Puffster Sent Out to Run Down Economy

[mr mahs]

Puffster Sent Out to Run Down Economy

by Rush Limbaugh

May 6, 2003

Ladies and gentlemen, Tom Daschle is back and I couldn’t be more ecstatic because the Puffster leads the pack in the category of opening the door into face and bloodying the nose. If you want things to backfire on the Democrats, send Tom Daschle out to front whatever issue it is – the latest being tax cuts.

On Tuesday morning, the Puffster spoke at a press conference to introduce the Senate Democrats' tax plan, which you can hear clips from, along with my comments, in the audio link below. Now folks, while you listen, I want you to think about something. You already send this government over $2 trillion a year. That's the federal operating budget, and it's all your money. It comes from you, the American people, who produce and work. However, you're not giving Tom Daschle enough.

You're not giving your state enough, you're not giving the federal government enough, and a puny little tax cut will cause all this tumult and chaos. You keeping what you earn and spending it on your behalf is going to totally ruin the nation's economy. That's the message of the Democratic Party. Also remember this: whatever Daschle says comes back to bite him in the ass over and over again. Well, it does. So, I say "ass" now and then! If it's about Democrats, it applies - and if the pattern holds up, Puff pontificating on how bad the economy is doing means we're poised for a boom.

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I love Rush he is so right on

[normalnoises]

June 7, 2000

Limbaugh: A Color Man Who Has A Problem With Color?

by Jeff Cohen and Steve Rendall

Talk radio host Rush Limbaugh may be returning to television. He recently auditioned for a job as color commentator on ABC's "Monday Night Football." The tryout followed weeks of self-promotion by the self-styled "truth detector" to the millions who listen daily to his syndicated radio show on some 600 stations.

Limbaugh's audition is stirring controversy. Sports columnist Thomas Boswell quipped that if Limbaugh joins "Monday Night Football" then baseball's game of the week broadcasters might "team up with John Rocker."

Veteran sports writer Michael Wilbon, who is black, indicated a boycott might result: "If Rush Limbaugh is put in that booth, I will NOT listen to the broadcast," he wrote in a Washington Post chat session. "His views on people like me are well documented and I would find it insulting and hypocritical to watch him…There are tens of thousands, probably hundreds of thousands who feel the same way I do."

If ABC hires Limbaugh, it's not clear a boycott will materialize. What is clear is that his expressed views on racial matters -- from the spiteful to the sophomoric -- would make him an odd color commentator. Indeed, CBS Sports dismissed Jimmy the Greek Snyder for ignorant racial remarks, less derisive than some of Limbaugh's.

As a young broadcaster in the 1970s, Limbaugh once told a black caller: "Take that bone out of your nose and call me back." A decade ago, after becoming nationally syndicated, he mused on the air: "Have you ever noticed how all composite pictures of wanted criminals resemble Jesse Jackson?"

In 1992, on his now-defunct TV show, Limbaugh expressed his ire when Spike Lee urged that black schoolchildren get off from school to see his film Malcolm X: "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."

In a similar vein, here is Limbaugh's mocking take on the NAACP, a group with a ninety-year commitment to nonviolence: "The NAACP should have riot rehearsal. They should get a liquor store and practice robberies."

When Carol Moseley-Braun (D-IL) was in the U.S. Senate, the first black woman ever elected to that body, Limbaugh would play the "Movin' On Up" theme song from TV's "Jeffersons" when he mentioned her. Limbaugh sometimes still uses mock dialect -- substituting "ax" for "ask"-- when discussing black leaders.

Such quotes and antics -- many compiled by Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting (FAIR) for our 1995 book -- offer a whiff of Limbaugh's racial sensibility. So does his claim that racism in America "is fueled primarily by the rantings and ravings" of people like Jesse Jackson. Or his ugly reference two years ago to the father of Madonna's first child, a Latino, as "a gang-member type guy" -- an individual with no gang background.

In 1994, Limbaugh mocked St. Louis for building a rail line to East St. Louis "where nobody goes." East St. Louis is home to roughly 40,000 residents -- 98 percent of whom are African-Americans. One of its 40,000 "nobodies" is star NFL linebacker Bryan Cox.

Once, in response to a caller arguing that black people need to be heard, Limbaugh responded: "They are 12 percent of the population. Who the hell cares?" That's not an unusual response for a talk radio host playing to an audience of "angry white males." It may not play so well among National Football League players, 70 percent of whom are African American.

Compared to some talk radio hosts, racism is not central to Rush Limbaugh's shtick. But there has been a pattern of commentary indicating his willingness to exploit prejudice against blacks to further his on-air arguments.

ABC has the right to hire Limbaugh, even at the risk of alienating members of its audience. ("Monday Night Football" is the second-most watched TV show in black households). Thrust into the world of pro football where Limbaugh himself would be something of a racial minority, is it possible that he'd rise above his history of racial bigotry and insensitivity? Not likely.

When all is said and done, the athletes are the key players on "Monday Night Football." It would be great to know how they'd feel about a color man who seems to have trouble with people of color.

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Originally posted by mr mahs

Puffster Sent Out to Run Down Economy

by Rush Limbaugh

May 6, 2003

Ladies and gentlemen, Tom Daschle is back and I couldn’t be more ecstatic because the Puffster leads the pack in the category of opening the door into face and bloodying the nose. If you want things to backfire on the Democrats, send Tom Daschle out to front whatever issue it is – the latest being tax cuts.

On Tuesday morning, the Puffster spoke at a press conference to introduce the Senate Democrats' tax plan, which you can hear clips from, along with my comments, in the audio link below. Now folks, while you listen, I want you to think about something. You already send this government over $2 trillion a year. That's the federal operating budget, and it's all your money. It comes from you, the American people, who produce and work. However, you're not giving Tom Daschle enough.

You're not giving your state enough, you're not giving the federal government enough, and a puny little tax cut will cause all this tumult and chaos. You keeping what you earn and spending it on your behalf is going to totally ruin the nation's economy. That's the message of the Democratic Party. Also remember this: whatever Daschle says comes back to bite him in the ass over and over again. Well, it does. So, I say "ass" now and then! If it's about Democrats, it applies - and if the pattern holds up, Puff pontificating on how bad the economy is doing means we're poised for a boom.

i take it he hasnt read the Congressional Budget Office's review of the cuts....