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If views can be silenced by character assassination, the whole country loses.

To sue or not to sue? That is the question.

After racist statements were made up out of thin air and then attributed to Rush Limbaugh, these were the options he had.

It is easy for me to understand that these are not simple choices, because I have faced those options as well. Recently there have been a number of columns made up by others and put on the Internet with my name on them. The things said in those columns have nothing in common with anything that I have said, in my columns, in my books, or anywhere else.

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Why??


"The question for the media to answer is: Are lies to go unchallenged when they are lies against someone you disagree with? Worse yet, are they to be excused, rationalized, or even repeated?

Already there are people on television saying that, although Rush didn't actually say the things that have been attributed to him, he has said other things that they choose to call "racist."

If those other things really are racist, why don't they quote them, instead of something that was made up out of whole cloth?

The Rush Limbaugh show has, after all, been broadcast for many years, three hours a day. There are thousands of hours of those broadcasts that people can go back through to look for things to quote."


This is a great question--the left and the dems hate this guy--why don't they go listen to tapes of his show and find the evidence??

Because there isn't any.

Now Sharpton threatens to sue over Rush's Op-Ed piece..


www.nydailynews.com


It was a venture for Limbaugh. I wish he would get in on the Bills. Help us out a little.

The shit he's actually said is worse AND he's a celebrity.

So there's no chance a lawsuit would win.

#3 | Posted by Alexandrite

I have only listened to Rush a few times.
I find him irritating.

Please provide data showing him to have made a "racist" comment.

Please explain what comments he has made that were "worse" than those attributed to him and explain why they were "worse".

Good luck with getting an answer to your question, Cowboy.

I asked the same thing earlier today and was greeted with the sound of crickets.

In short, put up or shut up, Alex.

If Rush decides to sue, he shouldn't do it here. CNN and the network news shows broadcast worldwide, and Europe and Canada don't have the "absence of malice" clause that protects recklessly irresponsible journalists here in the states. File the lawsuit in London or Brussels, and it'll never make it to trial. Easiest money he'll ever make.

Walter Williams and Thomas Sowell have been frequent hosts on his show. Bo Snerdley, his broadcast engineer, is black. They would make for some compelling witnesses.

Please provide data showing him to have made a "racist" comment

I think it would be impossible for ANY person --especially a hot-headed, pill-popping, neo-conservative -- to do a 4 hour radio show 5 times a week for over 20 years and NOT say something racist.

Somebody somewhere is goona be offended by something at some point. I'm not saying that makes Rush a racist or any different than any other radio "personality". But it does make his defenders look pretty stupid. Now is the perfect time for actual conservatives, not just rich people who play one on the radio, to boot out those people who don't really help their cause.
At this point in the game it doesn't matter if Rush is the second coming of John Adams, liberals aren't going to accept him, the dittoheads, or anything they have to say. Help out ypur party and move on. Find a leader with --whatayacall em-- IDEAS, not just deaf critics with brain implants.


How's this for "data": when failing to understand a black caller, "take that bone out of your nose and call me back".
Of course he was using the name Jeff Christie at the time. But that all changed after he was arrested for soliciting a gay male prostitute and fired as a result.

To sue or not to sue? Well considering that Rush is in favor of "tort reform", has no chance of winning a libel suit, and typically rails against "frivolous" lawsuits, I'd expect him to be the good lil hypocrite we've come to know and lawyer-up.

It would be an interesting suit and I would love to follow it.

I'd prefer to see Lush Rimjob have a well deserved aneurysm and get Schiavo'ed but that's just me. As I said last week, if he wanted to buy an NFL team, let him. The ensuing hilarity would be great spectator fun.

If Rush decides to sue, he shouldn't do it here. CNN and the network news shows broadcast worldwide, and Europe and Canada don't have the "absence of malice" clause that protects recklessly irresponsible journalists here in the states.

#7 | Posted by rightisright at 2009-10-21 09:28 AM | Reply | Flag:

Wow, that's some serious pot-calling-kettle-black stuff goin' on in your head dude.

...Jeff Christie at the time. But that all changed after he was arrested for soliciting a gay male prostitute and fired as a result.

Jeff Who?

Limpo's pseudonym while on air in Pittsburgh in the 70s?

* quick google search *

A "Jeff Christie" was arrested in Pittsburgh in 1973 for soliciting sex from an undercover policeman in the gay pick-up area of the city.

On Winthrop street according to other reports.

News to Spud ...as was the allegation that the guy who mentored him to being a succesful, well dressed radio personality was an openly gay fella named Woodruff in California where he used to hang out in gay bars a lot, apparently.

Making Rush yet another self-loathing closet homosexual in the GOP?

Well, at least they're consistent.

Actually, the jury is still out on these rumours including the one that none of his marriages have ever been consumated and that they've all been paid to keep mum about it.

Still, interesting stuff.

Be Well.

Please provide data showing him to have made a "racist" comment.

Snopes okay fer yas?

www.snopes.com

Here's another fun one...

Limbaugh has called Obama a halfrican American' has said that Obama was not Black but Arab because Kenya is an Arab region, even though Arabs are less than one percent of Kenya. Since mainstream America has become more accepting of African-Americans, Limbaugh has decided to play against its new racial fears, Arabs and Muslims. Despite the fact Obama graduated magna cum laude from Harvard Law school, Limbaugh has called him an affirmative action candidate.' Limbaugh even has repeatedly played a song on his radio show Barack the Magic Negro' using an antiquated Jim Crow era term for Black a man who many Americans are supporting for president. Way to go Rush.

So Rush Limbaugh has managed to make racist attacks on four of the most admired and respected people of African descent in the past one hundred years, in Martin Luther King, Nelson Mandela, Colin Powell and Barack Obama. He has called for the assassin of Martin Luther King to be given a medal, and said slavery was a good thing. He has claimed that Joe the Plumber, who isn't even a plumber is more important in this election than Colin Powell, a decorated military veteran who has served honorably in three administrations. How can the Republican party stand by this man and let their candidates appear on his show? Rush Limbaugh's comments are so racist, they're funny, in a Borat, Archie Bunker kind of way. What is not funny is the millions of dittoheads who listen to him, who take in and re-spout all the racist rhetoric that he spits. Limbaugh's statements are echoed in the racist, angry Palin/McCain supporters who shout kill him,' terrorist,' communist,' traitor,' 'socialist' and off with his head.'

And just fer kicks...

We need segregated buses This is Obama's America.

Rush is not a racist per se.

He's a racist enabler.

His fan base is undoubtedly composed of more than a few racists and he panders to them shamelessly.

K?

Be Well.

What he could do is announce his lawsuit, then declare that any winnings go directly to charity. That would be fun to watch.

-any winnings go directly to charity

Limbaugh Pilonidal Wart Draft Dodger Fund

Please provide data showing him to have made a "racist" comment

google

www.snopes.com

Funny how it is the "left" that is fixated on Rush, eh Murph?

ok so my dad listens to Rush. And i freaking hate the shit outa it. More of a real "local" talk show guy here. I went and googled "Jeff Christie = Rush Limbough" and here is the top listing:

pssht.com

please do note this at the very bottom of the page in the tiniest of tiny print:
"This site is in no way associated with Rush Limbaugh or www.Biography.com. All material herein is intended as parody. Any similarity in format or
"personnel" is purely satirical."

going to continue to sift thru a few more site untill I can find something LEGITIMATE to challenge the old man on, cause like I said I really dont like the guys show, or "comedy" but I do demand that I have the facts.


Please provide data showing him to have made a "racist" comment


google


www.snopes.com

#16 | Posted by 726


Those are lies 726--

As for the Jeff Christie thing--bullshit.

Some folks will fall for anything in the sewer of the internet.

They don't even resemble each other at all--not even close.


Sowell's been carrying ol' pimple-ass' water for decades.

"Rush Limbaugh has gotten a lot of mileage out of his claim that volcanoes do more harm to the ozone layer than human-produced chemicals. He featured it in his best-selling book, The Way Things Ought to Be (paperback edition pp. 155-157): "Mount Pinatubo in the Philippines spewed forth more than a thousand times the amount of ozone-depleting chemicals in one eruption than all the fluorocarbons manufactured by wicked, diabolical and insensitive corporations in history.... Mankind can't possibly equal the output of even one eruption from Pinatubo, much less 4 billion years' worth of them, so how can we destroy ozone?"

Limbaugh calls concern about the ozone layer: "balderdash. Poppycock." The only people who worry about it are "environmental wackos," "dunderheaded alarmists and prophets of doom."

Syndicated columnist Thomas Sowell (New York Post, 1/14/94) used the volcano theory as Exhibit A to illustrate Limbaugh's "very well-informed and savvy understanding of the political issues of our time." "While far more pretentious people have been joining the chorus of hysteria over 'global warming,'" Sowell wrote,


Limbaugh pointed out in his [first] book that one of the high readings of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere came right after a volcanic eruption--and volcanoes can put more gases into the atmosphere than the entire human race.


The alert reader will notice that Sowell has mixed up global warming and the ozone layer, two different problems. Still, Sowell concluded of Limbaugh, "It is obvious that the man has done his homework--and done it well."

www.fair.org

www.snopes.com


#16 | Posted by 726


Those are lies 726--

#19 | Posted by MURPHY at 2009-10-21 10:48 PM

Yeah, snopes is in the business of getting things wrong.

Wake up.

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