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You're right. Anyone who confuses the two is someone who should be shunned and not taken seriously:
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When Ted Kennedy then hopes that Obama should be killed by "confusing" the two, you may have a point.
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I have listened to enough of Limbaugh to know that there is no basis for the assertion that he is a racist (or hatemonger, homophobe, whatever).
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1. Can you clarify what you mean by "racist." I have an idea of what it means, but I have a feeling that much of this discussion has to due with the way those on the right have raised the bar for "racism" to a ridiculous level. Essentially you have to don a KKK outfit and advocate for the return to Jim Crow segregation and lynchiing in order to be labelled a "racist" by the right. Oddly enough, the OTHER way you get labelled a racist is if you're a civil rights activist who calls out racism, somehow that's called "race baiting." Though no one can explain exactly why. Who is being baited? How does that baiting translate into tension. Do civil rigths activists manufacture these things. If so, can you point to some examples.
2. I have tons and tons of evidence of Limbaugh racism. I'll let him hang himself with his own words.
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“I mean, let’s face it, we didn’t have slavery in this country for over 100 years because it was a bad thing. Quite the opposite: slavery built the South. I’m not saying we should bring it back; I’m just saying it had its merits. For one thing, the streets were safer after dark
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Intense. Not only is he factually innacurate, we had slavery for three centuries if you include the colonial period. But he's actually saying that the death of nearly a million Africans in the middle passage, the systemic rape of black women and the total dehumanization of black people wasn't "so bad" because it economically "built the South."
Here's Limbaugh talking about the potential to intervene in Darfur. He also takes the opportunity to denigrate Nelson Mandela and claim that sanctioning Apartheid in South Africa was a "plot" by Democrats to appeal to black voters, rather than the right thing to do.
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LIMBAUGH: Yeah. This is -- you're not going to believe this, but it's very simple. And the sooner you believe it, and the sooner you let this truth permeate the boundaries you have that tell you this is just simply not possible, the better you will understand Democrats in everything. You are right. They want to get us out of Iraq, but they can't wait to get us into Darfur.
CALLER: Right.
LIMBAUGH: There are two reasons. What color is the skin of the people in Darfur?
CALLER: Uh, yeah.
LIMBAUGH: It's black. And who do the Democrats really need to keep voting for them? If they lose a significant percentage of this voting bloc, they're in trouble.
CALLER: Yes. Yes. The black population.LIMBAUGH: Right. So you go into Darfur and you go into South Africa, you get rid of the white government there. You put sanctions on them. You stand behind Nelson Mandela -- who was bankrolled by communists for a time, had the support of certain communist leaders. You go to Ethiopia. You do the same thing.
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A fun sampler of Limbaugh quotes.
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You know who deserves a posthumous Medal of Honor? James Earl Ray [the confessed assassin of Martin Luther King]. We miss you, James. Godspeed
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Have you ever noticed how all composite pictures of wanted criminals resemble Jesse Jackson?
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If this is NOT race baiting/racism..what is?