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Rush Limbaugh Says First Lady Was Booed Partly Because NASCAR Fans Hate Her ‘Uppityism’
ABCNews ^ | November 20, 2011 | Jake Tapper

Posted on 11/21/2011 7:00:36 PM PST by Steelfish

By Jake Tapper

Nov 21, 2011 Rush Limbaugh Says First Lady Was Booed Partly Because NASCAR Fans Hate Her ‘Uppityism’

On Sunday, First Lady Michelle Obama and Dr. Jill Biden visited Homestead Miami speedway to serve as ceremonial grand marshals of the Ford 400, where some in the crowd booed them.

The White House downplayed the incident today, with the First Lady’s communications director Kristina Schake saying only that “Mrs. Obama was proud to join NASCAR in recognizing our nation’s veterans and military families to raise awareness of this important issue for all Americans. As she has always said, she will proudly stand with anyone making a major commitment to serve and honor our military community and yesterday, NASCAR did just that.”

On his radio show today, conservative talk show host Rush Limbaugh gave many reasons for why he thought they were booed.

Citing the 2008 incident where then-Sen. Obama was secretly recorded at a fundraiser describing small town Pennsylvanians in hard economic times as getting “bitter” and “cling(ing) to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren’t like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations,” Limbaugh said “people that go to NASCAR races are the very people her husband called bitter clingers.”

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TOPICS: Chit/Chat; Society; Sports
KEYWORDS: arrogance; bitterclingers; elitists; empressmichelle; fakers; nascar; obama; patriotism; phonygrassrootsshow; ratherniggardly; uppity
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ABC Nightly News, says that Limbaugh's comment smacks of racism
1 posted on 11/21/2011 7:00:38 PM PST by Steelfish
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To: Steelfish
Rush didn't use the word "uppity."

The race-baiting community agitators at ABC Snooze used it.

2 posted on 11/21/2011 7:04:14 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum ("The very idea of a community organizer is to stir up a mob for some political purpose." Ann Coulter)
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To: Steelfish

LOL. This will create an immense backlash ... against ABC news. They really dont know when a) they are up against the vast majority, and b) when they are pissing up a rope.


3 posted on 11/21/2011 7:05:07 PM PST by AmericanInTokyo (BASHING a Conservative candidate? Practice full disclosure via tagline w/your own preference)
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To: Steelfish

"yeah yeah, uppity,that's it, anyone seen my beer?

4 posted on 11/21/2011 7:05:29 PM PST by Doogle ((USAF.68-73..8th TFW Ubon Thailand..never store a threat you should have eliminated))
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To: Steelfish

How many black employees anchor the nightly news? Actions speak louder than words, ABC.


5 posted on 11/21/2011 7:07:07 PM PST by kcvl
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To: E. Pluribus Unum
Yeah...he DID say it. But it means, according to Websters... putting on or marked by airs of superiority : arrogant, presumptuous And that is the impression some have of Michelle.
6 posted on 11/21/2011 7:07:29 PM PST by Winstons Julia (Hello OWS? We don't need a revolution like China's; China needs a revolution like OURS.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

I think ABC News took the “uppity” out of context and cross-referenced its use to Justice Clarence Thomas who berated his detractors as a agents of a hi-tech lynching against “uppity’ Blacks. Rush was using it in the context of Obama’s disdain for NASCAR types.


7 posted on 11/21/2011 7:08:06 PM PST by Steelfish (ui)
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To: Steelfish

Bacrock Obama shows that you don’t put a boy in to do a man’s job. Yeah, I called him a boy. He sure as hell ain’t a man.


8 posted on 11/21/2011 7:09:07 PM PST by Darren McCarty (Anybody but Romney or Obama)
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To: Steelfish

commies booed sarah palin and george bush etc...nothing said....
http://bigjournalism.com/dloesch/2011/11/21/the-double-standard-on-booing/


9 posted on 11/21/2011 7:09:29 PM PST by biggredd1
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To: Steelfish

@jaycomito @rushlimbaugh that’s not what i said. i said the word had racial connotations. dont put words in my mouth.
11 minutes ago

https://mobile.twitter.com/#!/jaketapper


10 posted on 11/21/2011 7:09:48 PM PST by kcvl
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To: Steelfish

Sending Michelle to the NASCAR race was a set-up orchestrated by the Obama campaign as they knew she would be booed by the crowd.


11 posted on 11/21/2011 7:10:09 PM PST by trumandogz (In Rick Perry's Nanny State, the state will drive your kids to the dentist at tax payer expense)
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To: trumandogz

Yep!


12 posted on 11/21/2011 7:13:34 PM PST by RushIsMyTeddyBear (A MUST WATCH: http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=KeOLurcQaqI)
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To: Steelfish

are we allowed to use the word Uppity in reference to Michelle. That word really describes her.

We can’t post pictures of Wookies.

Maybe we can post Uppity Pictures of Michelle.

http://cdn.abclocal.go.com/images/wpvi/cms_exf_2007/news/national_world/8429271_448x252.jpg


13 posted on 11/21/2011 7:13:51 PM PST by RummyChick (It's a Satan Sandwich with Satan Fries on the side - perfect for Obama 666)
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To: trumandogz

I agree.


14 posted on 11/21/2011 7:14:13 PM PST by mylife (The Roar Of The Masses Could Be Farts)
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To: RushIsMyTeddyBear

And the crowd fell for it.


15 posted on 11/21/2011 7:14:39 PM PST by trumandogz (In Rick Perry's Nanny State, the state will drive your kids to the dentist at tax payer expense)
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To: Steelfish
One of the few times I disagree with RUSH.

She was booed because she is one F U G L Y woman.


16 posted on 11/21/2011 7:14:58 PM PST by NoLibZone (Occupy- Proof we are right - They beg for retrun of morality that the left removed from society.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

@realistic_view i believe that you didnt know of the connotations. but that doesnt mean they dont exist. they do.

@Dianne93101 These race-baiters are shameless. And shame on Jake Tapper for suggesting it.


17 posted on 11/21/2011 7:16:24 PM PST by kcvl
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To: Steelfish

It’s still a free country. ABC news can get bent.


18 posted on 11/21/2011 7:17:30 PM PST by tumblindice
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To: trumandogz

If Obama had his own race track and named it after his wife, is would be named “ASSCAR”.

If he had a railroad, he would name the last car, “BigAssCaboose”

And if Michelle backed into a plane’s running propellor, the headlines in some of the more sensational newspapers would read: “Michelle Backs Into Propeller: Dis-Assed-Her”


19 posted on 11/21/2011 7:17:47 PM PST by MadMax, the Grinning Reaper
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To: RummyChick
WOOKIES
20 posted on 11/21/2011 7:18:11 PM PST by Rebelbase (Yes we Cain!)
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