Rush Limbaugh hopes Obama Fails

[KSig RC]

Originally Posted by DaemonSeid

You just need to reconcile with the fact that Rush is not exactly a friend of Black America, in my view and as someone stated earlier, I think is racist and more than enough times his bias has come out and has been called into question and even in McNabb's case,(and to a huge degree Tony Dungy) proven wrong, what more do you need?

First, as an Eagles fan, I'm almost 100% sure we should avoid the McNabb conversation right now. Give me a couple of weeks, man!

Second, I'm repeatedly on record as saying "context matters" - and what you're doing is taking his statements from the standpoint of the man's past racial missteps, and essentially saying "anything he says must be racially motivated because of his past." I get that.

However, it's also important to look at the actual words being used - even with the context of exposing racial bias in the past, he's completely allowed to hope that Obama fails in his liberal policy expansion. Indeed, he noted the exact same feelings toward Clinton - how do we reconcile that?

In short, I think you're going too far - you're going beyond credibility and reading into it actual malice or ill intent. When you go with "heh...for those that got offended at what Jay Z said....take a gander at this:" the comparison is implicit: this is a racist or racially-motivated statement. There's simply nothing in the statement to back that up - and, sure, Limbaugh's publicists probably scrubbed it to be neat and tidy, but any time we cry "racist!" at something that probably isn't, we devalue all of the correct cries. This is, in essence, how we get shit like claims of 'reverse racism' (which doesn't even conceptually make sense).

The quotes you posted later are very strongly racial and show pretty strong prejudice. It's not that they don't apply to Rush, who likely is biased against blacks (and not in the "thinks they're better than him at basketball" way) - it's that even racists can say things about a black man that aren't racially motivated. Context (still) matters, even when it's not the context we want to include. We have to look at all of the evidence, not just the evidence that fits our preconception.

I don't want you to think I'm playing gatekeeper, but there's a centrist area that is vital.

[DaemonSeid]

Originally Posted by KSig RC

First, as an Eagles fan, I'm almost 100% sure we should avoid the McNabb conversation right now. Give me a couple of weeks, man!

Second, I'm repeatedly on record as saying "context matters" - and what you're doing is taking his statements from the standpoint of the man's past racial missteps, and essentially saying "anything he says must be racially motivated because of his past." I get that.

However, it's also important to look at the actual words being used - even with the context of exposing racial bias in the past, he's completely allowed to hope that Obama fails in his liberal policy expansion. Indeed, he noted the exact same feelings toward Clinton - how do we reconcile that?

In short, I think you're going too far - you're going beyond credibility and reading into it actual malice or ill intent. When you go with "heh...for those that got offended at what Jay Z said....take a gander at this:" the comparison is implicit: this is a racist or racially-motivated statement. There's simply nothing in the statement to back that up - and, sure, Limbaugh's publicists probably scrubbed it to be neat and tidy, but any time we cry "racist!" at something that probably isn't, we devalue all of the correct cries. This is, in essence, how we get shit like claims of 'reverse racism' (which doesn't even conceptually make sense).

I don't want you to think I'm playing gatekeeper, but there's a centrist area that is vital.

K Sig. Unless the audio file has been scrubbed, it's verbatim to the transcript played. Check the links.

His racial bias is the motivating factor that would cause someone not to believe that his words could be taken genuinely and what he meant was that he hopes his policies fail.

Sorry but a leopard can't hide his spots.

And the isolated incident with Clinton is nothing compared to what he has voiced all of these decades because you know as well as I do, unless you disagree and I have to go pulling out another set of quotes, he is anti feminist as well.

I may be going far because for some it may be uncomfortable conversation but the point is, it's stuff like this that we have to stop ignoring and confront. Commenst like that, coming from one such as he, should be called for what it is and not excused.