Comments on: freeSpeech: Rush Limbaugh

Radio Host On Patriotism And The War On Terror

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How interesting Mr.Limbaugh would start with the comment "Militant Islam want to kill us because we are alive and don't believe as they do".
Mr. Limbaugh himself, has preached and spoken to deny *** America their rights because "we are alive and don't believe" the way the religious right does. Interesting correlation. This group of people and their beliefs and campaigns against *** in America is not much different.
You say *** are not being killed? What about when those who are ill are denied medical benefits from their partner's insurance?
Or those who have been committed to each other for 20 years, have built a home and a life together, and one dies, and the decedent%u2019s parents lay claim to all possessions and bank accounts, and yes, even the children...save the children.
Mr. Limbaugh really needs to read what he wants to speak before he says it, because all that he has said can be applied to him.
We are not the enemy. We are brothers, sisters, sons, daughters, mothers, fathers, and most of all, we are loving, caring humans. We are not trying to take anything away from those who don't believe like we do. Who determined their views are correct?
Mr. Limbaugh, my mother taught me that when I pointed my finger at someone, three more were pointed back at me. You, of all people should be humbled. Your recent brushes with forging, illegal prescriptions and drug use make you no better than me, Saddam Hussein, George W. Bush, or that scummy dealer who helped you on your way.

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There is a LOT more. But it will have to wait. It's football time!

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These left wing organizations and personalities have
demanded that other media personalities be fired over using the epithet,
and even staged a protest at a school over the mere allegation that the
racist stereotype had been used by a teacher. Yet these same liberal
groups have, to date, remained completely silent now that one of their
own, Dan Rather, is guilty of using the same offensive racial stereotype
they have condemned elsewhere on a national radio show. It's just more
proof of how the left wingers who cry the loudest with accusations of
racism against others turn a blind eye when somebody of their own left
wing ideology is the undeniable culprit of a blatantly racist act or
statement!

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Dan Rather: Rather, the well known television anchor for CBS, is also
a liberal Democrat who has spoken at fundraisers for the Democrat party
in the past. The notoriously left wing reporter appeared on the Don Imus
radio show on July 19, 2001 where he was interviewed about his long term
refusal to cover the Gary Condit (D-CA) scandal involving an affair with
a missing intern despite the scandal's national prominence. Rather noted
on the air that CBS had basically forced him to cover the story that was
on every other network and on the front page of all the major
newspapers, all this after Rather avoided it for months. Rather stated
on the air, refering to CBS, that "they got the Buckwheats" and made him
cover the Condit scandal. The term "Buckwheat" is considered an
offensive racial stereotype that stems from an easily frightened black
character named "Buckwheat" on the Little Rascals comedies. It is
widely regarded as a racial epithet and has long been condemned as an
offensive stereotype by several civil rights organizations. In several
past incidents (see here and here) the use of the epithet "Buckwheat"
has recieved condemnation by the NAACP, Al Sharpton and other left wing
organizations.

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He
also once disparagingly referred to the Rainbow PUSH Coalition as the
"Blackbow Coalition," and called former Senator Howard Metzenbaum, who
is Jewish, "the Senator from B'nai B'rith." Hollings gained
international criticism for his remarks about the African Delegation to
the 1993 Geneva GATT conference, where he crudely remarked "you'd find
these potentates from down in Africa, you know, rather than eating each
other, they'd just come up and get a good square meal in Geneva."
Hollings was also the Governor of South Carolina who raised the
confederate flag over the state capitol in the early 1960's in what was
considered at the time to be an act of defiance to civil rights. The
press ignored Hollings and his role in the flag issue at the same time
the political correctness police were smearing George W. Bush during his
campaign after Bush correctly remarked that the flag was a state issue
to be decided upon by South Carolina and not the national government.

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Governor Hollings' support for segregation continued throughout his term
and included his attendance at a July 23, 1961 meeting of segregationist
Democrats to organize their opposition to the civil rights movement.
Hollings was one of four governors in attendance, all of them Democrats.
The others included rabid segregationists Orval Faubus of Arkansas and
Ross Barnett of Mississippi. The New York Times reported on the meeting,
noting that among the strategies discussed were using the segregationist
White Citizens Council organization to mobilize political opposition to
desegregation.

In more recent years Hollings, a senior Democrat senator, has made
disparaging racial remarks and slurs against minorities. Senator
Hollings, who was a contender for his party's presidential nomination in
1984, blamed his defeat in the primaries by using a racial slur against
Hispanics. After losing the Iowa Straw Poll, Hollings stated "You had
******** from California that came in here for Cranston," referring to
one of his opponents, Alan Cranston. A few years later Hollings
reportedly used the slur "darkies" to derogatorily refer to blacks.

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Senator Ernest Hollings, D-SC: Hollings is liberal Democrat Senator from
South Carolina who is also notorious for his use of racial slurs. He
rose out of the Democrat Party's segregationist wing in the 1960's as
governor of South Carolina. While in office as governor, Hollings
personally led the opposition to lunch counter integration in his state.
The New York Times reported on March 17, 1960 that then-governor
Hollings "warned today that South Carolina would not permit 'explosive'
manifestations in connection with Negro demands for lunch-counter
services." According to the article, Hollings gave a speech in which he
"challenged President Eisenhower's contention that minorities had the
right to engage in certain types of demonstrations" against segregation.
In the speech Hollings described the Republican president as "confused"
and asserted that Eisenhower had done "great damage to peace and good
order" by supporting the rights of minorities to protest segregation at
the lunch counters.

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. Democrats made Byrd the
chairman of the powerful Appropriations Committee and President Pro
Tempore of the Senate from 1989 until the Republicans won control of the
Senate in November 1994. Following the defection of Jim Jeffords in June
2001, the Democrats again made Byrd the chairman of the Appropriations
Committee and elected him to the highest ranking office in the Senate:
the President Pro Tempore, a position which also put this former
Klansman 4th in line for the presidency. Byrd lost his position when
Republicans retook the Senate in late 2002, but continues to serve as
one of the highest ranking members of the Democrat Senate leadership
today.

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In a sickening recognition of Byrd's appalling political career, the
national Democrat party has done nothing but embrace the West Virginia
senator with leadership roles and practically every honor imaginable. To
this very day the Democrats call former Klansman turned U.S. Senator
Robert Byrd the "conscience of the Senate." They have embraced him as
their party's central pillar in all ways possible. Byrd has been
reelected more times than any other Democrat senator, has served as a
Democrat in Congress, a Democrat State Senator in West Virginia, and a
Democrat State Delegate in West Virginia. Democrats have made repeatedly
elected Byrd into their national party leadership and into the U.S.
Senate leadership. He became secretary of the Senate Democrat Caucus in
1967, and Senate Democrat Whip in 1971. The Democrats elected former
Klansman Byrd as their Senate Majority Leader from 1977-1980 and as
their Senate Minority Leader from 1981-1986. Byrd was again elected
Democrat Majority Leader from 1987-1988.

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Throughout the 1960's, Byrd was was one of the staunchest opponents to
civil rights in the U.S. Senate. Byrd's racist history drew attention
recently when he went on national television and repeatedly used the
n-word, one of the most vicious racial slurs in existence, in an
appearance on national television. Byrd uttered the slur on Fox News
Sunday with Tony Snow on March 5, 2001. Despite the appalling nature of
the remark, it went largely ignored by the mainstream media and the self
appointed "civil rights" leadership. Whereas a similar remark by anyone
other than a leading Democrat Senator would assuredly prompt the likes
of Jesse Jackson to assemble protest rallies demanding resignations, the
Jackson crowd was eerily quiet following Byrd's remarks, issuing only
low key suggestions that Byrd should avoid making such bigoted remarks.

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"It
is necessary that the order be promoted immediately and in every state
of the Union" and followed with a request for assistance from the hate
group's leadership in "rebuilding the Klan in the realm" of West
Virginia. Byrd's racism extends far beyond his Klan membership. In a letter he
wrote on the subject of desegregating the armed forces, Byrd escalated
his racist rhetoric to an appalling level. In the letter, Byrd vowed
that he would never fight in an integrated armed services noting
"(r)ather I should die a thousand times, and see Old Glory trampled in
the dirt never to rise again, than to see this beloved land of ours
become degraded by race mongrels, a throwback to the blackest specimen
from the wilds".

Byrd's racist opinions have shown their ugly face in his behavior in the
Senate. Byrd led the filibuster of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and,
according to the United States Senate's own website, filibustered the
legislation to the bitter end appearing as one of the last opponents to
the act before a coalition of civil rights proponents led by Republican
Minority Leader Everett Dirksen invoked cloture so that the Civil Rights
Act of 1964 could pass. At the time, Byrd was in the the midst of a 14
hour and 13 minute filibuster diatribe against the key civil rights
measure.

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Senator Robert Byrd, D-WV: Byrd is a former member of the Ku Klux Klan and is currently the only national elected official with a history in
the Klan, a well known hate group. Byrd was extremely active in the Klan and rose to the rank of "Kleagle," an official Klan membership
recruiter. Byrd once stated that he joined the Klan because it was effective in "promoting traditional American values" (Source). Byrd's
choice of words speak volumes about his bigotry considering the fact that the Klan is a notorious hate group, and the racist "values" it
promotes are anything but American. One of the earliest criticisms of Byrd's Klan ties came in 1952 when he was running for Congress. Byrd
responded by claiming that he had left the Klan in 1943 while noting that "(d)uring the nine years that have followed, I have never been
interested in the Klan." Byrd was lying, however, as he engaged in
correspondence with a Klan Imperial Wizard long after he claims to have
ended his ties with the hate group. In a letter to the Klan leadership dated 3 years after he purported to have ended his ties with them, Byrd wrote "I am a former kleagle of the Ku Klux Klan in Raleigh County and the adjoining counties of the state. The Klan is needed today as never before and I am anxious to see its rebirth here in West Virginia." Byrd continued his racist diatribe

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In the Senate Black became
a stauch supporter of the liberal New Deal initiatives of FDR and a
solid opponent of civil rights legislation, including a filibuster of an
anti-lynching measure. Black led the push for several New Deal programs
and was a key participant in FDR's court packing scandal. Roosevelt
appointed Black, a loyal ally, to the U.S. Supreme Court. During the
Senate confirmation of Black's nomination, the issue of his strong Klan
affiliations caused a public controversy over his appointment. Following
the confirmation Roosevelt claimed ignorance of Black's Klan past,
though this claim was dubious at best. Black's first Senate election,
which occurred with Klan support, had been covered nationally a decade
earlier in 1926. Black's Klan affiliations were a well known part of his
political background and recieved heavy coverage in the newspapers at
the time of his appointment. On the court, Black became a liberal
stalwart. He also continued his career of supporting racism by authoring
the opinion in favor of FDR's Japanese internment program in the
infamous Korematsu ruling.

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Hugo Black: A former Democrat Senator from Alabama and liberal U.S.
Supreme Court Justice appointed by FDR, Hugo Black had a lengthy history
of hate group activism. Black was a member of the Ku Klux Klan in the
1920's and gained his legal fame defending Klansmen under prosecution
for racial murders. In one prominent case, Black provided legal
representation to Klansman Edwin Stephenson for the hate-induced murder
of a Catholic priest in Birmingham. A jury composed of several Klan
members acquited Stephenson of the murder, reportedly after Black
expressed Klan gestures to the jury during the trial. In 1926 Black
sought and won election as a Democrat to the United States Senate after
campaigning heavily to Klan membership. He is said to have told one Klan
audience "I desire to impress upon you as representatives of the real
Anglo-Saxon sentiment that must and will control the destinies of the
stars and stripes, that I want your counsel."

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Perhaps most telling about the racist nature of Roosevelt's order was
his clearly expressed intention to apply it almost entirely to Japanese
Americans, even though America was also at war with Germany and Italy.
In 1943, Roosevelt wrote regarding concerns of German and Italian
Americans that they t0o would share in the fate of the interned Japanese
Americans, noting that "no collective evacuation of German and Italian
aliens is contemplated at this time." Despite this assertion, Roosevelt
did exhibit his personal fears about Italian and German Americans, and
in his typical racist form he used an ethnic stereotype to make his
point.

Expressing his position on German and Italian Americans during World War
II, Roosevelt stated "I don't care so much about the Italians, they are
a lot of opera singers, but the Germans are different. They may be
dangerous." Roosevelt also appointed two notorious segregationists to
the United States Supreme Court. Roosevelt appointed South Carolina
segregationist Democrat Jimmy Byrnes to the court. Roosevelt later made
Byrnes a top advisor, where the segregationist earned the nickname
"assistant president." Byrnes was Roosevelt's second choice behind Harry
Truman for the VP nod in his 1944 reelection bid. Roosevelt also
appointed segregationist Democrat Senator Hugo Black of Alabama to the
court. Black was a former member of the Ku Klux Klan with a notorious
record of racism himself.

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In response to the growing practice of racial McCarthyism by prominent
left wing Democrats, it is necessary to expose the truth about the
Democrat Party's record on Civil Rights:

I. Acts of Bigotry by Prominent Democrats and Leftists: Franklin Delano
Roosevelt: Franklin Roosevelt, the long time hero and standard bearer of
the Democrat Party, headed up and implemented one of the most horrible
racist policies of the 20th Century the Japanese Internment Camps
during World War II. Roosevelt unilaterally and knowingly enacted
Japanese Internment through the use of presidential Executive Orders
9066 and 9102 during the early years of the war. These orders
single-handedly led to the imprisonment of an estimated 120,000 law
abiding Americans of Japanese ancestry, the overwhelming majority of
them natural born second and third generation American citizens.
Countless innocents lost their property, fortunes, and, in the case of
an unfortunate few, even their lives as a result of Roosevelt's
internment camps, camps that have been accurately described as America's
concentration camps.

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Not surprisingly, in all the lies and accusations of racism by the
radical leftwing, the truth becomes distorted not only about the
Republicans but also the Democrats who make these accusations
themselves. For instance, you may or may not have heard Democrat Senator
Robert Byrd's outburst of racist bigoted slurs, more specifically the
"n-word," on national television in March of 2001. Amazingly, this
incident of blatant racism on national television drew barely a peep
from the NAACP, Jesse Jackson, Julian Bond, Mary Frances Berry, or any
of the other ambulance chasers who purport themselves to be the leaders
of the civil rights movement. In contrast, the main source of well
deserved criticism for Byrd's racist outburst came not from any of the
so called leaders of the civil rights movement but from from Republican
Majority Leader *** Armey (source). The race hustlers Jackson, Mfume et
al turned a blind eye towards this act of racism by one of their own
party, at most issuing an unpublicized slap on the wrist, or, as was
more often the case, making not a peep. But where the race hustlers turn
a blind eye and spew their lies, it is up to conservatives to set the
record straight with the truth.

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The Democrat Party's Long and Shameful History of Bigotry and Racism

The Democrat Party's Long and Shameful History of Bigotry and Racism
A common attack upon conservatives and republicans by the ultra left is
to engage in what has come to be known as "playing the race card" but is
more accurately described as racial McCarthyism. Hardly a day goes by
without a member of the far left wing falsely accusing conservatives of
racism, bigotry, and a wide array of similar nasty things. They are not
only dishonest, but they often border on the absurd, as in NAACP leader
and hyper bigot Julian Bond's recent implication to his organization
that Bush administration officials supported confederate slavery.
Amazingly, Bond's statements went without condemnation from the radical
Democrat party or others in his organization.

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Hey CancelRush,

You get an "E" for effort. But an "F" for substance.

Facts are not racist statements. But liberalism has denegrated free speech so much that it is, well at least for non-liberals.

Many athletes come from democrat induced dis-education and poverty. Just like lottery winners, they DO NOT know what to do with their money and are soon seperated from it.

"Blacks" as you put it, mostly, are not fond of swimming. This is evidenced by the fact that very few if any swim teams have "Black" participants. That is what Rush was talking about.

"Welfare Mama" describes many races. Your feelings are irrevelant. I do not know what the entire statement was, and you did not bother to post it. Take one phrase out of context and try to use it as proof. E=effort, F=substance

"American radio should also ban promos of college sporting events during the broadcast of Rush's radio show. American radio should also ban promos of college sporting events during the broadcast of Rush's radio show."

Now your showing your communist colors! Why don't you libs just make it law that everyone has to be a liberal and agree with you?

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The issue isn't Limbaugh's bias, it's his track record of intellectual dishonesty. He says that are demonstrably and empiracally untrue, and then, if it occasionally draws criticism, he's been known to deny that he's said it.

Hre are just a few examples of Limbaugh's blatant disrespect for reality, compiled some years ago. Be assured that he hasn't changed since then.

http://www.fair.org/index.php?page=1895

If the producers of the CBS News have a gram of competence, they know about the dark side of Limbaugh's reputation. Surely there are more responsible representatives of the right side of the spectrum available. Indeed, nearly anyone ofther than Bill O'Reilly would be an improvement.

But the producers chose Limbaugh, because he has the audience. Once again, it is the triumph of celebrity, not unlike the choice of Katie Couric over several poised and attractive female anchors that CBS has been delegating to their all-night news for years.

I've been a loyal viewer of the CBS Evening News since the Walter Cronkite Days, and I don't think I could have imagined such a thorough and willful dive into the toilet as I have seen this week. Bringing Limbaugh on to stink up the show is simply emblematic of the whole youth-marketed mess. Somewhere the ghost of Edward R.Murrow is throwing up.
Posted by fedora1958 at 01:58 PM : Sep 08, 2006

You said you quoted Rush. So where is it? A link to a left-wing website is not a quote in your post. Typical liberal BS.