Per Fox:
The liberal hosts of "The View" blasted conservative radio host Rush Limbaugh the day after his death, saying Thursday that he "normalized hatred" for "people sitting in their trucks in the middle of America" and suggesting he was in Hell.
"I remember listening to him as a kid growing up, and for me, he just normalized hatred," co-host Sunny Hostin said. "He normalized racism, and I think he really weaponized White male grievance, and he hardened these rural White listeners, people sitting in their trucks in the middle of America, and in the south, listening to Rush Limbaugh."
Hostin reeled off a list of what she considered Limbaugh's offensive remarks through the years and said he had paved the way for "Trumpism."
"This is someone who spewed racism and hatred, yet he is now considered I guess an influential person in building the modern Republican Party and conservatism ... I don't know that that's something to be proud of," she said.
So there you are. Now I understand.
Leftists are mind boggling ignorant about almost everything, aren't they?
ReplyDeleteOne of the concerning things that had popped up when the vaccine agenda began was the potentially of people getting the actual koodie that the vaccine was to prevent because as many know, many vaccines contain the live virus. Consequently, the spread would intensify as more and more people got the vaccine.
ReplyDeleteWell, it looks like it may be happening. Please do your darned best to get this word out there to all those you can touch with your informing tools and tech. Check this out:
"Considering the validated fact that the vaccinated are proved to be relatively immune at least at the present time, the only explanation (I can think of) for spike of cases, deaths and mutants in mass vaccinated states is the horrifying possibility that the vaccinated are actually spreading the virus and especially its mutants (particularly the British one). This possibility must be investigated. It is supported by established data collected in mass vaccinating countries, such as the UAE, USA, Britain and Portugal. Shortly after a mass vaccination campaign is launched, we detect a sharp exponential rise in cases and, tragically, deaths to follow….” (“Israel’s Third Lockdown- a Spectacle of Failure"), The Unz Review)"
https://www.unz(dot)com/mwhitney/covid-vaccine-the-nightmare-scenario/
As the vaccine gets given out more and more, the chances of more and more infectious people being out and about becomes a serious threat to those who are not sick. Please, pass this on to all you can.
Many blessings on you and yours.
Those old bags… One of the best things about not having to go to medical offices and other medical facilties is that the television was always on The View when we were there. A trapped audience watching something guaranteed to rot the brain and/or send on running and screaming into the street....
ReplyDeleteThe Fox link doesn't work.
ReplyDeleteAny idea how Limbaugh "normalized racism"?
Works for me.
DeleteaNan, Fox links have been problematic for some of us for a long time. Click twice on the url in the address line. It should get its act together.
DeleteThanx, Bebe, that works.
DeleteA positive feedback loop is an interesting phenomenon to observe.
ReplyDeleteMan I’ve seen some bilious BS in my time but that’s just Off. The. Charts.
ReplyDeleteThese “people” (pre-programmed automatons really) are - IMHO - unreachable/unable to be reasoned with. They’ve gone round the bend & they’re not coming back.
Who knew we’d have an actual Zombie Apocalypse but with live people?
The scary part is that there’s no middle ground with them; their way or the highway & you’re a “racist/white supremacist/domestic terrorist who needs to be crushed” if you disagree with them.
Boarwild
There’s something about their anti=white racism that is….systemic….?
DeleteBeBe -
DeleteThey’re taught- anymore from kindergarten apparently- to hate themselves (especially if they’re Caucasian; if they’re some minority they’re taught they’re a “victim of systemic racism”), the country itself & it’s history.
They’re taught unchecked Marxism & NOBODY has attempted to stop it. When Jimmy Carter created the Dept of Edu it was the death knell of critical thinking being taught. At first it infected the colleges - that started in the ‘60’s - but it’s been filtering down ever since. Outright brainwashing is what it is.
Reading The Bible right now; in II Samuel. God appointed angels to watch over all nations save one - Israel. Israel He - exclusively- would care for. However even during the treck out of Egypt they debased themselves with idolatry. It righted itself for awhile then Israel decided they wanted a king. Enter Saul; that didn’t go very well & they lost themselves in materialism, wickedness & sin. God warned them He would let them go & be destroyed if they continued...
I see frightening parallels between the Israel of the Old Testament & the United States of today.
Boarwild
While most are likely unreachable/unable to be reasoned with, some aren't that bad, esp. ones who *eschew* social media, see DJL below.
DeleteThese harpies seem to have normalized hatred all by themselves.
ReplyDeleteRob S
Rush never told his audience that the federal reserve was neither federal nor a reserve..
ReplyDeleteMeh not a big fan of porky pills.
y'know, I often thought Rush could have used a foil on his show to propose "outrageous" solutions to problems that Rush could then riff on without the inevitable charges of bigotry that would follow. Then, once this foil got too toxic, he/she could've been "fired" on air and replaced with a new foil, and the cycle would continue.
ReplyDeleteMany times I tried to be that foil, but I couldn't get thru (and it's likely that Bo would not have put me on the air anyway, but it was worth a shot). For example, today South Carolina passed an abortion heartbeat law that resulted in a number of Democrat legislators walking out of the session in protest. Now, many of these Dimms were "persons of color", so my suggestion would have been to recast the law so that it would only affect white babies in the womb...babies of color could be aborted up to the moment of conception. Could have had some fun with that one, methinks, but Rush couldn't have dared suggest it on his own.
Along those lines, now that reparations for slavery is a hot topic again, my suggestion would be that instead of 40 acres & a mule, descendants of slaves should be given free marijuana whenever they want and white folks should pay exorbitant fees for their privilege of smokin' a doobie now & then. Heck, why not throw in the local pot franchise license to only such descendants as a way of making amends. Would also have been a fun topic to take phone calls about, but hey, what do I know?
RIP Rush, you were the best!
those Dimms as you call have obviously never heard of Margaret Sanger, who already made it a race-based thing.
DeleteAlso, the most deserving for reparations are the Irish immigrant draftee soldiers who fought for the Union to free the slaves! They had no dog in the fight, never enslaved anyone, and had to endure untold hardship and many deaths to free the slaves, and you never see any gratitude or thanks for any of that sacrifice. All you ever hear is "Lincoln freed the slaves." Well, no he didn't, the Union troops did, by blood, guns, swords, and privation. They deserves a lot more gratitude than they ever receive from the beneficiaries of their sacrifice. Any reparations should immediately be turned over to the descendants of those troops in love and gratitude for their sacrifices.
Reminds me of a few years ago I went to a talk by some Korean WWII sex slaves of the Japanese. Very terrible tragedy, and God bless them. I waited in vain, though, for any thanks to or appreciation of the USMC!
I noted that Patricia McCarthy at American Thinker mentioned you and this post this morning. Her post, in part, was on the coarsening (my word not hers) of today's society, where people revel in the death of those they despise like Rush and Antonin Scalia - but have never listened to in Rush's case. I place the blame for this coarsening not only on the politicians and news media that stoke the flames of divisiveness, but on social media where the cesspool flourishes with hate.
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Here is McCarthy’s AT article:
Deletehttps://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2021/02/the_worst_people_in_the_world_those_gleefully_celebrating_the_death_of_rush_limbaugh.html
I believe she must be a regular reader because she has referenced the blog quite a few times.
DeleteThe party of love, tolerance and empathy, unity and healing...
ReplyDeleteNo conservatives rejoiced openly when RGB died, yet these people openly rejoice when Rush dies.
You see the difference.
Frank
In fact Trump, despite the nastiness from the RGB family, expressed appropriately sympathetic sentiments and spoke well of her.
DeleteI think you guys mean RBG… :-)
DeleteBebe, I went over that about 3 times in my mind, and still got it wrong...
DeleteAnon, I sometimes have whole days like that… :-)
DeleteFor many years I have kept a list of books that I read each year along with a grade and a paragraph or two 'book report.' Every year an old friend of mine from Berserkley and I would exchange our lists, favorites, and comments. Until January 2020 the exchange was fairly uncontroversial. Last year it all changed—along with our friendship. My dear old friend responded to my list as follows:
ReplyDelete“Your list bummed me out. I don’t know how you get through those books supporting the lies, divisiveness, and hatred so rampant in conservative politics these days. I agree the left is way too focused on identity politics but the vehemence and hatred is so much less.”
Fewer than 20% of books I’d read could be considered conservative polemics, yet that bummed him out? When I asked about the authors or books on the right that he had read that contributed to his opinions, he didn’t respond. So I sent him Jonathan Haidt’s book, “The Righteous Mind—Why Good People Are Divided By Politics and Religion” but he refused to read it. We have discussed our sources of news and information before so I know that he reads the NYT and listens to NPR regularly.
This is what we are up against. People who are so convinced that they are on the right side of issues that they refuse to even explore fairly alternative points of view. They do not even want to discuss it. People who never listened to Rush just knew that he spewed hate and racism. Over the years, this old friend and I have literally held each other’s lives in our hands while rock climbing and mountaineering. Our families have known and loved each other for decades, yet now there is a large, important facet of life that can no longer be discussed without his hackles being raised and the conversation foreclosed. Trump has simply broken him and it is clear that his esteem for me has changed as a result of my having supported Trump and his policies. I didn’t share my 2020 reading list with him this January. We haven’t spoken yet in 2021. I’m saddened, but not surprised. I’ve come to see our friendship as emblematic of the schism that has grown more broadly in this country. If we cannot discuss important things, then we have little beyond nostalgia and superficiality. And when I consider the certainty that he voted for Biden and supports his policies, I understand how in the 1860’s Americans turned against each other, friend against friend, brother against brother.
PD, it's a hoot, that your friend would seem to view Haidt’s book as from "the Right".
DeleteAnyone on the left, who can't list at least a few (non-GOPe) righties worth reading, just doesn't deserve to be taken seriously about politics.
My list of left-leaning (non- Party Line) folks worth reading starts with Chris Hedges, Greenwald, Taibbi, & Camille Paglia.
I believe they feel threatened. CTH had an article yesterday about their fear. Their minds snapped shut long ago and anyone who raises the possibility that just maybe they might be wrong has to be slammed into dust and blown away. Cancelled. I “lost” a pleasant ex-pat friend in Nairobi who took very serious umbrage at my sending her articles that slanted right. None are so blind as those who won’t even take a look...
DeleteWere you to grant your friend that Limbaugh pushed the envelope on civility, would he grant that the likes of Codevilla, P. Gottfried, McWhorter, and even Deneen, do none of that, and have insights with which all those deserving to be taken seriously (about politics) should be aware of?
DeleteMy experience with good people supporting democrat policies is that they are spiritually blinded. Even the ones who profess to be christians.....aren't. IMHO liberalism requires a rejection of God.
DeleteWith all respect to aNan, I am bored senseless with those who believe “civility” is a major issue, a subjective issue at best, and use it to put the onus on anyone who speaks the truth - that disagrees with them. Some of the most rabid #NeverTrumpers harped more about Trump’s purported lack of “civility” than his policies.
DeleteYeah Bebe, those who harped more about Trump’s purported lack of “civility” than his policies, were at best clueless, esp. in light of so many Lefties' long-time, barely-concealed contempt for Deplorables as people.
DeleteSo yeah, much of the civility stuff is BS, but, however subjective an issue it may be (a bit like religion, no?), I still see it as central to civilization.
I always thought President Trump was pretty civil until he was attacked, often in very uncivil terms, by others. Even then he was more apt to be bitingly sarcastic than use the pejoratives that are ever-present on so-called “social media” and most internet forums… Bluntness - uncompromising straightforwardneww aka the truth - is not uncivil, IMO.
DeleteIf the pejoratives that are ever-present on so-called “social media” were expressed only by anonymous readers, his restraint here would matter less, than had such pejoratives been hurled by (e.g. major MSM) public figures.
DeletePlease say, if you recall any of the latter.
I’m not sure where you are going with this, but I don’t have time to spar. I thought that calling President Trump “uncivil” was a crock. We have also been around very “civil” persons who were hell bent on destroying civilization as we know it.
DeleteThese discussions quickly become very Seinfeldian (“about nothing”)...
Apologies to everyone for the delay in enabling comments. I've been out working with the snow and ice for the last 4 hours.
ReplyDeleteSitting here, enjoying another beautiful SoCal day - 72 degrees and sun - and sending you and all the snow bunnies sincere good wishes.
DeleteHostin's surely a liar in suggesting her 'listening" to Rush was substantial. no one believes she stayed long enough to truly understand him, same as most on the left trying to characterize him.
ReplyDeleteRight. I found that pretty non-credible.
DeleteThey speak of a jaundiced eye. If Hostin every listened to Rush, it would have been with a jaundiced ear. She is racialist to the core.
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