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Salon.com
Editor’s Pick
OCTOBER 15, 2009 2:19PM

Conservative Like Me: The Rush Limbaugh Story

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From Rush Limbaugh:

I have been denied my American Dream, not because of the money I've made, or the work ethic I've possessed, but because of who I am.

I ask you to imagine, just for a moment, an America where you are not allowed to buy a house in certain neighborhood, or refused service in a restaurant, or forced to stand instead of enjoying the seat you paid for on some sort of public transportation vehicle, be it train or trolley or other. You are not refused these things because you cannot pay for them, or you have not worked for your right to them, but because of prejudice.

I am a victim of prejudice, I am that man forced to stand on that imaginary public transportation vehicle, except my public transportation vehicle, is actually an NFL Football team that I was going to purchase with my buckets and buckets of blood money.

I have suffered the subtle discrimination of people's expectations of me. People say I cannot be trusted to own a football team responsibly because of my background and history. That's sort of like saying one of the premier quarterback's in the NFL is over-rated solely based on the color of his skin. It's simply about preconceived ideas and prejudice. It's despicable and un-American and I won't stand for it.

While it is obvious who is at the root of this institutionalized discrimination (the Liberals), my heart has been broken by the betrayal of my own people, the NFL Owners, and the conservative investment group that jettisoned me at the first sign of trouble.

For some time now it has been obvious that there has been a rift between the Rush Limbaugh's of the world and the David Frum's of this world. The House Conservatives like Frum hate the field conservatives like me because, frankly, we are “too real” for them.

However even in spite of lingering mistrust and petty jealousies, for not a single one of them to come to my defense is unconscionable. Has Jerry Jones forgotten where his roots are? Marge Schott is rolling in her cryogenic containment unit.

Until we end this conservative on conservative violence, until we stop trying to soft shoe our way into Mr. Clooney's heart, until we stand up to liberal oppression in all its forms, until we say, “enough is enough let Rush Limbaugh buy a football team”. Until that day we can never truly rise up as a people.

But I have a dream.

I have a dream that one day wealthy conservative NFL owners will not judge a man by the quality of his character and public image but by the size of his purse.

I have a dream that one day the children of the David Frums and Christopher Hitchenseses and moderate fiscal conservatives of this world, as represented by the NFL owners, will join hands with the children of the Glenn Becks and Michael Savages and the devoutly conservative fringe - and that those hand holding children will then surround the David Frum's, Christopher Hitchens, David Brooks, William Crystals, and NFL owners.

Yes brothers and sisters - the children will surround them and form an inescapable ring of angry ultra-conservative youth from which no moderate, base denying, pseudo-conservative can escape, no matter how wealthy he may be, and then those children will go all SUDDENLY LAST SUMMER on all their traitorous asses.

SUDDENLY LAST SUMMER is a Tennessee Williams play where a group of kids eat a guy (I think it turns out to be a gay thing but it's been a while since I read it). It's a literary reference that reflects the gravitas of this moment for me. I can reference Tennessee Williams if I so choose, I'm Rush Limbaugh and I can do whatever I want - except apparently buy a terrible terrible football team.

I may not get there with you, to see that vicious ultra-conservative-child-cannibal day of reckoning (because of my problems with drugs and Ding Dongs), but I can promise to spend the money to have my brain frozen like Marge Schott so that I will be able to appreciate its awesome brutality some day in the distant future after many of you who are too poor to freeze your favorite body part are long since dead.

My point is we will all get a chance to appreciate it in the future - just at different moments in the future.

And when this happens my thawed future brain will buy the St. Louis Rams. When we cannibalize the non-believers, when my brain and your decendants' bodies have purified every village and every hamlet, from every state and every city, we will be able to speed up that day when all of Rush's children will be able to join hands and sing the words I tell them to sing:

The Rams at last! The Rams at last! Thank God Almighty Rush Limbaugh's unfrozen brain has bought the Rams at last!

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I have a dream too and it features a broken hearted Rush!
hi ho - hi ho into the feed you go.
The NFL owners realized that Rushbo would politicize the sport. If all the dittoheads started attending Rams games, could we not expect a consortium fronted by Noam Chomsky to buy the Patriots?

Seriously, the major problem with Rushbo being an owner was the football players themselves. How many black players would gladly sign up or keep working for the Rams with Massa Rush in charge?
How would the football players union respond? These are important logistical questions that would get real pretty damn quick if you know who owned the Rams.
PS: go to rightwing nutjob's latest posting.
This was killing me. I hope Rush doesn't read it - he'll totally plagarize it!
i don't think this went into the new story feed - so back out you go little post you better earn me my clicks it's hard out here for a pimp.
amen, brother, keep on shoveling in those drugs...
Rush's frustration is understandable, but he has enough money to start a league of his own if he wants to.
Ah, perfection. Wait, this is a little too perfect. Rush? Is that you?

My Sunday's are sacred for one thing - football. I avoid his rantings at all costs, I'm glad they took a stand with him.
hilarious and brilliant
Pure. Genius.

Seriously. This was good.
Loathsome bigots need love too, you know.
I see a lot of hypocrisy here. If this were a liberal being denied buying something with his own money the outcry would be heard around the country. Isn't there some Rapper that owns part of a sports team? I guess it's just who you say things about, huh?
First off: The NFL is a private club. They can reject whomever they don't want.

B: The racial quotes attributed to him by some in the media are lies. Period.
Wouldn't you know it? I had a craving this afternoon in the store and bought a pack of Ding Dongs. Right in the middle of savoring that forbidden fruit, I find out Rush mainlines them. Now I have an urge to buy a football team to prove my manliness.
poorsinner sinned again:

"B: The racial quotes attributed to him by some in the media are lies. Period."

You should have watched MSNBC yesterday. They played Rush denying he had ever said those racist quotes......then played Rush saying those racist quotes.
Pretty embarassing for Rush, if he ever cared much about getting busted lying his fat ass off. But since his base never tunes into any program that might challenge their ignorance, he's safe. Profits go up. The rest of us already loathe the asshole and don't trust anything he says, so watching him get busted is mere amusement.
Let's keep in mind that as visible and loud as they are, only 20 million out of an American population of 390 million actively listen to Rush, and most of them are old, bow-legged, smelly white men from the WW II generation. Boy, will I be glad when they're all gone!! Way too many of them still believe something or someone is coming to get 'em, and that the only solution for all problems, disputes, and disagreements are guns and war.

When I think of the billions and trillions American taxpayers have spent on spying, the CIA, the military-corporate complex with its multi-million dollar computer systems and multi-million dollar gadgets, stealth bombers, drones, weapons, helicopters, and other toys for overgrown boys still playing cops and robbers, and what could have been done with that money to spread peace, education, understanding, etc.....well, this is why western civilization has failed, particularly hypocritical American society. It's all falling apart, folks. the good news is that we get to start over and build something so much better!!
Soap Box Amy: old, bow-legged, smelly white men from the WW II generation. Boy, will I be glad when they're all gone!!

Aren't you just a sweetheart!

Soap Box Amy: When I think of the billions and trillions American taxpayers have spent on spying, the CIA, the military-corporate complex with its multi-million dollar computer systems and multi-million dollar gadgets, stealth bombers, drones, weapons, helicopters, and other toys for overgrown boys still playing cops and robbers, and what could have been done with that money to spread peace, education, understanding, etc.

Did you ever stop to think how many of those dollars helped you to have the life you have now. Did you ever wonder how many of those dollars were spent so that some bug-shit dictator wasn't able to take over this country because we were bigger and badder? And you can't make peace with people who hate you and want you dead.

One question, Amy, did you ever give George Bush kudos for all the money spent on the people with Aids?

You are not only an idiot, but an ungrateful one at that.
Scott Abraham:

"You should have watched MSNBC yesterday. They played Rush denying he had ever said those racist quotes......then played Rush saying those racist quotes"

Scott you are a true dunce. Here are the facts LINK

Take you made up quotes and shove 'em.
Scott Abraham,

So basically, you are retard. You lied and I busted your ass. Your weak-ass retort to my factual comment is sh-t! When will you libtards realize that this whole internet web thing can and will be used to put your lies to shame. What a dumb-ss!
Scott Abraham:

Let me correct my two mistakes from those two comments:

Comment number 1: you your
Comment number 2: retard retarded

Any Questions?
I think the whole thing is both tragic and funny. Tragic because it shows the true intolerance of the tolerance squad and funny because the one thing that liberals hate to talk about more than anything is Rush Limbaugh but that's what they've been doing for about a week now. Funny.
I may not get there with Rush either because I hurt my entire body laughing at this.
Beautiful, beautiful satire. Nicely done. Rated.
rush limbdog is a sold out mfr of the powers that be.........
HELLO LIBTARDS... CAN YOU HEAR ME?

Jack Huberman is the source for the two quotes attributed to Rush:

1: "You know who deserves a posthumous Medal of Honor? James Earl Ray [the confessed assassin of Martin Luther King]. We miss you, James. Godspeed."

2: "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."

Those quotes are bogus, fake, lies. Don't believe me. How about the Huffington Post? Huffpo attached this note to his 2006 post:

"Editor's Note: An earlier version of this post contained quotes attributed to Rush Limbaugh, which Limbaugh has since denied making. As is our policy when a fact in a blog post is called into question, we gave its author 24 hours to substantiate the quote. Since he has not been able to do so, the quotes have been deleted from the post."

HELLO!

Are you listening?

RUSH NEVER SAID THAT CRAP!!!

Now STFU

Sincerely Poorsinner.
MSNBC's and the left's version of "racist" usually differs from the actual meaning.

Since Obama has been elected the race pimps are saying such things as "if you disagree with Obama you are a racist".

It is becoming disgusting. The poor left has always used the race card because they cannot intelligently discuss issues.
Dear Poorsinner thanks for enjoying my satire so much that you've now left something like 6 or 7 responses to it in the comments section. I rarely find such passion in my readership. As a writer it is very gratifying.
As for the quotes you seem so concerned with, as I said this is satire and nothing more, sorry if you were confused, there are no actual quotes here I made all of it up.
Your confusion may lie in the fact that my piece does allude to Limbaugh's 2004 race-baiting comments about Donovan McNabb, an incident which as a nondenominational Eagles fan has forever shaped my opinion of Mr. Limbaugh.
Let's be clear about one thing whether we are Red Staters or Blue Staters, liberals or conservatives, Democrats or Republicans, we can all come together and agree that Donovan McNabb is a fucking awesome quarterback.
Let me just repeat that: Donovan McNabb is a fucking awesome quarterback.
I think Rush would have made a great owner. He coulda traded for an all white team of Mannings, and then it'd be ok to trash-talk the other teams because it wouldn't be racist. And if the white team was allowed to take drugs because they have an evolutionary disadvantage against the Crips and Bloods (which Rush talks about, but I don't know what cities they play for) the Rushbo Klanners could win the Super Bowl.
You can cannibalize my unconservative ass when you, um, my cold dead hands have, er...and you let God sort 'em out!

Perhaps Rush you could "buy" a team at a public school in the South Bronx or Harlem or 8-mile or South Central. There's no profit in it, except doing good in the world, and opportunity for working class kids, and inverting your terrible reputation. And the light in those kid's eyes.

@old new lefty: Chomsky? money?! He gives it all to European neo-nazis. But it's a funny idea. Cheerleaders in black turtlenecks smoking gauloises; "2, 4, 6, 8, who denies all the new evidence disputing an inviolable, distinctive separation of oral and written language as brain functions and memes?"

@soap box: Rush enjoys a perfervid audience of young stock brokers, bankers, and in-house accountants.

@poorsinner: lies? sir, use the google!
The liberals always blame conservatives for name calling, racism, not telling the truth and on and on and on. Well, just read what the libunist are writing here. Do as I say not as I do philosophy. Oh, I have a question. Since conservatives are raciest, are the 98% of African Americans that did not vote for the white guy raciest also? Oh, they just voted that way because of policy not skin color. Sharpton and Jackson, now there are two people that are great poster children for the left. Two upstanding Americans with nothing but the finest morals. Yea, right! You people sound smarter when you say nothing.
@holmescc

You misunderstand OS. Sure there are doctrinaire Left and Right folks here. But most of us read carefully and widely. You don't have to change the subject to OUR bad guys (see: logical fallacies) to make a point, because we KNOW there are moral failures and dopes and creeps on the Left, too. Explore OS a bit more.

Make your case well, though. A lot of us here? we're not into that Fox thing, of sniping, lobbing, hating. Sure, this is a satirical piece. Point taken that THIS piece paints with broad brush.

But if you want to get somewhere on OS you'll have to set aside the polarizing, and make a case carefully. The good news, you will be heard, politely. Disputed, perhaps, by some. But we must all recover deliberative democracy, Right and Left, and OS is a place to work on it.
Who'd a thunk it, Rush? Turns out words have consequences. Better warn Beck. I heard he put a bid in for the Astrodome.
I am old, white and sometimes sweaty. I sweat more profusely when subjected to the espousal of a closed-minded, didactic party line no matter the flavor of the line or the fervor of the ranter. I was a frequent listener to the Rush radio show but never a "ditto-head". Back in the early years of the first Bush admin I thought he was a fresh and humorous voice. Somewhere in the middle of the Clinton years his rants became too frequent and personal for me. The song parodies seemed worn out. I exercised my American right and turned the dial to another station. He seemed a sad Oz-like character with a great pretense that he had to bolster every day; the later oxycontin revelation was not a big surprise. When you listen to someone so long you can discern things about that person; for example I learned that he sometimes dined with prominent Washingtonians. Clarence Thomas, the Supreme Court Justice, was one of those people. Thomas is black and married to a white woman. To the best of my knowledge white racists do not dine with black men and their white wives nor do they turn their life work (in Rush's case his radio show) to black men while they vacation. These are known facts. Rush's thing is to poke the liberal establishment and get a rise; this is comedy schtick. This man is in no way a racist. He might however find it humorous as I do that someone would make the point that he is a racist by using a parody of the I Have a Dream speech.
WTF is a "libunist"?

Stop saying words, you embarrass yourself.
@daniel: i like the cut of your jib, sir. That's a credible, honest, and interesting explanation of the evolution of a Rush listener.

The sooner we stop volunteering to be parodies of Right and Left, the better.
Are you serious? When that analog radio signal dies. What happens to guys like you. I use to produce talk radio.
Cheap comedy. Overwritten prose. You're no Tennessee Williams.
Kressskin-- I enjoyed almost all of that. But I think William Kristol will be with the cannibals.

Soap Box Amy-- "blank stare at you"

holmescc-- raciest? Twice? And Libunist? Please see:
'Unskilled and Unaware of It: How Difficulties in Recognizing One's Own Incompetence Lead to Inflated Self-Assessments'
by Justin Kruger and David Dunning
Department of Psychology
Cornell University
http://gagne.homedns.org/~tgagne/contrib/unskilled.html

poorsinner-- indeed you are, and more.

Greg Correll-- I'm slightly admiring the cut of your gib! But how would you feel with Pinker as GM?

Daniel E. Walsh-- Well argued. I too am older, whiter, and sometimes sweatier, but in addition have straight legs and rarely smell. But I was never able to listen to Rush for more than a few minutes even in the early days-- just a few seconds and I'm lunging for the dial now. Nevertheless I respect your reasoned and rational views. But in the heart of red-state Rushia where I live, his race-baiting doesn't come across as humorous shtick-- any more than anything else he says does. It's taken as gospel, and repeated around the coffee pot at the local Co-op (no, not the urban, organically grown, local food one), where anyone who dissents is suspected of being a Satan-worshipping Commie.

Besides, you don't have to wear a pointy-hood, burn crosses, shave your head, or have swastika tattoos to be a racist-- see "banal white nationalism" as described in this excellent essay:
http://www.templeofdemocracy.com/breaking.htm (by Edward Sebesta http://newtknight.blogspot.com/ )
Seriously funny.

Hateful, vile words have consequences. Who knew?
To poorsinner101: Bulls__t! The comments attributed to Mr. Drug addicted, racist Limbaugh were publicly made on both radio and tv and have been replayed after his denials to show they are true. Your comments are typical dittohead drivel. Next time do a little fact-checking before you open your mouth and deeply insert your foot.