Excrement In Broadcasting: Rush Limbaugh finally feels free to use “the N word”

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Last week, felonious drug-addict draft-dodger drama-queen Rush Limbaugh started saying “the N word” on his douche-canoe excuse for a radio show. Why? Because Trayvon Martin’s friend Rachel Jeantel, a black teenager, said it recently in a radio interview. Plus he has to give all his douchey listeners something new each day to get their Depends in a wad about.

What a relief it must have been for Rushbo to finally.. finally.. crawl out from under the burden of repressive political correctness and speak his mind unrestrained for once. He’s been so well-behaved for so long, after all.

And see? He said it with an “a” at the end! Just like black folks on the street! So he’s not racist! So stop saying that!

I fully expect this Rush wannabe to follow suit any day now.

Not long ago I provided my take on Paula Deen’s poor choice of words. And last week a very thoughtful poster named Tommy Carcetti posted these thoughts on Democratic Underground. It’s so good I’m posting it verbatim. Go to the link if you want to read the discussion that followed.

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As a white guy, I’m perfectly fine with the fact I can’t say “the N word.” Even if black people can.

I’m perfectly fine that there’s no White Entertainment Television. I’m perfectly fine that there’s no White History Month. I’m perfectly fine that colleges don’t have White Student Organizations and that there’s no National Association for the Advancement of White People.

All this ridiculous whining and consternation from some white people that they don’t “get” the same cultural markers as black people or they don’t get to say certain terms about African Americans even though blacks use that same term. It’s ridiculous. It’s insane. You’re forcing the issue and you ought to give up, because you look like fools.

Let me tell you something. If for the first century of this country’s history white people were considered property and not full human beings, and for the second century of this country’s history white people were subjected to institutionalized segregation laws, and for the third century white people had to deal with the lingering after-effects of the first and second centuries, then all of those things would be perfectly okay for white people.

Most African Americans in this country have had a shared cultural experience, one marked with both great trauma and overcoming such trauma, that allows them to identify with each other as a race.

White people in this country have never had that. Not as a race. Many of us have a cultural identity with the country in which your family has its origins (Italian, Irish, Polish, etc.) and that’s terrific. Because when the Italians and Irish and Polish crossed the ocean to this country, they too had a shared cultural experience in that aspect, and that’s something you can pass on to future generations.

But there is no “White American culture” to speak of in this country. It’s a myth. And that’s perfectly fine with me.

Follow-up on Bob Davis’s “go to hell” to the Sandy Hook families.

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The other day I posted that Twin Cities radio host Bob Davis went live on the air, and said he would like to tell the families of the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting victims to “go to hell” for infringing on his gun rights.

Someone sent me this letter from yesterday’s Star Tribune. Turns out that a resident of Sandy Hook has contacted Davis. He offered to pay Davis’s travel expenses to come out to Connecticut and do just that.

“My question is whether he has the courage to crawl out from behind the safety of his studio and microphone and repeat his words in front of victims of gun violence. Would he have the courage to look people in the eye, tell them to deal with their tragedy, tell them that his liberty is more important than their loss, and tell them to go to hell?”

Guess what? No response.

Bob Davis makes me soooo proud to be a Minnesota radio broadcaster.

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A Twin Cities radio host said he would like to tell the families of the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting victims to “go to hell” for infringing on his gun rights.

Yup. He did.

Bob Davis is the name of this douche-canoe. He was discussing those affected by the Sandy Hook tragedy during last  Friday’s segment of his morning show, “Davis and Emmer,”  on the Twin Cities’ KTCN- AM 1130.  (His co-host, by the way, is former candidate for Minnesota governor Tom Emmer.) The topic focused on how family members of the victims, most of whom were between six and seven years old, have become advocates for gun control.  And as Davis whined, these family members are infringing on his constitutional rights.

That’s right. He said it:

I have something I want to say to the victims of Newtown, or any other shooting. I don’t care if it’s here in Minneapolis or anyplace else. Just because a bad thing happened to you doesn’t mean that you get to put a king in charge of my life. I’m sorry that you suffered a tragedy, but you know what? Deal with it, and don’t force me to lose my liberty, which is a greater tragedy than your loss. I’m sick and tired of seeing these victims trotted out, given rides on Air Force One, hauled into the Senate well, and everyone is just afraid — they’re terrified of these victims. …

I would stand in front of them and tell them, “Go to hell.”

This piece of slime made a half-assed “sorry anyone was offended” on his Monday morning show. How this douche-canoe still has a job is beyond me. If ever there was a reason to start an advertiser boycott, Bob Davis is that reason.

Mr. Blunt and Cranky had a great blog post about it yesterday:

Gentle reader, do you have children (or nieces, nephews, or grandbabies)? Try this little experiment: Go into the bedroom where they lie sleeping. Look at them, and say to them, “I’d rather you die than I might have to get a background check when I buy my next gun.”

Here’s hoping you can’t say that. In fact, we’re pretty sure you couldn’t. But Bob Davis could. And would. Here’s hoping that sick f*** doesn’t have children. Lord help them if he does.