Why would you ask Limbaugh of all people?
by digby
Rush Limbaugh: “I’m going to tell you right up front: The president is not a racist.” pic.twitter.com/K6bjzyXJ8F— Bobby Lewis (@revrrlewis) July 29, 2019
Oh please.
Here is a partial list of Limbaugh’s racist commentary through 2011. There are many more examples since then:
1 Limbaugh on Obama: “Halfrican American” [1/24/07]
2 Limbaugh on Obama: His “only chance of winning is that he’s black” [6/2/08]
3 Limbaugh on Jesse Jackson: Kerry camp got “a chocolate chip” [1/30/04]
4 Limbaugh: “If Obama weren’t black he’d be a tour guide in Honolulu” [7/6/10]
5 Limbaugh twice used word “spade” during discussion of Obama [1/15/08]
6 Limbaugh: Obama “wouldn’t have been voted president if he weren’t black” [7/6/10]
7 Limbaugh: “The media has been very desirous that a black quarterback do well.” [2003]
8 Limbaugh: “NFL all too often looks like a game between the Bloods and the Crips without any weapons” [1/19/07]
9 Limbaugh: Left upset with Obama because “white people are not shining the shoes of black people” [4/22/11]
10 Limbaugh: Gallup is “upping the sample of black Americans” to keep Obama’s approval rating over 50 percent [11/19/09]
11 Limbaugh: Obama and Holder “continue to protect and represent” New Black Panther [7/12/10]
14 Limbaugh mocks Chinese president’s untranslated speech [1/19/11]
15 Limbaugh photoshops Rep. Clyburn “driving Miss Nancy” [11/12/10]
16 Rush proposes a new leadership position for Rep. Jim Clyburn: “Driving Miss Nancy” [11/11/10]
17 Limbaugh: All Dems “had to do was nominate an African-American and [they’ve] got Colin Powell” [5/18/09]
18 Limbaugh: Obama is “this little boy, this little man-child president” [10/27/09]
19 Limbaugh: “For the first time in his life, Paterson is gonna be a massa” if he chooses Massa’s replacement [3/9/10]
20 Limbaugh: Basketball is “the favorite sport of gangs” [10/07/09]
21 Limbaugh: Illegal immigrants are an “invasive species” [4/4/05]
23 Limbaugh: “[M]inorities never do anything for which they have to apologize” [4/13/07]
24 Limbaugh: “The government’s been taking care of [young blacks] their whole lives” [2/5/07]
26 Limbaugh: “Obama’s entire economic program is reparations” [7/22/09]
27 Limbaugh on minorities: “The days of them not having any power are over, and they are angry” [6/4/09]
29 Limbaugh: Obama “wants us to have the same health care and plan that he had in Kenya” and “wants to be the black FDR” [8/24/09]
30 Limbaugh: “Obama has disowned his white half … he’s decided he’s got to go all in on the black side” [3/21/08]
31 Limbaugh: Obama is “more African in his roots than he is American” and is “behaving like an African colonial despot” [6/26/09]
32 “[I]n Obama’s America, the white kids now get beat up with the black kids cheering” [9/15/09]
34 Limbaugh on Steinbrenner death: “That cracker made a lot of African-American millionaires” [7/13/10]
37 Limbaugh: “[W]e need segregated buses […] This is Obama’s America” [9/15/09]
39 Limbaugh on Obama’s census form: “What race does he put down?” [4/1/10]
42 Limbaugh: “Obama is half-white; maybe his half-white side is to blame here” [9/15/09]
43 Limbaugh: “Can this nation really have an African-American president” [9/16/09]
46 Limbaugh: Food safety advocates “going to go after Oreos” but might have to wait until Obama leaves office [7/27/09]
Rush Limbaugh resigned last night from ESPN’s ”Sunday NFL Countdown” three days after he made race-related comments about how the news media view the Philadelphia Eagles quarterback Donovan McNabb.
The remarks prompted demands for ESPN to fire Limbaugh yesterday by Gen. Wesley K. Clark, a Democratic presidential contender, and Rep. Harold Ford Jr., Democrat of Tennessee, who said that he had enlisted 20 other House Democrats and had interest from three Republicans to sign a letter to the ESPN protesting the radio commentator’s comments.
On Sunday, Limbaugh elaborated on his belief that McNabb is overrated and that the Eagles’ defense has carried the team over the past few seasons.
”What we have here is a little social concern in the N.F.L.,” he said. ”The media has been very desirous that a black quarterback can do well — black coaches and black quarterbacks doing well. There is a little hope invested in McNabb and he got a lot of credit for the performance of this team that he didn’t deserve.”
He is a stone cold racist. And he know Trump is too. It’s one of the things they like about each other.
And by the way, Republicans from George Bush on down have been licking Limbaugh’s boots for decades now. There’s only one degree of separation between them and Trump.
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