Here at the No Insurance Club, we love to point out the amazing talent that our favorite radio and tv talk show hosts have. No one takes the cake, grabs the noose (so to speak) like Rush Limbaugh. If he isn’t in the spotlight for a few days, you can be assured that he will find his way back with flare. Sometimes I wonder if his publicists and agents leak information to the media to make sure Limbaugh’s outbursts are criticized.
Referring to an incident in which a white student was beaten by black students on a bus, Limbaugh said: “I think the guy’s wrong. I think not only it was racism, it was justifiable racism. I mean, that’s the lesson we’re being taught here today. Kid shouldn’t have been on the bus anyway. We need segregated buses — it was invading space and stuff. This is Obama’s America.”
“In Obama’s America, the white kids now get beat up with the black kids cheering, ‘Yay, right on, right on, right on, right on,” Limbaugh also said. “I wonder if Obama’s going to come to come to the defense of the assailants the way he did his friend Skip Gates up there at Harvard.”
“White Americans are racists who have created what they call free markets that really just enslave the rest of America and her trading partners,” Limbaugh also mocked. “I mean, it was white Americans that ran off Van Jones. No, look, let’s just follow Eric Holder’s advice and not be cowards about all this. Let’s have an open conversation, an honest conversation about all of our typical white grandmothers. You had one, I had one. Obama had one. They’re racists just like our students are. ACORN — hey, nothing but racism fueling the pursuit of ACORN.” (RawStory.com)
It is interesting that race has come to such a forefront all of a sudden. It’s almost as if America and Limbaugh have been biding their time, waiting until it was safe to say how they really felt about having a black President.
The police officers investigating the school bus beating said on record that it was not a racially motivated attack. There was no racism and it was not considered a hate crime. However, that didn’t stop Rush Limbaugh, and other conservative hams, from redirecting the spotlight to themselves by stirring the pot again.
When Glenn Beck brought up racism, his numbers went up and his advertising went down. I suppose people expect if from Limbaugh, but suggesting that whites and blacks are segregated to different buses is a bit absurd, even if the only reason he said it was for publicity.
America’s House Speaker made some interesting comments the other day regarding the responsibilities of congress members to put out the fires that are raging around this country right now, not fuel them. There is the good-old-fashioned fear tactic that has worked for the republican party for so long that is now beginning to scare the dems, not for fear that they’re telling the truth, but for fear that they will incite some unlawful act.
House Speaker Pelosi said that the state of affairs and emotions that our country is dealing with at the moment runs parallel to the feelings of old San Fran many years ago, when Pelosi was a representative in California, and a prominent member was gunned down by another. I’m actually surprised that Rush didn’t make any comments about that statement.
Segregated buses, what’s next? Good old Rush Limbaugh sure knows how to poor gallons of fuel on the fire, and as the masterful puppet-master that he is, it will be interesting to see how we continue down this bumpy path.
