Of course he's racist

Rush Limbaugh is a disgusting human being. He's a misogynistic, gay-bashing race baiter.

And yes, he's a racist. Sure, there have been two recent fake quotes which were falsely attributed to the pile of crap that have been discredited, but they are hardly the only evidence. He's got a whole body of work.

These are a sampling...and they are verifiable.


"Take that bone out of your nose and call me back."

"Have you ever noticed how all composite pictures of wanted criminals resemble Jesse Jackson?"

--These first two he admitted in a Newsweek interview.


“Look, let me put it to you this way: the NFL all too often looks like a game between the Bloods and the Crips without any weapons. There, I said it.”

"You just gotta be who you are, and I think it's time to get rid of this whole National Basketball Association. Call it the TBA, the Thug Basketball Association, and stop calling them teams. Call 'em gangs. You have the Laker Gang, you have the Heat Gang, you have a Timberwolf Gang [distortions of official team names], and let 'em strap up out there, and let 'em market their CDs. Instead of selling concessions, sell CDs out there at the concession stand." Limbaugh later adds, "They're going in to watch the Crips and the Bloods out there wherever the neighborhood is where the arena happens to be, and be who you are."

“Obama's America, white kids getting beat up on school buses now. You put your kids on a school bus, you expect safety but in Obama's America the white kids now get beat up with the black kids cheering, 'Yay, right on, right on, right on, right on,' and, of course, everybody says the white kid deserved it, he was born a racist, he's white.”

Speculating on why a Mexican national won the New York marathon, Limbaugh spouted, "An immigration agent chased him for the last 10 miles." (USA Weekend, 1/26/92)

"A Chavez is a Chavez. We've always had problems with them"

“Look. It's one thing to say you like it. It's OK. But to try to pass this off as something that you've intellectually examined and have assigned value you to -- ah, sorry, Senator [Kerry]. And I'm not going to believe this business that you don't like heavy metal. I mean, I think heavy metal's probably your anthem. You know, from the Vietnam era and all that. But here, again, don't stand up for white music. Associate yourself with rap.”

"Obama's entire economic program is reparations."

Referring to President Obama and Halle Berry as "Halfrican Americans."

--These can be found readily.

When Carol Moseley-Braun (D-IL) was in the U.S. Senate, the first black woman ever elected to that body, Limbaugh would play the "Movin' On Up" theme song from TV's Jeffersons when he mentioned her.

Limbaugh uses mock "black" dialect -- substituting "ax" for "ask"-- when discussing black leaders.



You have to be in serious denial to justify those quotes and actions. Those are just the more blatant ones. There are many more that read as white populist backlash against minorities, which I would argue are not much more than coded racism and defense of white privilege. And, I get that some quotes require the entire context, but if we allow that, then we must also allow the context of extreme misogyny and bigotry towards homosexuals. The verdict is in. Sorry, but he's a real, living, breathing racist.