"We Need Segregated Buses"

[Phyllis Rogers Stone]

Posted: 9/17/09 at 3:18pm

In a remark extraordinary even by the standards of conservative talk show host Rush Limbaugh, the right-wing radio heavyweight declared on his program Wednesday that the United States needed to return to racially segregated buses.

Referring to an incident in which a white student was beaten by black students on a bus, Limbaugh said: "I think the guy's wrong. I think not only it was racism, it was justifiable racism. I mean, that's the lesson we're being taught here today. Kid shouldn't have been on the bus anyway. We need segregated buses - it was invading space and stuff. This is Obama's America.

A full transcript of Limbaugh's comments on his radio show is available at MediaMatters.org.

Limbaugh's comments came after a called complained to say that local law enforcement said the attack probably wasn't racially motivated. The incident had been hyped by the conservative Drudge Report, which posted a video of the fracas.

"Police initially said the beating of the white student by two black students appeared to be racially motivated," the Associated Press wrote. "But police on Tuesday backed away from that."

That didn't stop Limbaugh from making his comments Wednesday.

"In Obama's America, the white kids now get beat up with the black kids cheering, "Yay, right on, right on, right on, right on," Limbaugh also said. "I wonder if Obama's going to come to come to the defense of the assailants the way he did his friend Skip Gates up there at Harvard."

"White Americans are racists who have created what they call free markets that really just enslave the rest of America and her trading partners," Limbaugh also mocked. "I mean, it was white Americans that ran off Van Jones. No, look, let's just follow Eric Holder's advice and not be cowards about all this. Let's have an open conversation, an honest conversation about all of our typical white grandmothers. You had one, I had one. Obama had one. They're racists just like our students are. ACORN - hey, nothing but racism fueling the pursuit of ACORN."

Limbaugh also suggested that racism itself was acceptable.

"If homosexuality being inborn is what makes it acceptable, why does racism being inborn not make racism acceptable?" the talk show host asked. "I'm sorry - I mean, this is the way my mind works. But apparently now we don't choose racism, we just are racists. We are born that way. We don't choose it. So shouldn't it be acceptable, excuse - this is according to the way the left thinks about things."

Raw Story Updated On: 9/17/09 at 03:18 PM

[TheatreFan4]

Posted: 9/17/09 at 3:21pm

[StockardFan]

Posted: 9/17/09 at 3:25pm

LOL, theatrefan4!

Rush Limbaugh. I just can't even fathom the way his mind works.

[PalJoey]

Posted: 9/17/09 at 3:26pm

Is really that a word "inborn"?

Anyway, Rush, sexual orientation is inborn, but racism is not.

In case you haven't heard, you've got to be taught to hate and fear, you've got to be taught from year to year, it's got to be drummed in your dear little ear, you've got to be carefully taught.

Got that, Rush?

[danmag]

Posted: 9/17/09 at 3:27pm

I'm betting Rush rode the short bus to school....

[AbbaRabbit]

Posted: 9/17/09 at 3:27pm

ummm... wow.

so would that work with other things too?

"i can't help the way i was born! my mind just works this way! it's not my fault i like to chop people up with an axe and then burry their remians in shallow un-marked graves in children's playgrounds!"

(ok, i admit, that's a bit extreme, but it's scary to think we could be heading into that direction.)

and racism is something you teach to children. not something i would recamend teaching to them, but it's something that it taught. i've already used by old hag of an aunt once today as an example, so why not use her again (it's not like she hasn't been used up already - ooooooh burn)
she TAUGHT my youngest cousin that everyone different than her is evil and a sinner and is going to hell. while she was home schooling her, that's the way she thought, the way she acted, and the way she talked to people.
she started going to public school and slowly started to realize that you can't just blurt out these things to people and tell the rest of your elementary school class they're going to hell.
have her actions changed? yes.
have her thoughts changed? i don't know, but that's a conversation i really don't feel comfortable having with a 7 year old.

[Phyllis Rogers Stone]

Posted: 9/17/09 at 3:27pm

"Maybe it's racism. No, no, I'm serious. Obama is half-white; maybe his half-white side is to blame here. The family's -- well, lookit, I'm at the bottom of the barrel here trying to come up with logical explanations here. And I'm just going on Newsweek, that we're all born racists, and Obama had a typical white grandmother, in his own words. Maybe the half-white side's winning out here. A dual battle going on inside the cranium there."
Media Matters

[Phyllis Rogers Stone]

Posted: 9/17/09 at 3:29pm

PJ - Limbaugh was referring to this Newsweek article when he talked about racism being inborn or innate or whatever.
Newsweek

[AbbaRabbit]

Posted: 9/17/09 at 3:33pm

theatrefan4, my post is proof you can make sence while on oxy.

i mean, i think it made sence. i might read this later and wonder what the big jumble of letters was and wonder what i thought i was typing

although i don't take it to deal with the pain of living in a world that dosen't resemble my perceptions or claims.
i take it to deal with living in a world with painful feet LOL

maybe i should take a nap now.

[Pgenre]

Posted: 9/17/09 at 3:38pm

Is limbaaaah really painting Obama as a black/white Jekyll/Hyde?! Really? REALLY?!

"The only thing constant is change"... maybe he should read the book and take those words to heart. I don't know if I would wish the musical version on even limbaaaah... but after this, I might.

P

[Jane2]

Posted: 9/17/09 at 3:40pm

"i can't help the way i was born! my mind just works this way! it's not my fault i like to chop people up with an axe and then burry their remians in shallow un-marked graves in children's playgrounds!"

"(ok, i admit, that's a bit extreme, but it's scary to think we could be heading into that direction.) "

Abba, it's not as extreme as you think. The current mindset of our society is that you do not take responsibility for anything. Nothing is your fault. It's the other person's fault.

[roquat]

Posted: 9/17/09 at 3:41pm

Off the rails completely. Could this be enough to end Limbaugh's reign as the idiot genius of the right wing? If it isn't, could ANYTHING?

[Phyllis Rogers Stone]

Posted: 9/17/09 at 3:44pm

I sincerely doubt this will do anything but endearing more to his fans, and bring out the worst in his apologists.

[Calvin]

Posted: 9/17/09 at 4:53pm

Haven't kids ALWAYS gathered around and cheered when there was a fight? I'm pretty sure that's how it happened when I was their age, and I don't think it was Reagan's fault.

oh, here's some more insight from michelle malkin commenters about the incident:
This is what we get for paying this parasitic underclass to breed. We?ve been watering the weeds for 50 years, and it?s only getting worse.

Hey look a bus full of Serena Williams relatives!

I know this sounds racist, but has anyone heard any stories of white kids beating up on a black kid? I really want to know. Because it just seems like the violence comes from the blacks. I know, racist!

Given the overbearing sense of racial entitlement that most black people in America have, and the encouragement offered to their worst aspects by the liberal-democrat establishment, these kind of incidents are going to become much more frequent and much more severe. Eventually white people will start fighting back ? they will have to. The long term prognosis for race relations in this country is very bad. Maybe not as bad as what happened in Sri Lanka (see Thomas Sowell?s writing on that conflict), but I wouldn?t rule it out.

I would never let my children, who are white, blond, blue eyed, ride on a school bus with a bunch of Democrat kids.

This poor white kid makes Rosa Parks look like a drama queen, doesn?t he?

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[mominator]

Posted: 9/17/09 at 5:07pm

Trying to fathom how this man's mind works, can only imply that he HAS a working mind and can think for himself.

[Unknown User]

Posted: 9/17/09 at 6:14pm

As a very wise guest on Rachel Maddow's show said last night "It's not that they don't trust facts, they think facts are EVIL."

[The Boy From Ohio]

Posted: 9/17/09 at 7:51pm

I just saw this on "the ED show" in "PSYCHO TALK". Rush = Crazy.

[orangeskittles]

Posted: 9/18/09 at 6:37am

I know this sounds racist, but has anyone heard any stories of white kids beating up on a black kid?

Has she been living under a rock for the past 400 years?




How did an Asian woman have blond-haired, blue-eyed white kids?


Apparently she used to live in my hometown. Too bad she moved; I would have suggested a new dog-walking route to my mother.

[Unknown User]

Posted: 9/18/09 at 10:47am

Here Rush. These were the good old days, huh?

[Borstalboy]

Posted: 9/18/09 at 3:05pm

Schools slipping back towards segregation anyway...

[Calvin]

Posted: 9/18/09 at 3:07pm

OS, those were the words of comment writers on Malkin's site, not Malkin herself. I requote them however because she's the one always griping about the awful, awful things said on DailyKOS comments and such.

[Leia947]

Posted: 9/18/09 at 3:41pm

Segregated buses are fine. Rush can ride in one, and everyone else can ride in the other. Should be segregated for stupidity. What a ****ing douche.

[orangeskittles]

Posted: 9/18/09 at 4:32pm

Ah, that makes much more sense. I was wondering if she was self-loathing enough as Fox News's token minority to use an egg donor.

[Mister Matt]

Posted: 9/18/09 at 4:41pm

Can we at least get a "Self-Important" express line at all establishments with multiple registers? Let them all ignore each other to be first and sort it out themselves. I'm sick of having to point out the obvious to those who believe they are above waiting in line.

[StickToPriest]

Posted: 9/18/09 at 4:53pm

He really is just about as big a tool as humanly possible, isn't he?