[Rush Limbaugh and a caller discuss a video of black students beating up a white student on a schoolbus.]
RUSH: Worse than the obvious verbal taunts, we all know the racism that was in the kid's mind. I mean Newsweek magazine says he was born a racist. So you know the white kid is sitting there thinking N-word and all kinds of things being surrounded by these black students. They knew that. They knew that and so they just descended on the kid and beat him up. We've seen the videotape. What did the police chief investigate?
CALLER: He did not comment on anything other than he said more investigations shows that it was not racially motivated.
RUSH: I think the guy is wrong I think not only was it racism, it's justifiable racism.
CALLER: True.
RUSH: I mean, that's the lesson that we're being taught here today. Kid shouldn't have been on the bus anyway.
CALLER: Right.
RUSH: We need segregated buses. It was invading of space and so forth. This is Obama's America.
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The fuck.
You want us to go back to the sixties?
Oh, right, this is Rush Limbaugh.
In all fairness, I don't think he was being serious here. Doesn't mean he's not a total douchebag, though.
But then again, you never know with Rush. Even if he's joking, he probably really does believe it.
Really.
Rush, you somehow got even worse ever since your Lord's Resistance Army stunt. Justifiable racism?!? You should go to Chicago and take a bus. Full of black people. But SO FUCKING WHAT?
I still believe what those kids did was wrong, but that is no excuse for your racial bull.
BTW, the caller's one word responses made it seem like the caller was uncomfortable, rather than agreeing with Rush. I could be wrong, but just "True" and "Right" seem to be a bit... empty.
Rush, you are so full of bullshit I'm afraid that the buoyant methane gas will build up in that gasbag you call a head and cause you to float away into the clouds, never to be seen again.
Segregation? Really? Fuck off. FUCK. OFF. And blaming it on Obama! The hell? Kids beat up another kid and it's OBAMA'S FAULT. Do you even listen to yourself!?
What if a bunch of skinhead assholes beat up a black kid, not an uncommon occurrence? Would THAT also be Obama's fault? Or would it not even be mentioned on that shithole you call a show?
Keep digging, Rush. Just keep digging.
P.S. Percy Q. Shunn, god DAMMIT, what's with all the shemales? What the hell is wrong with you? First you boiled everyone's retinas with that naked, bare-boob mustachioed woman(?) on the last Savagesuzie quote, now this! Take it off!
@Meatwad52
That's not how I read this quote. How I read it was that Rush, while not realistically calling for segregation, is telling his (face it, mostly white ) audience that in "Obama's America" racism against white people is the norm. Anti-white racism is viewed as justified because the "Mainstream Media", anti-racist activists and the Obama Administration are all expressing the idea that all white people are racist and, therefore, acceptable targets. In "Obama's America" white people are no longer safe and, as such, he jokingly made a passing reference to the possible necessity of segregation. Now, considering the ethicity and collective IQ of his listening audience they're going to hear this as, "Obama's in the White House and now black people have a green light to attack us! We'd better do something!" He may not have been serious in suggesting segregation, but it's a contemptable piece of race-baiting nonetheless, you retard*.
*Not that I actually think you're "retarded" in any sense of the phrase but if you dish it out, well, you know...
Missing socks...OBAMA'S FAULT!
Soggy Cornflakes...OBAMA'S FAULT!
I swear, if these weirdos got ingrown toenails, bad gas or a charley-horse, they'd blame it on Obama!
And what in heaven's name is it with Percy Q Shun's penchant for posting odd & squicky pictures? Fat guys in diapers, fat guys in drag, deformed people, etc. Either Percy's just got a weird posting style or he/she is a troll.
@Meishayuri:
Rush seems to be sucking down oxycontin again, so much for the power of Jesus healing addictions.
I went to the same rehab -Sierra Tucson - that Rush did, and I can tell you he's not following the program.
@Spukikitty
I know! It's awful! I still haven't mustered up the courage to see if that holy terror he posted on the last Savagesuzie quote has been taken down!
Good God... It was completely naked, but I still couldn't tell if it was male or female... Just a great, bloated blob of androgynous horror! MY EYEEEEES!!...
I gotta chime in here on our friend Percy. I've noticed that he seems to post pics that ridicule. Like the slob he posted above; to me, he's mocking rush limbaugh, & not trying to shock anyone here. Then again, maybe I'm wrong.
"Justifiable racism."
Just in case anyone was starting to think that Limbaugh might not be the rotund scum of the earth that everyone has previously suspected him to be, well, I think he's finally laid those fears to rest.
Permanently.
It's easy to read this out of context but important that we don't. Limbaugh is not actually advocating segregated buses in this country or that justifiable racism was involved. He is playing Devil's Advocate to set up a straw man, insinuating that this is what blacks and liberals believe without actually directly accusing them of such. That's his M.O. -- he implies things without actually saying them so he can't easily be called out on them. There is a racism at play in the quote but it's not in the actual words being said.
Limbaugh's racism is subtle. Smart, effective racists don't generally talk publicly about racial superiority much until they are in power. They instead focus on fomenting racial victimization among their own people. This is a common tactic. Hitler didn't just start speaking at podiums telling Germans that Jews were subhuman scum. In the beginning, Hitler's message was that the German people were victims of the Jews, who wielded considerable influence in Germany and who he accused of betraying the country during World War I by bringing in the British with the Balfour Declaration of 1917. He told them that Germany's economic woes were a result of a Jewish Communist plot to keep the German people in shameful conditions.
Racial superiority, separatism, and hatred are later stages of racism -- the first stages are resentment. That is what Limbaugh is playing to here.
@CohibaMan
"Limbaugh is not actually advocating segregated buses in this country or that justifiable racism was involved. He is playing Devil's Advocate to set up a straw man, insinuating that this is what blacks and liberals believe without actually directly accusing them of such. That's his M.O. -- he implies things without actually saying them so he can't easily be called out on them. There is a racism at play in the quote but it's not in the actual words being said."
So? Why should this matter? It changes nothing. He is still a hateful racist old asshat.
@whatever
I didn't say he isn't. My point was that it's important to be accurate when accusing someone of something because then, when that person's defenders come along to jump on you for taking quotes out of context, you can hit back with actual facts.
The quote is racist, but not because he was calling for segregation or saying that racism was justified (he wasn't) -- instead, it was because he was purposefully stoking the fires of racial resentment.
Confused?
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