Posted on 02/19/2021 7:12:22 AM PST by where's_the_Outrage?
Donald Trump’s connection to the conservative movement to this day remains a subject of acrimonious dispute among the right-wing intelligentsia — some have embraced the 45th president as the movement’s authentic leader, while others regard him warily as an interloper, a New York Democrat who captured the party from the outside.
Nobody on the right ever disowned Rush Limbaugh. Throughout his career, they agreed he was a pure representative of conservative thought. George Bush courted him with an overnight visit to the Lincoln Bedroom and the presidential box at the 1992 Republican National Convention. National Review declared him “Leader of the Opposition” in a 1993 cover story. “Limbaugh is not fringe,” gushed Washington Free Beacon editor Matthew Continetti. “His views fit in the conservative mainstream. He idolizes Buckley.”
The Republican Party considered Limbaugh’s influence on their 1994 midterm sweep so profound they made him an honorary member of the incoming congressional class. “I am in Congress today because of Rush Limbaugh,” testified Mike Pence, in 2001. Upon news of his death, George W. Bush called him “an indomitable spirit with a big heart.”....
Limbaugh’s racism was obsessive, not incidental. Any measures to uplift Black America, in his mind, could only come at white expense and were inherently illegitimate. Any economic reform — even a goal like universal health care, which Democrats had sought for decades and which prevailed throughout the industrialized world — was “reparations.” No episode was too marginal to be conscripted into this message. When in 2011, some schoolkids got into a fight — as they have since schooling existed — he warned, “In Obama’s America, the white kids now get beat up with the Black kids cheering.”
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Nobody on the right ever disowned Rush Limbaugh.
No logical reason to do so the left feared him for the truth he spoke and exposed them for what they are people of hate and stupidity.
So says the racist bully Jonathan Chait.
Irrelevant to this discussion. Why bring it up?Because it contradicts the title to this thread genius.
Spot on my ideological friend. I ask for intercession and forgiveness daily for my private thoughts on what I want to do these evil spawn.
I never heard anything racist from Rush, but if there was any racism in Rush's character it was .001 of the racism prevalent among ALL Dhimmicrats.
The Left has redefined “racist”. The English language is under reconstruction. What were once clearly defined words with real meanings are now a purée.
Rush satirized, criticized and made fun of all sorts of liberal people.
I guess making fun of your political and cultural foes is reserved only for liberal Saturday Night Live, comedians, talk show hosts and pundits. Conservatives must remain silent at all times.
Limbaugh’s racism was obsessive, not incidental. Any measures to uplift Black America, in his mind, could only come at white expense and were inherently illegitimate.
Yeah Bo Snerdley agrees with this I’ll bet. /s
Article is all projection.
Total bull$hit. How much time did the author spend in Rush's MIND? He knew that in the final analysis only the black people can uplift black America.
Oh my, this was really worth more than a /BARF tag, maybe a /GAG tag.
Here’s all you need to know about this pasty jerk:
Chait, Jonathan (2017). Audacity: How Barack Obama Defied His Critics and Created a Legacy That Will Prevail. Custom House. ISBN 978-0062426970.
Must be hard to talk with your lips firmly planted on Obama’s tuches.
Normal stuff by and for Jonathan Chait.
The headline alone reveals lazy thinking.
Because it contradicts the title to this thread genius.
Not at all.
And check the attitude.
Can they libel a corporation? Just asking because I am sure Rush was incorporated.
Even Conservatives have a little trouble with Natural Born Citizen judging by the debates that have raged here for years. When I was first inducted we all knew exactly what it meant to have children overseas to non citizens, our kids could never be President. Now it seems to be flexible depending on whether or not we like the person running. No one has bothered bringing up heels up Kamala lately. About as un NBC as she can be.
Good question. I have no idea, but my guess would be dead is dead, corporation or person. But it is admittedly just a guess.
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