Limbaugh: Barack Hussein Obama "a "half-minority"

[edbermac]

On the January 16 broadcast of his nationally syndicated radio show, Rush Limbaugh called Sen. Barack Obama (D-IL) a "half-minority" and said that "the media ... are in the midst of Obama-gasms" because "Barack Hussein Obama" has formed a presidential exploratory committee. Limbaugh called Obama "a half-minority" in the context of criticizing Obama for supporting his hometown Chicago Bears over the New Orleans Saints in the upcoming January 21 National Football Conference championship game.

Limbaugh presumably referred to Obama as a "half-minority" because of Obama's lineage: his father was black and born in Kenya, while his mother was white, born in Kansas. Similarly, conservative talk-radio host Brian Sussman previously characterized Obama as "Halfrican."

As Media Matters for America documented, on February 7, 2006, Limbaugh said he "kind of like" a caller's statement that Obama "is the Donovan McNabb of the U.S. Senate." The statement was an apparent reference to Limbaugh's controversial comments in 2003 about McNabb, a quarterback for the National Football League's Philadelphia Eagles. Limbaugh, then an ESPN commentator, said that "he media has been very desirous that a black quarterback do well" and, therefore, McNabb "got a lot of credit for the performance of this team that he didn't deserve." As a result of his comments, Limbaugh resigned from ESPN.

In addition, Limbaugh also claimed that " Hillary had a 2 p.m. press conference today, but she canceled it because Obama's making such big news today," despite multiple media accounts that, as Media Matters has noted, reported that Clinton postponed the scheduled press conference the day before Obama's announcement.

http://mediamatters.org/items/200701170010

I've stopped guessing on what type of medication Rush is OD'ing on these days.:shrug:

[WI_DEM]

1. And Rush Hudson Limpballs III is a half-wit

[Rosemary2205]

2. Is Rush STILL bloviating?

I figured that pus bag got laughed out of the studio over the Michael J. Fox thing.

[LynneSin]

3. All I remember was after OxyRush made that McNabb comment...

McNabb went on to have one of the best seasons of his career.

[judaspriestess]

4. rush is a full asshole

ridiculous.

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

5. Rush Limbaugh's a one and a half asshole.

[SaveElmer]

6. Please Republicans...continue to go overboard...

Will only make our job all that much easier next year!!!

[liberal N proud]

7. Limbaugh is a half brain

No wait, that would be one half more than he has.

[deadparrot]

8. Oh, he'll be "minority" enough when catering to racist voters. nt

[mmonk]

9. Some say Limbaugh is half human but I don't believe them.

There's no way he's human.

[madrchsod]

10. jesus christ the nazi`s are showing their faces today

limpballs calling obama a "half nigger" and imus ranting about money grubbing rat faced jews.. unfuckingbelievable

[Parche]

11. Limpbaugh

What is a half minority???


I am all for free speach, but ignorance and racial name calling is over the line.....

[verse18]

12. Rush should have just called him 'mulatto.'

I sure he wanted to.

[burythehatchet]

13. on KSFO they called him a "halfrican"

its only going to get worse.

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

14. Limbaugh is actually calling him a "half-breed"

In other words, half-minority also means only half-white. It recalls that taboo subject for some of sex between a white person and someone of another race. It's not unlike the attack on McCain by the bigots of having a black baby. I'm sure that's a perfectly clear message to the good ole boys in his listening audience.

Limbaugh belongs back in the primitive days of the 1800s, when the bigoted townspeople would organize a posse to go hunt down and string up the "breed".

[jelly]

20. limbaugh is 100% pond scum

My heart aches for my african-american friends, who must endure their life on Earth with animals like Limbaugh feeding poisonous messages into the population. Anyone who thinks racism is a thing of the past and that affirmative action is not still necessary needs to look no further than these sorts of incidents. Racism is alive and well. The only difference is that it's no longer considered polite to discuss it openly. Well, unless you're on the Rush Limbaugh show, apparently.

[SheWhoMustBeObeyed]

21. That's EXACTLY what he's calling him n/t

[Bluebear]

15. Maybe Rush will treat us to a blackface performance a la his Michael Fox stunt nt

[slj0101]

16. That's funny: Limbaugh's half-human.

And I'm not so sure about that half.

[SteveM]

17. Is Lush Rambaugh pill-popping again?

[in_cog_ni_to]

18. Bastard.

Willard Mitt Romney

John Sidney McCain

Samuel Dale Brownback

Michael Dale Huckabee

Newton Leroy Gingrich

Rudolph William Louis Giuliani

George Elmer Pataki

Thomas Gerard Tancredo

Charles Timothy Hagel

[pnwmom]

19. I bet that kind of talking will backfire on Limbaugh.

Since Obama having a white mother may actually make many conservatives more comfortable with him.

[onecent]

22. How on earth did Rush Limpballs get so popular? His voice is bad

enough, but to look at him, ugghhhhhhh

[Radical Activist]

23. The Republicans will finally too to far with Obama.

They're going to alienate a lot of moderate whites. It will work in our favor.

[TheCowsCameHome]

24. Limbaugh: Half his ass sticks up above his collar.

The rest of it is beneath his collar.

[Hell Hath No Fury]

25. Brian Sussman?? BRIAN SUSSMAN?!?!?!

He has a talk radio show???

He was a San Francisco weatherman, fer fuck's sake! He spent 20+ years at Channel 5. I guess that's all the qualifications you need to be a RW talk show host. :rofl: :crazy:

I think I'll have to go down to KSFO and verbally spank the little bastard.