Limbaugh brings baggage with his ESPN blabber (BARF!!!)

Boston Globe ^ | 7/16/2003 | Derrick Z. Jackson

[Jimmyclyde]

IT IS A TOUCHDOWN at the old-boy network when ESPN hires Rush Limbaugh for pregame blabber about pro football. It is an extra point when the media think nothing of this event. They both should be penalized for roughing the past.

[snopercod]

This is driving the media nuts. I love it!!!

[AmishDude]

Why do I think that these Limbaugh "quotes" have been debunked before?

And why do I think Derrick Z. (gotta have the Z) Jackson has the research ethics of one Jayson Blair?

[sd-joe]

Is the Boston Globe worse than the NYT or is the NYT worse than the Boston Globe. Decisions decisions.

[Support Free Republic]

Hi Mom!

[wideawake]

They don't need to be debunked.

Derrick Z. Jackson seems to think that making fun of race hustlers like Jesse Jackson and Spike Lee is equivalent to badmouthing their entire ethnic group.

That's a fallacy.

[rdb3]

Limbaugh has feasted off berating feminists, gay men and women, and people of color. African-Americans have come in for supercharged blasts of his hot air. In the 1970s, Limbaugh told an African-American caller, ''Take that bone out of your nose and call me back.''

More information is needed here. If Rush's show has only been on air for 15 years, that still leaves quite a few unaccounted for years to make it back to the '70s. Where is Jackson's proof?

[ClearCase_guy]

If anyone were to say to Mr Jackson: "You people all like fried chicken, don't you?" He'd throw a fit. But if Limbaugh criticizes Spike Lee, Jackson says all black people have been insulted.

Are we treating people as individuals or as de facto representatives of their race? I think Limbaugh mostly treats people as individuals. I think Jackson mostly treats people as aspects of their race. 'Cause Mr Jackson is a stone-cold racist.

[Mr. K]

I think that is a true comment that Rush had asmitted making. I don't recall him saying he regretted it or it was taken out of context. Can anyone help here?

(flamers: shut up - I am a HUGE limbaugh fan and DO NOT think he is racist at all. I have made stupid comments in the past myself)

[Yo-Yo]

Limbaugh once complained about African-Americans: ''They are 12 percent of the population. Who the hell cares?'' ESPN and Disney should be made to care about hiring someone to cover a majority black sport who does not care about black people.

"Caring" about black people means to agree with quotas, affirmative action, and slavery reparations. Caring does not mean being friends with Justice Thomas, Dr. Rice, or Secretary Powell. Caring does not mean wanting to judge a person not by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character. Caring does not mean wanting to have equal opportunity for all in this country.

Hmm, I guess I don't care either.

[playball0]

Writer Jackson espouses the logical fallacy of setting up a false "straw man" about Rush to destroy. This rant is disingenuous at best and obviously driven by the writer's boiling hatred of Rush and his conservative views.

[Beck_isright]

They are dumb as a fox. This will create such huge ratings that advertisers will gamble and flock to them. ESPN is about to get over on their competition big time.

[gaspar]

Welcome aboard Franky P. Did you join today so that you could take a cheap shot at Limbaugh? Unfortunately for you and others like you Limbaugh is a professional. Worse, he is liked by sports personalities -- both on the left and the right.

[Becki]

Scenes from the season:

It's not only driving the media nuts, it's driving the Trolls nuts!!

Becki

[Noachian]

I'm surprised the Boston Globe even ran a story on this. I'd have expected them to go silent and make believe it didn't happen.

...no straight news stories went out on a limb to remind readers about Limbaugh's past.

Someone should tell Derrick Z. that Rush's past has been scrutinized by better men than him, and he still draws millions of listeners every day. I wonder how many readers Derrick Z's PC colums draw?

[AmishDude]

You know, the only primary source I can find for this "bone in your nose" quote is from FAIR. The following is the extent of their citation:

As a young broadcaster in the 1970s, Limbaugh once told a black caller: "Take that bone out of your nose and call me back."

I Googled this and it's all over left-wing sites. Yet they give no more citation than FAIR. This website claimed it happened on 10/8/90, certainly not the 70s. Here is someone who has an interesting take on how this might conform with things Limbaugh wrote in his second book.

The fact is, these left-wingers cite from the same three-year-old "source", do no research on their own, and print "damning" quotes that are only damning after they describe the context. And they greatly lie or distort about that.

[BIGZ]

Bryant Gumbel gets a free pass? No media bias here.

[Eric in the Ozarks]

You nailed it. Rush busts their bubble and they just can't stand it.