Exactly How Racist Does a Republican Racist Have to be, Before Other Republicans Stop Defending These Racists?
Rush Limbaugh's racist rantings are so frequent an occurrence that it no longer shocks me, to hear, read, or learn about the latest hate spew from him. The most recent example of this is his remarks about having to bend over and grab the ankles just because Obama's father was black.
Now one of the first things that came to mind when I heard that was:
"Didn't the fat bad man loose his short-lived football commentator gig, for saying something as hateful and racist about a certain black quarterback?"
Moving ahead and to today's point, we go back to yesterday's MSNBC broadcast, featuring Nora O'Donnell interviewing Mike Pence, current Chairman of the House Republican Conference. Ms. O'Donnell brought up the Rush comment and quoted it, but did not at all even allude to the racist tone, flavor, or context. She just pushed Pence on the whole why can't he, "Denounce something like that. Are you so beholden to someone like Rush Limbaugh," part.
Pence didn't take the question head on, nor did he take it on obliquely. He did not do the usual sidestep/straw man argument. What he did do was what lawyers call the anticipatory defense; he when off about how there is not a racist bone in Limbaugh's body.
WTF?
Isn't this the same Rush Limbaugh who called the Latino Mayor of L.A. a “Shoe Shine Boy?" Isn't this the same Rush who is patron of that racist and untalented "Magic Negro," parody man, Shanklin? (Hell, I am on a roll here. Let's do a proper roll call.) Isn't this the same Rush who has said:
1. I mean, let’s face it, we didn’t have slavery in this country for over 100 years because it was a bad thing. Quite the opposite: slavery built the South. I’m not saying we should bring it back; I’m just saying it had its merits. For one thing, the streets were safer after dark.
2. You know who deserves a posthumous Medal of Honor? James Earl Ray [the confessed assassin of Martin Luther King]. We miss you, James. Godspeed.
3. Have you ever noticed how all composite pictures of wanted criminals resemble Jesse Jackson?
4. Right. So you go into Darfur and you go into South Africa, you get rid of the white government there. You put sanctions on them. You stand behind Nelson Mandela — who was bankrolled by communists for a time, had the support of certain communist leaders. You go to Ethiopia. You do the same thing.
5. Look, let me put it to you this way: the NFL all too often looks like a game between the Bloods and the Crips without any weapons. There, I said it.
6. The NAACP should have riot rehearsal. They should get a liquor store and practice robberies.
7. They’re 12 percent of the population. Who the hell cares?
8. Take that bone out of your nose and call me back(to an African American female caller).
9. I think the media has been very desirous that a black quarterback do well. They’re interested in black coaches and black quarterbacks doing well. I think there’s a little hope invested in McNabb and he got a lot of credit for the performance of his team that he really didn’t deserve.
10. Has called Obama a ‘halfrican American’ has said that Obama was not black but Arab because Kenya is an Arab region, even though Arabs are less than one percent of Kenya.
(thanks to the following, for this top 1o list of Limbaugh Racist Quotes.)
http://newsone.blackplanet.com/obama/top-10-racist-limbaugh-quotes/
But let's move back away from Limbaugh's actual record, and get back to what Mike Pence and why he said it, likely? Ok. That rhetorical question takes us right back to the Top 10 List, and what ever else is out there in the record. And that begs the question as I put it up there in the title line, and I repeat:
Exactly How Racist Does a Republican Racist Have to be, Before Other Republicans Stop Defending These Racists?
Now one of the first things that came to mind when I heard that was:
"Didn't the fat bad man loose his short-lived football commentator gig, for saying something as hateful and racist about a certain black quarterback?"
Moving ahead and to today's point, we go back to yesterday's MSNBC broadcast, featuring Nora O'Donnell interviewing Mike Pence, current Chairman of the House Republican Conference. Ms. O'Donnell brought up the Rush comment and quoted it, but did not at all even allude to the racist tone, flavor, or context. She just pushed Pence on the whole why can't he, "Denounce something like that. Are you so beholden to someone like Rush Limbaugh," part.
Pence didn't take the question head on, nor did he take it on obliquely. He did not do the usual sidestep/straw man argument. What he did do was what lawyers call the anticipatory defense; he when off about how there is not a racist bone in Limbaugh's body.
WTF?
Isn't this the same Rush Limbaugh who called the Latino Mayor of L.A. a “Shoe Shine Boy?" Isn't this the same Rush who is patron of that racist and untalented "Magic Negro," parody man, Shanklin? (Hell, I am on a roll here. Let's do a proper roll call.) Isn't this the same Rush who has said:
1. I mean, let’s face it, we didn’t have slavery in this country for over 100 years because it was a bad thing. Quite the opposite: slavery built the South. I’m not saying we should bring it back; I’m just saying it had its merits. For one thing, the streets were safer after dark.
2. You know who deserves a posthumous Medal of Honor? James Earl Ray [the confessed assassin of Martin Luther King]. We miss you, James. Godspeed.
3. Have you ever noticed how all composite pictures of wanted criminals resemble Jesse Jackson?
4. Right. So you go into Darfur and you go into South Africa, you get rid of the white government there. You put sanctions on them. You stand behind Nelson Mandela — who was bankrolled by communists for a time, had the support of certain communist leaders. You go to Ethiopia. You do the same thing.
5. Look, let me put it to you this way: the NFL all too often looks like a game between the Bloods and the Crips without any weapons. There, I said it.
6. The NAACP should have riot rehearsal. They should get a liquor store and practice robberies.
7. They’re 12 percent of the population. Who the hell cares?
8. Take that bone out of your nose and call me back(to an African American female caller).
9. I think the media has been very desirous that a black quarterback do well. They’re interested in black coaches and black quarterbacks doing well. I think there’s a little hope invested in McNabb and he got a lot of credit for the performance of his team that he really didn’t deserve.
10. Has called Obama a ‘halfrican American’ has said that Obama was not black but Arab because Kenya is an Arab region, even though Arabs are less than one percent of Kenya.
(thanks to the following, for this top 1o list of Limbaugh Racist Quotes.)
http://newsone.blackplanet.com/obama/top-10-racist-limbaugh-quotes/
But let's move back away from Limbaugh's actual record, and get back to what Mike Pence and why he said it, likely? Ok. That rhetorical question takes us right back to the Top 10 List, and what ever else is out there in the record. And that begs the question as I put it up there in the title line, and I repeat:
Exactly How Racist Does a Republican Racist Have to be, Before Other Republicans Stop Defending These Racists?
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