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Message: <blockquote data-quote="hubrat" data-source="post: 820827" data-attributes="member: 869">re: Rush & racism:Responding to a news report that a majority of young Blacks feel alienated from the government, Limbaugh said on Feb. 1, 2007: “Why would that be? The government’s been taking care of them their whole lives."On Jan. 19, 2007 the talk show host said: “Let me put it to you this way. The NFL all too often looks like a game between the Bloods and the Crips without any weapons. There I said it.”On June 4, Limbaugh said of President Obama, "He’s angry; he’s going to cut the country down to size. He’s going to make it pay for all the multicultural mistakes that it has made—its mistreatment of minorities. I know exactly what’s going on here.”Limbaugh admitted to Richard Gehr of Newsday [Oct. 8, 1990] that as a DJ in Pittsburgh during the 1970s, he told a Black caller, “Take that bone out of your nose and call me back.”On his defunct TV show, he reacted to Spike Lee urging Black schoolchildren to take off from school to see his film “Malcolm X.” Limbaugh said on Oct. 29, 1992: “Spike, if you’re going to do that, let’s complete the education experience. You should tell them that they should loot the theater, and then blow it up on their way out.”Reacting to a report of Black students assaulting a White student on a bus, Limbaugh said on Sept. 15: “In Obama’s America, the White kids now get beat up with the Black kids cheering, ‘Right on, right on, right on.’”Newsday reported on Oct. 8, 1990 that Limbaugh said, “Have you noticed how all newspaper composite pictures of wanted criminals resemble Jesse Jackson?”Limbaugh praised Sen. Strom Thurmond, who ran for president in 1948 on a segregationist platform. On his TV show aired Sept. 1, 1993, Limbaugh said of Thurmond, “He’s not encumbered by being politically correct…If you want to know what America used to be—and a lot of people wish it still were—then you’d listen to Strom Thurmond.”As is often the case, Limbaugh even sees “reverse racism” where none exists. During the 2006 Democratic primaries in Ohio, he commented on Paul Hackett’s decision to withdraw from the contest for state Senate against state Rep. Sherrod Brown. Limbaugh said, “And don’t forget, Sherrod Brown is Black. There’s a racial component here, too.” What Limbaugh forgot—or did not know—was that Sherrod Brown is White. If there was a racial component, he made it up.Sherrod Brown:<img src="http://media.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/politics/congress/members/photos/228/B000944.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /><a href="http://www.newpittsburghcourieronline.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=605:documenting-limbaughs-racist-comments&catid=40:opinion&Itemid=54" target="_blank">http://www.newpittsburghcourieronline.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=605:documenting-limbaughs-racist-comments&catid=40<img src="/community/styles/default/xenforo/smilies/redface.png"  class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":o" title="Embarrassment    :o" data-shortname=":o" />pinion&Itemid=54</a></blockquote>

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