on October 15, 2009 at 1:06 AM
This is the kind of “thinker” Mike Freeman is:
On October 2, 2009, he referred in a post to
Apparently he forgot that on April 16, 2007, the treasonous goof wrote an article called “Windy City Olympics? Chicago, take a pass.”
Ronnie on October 15, 2009 at 1:12 AM
Thank you HornetSting for putting my thoughts down coherently. Also note that percentage wise more black babies are killed by abortion than any other race. So all the libtards who support abortion, including Obooma are the real threat to blacks, not El Rushbo.
jarhead0311 on October 15, 2009 at 1:24 AM
It’s the same mindset that had Olbermann calling Michelle Malkin a “sack of meat”. These people are sick in the head and blinded by their own hatred.
BakerAllie on October 15, 2009 at 1:49 AM
Rush criticized the media for promoting a mediocre black quarterback and pretending that he had Super Bowl winning qualities, and was not specifically lambasting the quarterback himself… although it turns out that choke-at-the-crucial-moment McNabb has proved the media wrong and Rush right.
Nothing racist in Rush’s comment because he was merely noting the supra-racist affirmative-actioneering of the press for hyping an unimpresive sports figure.
By similarly noting the media’s promotion of an unqualified political tyro into the presidency, Limbaugh has earned their renewed ire and concerted, slanderous, and even assasination-chic (in Chris Matthews’ case) attacks.
Obama’s stumbling and ineffectual administration is proving Rush right, once again, and showing the pandering, shuckin”n jivin’ mainstream media to be a fraud, but on a far worse, more nationally-dangerous scale.
By pushing a neophyte into a position of power far beyond his capacities.
They must try to destroy the one who embarasses them and daily exposes their squalid pretenses to moral superiority … when it is only a disguised form of condescension to blacks for failing to treat them as equals through this seamy sort of “social promotion” instead of judging them on the honest merit of real achievements.
profitsbeard on October 15, 2009 at 2:01 AM
Let’s stop calling the Left liberals. It should be obvious by now that the Left is Communist. We conservative should highjack Liberal and clean it up. Pure and simple, there’s nothing good about Communism. It’s all a feel-good illusion. Like a drug that makes you “happy” in your decay.
TwilightStruggler on October 15, 2009 at 2:08 AM
What can we do against such reckless hate?
scotash on October 15, 2009 at 2:25 AM
Treat it like a boil. Bring it all to the surface – for all to see the pus.
OldEnglish on October 15, 2009 at 3:10 AM
Health care for everyone — except Rush, of course!
Or something.
hillbillyjim on October 15, 2009 at 3:19 AM
I would rather have Rush comment on me than Micheal Vick walk my dog
will sass u on October 15, 2009 at 3:42 AM
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will sass u on October 15, 2009 at 3:44 AM
Mary ate a little lamb and punk rock isn’t dead!
CPL 310 on October 15, 2009 at 4:48 AM
So much has been lost with political correctness and name calling substituting for truth. If Rush had said nothing but but praise leftist political views and exactly what he has said about blacks the left would love him, embrace hime, and call him the first black lovable little fuzzball.
Hypocricy is just too kind of a word to those who fear truth and choose personal attack to avoid it!
Don L on October 15, 2009 at 5:15 AM
Quote from Charles Johnson at LGF:
lolz, Chuck! Just like you banned Kilgore Trout for what he did here at HotAir?
But you answer your own question, Chuck, with this comment about Limbaugh making racist remarks:
The moderators here, like you, are just waiting for the questions about you to be proven false before they delete them.
Charles Johnson, the Psychedelic Daffodil. What should we call you; Psycho or Daffy?
jaime on October 15, 2009 at 6:01 AM
Rush should offer to buy MSNBC.
Coronagold on October 15, 2009 at 6:17 AM
If the media did its job and fact checked these claims, they would get more credibility and dare I say revenue. Oh well.
rob verdi on October 15, 2009 at 6:21 AM
This is not just about Rush. This is the first volley in the 2010 election. It’s going to be really, really ugly folks.
Buy Danish on October 15, 2009 at 6:36 AM
I was the one who made the post on LGF that which you posted CJs reply to me, and that he ended the thread with on LGF.
I was trying to point out to him, that it was not very consistent of him, to be trying to tell people not to rush to judgement over Van Jones’s admitted 9/11 twoofer petition he signed, all the while putting up alleged Limbaugh quotes that had absolutely zero proof or evidence of them.
I had ended that post with asking him if he would retract, at least about those heinous alleged quotes, if they were proven to be lies. And that was when he was no, he would not. “There will be no retraction. The quote is disputed, but it has not been proven false. ”
Its too bad he then locked the thread, because I was going to point out to him next that he was venturing right into the “Fake but Accurate” meme of the left that he had criticized so much before. And since they had not been proven false, he then thought it was just fine.
He really lost a lot of credibility and respect with me over that utter inconsistency of his.
firepilot on October 15, 2009 at 6:40 AM
NFL has to be abandoned. This is not staying out of politics for them.
the_nile on October 15, 2009 at 6:44 AM
I know, I know! How about we pretend that Obama said “white greed”… oh, wait. He actually did say that. Hmmmm, maybe pretend that Michelle Obama said “for the first time in my life, I’m proud of my country”… shoot, she actually said that one, too. You know, we just can’t make this stuff up.
-Aslan’s Girl
Aslans Girl on October 15, 2009 at 6:45 AM
The false accusations, if truly false, are troubling. But to say that Rush hasn’t said anything that could be extrapolated beyond its meaning about race is foolish. The McNabb comment is a good example, he attacked the media for playing race favorites, of course he knew it would create a controversy even though his real target was sports writers, it did and it has endured even to this very moment. He should have known if given the opportunity they would strike back, even if it meant they would use made up quotes.
Now Rush needs to get to work and be proactive in the movement.
God has a way of humbling the rich and bloated (not referring to his weight). Rush has been humbled.
Let’s pray he learns from this.
The good thing about this is that sports writers have exposed themselves, it too will come back to haunt them.
True_King on October 15, 2009 at 6:50 AM
To quote Jeaneane Garafalo (and I don’t give a damn how the bitch spells her name):
“This is racism, straight up”….
What the NFL is saying (along with it’s race-pimping mouth-pieces in sports news and the rest of the media) is that because it’s a “black dominated sport” that there shouldn’t be any white owners.
It isn’t about what Rush supposedly said (but really didn’t say). It’s about white people owning teams in a “black dominated sport”.
The NFL is also saying that they are fine with white owners, so long as they “hush up” and keep their political opinions to themselves.
I’m sorry but – WHO’s the racist here?
Talismen on October 15, 2009 at 6:54 AM
This is absolutely true. No doubt about it.
The sad thing is that Rush could have been a liar, a thief, a child molester, and God knows what else and if he had just said nice things about Obama, he could have anything he wanted.
Terrye on October 15, 2009 at 6:55 AM
Actually Obama is half WHITE. Why do people call him hlaf black?
MikeA on October 15, 2009 at 7:02 AM
hlaf = half
need coffee
MikeA on October 15, 2009 at 7:03 AM
This is the same imbecile who will blame Obama’s failures on Bush. Blacks calling everyone they don’t agree with “racists” is really causing me to examine their hypocrisy and intellectual dishonesty more. I’m not liking what I’m seeing. Sorry if this offends anyone, but that’s the way it is for me.
marklmail on October 15, 2009 at 7:46 AM
To Mongo Mere Pawn re post on October 14, 2009 at 11:48 PM:
Actual malice is a tough standard, but it is not impossible. Actual malice is a bit of a misnomer because what it means is knowledge of falsity or reckless disregard of the truth. In the case of fabricated quotations, there may be a case of actual malice to be made.
You can also sue for declaratory relief. A declaration that the fabricated quotations were libelous is something to consider.
Phil Byler on October 15, 2009 at 7:53 AM
SERIOUS QUESTION:
Why does the Right even ACCEPT THE PREMISE that any of these intellectually dishonest, double talking Liberal scum have a right to say anything about anyone?
Reject the premise.
Ignore the ignorant.
seejanemom on October 15, 2009 at 7:57 AM
You NAILED IT.
His tireless water carrying for the LESS THAN INTELLECTUALLY HONEST BOOBS on “our” side is downright embarassing.
seejanemom on October 15, 2009 at 8:05 AM
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