At his appearance at the NAACP speech Romney was booed. Rush Limbaugh said that the reason he was booed by the crowd, was that he is white . This is one of the more outrageous things Mr. Limbaugh has said. Here is the video of the entire speech.
As indicated, the crowd greeted Mr. Romney with a standing ovation. He was white at the beginning of the speech and he was also white when he said he’d repeal Obamacare. When the crowd booed him after he said healthcare was not an “essential” service, it had nothing to do with the color of his skin, and everything to do with what he said. Rush Limbaugh was white when he was born and is still white today. When he was born nobody booed his arrival, but today we would all boo his arrival even though his skin color hasn’t changed. When he was born he hadn’t learned to speak, so we didn’t boo. Now he speaks so his audience would boo if they could. Rush is a racist without question.
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July 13, 2012 at 6:48 pm
Beaglemom
The NAACP audience did not boo Vice President Biden. Limbaugh is crazy.
July 14, 2012 at 9:00 am
malialitman
Beaglemom,
You know that is right. I guess Rush forgot about the fact that he was white, just like he forgot about the standing ovation as Romney entered the room.
July 13, 2012 at 6:50 pm
Deni
Isn’t it time for Racist Rush to head to Costa Rica? He said he’d leave the country if health care was upheld by SCOTUS. Don’t let the door hit your fat a** on the way out Rush! Buh. Bye.
July 14, 2012 at 8:59 am
malialitman
Deni,
I heard that too, and I’m wondering why it has taken him so long to leave? Do you think he is still storing up on Viagra to get a life-time supply to take with him. The problem may be that he needs so much while in this country, that’s it’s hard to save for the future. By the way, I bet he has health care insurance that pays for that.
July 13, 2012 at 7:31 pm
Cracklin' Charlie
Malia,
This is SO great! I think you should expand this article, and have it published in the New York Times. You really cut to the heart of Mittens’ appearance at the convention, and negated the well-used Republican meme of reverse racism. It seems to have been a fail this time. Brilliant!
July 14, 2012 at 8:57 am
malialitman
Cracklin’ Charlie,
Great idea! I’ll try to send a revised version after my post this am.
July 13, 2012 at 7:39 pm
MA
In other words, Limbaugh is playing up the ‘story’ for Romney’s side of the story – this is where the propaganda kicks in, just as we and the NAACP figured it would.
July 14, 2012 at 8:56 am
malialitman
MA,
I wonder just how far Romney was willing to go to inspire boos from the audience?! I bet he had several zingers prepared to include if the health care comment didn’t get the anticipated reaction.
July 13, 2012 at 8:23 pm
vegaslib
In my opinion, Romney was trying to get this crowd riled up from the get go. I interpreted him fishing around for the right topic to get a reaction and when he did, he looked like the cat that ate the canary. He is despicable, rotten and downright mean. Come on everyone, lets vote him GONE!!!!
July 14, 2012 at 8:52 am
malialitman
vegaslib,
I think you are right, and Romney is an attractive man. Like Palin, I think people just look at his appearance, know that he’s a Republican, and don’t go any further! Very Frightening!
July 13, 2012 at 9:34 pm
Barbara
It’s unbelievable that in 2012 this repulsive man is still on the radio. He has made so many horrific statements against so many groups of people, (women, Latinos, Blacks, immigrants…well, everybody except fat old republican white men). I don’t know why he gets away with things that would see any other person jailed. He doctor-shopped and broke countless narcotic agreements when he was taking oxycontin by the handful, anyone else would have been charged and imprisoned. He’s gone on sex tourism jaunts with his pockets filled with viagra and bragged about it but still “christians” listen to his rantings. And things he’s said? For instance:
“Let the unskilled jobs that take absolutely no knowledge whatsoever to do — let stupid and unskilled Mexicans do that work.”
“The NAACP should have riot rehearsal. They should get a liquor store and
practice robberies.”
“Take that bone out of your nose and call me back.” (he said this to a black woman who called in to his radio show)
This is one of the lowest life forms who has ever crawled out of the primordial ooze. Anyone who listens to and supports Limpdick shares in his guilt.
July 14, 2012 at 8:50 am
malialitman
Barbara,
I agree 100% and realize just how ill informed many people in the country are, if Limbaugh can attract any listeners. It’s scary to think we live in a country that has millions of people who listen to this racist rant.
July 13, 2012 at 10:44 pm
NJfan
We all know Rush is a racist pig and he’ll never change. They applauded Romney and gave him a standing ovation at the end of his speech. The only time he got booed was when he said he’ll repeal ObamaCare. According to one black man interviewed he said he got booed because Romney showed disrespect to the President by calling it “ObamaCare.” Afterwards Romney made some disparaging remarks about voting for the other guy if they want “free stuff” when asked about the booing. He was insinuating that blacks are freeloaders. I’m of the opinion it was done on purpose because he knows that many blacks don’t have health care coverage.
July 14, 2012 at 8:47 am
malialitman
NJfan,
I’m of the same opinion, and worse, I think he knew that the majority of blacks would favor Obama, so this was designed to gain footage to show to his racist supporters!
July 13, 2012 at 10:51 pm
shughes2853
How much lower can they go? What a poor excuse of a man. His vile comments remind me of someone that has mental health issues and his addiction to narcotics certainly points in that direction.
Can’t wait for his 15 minutes to be up. How in gods name did the GOP sink to this level of absurdity and crazy ass lunacy?
I pray that Obama wins the election – because if he doesn’t, we’re all in a world of trouble.
July 14, 2012 at 8:45 am
malialitman
shughes2853,
I can’t agree more! During the 2008 election Sarah Palin scared me to death…that she could ever be president. I thought she was a fluke. Because she was so limited intellectually and educationally, and had no experience, she was a threat even if you disagreed with her positions on issues. Romney may be smarter and more educated but his character is so lame that he’d do a speech like this for the very purpose of inspiring the bigots to rally behind him is just outrageous!
July 14, 2012 at 7:20 am
rayadams
Malia,
I believe you’re correct about Rush. I remember he was asked to resign, if not outright fired, from Monday Night Football over a spiel about Donavan McNabb being a media darling because he was a African-American NFL quarterback. I would take it one step farther, though. Rush despises poor and working class people as well. Everyone’s personal worth is measured only in dollars. He’s a pathetic little man.
Ray
July 14, 2012 at 8:42 am
malialitman
Ray,
Pathetic is a good description for him. I was hoping after the Sandra Fluke fiasco he’d keep his mouth shut for a awhile, but I guess that was wishful thinking!
July 14, 2012 at 8:57 am
Anne
We already know that Rush Limbaugh is a racist, misogynistic, and xenophobic piece of human excrement. But Willard Romney is just as worthless, because he exuded the patronizing ignorance about us African-Americans that the GOP is all too well-known for. It must have escaped him entirely that in ads touting ACA, or shows on which small business owners are touting its immediate benefits, many beneficiaries are white as well. He’s actually PROUD of his offensive display of race-baiting, which is only one more unflattering referendum on his character. I LOVE the way that someone with such a huge sense of entitlement, and who has been the recipient of “free stuff” in his own right, dares to insult others. No one in his or her right mind would vote for this fool, unless he or she is wealthy.
July 14, 2012 at 9:04 am
malialitman
Anne,
The frightening thing is that the wealthy will give him money to facilitate the campaign to appeal to those less educated and informed.
July 14, 2012 at 10:21 am
Pokeen Djibouti
Malia,
I actually listened to Rush a lot during the early Clinton years because I was in my car so much each day as a pharm rep. At that time, he seemed more like a caricature of the typical anti-Democrat, “all things Republican” party cheerleader. I considered him to be more like a Stephen Colbert of the day, lampooning some of the worst attributes of a hard-line GOP supporter.
I recall discussing things from his shows with the docs and nurses I called on, many who listened to his shows in their offices, and folks on both sides politically would laugh AT Rush as well as poke fun at anyone who might take him too seriously, because his shtick was so preposterous and over the top sometimes. It seemed like everybody thought of him as SATIRE.
I guess that over time, as income disparity has been amplified, decimating our middle class’ earnings, our country’s politics has become more and more polarized with less room for center-right and moderates to work in politically. As the economic divide grew, fewer and fewer of Rush’s listeners “got” his act and began assigning virtue to his ramblings, and it was no longer satire. It’s become ugly, not funny. It has now evolved to being vulgar,mean-spirited and hateful instead of absurd and eye-rolling humor that might cause a chuckle one moment and a wince the next.
Most of today’s talk-radio is intolerable to my senses. I haven’t moved farther to the left in my political leanings at all from a position that allowed me to be a moderate Republican from Bush 41 on through W’s first election in 2000. By 2002, it was obvious that the GOP was leaving me, and the chasm has only grown wider. I’m supporting our President for re-election despite my less than 100% agreement with him on all of his policy positions. Ironically, on most of those in which I differ with the President, my positions are actually to the LEFT of PBO’s. Go figure.
Thanks for letting me rant on a Saturday morning. I needed it,apparently because my pulse has normalized and my dogs, sensing that my stress has dissipated, are wanting to play. Ninety percent of the city here got an inch and a half to two and a half inches of rain yesterday, and we didn’t get one single drop to fall here. I guess I can’t blame that on Rush and the wing-nuts on the right, but that won’t stop some of my neighbors from blaming Obama somehow, even if indirectly, because we all had to run sprinklers this morning to keep the grass at least a light shade of green.
Happy Weekend.
PD
July 14, 2012 at 10:35 am
malialitman
PD,
I’m glad I could provide a place for you to vent on a Sat. am. There are many people like you that were previously “moderate Republicans” that feel alienated by their own party. It now seems that people in the middle are left without anyone to represent their interests. I actually respect and appreciate a diverse group of opinions, and I think that diversity makes our country stronger. However the Republican party has become so extreme that it is intolerable for many. I think Sarah Palin is a significant part of the reason for this. Why the Republican Party didn’t do more to distance itself from her long ago is a mystery to me.
July 14, 2012 at 11:46 am
Barbara
What do you think the right-to-life, clinic bombing, doctor shooting GOP will make of Mittens heavy investment in a fetus-disposing medical waste company?
How many dancing horsies did Annie buy with the millions of dollars Mitt made by incinerating aborted fetuses? Can you spell H-Y-P-O-C-R-I-T-E, Annie?
http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2012/07/romney-bain-abortion-stericycle-sec
Malia, you should do a blog post on Romney’s association with the Stericycle Company. He’s a holier-than-thou Mormom who nevertheless makes money on abortions, tobacco, booze, etc.
July 14, 2012 at 5:23 pm
malialitman
Barbara,
Thanks for the information. I’ll see what I can find out!
July 14, 2012 at 2:50 pm
B.W.
If nothing else, this last bombast from Limbaugh makes him out for the fool he is. The good news is that his influence is on the decline, along with the Tea Party and other fools in their wake (one hopes).
July 14, 2012 at 5:11 pm
malialitman
BW,
I surely hope they are on the decline, but it isn’t so clear to me. I’m still reading about them!