Limbaugh: A Color Man Who Has A Problem With Color?

[G_j]

http://www.fair.org/articles/limbaugh-color.html
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As a young broadcaster in the 1970s, Limbaugh once told a black caller: "Take that bone out of your nose and call me back." A decade ago, after becoming nationally syndicated, he mused on the air: "Have you ever noticed how all composite pictures of wanted criminals resemble Jesse Jackson?"

In 1992, on his now-defunct TV show, Limbaugh expressed his ire when Spike Lee urged that black schoolchildren get off from school to see his film Malcolm X: "Spike, if you're going to do that, let's complete the education experience. You should tell them that they should loot the theater, and then blow it up on their way out."

In a similar vein, here is Limbaugh's mocking take on the NAACP, a group with a ninety-year commitment to nonviolence: "The NAACP should have riot rehearsal. They should get a liquor store and practice robberies."

When Carol Moseley-Braun (D-IL) was in the U.S. Senate, the first black woman ever elected to that body, Limbaugh would play the "Movin' On Up" theme song from TV's "Jeffersons" when he mentioned her. Limbaugh sometimes still uses mock dialect -- substituting "ax" for "ask"-- when discussing black leaders.

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[radwriter0555]

1. he's an ENTERTAINER and UTTERLY IRRELEVENT. PAY

attention to the WHITE HOUSE SCANDALS INSTEAD.

You're being played for fools. Which is JUST what rove, limbaugh and drudge WANT YOU TO BE.

[Occulus]

3. He might be an entertainer,

but he's most certainly relevant. The right spews his misrepresentations all the time. Exposure of a drug habit, or better yet being part of a drug ring, deals a major blow to what is, to them, an unimpeachable source.

[G_j]

4. hey, I NEVER

listen to the jerk! But I thought these quotes are so disgustingly hateful and racist that they are worth noting in view of recent news.

[neuvocat]

5. Maybe so but still important.

He's the chief mouthpiece for the white house, so now he's distracted from distracting others from those white house scandals.

[Terwilliger]

2. AHH-nold thanked Limbaugh for bringing color to the race

oh...wait...that was to Arianna....