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Dear Rush Limbaugh,

One year ago, I made a post called Top 10 Racist Limbaugh Quotes, after you decided to say that Colin Powell’s endorsement of Barack Obama was all about race. I thoroughly researched your background and history as a Top 40 shock jock and right wing mouthpiece to find some of your other comments about race.

I guess your racism has finally came back to haunt you. Too bad, you won’t be an NFL owner. Why would you want to buy a team full of Black men who look like the Bloods and the Crips anyways?

I realize you probably thought that your comments would never come back to hurt you. Given that Blacks are only 12% on the population, “who cares?”

I’ve read on your site that you’re distancing yourselves from  the racist comment about slavery that I attributed to you in my Top 10 Racist Limbaugh Quotes. Here’s what you said:

Dawn said to me during the break here, “You didn’t deny what they’re saying you said about slavery!” I’m not going to dignify it by denying it.  Deny it? (The old trick of not dignifying an allegation because you know its true. Just deny it if you didn’t say it)

And, you know, you say a lot of things in the course of 15 hours a week, over the course of 21 years.  We’ve gone back, we have looked at everything we have.  There is not even an inkling that any words in this quote are accurate.  It’s outrageous, but it’s totally predictable.

Maybe if you went back further to your career as shock jock, Jeff Christie, 30 years ago, you might have better luck finding the quote.

If you are certain you never made those comments, I suggest you sue Jack Huberman and his publisher, Nation Books for libel, as you are quoted in his book, 101 People Who Are Really Screwing America, saying:

I mean, let’s face it, we didn’t have slavery in this country for over 100 years because it was a bad thing. Quite the opposite: slavery built the South. I’m not saying we should bring it back; I’m just saying it had its merits. For one thing, the streets were safer after dark.

I don’t buy your humor excuse for your racist comments. A racist joke is still racist. Consistently, Black people are the butts of your jokes. The points of your jokes are not that racism is funny or wrong. The points of your jokes are that Black people are inferior to white people.

If you were an actor playing a fat racist, right wing bigot, like  Cobert or Sasha Baron Cohen playing Stephen Colbert or Borat, you’d be one of my favorite comedians. But you aren’t, and the millions of people who listen to you and follow your racist Republican views believe you’re the real deal, and take on your racist views as their own.

Anyways, here’s my Top 10 Racist Limbaugh Quotes, complete with their sources. If you have any problem with any of the quotes, I suggest you contact the sources.

If the slavery and James Earl Ray quotes attributed to you is false, I humbly apologize, Hopefully you will apologize for the other eight racist quotes that are fully verified, which you have not denied, as well as the many other racist comments you have made in your career.

For the sake of the millions of people who blindly follow you, I hope you didn’t make that comment about slavery. Still it falls in line with your tradition of racist rhetoric, so I am hardly surprised that you would’ve said it.

Sincerely

Casey Gane-McCalla

Tags: GOP, NFL, Racism, Rush Limbaugh, Slavery
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  • http://www.blackplanet.com/Da_J_Rok/ Da_J_Rok

    This what kills me, how so many females will over look this forum to blog on subjects about celeb’s, violence, & fags, but when serious issues that require input and resolution come along, “MUM is the word”

    “F” Rush and all his friends too

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/_A_/ _A_

    Lol…Right on with that Rok! too many dudes falling into that category too…Think maybe that’s why communities around the country is over run by gangs thugs!!

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/blkman6ft6_inla/ blkman6ft6_inla

    just when i thought i wasnt going to here from jesse and now he pops his head up agian its seems to me that blacks are always looking for the racist white man instead of looking at the mess that is called the black community take care of your kids and stop making so many damn babies without being married and by diffrent baby dadies and f**k rush he has made millions off playing the conservative card.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/Kountry_Mayne/ Kountry_Mayne

    well you cant expect simple minded women and men to comment on anything that requires thought. and thats about 70% of blackplanet.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/GhettoIndia02/ GhettoIndia02

    I cannot watch this man…I cant believe some of the thing that comes out of his mouth, I know this is off topic but I was watching Survivor a couple of days ago and this white guy told the black girl hat she’s ghetto trash. He also said to go back to the ghetto and eat you ketchup sandwiches and drink cool aid. I dont think racism will ever end… I’m starting to think its in the genetic make up of a person. I’m not African American but my ancestors in Jamaica endured slavery by the British and Spanish people, it just angers me to think how we as a people were treated. Then white people sit and say we should get over it. Do they know how long it is taking for us to catch up? They can leave inheritance from generation to generation from the work that slaves did and us as black can only leave our future generation bills and funeral expenses.I’m glad Obama is the president it just shows us who the real racists are. What do you expect the man to do in eight months? The gays are mad as hell..take a damn chill pill…let him deal with the most important issues first, you impatient idiots! Maybe if we acted as if we had some sense it would shut people like Rush Limbough up.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/vasco5/ vasco5

    safer after dark,you should have been around when “Nat turner” was—- to revolute your ass.THEY STILL THINK IT WAS LINCOLN WHO FREED THE SLAVE WHEN IT WAS THE SO CALLED REBELIOUS N****R AROUND THE WORLD WHO ROSE UP AGAINST HUMAN INJUSTICE.

  • http://buzztok.com/?p=396 Video: CNN’s Heated Rush Limbaugh/NFL Debate With Al Sharpton | Buzz Tok

    [...] Video: CNN’s Heated Rush Limbaugh/NFL Debate With Al Sharpton Written on October 15, 2009 by Sean Cotton in Politics0 Comments – Leave a comment! Great Decision by NFL to deny this racist pig’s attempt to own an NFL Franchise. Words have consequences! Newsone.com has a great piece about some of Rush’s inflammatory words here. [...]

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/crybabiesunite/ crybabiesunite

    emarks about Jews

    Jackson referred to Jews as “Hymies” and to New York City as “Hymietown” in January 1984 during a conversation with Washington Post reporter Milton Coleman. Jackson at first denied the remarks, then accused Jews of conspiring to defeat him. When he finally did acknowledge that it was wrong to use the term, he said he did so in private to a reporter.[30] Finally, Jackson apologized during a speech before national Jewish leaders in a Manchester, New Hampshire synagogue, but continuing suspicions have led to an enduring split between Jackson and many Jews.[30]

    Among Jackson’s other remarks were that Richard Nixon was less attentive to poverty in the U.S. because “four out of five [of Nixon's top advisors] are German Jews and their priorities are on Europe and Asia”; that he was “sick and tired of hearing about the Holocaust”; and that there are “very few Jewish reporters that have the capacity to be objective about Arab affairs”. In 1979, Jackson said on a trip to the Middle East that Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin was a “terrorist,” and Israel was a “theocracy.”[31] Jackson has since apologized for at least some of these remarks and was later invited to speak in support of Al Gore and Joe Lieberman at the 2000 Democratic National Convention.[3

    When King was assassinated on April 4, 1968, in Memphis, Tennessee, the day after his famous "I’ve been to the mountaintop" speech at the Mason Temple, Jackson was in the parking lot one floor below. Jackson's appearance on NBC's Today Show, wearing the same blood-stained turtleneck that he had worn the day before, drew criticism from several King aides; some King associates also dispute Jackson's description of his personal involvement and also of the sequence of events surrounding the assassination.[14]

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/crybabiesunite/ crybabiesunite

    Mr. Jackson was a floor below when the shots rang out; he and several colleagues ran up to the balcony. After the fatally wounded Dr. King was taken to the hospital, reporters converged on the motel.

    ”And Jesse was saying, ‘I was the last person in the world he spoke to,’ ” recalls the Rev. Hosea Williams, an Atlanta city council member and former King associate who was also at the motel. ”I saw the blood on Jesse’s shirt and I know Jesse had not been near Dr. King.”

    That night, Mr. Jackson flew to Chicago. The next day, he had Don Rose book him on two local television talk shows; he also appeared that morning on NBC’s ”Today Show,” wearing the same blood-stained turtleneck that he had worn the day before. He told reporters he was the last to talk to Dr. King, who died, he said, cradled in his arms.

    But none of that is so, according to several King aides, who remain bitter about the incident and still ask why Mr. Jackson did not change his shirt.

    ”Trauma. And it was in part defiance and anger and hurt,” explains Mr. Jackson, who both stands by his story and alters it a bit. Today, he does not say that he cradled the dying man’s head, only that he ”reached out for” him. His wife supports his explanation. ”I think he had the same clothes on for two or three days,” says Jacqueline Jackson. ”I think it was psychological.”

    Not many of Dr. King’s colleagues are mollified. ”I hope God has forgiven him,” says Dr. Abernathy, one of the few close King associates who says he will support Mr. Jackson’s Presidential bid. ”He has had time to pray. He is a different man now. It would be wrong from me to hold it against him.”

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/Sub-Negro/ Sub-Negro

    I aint even mad at dude he has 20 million listeners that will do damn near anything for him. He make a ton of bank. Even was addicted to pills and still came out ahead of the game. He’s like the white Jessie Jackson.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/Just1man4u/ Just1man4u

    Wow that fkn sow must be on some crazy azz pig mud.

    Oh I’m sorry the streets were safer because black men/women were afraid they get lynched if they were found alone.

    Not to mention it was the savages who were committing all the crimes and blaming it on the blacks raping, killing and than lynching innocent black people

    Rush Limpballsbaugh go suck on dead oysters nuts muthfkn loser

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/2daTopnonStop/ 2daTopnonStop

    He gets away w/ it because he is speaking what 1/3 of Americans believe~

    Yet it’s all right when it’s all white~

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/jazzwatch/ jazzwatch

    Can you say diarreah of the mouth??? I knoew you ould……

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/ROCK42063/ ROCK42063

    WHY IS IT NECESSARY FOR NEWSONE/BLACKPLANET TO GIVE THIS RACIST GASBAG FREE PUBLICITY EVERY WEEK. ALL YOU DOING IS FEEDING INTO THIS IDIOT’S EGO.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/gren1shaw2/ gren1shaw2

    It is foolish to think that you can have a logical or truthful conversation with a fat,white,racist,bigoted idiot that believes he is superior to anyone else.rush limbaugh the drug addict reminds me of the whites I ran into in lake providence LA. And in st louis missouri when I was a child in 1960.we had to get off the sidewalk when white people came down it,and we had to walk in the mud.and we were not allowed to walk in the front doors of cafes,we had to go into the back door and were not allowed to eat inside.during that time I worked in the fields.so I dealt with the worst racist, and they were all rush limbaugh.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/Toni_Anthony/ Toni_Anthony

    Mr. L., must Not WATCH the News??? The way black males are snuffing out other Black Males, Mr. L., & white men in general who dislikes another human being based on the Color of their Skin? Please! Man you & all other’s Mr. L., should simply lay back & marvel at the self-extermination going down with black’s killing, shooting, maiming, disrespecting, abusing one another! We all KNOW if Mr. L., was the one doing it, then we’d have the uprising a/k/a Jessie Jackson/Fat Al., etc., we should have today! But since it’s black or black? Who those two fool’s going to BLAIM? Mr., L & the rest should wake up daily & read/watch the Headline News, Newspapers, etc., and be able to see! He and/or other non-blacks, could take a seat & read/watch the lynching the worst of the worst (Mentality) whose hands are the same color pulling the triggers! NOT the Whole Black/African American Race! But the Mentality who I believe will soon cut a set of fangs & grow a tail, keep on working it, thinning out their own race worst than a natural death, lynching or beating ever could!!! Lay back Mr. L., your dream is coming true, without you & other racist lifting 1 finger!!! Lay back and simply watch the fool’s thin their own heards!!!

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/shyscorpio1/ shyscorpio1

    he is the MAIN reason that over the past year or so that a lot of black people have been catching hell!
    he is also the voice of the republiKKKan party and the thorn in the President’s heel!
    the repubs need to get rid of their right wing zealots and start using their ownd common sense or they can kiss another year in politics GOOD BYE, thanks to RACIST PARTY LED BY LIMBAUGH!!!
    READY TO VOTE INDEPENDANT YET???

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/slit_lcka005/ slit_lcka005

    Rush Limbaugh is actually taking legal matters to sue those who have accused him of “racially devisive comments”, and you know what? NO ONE has been able to find any. I don’t call someone a racist until there is evidence to support the accusation. Furthemore I’m more concerned with my own people doing me harm than some white racist who may or my not exist. Niggas need to get their priorities straight.

  • Casey Gane-McCalla

    everything is sourced from these comments from a reputable website or book. Only one of these comments has Limbaugh denied(not really) saying.WE cover black on black crime as well.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/underlying_love/ underlying_love

    Way to go!!! Bravo!!!!! I like what was written. Only someone who chooses not to read for the sake of understanding will not interpret what was written. At least in my opinion. Keep up the good work….nothing wrong with stating issues that you find to be of fact as long as you can support them. This…………was well supported.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/Enanni/ Enanni

    My dear Slit_licka,

    The day you grow up is the day you die. You must be one of the black repuplican fools who will eat s**t for the white man before they respect a black person. The issue here is Rush Limbaugh, not black on black crime. When we get to that you can run your commentary on that. Right now please call a spade a spade you slave!

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/chevah_don/ chevah_don

    Enanni

    Big up , hi-five and a hearty “h*ll fokn yeah” on your comments.

    Where have all the BLACK (in thought, word and deed….not just skin colour) people gone?

    Jeez

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/slit_lcka005/ slit_lcka005

    Dear enanni, instead of staying parked in front of 106&Park do a lil something called research. The fact is Limbaugh never said the things attributed to him period. But because he disagrees with Jesse “Heime Town” (Now there’s a statement designed to bring people together) Jackson or “white interloper” Sharpton he’s labeled a racist. Oh by the way dumbass I’m not a Republican, I’m a Libertarian. Just cuz your mammy was suckered into being a demodummy doesn’t mean you have to. I don’t pull out the ol afro pick and pump my fist in the air like some kind of retarded militant zombie at the slightest ASSUMED thing I hear. Only racist do that…DUMMY!

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  • http://www.blackplanet.com/SanMarcosEric/ SanMarcosEric

    Casey Gane-McCalla, once again, your so-called standards of journalism are pathetic. You are the reason people do no trust the media any more. You accuse Rush Limbaugh of being prejudiced, but you are the one pre-judging him. You say that you “thoroughly researched [his] background and history” and all of the information you have reported you found in books and on the internet??!? Using that standard, I could prove that the earth was flat, the tooth-fairy was real, Elvis is still alive and that Barack Obama is Nigerian. What the hell kind of journalistic standard is that? You looked it up on the internet? Just how lazy of a reporter do you have to be to admit that?
    You said that if Limbaugh’s racist statements were not true, then Rush would deny them and sue. He has denied them and he is suing, starting with CNN and MSNBC.
    Look, if this guy was the racist you claim him to be, I don’t want to be lining up on his side. But here are the facts: 1) Despite all of the claims from guys like you, Keith Oberman, Jack Huberman, Chris Matthews, etc., not one of you has been able to come up with a single clip; not one actual tape of Rush making any such statement; 2) The statements attributed to him always seem to be from his distant past -the slavery comment were supposed to be from the 1970s, other comments from the late 80s and early 90s- why are these things just coming out now, when Rush is trying to buy a ball team? Where were these accusations and recriminations when he supposedly made the comments? 3) Too many black ball players, politicians, writers, etc., vouch for this guy -and all of the ones who have condemned him admit that they a) never actually listen to his show and b) don’t actually know the man. Those that do know the man count themselves as his friend and defend him. It is tough to refute that. 4) (And this is the big one): Rush Limbaugh put up one million dollars for any person who could prove that he made any of those comments. One million dollars to anyone who could produce an audio tape of him making any such statement. That was several years ago and no one has ever collected. A million dollars is a lot of money. If the proof were out there, someone would have collected the money by now.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/Kakakiki/ Kakakiki

    “SLAVE SYSTEM”

    Now think about this: The terms “slave” and “slavery” have been used to refer to our history and our heritage here in America since our arrival, but our foremothers and fathers were not in slavery nor were they slaves. They were people just like you and me, thinking, feeling, and dreaming.

    What no one ever says is that we were placed in a “SLAVE SYSTEM.” If you think “slave system”, you will get a completely different history of our existence here in this nation than the common references to slaves or slavery provide.

    Don’t use the word “slave” or “slavery” because they only promote the SLAVE SYSTEM. As long as the educational system is teaching with the words “slavery” or “slave” to our children young minds, it will only perpetuate the pattern of invalidation of the African American in America and also to people of the world.

    The words SLAVE and SLAVERY start everyone out in our country and the world thinking of us in a very negative way.

    Go to my website http://www.kakakiki.com and sign up so we can make a change.

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  • http://www.blackplanet.com/hash-zeus/ hash-zeus

    THE ONLY PEOPLE WHO DONT THINK LIMBAUGH IS A RACIST HAVENT HEARD OF HIM YET!

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/hash-zeus/ hash-zeus

    ALOT OF BLACK PEOPLE RACIST TOO..ITS TRUE THOSE WHO GO OFF ON BLACKS AND NEVER HAD NOTING GOOD TO SAY! NIGGA THIS AND NIGGAS THAT ..YEAH YALL KNOW THEM..WHO TALKS ABOUT THE 35 MILLON WHO ISNT IN JAILS OR THE GOOD FATHERS THOSE WHO ARENT IN GANGS.WHO STAY IN SCHOOL..SO DONT JUST HATE ON RUSH

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/3RDWARDHTOWN/ 3RDWARDHTOWN

    @zeus? u must be on some hash if you think rush ain’t racist. You’re using a Greek god name as opposed to an African god. Do you want to be white?

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/moorishprince/ moorishprince

    hash-zeus?

    It’s bad enough that we have to deal with racist whites and those who follow and believe everything that Limbaugh has to say! But dealing with the most foolish and ignorant “Negroes” such as yourself makes our plight much more difficult! We don’t need you to defend Rush or point out the obvious problems within the our communties. Using the N-word does not translate as racism when used by our weak-minded fellow African-American people! It’s ignorance not racism that leads our people to imitate all that they see and hear that’s demeaning and self-destructive. Self-hatred, unfortunately is a bi-product of slavery and racism from the past in this country. Read up on “Willie Lynch” and educate yourself as to the roots of the issues that you protest here…………..

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/TMAC_35000/ TMAC_35000

    It’s no secret that this clown is die hard racist, he isn’t even worth talking about.

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  • http://www.blackplanet.com/sotiag/ sotiag

    Even people with good positions in life can be just as ignorant as they look. GOD will not be pleased at all with such hatred towards a group of individuals whom you dont know other than what may be displayed about them if you do not have any experience at all what so ever with this group of people personally then you may have a I.Q of a goldfish. And frankly you passed

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/SoularFlarez/ SoularFlarez

    I LOVEEEEEE all these racist ‘white’ people who always talkin bout n****r this, n****r that…..

    see they are a WOLF…and you know what a wolf wanna do…cuz U can hear them barking and howling….

    but a FOX is dangerous, cuz a fox will show its fangs and your dumbazz will think that fox is smiling at you when its planning to gobble you up

    i rather they keep it real so I know where they comen from.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/lakerdude19/ lakerdude19

    Was Rush wrong in saying that slavery built the South? Nope. Not a racist comment… get over it, you people.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/sbufford/ sbufford

    he need to go and take his pills

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