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Video: Is Rush Limbaugh's consistent reference to Obama as a 'little child' racist?
Examiner ^ | 12/22/09 | Ryan Witt(less)

Posted on 12/22/2009 4:20:13 PM PST by pissant

Rush Limbaugh has recently adopted the theme of referring to President Obama as a little child when attacking the administration's various political moves.

Today Limbaugh referred to President Obama as an "out of control little child who thinks that he is the Messiah" while criticizing the federal spending. Last week Limbaugh also referred to the President as a "little man-child" when government expansion. These are the two most recent references and Media Matters documents at least six other occasion including times when Limbaugh used the phrase "boy" in referencing an adult Obama.

Curiously these references have drawn little scrutiny from the press or Limbaugh's followers. It is possible that the media has simply grown to expect a hint of racism from Limbaugh and that they therefore view it as a "non-story." On the other hand Limbaugh is still perhaps the most influential right-wing commentator in the United States. Therefore if his statements truly do reflect a racist stereotype it seems the story should get more attention given Limbaugh's importance to the political debate.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society
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To: manonCANAL

You’re nicer than I.....


41 posted on 12/22/2009 4:39:31 PM PST by goodnesswins (Become a Precinct Committee Person/Officer....in the GOP...or do NOT complain.)
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To: J40000

Even the “pop-culture” reference to the term “Man-Child” isn’t racist, it refers to a middle aged man who acts like a teenager, sowing his wild oats so to speak. There even was a comedy in the UK about this. It has no racist connotation.


42 posted on 12/22/2009 4:40:20 PM PST by mnehring
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To: pissant

To answer the question: I don’t give a damn what they think.


43 posted on 12/22/2009 4:40:31 PM PST by cydcharisse
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To: tiger63

Let them call me a birther . . . but as far as I’m concerned this man has failed to prove he meets the minimum standards of eligibility set forth in Section 1 of Article 2 of The Constitution . . . and so I don’t count him as being my president.


44 posted on 12/22/2009 4:40:55 PM PST by TheVitaminPress (as goes the Second Amendment . . . so goes the Constitution.)
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To: pissant

>Video: Is Rush Limbaugh’s consistent reference to Obama as a ‘little child’ racist?

It’s a reference to his lack of maturity; so unless you can say an entire ‘race’ is immature, it isn’t racist.


45 posted on 12/22/2009 4:41:31 PM PST by OneWingedShark (Q: Why am I here? A: To do Justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with my God.)
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To: pissant

Ryan...your race card expired with Jeremiah Wright.


46 posted on 12/22/2009 4:42:39 PM PST by roses of sharon (This is a feral government, broken from the civilizing constraints of the Constitution.)
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To: All

manchild

An adult male who still posesses psychological traits of a child. Traits include, but are not necessarily limited to:
- whining
- pettyness
- trying to pass the blame for their own underdeveloped judgement
- not “stepping up to the plate” when it’s their role to.
- secretly still finds 3rd grade bathroom humor amusing.
- is able to connect with his children, but only as another child, not as a father.
- not to mention an overall insecurity in who he is as a man, from which similar traits sprout.


47 posted on 12/22/2009 4:42:46 PM PST by mnehring
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To: pissant

Barack Obama: Son of Promise, Child of Hope (Hardcover)

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48 posted on 12/22/2009 4:45:58 PM PST by Raycpa
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To: pissant

Obama evidences again and again that his reasoning is on a par with a young child. He comes up with bonehead ideas. He bows before foreign potentates. He lies at will, thinking he’ll never be found out.

He goes overseas to resolve issues like getting the Olypmics for Chicago, or coming up with an agreement to resolve a problem that isn’t even real, and fails miserably. And then he acts as if world leaders respect him ever so much more than Bush.

NATO just told him his dead certain date for withdrawal from Afghanistan is actually dead certain DOA.

He’ll talk with terrorist sympathizers, but finds it tough to talk to his generals in the theater of war.

It’s baffling how anyone could blame someone other than Obama for him being referred to as a child. And it’s hard to fathom how many children wouldn’t be angered by the comparison in light of this guy’s incredible tom foolery.


49 posted on 12/22/2009 4:48:08 PM PST by DoughtyOne (H.C. Bill, saves more in second decade, despite taxation w/o benefits for first 4 years. Suuurre...)
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To: pissant
Well did they say which part of Obama would be insulted. The white or the black?
50 posted on 12/22/2009 4:50:52 PM PST by angcat (HOW CAN YOU TRADE MELKY CABRERA!)
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To: pissant

Who cares?

I am so done with that trick.


51 posted on 12/22/2009 4:51:50 PM PST by NoLibZone (Be of good cheer, MCain could have won! If Reagan rises & runs I'll vote.)
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To: pissant

Anything criticizing, “Dear Leader” is ipso facto racist.


52 posted on 12/22/2009 4:52:20 PM PST by Anti-Bubba182
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To: pissant

Who cares what those homos at mm think....


53 posted on 12/22/2009 4:54:37 PM PST by RadioCirca1970 (Victory or Death in the War on Terror)
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To: pissant

Being called Boy should be the least of this bastards problems. I call him a communist, which he is!!!!!
HE NEEDS TO BE IMPEACHED BEFORE HE COMPLETELY DESTROYS OUR COUNTRY!!!


54 posted on 12/22/2009 4:55:01 PM PST by taillightchaser (When a democrat says "The American people" you know the next words out of his mouth will be lies.)
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To: pissant

He doesn’t call him a little child. He calls him “the man-child”.


55 posted on 12/22/2009 4:59:39 PM PST by FrdmLvr ("The people will believe what the media tells them they believe." Orwell)
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To: DoughtyOne

Obama is also easily distracted, like a child. If not for his “handlers” keeping the push on for national health care, he’d be busy with something else... like Global Warming.

No wait, where is he right now?


56 posted on 12/22/2009 5:03:35 PM PST by coconutt2000 (NO MORE PEACE FOR OIL!!! DOWN WITH TYRANTS, TERRORISTS, AND TIMIDCRATS!!!! (3-T's For World Peace))
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To: pissant

My grandfather called my brother, his only grandson, “The Boy” as in “Where’s the boy?”, his great grandsons ‘boy’ and all his grandsons-in-law ‘the boy you married.” Before we got married it was “No boys.”

Since Obama is a POS, the boys are offended to have Rush place the POS in their boyspace.
:-)


57 posted on 12/22/2009 5:04:41 PM PST by Protect the Bill of Rights
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To: pissant

I’ve heard Rush say man-child several times. And Obama is immature and naive as he has demonstrated so many times in foreign affairs. Man-child is a very apt term for Obama, a man-child pretending to be a knowledgeable and capable president. He’s not.


58 posted on 12/22/2009 5:04:51 PM PST by Will88
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To: coconutt2000

LOL, but he’s cooling his heels in Washington, waiting to sign our great grand-children’s lives away.

Frankly, his wish to leave for Hawaii alone is the reason why I’d make sure that bill was read before the vote.

Let him fly out on Christmas. It isn’t Ramadan you know. Heh, heh, heh...


59 posted on 12/22/2009 5:08:52 PM PST by DoughtyOne (H.C. Bill, saves more in second decade, despite taxation w/o benefits for first 4 years. Suuurre...)
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To: pissant
You know what...it is not racist. When Rush refers to him as a child, man-child, etc. It has to do with 0bama’s lack of experience and continuing display of his dysfunctionality.

That is quite different than referring to him as a “boy.” It is obvious to all that Rush makes great efforts to not use the term ‘boy’ when referring to 0bama.

Man-child is similar to saying the adult-child of an alcoholic.

None of which is a matter of race. It is all a matter of social maturity.

60 posted on 12/22/2009 5:09:52 PM PST by EBH (it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute a new Government)
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