The Quotable Adam Serwer: Limbaugh’s “political” views aren’t the problem

Race-baiting bully boy Rush Limbaugh won’t get to own a piece of the St Louis Rams and his conservative friends, fans, apologists, and groupies believe---or pretend to believe---he’s being discriminated against because of his politics and not because of his habit of entertaining his audience by flattering their prejudices and encouraging their bigotries.

Adam Serwer at Tapped:

On the one hand, there's the general anxiety on the right that comes from the recognition that one can't actually treat black people this way and expect there not to be social consequences. On the other, there's actual bewilderment about the very concept of racism--conservatives understand in the abstract that racism is bad, but they seem incapable of identifying actual racist behavior. Instead, because (a) racism is bad and (b) liberals are bad (c) racism is a quality possessed by liberals. By definition, conservatives cannot be racist, because they are good, unlike liberals, and therefore nothing Rush Limbaugh says is racist. Moreover, while liberals have sometimes intimated racial motivation for conservative criticism where there isn't any, conservatives have refused to recognize when attacks on the president become attacks on black people. Calling the president "an angry black guy" is one of those times.

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Comments

[Dutch]

That Serwer bit simply fails to make a damn bit of sense.

The transitive postulate applied to all things political? Bunk.

Rush has the balls to say that the first high-profile black quarterback sucked and the first high profile black president holds values that some find abhorrent. Deep down, you know this is true. It's really not a shock.

That's not racist. Framing blacks as infallible victims is racist.

This is a guy who has himself audited by an external watchdog to score his own accuracy. THAT is why you never hear anybody take him on based on what he says. He's damn smart and he's damn accurate.

So what is the counter argument to Rush's position?

Druggie.

Hypocrite (true).

Big fat idiot.

Uh huh. Still waiting for someone to take on the message instead of ad hominem against the messenger.

[actor212]

Rush has the balls to say that the first high-profile black quarterback sucked

Gee...who was that black Redskins quarterback, who won a frikkin' SUPER BOWL???

[MBunge]

"Rush has the balls to say that the first high-profile black quarterback sucked"

McNabb isn't even the first "high-profile black quaterback" in Eagles' history.

Mike