This man is a complete piece of shite. This man is a flat out racist and shouldn't earn a dime from sponsors. When you call for racial segregation as an answer to any problem, you've lost any credibility in a discussion and only incite an a…lready intolerant base. Would he call for this if it were an Asian-White conflict, or boys vs. girls? Someone sew Rush a Klan hood and let's just get it over with.
In a remark extraordinary even by the standards of conservative talk show host Rush Limbaugh, the right-wing radio heavyweight declared on his program Wednesday that the United States needed to return to racially segregated buses.
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.”
Media Matters shows just how far off the rails this irresponsible voice of the GOP has run, knowing the attack was not caused by racial conflict after all — segregation is still on his mind as the answer:
Then Rush took a caller who said the local police investigating the bus assault said today the attack was not racially motivated. Rush responded to these developments put out by the local law enforcement:
LIMBAUGH: 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.
On Countdown, Howard Dean discussed the corrosive effect on society of bottom-feeders like Limbaugh and Beck.




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These right wingers live in a world guided by fearThey are afraid of being the minority, fearing that once they are a minority they will be oppressed as they have done to many other groups of people. All these tea baggers claim they want to take America back, back a few centuries. They all fear being persecuted by those they have oppressed.
If you read right wing E-blasts about losing religous freedom, all fear. If you listen to them, it is all fear. And all from Bull Shit hype that has no meaning or truth.
What a sad way to live.
I Agree With RushLet’s separate the spawn of racist anti-gay teabaggers far FAR away from the normal people.
Having them around is like having some pentecostal kook in your neighborhood who’s always trying to take away everyone’s fun, eliminate Halloween, and being your typical shit-stirring busybody.
They’re not welcome in 2009.
Rush hasnt a clue…
I grew up un rural northern California. I got beat up on the school buss more times than I didn’t. Thats right…a white kid getting beat up by other white kids. Wow, I guess violence one a school bus never happens where Rush comes from…parents should never suffer under the illusion that the bus is a “safe” place for their kids.
I have news for them, Kat
The right wingers are a minority – now if we can just keep ‘em that way…
this is OBAMA’S america?i love that all rush has to do is say whatever verbal bile comes to his deranged mind and then throw “obama” in at the end of it, and somehow the meaning justifies itself.
make no mistake though–a huge segment of this country is actually RUSH’S america, which is why we have rampant racism, blatant bigotry, and generalized hatred infecting our national climate. he’s another enormous link in a long chain that won’t be broken, and the entire country suffers because of it. and the people who are still listening to his program after the number of outrages he has committed on air are evidence of everything that is wrong with us.
I know that right wingers are a minority But I am talking about the white population. They use that number as a way to still feel in power, even though most white people don’t hold their twisted views.
The DifferenceThere’s white people, and then there’s white people with a sense of entitlement (who feels they’re the “decider” of which minorities receives whatever civil rights).
Even though the latter is the minority, they’re the loudest of ANY group of people, which means they still get their way most of the time.
He gets on to the ‘homosexuals’ later in the broadcastI was reading the transcript, and I noticed that, a bit later in the same broadcast, Rush had this to say:
How many times does he have to spew poison before people conclude that he is poison? If he still has an audience, what does this say about them?
StupidityPeople aren’t born racists: they’re turned into racists by picking up words and propaganda from the people they’re around.
Just like people aren’t anti-gay until the people they’re around fill their heads with words and propaganda.
Wow!A born racist. Nice…
The leader of the GOP.
Who sponsors his show?Who are his sponsors, and how do they feel about segregation? I sure would like to call and email them and ask…
Just who are Rush’s listeners anyway?I mean, I picture them as the kind of people who pay to see boxing matches, and ultimate fights, and even cheer on professional wrestling and that isn’t even real. How could they jump to the conclusion that the kids were cheering because it was a black guy beating up a white guy? Anyone who has ever seen a fight break out would know that the kids were cheering because a fight broke out. They would have cheered if it was two white guys, or two black guys, and if it was two girls fighting you would have been able to hear their cheers from two blocks away. Sometimes I wonder if a large portion of his audience isn’t really people listening so they can keep track of what propaganda the crazy bastard is preaching now. I honestly wonder how much of his audience wouldn’t love to see his show cancelled.
My kidSorry all you bleeding heard liberals….if my kid was going to get beat up on the bus just because he’s white, I’ll get him/her to school another way. You all go on as this is a perfect world…it is NOT. You can go ahead and press you’re issues all you want, but not using my kid!
It’s “Rush the Ardent Segregationist” now…I think that is how he should be referred to now.
Has a certain, pre-civil rights era panache.
For Real?Go right ahead!
I’m white, and it’s hilarious to see the same exact people who created an anti-black climate followed by an anti-gay climate are retreating and being big pussies whenever there’s a backlash from those people.
And nobody wants to use your kid. You just don’t want your kid to get caught up in the chaos you created. Pretty cowardly.
The point isthat the kid was NOT beaten up because he was white. that’s Rush bullshit.
I mean, I suppose that back in the day I could have cried “racism” when my buddy Raymond shot me in the ass with a BB gun. I could have cried “we need to move out the neighborhood.” Or something like that.
Race had nothing to do that. Ray and I were classmates friends, he was always pulling dumb ass practical jokes.
Thing is this probably has nothingto do with a racial backlash.
Hell, I had white kids and black kids that wanted to kick my ass. The closest epithets I ever heard were from black kids saying that I was “acting white.”
Well…lol, maybe that’s not such a good example since my Mom and stepdad pulled me and my bro out of public school and put us into Catholic school in part for those incidents but THAT wasn’t racial segregation.
TYT MomentI couldn’t see the video very well, but The Young Turks point out the victim wasn’t the only white person on the bus – others were sitting down in the back:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v…
Rush would have LOVED to have taken advantage of a “fight” which had taken place during my senior year of high school in the mid 90′s: this white redneck was making some pretty nasty racial comments during school, and at the end of the school day, pretty much the entire black population (a couple hundred) of students cornered and circled around him in the parking lot. They didn’t whoop his ass, but it scared the ungodly shit out of him.
Go ahead and segregate your kid. And go with him.I know it’s a silly question, with no hope of an intelligent answer, but what on earth is a “bleeding heard liberal”? Is the problem that you can’t spell, have a lousy vocabulary, or what? Or is there some deep, ominous meaning only reactionaries can understand?
No, Not Thisbut it’s not impossible in the future.
I do believe some whites will begin sheltering their kids or taking them out of public schools for fear of racial backlash, and even backlash from gay students.
Hell, they’ve been doing that all along!
Yes!I want to know this information too!
The scary thing is … some of them look normalThe guy who lives upstairs from me is a listener. Mid-20s, thin, preppy-looking, has potted plants out in front of his door, sets his table with a matched dining set, plays the piano, and swishes a bit when he walks. If he watches professional wrestling, he does it with headphones on or the sound off.
Actually, my first impression was that he might be gay. After figuring out which flat the Limbaugh bromides I overheard were coming from, I lost all interest in finding out.
I confess-I used to listen to Rushback in the Clinton era right up to the 2000 election.
I figured out very, very early on not to take him or his politics seriously and some of the satire was actually kinda good (though mean spirited). Then, I don’t think that he took himself too seriously.
I catch Rush every once in blue moon now and it’s very different. It may be that he relapsed on Hillbilly Heroin (or never got off of it, for that matter).
Part of it also is that while he had an audience, I never felt that his listeners looked to him for leadership; after all, they had Gingrich & Co. Now, the bigots have no leadership, no one seriously on the horizon really, and Rush is all they got.
not to be nasty to Rush but …… did the Arbitron ratings come in this week, and now he has to catch up to Glenn Beck? Just watch, the pundits will all be trying to out-crazy each other. At some point Norma Desmond will walk down those stairs.
It’s schtick. He’s still a racist, tho’, one whose act is getting tired. He’s going to have to top this somehow, and make Beck look like Mister Rogers in the process.
He’s a yokel from the Ozarks, home of “sundown towns” and militiamenNow, he shouldn’t have that excuse, since he comes from a prominent (in Missouri) family of lawyers, and various relatives have been judges. It isn’t as if Rushbo grew up poor and scared of the outside world. Rush is definitely the black sheep of that family, the only one in his generation or the last to not graduate from college.
I get the impression that he wants to lord it over college graduates, starting with those in his own family. The Limbaughs are conservative, but not crude.
Incidentally, the Missouri rumor among “family” is that Rush engaged in gay sex during his one college year – the old “I was drunk” excuse, no doubt.
reading comprehension anyone?Now I would never waste a second of my life listening to Rush Limbaugh but apparently none of you know how to read. It’s pretty obvious he’s being sarcastic. As in he’s describing how he sees Obama’s America