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Motor Mouth Almighty and right-wing talk show host Rush Limbaugh (pictured below) is offering his unsolicited opinion about the leak involving Sony execs reportedly recommending that actor Idris Elba (pictured) be given the title role of James Bond in the film franchise. Limbaugh just wants to remind everyone that  “James Bond was white and Scottish, period” and that “We’ve had 50 years […]

NewsOne Original, Politics

The push-back against President Obama over remarks made at last week’s National Prayer Breakfast boil down to “How dare POTUS remind us that Christianity has been used to justify evil acts like every other religion?” In the wake of increasing anxiety over extremists citing their Islamic beliefs to commit acts of terror, Obama offered some […]

Cross Post Now, Entertainment, World

Probably one of the best things to surface from Sony Pictures Entertainment’s e-mail hacking scandal is that co-chair Amy Pascal wants Idris Elba (pictured), a Black Briton, to reprise the traditionally White role of master spy James Bond. RELATED: Sony Urged To Not Cast Denzel Washington Because Of Racist Overseas Moviegoers And why wouldn’t Pascal want him for […]

Crime, Cross Post Now, NewsOne Original

There’s something to be said about giving a person the benefit of the doubt, particularly in serious matters and especially when it comes to the accusation of committing a hate crime. Even so, what we’ve seen thus far in the coverage surrounding Craig Hicks, who shot and killed three Muslim students in Chapel Hill, North […]

Race scholar, civil rights activist, humanitarian, and talk show radio host Rush Limbaugh (pictured) wants everyone – particularly Attorney General Eric Holder – to shut up about certain opposition to President Barack Obama being fueled by racism. Speaking with ABC News, Holder addressed the role race plays when it comes to treatment of him and President Obama and their respective […]

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Man Attacked by Scorpion While Reaching for Bananas at Walmart Last week, a man shopping at a Pittsburgh-area Walmart reached into a box of bananas, only to have a scorpion latch onto his hand with its pincers. “I yanked my arm out and flung it, and this scorpion flopped to the ground,” the man, who was shopping with […]

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As difficult as you would assume it could be to find a Black Donald Sterling apologist, one pops up from his or her coon hole and tells a national television audience that the man who doesn’t want Magic Johnson showing up at his game with his dime piece was given a raw deal. Conservative political […]

Showcasing just how racially tone deaf he is, Rush Limbaugh (pictured left) recently said that the discrimination Oprah Winfrey (pictured) faced in Europe in a handbag shop was due to her weight and not racism. RELATED:  Store Clerk Refuses To Show Oprah Handbag, Says It Was ‘Too Expensive’ Limbaugh’s most-recent diarrhea of the mouth stems from an […]

In the latest installment of Racist Theater, Rush Limbaugh (pictured) has a bone to pick with the coverage of captured Boston Marathon bombing suspect Dzhakar Tsarnaev. Rush takes issue with the way in which the media — excuse me, the “liberal media” — has shown images of Tsarnaev when he was as young as 14 […]

Why are U.S. hurricanes given names?  Names are actually given to tropical storms but if they reach a sustained wind speed of 74 miles per hour, then they are deemed hurricanes.  These types of destructive storms are given monikers because naming them makes it much easier for meteorologists, researchers, emergency response workers, ship captains, and […]