On Sat, Oct 17, 2009 at 10:28 PM, Judah McAuley <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Limbaugh admitted to telling a black listener to "Take that bone out
> of your nose and call me back"

He said that 30 years ago as a music DJ and said often he feels really
bad for saying it.

and saying "Have you ever noticed how
> all composite pictures of wanted criminals resemble Jesse Jackson?"

He was saying Jackson looks like a criminal and again apologized.

> as well as (more specific to the NFL) "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."

Why is that racist?

> On the other hand, I don't understand why people go on about the
> McNabb quote. Doesn't seem racist at all to me, but whatever. I'd
> guess that Limbaugh is a racist but probably not the worst or most
> blatant I've met. KKK member? Meh, I doubt it. Racism isn't a binary
> state, so everyone has a bit different definition.

> I'd like to think, however, that we could all agree that he is a total
> douchebag. He's good at it though. Got to admire a guy who can turn a
> talent for being a useless overbearing asshole into a lucrative
> career.
>

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