Posted on 02/19/2021 7:12:22 AM PST by where's_the_Outrage?
Donald Trump’s connection to the conservative movement to this day remains a subject of acrimonious dispute among the right-wing intelligentsia — some have embraced the 45th president as the movement’s authentic leader, while others regard him warily as an interloper, a New York Democrat who captured the party from the outside.
Nobody on the right ever disowned Rush Limbaugh. Throughout his career, they agreed he was a pure representative of conservative thought. George Bush courted him with an overnight visit to the Lincoln Bedroom and the presidential box at the 1992 Republican National Convention. National Review declared him “Leader of the Opposition” in a 1993 cover story. “Limbaugh is not fringe,” gushed Washington Free Beacon editor Matthew Continetti. “His views fit in the conservative mainstream. He idolizes Buckley.”
The Republican Party considered Limbaugh’s influence on their 1994 midterm sweep so profound they made him an honorary member of the incoming congressional class. “I am in Congress today because of Rush Limbaugh,” testified Mike Pence, in 2001. Upon news of his death, George W. Bush called him “an indomitable spirit with a big heart.”....
Limbaugh’s racism was obsessive, not incidental. Any measures to uplift Black America, in his mind, could only come at white expense and were inherently illegitimate. Any economic reform — even a goal like universal health care, which Democrats had sought for decades and which prevailed throughout the industrialized world — was “reparations.” No episode was too marginal to be conscripted into this message. When in 2011, some schoolkids got into a fight — as they have since schooling existed — he warned, “In Obama’s America, the white kids now get beat up with the Black kids cheering.”
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Looks like what is happening to me starting with the knock out game then BLM and now making white's 2nd class punching bags.
One of the most stupid, hateful and delusional headlines ever.
“Limbaugh’s racism was obsessive, not incidental.”
It is obvious the author has never listened to Rush’s show. Not even once. This entire screed is based on a false premise, and the author can shove it up his obamahole.
Has anybody heard any news about a Memorial/Funeral Services for Rush?
New Yorker Magazine taught Democrats to have sex with infants and animals.
Prove me wrong.
Waaaaa stalinist media can choke on their own vomit
Did you actually read this article? I can’t get past the headline.
Rush raised over 47million for leukemia and lymphoma research....and it all went to white kids, who knew?
“Jonathan Chait”
NY Mag, um ok, stopped reading there.
A prima facia case for defamation. Rush’s family and President Trump should pursue it.
No, Jonny Chait, try as I might, I doubt I can learn to love you.
Don't forget Rush was all in for Rubio...until he wasn't.
Author is a bitter, small, pinheaded putz.
......did anybody see Hannity’s show last night...? He featured Rush’s “Mr. Snerdley” who, it turns out, is of the African persuasion....and had been Rush’s call screener and producer almost from the beginning, if I recall....
ha..some racist Rush was...!! I would not know this Chait fellow if I ran into him on the street, but he seems to be one very biased fellow, for sure....
The author of this article sits to pee.
This is just a Democrat trap to incite. Rush and Trump wanted only the best for all Americans.
Walter Williams and other black conservatives were frequent guest hosts and far better than Sean Hannity and the like.
Some examples of this anger and racisim cull from the thousands upon thousands upon thousands of hours Rush spoke on the air? No? Well how ‘bout that. ..
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