MSNBC Analyst: Rush Limbaugh ‘Represents The Confederacy’

nationalreview.com ^ | 7/22/2013 | Dimitrios Halikias

[Bon of Babble]

Rush Limbaugh would have sided with the confederacy during the Civil War, according to MSNBC analyst Dorian Warren.

Warren, a Columbia professor and fellow at the progressive Roosevelt Institute, explained that Limbaugh “represents the Confederacy. He would have been on that side that went to war around the question of slavery.”

[SES1066]

Prepare to be shocked

Brief bio from Columbia U.

Dorian T. Warren specializes in the study of inequality and American politics. He teaches and conducts research on labor organizing and politics, race and ethnic politics, urban politics and policy, American political development, community organizing and social movements, and social science methodology.

At one time (1948-1950 though retained position while head of NATO 1950-1953) General Eisenhower was the President of Columbia, I wonder if he is even mentioned in their history courses? I wonder if Professor Warren could even give one fact about Eisenhower?

[INVAR]

If Rush represents the confederacy then MSNBC and the rest of the libtards in political office represent the Third Reich.

THAT right there. More truth in the latter than the former.

Even so, we now find ourselves in desperate need to secede from the Federal Behemoth in D.C., or it will enslave us all.

[Durus]

What the Lincoln/Douglas debates about then? Those took place before the civil war didn’t they?

[John S Mosby]

The slavery meme was what yankees had to invoke, at the behest of their oh so righteous elitist former slave runners of Boston, who were then running in the china clipper/opium trade and importing coolie labor for the westward expansion railroad. Oh, and also slaughtering the Native Americans who got in their way and creating the reservation/plantation for them to stay on and dissolve. Nice people those oligarchs.
Horace Greeley, the yankee, paid for Jefferson Davis’s legal defense and many of his post war debts. Such was the passion against slavery. Yup. Go West young man.

It is ALWAYS “rich man’s war, poor man’s fight” Name ONE that was not when reductively analyzed to causality— including WWII one could certainly say. And the American Tories still celebrate the engineered rescue of the dregs of the english empire, as well as the inheriting of the piss poor management disasters from their former colonies. Like... Iraq, or ... Iran..or....

[sauropod]

Excellent post!

[Don Corleone]

Because radio was really popular during the Civil War.

Didn't Biden blame it on the TV?

[SES1066]

We think alike, you beat me with pic and bio by 95 seconds - kudos to you!

[Sherman Logan]

The war, as such, was not directly caused by slavery. It was caused by the refusal of Union states to accept secession and by the CSA’s attack on Union troops.

Secession was mostly caused by a desperate desire to defend the institution of slavery, though as with any other movement other things were mixed up with it. The point is that every one of the other issues could have been compromised.

Slavery could not be, since the South demanded federal protection for slavery in all the territories as their minimum demand, while the Republican minimum position was no expansion of slavery.

[windsorknot]

1): He's an MSNBC stooge.

2): He's a Columbia professor and fellow at the progressive Roosevelt Institute.

He's nowhere near the intellectual caliber of Thomas Sowell, and worth ignoring.

[sauropod]

More proof that just b/c someone has a Ph.D. does not mean they know what they are talking about!

You’d be surprised how often that happens...

[RJS1950]

No, it’s pretty well documented what he offered the southern states to prevent secession. What he offered them was keeping slavery which once again, they themselves stated was the reason for secession. It was about slavery from start to finish.

[mjp]

Warren went on to argue that Limbaugh, not the Left, obsesses over race,

projection

[wku man]

"MSNBC Analyst: Rush Limbaugh ‘Represents The Confederacy’"

Well, it's not true, but so f-ing what if he did? Better to represent the Confederacy than representing the Soviet Union, as does MS-LSD and Columbia University. Better to represent the Confederacy than to represent what the Obammuniusts are turning our once-great nation into.

Scouts Out! Cavalry Ho!

[Mr Ramsbotham]

Secession was about slavery, period.

And anyone who doubts that should read the states' declarations of secession.

[count-your-change]

Did his family own slaves? Is Rush a blood relative of Jefferson Limbaugh Davis? Does he drink mint julep from “Dixie” cups?

America wants to know.

[hal ogen]

Sometimes Ph.D. means Piled Higher and Deeper.

[Sherman Logan]

I’ve read the Lincoln/Douglas debates.

Slavery was the ONLY issue discussed. Not tariffs or any of the other issues frequently brought up as the REAL reason for southern discontent.

However, it should be pointed out that Douglas was also a northerner, and was not, or claimed not to be, particularly in favor of slavery or its expansion. He was neutral on the issue, not caring whether a state or territory decided to institute slavery.

[MeshugeMikey]

Words of Wisdumb from Dorian Warren

There's a difference between middle-class activists who speak for people, versus middle-class organizers who organize working class people. I think organizers, across class, understand the value of people demanding things for themselves.

http://www.classmatters.org/2004_04/mc_organizers_wc_communities.php

OH the RIDICULE I could heap on this posturing nincompoop!

[MeshugeMikey]

Wisdumb from Dorian Warren

There's a difference between middle-class activists who speak for people, versus middle-class organizers who organize working class people. I think organizers, across class, understand the value of people demanding things for themselves.

http://www.classmatters.org/2004_04/mc_organizers_wc_communities.php

[Opinionated Blowhard]

LOL. Orwell would be proud. The Dems and their minions in the media have completely turned history around.

To be clear — the Confederacy was a group of Democrats who used anti-democratic, racial politics to remain in charge. And when that didn’t work, they engaged in violence and terrorism via the KKK. Sounds like not much has changed since then for the Dems.