Maddow deconstructs Limbaugh: 'There is a black man in the White House! Be very afraid!'
Rachel Maddow last night pondered the deep wisdom of Rush Limbaugh as the Ruling Demigod of the GOP -- particularly his latest ugly meme:
The objective is unemployment. The objective is more food stamp benefits. The objective is more unemployment benefits. The objective is an expanding welfare state. And the objective is to take the nation's wealth and return it to the nation's 'rightful owners.' Think reparation. Think forced reparations here if you want to understand what is actually going on.
Limbaugh has in fact pitched this line frequently already, minus the "reparations" line:
So I think we've got a guy -- I think the best way to understand Obama -- and I can't say this enough -- he really believes it his job to return the nation's wealth to its rightful -- quote unquote, rightful owners. And that means he believes the people who have wealth have stolen it, from those who have no wealth. It's been unfair achieved and accrued. And it's his job to take it and redistribute it. And that's what he means by sacrifice. When he talks about sacrifice, he's talking about raising your taxes, taking your assets, and giving them to other people who he thinks you stole them from, who are thus more deserving.
Maddow quotes the response from Melissa Harris-Lacewell, a poli-sci professor from Princeton:
The terms "welfare," "food stamps," and "reparations" are all code words for "undeserving black people." ... Limbaugh is attempting to use the politics of racial fear to appeal to the lowest common denominator of racial anxiety in this country. ... Clearly, Rush is not saying anything that even vaguely, substantively true. He is simply screaming, "There is a black man in the White House! Be very afraid!"
That sums up so many Limbaugh rants that we ought to just encase it in amber and trot it out every time the man speaks.
Pursuant to my post about Garofalo. The evidence of racism here is unmistakable. Rush is making wildly unfounded claims about Obama giving money to blacks for reparations and about sending the economy into a tailspin to accomplish his supposed objective. If someone makes wild accusations that are untrue in racial matters it is only logical to conclude that they are racist. Rush is caught cold. Garofalo was making unsubstatiated claims of racism against the teabaggers and, if she had a case, was strangely negligent about presenting one.
but it does appear that she was right.
Garofalo is on the right track, teabaggers are racists by association.
What's the next "teabagger event" going to be? Are they going to be joining forces with the skinheads and white supremacists? If all these racist bastards hate the president and get all whipped into a frenzy with this bullshit rhetoric from right wing nutjob talking heads, what is their agenda - to see him assassinated? This is the shit that keeps me worried more than usual. These people have taken the term sore loser to a whole new level.
teabagger ball on the 4th of July...but I haven't heard much lately...
I don't think the teabagger "movement" had any real momentum of it's own to begin with, despite the hype from faux noise.
And that lack of natural momentum showed up very clearly when their pathetic protest failed to get off the ground.
They had no central unifying theme that they could officially protest...the only thing that brought them together in the first place was a seething hatred for all things different than they.
the only thing that brought them together in the first place was a seething hatred for all things different than they.
and possibility that they might be seen on Faux News.
hopefully I will be seen on faux news one day too...
But not for no stoopit teabagger protest...
NAW...for donkey punchin BOR and hammity.
Only in your own mind. You still have no real evidence. Just because Limbaugh makes a racist statement over here does not me that people are being racist over there. Also, keep in mind that Garofalo was making a sweeping claim that racism was the basis for the teabagging. I doubt that. My experience is that Republicans are psychotic two-year olds about paying taxes and hate any kind of gumment intervention. That would account for their stupid temper tantrum without invoking racism being in any way necessary. Seems to me that they hated Bill Clinton just as psychotically and, if he isn't white, my observation skills are seriously lagging.
But in my experience, the majority of republicans I've known, and some I still know, are quite racist, and have no problem droppin the "N" bomb when referring to Obama, or any person of color.
They are indeed psychotic 2 year olds about paying taxes and govt. intervention, or about equality for for anyone that isn't white, xtian, and republican.
IMHO, the teabaggers used taxes and govt. intervention as cover for their racism. they simply cannot stand the fact that a black man is president.
When they were railing against Clinton, they basically called him a f*****. which means to me that they're homophobes as well as racists...
I recall being involved in quite a few barroom conversations about Bill Clinton and at least two times, some inbred, half-wit, future teabagger has called him a "n****r lover". But since Clinton is white I guess, according to your logic, that doesn't count as racism.
that that was a constant refrain here in our little Teabag City in Central California. The editorial writers for the local (Gannett) rag used to tie themselves in knots trying to come up with ways to infer it without actually saying it.
I don't think that 100% of Republicans are out and out racists in that they truly believe some of the crap their members spew, but I do think that those in control of the party have no qualms about playing on the hatred and fears of those that are and that they conduct themselves in a manner calculated to fan the flames of racism against our president.
Let me put this as succinctly as I can. We have plenty of well-documented reasons for making Republicans look like assholes without getting into the mind-reading business. And, to be blunt, liberals have gotten into trouble in the past by way overplaying the racism card and calling people racists who weren't. (People who were correctly skeptical of the Duke lacrosse rape accusations were among our more recent, splashier recipients of clearly wrong-headed vilification.) Also, when we play the race card we are, intentionally or not, playing one side against the other. Since the Republicans are trying to screw everyone who isn't rich and powerful I think we should emphasize our common peril.
And, don't forget, an overwhelming majority of Americans like President Obama, which means they are very likely to look at abusive, faux victims hyping him as some sort of totalitarian ogre with jaundiced eyes, racism or no. Why distract them when Republicans are doing such a fine job of pushing them into our corner?
there, Mr. Braintree.
But, I'm not on teevee, I'm not ever gonna be a pundit, politician or news person...so I don't have to play nice.
These teabaggers are fuckin card carryin racist assholes.
Calling Clinton a "n-person lover" does indeed count a racism. But if you've been in "quite a few" barroom conversations about BC and "at least two times" somebody calls him a "n-person lover" (and please, let us enjoy the luxury of spelling out the words since censoring ourselves just hands them far more power than they ought to have) does not prove that racism is the animating force for the majority. See, just because you're against prejudice doesn't mean that you yourself aren't prejudiced.
There's tons of proof that Republicans are screaming jerkweed and it's costing them big time with the general public. Where's the percentage in trying to prove not entirely clear accusations of racism when we have so much in-you-face GOP assholery to work with?
Wether ALL or MOST of the teabaggers are racist is of little issue. And frankly, it stinks of desperate damage control by the right wingers.
All of this concern posting stinks of an attempt to split hairs in order to take the wind out of the matter: yes there is a significant portion of the tea baggers who among other issues were driven by racism. It is not their only reason to flip out now that a Dem is in the white house, but there is no denying that racist undertones were prevalent among the gross debacle that were those tea parties.
Racism is really the motivating force behind tea bagging (remember, this was Garofalo's claim)? OK, prove it. What stinks to me are accusations sans proof and a willingness to stereotype people in the name of fighting bigotry. I'm not unwilling to disbelieve the accusation. I just want some assurance besides your own snide prejudice that you and the other accusers actually know what you're talking about.
If you object to that, you may be a left-winger but you're not my idea of a liberal.
in the same sense that I don't much care about your concern trolling, and lame red herring attempt at diffuse the gravity of the shithole these right wingers dug themselves into.
If you disagree with Garofalo's point, the burden is on YOU to disprove her. Go ahead and make an actual case that the teabaggers do not have among their ranks people who are among other things, bigoted and racist. Right now all you are doing is blame Garofalo of being off with her own estimation by... simply offering your own estimation to the opposite.
Were all the teabaggers racist? I don't know.... but what I know, it is that there were clear racist undertones among the crowd of these idiots. I mean, how many minorities did you see in those crowds? Did you see the same protest during the 8 years of Bush? No, you did not... instead you are trying to make the issue whether all the protesters or a majority of the protesters were racist. It is splitting hairs, and it does not change a single iota the gist of the problem... and the real racist undertones.
What you are doing is a lame attempt at damage control, by trying to portray liberals as the bigoted ones. So do you have specific figure on how many of those teabaggers were racist vs. how many were not?
I perceive that you are not exactly an ace critical thinker. If someone makes an apparantly questionable claim it is up to them to prove it's true, not for me to prove it isn't. Remember the bit about not being able to prove a negative? Critical thinking 101.
And I'm not at all clear what you mean by "damage control." Damage control for what? I'm not saying that liberals are bigots and conservatives aren't. I'm saying that liberals are often bigots too the way that anti-gay Christians can often be found in some of our nation's finest public restroom soliciting blow jobs. Because that's the way humans are.
Gee guy, get a grip.
that the burden of the proof lies, in this case, on your part.
If you disagree with Garofalo's assumptions or views, it is UP TO YOU to prove her wrong. Not the other way around... since you are the one disagreeing with her statements/views.
At this point, it seems that you disagree with the view that the teabagging debacles were in no way shape or form guided in part by some clear racist undertones. Fine, that is YOUR OPINION...
What you are doing is simply request a specific standard from other people, a standard which you are conveniently not applying to yourself.
So you were saying about critical thinking 101?
How can I disprove Garofalo's claims if she won't even tell us the basis for her reasoning?
of the tea baggers were not in any way shape or form racist individuals.
But that is a tad hard, ain't it? I mean... obnoxious, white conservative pricks do not fit the profile of tolerance, do they?
How do I prove a negative?
That is your problem, not mine.
the basis for the teabag brood does have underscores of racism. Now, many of the people that took up the cause believed what it was seemingly about (what was it about?), but they were rather too stupid to see what the big deal was.
"When are we going to stop trying to tell elected officials what to do. Our job is to spend the taxpayers' money the best way we can." -- Tommy Watkins, Justice of the Peace, Crawford County, Arkansas
You say "the basis for the teabag brood does have underscores of racism." Poof?
Calling people racist is an ugly accusation but necessary if it's true. However, if you want to convince people who aren't automatically in your corner, you're going to have to find some way to show them that you know what you're talking about. And saying that an entire movement is animated by racism (which, again, was Garofalo's claim), even though the participants have stated other reasons that are entirely consistent with past reasoning, would seem to be a tough point to make. And, even if you could find a few who are motivated by racism, that doesn't prove that the majority are motivated by racism. I mean, I've been mugged and robbed a few times by black people. That doesn't mean I can go around stereotyping them as criminals because most of them aren't.
This is called critcal thinking 101. Just because a bunch of people are assholes doesn't mean that every accusation you make about them is true.
Hmm. There are wealthy black people out there. Why weren't they protesting quote, "higher taxes."
To answer your question,maybe because, since Obama is the first black prsident ever, they're naturally loath to criticize him?
Of course that's just speculation. If you really want to know why black people aren't protesting Obama, why don't you ask Alan Keyes?
right?
I'm not saying it is true. I'm saying it might be true. I mean, it does kind of make sense, doens't it? Don't groups often cut their own kind more slack than they would people outside the group?
If you're not an alcoholic, may I suggest a nice, refreshing cocktail?
LOL.
So basically, if other people have conflicting opinions with your own... then they are automatically disqualified. You on the other part can pull whatever opinions and assumptions you want from your own derriere.
Concern trolls are funny that way....
I am perfectly willing to be convinced by a good argument. But if I ask someone for proof and all I get is strident abuse in return I am perfectly within my rights to dismiss said person as a flaming asshole, because that's exactly what they're presenting themselves as being.
How can I be convinced by an argument you yourself refuse to make? And exactly what have you said that should motivate me to respect your opinion.
your red herring. LOL.
Nice attempt at deviating the conversation. The issue is not wether or not I am an asshole, and if I am so... so what? That still does not affect the validity or lack of... of Garofalo's assumptions. Does it?
What you are doing is very simple: you disagree with Garofalo, and use your own opinion as if somehow it is so utterly authoritative that it diminishes the validity of Garofalo's assumptions. And then play the victim when other people point out that you are, in fact, engaging in the same tactic about which you are chastising other people.
What seems clear to me is that what is good for the goose, according to you, is not necessary for the gander. Which is... how do you say it? Ah, yes... mighty hypocritical.
Alas, I am getting a kick out of your feeble attempt to equate those calling out racist assholes... with said racist assholes. LOL.
Nicely done Mr. Durden.
Republicans are psychotic two-year olds
about paying taxes and hate any kind of gumment intervention.Brevity is your friend!
Of course Rush is a racist...there's a reason why he was fired from ESPN
... and also the fact that as a sportscaster Rush was pretty damned mediocre, if not downright awful. It seems that sans his perma-demonizing of everything liberal and his prepared talking points, Rush can't even manage to speak ad lib for more than five minutes without coming off as a total douche.
Same goes for his pal Dennis Miller, who was just plain awful as a commentator.
Probably the used Rush's racist crap as an excuse to jetison his contract, which I assume it was pretty iron clad otherwise.
Bigots aren't adult enough to be honest racists. Yeah Rush us black folks want to bring back slavery, you'd make a great field negro...probably would last three minutes in a cotton field.
Just chain his elephantine legs to a post in the cotton field, and the rivers of sweat would water the crops....oh wait....nevermind...all the drugs, fat, salts and pure hate that would exude from his sweat glands would likely kill any crop.
His... oh, well... I'm just going to leave any comment or joke about Rush excreting bodily fluids alone.
"When are we going to stop trying to tell elected officials what to do. Our job is to spend the taxpayers' money the best way we can." -- Tommy Watkins, Justice of the Peace, Crawford County, Arkansas
Let's not go there, lol!
...I mean, is this a surprise to anyone? Is this even news? This has been standard practice since his show began. Even more so, this is standard practice WHENEVER you talk to right leaning whites.
Keep talking Dimbulb. Everytime you open your mouth more people see you for what you are, a racist, drug addicted limpdick.
Unfortunately opinions regarded as noxious, odious, and toxic are not prosecutable offenses in this country and that's the exact reason Limbaugh is a multimillionaire.
Unfortunately? Yeah right Unfortunately we have freedom of speech here sometimes I can not beleive the comments here. Be careful what you wish for hate bill lover.
to shut up is about the only option other then waiting another 3000 years until they evolve enough to behave like civilized people.
Your grotesque, child raping, racist junkie hero can say whatever he wants...and so can we, dumbass.
When did I say otherwise? Did I try to hinder your rights in anyway? It was Evet that thought it unfortunate that Americans were using their right to free speech. Like to burn books too Evet? I just love the never ending stereotypes thrown at conservatives too. Must have come from the only book you did not burn 101 stereotypes and hateful insults. Is that on Amazon yet?
if you don't understand concepts like 'yellow journalism", "race baiting", slander, bigotry and racism (which are not 100% protected speech) then please don't waste our time with your bitching and moaning about YOUR right to speak being taken away.
The fact is...although a person may have the RIGHT to appear as a racist, clownish, boor...that doesn't mean he should.
"Anyone that makes less than $150K in this country, has no business voting Republican."
And speaking of stereotypes, listen carefully to that pig's dog whistles to hopefully frighten and race bait his paranoid followers. No one is trying to suppress this rotten fuck, and if some of the comments here are "unbelievable", you may want to pay attention to Rush and then you might understand the hate he produces.
I understand irresponsible journalism and am fully aware of bigotry and slander. It is just that when I hear that speaking out on what someone believes being "prosecutable offenses" I cringe and invision red square or the like because better men than me have died fighting to keep that from happening. Speaking of prosecutable offenses I just caught on the radio that Obama is blocking the release of the pictures. I guess he is wising up or maybe it is a case of dummying up.
It is just that when I hear that speaking out on what someone believes being "prosecutable offenses" I cringe and invision red square or the like because better men than me have died fighting to keep that from happening.
Better men than you died so that "prosecutable offenses" can be discussed and prosecuted, wether they personally make you cringe or not.
"Anyone that makes less than $150K in this country, has no business voting Republican."
and the rest of us have the freedom to call you a fucking shitwistle...
fair's fair, tight?
Sure man I don't really have a problem with that but why all the hate toward me? What is a shitwhistle anyway? When you react the way you did here it just makes you look bad not me. I could care less what you think of me and have I not been here long enough to quit being called a troll. I was not taking up for rush just for free speech.
Probably means farting around a 'roid...but who knows...
I DO know, however, that I will use that word in a sentence, TONIGHT!
So basically there is freedom of speech for Rush, but not for anyone who disagrees with him? The original poster did not in any way shape or form hinder Rush's freedom of speech, did he?
for freedom reasons and for reichwing-exposure reasons
letting rush talk is like letting the kkk march: it hurts the 'cause' they advocate.
misleading unthinking fools to follow a path which ultimately leads to a place where life is spent posing and pretending to be happy. Then when that doesn't pan out it's the liberals fault or whoever.
He gets to say anything he wants about anybody and there isn't a damned thing anyone can do about it. But stop buying whatever the hell his sponsors are selling and let his fricking network try to get by solely on advertising revenues generated by his dickwad base for a while.
There's no law that says we have to buy ANYTHING that fat sonofabitch sells, and that includes his sponsor's products.
Who is supplying the soapbox for this stooge to stand on? They know and approve of this garbage. I'd like to see the sheet removed to reveal who these people are.
any anger at rush, imo, should be taken out on those that pay for his program and bed sheets
What’s left of today's GOP is a genetically and or psychologically deviant mélange of morally and ethically defective mutants, miscreants and kamikaze loyalists who are crashing and burning all things Republican. They are the figurative buzzards and hyenas fighting over the last scraps of a carcass riddled with maggots and festering clumps of putrefied viscera. They are the opportunistic parasites whose very existence is and always has been dependent on sucking blood from the engorged bellies of alpha predators. The prevalence of fear, paranoia and irrational hatred in today's GOP represents the antemortem gasps of a doomed species struggling to survive in evaporating pools of their own toxic waste as they mercilessly slice and dice one another in futile attempts to become the biggest fish in an increasingly smaller and smaller pond.
damn but these are some ugly images. couldn't have said it better. long live Rush. Palin in 2012. the dems greatest hope(s)...
..what's going on, why would they listen to Rush Limpballs?
Mickey: "It was an epiphany. Do you know what an epipany is?"
Keoni: "NOT NOW MICKEY!"
is pretty over hyped.
With the Blues!
which is a wholly-owned subsidiary of ABC, which is owned by...
DISNEY!
So stay the phuck away from Pixar, Searchlight, and all Disney crap...
Your kids too...
The Media Consolidation Act was claimed to foster competition. Instead, it continued the historic industry consolidation begun by Reagan, whose actions reduced the number of major media companies from around 50 in 1983 to 10 in 1996, reducing the 10 in 1996 to 6 in 2005
I am not surprised since this is the crew that brings us that John Stossel clown.
They were also responsible for that crappy 9/11 movie that blames Clinton for everything.
Because it is effective. His 21%ers DO hate blacks, etc. Most of the middle class listeners agreeing with him are deathly afraid of becoming lower class, so they lash out at the easiest of scapegoats. And if Obama doesn't squash this shit in the bud with real reforms, then that 21% will swell. Again. Without severe trade reform and health care reform, the GOP will be back in power. Put there by a middle class so stupid that it doesn't even know what its best interests are.
... it didn't occur to me that Cheney's preference for Limbaugh over Colin Powell as a model Republican had racist overtones. After listening to this Rachel Maddow segment, however, I'm beginning to think I'll have to add the word "racist" to the long list of execrable traits of the execrable Mr. Cheney.
.... do you think Pete Sessions and Jeff Sessions might be related? They certainly have a lot of similarities.
All uncomplimentary.
the job rush has can be tremendous on him. still he shows up to work every day. humming 16 tons more likely. hell he knows he can afford to buy patriot missiles for the cause of freedom. I wonder if he still can't bear to look at the numbers of witholding tax on his paycheck. yes rush some things are just not right.......
I've always known that the GOP stands for racism, bigotry, intolerance, hatred and complete stupity which Limp-Dick spews daily to his uneducated, ignorant, hate-filled sheep.
I will defend to my death the right of the GOP to immolate itself in a conflagration of racism, bigotry, intolerance, hatred and complete stupity.
"Anyone that makes less than $150K in this country, has no business voting Republican."
:P
Republicans still believe and will repeat over and over that business taxes and minimum wadges effect the number of employees a company has. Companies hire the least number of employees at the lowest pay to meet the demand for their goods or services. The only thing effected by minimum wadges and business taxes is the bottom line of company owners. If your running a company that cannot afford to pay your employees a living wadge and pay your fair share of taxes and still make money then there is not enough demand for you product for you business to exist. It's not rocket science but if people would learn this it would go along way of putting the Limbaugh's of the world out of business.
If your business model is so flawed that it cannot provide decent wages and if you cannot afford to pay taxes, then you are a shitty business person. Our entire economy is muddled with these shitty businesses.
Dick Head Cheney would really prefer to be Tea-bagged Teased by the Just stupid, Lard-Ass Limp-Dick, than a very intelligent black man.
...and found it deep as a puddle.
(my apologies to puddles everywhere)
Man it must suck to be be a republican and be in mortal fear of the idiot known as Rush.
Divine Right of Kings (1600's); Divine Right of Corporations (2011)
with the transfer of wealth from some Americans to other Americans?
Bullshit...
When Rush and his pals were transferring our wealth to them, all it was fine and dandy. Now that we want some of our wealth transferred back, well... now it is time for them to scream bloody murder.
So f*ck'em... they can squeal all the want, that was our money they stole with those tax cuts anyways... pay up now bitches. It is only fair, since they love this country so much, right? They should have no issue paying their fair share to maintain it...
so many of us are ______ of what Limbaugh wants.
He's an excellent example of power seizure now nose high in a
shuddering stall of bankrupt issues.
Repeating bad history is something to be ______ of.
When I hear his name I just post this;
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Etf8R-MSaE
When angry, count four, when very angry, swear.
-Mark Twain-
Limbaugh quote:
Limbaugh quote:
Her certainly has NOTHING positive to say about anyone who is not white.
Rush et al don't seem to be too fond of white Europeans either, whenever they dared going against his buddy Bush's will.
I think Insanity.
republican = insanity. No other conclusion can be arrived at.
Why do you hate the truth, facts and black people?
NOBODY 2012
inside and OUT!
He can sit on his rapidly-expanding, lily-white ass sucking Cubans and 'choosing not to participate in the Recession' while verbally crapping on everything that doesn't worship him. Ride him out of town on a rail, get extra men, tar and feathers.
The simpletons at MSNBC apparently believe anyone who opposes Obama is a racist. Obama's radicalism is the issue, not the color of his skin. People who refuse to debate issues involving policy either cannot refute Limbaugh or they choose to attack personally. Either way, Maddow's analysis is pathetic. Her equation is simplistic as well: conservative = racist. Her accusations are no more substantial than Garofalo's.
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