More Rush Limbaugh racism

Posted on 12/10/2004 at 2:19 pm by Bob Cesca

The word “hypocrite” fails to fully encompass an adequate description for a thrice-divorced drug addict who continues to indict everyone else on equal or lesser charges every day in 250 radio markets nationwide. However, the word “racist” encapsulates a more reprehensible aspect of Rush Limbaugh. From Wednesday’s broadcast (courtesy of Media Matters):

LIMBAUGH: You just gotta be who you are, and I think it’s time to get rid of this whole National Basketball Association. Call it the TBA, the Thug Basketball Association, and stop calling them teams. Call ‘em gangs. You have the Laker Gang, you have the Heat Gang, you have a Timberwolf Gang [distortions of official team names], and let ‘em strap up out there, and let ‘em market their CDs. Instead of selling concessions, sell CDs out there at the concession stand.

All the players get involved in this, and if a fight breaks out, hey, it’s what happens! It’s what happens with gangs, and if a cop gets bloodied, you know, that’s a bonus for the gang member that pulls that off, and let the fans, you know, go in knowingly. They’re going in to watch the Crips and the Bloods out there wherever the neighborhood is where the arena happens to be, and be who you are.

The only thing scarier than El Hemorrhoid’s penchant for defaming African American athletes, is the legion of dittoheads who will be repeating the same invectives over dinner tonight. To their kids.

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  • dtgriffith

    Rush is absolutely despicable. What I don’t get is why he is broadcasted daily on Armed Forces Radio with the slanderous bullshit he spews. Just the nonsense about the Iraqi people alone can and probably has infuriated any Iraqis – the ones we’re supposed to be protecting and allied with – who happened to catch a broadcast. I wonder if Rev. Al will be getting on Rush’s back for this.

  • Lactar

    Well, much as Rush is a bastard, I don’t see how anything you qouted is racist. Rush is vulnerable everywhere, but why attack him by defending spoiled, wealthy, professional athletes. I remember when liberals quoted these people as what was wrong with society (Teachers make 30k a year but Sprewell is filthy rich and can even attack his coach and keep his job). Rush is bad, but he kinda has a point about these assholes in pro-sports. Hockey is even worse. What does it say to a generation of kids growing up when their heros, who make an assload of money, act in ways that would get 99.999 percent of the population arrested. Don’t defend these asshats, and please dont imply that dismay at their antics is tanamount to racism.

  • http://www.realitybasednation.com Bob Cesca

    Rush completely failed to mention the white guys who instigated the brawl. His statement was simply: the *black men* who play the game are akin to cop-killing gang members because of the color of their skin. That’s why his comments were racist. When was the last time you heard Rush comparing fracas-prone hockey players to gang members? Besides, Rush has a history of this sort of thing. Ask Donovan McNabb. And finally, I’m not praising what the players did — in fact, I’m tired of hearing about it (see my article “Enough, already!”)

  • Lactar

    I dont listen to Rush, so I hadnt heard the program, I just read your quotes, and nowhere did it say anything about black men. In fact, I did a “find in this window” and the word black first appears in your reply to my comments. In fact, I saw no reference whatsoever to anybodys color. God forbid anybody say anything negative about anybody who happens to be black, or they are a racist.

  • http://www.moserbrothers.com Joel Moser

    Rush may not have used the word “black”, but the black stereotypes were a flyin’. Thugs? Market their CDs? Crips and Bloods? I mean, come on! Why didn’t he just suggest they sell fried chicken at the concessions stands? It’s very embarassing in a David Brent way to read Rush’s comments.Bear in mind that this is the man who has equated the NBA in no uncertain terms to hip-hop culture:”This [the NBA] is the hip-hop culture on parade. This is gang behavior on parade minus the guns.”Not only is Rush in fact refering to blacks in his comments, he also displays a (I’ll be kind) misunderstanding of hip-hop culture in general, saying that hip-hop equals gang behavior.Rush is seeing a bunch of black players acting badly, and the closest analogy that comes to him is black gangs – plain and simple. Label it what you want.