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Rush Limbaugh True Story
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The picture that this Washington Post author paints comparing Tom Joyner to Rush Limbaugh is spot on.
The picture that this Washington Post author paints comparing Tom Joyner to Rush Limbaugh is spot on. Is it prejudice to give different first amendment freedoms to some while holding another group of people to a different social standard?
Since these comments were not critiqued by many, I’m assuming they were acceptable to the majority. How can anyone who agrees with Joyner these comments continue to support the NFL and/or the Washington Football team? It continues to blow my mind why Democrats and the radical left don’t boycott the NFL. Could it be because of money?
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But my sensibilities are particularly offended when the mainstream media doesn’t apply the same standard of fingering wagging to blacks when they utter racial obscenities, as members of the press do when whites make offensive remarks.
Black syndicated radio host Tom Joyner of the popular Tom Joyner Morning Show thinks Washington Redskins coach Mike Shanahan is a modern day slave owner. Yes, you heard me correctly. During Joyner’s broadcast on Monday morning, Joyner expressed displeasure at Shanahan for keeping Redskins quarterback Robert Griffin III in Sunday’s playoff game against the Seahawks even though the star player seemed hobbled by an injured knee.
Let’s be crystal clear. What Joyner is saying is Shanahan looks at Robert Griffin III (also referred to as RG3) as nothing more than a piece of “black property” he owns and is willing to quite literally “play to his death.”
All I could think about when I heard the audio of Joyner’s comments is how incensed the media would be if an equally popular radio host such as Rush Limbaugh said something like “Wow, Robert Griffin III acted like Django the way he tore up that field.” I can assure you the mainstream press would have howled for an apology from Limbaugh, demanded advertisers pull their support from his show and so on.
Seems to me we, including the media, should apply the same standards of decency to all Americans regardless of race. What’s good for the goose should be good for the gander.
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It’s difficult to describe the tweets but please open the article and read the disgusting things people wrote. I’m all for freedom of speech, these individuals have every right to speak their mind.
‘Rest In Piss’: Twitter Lets Mocking Hashtags Trend Following Rush Limbaugh Death As Leftists Cheer
It’s difficult to describe the tweets but please open the article and read the disgusting things people wrote. I’m all for freedom of speech, these individuals have every right to speak their mind. However it speaks to the root of your character, the amount of hatred that you hold in your heart and what you might be capable of.
So hypocritical, my mother use to tell me, if you don’t have anything nice to say don’t say anything at all. “Rest In Piss” was allowed to trend on twitter after the death of Rush Limbaugh. Would twitter allow me to mock and cheer when individuals from the left pass? People who I would consider raciest and sexual predators? Individuals like Joe Biden who gave a eulogy for the former Klansman Robert Bryd, Chris and Andrew Cuomo who have been accused by countless women of sexual harassment and sexual assault and then using their power to cover it up or raciest CNN anchors like Don Lemon and Joe Reid? Just looking for any sort of consistency.
I would encourage Medhi Hasan to read things that Joe Biden said about busing and “racial jungles”. Read about Joe and Hunter’s use of the N-word (weather they were quoting someone or not(does it matter?)). Look at the stuff Kamala said about the deadly, violent and destructive riots after the death of George Floyd. I challenge you. No one is perfect and we should not expect it.
At least hold your hatred back until the body is cold.
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Shortly following the news of Limbaugh’s passing, Twitter allowed phrases like “Good Riddance,” “Rot in Hell,” and “Rest in Piss” to trend on their platform.
While those outside of the hard-left either simply posted information on Limbaugh’s passing or remembered his life with kind words, those inside the hard-left cheered and attacked him following his death.
“Rush Limbaugh was a coward and white supremacist. He aggressively and cynically exploited divisions in our country by weaponizing hatred and bigotry for his own personal gain. He was in service to his own greed, prejudice, and hypocrisy, and that is how history will remember him,” far-left activist Charlotte Clymer wrote on Twitter. “If Rush Limbaugh deserves credit for anything, it his pioneering work in spreading disinformation and directly enabling our nation’s current state of vast distrust of experts and spurning of good faith in the public discourse. He will not be missed by rational adults.”
Anti-Second Amendment activist Cameron Kasky wrote: “Rush Limbaugh has passed on, but worry not- his memory lives on through bigots everywhere.”
Yale Law School professor Scott Shapiro wrote on Twitter: “I wouldn’t say I was happy that Rush Limbaugh died. It’s more like euphoria.” Shapiro later set his Twitter account to private following backlash that he received online.
Far-left commentator Medhi Hasan wrote: “Rush Limbaugh died. Rightwingers on Twitter are heaping praise on him. I challenge you to read the things he said about minorities, black people, gay people, women, sexual consent, torture, climate, even the Jan 6th attack, and find things to praise in there. I challenge you.”
Media Matters blogger Parker Molloy wrote: “My sincerest condolences go out to hell’s other residents who now have to deal with being associated with him.”
News organizations also sought to smear Limbaugh, with ABC News calling him “controversial,” Huff Post calling him “bigoted,” CNBC calling him “incendiary,” and The Washington Post calling him a
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Way to take the highroad! Please let me know what I’m allowed to say. Oh Media Matters thank you so much for providing your truthful unbiased OPINION!
Liberals and Progressives Disgustingly Cheer the Death of Rush Limbaugh
Way to take the highroad! Please let me know what I’m allowed to say. Oh Media Matters thank you so much for providing your truthful unbiased OPINION! Also thank you Angelo Carusone for reaching out compassionately to his 27 million listeners. Way to make a few new friends!
Help me understand this logic. You hate someone because we believe they say mean things? So when they die we can say mean things about them? Am I allowed the same freedoms? News anchors, politicians, other public figures that I BELIVE are mean and raciest when they pass away am I allowed to make hurtful remarks? I would never do that because I would treat others as I would like to be treated.
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In a disappointing but not surprising moment, liberals and progressives took to social media to have a virtual street party to celebrate the death of Rush Limbaugh, who passed away on Wednesday morning at the age of 70.
It did not take long for the online celebrations to take place on Twitter, with even “Rest in piss” trending alongside Limbaugh’s name:
A press release from UltraViolet, a national women’s advocacy organization, read “Women’s Group on Rush Limbaugh: ‘Good Riddance,’” which went on to say, “Rush Limbaugh deserves to be recognized for what he was: a liar and misogynistic right-wing hack. For decades, the Rush Limbaugh Show was a personal soap box for Limbaugh to promote lies, conspiracy theories and baseless attacks, including justifications for date rape…We will never forget Limbaugh’s infamous attack on Sandra Fluke, who he referred to as a ‘slut’ and ‘prostitute’ for her testimony advocating for a contraception mandate before members of Congress.”
In a statement, Angelo Carusone, president and CEO of Media Matters for America, said: “Rush Limbaugh made his career lying to his audience, stoking misogyny, and fueling racism. He entertained listeners by mercilessly mocking and maligning anyone who didn’t resemble his typical listener — straight, white, conservative, and male — and that cruelty eventually became a central tenet of modern conservatism.
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Three slices of my tiny life. The Limbaugh Toyota photo was taken January 12, 2021. The other two photos, of a chilly morning in Fort Walton Beach, Florida, were taken January 14, 2021.
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“During the AIDS crisis, can you imagine if gay men and intravenous drug users… had they been pariahs the way the non-vaccinated are? But it would’ve been inconceivable.”
— Conservative radio host Dennis Prager, on Newsmax.
Rush Limbaugh used to have an “AIDS update” segment where he mocked the deaths of gay men who died of the disease.
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CPAC 2021 speakers: Rush Limbaugh honored: ‘Singlehandedly saved radio’
CPAC 2021 speakers: Rush Limbaugh honored: ‘Singlehandedly saved radio’
Former President Donald Trump is set to deliver the keynote address at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) Sunday afternoon as he and his allies aim to guide the direction of the Republican Party after his presidency.
Trump has made a handful of public statements since he left office, including calling into Fox News to discuss the death of radio legend Rush Limbaugh and the car…
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Well radio personality Rush Lumpbuns is gone and dead. He brainwashed my grandmother for decades. Good riddance I say. Here’s him high on Oxycontin. 🤯
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Why Rush Limbaugh Failed | Washington Monthly
Why Rush Limbaugh Failed | Washington Monthly
The broadcaster traded in bigotry and humor, homophobia and leisure–for the aim of constructing a conservative motion. However like Trump, he might solely harness grievance.
February 18, 2021
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On January 20, 2016, when Donald Trump’s surprisingly robust presidential marketing campaign was dividing conservative leaders, Rush Limbaugh defined that his reputation amongst grassroots…
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Where the most prominent figure in conservative media used to be Yale graduate William F. Buckley, who spoke in a posh faux-English accent as he intellectually fenced with people like democratic socialist Michael Harrington, Rush was essentially a calmer and more self-aware Trump in his personal style. If he wasn’t exactly Trumpist in his personal politics, that’s because he had few if any real political principles.
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Perhaps even more stunning, though, were those who lifted up Limbaugh as some type of Christian worthy of imitation. I saw more than a few people lift up his work as being blessed by God, all because he defended American values. Though no one can make a judgment on Limbaugh’s heart, the fruit of his heart was public for all to hear, at a minimum, 15 hours a week, and that fruit should never be equalized with the love, teachings, and Lordship of Jesus.
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He laughed. He hooted. He chortled. He chucked it up with listeners who called in to join him mocking gay men who died of AIDS. We deserved to die, he told his listeners, sounding like he took a great deal of pleasure witnessing karmic comeuppance.
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To me, the funniest part of Limbaugh’s life was his love of people dying of drug overdoses and demand to imprison drug addicts while actually being an addict himself. Of course he was racist in all of this, playing up the violence of African-Americans because of crack in the 1980s, which to be fair plenty of Democrats were doing too, and defending mandatory minimum sentencing laws. When confronted with racial disparities in drug crimes, he argued that whites should be charged with greater crimes for their drug use but certainly wasn’t ever going to say that Blacks should be charged with lower crimes or just let go to live their lives. A habitual smoker, Limbaugh was furious that his drug of choice moved toward criminalization while marijuana moved toward legalization. In fact, he continued to deny that tobacco even had negative health consequences, once saying, “There is no conclusive proof that nicotine’s addictive… And the same thing with cigarettes causing emphysema, lung cancer, heart disease.” Oh OK. How’d that one work out for you dude?
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Rush Limbaugh: His Last Show February 2, 2021 Transcript
Rush Limbaugh: His Last Show February 2, 2021 Transcript
Rush Limbaugh’s last show was aired on February, 2, 2021. He entitled the program, ‘The 2nd Impeachment: Trump’s Popularity Still Scares Them to Death.’ Here is the transcript from that show,along with some of the graphics he used. There are podcast services that have the audio of Limbaugh’s last show but we thought it appropriate to post the content. Politisite has also embedded the audio at…
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7 Times Rush Limbaugh Made Jokes About Other People Dying
7 Times Rush Limbaugh Made Jokes About Other People Dying
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Rush Limbaugh Had Unbreakable Bond with His Listeners
Rush Limbaugh Had Unbreakable Bond with His Listeners
Rush Limbaugh reacts as he is awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by First Lady Melania Trump during President Donald Trump’s State of the Union address to a joint session of Congress in Washington, D.C. February 4, 2020. (Jonathan Ernst/Reuters)
Both sides clearly were lucky to have the other.
Early in 2020, a caller to The Rush Limbaugh Show made an unusual request.
Following a…
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Rush Limbaugh, controversial conservative talk show host, has died
Rush Limbaugh, controversial conservative talk show host, has died
Limbaugh announced last year he had advanced lung cancer.
February 17, 2021, 7:41 PM
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Rush Limbaugh, a colossal figure whose unflinching brashness helped shape American conservative politics and media while his history of derogatory comments about marginalized communities turned him into one of the country’s most polarizing names, has died. He was 70.
He announced in early February…