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Outrage After Rush Limbaugh Says This About Race
http://mrconservative.com ^ | December 24, 2014 | Andrew Spalding

Posted on 12/25/2014 8:54:25 AM PST by NKP_Vet

Liberals everywhere were outraged this week after Rush Limbaugh said a black man playing James Bond would be “ridiculous.” The comments were made on Tuesday in regard to leaked Sony emails that revealed that CEO Amy Paschal wanted the black actor Idris Elba to play James Bond. Rush, however, wasn’t having any of it. “James Bond is a total concept put together by Ian Fleming. He was white and Scottish. Period. That is who James Bond is, was,” the conservative radio show host said. “But now [they are] suggesting that the next James Bond should be Idris Elba, a black Briton, rather than a white from Scotland.” “That’s not who James Bond is and I know it’s racist to probably point this out,” he added. Liberals everywhere are outraged by these “racist” remarks, but what do you think about it? Sound off in the comments below!

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To: Yaelle

I did not like Matt Damon playing Jason Bourne, sorry Matt is too much of the Effeminate Metrasexual to play an action hero.


261 posted on 12/25/2014 11:58:22 AM PST by Captain Peter Blood
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To: 353FMG

I was at target trying to find the child (sister?) barbie doll, the normal child one, that looked like my Latino Irish (adopted genes) daughter, and all I found were blonde ones with light eyes. She is very aware of her coloring and I wanted a nice Latino looking one and they had so much Caucasian! They didn’t have a single african style one either.


262 posted on 12/25/2014 12:05:07 PM PST by Yaelle
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To: who knows what evil?

Lots of “James Bond” movies are very distant relations to the novels, if that.
They are “updated” to a degree that makes the idea of continuity or faithfulness to Flemings concept a moot point, as several have mentioned already.
If “James Bond” is supposed to be some sort of modern, as opposed to a late 60s, fantasy secret agent, then he could very well be black.
Flemings original conception was substantially off even in his day, realistically speaking. Secret agents are secret, they don’t act like commandoes, they don’t work alone, what they really do is boring. In the 40s-60s also most would have been Central or Eastern European. A Scottish ex-Naval officer would have stuck out in Liepzig, Prague or Budapest almost as much as a black man.


263 posted on 12/25/2014 12:08:33 PM PST by buwaya
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To: NKP_Vet
I wonder if this movie would be made today.
264 posted on 12/25/2014 12:10:07 PM PST by Disambiguator
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To: bigdaddy45
However, there were no white slaves.

Sure there was, they just called them tax payers instead of slaves, to fool them into thinking they are free, still do.

265 posted on 12/25/2014 12:14:11 PM PST by itsahoot (Voting for a Progressive RINO is the same as voting for any other Tyrant.)
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To: Captain Compassion

That would be a fun idea for a movie!
A satire of nearly everything.
Parker and Stone could do something with it.
Hollywood would be too PC for that unfortunately.


266 posted on 12/25/2014 12:15:33 PM PST by buwaya
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To: NKP_Vet

Fake phoney hypocritical outrage. The left has really lost its mind.


267 posted on 12/25/2014 12:20:22 PM PST by I want the USA back (Media: completely irresponsible. Complicit in the destruction of this country.)
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To: Bryanw92
There were Irish and English slaves in America.

As well as indentured servants and bonded slaves.

268 posted on 12/25/2014 12:21:16 PM PST by itsahoot (Voting for a Progressive RINO is the same as voting for any other Tyrant.)
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To: Eccl 10:2

By your “logic” Uncle Tom could be played by Betty White. If you disagree you’re opening yourself up to being called a racist and a sexist.


269 posted on 12/25/2014 12:22:32 PM PST by clintonh8r ( BRILLIANT, WITTY (but incendiary)TAG LINE REMOVED BY MODERATORS.)
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To: matthew fuller
There were some American Indian slaves in Louisiana....

The Cherokee had plenty of Black slaves, that is one reason they were considered civilized, as in The Five Civilized Tribes.

270 posted on 12/25/2014 12:24:14 PM PST by itsahoot (Voting for a Progressive RINO is the same as voting for any other Tyrant.)
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To: editor-surveyor

There is a war against whites, Christians, heterosexuals and men, sometimes all at once. If what is being done was being done to blacks or women or gays, it would be called what it is: “ethnic cleansing.”


271 posted on 12/25/2014 12:28:52 PM PST by PghBaldy (12/14 - 930am -rampage begins... 12/15 - 1030am - Obama's advance team scouts photo-op locations.)
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To: Eccl 10:2
There is no artistic or cinematic reason James Bond couldn’t be black. To suggest otherwise opens the door to being accused of racism, and rightfully so.

You must be joking. Why stop at just black? Let's make Bond a Palestinian transvestite.

272 posted on 12/25/2014 12:29:35 PM PST by Greetings_Puny_Humans (I mostly come out at night... mostly.)
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To: Eccl 10:2

So Oprah plays Scarlett O’Hara? When does a Thai girlie boy get the part?


273 posted on 12/25/2014 12:35:21 PM PST by alpo
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To: Eccl 10:2
There is no artistic or cinematic reason James Bond couldn’t be black. To suggest otherwise opens the door to being accused of racism, and rightfully so.

Other than the fact that his creator, Ian Fleming, made him a white Scotsman. That's who he is.

A black James Bond is as miscast as a white Shaft. Or a male Miss Marple.

To interject a racist component into it is, well, just silly.

274 posted on 12/25/2014 12:35:47 PM PST by okie01 (THE MAINSTREAM MEDIA: Ignorance on Parade)
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To: NKP_Vet

The next time they make a movie about anything in the New Testament, they should have a female play Jesus...it’s way past time.


275 posted on 12/25/2014 12:38:04 PM PST by stevem
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To: Eccl 10:2

Gone With the Wind is fictional.

Why can’t Rhett Butler and Scarlett be black? Or have Mammy white?

The fact is, Ian Fleming isn’t around to defend himself and his concepts from people who would butcher it even further than it has been.

Why even call him James Bond?


276 posted on 12/25/2014 12:41:21 PM PST by rlmorel (The Media's Principles: Conflict must exist. Doesn't exist? Create it. Exists? Exacerbate it.)
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To: Jack Hydrazine

Pee Wee’s bike is a little too manly compared to the one under
Reggie’s BFFL.


277 posted on 12/25/2014 12:43:21 PM PST by alpo
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To: rlmorel

“Gone With the Wind is fictional.

Why can’t Rhett Butler and Scarlett be black? Or have Mammy white?”

$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$

EXTREMELY weak argument. I would have hoped posters on this forum would know better.

While GWTW is fictional, there were no black plantation owners to speak of, much less ones that owned white slaves.

Please think things through with your brain, and not your glands, before you post.


278 posted on 12/25/2014 12:50:22 PM PST by Eccl 10:2 (Prov 3:5 --- "Trust in the Lord with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding")
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To: bigdaddy45

It is called ACCULTURATION. It takes a long time. Do you believe that Obama’s amnesty automatically makes the illegals American? As for acculturation, look at Obama. That is part of his problem. He was never acculturated. He doesn’t believe “American” is worth preserving. Also, Indians watching the Mayflower dock were NOT American.


279 posted on 12/25/2014 12:51:14 PM PST by odawg
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To: bigdaddy45
"...This thread could be a candidate for dumbest of the year..."

LOL...problem is, you probably have more posts in here than anyone else! Your fingerprints are all over it...:)

280 posted on 12/25/2014 12:55:05 PM PST by rlmorel (The Media's Principles: Conflict must exist. Doesn't exist? Create it. Exists? Exacerbate it.)
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