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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsRush Limbaugh sets a new low...
And Rush Limbaugh could easily teach a post-grad course in advanced racial trolling: "Limbaugh Dubs Obama's Syria Plan 'Operation Shuck And Jive.'" This kind of ugliness takes real practice
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Rush Limbaugh sets a new low... (Original Post)
brooklynite
Sep 2013
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mysuzuki2
(3,521 posts)1. Forty years ago Rush would have been the world Limbo champion.
"How low can you go?" Pretty low as it has turned out.
Cleita
(75,480 posts)3. I think that's how minus figures were invented in arithmetic.
Once you hit zero you couldn't go any lower, except you could. Give the Limbaugh a -1000 and going lower.
David__77
(23,372 posts)2. This is one man the world can do without.
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Shrike47
(6,913 posts)4. Rush is a blatant racist. Like many, he apparently doesn't see it.
Cleita
(75,480 posts)6. He's aware of it. It's what made him popular and very rich.
He appealed to the racism of ordinary white people who felt their world was slipping away and into the hands of THOSE people who didn't deserve it. Then once he took sides he had to go into the whole religious, homophobic, antiwomen thing. He is actually very good at rhetoric like Hitler was. He draws people into the conversation by appealing to their prejudices.
PoliticAverse
(26,366 posts)5. Palin used that term last year...