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No More Mister Nice Blog — ... to Limbaugh that he never uttered -- and wouldn't have uttered, at least in his "mature" years (he made his notorious "Take that bone out of your nose and call me back" remark nearly forty years ago) -- because they don't have that weird bank-shot, blame-the-liberals style Limbaugh prefers when he's race-baiting. ...
Rush Limbaugh's red herring
Attytood —
... "[t]here can only be one reason" Survivor scrapped "segregated" competition after two episodes -- "the white tribe had to be winning." Then there's this , from Newsday in 1990: Recalling a stint as an "insult-radio" DJ in Pittsburgh, he admits feeling guilty about, for example, telling a black listener he could not understand to "take that bone out of your nose and call me back." You see, it's "insult radio," so that makes it OK! And it one sense, it is. We've argued here a lot this year about free speech in America, and what it means. Rush Limbaugh is free in America to say ...
Rush Limbaugh Dropped From Group Bid To Buy St. Louis Rams: Bookerista Perspectives
Booker Rising —
... More commentary from Mr. Durden: "I hope Limbaugh sues media outlets like MSNBC and CNN that repeated lies rather than reported. I know a little about basic first amendment law, and I think he has a case since he can now prove financial damages. Before running their stories, it would have only taken them a few seconds visiting a site like snopes.com to prove that Limbaugh never said many of the foolish things attributed to him." ...
“We Are All Batshit Insane”
Comments from Left Field —
... Here’s the thing, though: The same Internet site that debunks the provenance of the slavery quote (Snopes.com, which is widely considered a reliable urban legend-buster) also lists several other racist remarks Limbaugh has made, and links to documentation that proves he did say those things. Hinderaker does not link to or mention this (although of course he doesn’t even link to or mention Snopes.com as a source backing up his own true assertion about the slavery quote). Nevertheless, he does not hesitate to claim, as though it were ...
Rush Was Not and Cannot Be Libeled
The Anonymous Liberal —
... First, as a legal matter, Rush was not libeled, at least by the media. For something to be slander or libel (especially when it involves a public figure), you have to know that what you are saying or writing is false. What happened here was that someone circulated an email that purported to be the "Top Ten Racist Rush Limbaugh Quotes." Contrary to what the National Review and Rush's knee-jerk defenders claim, these quotes are not all fabricated. Most of them, in fact, are well-documented (his quote about Donovan McNabb, etc.). Several of them, however, are ...
