“Exactly! Who on Earth could understand that kung pao jibber-jabber? Off the top of my head, I can only think of 1.5 billion people!” — STEPHEN COLBERT, remarking on racist Rush Limbaugh’s inability to understand the Chinese language, on The Colbert Report (via inothernews)
The Colbert Report reminds us of another one of Rush Limbaugh’s racist gems.
“What have I told you about diet and exercise? Exercise is irrelevant…. “How do you know all this?” One of the reasons I know what I know is that I know liberals, and I know liberals lie, and if Michelle Obama’s gonna be out there ripping into “food desserts” and saying, “This is why people are fat,” I know it’s not true. “Rush, do you really believe that? It’s that simple to you, liberals lie?” Yes, it is, folks. Once you learn that, once you come to grips with that, once you accept that, the rest is easy. Very, very simple. Now, my doctor has never told me to restrict any intake of salt, but if he did, I wouldn’t. I’d just spend more time in the steam or the sauna sweating it out.” — Rush Limbaugh (via azspot)
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“There’s no racism in the Tea Party. They don’t have racist signs.” — Rush Limbaugh
“To be fair, Harry Reid — the way we look at dingy Harry’s statement that Obama spoke with no Negro dialect unless he wanted to have one, is as a cynical manipulative politician. He meant this with all due respect for Obama. Reid was complimenting Obama’s ability to act a part, to play a role, when it was politically expedient. See, in Harry Reid’s view and in Joe Biden’s view, the problem with Jesse Jackson and Reverend Shapton as Democrat presidential candidates was that they had black dialect, and they weren’t light-skinned enough. That was a problem. But Obama comes along — he’s light-skinned and when he doesn’t want to he doesn’t have a Negro dialect, and so that’s a home run. He was complimenting Obama’s being able to hide his half-blackness.” — Rush Limbaugh - Radio, Jan 11, 2010
“Take that bone out of your nose and call me back.” — Rush Limbaugh to an African American female caller
“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.” — Rush 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.” — Rush Limbaugh
“You know who deserves a posthumous Medal of Honor? James Earl Ray [the confessed assassin of Martin Luther King]. We miss you, James. Godspeed.” — Rush Limbaugh