ABC Reaching To Tag Rush As Racist
This is from a Newsbusters article by Warner Todd Huston:
So, how is a Rush Limbaugh caller’s comments news?
Unfortunately, this is the kind of silliness that the net is sometimes prone to as sites try to fill pages with “news.” On March 3 during the Rush Limbaugh radio show, one of the callers…. remember, I said a caller here… said that Barack Obama reminded her (the caller’s) daughter of the cartoon character Curious George. And, um, this is somehow news? Well, it is according to ABC News at least. Excitedly, ABC’s Political Radar blog delivered us a headline that virtually screams “look at the racist” — Limbaugh Caller Says Obama Reminds Daughter of Cartoon Monkey.
On March 3rd, the Political Radar blog breathlessly reports this momentous “news,” this stupendous, stultifying, divisive, pointless, news. Even more shocking, Limbaugh “laughed at the caller’s comment.” The NERVE!
Seriously, people! How is it that a caller’s comments to any radio show amounts to news? Would it be news if I reported what some guy at the 7/11 store said to me yesterday? The news should be what the hosts say, not the callers. And, even at that rate, the news value of what a radio host says might easily be considered less consequential than what a politician or other public figure says.
Ah, but we all know what the “news” here is, don’t we? ABC was excited to be able to paint Rush Limbaugh as a racist. Yes, ABC was salivating at the chance to say that the evil, rotten, mean-spirited, conservative Limbaugh is a nogoodnick. That is the beginning and end of the agenda.
Here is how the Political Radar blog begins:
ABC News’ Tahman Bradley Reports: Conservative talk radio host Rush Limbaugh issued an on-air apology to Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., today after a caller said her daughter thought the Democratic presidential frontrunner looked like the cartoon character Curious George, a monkey.
Limbaugh, who laughed at the caller’s comments, later apologized explaining he didn’t know anything about Curious George.
In true Limbaugh fashion, though, he was able to take a silly thing and wring a cogent, political point out of it. And kudos to ABC for at least allowing Limbaugh his point, even if they did bury it at the end of the piece.
Limbaugh made a broader, perhaps more serious observation about political correctness and what can and cannot be said about a black man seeking the presidency of the United States. “I’m doing this as an illustration for you of how really uptight and tense everybody is going to be with any kind of criticism of Barack Obama on the Republican side,” he said. “If Obama is the nominee, we may set a record for the number of apologies to him and his campaign by various Republicans and so forth.”
So, Rush made lemonade out of those lemons, for sure. But, how ABC saw it as “news” is the saddest part of this whole affair with their attempt to make Limbaugh out as the racist. And don’t think I am exaggerating, either. Catch how the Political Radar piece ends.
But forty years removed from racist archetypes like Blackface, Limbaugh probably won’t get much sympathy by laughing at a child thinking a black man favors a monkey.
Blackface, indeed. Nope…. not much agenda there!
Be respectful of others and their opinions. Inflammatory remarks and inane leftist drivel will be deleted. It ain’t about free speech, remember you’re in a private domain. My website, my prerogative.
If you can't handle using your real email address, don't bother posting a comment.
so the black activists can portray white-folk as evil money-grubbing people stepping on the backs of minorities, and should be exterminated…
but a CHILD insinuates that obama is similar to a cartoon charachter “who happens to be a monkey” and it’s a race war!!
i’ll bet my life that child didn’t know that monkey was a derogatory racial epithet degrading to one of high melanin content in their skin…
but hey, the left believes that it’s IMPOSSIBLE for minorities to be racist… they can only be PREJUDICED. they honestly believe that the only way someone can be racist, is if they have power and authority. so only the majority can truly be racist.
hell, i’ll call obama a monkey;
“obama, you’re a fucking monkey!”
and not because you’re black, but because you have the political experience, and intellectual capacity of a monkey!!
March 4th, 2008 at 10:32 amThis is ridiculous. Now we’re attacking comments that come from the wild imaginations of children? Would it be okay if Obama reminded the kid of Darkwing Duck, or Bullwinkle, or Mighty Mouse? Now monkeys are the symbolism of racist ideals? Last I checked, monkeys are viewed as cute, cuddly creatures…even if they occasionally fling their poo at people (which, coincidentally, very closely resembles Sen. Obama and his rhetoric). This is just another attempt by liberals to use charges of racism as a means to censor conservative talkshow hosts.
March 4th, 2008 at 10:36 amYou mean a monkey like Bush is a monkey, right?
March 4th, 2008 at 10:37 amNo one cares when blacks call me Whitey, White Mother Fucker, Cracker, Honkey, White Trash, BOY, etc….the KneeGros need to get some fucking backbone, Obama does resemble the Monkey….it is the ears and the smile.
March 4th, 2008 at 10:42 amPaslode;
don’t forget the shit-eating grin
March 4th, 2008 at 10:52 amIf you think about it a lot of blacks do look as though they evolved from the apes and whites look as though they evolved from the reptiles. It’s more noticeable when people get older. A bunch of gorillas and dinosaurs.
March 4th, 2008 at 11:19 amObama = Black Alfred E. Newman
March 4th, 2008 at 11:45 amComparing a monkey to obama is embarassing to monkeys.
March 4th, 2008 at 2:02 pmit was a child who named his teddy bear muhammed in the sudan and look at how people wanted to kill the teacher.
libs and jihadis see the world through the same lens, that of a victims. if you vote democrat its because you accept the victim mentality: rich vs poor, woman vs man, black vs white, muslim vs jew or christian, gay vs straight etc etc
March 4th, 2008 at 9:49 pm