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Race

Rush Limbaugh neatly and concisely lays out the conservative position on racism today: liberals are terrible.

The Politico and the mainstream media has launched an unconscionable, racially stereotypical attack on an independent, self-reliant conservative black because for him that behavior is not allowed. Now, if we had...

I want to look at a couple things today from a different perspective. What would the left be doing right now if, let's say, there were an assault on Obama of this nature. Let's say that some conservative publication ran a story exactly like this: Unnamed sources, 15 years ago, with every detail of Obama sexual harassment. What would the Democrat national committee and what would the media be doing? They would be going after the women. They would be targeting these women, and they would name names, and they would destroy them. That is what the Democrats and the media would do. They would set out to find out who these women are that talked to the conservative publication and they would destroy them.

They would call these women racists for trying to destroy a black politician. They would claim that they're working for the Republican National Committee. They would claim that these two women (or these women, whoever), had been hired by the Republican National Committee to engage in this smear and lie campaign against Obama. They would go after these women. They would destroy them. They would make the women the bad guys. They would dig into every minor thing in these women's lives that they have ever done. They would trash them, they would make them prove the unprovable -- because this is war, and that's how they fight it. Anything goes, as far as they're concerned, and they cannot allow a black or an Hispanic to rise to the top of a political establishment that is not Democrat.

I know, I know.  You're probably liberal, and therefore incapable of understanding this honest discussion on race unless it comes with mentions of imperialism and Dave Chappelle. This is a very simple argument.

1) This is a racist allegation against Herman Cain.

2) If the exact same allegation was launched against Barack Obama, the liberal media would call the people making the allegation racist, even thought it obviously wouldn't be.

3) Therefore, because the allegation wasn't made against Barack Obama, it is racist.

4) Marco Rubio, also.

The thought I've kept having today: the fact that conservatives keep calling this a "high-tech lynching" is really indicative of just how toxic an environment the GOP is for black people.  There haven't even been enough black Republicans of note in the past two decades to have another scandal. For a party obsessed with victimology, it's a rather stunning indictment of their complete incompetence on race that you can name every single prominent black Republican since Reagan was in office during the ad break before a YouTube video. 

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Posted by Jesse Taylor on 06:12 PM • (28) Comments

Oh, conservatives and their projection.

Comment #1: Triplanetary  on  10/31  at  07:12 PM

Lush Shrimp-balls is second only to Bat-trick Puke-annon in his knowledge of the fine art of creating, promoting, and delivering American racism, so perhaps we should defer to his superior understanding.

“I want to look at a couple things today from a different perspective. What would the left be doing right now if, let’s say, there were an assault on Obama of this nature.”

...let’s turn that around, big guy.  What if Herman Cain was a Democrat running for POTUS?  All the stops would have been pulled out so long ago in wingnuttia that he would have been treated as if he had personally destroyed The American Family and represented a bigger threat to the future of America than all the middle-eastern terrorists put together.

It would be kinda like the tea-bagging, moronic wingnuts already treat Barack Obama today, with an extra helping of Clinton sauce on the side.

People who live in glass rehab-clinics shouldn’t throw stones…

Comment #2: MikeEss  on  10/31  at  07:15 PM

For a party obsessed with victimology, it’s a rather stunning indictment of their complete incompetence on race that you can name every single prominent black Republican since Reagan was in office during the ad break before a YouTube video.

Also worth noting that most of said black Republicans were appointees (Clarence Thomas, Colin Powell, Condi Rice, Alan Keyes) not elected officials.

Comment #3: Ridnik Chrome  on  10/31  at  07:18 PM

Thank you for reading/listening to R. Limbaugh.  Every time another person is freed from the burden of experiencing his cognitive dissonance, a kitten gets to eat something with wings, or a lesbian gets a toaster oven (Old Ellen joke)

Seriously, you should continue your work at parsing Reactionary argument schema.  You do it better and more succinctly than anyone since Busybusybusy

Comment #4: msobel  on  10/31  at  07:36 PM

I still can’t figure out what Politico article they’re talking about.  They never bother to actually link or quote or even paraphrase whatever they call racist.

That leads me to believe there isn’t any racism involved.

Comment #5: Crissa  on  10/31  at  08:06 PM

What would the Democrat national committee and what would the media be doing? They would be going after the women.

But instead we have to, even though we’re mostly just upset he’s getting some and we’re not, and women aren’t even worth talking about beyond oogling, but since he’s GOP we don’t have a choice.

Comment #6: Jayn Newell  on  10/31  at  08:41 PM

Why is it that the racist liberals who happen to own a time machine keep using it to do things like going back in time to get women to complain about sexual harassment so that it will be uncovered in an unlikely was years later? Couldn’t they just set their machine for florida in the fall of 2000 and run some seminars on how to fill our a ballot, or for any number of towns in 2009 and say “when that dorky white couple comes in, confiscate their camera”?

Comment #7: paul  on  10/31  at  08:42 PM

god man i thought you’d never be back
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Comment #8: Ape Man  on  10/31  at  09:28 PM

Trust Rush Limbaugh to fail to understand that people might want sexual harassment claims against a Presidential candidate investigated because sexual harassment is bad and we don’t want someone who does that to be our president.

Of course, he probably sees sexual harassment as “a friendly reminder to women to be wholesome.”

Comment #9: Kyra  on  10/31  at  09:52 PM

Right, Rush, because that’s exactly what happened to the women involved in the John Edwards and Anthony Weiner and Eliot Spitzer scandals…

...or not at all, whatever, Rush don’t need no fax.

John Edwards is actually a great case study.  I think he was the preferred candidate of the actual left (he was the only one talking about poverty and wealth inequality with any substance).  You see anyone defending him now?  He just stands as the greatest political disappointment of the last several decades and is generally recognized as not a great guy.

Rush is just reflecting on his golden years: The Clinton presidency.  There were some defenses of Billy-Bill that inappropriately slandered the women involved, but 1) all of it was consensual except for 2) Paula Jones, who really was paid off by the Arkansas Project crew and such.

Really, Clinton is the ONLY example that remotely lines up with Rush’s bullshit, but for the lizard brains, one example that sort of makes sense if you’re already loaded down with pre-existing biases is more than enough to roll with.

Comment #10: doubtthat  on  10/31  at  10:31 PM

If these accusations are really true, it would actually make guys like myself even MORE likely to vote for him, as it would nice to be able to finally vote for a real man, for a change.

Exactly. I doubt the GOP has anything to worry about.

Comment #11: junk science  on  10/31  at  10:56 PM

I don’t recall the women Anthony Weiner was sending dick pictures to getting destroyed by the liberal media.

Comment #12: Baruk  on  10/31  at  11:34 PM

I read all the articles on Politico, and didn’t find one mention of race.  Not Cain’s, not the women, etc.

Comment #13: Crissa  on  11/01  at  12:51 AM

J.C. Watts is quite upset, Jessie.

I remember, as an apolitical 14-year-old white kid from the backwoods, reading an article about him in Time. Watts was explaining that he became a Republican because the Klan in the 50s or maybe 60s were Democrats. I remember thinking ‘that doesn’t make even a bit of sense.’

Comment #14: witless chum  on  11/01  at  01:12 AM

I just love this time machine action we libruls got going. First, we go back in time and put Obama birth announcements in Hawaiian newspapers to cover up the fact that he was totally born in Kenya-Indonesia-Musllimamamamumastan. Then, we go back in time to get two women to risk their careers by complaining about (I mean, totally making up stories of) sexual harassment by Cain before anybody in the political world knew him from Adam.

Sneaky, sneaky, sneaky! I can’t wait to see what we do next.

Comment #15: Phoebe Fay  on  11/01  at  01:20 AM

I don’t recall the women Anthony Weiner was sending dick pictures to getting destroyed by the liberal media.

Oh, you conservatives and your false equivalencies.  The Weiner case was completely different.  Some shadowy settlement agreement wasn’t found in the back office.  The idiot sent a picture of himself and was caught and lied about it.  And yes, the women WERE dragged through the mud, accused of everything from lying to trying to take Weiner down.

Comment #16: speedbudget  on  11/01  at  08:38 AM

And Rush’s jet-engine-level wailing begins. Not a word about what happened, or what might have happened, or what might happen now. It’s all about IF this happened to Obama, here’s what WOULD HAVE happened in response and bla bla bla did I get through my three-hour show without addressing the situation with Herman Cain?

This is such a GOP win-win. They get the pesky Herman Cain out of the way, and they get to screech about the liberal media when this was a Karl Rove Production from beginning to end.

Comment #17: RickMassimo  on  11/01  at  09:00 AM

I like how Rush is blaming the liberals for this, even though the report came from the Politico, which is basically the mouthpiece for the establishment GOP, and the biggest beneficiaries are Mitt Romney and Rick Perry, not liberals.  Look to the people actually running against Cain for the nomination for who would want to leak damaging information, Rush (though as Republicans don’t take sexual harassment seriously I doubt this will actually have an effect).

Comment #18: JMPEsq  on  11/01  at  09:54 AM

Look to the people actually running against Cain for the nomination for who would want to leak damaging information, Rush (though as Republicans don’t take sexual harassment seriously I doubt this will actually have an effect).

You’re assuming that Rush Limbaugh’s motivation is getting to the truth, rather than inventing a reason to scream at the top of his lungs on behalf of a candidate and party whose ideas have been tried for 30 years and found to be a conclusive failure for everyone except Rush Limbaugh.

Comment #19: RickMassimo  on  11/01  at  11:46 AM

And Rush’s jet-engine-level wailing begins. Not a word about what happened, or what might have happened, or what might happen now. It’s all about IF this happened to Obama, here’s what WOULD HAVE happened in response

It really is amazing how much conservative “argument” is in the hypothetical.

 

Comment #20: catfood  on  11/01  at  01:54 PM

It really is amazing how much conservative “argument” is in the hypothetical.

Well, the alternative never works out very well for them.

Comment #21: RickMassimo  on  11/01  at  02:25 PM

In the beginning of his rant, Rush is sort of acting like Dubya, implying that we hate Cain for his freedom from thinking like a black guy or something.
Personally, I’d need more information to decide whether Cain is a sexual harrasser, but I haven’t seen a bigger case of “failing up” since we re-elected Jan Brewer.(well, I didn’t—the state did) He doesn’t piss me off that much, as a liberal, since I doubt anyone would nominate him, but I guess on that basic, civics-class, patriot level their whole field makes me think “Really? You say you love America so much, but look at these clowns!” Sometimes I find that, you know, collectively insulting, if that makes any sense
And I do think the coverage of the Weiner twitter scandal was embarrassing and mindlessly salacious, but I hope that doesn’t mean I agree with Rush Limbaugh—that would screw up my whole day!

Comment #22: chicating  on  11/01  at  02:45 PM

I like how Rush is blaming the liberals for this, even though the report came from the Politico, which is basically the mouthpiece for the establishment GOP, and the biggest beneficiaries are Mitt Romney and Rick Perry, not liberals.

I was discussing this with my dad (he listens to Rush when he drives around during the day because it is quite literally the only thing on the dial).  Obviously the story came from a Republican rival, why would Rush blame it on liberals?

My dad had an answer.  Prepare to tilt you head to the side or perform whatever remedy you prefer for an ice-cream headache: Rush thinks Romney is a liberal.

Rush thinks Romney was behind the story, THAT IS WHY he thinks “liberals” were responsible.

All apologies to the writer of this post, but this is why there’s literally no reason to try and respond to shit that comes from Limbaugh.  Notice that the same thing applies to Ann Coulter and her “our blacks are better than their blacks” nonsense.  These aren’t serious people.  It’s like arguing with a Kardashian.  They’re just headline mongers.

Comment #23: doubtthat  on  11/01  at  04:36 PM

Limbaugh’s hypothetical is not even remotely possible. Realize that Michelle and Barack got married nineteen years ago. If Barack had been accused of sexual harassment fifteen years ago, Michelle would have found out and she would have dealt with Barack appropriately. She would not have played the long-suffering-but-loyal-little-wifey role that HRC played.

Comment #24: Hector B.  on  11/01  at  05:17 PM

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Comment #25: Monclerss Jackets  on  11/02  at  04:24 AM

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Comment #26: Monclerss Jackets  on  11/02  at  04:25 AM

Of course Rush thinks Romney is liberal.  We may disagree and/or abhor his policy stances, but generally I don’t think we believe Romney is an out and out nutter (though I may be wrong both on the general opnion and whether or not he is).  For the GOP field, he seems one of the least fringe, but most of them are really out there.

Comment #27: helen w. h.  on  11/02  at  09:07 AM

I don’t know…he appears to embrace that “personhood” thing…outlawing birth control seems fringe to me. But I don’t think he really believes it, either…he’d French-kiss Amanda if he’d get elected for it.

Comment #28: chicating  on  11/02  at  12:55 PM
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