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Limbaugh brings baggage with his ESPN blabber (BARF!!!)
Boston Globe ^ | 7/16/2003 | Derrick Z. Jackson

Posted on 07/16/2003 6:21:45 AM PDT by Jimmyclyde

Edited on 04/13/2004 2:10:30 AM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]

IT IS A TOUCHDOWN at the old-boy network when ESPN hires Rush Limbaugh for pregame blabber about pro football. It is an extra point when the media think nothing of this event. They both should be penalized for roughing the past.


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1 posted on 07/16/2003 6:21:46 AM PDT by Jimmyclyde
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To: Jimmyclyde
This is driving the media nuts. I love it!!!
2 posted on 07/16/2003 6:23:26 AM PDT by snopercod
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To: Jimmyclyde
Why do I think that these Limbaugh "quotes" have been debunked before?

And why do I think Derrick Z. (gotta have the Z) Jackson has the research ethics of one Jayson Blair?

3 posted on 07/16/2003 6:24:09 AM PDT by AmishDude
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To: Jimmyclyde
Is the Boston Globe worse than the NYT or is the NYT worse than the Boston Globe. Decisions decisions.
4 posted on 07/16/2003 6:26:26 AM PDT by sd-joe
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5 posted on 07/16/2003 6:26:44 AM PDT by Support Free Republic (Your support keeps Free Republic going strong!)
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To: AmishDude
They don't need to be debunked.

Derrick Z. Jackson seems to think that making fun of race hustlers like Jesse Jackson and Spike Lee is equivalent to badmouthing their entire ethnic group.

That's a fallacy.

6 posted on 07/16/2003 6:26:53 AM PDT by wideawake (God bless our brave soldiers and their Commander in Chief)
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To: Jimmyclyde
Limbaugh has feasted off berating feminists, gay men and women, and people of color. African-Americans have come in for supercharged blasts of his hot air. In the 1970s, Limbaugh told an African-American caller, ''Take that bone out of your nose and call me back.''

More information is needed here. If Rush's show has only been on air for 15 years, that still leaves quite a few unaccounted for years to make it back to the '70s. Where is Jackson's proof?

7 posted on 07/16/2003 6:29:42 AM PDT by rdb3 (Nerve-racking since 0413hrs on XII-XXII-MCMLXXI)
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To: wideawake
If anyone were to say to Mr Jackson: "You people all like fried chicken, don't you?" He'd throw a fit. But if Limbaugh criticizes Spike Lee, Jackson says all black people have been insulted.

Are we treating people as individuals or as de facto representatives of their race? I think Limbaugh mostly treats people as individuals. I think Jackson mostly treats people as aspects of their race. 'Cause Mr Jackson is a stone-cold racist.

8 posted on 07/16/2003 6:32:20 AM PDT by ClearCase_guy
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To: rdb3
I think that is a true comment that Rush had asmitted making. I don't recall him saying he regretted it or it was taken out of context. Can anyone help here?

(flamers: shut up - I am a HUGE limbaugh fan and DO NOT think he is racist at all. I have made stupid comments in the past myself)
9 posted on 07/16/2003 6:32:54 AM PDT by Mr. K (mwk_14059 on yahoo Instant Messenger)
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To: Jimmyclyde
Limbaugh once complained about African-Americans: ''They are 12 percent of the population. Who the hell cares?'' ESPN and Disney should be made to care about hiring someone to cover a majority black sport who does not care about black people.

"Caring" about black people means to agree with quotas, affirmative action, and slavery reparations. Caring does not mean being friends with Justice Thomas, Dr. Rice, or Secretary Powell. Caring does not mean wanting to judge a person not by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character. Caring does not mean wanting to have equal opportunity for all in this country.

Hmm, I guess I don't care either.

10 posted on 07/16/2003 6:34:22 AM PDT by Yo-Yo
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To: Jimmyclyde
Writer Jackson espouses the logical fallacy of setting up a false "straw man" about Rush to destroy. This rant is disingenuous at best and obviously driven by the writer's boiling hatred of Rush and his conservative views.
12 posted on 07/16/2003 6:39:26 AM PDT by playball0 (Fortune favors the bold)
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To: Jimmyclyde
They are dumb as a fox. This will create such huge ratings that advertisers will gamble and flock to them. ESPN is about to get over on their competition big time.
13 posted on 07/16/2003 6:43:16 AM PDT by Beck_isright (Remember the Blue Ridge Corporation!!!! Damn the torpedoes and SEC, full speed ahead!)
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To: Franky P
Welcome aboard Franky P. Did you join today so that you could take a cheap shot at Limbaugh? Unfortunately for you and others like you Limbaugh is a professional. Worse, he is liked by sports personalities -- both on the left and the right.
15 posted on 07/16/2003 6:47:07 AM PDT by gaspar
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To: Franky P
Scenes from the season:

It's not only driving the media nuts, it's driving the Trolls nuts!!

Becki

16 posted on 07/16/2003 6:47:20 AM PDT by Becki (Pray continually for our leaders and our troops!)
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To: Jimmyclyde
I'm surprised the Boston Globe even ran a story on this. I'd have expected them to go silent and make believe it didn't happen.

...no straight news stories went out on a limb to remind readers about Limbaugh's past.

Someone should tell Derrick Z. that Rush's past has been scrutinized by better men than him, and he still draws millions of listeners every day. I wonder how many readers Derrick Z's PC colums draw?
17 posted on 07/16/2003 6:49:11 AM PDT by Noachian (Legislation Without Representation is Tyranny)
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To: wideawake
You know, the only primary source I can find for this "bone in your nose" quote is from FAIR. The following is the extent of their citation:
As a young broadcaster in the 1970s, Limbaugh once told a black caller: "Take that bone out of your nose and call me back."
I Googled this and it's all over left-wing sites. Yet they give no more citation than FAIR. This website claimed it happened on 10/8/90, certainly not the 70s. Here is someone who has an interesting take on how this might conform with things Limbaugh wrote in his second book.

The fact is, these left-wingers cite from the same three-year-old "source", do no research on their own, and print "damning" quotes that are only damning after they describe the context. And they greatly lie or distort about that.

18 posted on 07/16/2003 6:49:30 AM PDT by AmishDude
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To: Jimmyclyde
Bryant Gumbel gets a free pass? No media bias here.
19 posted on 07/16/2003 6:49:33 AM PDT by BIGZ
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To: Yo-Yo
You nailed it. Rush busts their bubble and they just can't stand it.
20 posted on 07/16/2003 6:51:57 AM PDT by Eric in the Ozarks
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