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Suit: Detained woman forced to listen to Rush Limbaugh
Houston Chronicle ^ | 10/05/2011 | By MIKE TOLSON, HOUSTON CHRONICLE

Posted on 10/06/2011 7:15:15 AM PDT by redreno

Talk about your Monday from hell. Not only did Bridgett Nickerson Boyd's car break down on her way to work, but when she pulled over to the side of the freeway, a sheriff's deputy named Mark Goad pulled behind her, wrote her a ticket for driving on the shoulder, decided to arrest her, followed her to the hospital when her suddenly racing heart prompted a call to paramedics, then took her into custody again after she was treated by doctors and finally drove her to jail.

To make matters worse, Boyd claims in a lawsuit that the handcuffs were put on her wrists painfully tight and that she was forced to listen to conservative broadcaster Rush Limbaugh "make derogatory comments about black people" all the way to the jail. Boyd is African-American.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; US: Texas
KEYWORDS: badcopnodonut; deputy; rush; rushlimbaugh; texas
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To: ilovesarah2012

Exactly. I can’t get Rush on the radio up here, but when I listened to him, he never did that.


61 posted on 10/06/2011 8:26:05 AM PDT by proud American in Canada
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To: Buckeye McFrog
something tells me El Rushbo is gonna get ALL kinds of mileage out of this one...

LOL! Might be worth buying a podcast (if possible) just to be able to hear this one. :)

62 posted on 10/06/2011 8:28:05 AM PDT by proud American in Canada
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To: redreno
I can just as easily read this poorly written and fact less article as whiner women was nailed for driving down the shoulder to dodge a traffic jam and Mr Cop nailed her for it.

She copped an attitude, became belligerent so he busted her.

She then got even more belligerent when she heard Limbaugh on the radio and became hyperventilated so he took her to the hospital where they found she was not ill so he took her to jail.

When the magistrate talked to her all he heard was “LIMBAUGH”, “BLACK”, “RACIST”, “LAWSUIT”, facts that were clearly indisputable so he let her go.

63 posted on 10/06/2011 8:45:07 AM PDT by VeniVidiVici ("Si, se gimme!")
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To: SunTzuWu
Actually reading the article you find that she was driving on the shoulder (which isn't legal, especially in a car laying down a smoke screen for all the other cars on the highway).

If I was on a highway and the car was still mobile, I'd be trying to make it to the nearest exit. I'd drive on a flat tire until the tire was shredded and the wheel was being grinded down.

It's not safe to stop on the shoulder, and should be avoided unless the car is completely disabled. In some of the metro areas, drivers are explicitly instructed to get completely off the roadway if possible.

64 posted on 10/06/2011 8:47:52 AM PDT by justlurking (The only remedy for a bad guy with a gun is a good WOMAN (Sgt. Kimberly Munley) with a gun)
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To: VeniVidiVici

I should say that the facts that were indisputable is that Limbaugh was on the radio and she was a black woman screaming “racism”.


65 posted on 10/06/2011 8:48:21 AM PDT by VeniVidiVici ("Si, se gimme!")
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To: tuckrdout
I guess she doesn’t know that MR. Sneardly is black.

According to the NAACP and the Rainbow Coalition and Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton, Mr. Snerdley is just an oreo like Clarence Thomas and a racist like Herman Cain...

66 posted on 10/06/2011 8:51:00 AM PDT by FromTheSidelines ("everything that deceives, also enchants" - Plato)
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To: AnAmericanAbroad; Michael.SF.
Count yourself lucky. Had that happened about 6 years later, you could’ve been stuck listening to the Bay City Rollers.

My God - the 8 track... It's full of Tony Orlando and Dawn!

67 posted on 10/06/2011 8:54:34 AM PDT by FromTheSidelines ("everything that deceives, also enchants" - Plato)
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To: ilovesarah2012
I haven’t listened to Rush in years. When did he start making derogatory remarks about black people?

Apparently on October 4th. /s

68 posted on 10/06/2011 8:56:53 AM PDT by JaguarXKE
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To: sphinx
Rush probably criticized Obama. That’s not the same thing as saying derogatory things about black people

Yes it is, just ask Morgan Freeman or Sammy L. Jackson.

69 posted on 10/06/2011 9:00:26 AM PDT by JaguarXKE
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To: Ghengis

Rush should send her a thank you note for her providing some of his show prep for today.


70 posted on 10/06/2011 9:02:26 AM PDT by JaguarXKE
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To: Mr Ramsbotham

That’s gross and disgusting - NOT funny.


71 posted on 10/06/2011 9:18:11 AM PDT by jackibutterfly (The American Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people.)
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To: jackibutterfly

It certainly is not funny, and anyone who laughs at it ought to be thrown into a small, cold cell with a big dude named Bubba. It was meant to illustrate a sad, unfortunate fact pertaining to our contemporary society, namely, that those social institutions upon which we place reliance frequently disappoint us in our expectations of the way in which those institutions are intended to function. That this is true, do not blame me, for I am only the messenger.


72 posted on 10/06/2011 9:50:37 AM PDT by Mr Ramsbotham (Laws against sodomy are honored in the breech.)
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To: redreno
let's see the information from a leftist newspaper (sorry, that was redundant). With quotes from a racist. And we have only one side of the story.

So, I don't have enough information to have an opinion. For example, the woman says her car was having problems - other than her word, there is no evidence this is true. Later in the article she proves she is a liar, but making ridiculous and false statements about Rush's show. So, why should I believe other statements made by this racist?

73 posted on 10/06/2011 10:22:45 AM PDT by rigelkentaurus
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To: Tainan

It should be easy to pull a transcript or even a recording.

They all should listen to it during the trial!!!!

Just so she can describe in detail just exactly what he said that was so derogatory.

Maybe they should run the trial for several days while they bring up several more shows to demonstrate a pattern.


74 posted on 10/06/2011 10:46:29 AM PDT by Only1choice____Freedom (FDR had the New Deal. President 0bama has the Raw Deal.)
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To: Only1choice____Freedom
They all should listen to it during the trial!!!! Just so she can describe in detail just exactly what he said that was so derogatory. Maybe they should run the trial for several days while they bring up several more shows to demonstrate a pattern.

That would be the greatest education anyone in that courtroom could ever receive.

75 posted on 10/06/2011 4:35:24 PM PDT by Mygirlsmom (Am I too old to ask for emancipation from the "Federal Family"?? Sarah Palin)
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To: ilovesarah2012

That is how you know this “victim” is full of it. She did not hear what she said she heard from Rush. Maybe she was listening to Jesse Jackson.


76 posted on 10/06/2011 7:09:02 PM PDT by SaraJohnson
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To: redreno

Maybe someone is testing the waters to get rush banned if she succeeds ;) I was cracking up earlier today when I heard him talking about it.


77 posted on 10/06/2011 10:03:32 PM PDT by Trillian
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To: Bloody Sam Roberts
That's a good idea but a number of stations across the country don't carry the program live. Her 'exposure' could have been from a taped program. Still...easy enough to make inquiries IF one knows the station doing the broadcast.

I think the FCC requires broadcast outlets to compile logs of all of their broadcast activity. Easy to look up at each local station.

Heck, I would bet big money that the entire transcript of the show for that date would show nothing remotely racist was in Rush's show content and would easily disprove the charge. But I would be very interested in specific time periods to prove this lady is full of it.

78 posted on 10/07/2011 8:18:11 AM PDT by Ghengis
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To: redreno

Hee hee... we wager on the outcome of this suit here:
http://www.knewthenews.com/Market/10497/Will+Bridgett+Nickerson+Boyd+win+her+federal+lawsuit+against+Deputy+Goad++Harris+County+after+being+forced+to+listen+to++Rush+Limbaugh


79 posted on 10/09/2011 7:40:22 AM PDT by PartyLikeIts1994 ( - in 2010)
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To: redreno

The charges can be dismissed because the prosecutor agreed with the judge not to pursue it. Doesn’t mean her rights violated in anyway, or all this other stuff she claiming .


80 posted on 10/29/2011 2:12:12 PM PDT by snowstorm12
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