Rush Limbaugh: James Bond can't be black like Idris Elba!

MSN ^ | 12/23/14 | Daniel Gates

[Libloather]

**SNIP**

After mentioning the Sony emails and telling his listeners who Elba is, Limbaugh said, “Here’s the thing, though… James Bond is a fictional character, obviously. James Bond was invented, created by Ian Fleming… and James Bond is… white and Scottish. Period. That is who James Bond is.”

“But now Sony is suggesting that the next James Bond should be Idris Elba, a black Briton rather than a white from Scotland,” continued Limbaugh. “But that’s NOT who James Bond is, and I know it’s racist to probably even point this out… We had 50 years of white Bonds because Bond is white. Bond was never black. Ian Fleming never created a black Brit to play James Bond. The character was always white. He was always Scottish.”

[Libloather]

He sarcastically concluded, “Sometimes a story is just a story, but we can always make it better. We can always be more fair. We can always be more equal about it. So, fine and dandy. George Clooney and Kate Hudson as Barack and Michelle Obama, and you can have Idris Elba as James Bond.”

It could happen.

[Gaffer]

Sure it could. Look at the new “Annie”.....it’s the diversity vogue of Hollywood. Every iconic movie has to be redone now to star someone who is the right color.

[Old Sarge]

Oh, let’s REALLY get crazy with the casting for “The Obama Story”:

Valerie Jarret - Charlize Theron (she’s just as bitchy, not a stretch for her);
Eric Holder - Liam Neeson;
James Carney - Maaaaat Daaaaamon

[a fool in paradise]

Maybe Sony could make amends and cast a North Korean actor as the next James Bond.

[Dilbert San Diego]

Anybody remember the Wild Wild West movie with Will Smith? Absurd on the face of it, as there’s no way a black man was a Secret Service agent back in the 1870s. Yet we were supposed to go with the flow and accept it.

[matt1234]

James Out On Bond

[chrisser]

I take some solace in that they haven’t decided to cast Bond as both black and gay - at least not yet.

I guess maybe making a little money on the franchise is more important than checking off all the diversity boxes at once for Sony.

[facedown]

James Carney - Maaaaat Daaaaamon

lol

[ScottinVA]

Heh heh.. I see what you did there..

[PeteB570]

And if it has to happen Idris Elba would be a good man to play the part of 007.

[Old Sarge]

We’ll also have to apply the PC lipstick to the Bond Girls (oh, sorry, they would now be referred to as “Yo ma bitches”)

[grania]

Just what Sony needs. To bring more controversy upon itself (sarcasm).

[bray]

Is he going to be homosexual too? Hollywierd can never be too PC.

Pray America is waking

[ExCTCitizen]

A black James Bond? Really? Why not cast James Bond as a Gay Pedophile Muslim who will be fighting the UKIP (with the main character as a white anti tax, anti government racist). Instead of a 'Bond Girl', it would be a 'Bond Teen Boy'.

The Liberals would love it.

[mountn man]

I take some solace in that they haven’t decided to cast Bond as both black and gay - at least not yet.

I take some A Quantum Of Solace in that they haven’t decided to cast Bond as both black and gay - at least not yet.

[dennisw]

You might get Brits and Americans to go along with Idris Elba but....

Asians will never go for a black James Bond and Asian revenues are a large part of every James Bond movie. So forget ol Idris!

[ExCTCitizen]

Soon they’ll remake ‘Gone With The Wind’ and it would be a mostly black cast with a few whites portraying racists.

[mountn man]

Avery Brooks, with a British accent.

[jalisco555]

A couple of years ago my wife and I saw the stage version of White Christmas, adapted from the movie starring Danny Kaye and Bing Crosby. One of the two sisters who are their love interests was played by a black actress and the other by a white one. It worked just fine, even though this wasn’t the intent of the original story.

[Altura Ct.]

and James Bond is… white and Scottish. Period. That is who James Bond is.

Amen to that! We have way too many people that believe that doesn't matter. Want to act like it doesn't matter and didn't matter who the founders were or we were and are for that matter.