Why did I know it would be Mary Mitchell after seeing the Sun-Times tag and reading the headline?

Why would it be awesome if she lost too? The pig is wrong here and it would be great if she kicked his fat, porcine ass....

I thoroughly enjoyed reading that.

I disagree with her to certain degree. It's not merely white privilege that's afflicting Limbaugh. He's becoming marginalized as a poltical hack. People aren't buying his tripe seriously anymore. Not even to hate him. He's being psychologically tuned out.

rush limbaugh squeals like a pig?


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Wow, considering the argument she's making, you'd think she'd have some minimal awareness of how horribly racist she's being. I guess self-awareness is out right now for talk radio personalities.

"The epitome of white privilege"? Give me a goddamned break. If she'd stopped at pointing out that Palin's behavior is not appropriate, I'd be on her side, but as it is I'm kinda with subby on this one.

Jim_Callahan: Wow, considering the argument she's making, you'd think she'd have some minimal awareness of how horribly racist she's being. I guess self-awareness is out right now for talk radio personalities.

"The epitome of white privilege"? Give me a goddamned break. If she'd stopped at pointing out that Palin's behavior is not appropriate, I'd be on her side, but as it is I'm kinda with subby on this one.

Beyond how the words "white privilege" make you feel, do you understand what she is saying, when she uses those words?

I agree that she could have made a point without using those words, but more because she should have known the reaction that using those words would produce. Not because she is wrong.

Yes Rush is a big fat druggie. But to suggest that there is some white conspiracy propping him up in the name of "white privelege" is absurd. Commercial radio lives and dies on ratings -no ratings, no Rush.

/Most of the white racism in America exists only in the minds of blacks like Mary Mitchell.

Diogenes: I disagree with her to certain degree. It's not merely white privilege that's afflicting Limbaugh. He's becoming marginalized as a poltical hack. People aren't buying his tripe seriously anymore. Not even to hate him. He's being psychologically tuned out.

How do you figure this? Has he lost a lot of listeners lately?

Il Douchey: Yes Rush is a big fat druggie. But to suggest that there is some white conspiracy propping him up in the name of "white privelege" is absurd. Commercial radio lives and dies on ratings -no ratings, no Rush.

/Most of the white racism in America exists only in the minds of blacks like Mary Mitchell.

It's not a white racist conspiracy. It's that, as one of America's great moralizers, his legal and drug problems haven't hurt his listenership, nor the mainstream media's acceptance that he is the compass of the American right.

A black radio host in his shoes would've been eaten alive.

GWShenlong05: A black radio host in his shoes would've been eaten alive.

rev. jesse jackson knocks up a kid out of wedlock and is still not laughed at when he discusses moral issues.

al sharpton, hell, everything he's done and the guy is still considered a leader in the US black community

Kathy Griffin is a strong black woman

/she is

make me some tea: Diogenes: I disagree with her to certain degree. It's not merely white privilege that's afflicting Limbaugh. He's becoming marginalized as a poltical hack. People aren't buying his tripe seriously anymore. Not even to hate him. He's being psychologically tuned out.

How do you figure this? Has he lost a lot of listeners lately?

Purely my subjective opinion. I just don't get the sense that he carries as much influence as he used to, with listeners and haters alike. His schtick is being OBE: overtaken by events.

I don't know if his actual numbers reflect that. And I really don't care. He's part of our collective problem and I will gladly forget him once he's gone.

You know what bugs me?

What she did here.

Please.

I mean, treating each sentence as a separate paragraph?

Come on.

I hope Rush never goes off air, because if he did that would make Glen Beck the 2nd most popular talk radio host in America.

albo: rev. jesse jackson knocks up a kid out of wedlock and is still not laughed at when he discusses moral issues.

i haven't seen jesse jackson discuss any issues without being laughed at in decades.

albo: GWShenlong05: A black radio host in his shoes would've been eaten alive.

rev. jesse jackson knocks up a kid out of wedlock and is still not laughed at when he discusses moral issues.

al sharpton, hell, everything he's done and the guy is still considered a leader in the US black community

for both of you

Jesse Jackson's radio show (new window)

I just want the both of them to STFU

RevLovejoy: You know what bugs me?

What she did here.

Please.

I mean, treating each sentence as a separate paragraph?

Come on.

Yeah, I've written letters to editors about this. It's as if some journalism schools are now teaching that the function of a period is to signal "look out, here comes a new paragraph!"

Having read the article, I find it quite sensible. She also has the honesty to say explicitly that the squealer, tho' he dance around to avoid the word attractive and successful African-American, endorses racial bigotry in his followers. Some would avoid that.

Good for her, I say.

GWShenlong05: Il Douchey: Yes Rush is a big fat druggie. But to suggest that there is some white conspiracy propping him up in the name of "white privelege" is absurd. Commercial radio lives and dies on ratings -no ratings, no Rush.

/Most of the white racism in America exists only in the minds of blacks like Mary Mitchell.

It's not a white racist conspiracy. It's that, as one of America's great moralizers, his legal and drug problems haven't hurt his listenership, nor the mainstream media's acceptance that he is the compass of the American right.

A black radio host in his shoes would've been eaten alive.

Jesse Jackson, Al Sharpton caught on camera buying coke!, R Kelly has fans (he is a black leader). It is not a B/W thing.

BigDumbGuy: Why did I know it would be Mary Mitchell after seeing the Sun-Times tag and reading the headline?

Because "black" was in the headline. All she writes about is race.

Someone should send her a truckload of watermelons..just to watch her head explode....or would it? No my friends...she would secret them away to her bunker in the liberal stronghold of Chicago, where they would be ravenously consumed within 24-48 hours. [pounds desk for emphasis]

This broad is on to us privileged White people. Shall I release the gas?

/Better not be obscure

Look what that blowhard uttered on the air today: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2102408/posts

/I need to take a shower now, feelin' dirty after linking to FR

Il Douchey: Yes Rush is a big fat druggie. But to suggest that there is some white conspiracy propping him up in the name of "white privelege" is absurd. Commercial radio lives and dies on ratings -no ratings, no Rush.

/Most of the white racism in America exists only in the minds of blacks like Mary Mitchell.

That is absolutely BS. The fact that they're bringing up Obama's middle name, trying to link him to terrorists, etc are because it's got a racial undertone to it all. However, most of America isn't buying into it, but the significant size of the hard conservative base are, and you can't tell me there's no racism in that demographic (hell, like the article suggest, just look at the McCain and Palin rallies).

Jim_Callahan: Wow, considering the argument she's making, you'd think she'd have some minimal awareness of how horribly racist she's being. I guess self-awareness is out right now for talk radio personalities.

As a white guy, I don't see the racism on her part here. I don't have a problem with her pointing out the existence of "white privilege" because denying it exists would make me look obtuse.

Does anyone here think that if this columnist went all Imus and called a boy's college lacrosse team a "bunch of stringy-haired crackers" that she'd still have a regular column?

Or that if Obama was videotaped 6 months ago being "faith-healed" like Sarah Palin, having demons and witches cast out from his body that he'd still be in contention for office?

No. And this woman didn't get all "screw you white people with your privilege," either. She just noted that race is a major factor in determining how much people can get away with in our society. If you have a problem with that, fine, but don't try to pretend she's making sh#t up.

She has a point. Rush is a squealer

Although Palin would ban it because there is a depiction of "pig rape"

"I repeat. Had Obama fans acted a fool the way McCain fans did, every pundit -- with the squealer leading the way -- would have demanded he offer some kind of apology."

/Indeed!

PartTimeBuddha: Having read the article, I find it quite sensible. She also has the honesty to say explicitly that the squealer, tho' he dance around to avoid the word attractive and successful African-American, endorses racial bigotry in his followers. Some would avoid that.

Good for her, I say.

Seconded! Of course Limbaugh exploits his listeners' prejudice by stoking it with code words. Only a dyed-in-the-wool ditto-head would deny something so obvious.

Diogenes: sed to, with listeners and haters alike. His schtick is being OBE: overtaken by events.

I don't know if his actual numbers reflect that. And I really don't care. He's part of ourmy collective problem and I will gladly forget him once he's gone.

ftfy

She forgot to mention he touches children whilst on sex tours.

guilt by association: Look what that blowhard uttered on the air today: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2102408/posts

/I need to take a shower now, feelin' dirty after linking to FR

Jesus Christ. It's a madhouse in there. Those guys are really losing touch with reality.

Rush, Greaseman and Imus walk into Sylvia's...

// insert your own punchline here

wow. this election is bringing out the best in all of us:

Bill O'Reilly Unhinged

/but Limbaugh always deserves a good kick in the head.

guilt by association: Look what that blowhard uttered on the air today: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2102408/posts

/I need to take a shower now, feelin' dirty after linking to FR

Damn, those guys are batshiat insane.

I think this blogger might be on to something: Is John McCain Trying to Get Obama Hurt? (new window)

The squealer was among the first to demand that Barack Obama (Barack, Rush, not Barry) denounce his former pastor, the Rev. Jeremiah Wright, for comments deemed offensive to white people.

Someone find me something where Rush is actually saying its offensive to 'white people' and not Americans in general.

As I noted in a column I wrote in 2003 (the real source of the squeals I'm now hearing, since Limbaugh didn't address a single issue I raised in the column he attacked), despite Limbaugh's drug addiction, he was still allowed to return to his popular radio show.

That, my friends, is white privilege

Who are these black radio show hosts who have been kicked off the air for having a drug problem? Are there any radio hosts of any race who have been kicked off the air for drug problems? Isn't addiction a disease that we need to help people overcome?

While conservatives like the squealer can't get enough of ridiculing black youth for honoring bling bling over intellect, what did they think McCain was doing when he tapped Palin for VP?

It didn't matter that she is probably the most inarticulate politician ever to step up to the microphone. She had the right amount of quirkiness and naughtiness to draw in the "American Idol" and reality TV crowd.

I get it.

I get it too.

This black woman is going to try to counter limbaugh's supposed racism, with a racist stereotype of what she believes is white culture. She doesn't "get" the cultural draw that people across America feel for Sarah Palin, so she dismisses it as not her culture. Anyone supporting McCain is obviously a racist who is voting on cultural appeal, no way they could have fundamental policy disagreements with Barack Obama. They are just uninformed rednecks who might as well be voting for a vanilla milkshake over a chocolate one. A person with any intelligence would obviously choose chocolate, they are voting against their best interest. I know what is in their interest more than they do.

/If only they could see the light

FTA: One good turn deserves another, Mr. Limbaugh, so please have your people in Chicago tune in to V-103 on Sunday between 6 and 8 a.m., and I'll return the favor.

Just in case you didn't RTFA and you want to tune in to hear Rush get hammered by a black woman.

impaler: Jesus Christ. It's a madhouse in there. Those guys are really losing touch with reality.

Wow, that is some funny shiat right there. I can't wait to go there on election day. I'm sure Hilaryis44 will be fun too.

antidisestablishmentarianism: "pig rape"

fapfapfap

Good editorial. I wouldn't have thought it controversial to observe that Limbaugh benefits enormously from the towering edifice of double standards known as white privilege, or that racism underlies much of the rage directed at Obama. But then, I have a history of underestimating the depth of denial and sheer stupidity that right-wingers are capable of manifesting, especially where their objects of worship are involved.

Good grief, that woman is practically illiterate. I'm embarrassed for her.

I bet she finished that incoherent rant with a couple snaps and "talk to the hand" flourish.

impaler: Jesus Christ. It's a madhouse in there. Those guys are really losing touch with reality.


I love that some of them think McCain might win "in a landslide". Kinda scary is the foul underbelly of American ignorance, freeperville.

im curious what did Rushbo rant about when we had a republican controlled Congress and a (R) President?

in a nutshell? anyone?

grxymkjbn: I love that some of them think McCain might win "in a landslide". Kinda scary is the foul underbelly of American ignorance, freeperville.

Don't you know? All of the polling organizations are secretly controlled by the left. All the TV stations are involved as well.

/they have a special brand of stupid going on a free republic

munko: Diogenes: sed to, with listeners and haters alike. His schtick is being OBE: overtaken by events.

I don't know if his actual numbers reflect that. And I really don't care. He's part of ourmy collective problem and I will gladly forget him once he's gone.

ftfy

Sowing political and social division, hatred, and intolerance for the purpose of making an easy buck is everyone's problem, sport.

impaler: guilt by association: Look what that blowhard uttered on the air today: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2102408/posts

/I need to take a shower now, feelin' dirty after linking to FR

Jesus Christ. It's a madhouse in there. Those guys are really losing touch with reality.

I love this one.

This is no longer an election, its a coup attempt. We should treat it as such. The US military should treat it as such.

That doesn't make any sense.

cchris_39: Good grief, that woman is practically illiterate. I'm embarrassed for her.

I bet she finished that incoherent rant with a couple snaps and "talk to the hand" flourish.

Overreact much? Gee, I wonder why? Don't look now, but you're channeling Bill O'Reilly. You might want to have that looked at.

Isitoveryet: im curious what did Rushbo rant about when we had a republican controlled Congress and a (R) President?

in a nutshell? anyone?

This could probably sum it up.

Relax your face...really relax it. Then, start shaking your head back and forth as fast as you can; it should make your cheeks and lips flop around a bit. Then, while doing that, scream "LIBERALS".

Alternately, you could take your index finger and move it up and down rapidly against your lips and yell "DEMOCRAT PARTY."