Rush Limbaugh the Racist: Basketball is the “Favorite Sport of Gangs”
1-liner, Gangs, NBA, Politics October 7th. 2009, 3:15pmRush Limbaugh: Here’s the latest from the racist, wannabe co-owner of the St. Louis Rams, Rush Limbaugh: “What do you spend the money on to fight gang violence? Afterschool program — don’t we already have afterschool programs? Don’t we already have — what do you call it, extracurricular events? Midnight basketball — I mean, we’ve done it all. We’ve taken the favorite sport of gangs, and we put it at midnight to get them on the basketball court.” David Stern, kindly pick up the white courtesy phone … [Media Matters]
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October 7th, 2009 at 3:16 PM
Yeek.
October 7th, 2009 at 3:19 PM
what is the favorite sport of gangs then? golf?
October 7th, 2009 at 3:20 PM
Typical…bitch about the problem, but offer no solution. Solution? I don’t have one either. Just hate Rush.
October 7th, 2009 at 3:22 PM
But… basketball is the favorite sport of gangs.
October 7th, 2009 at 3:22 PM
go pop some pills Rush. NBA is the tits
October 7th, 2009 at 3:23 PM
Thought it was Jai Alai.
October 7th, 2009 at 3:24 PM
We need to get this “IrishLaw” to change his screen name. We’ve done it before, we can do it again.
October 7th, 2009 at 3:25 PM
Are we not including Polo?
October 7th, 2009 at 3:26 PM
Croquet.
October 7th, 2009 at 3:26 PM
TBL: The pop over what I am trying to read ads are def a no no
October 7th, 2009 at 3:28 PM
he forgot about shanking
October 7th, 2009 at 3:28 PM
@St Bear- any suggestions?
October 7th, 2009 at 3:28 PM
the van buren boys love badminton
October 7th, 2009 at 3:29 PM
Dice – just ask Ashy Larry
October 7th, 2009 at 3:29 PM
Huh, I didn’t know Seal even had a last name.
October 7th, 2009 at 3:30 PM
Did I get banned?
October 7th, 2009 at 3:32 PM
i dont want to agree too much with rush but when you got a guy like deshawn stevenson getting known gang signs tattooed on his face and neck it is kinda hard to say he is wrong
http://www.washingtontimes.com/weblogs/outlet/2009/sep/28/close-deshawn-stevensons-fresh-ink/ (read the first comment)
October 7th, 2009 at 3:32 PM
Rush is an idiot.
Everyone knows it’s the World Dice Championships.
/just bought this baby cash
October 7th, 2009 at 3:32 PM
there’s so much wrong with the statement he makes, it’s not even worth trying to refute. so i’ll play along with everyone else.
favorite sport of gangs: ultimate frisbee and lawn darts.
October 7th, 2009 at 3:33 PM
Did I get banned?
how do you comment if you are banned?
October 7th, 2009 at 3:33 PM
Fuckin’ lawn darts. Those were awesome. Kids these days have no idea.
October 7th, 2009 at 3:33 PM
I thought the favorite game of gangs was slanging ‘cane.
October 7th, 2009 at 3:34 PM
WMD’s! I gots them WMD’s!
October 7th, 2009 at 3:34 PM
It won’t print my raging liberal comment. Wordpress is a conservative. I knew it!
October 7th, 2009 at 3:35 PM
forget Lawn darts. how bout lawn checkers?
http://www.jonny8ball.com/images/category/Outdoor%20Games.jpg
for the thugs
October 7th, 2009 at 3:35 PM
Banned in the U.S.A. was a great song.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FU7XsoQXSW8
October 7th, 2009 at 3:35 PM
The solution is not programs that treat the symptoms of the problem, gang violence, instead of the problem itself, poverty and income inequality, which has been exacerbated over the last thirty years by policies that favor the rich over the poor (which is then sold as the free market).
October 7th, 2009 at 3:35 PM
fuck. not checkers, connect 4. ill step away now
October 7th, 2009 at 3:35 PM
Specifically crack, higher profit margin.
October 7th, 2009 at 3:36 PM
@St. Bear and IrishMafia – I’m open for suggestions. But its never been changed before, relatively new here.
October 7th, 2009 at 3:36 PM
Bingo. This is what Rush wants, so just ignore him. If only the media would do likewise.
October 7th, 2009 at 3:37 PM
do not get the bloods and crips playing a game red rover.
October 7th, 2009 at 3:37 PM
I thought the favorite game of gangs was slanging ‘cane.
Specifically crack, higher profit margin.
MattRyan
Fuck, yeah. And, it’s easier to get suckas hooked. Shit is like candy.
October 7th, 2009 at 3:37 PM
Uh oh, this man just won himself a conservative ass chewing. Here it comes…
October 7th, 2009 at 3:38 PM
very Paolo-esque. nice.
Roeth- my bad I didn’t see your ashy larry reference before commented the first time.
October 7th, 2009 at 3:38 PM
GD and Vice Lords get their most violent when they play duck duck goose.
October 7th, 2009 at 3:38 PM
Mike NYC will soon be emerging from a virtual manhole to deliver a Jack Kempin’.
October 7th, 2009 at 3:41 PM
Maybe that’s why Paolo has been liking me lately. I just don’t understand the point of view that says, as rich people, “I’m better off with a large raging pissed underclass” than I am with a slightly angry, extremely jealous but comfortable middle class.”
October 7th, 2009 at 3:41 PM
I have less of a problem with that than this:
Where does it say that income should be equal?
October 7th, 2009 at 3:42 PM
not enough bojack-ness or deep seated hatred for the mid atlantic states for Paolo.
October 7th, 2009 at 3:43 PM
Where does it say that income should be equal?
Page 26, third paragraph of the Communist Manifesto.
October 7th, 2009 at 3:44 PM
Definitely not in “How to be a Republican While Sipping Your Chardonnay in the Study.”
October 7th, 2009 at 3:44 PM
Where does it say that income should be equal
Income shouldn’t be equal, but if everybody has enough to survive (not go on the nice vacation, or get the big house, but live comfortably, expect reasonable health care, etc.) then everbody is better off, even the guy who is only worth 1.2 billion instead of 15.
October 7th, 2009 at 3:44 PM
This is one of the things that gets said alot that I don’t understand the most…and lefty, I’m not saying anything about you, because really, I don’t know your political leanings.
But, like, people who call themselves capitalists seem to say this alot, and it just makes no sense for a capitalist to take that point of view. It’s not about income needing to be equal as some sort of basic right point of view. Income equality helps everyone to keep making money and has tons of other benefits too. I just don’t get why capitalists are OK with such a growing gap in income inequality, it’s just gonna lead to them being less rich.
October 7th, 2009 at 3:45 PM
then everbody is better off, even the guy who is only worth 1.2 billion instead of 1.5.
/fixed
/I’m not the cruel to the rich man.
October 7th, 2009 at 3:45 PM
the poor could get rich if they worked. you think the rich just woke up one day and was rich? no they worked for it.
October 7th, 2009 at 3:45 PM
Citing a media matters article about Rush Limbaugh is kind of like asking Aminadinajad his opinion of Jews.
October 7th, 2009 at 3:45 PM
The irony is that Rush is branded a racist when those who came up with the notion of ridding the streets of crime by throwing the kids a basketball are lauded as progressive thinkers! Regardless of what one thinks of Rush (I’m a conservative, but not a huge fan), this is a silly exercise in a George Soros blog looking to smear Rush with the race card.
October 7th, 2009 at 3:46 PM
the rich can just hire someone to build one of those wall/moat systems they employed for years in Europe during the fuedal years. it’s how you keep your serfs out.
October 7th, 2009 at 3:47 PM
Easy answer: what rich person lives in the ghetto??
October 7th, 2009 at 3:47 PM
C’mon fools. You know what the homies in the hood’s favorite game is…
Crossfire.
October 7th, 2009 at 3:47 PM
/Fixed just cuz
October 7th, 2009 at 3:49 PM
the guy that is worth 1.5 billion worked for his 1.5 billion. i wouldnt blame him if he got pissed if someone told him that he HAS to give 300 million of it to people whether he wanted to or not.
October 7th, 2009 at 3:49 PM
For a good number, yes.
October 7th, 2009 at 3:50 PM
Amen.
October 7th, 2009 at 3:50 PM
What’s funny is that the vast majority of the people who listen Rush are not wealthy at all and never will be if our current system continues…ahh, but they think they will get there some day and that is why they listen. Rush says some shit that is just to rile people up (like the Olbermann’s who bite hook, line and sinker).
October 7th, 2009 at 3:51 PM
No suggestions, it just threw me for a loop, especially when your comments were similar. My only point is that we’ve made someone change their screen name before because it had irish in it, so there is precedent.
October 7th, 2009 at 3:51 PM
Didn’t J.R. Smith already teach us this?
/Misinterpreted’d
October 7th, 2009 at 3:52 PM
No way, they all won the lottery.
October 7th, 2009 at 3:52 PM
you talking inheritance? i hope if i am lucky enough to get rich enough to leave my family a buttload of money that they dont have to give my money away because people think they are too rich.
October 7th, 2009 at 3:53 PM
@St.Bear – I’ve changed it. Spun it really. Considered Gaelic, but really, it sounded gay.
October 7th, 2009 at 3:53 PM
Libs are the first ones to be generous with your money but stingy with theirs. Like when those U2 fags moved their home base out of Ireland (I think) to avoid taxes but preach about everyone else paying their fair share.
October 7th, 2009 at 3:53 PM
that’s just silly, anyone worth that kind of money has most of it offshore and in tax havens so they wouldn’t have to give up that much anyway.
October 7th, 2009 at 3:54 PM
Problem is, that the more we become a welfare state, the less incentive there is to work hard and rise above your station, and the wider the gap will become. We also seem to have a wide sliding scale on what is “rich” around here. When it’s something like this, it’s somebody who’s a millionaire, but as recently as a couple of weeks ago 120k/year was upper class.
October 7th, 2009 at 3:55 PM
I was just sayin mrejr. I don’t knock no one’s hustle.
/actin extra hood
October 7th, 2009 at 3:55 PM
Why is it a white courtesy phone? Why can’t it be a black courtesy phone?
October 7th, 2009 at 3:55 PM
Well, at least we’ve degenerated into witless talking points. LAZY LIBS WANNA TAKE MY MONEY!!111!!
October 7th, 2009 at 3:56 PM
Unless they gave it to UBS.
/topical, bitches!
October 7th, 2009 at 3:56 PM
Everyone knows you don’t bleed the poor dry. You keep milking them as long as possible.
October 7th, 2009 at 3:57 PM
Devil’s advocate here. What kind of job do you think she could work that would make her less poor?
October 7th, 2009 at 3:58 PM
as far as income equality goes, what’s the incentive? why even try to be the best at what you do in whichever field you are in? it just doesn’t make sense to me. why work your ass off for nothing?
October 7th, 2009 at 3:58 PM
lib strategy #1: if you dont agree with me you’re crazy,racist and/or stupid
October 7th, 2009 at 3:58 PM
What kind of life decisions do you think she made that led her to be in that situation?
October 7th, 2009 at 3:59 PM
Racist? Why open the post by calling the guy a racist, stating it like some iron clad fact? And can anyone here honestly argue that the majority of black men don’t like to play basketball? For Christ’s Sake, one of President Obama’s first acts in office was to remove the White House bowling alley and replace it with a basketball court. So what?!
October 7th, 2009 at 3:59 PM
she was probably a victim of a ponzi scheme
October 7th, 2009 at 3:59 PM
Yeah, because they haven’t done anything to help out. Bitches.
/Limbaugh’d
October 7th, 2009 at 3:59 PM
the real answer to the problem is legalizing weed. we can revolutionize our economy if we do that.
October 7th, 2009 at 3:59 PM
The thing I tell the Republicans all the time is that they’re party is brilliant, because they get poor people to make rich man arguments. Rush is a buffoon, everyone knows the gangsters game of choice is bocce.
October 7th, 2009 at 4:00 PM
She didn’t work hard enough?
October 7th, 2009 at 4:00 PM
Love the JR Smith pic. What a fucking douche.
I think its just a terrible paradox, specifically in the States. It is possible to get out of bad circumstances (such as gang culture in your surrounding neighbourhoods, etc), but it takes a person of extreme character and determination to do that. Kids that grow up poor are either consumed by trying to get rich or get known quick (hence, crime comes in) or are focused on something specific and try to develop it, which is much rarer.
In the end, I don’t see a feasible solution for this. the reason the poor are poor is not because they don’t have the opportunity to get rich, but more so the circumstances that surround them. It’s hard to concentrate on making it big with a university degree when half of your friends are surrounded by gang culture and offer easier methods of getting money, with half of the hard work.
October 7th, 2009 at 4:01 PM
Of course, you can make every single life decision “correctly” and still be poor. Just as you can act like a completely useless maroon and be rich.
One of the troubling things about this argument is the conflation of “rich” with “good” and “not rich” with “bad.”
October 7th, 2009 at 4:02 PM
The 1980s, 1990s, and 2000s have been prosperous times for top U.S. executives, especially relative to other wage earners. This can be seen by examining the increased divergence between CEO pay and an average worker’s pay over time, as shown in Figure A. In 1965, U.S. CEOs in major companies earned 24 times more than an average worker; this ratio grew to 35 in 1978 and to 71 in 1989. The ratio surged in the 1990s and hit 300 at the end of the recovery in 2000. The fall in the stock market reduced CEO stock-related pay (e.g., options) causing CEO pay to moderate to 143 times that of an average worker in 2002. Since then, however, CEO pay has exploded and by 2005 the average CEO was paid $10,982,000 a year, or 262 times that of an average worker ($41,861).
October 7th, 2009 at 4:02 PM
Bad things can’t happen to good, hard-working people?
October 7th, 2009 at 4:02 PM
I’d like to fix that.
October 7th, 2009 at 4:03 PM
Plus, them rappers ain’t helpin.
October 7th, 2009 at 4:03 PM
Ponzi scheme…that’s the one where you have to keep recruiting new investors to pay the existing ones, right? Hmm. Sounds kinda like the Social Security system to me.
October 7th, 2009 at 4:04 PM
The Latin Kings, is their favorite sport basketball? How about the Aryan Nation?
October 7th, 2009 at 4:05 PM
How is this different from Conservatives using America hater when someone criticized the military or the war? All I know is that you know we are screwed as a country when the neo-cons openly cheer that the US lost the Olympics. How did the Olympics become partisan? Was this not the U.S’s. bid, and not the Left’s bid? If Bush has gone to some country to get the Olympics and gotten it Sean Hannity would be blowing his load over it. Fucking douchebag that he is.
October 7th, 2009 at 4:06 PM
And if all three are true, well then, boo fuckin’ yah.
Besides, that’s not even in the strategy Top 5.
October 7th, 2009 at 4:06 PM
But, most programs that lead to a welfare type state are compromise type programs people don’t want to spend money to do a lot of the things Limbaugh is talking about.
I wouldn’t say that people would be given less incentive to work hard and rise above your station, mainly, I think the opposite. Right now, a lot of people that work hard and do have incentive to rise above their station don’t end up seeing the benefits of that hard work.
October 7th, 2009 at 4:06 PM
derek vineyard has a sick cross over.
October 7th, 2009 at 4:06 PM
remember what retirees did when they stopped working before social security?
they died in the streets, kicked and stoned to death by people under 30 who thought they should have worked harder in life.
/tongue in cheek today with all my comments
October 7th, 2009 at 4:07 PM
Sure bad things happen to good, hard-working people. But good, hard-working people that make good decisions don’t end up old and homeless, offering to sell their vote for some help. It’s a big jump from getting laid off, or having some sort of accident to living on the street, with no prospect of even getting a minimum wage job. If you’re in that situation, it’s not a result of “bad luck” or a couple of unfortunate events.
October 7th, 2009 at 4:07 PM
Not racist but just throwing this out here.
I live in a suburb of Toronto. My city is not “poor” in the slightest sense. In fact, there is no such thing as a “project” here; it is essentially all nice apartments and decent to large sized housing. However, even in my high school, kids (black, white, whatever) chose to act as if they were dealt with circumstances of the poor. Whether it was dealing drugs on the side, or getting into “gang” fights, or skipping school to do both, it happens. And it happened to a large majority of the black students in my school…all of which came from nice, middle class families. So what is the analysis on that?
October 7th, 2009 at 4:08 PM
“The Latin Kings, is their favorite sport basketball? How about the Aryan Nation?”
NASCAR; thought that would’ve been a no-brainer.
October 7th, 2009 at 4:08 PM
where amazing happens
October 7th, 2009 at 4:09 PM
I think you’d be surprised by how not true that actually is.
October 7th, 2009 at 4:09 PM
there are no black people in canada so you must be lying.
October 7th, 2009 at 4:10 PM
He’s a monster dunker too.
October 7th, 2009 at 4:10 PM
Did you not read what he said? If that’s not convincing, then how about this.
http://newsone.com/obama/top-10-racist-limbaugh-quotes/
Go fuck yourself.
October 7th, 2009 at 4:10 PM
oops
October 7th, 2009 at 4:10 PM
If Rush Limbaugh choked on a chick bone tonight and died. I would applaud. Guy’s the scum of the earth
October 7th, 2009 at 4:12 PM
Fixed fer the accuracy
October 7th, 2009 at 4:12 PM
The point is – you make yourself what you want to be. People that are poor are given unfortunate circumstances, but none that they can’t get out of if they put thier mind and effort to it. It’s harder for the poor to rise from obscurity, but in the end, they do have the chance, its jus a matter of taking it, which unfortunetly doesn’t happen in most cases.
October 7th, 2009 at 4:12 PM
Hey, karma, my take on what you mentioned above is what I like to call the “Ghettofication” of America, where all of the youth, regardless of their circumstances, attempt to emulate the hip-hop stars they so admire. The lack of values among some teens today is downright disturbing.
October 7th, 2009 at 4:12 PM
@Patrick Patterson, of topic. My buddy’s a die hard UK fan. What the fuck am i hearing him tell me about Petino making random trips to the Cleveland clinic to clear up his STD’s?
October 7th, 2009 at 4:14 PM
Toronto is packed with Jamaicans bro. My suburb, especially around the area I was at in high school, was 60% black, 35% brown and the rest asian, white, etc. I could literally count the number of white people in my school on my fingers.
October 7th, 2009 at 4:14 PM
Mike Karney would be the starting RB if Rush ran the team. Fuckin Asshole
October 7th, 2009 at 4:15 PM
“NewsOne for Black America,” huh, NDub?! Pretty impartial sources, there, bud.
October 7th, 2009 at 4:15 PM
CONFIRMED: joeymabile is Rush Limbaugh’s commenter/message board surname.
October 7th, 2009 at 4:16 PM
Which lends itself to the old saying, if you’re poor, you have to be twice as good to achieve the same opportunities.
October 7th, 2009 at 4:17 PM
karma…i know, i was joking.
my buddy lives in korea town in toronto and grew up in markham (spelling?)…he said the exact same thing.
October 7th, 2009 at 4:17 PM
This post was basically TBL saying “Rush is a racist and I think he said something racist… What do you think?”. I enjoy this blog, but that was a tad lazy, particularly when Deadspin already did this at 2:45.
October 7th, 2009 at 4:17 PM
Go look up every one of those quotes and you’ll find them in many sources. You think that Website just made up those quotes? That’d be libel.
October 7th, 2009 at 4:17 PM
It’s a lot like baseball teams. Sure small-market teams can succeed, but their margin of error is much smaller than NY/Boston/LA/Chicago/etc.
October 7th, 2009 at 4:18 PM
/full circle’d
October 7th, 2009 at 4:19 PM
It would be more accurate to say “if you’re poor, you have to work twice as hard to achieve the same results”.
October 7th, 2009 at 4:19 PM
Always amusing when politics break out on here and we all jump into our bunkers.
/Least I brought my lawn darts
October 7th, 2009 at 4:22 PM
i think it’s easy for all of us to look at a picture of homeless people, unemployment numbers, home foreclosures, personal bankruptcies and drug addicts, etc, and say “well, it’s all the choices they made. it’s not my problem.”
it’s when you know someone who is just a number in the unemployment line, number of bankruptcy filings/home forclosures that you realize the system our elected officials put in to place has failed each and everyone of the people who have become a statistic. it’s a dark day in this country when our first reaction to the less fortunate is to say “not my problem, i have healthcare from my employer.” “not my problem, i made my fortune already.” “I work hard at my job, it’s not my problem they can’t work hard, too.”
someone said the lack of values teens have this day and age is disturbing, i agree, but it’s the lack of empathy we have as a country that is the most disturbing of all. how the hell did we survive as a country, how the hell did this country get founded, without empathy for our countrymen?
October 7th, 2009 at 4:23 PM
And some of the white kids I knew from the mean streets of Oakland County, Michigan were enjoying general vandalism, snorting blow, using LSD and heroin while the rest of us were just partaking in a little green. Kids do stupid shit, its just that I’m guessing its much easier to judge things that you don’t understand. So “gang” fights are for the “poor”/”ghetto” whatever, but everytime we hear some story about suburban hazing I’m guessing you don’t make some gross generalization about white people.
/Why can’t we just get along
October 7th, 2009 at 4:23 PM
Not really. Work hard enough was a nice enough notion to keep the masses moving during the agriculture and industrial ages in this country, but in this age of the service based economy, networking is as valuable if not more so than how hard you work.
October 7th, 2009 at 4:25 PM
So you’re saying that I shouldn’t have spent that $$ on those oxen?? Fuck.
October 7th, 2009 at 4:25 PM
MMA blogging.
October 7th, 2009 at 4:26 PM
if one of them dies you’ll never make it to oregon.
October 7th, 2009 at 4:26 PM
i think you lack values if you think that it is someone’s responsibility to pay for something for you just because they can. specifically you lack personal value
October 7th, 2009 at 4:26 PM
/gets cholera
October 7th, 2009 at 4:27 PM
Hell, I’ll be lucky to avoid dysentery.
/GERARD PORTMANTEAU YOU HAVE DIED
//Loved that game
October 7th, 2009 at 4:29 PM
Did Jesus just walk in?
October 7th, 2009 at 4:30 PM
You mean like roads, water supply, etc.?
October 7th, 2009 at 4:32 PM
No, like I said, the entire point is that opportunities are presented to people, and it is up to them to make use of it. Gang culture will always exist, because there will always be marginalized people who are surrounded by unfavourable circumstances all of thier lives and turn to a criminal lifestyle; however, I have no sympathy for people who are given opportunities but do not make use of them – whether they are black, white, brown or purple; I couldn’t give a fuck.
October 7th, 2009 at 4:33 PM
You mean things that we all pay taxes for?
October 7th, 2009 at 4:34 PM
That’s just crazy…or racist. Or both!
October 7th, 2009 at 4:34 PM
Sorry to kill the political discussion, but I just realized (super late) that 2 of Deshawn Stevenson’s new tattoos are gang-related….and they are on his face and neck. What a douche, Stern must love this.
October 7th, 2009 at 4:34 PM
You mean things that we all pay taxes for?
And health care is different why?
October 7th, 2009 at 4:36 PM
cracist.
/it’s like craisins…except…
//im hungry
October 7th, 2009 at 4:37 PM
Why should my tax dollars go towards maintaining the resevoir, if I use well water? Why should my tax dollars go towards parks and rec if I don’t have any kids? Why should my tax dollars go towards maintaining the interstate if I don’t use it? Why should I pay a commuter tax if I walk to work?
October 7th, 2009 at 4:37 PM
Can someone explain to me why Americans are so petrified of a free health care system?
October 7th, 2009 at 4:39 PM
Because a brain surgeon can pour concrete.
Likely the concrete pourer can’t perform brain surgery.
October 7th, 2009 at 4:39 PM
Because “free” is one thing it is most certainly not.
October 7th, 2009 at 4:40 PM
Every hand I’ve ever worked with just scoffed.
October 7th, 2009 at 4:40 PM
Likely the concrete pourer can’t perform brain surgery.
So the government wouldn’t pay the brain surgeon? Because I get the impression he gets paid everywhere else in the western world (where they all have government health care). And they also spend less for their treatment and get a better quality of care.
October 7th, 2009 at 4:41 PM
/fixed
it’s become an ultra political partisan debate. i doubt if you ask any of these politicians, one on one, they really believe in what the party is speaking. i mean, these politicians, left and right, look out for their re-election first, constituents second.
October 7th, 2009 at 4:46 PM
Even if you have well water for your home use, you use that reservoir either directly or indirectly in some aspect of your life.
When I was a kid, I played Little League at a park that wasn’t a public park, but privately owned. My parents taxes still went to maintain the public parks, and they paid from their own pocket to help maintain the private one. Is that fair? Not necessarily.
Nothing you consume travels over the interstate system? That must be tough.
Not sure what a commuter tax is, but I’m of the opinion that all of these taxes that are environmentally focused are bullshit, and that’s what that sounds like so I wouldn’t be a fan of that in the first place.
October 7th, 2009 at 4:48 PM
Exactly. Someone care to define “free” for me?
October 7th, 2009 at 4:48 PM
You’re missing the point.
People with certain skills are not produced overnight, and in the US they make a lot more money than in other “gov’t healthcare” systems. And ‘better quality of care’ is actually not true unless you are only talking about those that can’t afford it in the US.
And you said HE… sexist.
/sexism isn’t as much fun to debate as racism.
October 7th, 2009 at 4:51 PM
Free is defined as $1.05.
October 7th, 2009 at 4:55 PM
I know that freedom costs a buck oh five, but I need to know what “free” means in terms of “free healthcare”.
October 7th, 2009 at 4:55 PM
just started to read the comments now. really hoping it didnt get out of hand …
October 7th, 2009 at 5:00 PM
i’m going to take a stab at it and say the definition of free healthcare is the recipient of the healthcare does not receive a bill, but all taxpaying individuals contributes a portion of their salary to put into a government run pool to pay for everyone’s healthcare.
/i’m not in favor of that, i just want more affordable healthcare.
October 7th, 2009 at 5:00 PM
. We all pay for things through our tax dollars that we don’t use, because we aren’t paying taxes for our own consumption, but for the municipality/state/country we live in as a whole. Your parents may have felt the need to pay for a private park for you to play in, but you had access to a public one if they so chose. Just as you mentioned that we all directly or indirectly use the interstate system or the resevoir, we are all directly or indirectly touched by the person who is unemployed or homeless. There is an economic theory that states that 6-8% unemployment is better for the system than 100% employment because it maintains a level of competition for jobs. Personal responsibility in a society that doesn’t look out for it’s most vulnerable is nothing more than a shield to hide a collective selfishness.
October 7th, 2009 at 5:06 PM
Very tame for a political/ racial post.
And free healthcare only costs to those that can pay taxes. Lots of them to be exact. Wait… do you think the hospital food is better when it’s free?? Nothing like a free meal, eh hoser?
October 7th, 2009 at 5:12 PM
I bet it’d taste pretty good for the people starving to death, but that’s probably communist.
October 7th, 2009 at 5:21 PM
Rush’s point is that its foolish for Arnie Duncan and the Obama administration to think that they can fix the youth violence issue in Chicago by spending more money on government programs. And bigger picture than that, Rush was saying how foolish this government is in thinking that FEDERAL government spending is the solution to every problem. Just throw money at it! Stimulus bill didn’t create jobs? Do another one! Spend, spend spend! All the government spending and corrupt politics in Chicago has created a situation with this violence and the city is deep in debt. Its a huge mess. All created by Obama and his cronies.
BTW, Linking Media Matters and calling Rush a racist?….When did you start working for MSNBC? That is weak.
October 7th, 2009 at 5:21 PM
Rush’s entire comment:
http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/home/daily/site_100709/content/01125109.guest.html
October 7th, 2009 at 5:25 PM
purduematt!!!!!
October 7th, 2009 at 5:28 PM
So now Obama and his cronies created poverty and income inequities?
/that’s racist
October 7th, 2009 at 6:08 PM
boy am I glad I’ve been this afternoon. what a bunch of stupid comments (and I would have added more)
October 7th, 2009 at 6:39 PM
You’re right. Rush is a bastion of open mindedness
October 7th, 2009 at 6:48 PM
If you don’t think Rush is racist, you have the brain the size of a peanut
October 7th, 2009 at 7:42 PM
Agreed, PL.
Media Matters nor any other Website created the Rush quote. He created it. It came out of his mouth.
October 7th, 2009 at 10:32 PM
I’ve been gone from this thread for a while, too. Lotta stuff here. The reappearance of PurdueMatt(!?), the news that Obama invented corruption in Chicago…
October 7th, 2009 at 11:08 PM
Extremely late to the party, I am down the middle of the road as they come, but Taguchi had it right. The gap between the highest earners and the lowest is ginormous and not sustainable. The disappearance of the middle class is the most frightening thing that could happen to our current empire. You look back and you will see a direct correlation between a crumbling empire and the disappearance of the middle class…
October 7th, 2009 at 11:47 PM
Holy shit. Is that what some of you people actually think it is — free? Wow. There are no words for the stupidity of this comment. I’m six hours late but couldn’t pass this one up. Just. Wow.