Comments Posted By Richard Bottoms
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THE NFL IS WORRIED ABOUT A 'RACIST' OWNER?'
Sorry., missed one.
This is from a conversation with a caller on Rush Limbaugh's program in Spring of 1996 concerning about to be fired KNBC NY radio host Bob Grant over calling Martin Luther King a Scumbag:
Caller:
Just because he called him a scumbag does that make him a racist?"Limbaugh:
In some quarters it might.
[Laughter]
But not here.I probaly have the tape someplace. I spent a lot of time taping those guys back then.
My biggest success was when G. Gordon Liddy explained the best techniques for shooting ATF agents in the aftermath of Waco.
I recorded it and personally dropped him in the hottest water of his career.
These guys always hang themselves.
Comment Posted By Richard bottoms On 15.10.2009 @ 15:10
These four documented quotes alone are enough to keep him from his dream:
“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”
“The NAACP should have riot rehearsal. They should get a liquor store and practice robberies.”
“They’re 12 percent of the population. Who the hell cares?”
You can't insult black people for political and personal gain week in and week out and pay no price, especially when the NFL relies so heavily on the talent of black men for their success.
Poor Mr. Limbaugh can sit in his mansion and console himself with his riches. Maybe he'll cry himself to sleep over the injustice of it all.
W. E. B. Du Bois and William Trotter are probably having a laugh somewhere in the ether.
Comment Posted By Richard bottoms On 15.10.2009 @ 14:49
blowhard…poseur…racial provocateur,
Black folks didn't need any made up quotes to know who Rush Limbaugh is, and the fact that black players said essentially they wouldn't suit up if the man was one of the owners of the team is a great example of karma, you know what goes around comes around.
Rush's decades of being a racial provocateur came back to bite him in the posterior denying him his one big dream.
That's justice.
Comment Posted By Richard bottoms On 15.10.2009 @ 09:30
Actually, neither is the party of personal empowerment, although you’ll find somewhat more “empowerment-minded” politicians in the R party than the D party, which is all about bureaucrats, lawyers, race-baiters, and sundry free-lunchers.
You mean free lunch like tax breaks for oil companies, anti-trust exemptions for the insurance industry, tax havens for multi-nationals, defense contracts for weapons that don't work, and support for firms that shield themselves from responsibility if their employees commit rape?
In 2005, Jamie Leigh Jones was gang-raped by her Halliburton/KBR co-workers while working in Iraq and locked in a shipping container for over a day to prevent her from reporting her attack. The rape occurred outside of U.S. criminal jurisdiction, but to add serious insult to serious injury she was not allowed to sue KBR because her employment contract said that sexual assault allegations would only be heard in private arbitration--a process that overwhelmingly favors corporations.
This year, Sen. Al Franken (D-MN) proposed an amendment that would deny defense contracts to companies that ask employees to sign away the right to sue. It passed, but it wasn't the slam dunk Jon Stewart expected. Instead the amendment received 30 nay votes all from Republicans. "I understand we're a divided country, some disagreements on health care. How is ANYONE against this?" He asked.
That kind of free lunch?
Comment Posted By Richard bottoms On 15.10.2009 @ 13:37
However, the argument between us should really be about which form of government is more effective and I would disagree with you in that area.
A perfectly reasonable argument.
More Republicans should try it instead of the whole Obama as Manchurian Candidate - Gurkha Assassin - Hillary Secret Lesbian killer approach.
Comment Posted By Richard bottoms On 15.10.2009 @ 13:31
And regardless of your characterization, my own take is the GOP is the party of personal empowerment and the Democrats are the party of special interest “victims” and reparations.
These days the GOP is the party dominated by the Christian Right, and one very powerful special interest group: Big Business favoring tax loopholes and lax or non-existent regulation over the health, safety, and financial well being of regular folks at every turn.
Despite the fact that there are hundreds of thousands of tax exempt churches all freely open to any type of worship, the GOP promotes the victim status of "oppressed" Christians who see themselves on the brink of Stalin's Russia instead of acknowledging they have the most secure religious freedoms of any peoples on the face of the planet.
The party of personal empowerment works to active restrict those powers if contraceptives are involved promoting abstinence over common sense birth control measure. Many prominent leaders are against not just abortion, but access to pill, and condoms for adult women.
The party of empowerment fights fair pay for women, minimum wage increases always, and extensions of unemployment insurance even in the midst of the worst recession in history.
And finally, the GOP has gone out of its way to insult and rebuke Hispanics as they drive towards a policy of immigration that acknowledges the reality of the willingness of their people to take the jobs others won't. They wipe the butts of our elderly, clean our hotels, slaughter our animals, pick our vegetables, and do the most menial disgusting jobs in existence for pay little better than what you get at McDonald's because it's still better than what's going on for them back in Mexico.
You can keep going on about reparations and such, like it's still 1983, meanwhile the rest of the country and black America in particular have moved on. Young people have no experience with the grievances you still nurse over issues that were settle going on 20 years ago.
All your favorite bogeymen, Jackson, Farrakhan, and Sharpton are either washed up, dying, or irrelevant outside their own little geographic circle. Beyonce has more clout that Jesse Jackson and the most important black man in America today is living in the White House.
The party of the young, the party of tomorrow is the Democratic party.
Comment Posted By Richard bottoms On 15.10.2009 @ 11:50
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Comment Posted By Richard bottoms On 14.10.2009 @ 22:57
democrat party
Would mind doing me the courtesy of that if you are going to criticize you at least use the proper name for the organization. It the Democratic party.
It's exactly this type of juvenile silliness that is the problem here.
Comment Posted By Richard bottoms On 14.10.2009 @ 18:44
I will never vote for a Republican ever, the areas where I find agreement on politics with Rick Moran are few and far between.
But he is a fellow countryman and we settle our differences at the ballot box and no where else.
That's what has enabled this country to endure slavery, civil war, interment, and a host of other problems (and why the 1965 Civil Rights Act carries such importance for me).
We can disagree without being disagreeable.
Comment Posted By Richard bottoms On 14.10.2009 @ 17:08
As for “bloodthirsty chestbeaters,” I will take them over America-hating poseurs who pad their vet status.
So now, despite having worn the uniform of my country and moving my family from pillar to post for 13 years I hate America?
Meanwhile someone who skipped out on Vietnam because a carbuncle on his butt or cheerleaders for the war who come right out and say they don't enlist in time of war because they have other priorities are fine examples of American bravery.
Did you even read what Rick wrote?
Comment Posted By Richard bottoms On 14.10.2009 @ 15:49
