I used to listen to conservative talk radio all the time in my earlier semesters at Pitt. Quinn and Rose, Glenn Beck, Sean Hannity, Rush Limbaugh and Michael Savage. I would listen on my way to school, on my way to work and then from work coming home. Savage was my least favorite because how angry he got all the time. Limbaugh was my second least favorite because of how prideful he is.
Prideful, yes. But racist?
No. I've never heard him to be a racist, as most of the political cartoonists and media outlets have tried to portray Limbaugh since he showed interest in being an NFL team owner. In my days of listening to him, I've found time and time again that he is often misquoted or paraphrased to say something he never actually said.
Here's an excellent post that does a better job than I could in showing why Limbaugh is not a racist.
I eventually stopped listening to conservative radio at a regular basis because all I could do is feel angry all the time. I still tune in from time to time, but mostly now I listen to Word FM (which makes me mad only when the preaching is shallow or contradictory to the Bible), ESPN radio and Harry Potter on CD.
I'd say I'm a much calmer man today.
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It seems to me that all the negative vibes this blowhard (Rush Hudson Limbaugh A.KA. Jeff Christie) has been spewing over these many years has come back to blow back on his face (A classic “Blow Back”). He always tries to give off the airs that he can have anything he wants but as we all witness those with more money and more influence tossed him aside like sack of potatoes and the ultimate insult was that it was done in public (money don’t buy you everything butterball).
Now of course he blames everyone else (Michael J. Fox, Perez Hilton, Al Sharpton, Jesse Jackson, Obama, Oprah Winfrey, Sonia Sotomayor, Hillary Clinton, Olympia Snowe, ESPN, NFL, the media, basically people of color, the handicapped, women and gays) when of course all you have to do is listen to his show and plainly hear his daily prejudices filled sermons. So NFL, I salute you decision, job well done. And to the whaling cry baby perched on his self made pedestal, quit your whining it was your own fault. He is reaping what he has sowed, KARMA, "palin and simple" like his followers. Don’t we all feel better?
I'm actually not sure that it was the NFL who kept Limbaugh out. It was his group of partners that reconsidered. The NFL can't really prevent certain people from becoming owners unless they violate specific regulations (such as having partnership with casinos or gambling). If they kept people out based on their political association, they would get sued.
Also, it's not as if the commissioner of the NFL, or most team owners, are real liberal guys. 70 percent of their political contributions went to Republicans in the past election. Limbaugh, for all the reasons Paul points out, would be bad for business.
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