Rush Limbaugh Farts Out Loud, Again.......

Old Rush sure is bouncing to the surface a lot these days. I've heard much more about him. I doubt I have ever listened to him. I haven't listened to the radio since C.D.s came out. The radio is never a place I choose to receive any but emergency news and weather reports  when driving and I know that Rush makes racial remarks all the time. People I know often tell me things he says. Usually these are people who are actually shocked and a little concerned about something he has said. I used to hear more about something funny he said.

I guess my style is too pay attention to anything that flies above the 'dar so to speak, unless the subject is     

How can anyone defend this man? He has shown, over and over again, that he either is a racist or, even worse,  he makes big bucks off the racist leanings of others. Don't tell me that racism doesn't exist. I know it does. It exists all over the country.

O'Reilly has every bit as much a crack team of researchers as Media Matters does. Yet, he and his staff could find only one example of Rush having anything to say about blacks on Teevee or Radio or anywhere else he influences masses of Americans, according to his own polls.

I do not believe Mr. Limbaugh's civil rights have been violated here. Certainly they are not being violated  anymore than the Dixie Chicks' were. The commentators on the Rght were saying that the The Dixie Chicks could well be hurt by the outrage of the people, because no one was saying that they could not have free speech. The markets would fix their uppity little butts. Did it? I don't remember. I don't believe it did over the long haul, because they are still very much around.

Limbaugh has not been fired. He is still free to spew his venom on the radio. The rest of us have a right of association. If we do not wish to associate ourselves with him, we don't have to. If the men bidding on the L.A. Rams do not wish to associate with him, they should not have to. If the players find him offensive they have a right to say that they will not play for a team owned, even in part, by him.

We make our choices in life. Limbaugh made his choice to get rich off hate speech. If the broader society finds that choice as disgusting as I do and refuses to openly associate with him or support him in any way, he has to live with that.




"The only thing we can find about Rush Limbaugh [saying racist remarks] is that he thinks quarterback Donovan McNabb is overrated by some people who want black quarterbacks to succeed."-- Fox News' Bill O'Reilly, 10/15/09

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"Media Matters has documented at least 28 examples of Limbaugh making racially charged remarks."
-- Media Matters, 10/16/09
 


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