Sanity -> RE: While We`re On The Subject,Is This A Racist Comment? (7/14/2010 6:47:08 PM)
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A little more background to Rush's 'cracker' comments quote:
BEGIN TRANSCRIPT [image]http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/spc.gif[/image] RUSH: Let's go to the phones. Rich in Manchester, Michigan, you're first. I'm glad you waited, and welcome to the program. CALLER: Rush, how are you today? RUSH: Fine, sir. Thank you very much. CALLER: Good. You've been talking to me for over 20 years now. It's a thrill to be able to talk back at you. RUSH: Thank you, sir. [image]http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/home/daily/site_071410/content/01125111.Par.89380.ImageFile.jpg[/image] CALLER: Even though it's to take issue. I got an issue with this cracker thing that's going on in the news and on talk radio. You know, it's like, you know, kill the cracker women, kill the cracker babies, kill every iota of a cracker, and it's a very offensive racial epithet. RUSH: I wholeheartedly agree. CALLER: I think what we need to do, maybe, is try something a little less offensive, like maybe "C-word." RUSH: Wait, wait, wait, wait. Wait a second. You think I need to be less offensive? CALLER: Well, I think everybody does, including you. I didn't really think that you would be getting in on this cracker thing that's all over the media, but -- RUSH: Well, see, that's the point: It's not all over the media. That is precisely the point, Rich. CALLER: It is when you only listen to talk radio and watch Fox News. I could listen to CNN -- or watch CNN. RUSH: It's not on CNN. It's not on CBS, ABC, NBC, New York Times, Washington Post, LA Times, USA Today. It's not there. Nobody's talking about the offensive death threats that are being enunciated daily by the New Black Panther Party. Nobody's talking about the voter fraud case the Department of Justice threw out because black defendants aren't going to be prosecuted according to Obama and Eric Holder. It's not all over the media, and now I've put it there where it deserves to be and it deserves to be in there because the rest of the country needs to know who it is that's talking this way. CALLER: I understand, but don't you think it would be a little less offensive if you heard, like, "I want to kill every iota of a C-word instead" of cracker? RUSH: I don't know what you mean by "C-word." CALLER: Ummm. Well, it's because it's a racial epithet. [image]http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/spc.gif[/image] RUSH: If I start talking about "killing every C-word," nobody's going to know what the hell I'm talking about. There's a bunch of different possibilities for C-word. I don't even want to get into them. CALLER: Oh, you're right. Yeah. Full transcript here Read the Background Material... • Washington Times: Kill the Crackers • Daily Caller: Meet the 'Cracker'-Bashing Black Panthers the DOJ Let Off the Hook • AP: Rush Limbaugh Fires Back at Critics of Steinbrenner Comments • NYDN: Rush Limbaugh Calls George Steinbrenner a 'Cracker,' Says Icon 'Fired a Bunch of White Guys' • NY Post: Death'$ Perfect Timing. Saves kin Half-Bil in Taxes • Breitbart.tv: NAACP Condemns Tea Party as Racist, 'Genetic Descendant' of White Supremacist Group
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