Margaret Cho on Rush Limbaugh, Tucker Carlson

[Adenoid_Hynkel]

10/02/2003
Rush

Rush Limbaugh is in an avalanche of shit, dawg! I think that he has been hateful for the entire time he has been in the public eye, even up until Wednesday, when he made that comment about Donovan McNabb making it because he is Black. Right, and I made it because I am Korean. What everyone fails to get that one of the unspoken rules of this country is that minorities have to be twice as good to get half the credit, and the only strides that have been made is in the lessening degree of prejudice we experience on our way up, generation after generation....

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[DarkPhenyx]

1. Cute...

...but not entirely accurate.

[flamingyouth]

2. How not accurate?

[jackcgt]

3. Rush wasn't implying that he made it because...

he was black. Simply that his skills were overhyped for that reason. No one is saying he doesn't deserve to be in the NFL, just that he doesn't deserve all the credit for his team's great season. All politics aside, alot of that IS true...

[Champion Jack]

4. Uh Huh....

Did you just get that from limbo's website or did his people fax it over to you?

[spooky3]

6. A good empiricist would destroy your argument.

1. What evidence does Rush have that McNabb was "overhyped" for ANY reason? How much more positive press has he received relative to his accomplishments than other players with similar levels of accomplishments?

2. Who is making these "overhyping" statements and are they widely shared/agreed to? Were there more people giving him undeserved kudos than giving him a fair appraisal and knocking him unfairly?

2. *IF* the evidence in #1 & 2 shows he's consistenly overhyped, what evidence is there that the overhype was caused by pro-black racism. What other causes have been ruled OUT empirically, such as that whoever made the comments is biased toward and against certain players perhaps because of where the players grew up, how handsome they are, how similar in football playing style they are to the speaker, etc., and there is no race-related pattern to the bias?

Until you and Rush can produce this evidence, his were racist statements.

[soleft]

5. Margaret Cho has a blog and no one told me?????

:yourock:

[indigo32]

8. I didn't know that either

this is cool

[jburton]

7. Cho rules

I had the pleasure of seeing her live. Totally hilarious.

Nice to know she has a blog. Especially with this stuff:

"I cannot stop picturing Rush as one of the Trainspotting crew, or selling his ass for a hit. "

[srubick]

9. Overhyped?

Has anyone concidered that the positive hype that Bush, just like Rush, has had is because he is a stupid white guy that the media wants to do well.