Imus was an easy target because his show sucked and barely anyone cared.

Limbaugh has a huge following compared to Imus and he'll have to do a lot more than play a song on the radio to be taken down. Actually, he HAS already done MANY things more outrageous than that over the years and he's still on the air.

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Well, that song is probably offensive to Al Sharpton, as pretty much the whole thing is making fun of him.

However, the song doesn't seem particularly offensive (or particularly anti-Obama), unless you think it agrees with the statements made by its narrator. Limbaugh listeners are quite dense, but they don't strike me as the most likely people to blindly agree with a parodic version of Al Sharpton.

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"Ateo," the first poster, has the answer of course. Imus made relatively meager profits for his corporate masters. Limbaugh rakes in millions. His physical and verbal mocking of Michael J. Fox's medical condition barely received attention. Rosie O'Donnell's blatantly racist impression of the Chinese language got many laughs from her dopey audience. Imus' slur against the Rutgers basketball players was surely obscene, but this unkind society is saturated with the likes of Imus, Limbaugh, and O'Donnell. Some of them are in our workplaces, schools, and families. Others make lots of money as broadcasters, politicians, or writers.

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Who does one contact to put a stop to this so-called man's lies and insults? Enough is enough. Too many people listen to Limbaugh and take his word as gospel, too many sheeple don't have enough brains to think for themselves and therefore believe anything this disgusting lowlife says. Isn't there enough hate in this world already.

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He knows his core audience consists of racist rednecks in the Deep South where the word “nigger” became “Negro” because of political correctness but was (and is) pronounced “Neegra” with emphasis on the “a” to show contempt for black people.

The word “magic” is merely an operative term, although it’s insulting as well with the implication (I guess) that Senator Barack either smokes dope or is one.

It’s time for decent Americans to tune Rush off the air, assuming they haven't done so already. Like flies on horseshit, the racists will stick to him to the smelly end.

Hugh E. Scott, editor of King-George.biz -- the only website with hardcopy proof of White House corruption.

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The ruling class is wildly laughing at the goings on 'down there'. There's a whole lotta bickering going on, and a whole lot more going bad-- and they've got their fortress and their moat pretty well legislated by now, just putting on the finishing touches to make it look pretty from the outside.

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Why is Rush Limbaugh still on the air? That was a rhetorical question, right? Here's why Don Imus was kicked off the air: he was targeted - and all it took was a hypocritical little piece of shit like Al Sharpton to act as their stooge.

No one in the main stream media was calling the Bush administration to account for their crimes against humanity more than the I-man. While it can be safely sain that Imus often approached the troth, he rarely drank the kool-aid. Crude humor aside (what he said was uncalled for), that he is no longer on the air is America's loss.

Tom Degan
Goshen, NY
"The Rant" by Tom Degan

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It's actually simple: If enough citizens boycott every product of every one of Rush's sponsors, he's off the air. There is no group of people in this world more powerful than the American consumer. Our learned helplessness has us fuming on forums and behaving as if the solution is in someone else's hands. Just find out who his sponsors are and start writing letters; get everyone you know to do the same. Uprisings start one person at a time and this might be the outrage that finally knocks the wind out of that gasbag.

We will have precisely the kind of country we are willing to be uncomfortable enough to have. If we can do without a few of whatever Rush's sponsors sell (I can't stand to listen to the creep, so I don't know. But you can bet I'll find out), we can delete his pollution from the airwaves.

Question: What's the difference between Rush Limbaugh and the Hindenburg?
Answer: One's an overinflated gasbag and the other's a dirigible.

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It's scary when wingers try to be funny--like watching a dog walk on its hind legs.

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Let's be real Rush do not have the media power he use to have four years ago. He's a drug head and he married this young girl who took him for his money and left him for a younger man. And Rush is now looking for some way to regain the popularity he once had. His big days are over and
like a drug addict looking for that 'Hit' and you need it real bad the same with Rush, he needs that media 'Hit" or one day they will hit him with those words 'It's over and we don't need you anymore, you are now a 'Has Been'. And with Bush and his 'no-bodies' going out as the worst administration that ever was, Rush days are over. So enjoy the fall of a clown, like the Emperor who was sold the new suit of clothes and found out he was butt naked, so is Rush a butt naked fool.

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In the company of my father, who's been taken down the road by Rush to become someone who lacks complete trust in humanity except for those Rush sanctions: Fox News, the Republican Party, etc.

He really believes that shit Rush spews...so sad. Rush was able to take the white male angst over changing socio-economic conditions and changing power structures in the US and turn it into a political movement that took the legislative branch and began handing over the government to the corporations (privatization) and dismantling the social safety net (Personal Responsibility Act) all because Rush convinced these displaced white males that 1. Government is bad, and 2. People using government programs are lazy (esp. the black welfare queens who keep having kids you have to pay for).

The wealthy are laughing themselves silly at our expense while taking huge chunks of our economy for themselves (ie - laughing all the way to the bank). Fortunately people many people may be starting to wake up about this, and with the far rights political influence waning, maybe we can reverse this trend.

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He owns the company.

Yesterday he said the shooter at Virgina Tech was a LIBERAL.

Rush is a sick person.

Ed Graham

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The attack by Imus was on a team of university basketball players who otherwise were private people and therefore was that much more disgusting. Rush is making an attack on Barack Obama, a candidate for president and public figure who has his own platform to respond if he feels he wants to dignify what Rush said. On the otherhand, both were vile, hatefilled racist comments that should never be tolerated and neither can be excused on whether or not the victims of such an attack are capable of defending themselves. The appropriate public response to racism should be public condemnation and intolerance of such hate talk.

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listen. everyone needs to quit with all the name calling and freaking out over who said this and who said that nonsense. you say you want free speech and then freak out at Rush. well, i dont personally agree with the pill poppin hater of equality myself, but he has as much of a right to say what he wants as does Imus (who shouldnt be off the air either). fact is, everyone is absolutely to blame for all our problems. we are all off our rocker and in serious need of strong coffee, good sex, intelligent humor, and HONEST SPIRITUALITY.

have fun freinds. please.

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That as my favorite song when I five years old. I have to give somebody credit for picking such a catchy tune.

If that silly song really bothers people, they must have pretty thin skin. It is in bad taste though. Is there anything rush has ever done that wasn't in bad taste? Rush as with Imus is probably better ignored and avoided (boycotted). Raising a big stink is probably just as likely to backfire as it is to help anything.

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Thanks for posting this.

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'Cuz Rupert Murdoch owns Rush, and bottom-line amorality is the basis of all Big Media's policies. Greed...plu$ $tupid, ignorant 'Murrican listeners.

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The reason jerks like Limbaugh and others like him are on the airwaves is because they are a useful tool for the ruling class in this country.

Reason: the crap that Limbaugh spews, together with similar stuff from the religious right, serves to keep people diverted from real issues. Rather than have the proletariat worry about such things as unionization, no health care, shrinking real earnings, etc; better to have them clue into the racisim and fear of lib'rals and gays and the ACLU and Ayrab ter'ists and the coming Rapture.

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Free speech is intended to allow all people to speak their minds on social, political, religious issues, etc, without fear of suffering some form of state interference (imprisonment, torture, etc.).

Where you use language that is utterly vile and reprehensible, whether it be a bunch of neo-nazis ignorantly chastizing all Jews or it be the KKK lambasting "blacks", they should not face state sanction and be forcibly shut up. The usual slippery slope argument applies, and should cause apprehension in all of us when free speech is challenged.

However, that doesn't mean that people in the exercise of their occupations, in particular, powerful voices in the media can say sexist, racist, homophobic things without good old fashioned revolt against them by concerned citizens who do not want their public airwaves polluted by this garbage.

What Rush said is perfectly legal, but in a democratic society your platform can be quickly undercut if youre acting outrageously and speaking in an objectively unethical fashion (i.e., subjectively racist whites don't see the harm, objectively african americans and regular decent folks of any skin pigment do)

Please!!!!!!

I'm Begging some of us here to refrain from the grade 7 level defence of racists on public airwaves, by saying they should not be impugned for being overt racists because were free to say what we want.......

We are free to say what we want without fear of imprisonment (provided it is not violent speech), however, we are not free from having public opinions expressed against us when we say vile, offensive things.

Free speech does not mean our speech is not to have repercussions amongst those of us we call neighbours and fellow citizens. That is infantile logic at best to belive free speech means our speech has no consequences amongst each other.

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Is there any doubt whatsoever why Rush is still on the air? He's a GOP squawk box who happens to have the ears, NO, hearts and minds of millions of mindless Republican minions. Rush says get behind Giuliani, McCain, etc. and so goes the vote of his many drones. It's almost as if you people forget who is the great decider in this country (hint - it isn't Bush). Rush has sponsors who will never abandon him so long as his listenership remains steady and Pfizer, Chevy and pyramid schemers have an outlet to hawk their useless wares to your average American twat with a negative savings rate.

If we actually lived in that same righteous and morally upstanding society the pundits would have us believe, then Mr. Oxycontin would have been yanked long ago, rotting in some prison cell along with blacks who have been caught with far fewer Rx meds on their persons than him. The hypocrisy is great but America's apathy and utter tolerance of the kleptocracy and its aspiring sycophants is more powerful still.

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MSNBC is reporting Rosie's gone...

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The problem is not Rush,it is your constant insistence that the
Left must tag along with the hatefull right by parroting their
hate speach immediately,constantly and word for evil word, kind of like Talking Points,right? Be Different or be quite and be noticed by being quiet and having some dignity.

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Find out exactly WHO sponsors his show, and then DON'T buy their products. Make sure that you send them a letter, so that they'll know WHY you're not spending money on them.

Have your friends and family* join you in this. Spread the word.

*If you have family like mine...my father and two of my bothers are reich-wingers...don't tell them what you're doing. Don't say a word to them.

If Rush's sponsors see a drop in their profits...they'll drop Rush Limpd**k.

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Magical Negro.

The magical negro is typically "in some way outwardly or inwardly disabled, either by discrimination, disability or social constraint," often a janitor or prisoner.[5] He has no past; he simply appears one day to help the white protagonist.[6] He is the black stereotype, "prone to criminality and laziness."[7] To counterbalance this, he has some sort of magical power, "rather vaguely defined but not the sort of thing one typically encounters."[6] They are patient and wise, often dispensing various words of wisdom, and are "closer to the earth."[3]

Morgan Freeman, Will Smith, Whoopie Goldberg, etc. have played magic negroes.

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Rush is still on the air, because his sponsors need him to continue poisoning the minds of the non-thinking masses.
We, the people, could stop the money flow and THAT would move the sponsors to drop Rush!

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I have to admit that I don't like Rush so much, other than entertaining myself occasionally when driving. However, as a non-white male born in a communist country and raised in a socialist nation, I do find the leftists in America quite naiively dangerous. I am becoming a citizen soon and if I have to choose a side, I rather choose the right, moderate right. The left is spoiled by the freedom in this great nation and after years of observation I am convinced that they will never learn the lesson until they turn America into a Communist United States. This is my two cents as an outsider-in!

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