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Outrage After Rush Limbaugh Says This About Race
http://mrconservative.com ^ | December 24, 2014 | Andrew Spalding

Posted on 12/25/2014 8:54:25 AM PST by NKP_Vet

Liberals everywhere were outraged this week after Rush Limbaugh said a black man playing James Bond would be “ridiculous.” The comments were made on Tuesday in regard to leaked Sony emails that revealed that CEO Amy Paschal wanted the black actor Idris Elba to play James Bond. Rush, however, wasn’t having any of it. “James Bond is a total concept put together by Ian Fleming. He was white and Scottish. Period. That is who James Bond is, was,” the conservative radio show host said. “But now [they are] suggesting that the next James Bond should be Idris Elba, a black Briton, rather than a white from Scotland.” “That’s not who James Bond is and I know it’s racist to probably point this out,” he added. Liberals everywhere are outraged by these “racist” remarks, but what do you think about it? Sound off in the comments below!

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To: bigdaddy45

Oh and forgot:

“The Bond franchise has been done to death. Whats wrong wish shaking it up a bit? “

And what about making Bond homosexual?

Any change to the original character is to destroy the man “men want to be and women want to be with.”


161 posted on 12/25/2014 10:00:58 AM PST by Hulka
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To: Scrambler Bob
"Clooney playing Obama ...

I think Pee Wee Herman would be a more fitting choice.

162 posted on 12/25/2014 10:01:23 AM PST by Baynative (Did you ever notice that atheists don't dare sue Muslims?)
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To: bigdaddy45

Actually in Europe there were likely as many Caucasians slaved from the coast lands around that continent from the 16th through 18th century to North Africa around the time when slaves were imported in the US; it just is one of those subjects never spoken of. The numbers were high because the average life span was 3 years due to the brutality of the conditions and no attempt was made to keep them alive and there are scarce records kept in those places. When reading Joan Peter’s From Time Immemorial most of the documents regarding Jewish persecution and slaughter came from Western diplomatic activity in those areas in the 19th century. Keep in mind 95 percent of slaves from Africa went to S. America and the Caribbean.

Robert C. Davis documents 1.25 million to 1.5 million Europeans slaved mostly from Italy during 1500 to 1800.

Christian Slaves, Muslim Masters: White Slavery in the Mediterranean, the Barbary Coast and Italy, 1500-1800 (Early Modern History


163 posted on 12/25/2014 10:01:40 AM PST by Sheapdog (Chew the meat, spit out the bones - FUBO - Come and get me)
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To: MeshugeMikey

Oprah as Margaret Thatcher?


164 posted on 12/25/2014 10:01:57 AM PST by Baynative (Did you ever notice that atheists don't dare sue Muslims?)
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To: NKP_Vet

it’s as dumb as saying shaft ought to be played by a white guy.


165 posted on 12/25/2014 10:02:22 AM PST by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: Hulka
"Most researchers and biographers conclude that he (Bond) was born either in 1917, 1920, 1921, or 1924."

If they wanted to be completely correct to Fleming, they'd need to find a white Scottish actor who is age 90 plus....

166 posted on 12/25/2014 10:04:41 AM PST by Sooth2222 ("In a democracy people get the leaders they deserve." - Joseph de Maistre, 1753-1821)
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To: bigdaddy45

Maybe you ought to read up on it some, Both practices were outlawed but the UN in the forties, because the were distinctions without a difference. I imagine that you are a fan of the UN which does equate the two. Not at all nonsense.


167 posted on 12/25/2014 10:05:08 AM PST by WHBates
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To: NKP_Vet

Only a Black Man could play Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.


168 posted on 12/25/2014 10:05:32 AM PST by Patton@Bastogne
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To: bigdaddy45; Bogey78O

“However there were no white slaves”

https://www.google.com/#q=History+of+White+Slavery


169 posted on 12/25/2014 10:05:54 AM PST by Hulka
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To: bigdaddy45

I do but you don’t seem to.


170 posted on 12/25/2014 10:07:37 AM PST by Lion Den Dan
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To: PCPOET7

The new James Bond’s hobbies will be playing Mahjong with the girls every week, and having a day of beauty once a month.

Safe enough, I think.


171 posted on 12/25/2014 10:09:33 AM PST by trisham (Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
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To: NKP_Vet

I think the whole thing is theater. Which makes it seem rather silly.

Whether or not Rush knows it, he’s the starring actor in the movie called “The Biggest Hoax Ever,” otherwise known as “Let’s Protect and Consolidate Our Power by Pitting Liberals Against Conservatives.”


172 posted on 12/25/2014 10:09:41 AM PST by reasonisfaith ("...because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved." (2 Thessalonians))
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To: NKP_Vet

Why don’t they just make the whole damned cast Black and Muslim? The evil guys can be White right wing Tea Party members.

They already have turned the “weathered sea captain, M” into a woman. “Red headed” Felix Leiter is now Black.

And for those of you who don’t know, Moors were not Negroes. Cleopatra was not Black nor were Egyptian Pharoes. Xerxes was not Black nor was his army.

PC is destroying the world and they know what they are doing.


173 posted on 12/25/2014 10:10:22 AM PST by yarddog (Romans 8:38-39, For I am persuaded.)
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To: Baynative

that would be a BLOCK BUSTER..and a Gut Buster too, as a matter of fact.


174 posted on 12/25/2014 10:10:59 AM PST by MeshugeMikey ("Never, Never, Never, Give Up," Winston Churchill ><>)
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To: Eccl 10:2

Actually James Bond is not a fictional character. Ian Flemming took a real life secret agent during WW2 and then wrote stories based on this character. The James Bond name came from a real life person also.


175 posted on 12/25/2014 10:12:07 AM PST by SkyDancer
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To: All
They could re-imagine Bond as a Kenyan/British citizen, fond of women and well educated. He could save the world from a mad Hawaiian scientist and give birth to a future US president...


176 posted on 12/25/2014 10:12:41 AM PST by Mr Rogers (Can you remember what America was like in 2004?)
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To: eyeamok
"Pee Wee Herman would be a more appropriate fit for Obama."

You are correct! This is complements of FReeper cripplecreek.


177 posted on 12/25/2014 10:13:50 AM PST by Jack Hydrazine (Pubbies = national collectivists; Dems = international collectivists; We need a second party!)
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To: Mr Rogers

You’ve gone too far, Mr Rogers!


178 posted on 12/25/2014 10:13:55 AM PST by trisham (Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
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To: mrsmel
I LOL’d when I read about some movie which made one of the Norse gods a black man. Loki, IIRC. But as a poster upthread said, wouldn’t the pc cohorts scream if Mandela or some mythological African figure was made white!

The Norse god in Thor was Heimdal, and he was played by...Idris Elba.

179 posted on 12/25/2014 10:15:45 AM PST by Sans-Culotte (Psalm 14:1 ~ The fool says in his heart, “There is no God.”)
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To: bigdaddy45
“indentured Servants” were not slaves. They worked for a number of years, and then they were free. “

Some were, some were not. The City of the Corporation of London has very interesting history courses that explain the whole concept of the indentured servant and what the various classes were. Of course, if you were a Liveryman (meaning your “Guild” or “Livery Company” sponsored you for your Freedom of the City of London that was presented to you by the Lord Chamberlain), you would have been invited to those presentations and would know this.

180 posted on 12/25/2014 10:16:10 AM PST by Hulka
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