With liberals desperate to make Sonia Sotomayor look like a good pick, they are lying their butts off by email campaigns of phony quotes and citing these quotes in books, blogs, forums and even on television. There are lies, damned lies, and liberal talking points. The brunt of this smear campaign is Rush Limbaugh, but they always add it’s also the Republican Party and conservatism. He’s our leader according to them remember?
The list of lies, half-truths, exaggerations, and things taken out of context:
#1. You know who deserves a posthumous Medal of Honor? James Earl Ray. We miss you, James. Godspeed. - Liberals are trying to tie this fantasy quote to Rush Limbaugh, but it was never said by anyone but a liberal.
#2. I mean, let’s face it, we didn’t have slavery in this country for over 100 years because it was a bad thing. Quite the opposite: slavery built the South. I’m not saying we should bring it back; I’m just saying it had its merits. For one thing, the streets were safer after dark. – Never happened. It was entered into wikiland by this loser here. He also did the James Earl Ray quote and many others. It affirms the left wing article of faith that we on the right are all racist.
#3. Obama “probably didn’t get out of Harvard without affirmative action.” -
This “quote” is from a Rush Limbaugh broadcast, but is incomplete and taken out of context. In it’s cut and paste form for liberal bloggers, it appears as a definitive statement that Obama was a product of affirmative action at Harvard. Rush was making a comparison between the msm’s treatment of Bush vs Obama when it came to higher education. It was purely hypothetical. By the way, why do liberals act like affirmative action is a bad thing? Why do they champion it, if it means it’s beneficiaries are to be kept secret?
John K. Wilson, another author looking for hype, posted this micharcterization and other falsehoods on The Daily Kos. He is the founder of the Institute for College Freedom, where students can be free from sourcing sensational stories and learning the truth.
#4. “The NAACP should have riot rehearsal. They should get a liquor store and practice robberies.” – FAIR is as close to real life as you get. They claim the quote comes from the Flush Rush Quarterly. Are you serious? They can’t prove this one either folks. Another article of faith.
#5. Barack the Magic Negro – was not originally a song on Rush Limbaugh. Wikipedia’s faithful got this one wrong as of this writing. I am sure it’s an honest mistake. Here is the origin of Barack the Magic Negro:
But it’s clear that Obama also is running for an equally important unelected office, in the province of the popular imagination — the “Magic Negro.” – David Ehrenstein wrote this abomination and Paul Shanklin parodied the article. If the left doesn’t like it, don’t write it.
#6. “Take that bone out of your nose and call me back” - This never happened on the Rush Limbaugh Show. Back in 1972, he said this to a caller who he could not understand. He admitted to the insult, and explained feeling guilty about it in an interview in 1990. Every single person that used this quote, did not source it or research it. If they did, then they omitted Rush’s mea culpa. I am holding the paper copy of this interview the quote is from in my hand. As of this writing, 98% you out there on the ‘Net have not seen this article. You cut and pasted what you wanted to be the truth. All of this assumes the paper had it right 18 years ago, about a story that was 18 years old then. A 36 year-old alleged quote.
#7. “They’re 12 percent of the population. Who the hell cares?” - 100% false. A fabrication. You cannot source it, ever. At least not back to Rush. Derrick Z. Jackson has the alleged quote in his Boston Globe piece, yet there is no source offered. It’s just another convenient sell line.
#8. “Have you ever noticed how all composite pictures of wanted criminals resemble Jesse Jackson?” – The cut and paste brigade strikes again. In the same ancient piece where Rush explained the bone in the nose comment, he explains his intent about this comment taken out of context, an explanation most of the people pushing this quote have never seen. For these two quotes, you have thirty year-old accusations taken out of context in an eighteen year-old magazine. A magazine whose article the ‘Quote Truthers’ never read.
“…he has called for a “posthumous Medal of Honor” for the assassin of Martin Luther King, Jr., James Earl Ray…”
No he didn’t Max. You lifted this from a place that featured other lies that didn’t ring true to you. This lie however, affirmed your belief that Republicans are racist and you are a crusader of truth, setting the record straight.
This is what is happening America, these people use explosive lies and then pepper them with tiny half-truths. It’s the James Earl Ray that sells the article, like so many articles and books. A ‘hook’, a big lie to suck you in and sell you change, Sotomayor, or to assail the character of someone they fear.
Rush Limbugh keeps his transcripts available online. Media Matters monitors talk radio. If you see a quote, with no clip, no transcript from the original source, and especially if a watchdog group doesn’t have it, your quote is probably untrue.
Hey, thanks for including me. I often fantasize about Rush Limbaugh–especially since he’s kicked the drugs and lost all that weight. He’s looking quite svelt these days. Anyway, just so you know, you have me mislinked–but thanks for the shout out anyway. I’ll just keep living in my paranoid delusion. Hope to see you there.
No I didn’t mislink you. Here are your own words:
http://bootynovelbill.blogspot.com/2008/08/play-that-funky-race-card-white-boy.html
And the latter are definitely out there. There’s Fox News, which constantly refers to the Dem as “Barack Hussein Obama.” There’s Sean Hannity suggesting that electing Obama “would mean a racist and an anti-Semite would be President of the United States.” Rush Limbaugh claims that Obama has “disowned his white half” and that he’s the “Affirmative Action” candidate since he “probably didn’t get out of Harvard without affirmative action.”
And that quote is untrue, Mr. Bill Campell.
If you want correct me, I am all for it. But it will be done with real names and no cover. I am man enough to admit when I make a mistake, but I am frequently alone in that endeavor.
No disrespect, Mr. Bordini, but you’ll note that my post, “Play That Funky Race Card,” was written on August 8, 2008. There are several references to the quote that predate my comment:
May 27, 2008
http://www.noquarterusa.net/blog/2008/05/27/top-obama-adviser-accuses-jews-of-mccarthyism/
where ccwarrior (no fan of obama if you see some of his other responses) states:
“Rush Limbaugh Today, Obama ‘probably didn’t get out of Harvard without affirmative action.’ hmmm I am starting to agree.”
Your boy, John K. Wilson, also stated it the same day here:
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2008/5/27/13848/7414/138/523627
and here on the same day:
http://obamapolitics.com/node/96
Here’s another one from June:
http://www.actuarialoutpost.com/actuarial_discussion_forum/showthread.php?t=141387&page=4
July 31:
http://www.politicsdaily.com/2008/07/29/aol-straw-poll-july-28-aug-4/196
So, if it is indeed fantasy, it wasn’t started by me (and yes, you did mis-link me). Also, if it’s cut entirely out of the ether, don’t you find it odd that both (assumed) liberal and conservatives believed it to be true?
Could it be that he’s also reportedly made some “off-color” remarks about Donovan McNabb, Carol Mosely Braun, Colin Powell, and Antonio Villaraigosa? Is it because he has credited/blamed Affirmative Action for Obama’s success?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lovF-f8bkTU
Or that he not only defends his playing the Magic Negro parody, but also takes credit for writing the piece?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_u5BcAJzAaE
Now I’ve never heard the thing and haven’t been part of the furor, but there seems to be a constant narrative being played out when it comes to Rush Limbaugh and race. It could be part of a vast, liberal media conspiracy as you claim (and before you go painting me with that brush, maybe you should read where I defended Palin against an internet rumor during the election, http://bootynovelbill.blogspot.com/2008/09/sambo-bitchgate.html) or he’s the most misunderstood man in America or, maybe, like Arnie once said, where there’s smoke there’s fire.
Now, as far as the “white half” part of the comment, you can find that on Media Matters:
http://mediamatters.org/research/200803210012
That was a very long-winded way of saying you can’t prove he said it, but because other people slandered him, you will too.
It’s easy to throw around falsehoods and bring up tangents to distract from the fact you cannot prove he said that.
You can’t do it.
You should show some integrity and remove it, instead of hiding behind John K. Wilson, who did the same thing.
John K. Wilson, for your information, is a seer. See below where he writes on the Kos about the quote, the day before it happened!
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LIE: Obama “probably didn’t get out of Harvard without affirmative action.”(Rush Limbaugh show, May 28, 2008, http://www.dailykos.com/story/2008/5/27/13848/7414/138/523627)
Actually, my original problem was that you implicitly suggested that I made up that quote about your boy, Rush. I have proven that it wasn’t me at all, and you still have not taken the link down. And I quote you:
“If you want correct me, I am all for it. But it will be done with real names and no cover. I am man enough to admit when I make a mistake…”
Well, you’ve made a mistake and haven’t rectified it. So, where is your integrity in all this Mr. Bordini?
I was originally willing to believe that it was simply a mistake, that you just didn’t Google hard enough. But now I find your posturing just that–posturing. I mean, you got the quote wrong with me; you say that “Magical Negro” wasn’t “originated” by Rush (as though that’s the point) while he openly brags about penning the parody (which is the point). And knowing that, how am I supposed to take your word over this John K. Wilson fellow? Just because you say so? Because you’re blog’s entitled “And I’m Right”? There’s no telling what else you’ve gotten wrong in this piece alone.
I simply said you were the oldest place I could find it, that it was unsourced and it was a fantasy.
Now that you know it’s a lie, I am sure you will correct it.
Found it.
http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/home/daily/site_052708/content/01125108.guest.html
You’ve got to go down pretty far so here’s the entire paragraph:
“He said he’s been to almost all 57 states in the campaign. Here’s the bottom line. As far as the Drive-Bys and the people that assess these things are concerned: If you’re liberal, you’re smart. That’s just it. That’s the explanation of Mrs. Clinton being referred to as the Smartest Woman in the World. Do you think John Kerry’s smart? This guy is a walking, bungling, effete snob who doesn’t know diddly-squat. He talks and talks and talks, he says nothing, but the liberal Drive-Bys eat it up and they eat it up now with Obama because — guess what? — he’s smarter than the Drive-Bys. He must be. He went to Harvard. But wait. George W. Bush went to Harvard and yet he’s an idiot. So that proves the point here that only liberals are smart. Think about this. What if Obama is the classic affirmative action result? That is, someone who could not have gotten into Harvard without affirmative action and probably didn’t get outta Harvard without affirmative action; now is the poster child for what’s wrong with affirmative action. Think anybody in the Drive-Bys is going to let that slip out? And think about this, too. The libs don’t have any trouble arguing that Bush is dumb and stupid and only got into Harvard by way of legacy — you know, his old man. They argue that’s bad, that that’s unfair. “Legacy affirmative action, that’s not good.” So why is real affirmative action any less pernicious? Here’s Bush. This is Bush on Memorial Day. This is at Arlington National Cemetery. By the way, Obama, this is where dead heroes who have served in the military and others are buried. It’s right near Washington. You can see it up there.”
So what?
Rush wasn’t saying Obama “probably didn’t get outta Harvard without affirmative action” the way all of you liberals cut and pasted it. You took the statement totally out of context, as anyone can read right there. It’s completely hypothetical, not a definitive statement the way you present it.
I can admit that I didn’t find it in the Rush archive, but this “quote” you liberals keep using is totally misrepresented. This is the first time in your life you have actually seen it, congratulations.
Thanks for clearing this one up. I am sure you feel better being only slightly dishonest, instead of completely dishonest.
WOW! The drugster Rush has got a lot of bootlickers in here. You fellas should be proud, way to make your dad proud. He can say, “look at my boy, licking a fat drug addicts luxury loafers.” This a special day for you guys, you’re the man now!
WOW! Another liberal too embarrassed to use his real name.
lol, Try Kerry. Just try it. With the recent revelations of our climate science and scientists, I believe indictments and testimony probably ought to come first.
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