Mainstream Media Exposes Its Bigotry With Rush Limbaugh Racism Fakes

Rush Limbaugh, the US radio host, is said to have made racist comments. They are fakes. Journalists on newspapers an in the mainstream media seize on them as fact. Now read on…

US radio host Rush Limbaugh will not be buying the St Louis Rams, American football team. The group buying the club have reacted to objections by players, civil rights leaders and team owners that he was too racist and divisive.

The Guardian’s golf expert Lawrence Donegan says: “NFL’s resistance to Rush Limbaugh puts English football to shame”

Want to know what Limbaugh said? St. Louis Post-Dispatch columnist Bryan Burwell knows:

“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.”

Those are Limbaugh’s words. So are these:

“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.”

In case, you missed the bigotry, Burwell helps you to understand that bigotry is wrong:

I know how those words play out in Idiot America. They are embraced as gospel. But inside the locker rooms of the NFL, where the overwhelming majority of the players are descendants of slaves, Limbaugh’s ignorant ramblings resonate with entirely different emotions. His money might be green, but his words are colored with hate and intolerance.

Idiot America, of which Burwell is a founding father. Because Rush Limbaugh never said those things. Someone posted them on a Rush’s Limbaugh Wikipedia page. And along came Burwell to read the gospel and repeat it as fact.

Is Limbaugh a racist? The Boston Globe reports:

Limbaugh’s bid ran into opposition from within the image-conscious NFL Tuesday when Colts owner Jim Irsay said he would vote against the radio personality. Commissioner Roger Goodell said the commentator’s “divisive’’ comments would not be tolerated from any NFL insider.

In 2003, Limbaugh was forced to resign from ESPN’s Sunday night football broadcast after saying of Philadelphia’s Donovan McNabb: “I think what we’ve had here is a little social concern in the NFL. The media has been very desirous that a black quarterback do well.’’

Is that racist? Dan Calabese asks: “If Rush Limbaugh is such a racist, CNN and MSNBC, why use made up quotes to prove it?”

Mark Steyn hears the allegation of racism, and wonders:

Can anyone play this game? Bryan Burwell says, “I like to have sex with donkeys.” What’s that? He didn’t actually say it? Fine, let’s play along for the time being and take him at his word that he was inaccurately quoted… Rush should buy The St Louis Post-Dispatch.

In the Telegraph Toby Harnden looks on:

Which public figure can be quoted as having said something bigoted and disgusting and it doesn’t matter whether he did or not because he might have? Who can Big Media brand a racist without checking the facts? Who has to prove he did not say something racist, rather than the accuser proving he did?

A pat on the back for anyone who guessed the answer: Rush Limbaugh… From CNN to MSNBC to ABC, it’s been put about that Limbaugh said this:

…You know who deserves a posthumous Medal of Honour? James Earl Ray. We miss you, James. Godspeed.

Here’s CNN’s Rick Sanchez stating  that Limbaugh made the slavery comment:

And that is the CNN that fact-checked a Saturday Night Live joke aimed at Barack Obama. The only one.

The irony is, of course, that the people reporting this as fact are the same types who are always denouncing bloggers and the internet as forces of evil intent on destroying proper journalism – proper journalism being the kind that involves checking facts. In the case of Rush Limbaugh, however, it seems to be enough that the intention (i.e. to show the talk radio host is a racist) is considered pure.

These fake quotes are not even new:

The earliest mention of the alleged quote was on September 9th, 2005 by zedlappy who wrote this about what Rush allegedly said:

“You know who deserves a posthumous Medal of Honor? James Earl Ray. We miss you, James. Godspeed. [4/23/98]”

”zedlappy” cited to a Wikipedia article as his source. For those newbys, Wikipedia is a cite that anybody can make shit up and it gets quoted as authority by idiots.

Ed Driscoll has more:

Here are two quotes attributed to Limbaugh in a 2006 book, “101 People Who Are Really Screwing America,” by Jack Huberman.

• “You know who deserves a posthumous Medal of Honor? James Earl Ray (Dr. King’s assassin). We miss you, James. Godspeed.”
• “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.”

The first of these quotes has already been debunked most thoroughly, long before Rush’s bid to buy the Rams.  It is self-evidently the complete fabrication of someone with a wiki account, which was then picked up by the unscrupulous Huberman and reported as fact (with no citations at all) in his book.  The other, also attributed to Huberman, has never been sourced, and Huberman has never cited any original article, or even given any indication as to when this alleged statement was made

So it’s all a fake. Only, not eveyone cares:

Limbaugh claimed on his radio show Monday that his staff could not find any proof that he ever joked about slavery. I’m sorry. Limbaugh doesn’t get the benefit of the doubt on racial matters.

And this:

Despite this denial, Sanchez continued by basically saying that this statement didn’t matter: “Obviously, that does not take away the fact that there are other quotes which have been attributed to Rush Limbaugh, which many people in the African-American community and many other minority communities do find offensive. Nonetheless, it is a major controversy, not only in sports, but it’s also entered the news arena.”

The old media now works like this: a source with a fake name makes up a fake quote and sticks it on the web. A lazy hack with an agenda reads the quote and presents it as fact. The person who is said to have made the utterance says it’s a lie. The target is then asked to prove it. And it can only become an un-fact when a source with fake name goes to a website and says it is fake.

Want to be there when the mainstream media dies? You already are…

Note: Like Obama, Limbaugh has his own death cult:

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Posted: 15th, October 2009 | In: Key Posts, Reviews Comments (2) | TrackBack | Permalink