Posted on 02/05/2020 4:26:13 PM PST by Morgana
After praising Nancy Pelosi’s antics at last night’s State of the Union address, The View hosts reserved their rage for President Trump awarding Rush Limbaugh the Presidential Medal of Freedom Award. Co-host Whoopi Goldberg claimed the influential talk radio host had done nothing to deserve it, while co-hosts Joy Behar and Sunny Hostin attacked Limbaugh as a racist bigot.
Whoopi began the segment by snarking, “I’m sorry, but I thought the medal of honor, freedom, was supposed to go, to people who actually did stuff.” Behar backed up Whoopi’s diss of Limbaugh with, “Well it went to Mother Teresa and Rosa Parks.”
Funny that the hosts conveniently forget the history of this award, being given to several cultural icons, actors and comedians since the 1960s. President Obama, in fact, gave it to many lefty actors like Meryl Streep, Robert Redford and Tom Hanks, just to name a few. So Limbaugh receiving it is not unusual.
Yet Whoopi kept complaining. She suggested Trump give the award in honor of a political rival instead.
“How about if you give the Medal of Freedom to people have made differences in this country and done all kinds of stuff, how about giving it to Elijah Cummings’ wife? As a thank you for all his service?” she asked as the audience applauded.
Whoopi then argued with Meghan McCain over Limbaugh’s influence. As McCain pointed out his huge audience, Whoopi begged to know, “Yes, but what has he DONE?”
McCain answered simply, “Well, completely changed the paradigm of radio,” to which Whoopi rolled her eyes.
That’s when Behar and Hostin lost it, unfairly accusing Limbaugh of being a racist, like many in the media have already done:
BEHAR: There he is talking to the black community and gives Rush the medal, and Rush Limbaugh spent a lot of Obama's tenure singing -- what did he call it? 'Barack the magic Negro.' He's been so racist and so misogynistic over the years, to give him -- who's next? Roger Stone? How about giving it to him or Steve Bannon!
HOSTIN: I don't think it was lost on the black community that he gave that honor to Rush Limbaugh during black history month, sitting next to a Tuskegee airman on Rosa Parks' day while Rush Limbaugh was a long-time birther, during the Obama administration, played that magic Negro on his show several times. So, you know don't talk to me about what you've done for the black community!
FReepers take your Pabst Blue Ribbon beer hold it high with me and A TOAST...TO RUSH may he forever piss off the cast of The View
Yeah, like O’Butthole’s Nobel Prize!
Until Obama I thought the Nebel Prize was supposed to go to people who did stuff, too.
Harvey Milk did stuff...young boys...
How many millions and millions has he raised for charity..cancer, military etc?
Rush did not coin the term “Magic Negro”.
Right, that was a liberal writer for the L A Times
besides those afflicted with ‘white savior syndrome’, does this show have any white women left in its viewership? Because the show sure has become consistently and rabidly anti-white in the viewpoints expressed.
I hear Woopie’s pot company failed to get off the ground. Maybe that’s the problem? Too much ganga-brain?
Rush did not coin the term “Magic Negro”.
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From an LA Times story written by a lib IIRC.
RUSH LIMBAUGH is the "Father of Conservative Radio."
Conservative Rush Limbaugh is the longtime host of 'The Rush Limbaugh Show' on radio. He is a member of the Radio Hall of Fame.
And Ellen DeGeneres (an Obama awardee) did some stuff? And DESERVED the Medal of Freedom??
Yeah, right.
A BLACK liberal writer, to boot
Whoopi? Is she the one with the hair by Harry Harryhausen? I suppose when that hair falls out she can put a Swiffer in her head and continue to split trash.
Their stunning ignorance of Rush Limbaugh is why they were so inept at countering anything Rush did.
They live the life of dung beetles, forever molding balls of excrement into little worlds for their larvae.
The cast of ‘The View’ don’t have in their combined brains the understanding of the political philosophy upon which the Nation was founded, or of the Constitution, that Rush has in one little finger.
They have never taught anybody anything about it, either; while Rush has educated millions.
I’ve never watched an entire program of ‘The View’; I’ve only been able to stand bits of it - but enough to convince me that only ignorant, poorly educated and silly female *egos* are on display there.
Now there’s a bunch of heavyweights, I tell ya.
Bo Snerdly tweeted that after 30 years with Rush he’s still waiting for proof of this racism....
But then what would he know?
One of them is Oprah and she is no light weight. I heard one time she got busted for 75 pounds of crack.
They pretend they don’t know about Rush’s many charitable endeavors. He’s raised and helped raise millions of dollars for multiple charities. Not to mention he’s raised the hopes of millions of Americans with his outspoken optimism.
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