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- sonofdy1, on 10/12/2007, -4/+8Freedom of speech.
- nixonrichard, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5Freedom of speech as long as Al Sharpton said it first. We all have to swim in the wake of moral compasses like Sharpton, otherwise we subject ourselves to being accused of racism which is apparently a bigger offense than murder to Mr. Sharpton.
- mexmiler, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Exactly, Limbaugh is basically slef-employed... he has his little radio show and on it, he can, and frequently does, say whatever he wants.
- pintomp3, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2it's not about whether or not rush finds race baiting amusing, it's about whether his listeners and his advertisers finds it amusing. in imus's case advertisers were pulling out in droves.
- johndi, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Actually it's quite simple. Rush Limbaugh is syndicated. Don Imus worked for CBS.
Limbaugh didn't last long on ESPN, but since he resigned we don't know if they would have fired him over his McNabb comment. - graphictruth, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1When you are reduced to making "coon jokes" about a politician you don't like, it pretty much says to me that you don't like him because you think he's a coon - but don't have anything you CAN say against him.
And if you can't say anything to counter an unapologetic liberal other than that a man who's policy ideas are distinctly and specifically articulated, a man who doesn't waffle or apologize for being a liberal - it seems to me that you are - as political commentators go - pretty much a bag of useless wind. And that's Rush's real problem. He's jumped the shark.
Rush - along with the rest of the empty talking heads of the formerly influential Right Wing - have a very real problem. All the talking points turned out to be wrong. All their "facts" turned out to be... massaged. At best. All their predictions have failed to come true.
Please note - this is not to say that I'm Pro-Democrat or "liberal." I am a registered Libertarian. But ***** smells the same no matter what color of plastic you wrap it in, and pretty soon, people notice that whatever the label on the package says, it smells just the same when you open it.
Conservatism - real conservatism - is Reality Based. It deals in facts, in measurements, in prudence. Real conservatives are cynical bastards like me who realize that ideology is the first casualty of reality.
I'm not particularly left or right on most issues. I'm open minded about most things. But when people lie to me to get me to act against my own self interest, that is something I take exception too. Rush ain't a Conservative, any more than Bush or Rove. He's a lyin' bastard who will say anything to get the results he wants, and his job is to keep his audience stupid and uninformed.
You know, I wish Barry Goldwater was alive to do a guest slot on his show - just to hand him his drug-shriveled testicles on the air. - TheFederalist, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2Oh, and Imus was fired because big sponsors pulled out and CBS was would've lost money.
- TheFederalist, on 10/12/2007, -3/+4First of all, the clip was made by Paul Shanklin, a political satirist and comedian. Not Rush. Secondly, it was actually making fun of Al Sharpton, and to a lesser extent B.O., not so much to black people in general.
We all know comedians get away with alot. If you have a problem with it, take your complaints to THEM, not radio show hosts.
I'd like to know what Rush said before and after as well. - sonofdy1, on 10/12/2007, -4/+4Well the left has certianly proven that hate speech is protected these last 6 years.
- mannymix03, on 10/12/2007, -3/+3well, its pretty sad that Imus was fired in the first place.
nappy - adjective
1. (of hair) in small tight curls
ho (hō)
A prostitute.
Well i'm MEXICAN and i have nappy hair, and my ex girlfriend is a ho and shes white.... wheres the racial conflict?
Its humor, learn to like it - theaphro, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0screw that. learn to boo!
- whyhoo, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0i don't think anyone should get kicked off the air for what they say... if you don't like it, don't listen... but where are good 'ol Al and Reggie on this one?!
- theaphro, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Would anyone here die for (Rush) Limbaugh's freedom of speech, or for that matter, (Al) Franken's? If so, why do only a handful of companies STILL control broadcasting on the majority of our country's public airwaves. If so many folks were so ready to die for free speech, either the ownership of the broadcast spectrum would have been decentralized already or the obits would be taking over the local newspapers. Oh yeah, I forgot. They own the local newspapers too.
The fact of the matter is that Limbaugh's airing (without critique, thereby tacitly endorsing - arguably) a ham-fisted parody of the asinine debate over Obama's "realness" to the Black American community, is most insulting not in its tackiness but that it goes summarily unchallenged in most of the markets in which Limbaugh's show is syndicated. Why? Because so few companies control access to OUR supposedly public airways, with a wink and a nod from the one regulatory body supposedly representing our interests in the matter (the FCC for the acro-nym-phobes out there). That some right wing so-called satirist did an impersonation of Al Sharpton that would've made the original Amos & Andy blush (beneath the coalpaint blackface they wore on the vaudeville stage) is of little surprise, which is why I generally don't bother listening to their tripe in the first place. However, what galls me isn't so much that they have a place on the air, but that the marketplace (and access to it) has been so drastically reduced that Limbaugh gets to consider and refer to himself as the spokesman for the right wing common man not by virtue of merit but simply by monopoly! Does everyone who votes Republican think that skit was within the bounds of good taste or human decency for that matter? I'm sure the answer's an emphatic "HELL NO!!!" But what have we (half-African 1st generation American liberals) and we all (us love-and-defend-our-sacred-Bill-of-Rights-tooth-and-nail-for-All Americans) been reduced to but this crap all because of a market researchers report to one (of the seven) media company's corporate chairperson.
Black folks have pretty thick skin. We've been mocked worse by much better people, and have scraped by in this country so far. But how long can the Bill of Rights and the right to access our (our=Americans) public squares suffer the same neglect and continue to stand...for anything? - kimbolive, on 10/12/2007, -7/+6Freedom of (hate) speech.
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