Posted by
King Vinyl on Wednesday, October 14, 2009 2:26:03 PM
First read this St Louis Post Dispatch story:
http://www.stltoday.com/stltoday/sports/columnists.nsf/bryanburwell/story/9AF899FB9806F64E8625764F0014626D?OpenDocument
The writer in this story says basically that Rush denies making those statements then says,
"So what are we left with?
Well, essentially, I think we just threw a deck chair off the Titanic".
After which he sites these two comments Rush did make
"The NFL all too often looks like a game between the Bloods and the Crips without any weapons."
and something about a white kid getting beat up on a school bus and black kids cheering about it in Obama's America. He doesn't use an exact because it in my opinion gives him greater latitude in taking the quote out of context.
The bottom line is this; the false statement he quoted is a justification of slavery which he calls a "deck chair" being as he says being "thrown off the Titanic". What that means is that Rush has gone far beyond the false quote attributed to him. No sane person with an ounce of credibility could justify anyone making a claim that slavery had it's merits. But with the likes of Ray Lewis, Pac-Man Jones, T.O., Michael Vick, Ricky Williams and after the murders of Roy Jones, Darrent Williams and Steve Mcnair the fact is there are certain lifestyle issues that the "black community" has brought into the league that everyone should find totally unacceptable. Much of that behavior is linked to the very gang activity and the criminal element glorified in "black culture". So when Limbaugh says things about "crips and bloods" he has a point and when he talks about how children are affected by negative role models I find that as being a legitamite arguement.
What I see as being offensive is that it appears to that truth is subject to the physical appearances of who speaks it and a lie can be excused or amplified by virtue of the same. In a society seeking to right the injustices of racism and bigotry our media uses both as a weapon to intimidate those whom they simply disagree with. Instead of exploring the circumstance that are factually germain to the point at hand. That my friends is more than hypocracy it is the very definition of voluntary ignorance.