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Skriven 2007-09-04 12:19:32 av Ross Sauer (6934.pol_inc)
Ärende: Hargis and Limbaugh
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Several years ago, I was watching a PBS documentary, about "The Religious 
Right."
The show went back to Father Coughlin, the FDR-era Jew-hating Nazi 
sympathizer.

During the late 1950's, in many places including Missouri, a TV preacher was 
quite popular, named Billy Hargis.
Hargis has since died, and he "fell from grace" after a couple he performed a 
wedding ceremony on, confessed to each other that *BOTH* of them had sex with 
Hargis, in 1974.

Anyway, Hargis, back in the late 50's and early 60's, was obsessed with 
the "Communist menace."
That meant the Beatles were Communist, Elvis was Communist, and worst of all, 
the Civil Rights movement was Communist.
Yes, Hargis was a racist pig.

"Hargis was also a member of the John Birch Society, and made his pro- 
segregation stance clear, once accusing Martin Luther King Jr. of being a 
Communist-educated traitor and publishing James D. Bales's anti-King book The 
Martin Luther King Story."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billy_James_Hargis

I had read about Hargis, but I finally saw in the PBS show, Hargis himself, in 
glorious black and white. <G>
It was looking at Rush Limbaugh 45 or 50 years earlier.
Yup. 
Limbaugh is practically a Xerox of Hargis' manners, way of speaking, and now 
this.

Rush Limbaugh Proves He is a Racist

by Cenk Uygur 

Aug 25 2007 - 5:08pm
  
Rush Limbaugh has made so many racist and borderline racist comments 
throughout his career, that it shouldn't come as a big surprise when he goes 
way over the line. But it's still jarring to hear it.

After all, this is man who told an African-American caller, "Take that bone 
out of your nose and call me back." Who said, "Have you ever noticed how all 
composite pictures of wanted criminals resemble Jesse Jackson?" Then later 
said, "The NAACP should have riot rehearsal. They should get a liquor store 
and practice robberies." 

He has also complained that the media roots for Donovan McNabb because he is 
black. And my favorite, the media also roots against Rex Grossman because he 
is white (that's why you never hear a kind word about Peyton Manning, Tom 
Brady or Brett Favre, the media just hates white athletes in this country).

On some of these occasions Limbaugh has claimed he was joking, though most 
people didn't find it very funny at all. On many of these occasions, he wasn't 
even pretending to be joking. He means exactly what he says. But this week, he 
has no excuses. What he said was completely serious and completely racist.

This is Rush Limbaugh from his radio show earlier this week:

LIMBAUGH: Yeah. This is -- you're not going to believe this, but it's very 
simple. And the sooner you believe it, and the sooner you let this truth 
permeate the boundaries you have that tell you this is just simply not 
possible, the better you will understand Democrats in everything. You are 
right. They want to get us out of Iraq, but they can't wait to get us into 
Darfur.

CALLER: Right.

LIMBAUGH: There are two reasons. What color is the skin of the people in 
Darfur?

CALLER: Uh, yeah.

LIMBAUGH: It's black. And who do the Democrats really need to keep voting for 
them? If they lose a significant percentage of this voting bloc, they're in 
trouble.

CALLER: Yes. Yes. The black population.

LIMBAUGH: Right. So you go into Darfur and you go into South Africa, you get 
rid of the white government there. You put sanctions on them. You stand behind 
Nelson Mandela -- who was bankrolled by communists for a time, had the support 
of certain communist leaders. You go to Ethiopia. You do the same thing.

You can hear the audio of this here. Media Matters has the whole transcript 
here.

So far, most of the criticism of Limbaugh for these comments has been focused 
around the Darfur comments. But look at what he says about Nelson Mandela and 
South Africa. Who is against Nelson Mandela? Communist? What century is 
Limbaugh from? But put all that aside, he criticized the idea of replacing the 
white government of South Africa.

I think he has officially become toxic. How can anyone want to be associated 
with a guy who wishes we still had the white government of South Africa 
holding down millions of black people? It's an unbelievable comment. As a 
person who grew up without much exposure to racism, I literally have a hard 
time believing that people can be this racist.

And if Limbaugh thinks that it was a great idea for the white people of South 
Africa to deny black citizens all of their rights, you have to wonder how good 
an idea he thinks it would be here as well. 

Remember Republican politicians -- including Dick Cheney earlier this year -- 
still go on Limbaugh's program. Anyone who does so from now on, should face a 
litany of questions about legitimizing a man like this. Do they share his 
sentiment?

I argued against firing Don Imus. I leave it to you to conclude what you think 
should happen to Limbaugh's job. But I think it is self-evident that what 
Limbaugh said is far worse than what Imus said. And at the time, every 
politician who had ever been on the Imus program was asked whether they 
supported him and would go back on his show after hearing his comments. This 
is exactly what should happen to the politicians that have been on Limbaugh's 
program -- at the very least.

Do you stand with Rush Limbaugh or don't you? I can't wait to hear what 
Republicans have to say about that.

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