The Glade 4.0

I nearly fell out of my chair laughing, reading this

Dear Red State guy. The left did not destroy Rush's big dream. Rush's lazy, racist, hateful, intolerant and obscene fat mouth did. He dug his own grave. It's not nearly enough recompense for the pain he's caused with his bigotry and hate mongering over the years.

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It feels like all the people who want limited government really just want government limited to Republicans.
---The Daily Show

This ought to be good...

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"It is true that democracy undermines freedom when voters believe they can live off of others' productivity, when they modify the commandment: 'Thou shalt not steal, except by majority vote.' The politics of plunder is no doubt destructive of both morality and the division of labor."

You know what? You make it very difficult for me to read you, or take anything you write even remotely seriously. Everything you post is cluttered with loaded or hateful language.

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Ezekiel 23:19-20 

I see that some folks believe Rush may have a libel case. That'd be funny, if certain leftists lost and lined Rush's bank acct. I'd consider falling out of my chair laughing.

Compared to the people that are disrespectful to Obama with every breath? Really? Because, man, there is some serious hate directed a politicians on the board, and I don't see you having a problem with that language. Why the double standard?

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It feels like all the people who want limited government really just want government limited to Republicans.
---The Daily Show

Maybe someone could explain that if it were even remotely clear what you're talking about. All I see is an OP ranting about Limbaugh.

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"Hysterical children shrieking about right-wing anything need to go sit in the corner and be quiet while the adults are talking."

Rush Limbaugh was part of a group trying to buy the St. Louis Rams. The deal had to be approved by 3/4 of the NFL's 32 teams, and Limbaugh's remarks of the past were deemed too divisive, racist, etc. to garner the support needed to get that kind of widespread approval, so the purchasing group dropped Limbaugh, deeming him "a complication."

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldne ... -team.html

Did you click the link?

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It feels like all the people who want limited government really just want government limited to Republicans.
---The Daily Show

Except none of the supposed racist quotes could be sorced to him by any media agent.

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"...but there exists also in the human heart a depraved taste for equality, which impels the weak to attempt to lower the powerful to their own level and reduces men to prefer equality in slavery to inequality with freedom." - De Tocqueville

"Put the bone back in your nose" is one of my favorites, shouted at a black, female caller on his radio show. Actually, his racism is very well documented, has been posted to this board, and can be found with a simple internet search. Rush Limbaugh is a racist, without a doubt.

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It feels like all the people who want limited government really just want government limited to Republicans.
---The Daily Show

Let's take a look at that please. You're definition of who or what is racists is, well...not so good.

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"It is true that democracy undermines freedom when voters believe they can live off of others' productivity, when they modify the commandment: 'Thou shalt not steal, except by majority vote.' The politics of plunder is no doubt destructive of both morality and the division of labor."

Aside from the fact that Limbaugh is not a racist in any discernable way, shape, or form, I don't see why it's an issue.

As for the link, I didn't see it at first; sometimes they blend in on this color scheme.

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"Hysterical children shrieking about right-wing anything need to go sit in the corner and be quiet while the adults are talking."

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Ok, I think this argument will go no where. If you honestly believe, DE, that Rush Limbaugh is in no way a racist, we just can't see eye to eye.

Seriously, guys. You need to step back from being on the conservative side and really take a long hard look at the mouth pieces that drive the movement, and what they say and promote.

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It feels like all the people who want limited government really just want government limited to Republicans.
---The Daily Show

We need to "step back" and just agree with you. Right.

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"Hysterical children shrieking about right-wing anything need to go sit in the corner and be quiet while the adults are talking."

Translation. Agree with me because I say I'm right.


LOL

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"It is true that democracy undermines freedom when voters believe they can live off of others' productivity, when they modify the commandment: 'Thou shalt not steal, except by majority vote.' The politics of plunder is no doubt destructive of both morality and the division of labor."

Snopes has a list of offensive quotes (not a complete list, I'm sure...) attributed to Limbaugh. Quotes on the list that Snopes confirms as documented are:







I'm presenting these simply as information. Take their meanings, contexts, or Snopes' citations however you like.

The issue isn't the veracity of Limbaugh's racism, however.

My Google Fu is lacking, could you please link me to these quotes you've found? I think the libel case is based on Al Sharptons involvement in the situation, and the lengths Sharpton is going to attack Limbaugh.

But yeah, could you please link those quotes? Are they attributed to a date and time of when he said it? I'd like to go back through Limbaughs shows and find them but would need it narrowed down a bit.

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A man who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself. ~ John Stuart Mill

I agree with the columnist I read that pointed out that Rush's McNabb comment was not racist, but political. But hey, if you're searching for racists, why let intent get in the way?

*edit* Wrong guy, I think.

The bone in the nose one is the only one that I think is over the line. The last one, God that was a tempest in a teapot. Rush was right when he said that. It wasn't a slam on McNabb(who at the time was playing terrible, Rush couldn't say that now), it was slam on the media and he was right.

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"It is true that democracy undermines freedom when voters believe they can live off of others' productivity, when they modify the commandment: 'Thou shalt not steal, except by majority vote.' The politics of plunder is no doubt destructive of both morality and the division of labor."

Ok, let me preface by saying I don't know if Limbaugh is "racist" or not. In fact, I think every single one of you is wrong in saying anyone isn't racist because that simply isn't true. And I do not know what Limbaugh's stance on other policies or anything is because I don't watch his radio shows or tv shows.

Anyway, if he is indeed "racist" does that invalidate any of the other critcisms he makes?

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"It's real, grew up in trife life, the times of white lines
The hype vice, murderous nighttimes and knife fights invite crimes" - Nasir Jones

I don't really buy the "everyone is racist" thing because it tells us nothing useful. Ok, fine. Everyone's a racist. Now, either the term is useless because it's simply stating the obvious, or else we start using it to refer to people who are racist in a significant fashion.

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"Hysterical children shrieking about right-wing anything need to go sit in the corner and be quiet while the adults are talking."

I'm looking at the Snopes thing that Farsky linked and I'm still trying to find the racism, since I'm reviewing those quotes in the context they were said.

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A man who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself. ~ John Stuart Mill

Only one of those quotes was issued by him (thats the crips and bloods) and when taken in context its not offensive - he was referring to the overly celebratory endzone dances.

"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."
I don't see how this is offensive except to the people sponsoring massive famine and extortion. Who should rightfully be offended by their action.

Also not everyone believes that one race is superior to the others.

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"...but there exists also in the human heart a depraved taste for equality, which impels the weak to attempt to lower the powerful to their own level and reduces men to prefer equality in slavery to inequality with freedom." - De Tocqueville

I also would argue the delineation between "significant" racism and "insignificant" is also useless. All it does is societally sanction things like indentity reduction to race, which I can't see as being any different than what we'd call "significant" racism.

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"It's real, grew up in trife life, the times of white lines
The hype vice, murderous nighttimes and knife fights invite crimes" - Nasir Jones

First of all, I think it's rather hypocritical for a group of people which includes Al Davis to exclude anyone from joining their club due to character limitations.

Second of all, "Oh noes, a bunch of rich people have ostracized some other rich person!"

Third, all of the major sports are cartels anyway. About the best you can hope for is that, if you're a fan, the team owner is committed to giving you a competitive on-field product.

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