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Wednesday, October 14, 2009

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




Rush Limbaugh wants to buy into the NFL's St. Louis Rams football team, however he's receiving some backlash from not only some African American players, due to his racebaiting rhetoric, but also from some owners, and even the commissioner Roger Goodell.

While listening to sports radio tonight, I heard the sports talk host, JT The Brick (A Republican) on Fox Sports Radio, repeatedly say that this was about the comments "in the past" about Donovan McNabb. I contend that while those comments about McNabb being overhyped because the media wanted a black quarterback to succeed most definitely factor in, it's not just those.

Limbaugh has a long and storied history of race related and racist comments about virtually any and all prominent African American politician, and generic racist comments. This is the man who played the song "Barack the Magic Negro" (sung to the tune of Puff The Magic Dragon) on his show, and doesn't understand why that's offensive.

He's referred to Barack Obama as a "Halfrican American" and insisted that he's not Black, but that he's "Arab" because Kenya is an Arab area.

The below article was written back in 2000, when he was auditioning for the role on NFL Countdown on ESPN, the show in which he made those illfated comments about Donovan McNabb. I think this is a great article that highlights JUST the extent of his fear mongering and his racist comments.

In my opinion he doesn't need to be in the NFL and he should not be in there. He has every right to APPLY to be in the NFL. This is America and he's well within his rights to go for it. However the NFL, a private organization, has the right to tell him to kick rocks, in no uncertain terms.

*THIS ARTICLE WAS ORIGINALLY POSTED BY FAIR.ORG ON JUNE 7th 2000*

LINK TO ORIGINAL ARTICLE:

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 90-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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