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Is it possible to hate every person involved in a given story? Well this past week, Jesse Jackson wrote an angry letter about Dan Gilbert, who wrote an angry letter about LeBron James, just days after James delivered a nationally televised monologue about his heart being in Cleveland, while leaving for Miami.
So, yeah: it's definitely possible to hate everyone in a given story.
And it's that sort of confusing, comprehensive contempt—where we spin in circles, spewing hate at the dizzy enemies that emerge from all sides—that reminds me of Rush Limbaugh's entire career. Who's his bogeyman now?
The recently-deceased George Steinbrenner, of course. Or black millionaires. Or white guys that deserve to get fired? This quote makes me dizzy:
"That cracker made a lot of African Americans millionaires. And at the same time he fired a bunch of white guys."
There's Rush talking about Steinbrenner, just hours after the 80 year-old Yankees owner had suffered a massive heart attack and died. Isn't that awesome? ... No, that's not very awesome.
And I think he was trying to compliment Steinbrenner? It's unclear. As SB Nation New York points out, it's baffling that millions tune in on a daily basis to listen to this buffoon.
But hey! Bet you didn't think it was possible to be racially condescending, to two separate races, in the same sentence, while eulogizing someone. That sort of feat calls for a victory cigar!
(Photo via Getty Images ... God that guy sucks)
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I bow to Rush Limbaugh.
He just earned his Lifetime Achievement in Trolling award. That was such an epic failure that it transcended its own awfulness to become an epic win. If you view Rush Limbaugh in that light, he’s a remarkable, if disgusting, man. He’s the Egashira 2:50 of American talk radio. Speaking of Egashira 2:50, according to Wikipedia, he allegedly swallowed 5 tablets of Viagra along with hard liquor, and later was rushed to the hospital in an ambulance.
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by DancesWithTrojans on Jul 14, 2010 2:38 PM EDT reply actions 1 recs
Just read the transcript...
If you can find a single bit of disrespect to George Steinbrenner, please post it. Yes, Steinbrenner made everyone around him money. Yes, Steinbrenner fired white guys (Billy Martin? Multiple times?). There was not a hint of disdain for the African-American culture in any of Limbaugh’s comments, and there’s no problem with pointing out.
Limbaugh used a technique here and cleverly pointed out the absurdities in the left’s treatment of Steinbrenner. While living, Steinbrenner was lambasted for, in particular, his contributions to Nixon. In a segway that connected the story about Malik Zulu Shabazz attacking “white c****ers” and saying that blacks would only be free if the white people were dead, Limbaugh points out what Steinbrenner accomplished for African-Americans.
Good job taking comments out of context and not giving the back story leading in to Steinbrenner’s eulogy. When read without understanding the Malik Shabazz comments made earlier, I do understand how they could be taken as tactless and insulting. When reading them in context, it’s a brilliant slap in the face of the DOJ (Department of Justice) for not going after the New Black Panther party while praising the life of a “fellow capitalist.”
I’m not going to defend Limbaugh on many points, but you really have to stretch the truth to pick on him for this story.
by squinky86 on Jul 14, 2010 3:42 PM EDT reply actions 1 recs
Bingo
by Bradsbeard on Jul 14, 2010 4:00 PM EDT up reply actions
Huh?
Here’s the transcript from Rush’s website:
What’s taken out of context?
Even if there was an earlier segment where somebody was using the word cracker, Limbaugh is still talking about a guy who’d died like six hours earlier, repeatedly calling him a cracker. That’s not really appropriate, and that’s to say nothing of his paternalistic attitude toward “African-American millionaires.” (For instance: did Steinbrenner make Reggie Jackson a millionaire baseball player, or did Reggie Jackson work hard and make himself a millionaire baseball player?)
In any context, Limbaugh’s a joke. This is just another example.
by Andrew Sharp on Jul 14, 2010 4:04 PM EDT up reply actions
What does Reggie Jackson have to do with this? I’m not here to make non-sequitur arguments. And I can’t believe that you don’t see that you took this WAY out of context.
I was just pointing out: Shabazz said that all “crackers” should die for black people to be free. Rush points out that this “cracker” helped many black people become millionaires. Limbaugh, when listened to in context, satirically pointed out the racism of Shabazz, bigotry of the DOJ, and all the while praising the life of Steinbrenner. I’m just asking you to keep his comments in context. How can you seriously say that it’s unclear that he was trying to compliment Steinbrenner? That he is a “buffoon” for this comment? This whole piece that he did was brilliant if put into context. Go pick on Limbaugh for other reasons (I really don’t care) – this is not one of them, and not the type of pitiful reporting and research I expect from an sbnation editor. It seems that you wanted a reason to insult Rush Limbaugh because of your bias against him, and finally found a slanted way to do it and tie it into sports. Maybe this slanted, factually incorrect story will do well with some of your readers and is what you’re looking for, but you’ve lost at least one reader. I come to sbnation to read news. I understand that I’ll get a lot of opinion, too, but this is just unacceptable journalism.
Please stick to sports.
by squinky86 on Jul 14, 2010 4:48 PM EDT up reply actions
well put squinky86
yes, they should stick with sports and let the adults get in to serious stuff instead of bashing Limbaugh. Limbaugh is probably laughing at the hoopla about this, he just baited you guys and you fell for his trap, again.
by akaMunch on Jul 14, 2010 11:15 PM EDT up reply actions
It would be easier...
If Rush Limbaugh didn’t sound like an advertisement for a white supremacist website. But if he is to be judged as a troll, he is an epic one. The frightening thing is that so many people make the mistake of taking what he says seriously and living their pathetic, empty lives based on it.
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by DancesWithTrojans on Jul 15, 2010 6:12 PM EDT up reply actions
The full transcript actually makes it sound worse.
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by Jason Brewer on Jul 14, 2010 6:03 PM EDT up reply actions
If there was no disdain...
If there was “no disdain for the African-American culture” than that was a first for Rush.
He’s spent his whole career saying anything he could to make us blacks look bad, so he should just keep his drug-addled mouth shut about anything racial.
by Dick Woodcock on Jul 14, 2010 4:05 PM EDT reply actions 1 recs
I take offense to that.
He’s also spent his whole career making white people and himself look bad. If you’re going to make comments like that, at least be complete. :)
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by DancesWithTrojans on Jul 14, 2010 5:15 PM EDT up reply actions 1 recs
You people are F***ing ridiculous
He was PRAISING Steinbrenner as a Capitalist. He was using intellectual sarcasm when he reffered to him as a “cracker”. He doesn’t speak for those that don’t understand, and to be honest the man needs no defending. He’s made his, and he doesn’t need to try to pander to you idiots. That includes the author of this post. A politically one sided post on what is supposed to be a sports blog network? For shame, sir. I hope I never see another post of this type, I can’t stand to read this sort of horse sh*t on a sports blog. Keep it to yourself.
by TAMPAHAWK on Jul 14, 2010 7:58 PM EDT reply actions 1 recs
Says one of his Dittohead sheeple.
I used to be a Dittohead. Then again, I was a teenager and dumb. I’m older and wiser now, and I have little use for a pill-popping dope fiend hypocrite like Rush Limbaugh.
I'm sure I'd be a great mod for Rocky Top Talk, if I were a hypocrite, an idiot, and a pathetic waste of oxygen. Since I have been cursed with the character Joel and the other mods there lack, such is not my fate.
by DancesWithTrojans on Jul 14, 2010 8:22 PM EDT up reply actions 1 recs
Are you serious?
That’s all you have to say?
by TAMPAHAWK on Jul 15, 2010 12:13 PM EDT up reply actions
He’s a troll – please ignore. He just got banned from Rocky Top Talk and Roll Bama Roll.
by squinky86 on Jul 15, 2010 12:57 PM EDT up reply actions
While that may be true...
I’m not even half the troll Joel at RTT is. Letting danmarcel import drama from Conquest Chronicles and then doing nothing about it other than ban the one who raised the concern? Granted, I was a jerk about it, but all Joel had to do was remove one troll post, and this flame war would have been averted. Still, there’s one thing you should remember, squinky: you can’t spell “felony assault” without UT.
As for Rush Limbaugh, I can’t imagine why people would think someone responsible for these quotes is a David Duke sheet-wearing racist. I swear, when I listen to Rush Limbaugh, I don’t know whether I’m listening to talk radio or if someone is just reading verbatim from Stormfront. I understand precisely who Rush Limbaugh is and exactly what he means when he says it. It is for that reason I started to detest him back when I was still a conservative. He’s the LaRouche of the right, except unlike LaRouche, he’s mainstream, which horrifies me on a number of levels.
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by DancesWithTrojans on Jul 15, 2010 6:03 PM EDT up reply actions
http://www.snopes.com/politics/quotes/limbaugh.asp
by squinky86 on Jul 16, 2010 8:27 AM EDT up reply actions
Ah
Noted
by TAMPAHAWK on Jul 15, 2010 4:18 PM EDT reply actions
And you're still one of Limbaugh's Dittohead sheeple.
Try thinking for yourself for once. It may hurt the first couple of times, but eventually, you’ll start to like it. I promise.
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by DancesWithTrojans on Jul 15, 2010 6:14 PM EDT up reply actions
Some more venom against George
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by Jim McLennan on Jul 15, 2010 8:17 PM EDT reply actions
RUSH IS ALREADY HALF DEAD SO ANYTHING HE SAY ‘S DON’T ME CAT SHIT
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by 28years a laker fan on Jul 16, 2010 3:53 AM EDT reply actions
I MENT MEAN
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by 28years a laker fan on Jul 16, 2010 3:54 AM EDT up reply actions
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