You're type of People?
The Duplicity and Hypocrisy of Rush Limbaugh
Downfall of the car-jacker of the conservative cause
Richard Barrett
The facade of Rush Limbaugh being the "Great White Hope" has fallen under the weight of the "Big One," himself, nudged by the debacle over ESPN, in which the talk-show host was forced out for saying that a Negro football-player was "overrated." Limbaugh, who protested that his remarks had nothing to do with the Negro's race, then embarked on a tirade about how he supported Negroes, was a fan of Negroes in sports and believed in integration. The escapade stripped the Emperor's clothes completely away, leaving only a stark, naked Negrophile, solidly in the company of Trent Lott and other turncoats who had once been popular, principled and credible. However, observers suggested that the meltdown was taking place largely because Limbaugh had been a fraud, all along, whose pandering to Negroes had been masked by a career of hurling sarcastic but insincere puns. In fact, rightists pointed out that Limbaugh had used his jocular style to try to usurp efforts to purge sports and government of minorities, entirely, and restore an all-American America, by legitimizing the very forces he ridiculed.
Limbaugh had been the classic "sent over from the left to lead the right." He burst upon the radio scene a decade ago as the Republican Revolution, aimed at ousting Congressional leftists, was gaining steam. In his entertaining style, Limbaugh named himself titular head of the "conservative" cause, proceeding to poke fun at Ted Kennedy, Jesse Jackson and Bill Clinton. But an underlying heresy tarnished Limbaugh's feigned "conservative" credentials from the start. The word "conservative" was coined in 1964 by segregationists who took over the Republican Party, ousting Nelson Rockefeller and Bill Scranton and openly opposing the Civil Rights Bill and integration. The word "conservative," which was synonymous with "segregationist," meant "conserving" society as it was prior to attempts by Negroes and Communists to take over the country. Limbaugh saw it as his task to corrupt the term, water down the cause and, even, twist the direction of "conservatism." Since minorities and leftists had seized control of government when Limbaugh began to broadcast, the term "conservative" was axiomatic in terms of "conserving" what then existed, but it still was used by segregationists seeking to resurrect pre-1964 conditions.
Segregationists catapulted to power
Limbaugh, at first, softened up conservatives with an artillery barrage of jokes and puns mocking the welfare system, bureaucrats and the Black Caucus. He was credited with creating a political climate, over the radio, in which Newt Gingrich, backed by segregationist Governor Lester Maddox, and Trent Lott, backed by Mississippi segregationists, could be catapulted to national power. Limbaugh asserted that he spoke for "conservatives" over "liberals," which his large listening audience winked was "segregationists" over "integrationists." In fact, when he became a television host, his studio audience was entirely white. But code words served a dual purpose. They gained Limbaugh a following, but they, also, wooed whites away from their own, instinctive self-interests. Limbaugh, paradoxically, for example, interspersed barbs against the NAACP, for being "too liberal," with plaudits for Clarence Thomas, a Negro married to a white woman, in whose living room Limbaugh was married. The tactic was that there were "good" Negroes and "good" Jews who were "on our side," a ploy echoed by Diana Schneider, the Jewess editing the Limbaugh Letter. Schneider, even, announced that she was "glad" that the Skinhead website was her "enemy." The Skinheads had listed Limbaugh on their Impostors page.
Limbaugh made constant trips to Israel, where he "wailed" at the Wailing Wall and delivered support for the murderous Tel Aviv regime. He touted Michael Levine as his advisor and delivered unremitting support for the Israeli Lobby. He brought integration into his own studios, foisting Bo Snurdley, a Negro, as his call-screener, upon whom he conferred the title "Mister," a dig at Southerners who reserve such courtesy-titles solely for whites and who refer to Negroes only by their first-name. However, Limbaugh skirted mention of Rupert Murdock, the Australian Jew who financed Limbaugh's operations and garnered the talk-show host some $45 million profit a year. The bedrock "conservative" and segregationist principles were never mentioned. For example, the Eugenics position, which rejects the "abortionist" and "anti-abortionist" views in favor of producing fit, pure and compatible offspring, was "off-topic." Immigration was always spoken of in terms of curbing "illegals," never in keeping Mexicans out, altogether, or keeping America genetically ascendant. And, never was "blood" discussed as the foundation of the nation, but incessantly "economics," "interest-rates" and "taxes" were ascribed as cure-alls.
While Limbaugh was in seclusion following his resignation from ESPN, Tony Snow appeared as Limbaugh's apologist and "long-time friend." Snow repeated, over and over, that Limbaugh was not a segregationist and that segregationists were "a thing of the past." "Nobody," said Snow, wanted to repeal the Civil Rights Bill and "nobody" wanted whites to prevail over Negroes. At the same time, Snow tried to fend off news' accounts that the self-appointed arbiter of morality, actually, was a drug-addict, engaged in the illicit drug-trade and under criminal investigation. In the end, there was virtually no one to pull the chestnuts of the pretentious impostor out of the fire. J. C. Watts, the Negro who Limbaugh had campaigned for, was nowhere to be found. Thomas was mum. But Red Graham, who described himself as a one-time Limbaugh fan, said that Limbaugh was a "disgrace" who should step down. "We need to get back on track toward an all-American America," said Graham, a staunch segregationist, "without the duplicity and hypocrisy of Rush Limbaugh." Graham added that Limbaugh, who had never interviewed an avowed segregationist on his show, had "car-jacked the conservative cause" and "I'm glad he's through." |
