This time he crossed the line. Imus was fired and so, why is Rush still on the air.
His advertisers must be nuts to have ads on his show now.
This struck me as a horrible thing to say, even for Rush.

Breathtaking.

A fictional character that did and said as Rush does would get you laughed out of a freshman level creative writing class.

@ Maude—I guess being a racist loon is okay on radio, but I’m not sure why that is. Limbaugh’s foray into TV sports was cut short because he couldn’t contain his racist bile. But he can pretty much say whatever he wants on the radio, and there’s been no big, concerted effort to boycott his sponsors—at least, not that I know of. Puzzling.

Rush knows there won’t be an ounce of pushback from his audience, which loves “White Comedian” Paul Shanklin’s minstrel songs about Obama, Sharpton, Rangel, Jesse Jackson et al. 

Like Beck, Rush has gradually progressed from calling Obama a “Liberal” to a “Socialist” to a “Marxist” to a “Communist,” following the Freeper Curve of incrementally more thrilling code words for “nigger.”

From experience, Rush understands that he can slam Blacks and Hispanics as hard as he wants to, until someone fires him. Hopefully, this time, someone bigger than ESPN is paying attention.

El Rushbo is one reason, among many, that I can’t ever see a time when I will ever vote for any Republican. The fact that the Repubs feel like they must polish his knob or apologize to him if they say something that doesn’t jibe with GOP orthodoxy indicates to me that the GOP is populated with nothing but dullards, craven opportunists and cowardly bullies. Rush is bad enough; his followers are worse.

@HTP — Thanks for linking that. That is one of the reasons I can barely type today. These bastards are everywhere, and no longer even trying to disguise what they are.

Oh, and Rush is replaying his remarks from yesterday, because he knows that doubling-down is the best defense.

Rush is never going to go away.  And he will never be fired. His dittoheads love him and they bring in too much money for him to go off the air.  I’ve always loathed him and try not to know anything about him but it seems to me that he has been driven into an absolute orgy of out and out racism at this point. He used to be a little more clever about it, a little more indirect.  But it feels like his supporters need ever more red meat, ever more direct language, to assuage their feelings of shame, fear, and loss after the Obama election.  Their world view was so invalidated by that win that they simply can’t handle the psychic fragmentation.  Rush is the only trusted, daily, figure who consistently tells them what they want to hear.  He’s selling meth to tweakers. They’ll never let him go.

aimai

Rush is now quoting Hillbuzz. Yuck.

For anyone who’s listening, he will more thoroughly examine the Hillbuzz assertion that Black Democrats are “plantation slaves” in the segment beginning at 12:30 EDT.

StrangeApparBus,
Thanks for listening, because I can’t make myself do that.
This did really upset me. Jay Severan was booted for racial remarks but that was one station.
Bob Grant was booted for racial remarks from WABC, NYC.
I do wonder if this will cause problems for the stations that carry Rush.

Wow, and Coburn is supposed to be one of the saner GOP grandees—he is allegedly at least capable of reaching across the aisle from time to time.

Well, we expected them to go full Atwater in 2012. They got nothing else. Looks like we’re in for a Category 5 shitstorm of racist fearmongering.

Thanks, Maude.

Here’s how low Rush will go: He’s reading a perpetual spam email about Blacks and plantations that was republished on Republican ratfuck site Hillbuzz…and using Hillbuzz’ credentials as a “former pro-Hillary blog” to somehow validate the spam email.

I guess it’s true: Two frauds make a fright.

Coburn and Obama worked on legislation together but I guess the black man getting further ahead just cannot stand.

Re: Rush I got nothin’.

Let’s look for this clip later:

As he dived into a commercial break, Rush observed that the iceberg that sank the Titanic was “white.”

But it feels like his supporters need ever more red meat, ever more direct language, to assuage their feelings of shame, fear, and loss after the Obama election.

This absolutely what’s happening. But that creates a delightful conundrum for GOPols who have their noses buried in The Limp Blimp’s ass crack. The longer they continue to suck up to him (and by extension his base), the more they tarnish the party.

There’s also the fact that if Flush reduces his audience to a bunch of crack-brained bigots on limited or fixed income, his sponsors will go elsewhere.

Looks like we’re in for a Category 5 shitstorm of racist fearmongering.

Yup. We all know the GOP is stuck in the early 50s. Here’s hoping they don’t figure out rest of the country has moved on. At least until after the next election.

A long-time acquaintance of mine is a Limbaugh fan.  If I ask him what he thinks of Limbaugh’s obvious race-baiting, my friend openly welcomes this as an opportunity to spout off about “nigger” this and “coon” that.  He has told me more than once that he wishes Limbaugh would quit pussy-footing around and just go full-Klansman already.  Oddly enough, though, if I tell him that Limbaugh is obviously a self-loathing closet-case, my friend gets strangely defensive and quickly changes the subject.

Sigh.  Just…sigh.  I think it’s true that Limbaugh is throwing red meat to his dittoheads, but I think it’s truly what he believes, too.  Not all of it, obviously, but there are times when the anger in his voice is real and not manufactured. 

As for Coburn, I have no words.  I knew it would get bad, but I didn’t think they would go full-out crazy hating like this.  If Obama wins reelection, it’s just going to get worse.

I’m glad I’m leaving for Canada in two days—I may just stay there and suck at the government teat with my socialized healthcare.

JS,  Mark Twain said the difference between fiction and real life is that fiction has to be credible.

blkelib,
You know, I don’t believe Limbaugh is a “self loathing closet case.”  I think he’s an equal opportunity fucker who probably leans towards adolescents of either sex.  I see a ton of straight up, natural born, male misogyny as well as homophobia but I never got the vibe off of Limbaugh that he actually prefers one sex over the other. 

aimai

Also, why don’t you ask your friend sometime why its so important to him that someone else express his bigotry for him. Isnt he brave enough to go full Klansman himself?

@ Aimai—I have relatives and acquaintances who are Limbaugh-listening racists too, and I think the big attraction for them is validation. The folks I’m talking about don’t hide their racism. (At least not around fellow white people; you know how every “black joke” starts? Like this: [speaker steals a glance to the right and then glances left]).

Anyhoo, they just love to hear Limbaugh spouting the same racist crap they themselves think and say all the time, and it’s all the more powerful because US presidents and senators and congresscritters flock to kiss Limbaugh’s ring, giving a vicarious thrill to his listeners because that must mean they’re not losers and dinosaurs.

I wish the media would start asking Republicans who appear on Limbaugh’s program what they think about his constant race-baiting. It’s a fair question. I can’t think of a liberal non-politician who wields the influence Limbaugh does in the GOP, but you can bet if such a person said anything half as provocative as Limbaugh does on a daily basis, every Democrat in the US would be forced to denounce it. Hell, look at those tea party jackasses who were harassing the president this week for something some obscure congressman said in a meeting Obama didn’t even attend.

I wish the media would start asking Republicans who appear on Limbaugh’s program what they think about his constant race-baiting. It’s a fair question.

Well, there’s your problem. What you and I and every other sane person on the planet calls a fair question is a mean nasty uncivil gotcha question to the ReThugs and the handjob maidens of the media.

I wonder if Nabisco (?) is loving this pr for their new product.