In this audio clip, Rush Limbaugh demonstrates the manufactured outrage the right uses to get the rubes to follow along with their agenda. According to the addict, Democrats pushed out Paul Hackett in exchange for Sherrod Brown because Sherrod Brown is black. And the librul New York Times doesn’t report that fact. Rush backpedaled a few seconds later, but it strains the mind to understand how he could make such an amazing mistake.
Let me amend that… “Freakin’ Hilarious…”
I’m starting to hate reality.
Parody isn’t even funny anymore.
Really? I can explain.
He has an unusual first name, Sherrod. Ergo, Rush assumes, he must be black.
Funny… and wonderfully typical of Rush.
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Dugger,
While I supported Hackett in this race, the reason he was forced out was that he wasn’t able to raise any money. Remember, the people who raised money for him in the Special Election in 2005 and ran his whole netroots effort that got national attention were actually on loan from Sherrod Brown’s team. That’s just the way it is. Those folks went back to Brown right after the special election. Hackett needed to get his own fundraisers and he never did it. That was BEFORE Rahm Emmanuel and Schumer started discouraging donors from giving to Hackett. Sadly, this sort of thing happens all the time. It’s happening to Christine Cegelis who’s trying to get the Dem primary against Tammy Duckworth in Henry Hyde’s old seat. Ironically, the national Dems in that case decided to put all their money on the Iraq vet – Duckworth. I wish the Democratic Party wasn’t so damn afraid of contested primaries. And Hackett would have gotten lots of free media with his sharp tongue. But he was a very long shot to win the primary in Ohio. Outside of Cincinnati and the netroots, nobody really knew anything about him. Brown, on the other hand, has won statewide office many times. I wish Hackett would run in OH-02, but he claims he made a deal with the other Dems not to run. That’s honorable, but I wish he never made such a promise in the first place. I’m not happy to see Paul Hackett bow out of politics. I don’t think he handled the whole thing with aplomb, but his sincerity is part of his appeal. Fortunately, Brown polls well against DeWine – actually better than Hackett ever did. And when you consider that Ohio is a state that voted for Howard Metzenbaum on numerous occasions, you realize that Brown is not “too liberal” for Ohio.
So much for Hackett. He was your next great hope. A strong military Democrat. Now he’s chopped liver. The big party bosses threw him out. Just remeber that all you ex military out there. The Dems will use you then lose you.
Dugger
“Dr” Pee, if you want to bloviate about some nonsense you read on Worldnutdaily, I suggest you get your own blog, so that you can be properly ignored.
Dugger, sometimes someone from the military isn’t the best candidate. We all saw how McCain was ditched by the RW establishment in 2000 in favor of the AWOL Bush.
Anyone remember this knee-slapper…?
“Black civil-rights activists canceled plans for a protest after discovering a child insulted by California Education Secretary Richard Riordan was not African-American as originally believed, but a blonde, white girl.
In an incident captured on video [Requires Real Player], Riordan, the former Los Angeles mayor, stunned participants in a promotional event July 1 at the Santa Barbara library by jokingly telling a 6-year-old her name, Isis, meant “stupid dirty girl.”
Alice Huffman, president of the California chapter of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, said Thursday that Riordan “is not suitable to lead education in our state” and should be removed.
Democratic state Assemblyman Mervyn Dymally called on Riordan to step down, telling the San Jose Mercury News the child was a “little African-American girl.”
“Would he (Riordan) have done that to a white girl?” Dymally asked.
But the lawmaker reversed himself and canceled a planned civil-rights demonstration after finding out the girl is white.”
http://www.wnd.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=39370
So Ollie and cadre….this Dymally (D-Calilfornia) guy a big fat racist then? Or just back to hitting the “stuff”?
How Richard Riordan has anything to do with Rush Limbaugh confusing a white man with being black, I’ll never know. Don’t you guys ever tire of the misdirection?
Would you feel better if you read it in the LAT factcheck? I can give you that link too.
Or are you too uncomfortable dealing in facts, Fact?
elrod,
Good post. My snarkiness originates with the hoopla afforded Hackett here earlier. But I agree that both parties will make hard core dollars and cents decisions. BTW sounds like Hackett’s feistiness is genuine. I remember Cincinnati as being a conservative area (lots of old German Americans and wondered if Hackett could fit in there and the Dem party.
Dugger
Hey RNC Plant Pedro (could your moniker be any more uninspired? It’s as if some keyboard komando thought to himself “what do I need to name myself to be taken seriously and to deflect as much criticism as possible? I’ll throw in a little higher education and a little ethnicity, and presto, a great character whom no one could call stupid or racially insensitive.” Oh yeah, that’s probably what actually happened.)
That state assemblyman sure did act terribly, but, you know, his overriding concern was racial justice. As insensitive as he looked, and I’m not apologizing for his sloppiness, he had a specific goal which was rendered moot once someone did his homework for him. Rush, on the otherhand, finds ways to inject skin color (even when he’s just guessing at someone’s color) merely to conjure negative associations in his listeners, to insure that the first association a listener has with any given black democrat he’s talking is that that black democrat is getting a free ride because of his/her skin color. That’s a little different, don’t you think doc?
Justice without modifiers is a meaningless word. How do you define justice if not for some specific end. Your idea of justice is a very specific, modified one, just a very different one than me, even if you can’t articulate it beyond the feeling it gives you to proclaim JUSTICE.
Ummm, Pedro …
I know sometimes the ADD kicks in, but please try to stay on topic here.
You make a good point mjb. “His concern was for racial justice”……
That just about sums up the democrats.
Unfortunately, the republicans concern is for JUSTICE, not racial, not sexual, simply…JUSTICE…with no modifiers attached.
The unfortunate truth is that the lefties don’t want JUSTICE, they want modified justice.
And olllie, for god sakes read the article before commenting on it….
mjb here is the defination of “Justice”:
conformity to truth, fact, or reason : CORRECTNESS
I think you actually DO, like you lefty collegues believe that “truth” and “fact” requires a modifier.
I think most reasonable human beings would argue that “truth” and “fact” require no modifier at all.
Misinformed likely…..
Awww come on people, cut the big guy some slack. It is an easy error to make. Heck, a lot of people with the name Brown are black–e.g. James Brown…
Just think of the confusion poor Rush must have had to deal with during his brief ESPN gig–Reggie White…
On a side note–does anyone remember when Rush first was syndicated and he did “Caller Abortions”? He dropped that pretty quick when people started to think of him as a pundit.
So, “Doc.” What do you think caused Rush to make a mistake like that?
Stoned or racist?
Pedro, you’re just trying to be ironical now. High comedy. For someone who has blatantly lied on many a thread here, to claim to hold the high ground, just priceless. You sir, are a king of satire. Brava.
But seriously, what facts or truth might you be referring to?
This is going to be hard for you mjb, but take a minute to try to wrap your shriveled cortex around it….
It is Truth, in the abstract.
It is the idea that there is a “truth” that is unrelated to politics, situation, time of day. A “truth” as immutable as “E=mc2″……
I don’t think there is a “black” truth or a “swiss” truth, just as there aren’t different forms of Justice.
It is you lefties, you believers in the idea that “all animals are equal, just some are more equal than others” that think that truth and justice require some sort of racial modifier.
pedro, I get exactly what you’re saying. You’re going to have to define “Truth” now. “Truth” only exists as far as our ability to comprehend it. Look into Relativity Theory. Your ability to comprehend “Truth” doesn’t extend beyond some abstract idea which you can’t define and which can be molded to suit your purposes from issue to issue. Everything is relative, but that sir is relativistic in a very distructive way. The relativism which thinking people (people not wedded to a bullshit knowitall text) is one where we understand that the social rules we work with come from years of trial and error and these rules vary from one era to another, depending upon which ends any society values at any particular time. We understand these rules are very fallible, absolutists do not, regardless of how many times their rules are shown to be inadequate. But absolutists usually just ignore those and pretend it doesn’t destroy their whole idea of absolutism.
And if you want to call it a racial modifier to spin it to your liking, fine, but the fact remains that justice means different things to different people. To people suffering from racial discrimination it may mean righting that wrong. To you people it means not taking into account all the facts, history or any concept of the autonomy of the victim and the seriousness with which their different worldview should be taken.
When it comes to Limbaugh, that’s a given. However, that wouldn’t explain his decision to make a big deal about the supposed color of the candidate replacing Hackett. So we’re back to:
Stoned? Or racist?
mjb says…”Justice without modifiers is a meaningless”
then mjb says…. ” if you want to call it a racial modifier to spin it to your liking”
so, YOU state you need a modifier but you argue with calling it a “racial”modifier when YOU referred to it as “black justice”?
Anyone else here see why it is hard to have a discussion with these racist, leftist baboons? Their arguments aren’t even internally consistent…
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“when YOU referred to it as black justice ”
Pedro, please tell me where I referred to anything as “black justice”. Is this just you being sloppy or are you lying again? Either way, you’ll probably just pretend it didn’t happen just like every other time you’ve lied. Are you drunk?
You should be banned for making shit up repeatedly.
Brown is Black. But not really.
Uh, maybe somebody in the party has figured this out. And don t forget Sherrod Brown is black. There s a racial component here, too. Uh, and now the newspaper that I m reading all this from is The New York Times, and they, of course, don t…
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The headline reminds me of that cheesy movie “The Stuff”…
“you can never get enough, of the stuff!”