Quote of the Day: Freed Pirate Hostage Blasts Limbaugh On Pirates
Our political Quote of the Day comes from Shane Murphy, the second-in-command aboard the American merchant ship seized by Somalian pirates. When the ship’s first in command was freed by Navy Seals most Americans of both parties cheered and put politics aside, but conservative talk show host Rush Limbaugh had a different reaction.
“It feels great to be home,” said Murphy in an interview with WCBV in Boston. “It feels like everyone around here has my back, with the exception of Rush Limbaugh, who is trying to make this into a race issue…that’s disgusting.”
Limbaugh made the remark to suggest why President Obama might have appeared preoccupied at church on the day of the operation to rescue the ship’s captain, who was taken hostage by the pirates until Navy SEAL snipers shot them in a daring rescue effort.
“He was worried about the order he had given to wipe out three teenagers on the high seas,” Limbaugh said. “Black Muslim teenagers.”
“You gotta get with us or against us here, Rush,” Murphy said. “The president did the right thing…It’s a war…. It’s about good versus evil. And what you said is evil. It’s hate speech. I won’t tolerate it.”
Uh oh. Now Murphy will be branded a “RINO,” or a tool of liberals, or a liberal himself — or, worse, a registered Democrat — or someone who is just too dense to get Limbaugh’s humor, sophisticated wit, cutting-edge satire, insightful political perception and brilliance of analysis.
Republicans who keep defending, enabling, and apologizing for Limbaugh’s shtick are indeed tolerating it. Each time we do a post critical of a Limbaugh comment we get lots emails, often bordering on the abusive, and quite often with the same accusatory tone filled insinuations as Limbaugh’s broadcasts. Almost all say those of us who criticize Limbaugh and how he has lowered the bar on serious debate and sandbagged bipartisan cooperation and respect in this country “just don’t get it.” The fact is: Democrats, independents and Republicans who don’t approve of Limbaugh’s brand of rhetoric DO get it.
9 Responses to “Quote of the Day: Freed Pirate Hostage Blasts Limbaugh On Pirates”
I guess Mr. Murphy failed to understand the point. Rush's point was that a black president can Ok the shooting of blacks and is hailed as a decisive leader. However, if a white president would have approved the same thing, the ACLU, NAACP, and the CBC would have been screaming about how a racist white Republican President approve the skiling of blacks because they were black.
Great post Joe.
News flash for you SD: The pirates committed a crime, well, multiple crimes. It wouldn't have mattered if President Bush or President Clinton had ordered this. The rescue was the right thing to do.
RAmbie,
White cops arrest, shoot, and rough up black criminals all of the time. That does not stop the racial grievance industrial complex for making a federal case of it. Look at how the media has portrayed the shooting of white cops by a black felon in Oakland versus white cops being shot by a white ex-marine in Pittsburgh. The Oakland shooting is no longer missing but the Pittsburgh shooting is a good reason for more gun control.
Racists in hoods and robes. SD show your face or are you a “Watermellon Man“?
SD: You don't understand what Rush said, “He was worried about the order he had given to wipe out three teenagers on the high seas,” Limbaugh said. “Black Muslim teenagers.”
Rush was saying that Obama did not want to give the orders because they were Muslim, black teenagers. Rush is saying that Obama wanted to “protect his own” so to speak.
And that's just not my interpretation of Rush's words… I know people who are Rush fans and this is what they also believe. They also believe that Obama is a terrorist, which they got from Rush's show.
These Rush supporters I know also give Obama a D- for his performance over the issue. They say the only reason he doesn't get an F is because the hostage survived.
Most of the e-mails from them writing, Barack HUSSEIN Obama is our first BLACK president. (They capitalize his middle name and race.) And they feel they can get away with it because this is what Rush believes and Rush is the only person in the media who knows the truth.
“The fact is: Democrats, independents and Republicans who don’t approve of Limbaugh’s brand of rhetoric DO get it.” – Joe Gandelman
“I can handle things! I'm smart! Not like everybody says… like dumb… I'm smart and I want respect!” – Fredo Corleone
So, do you agree with the old windbag or not?
Was talking to superdestroyer, but on further reading of his comments, I have my answer.
If President Bush had OKed such a thing, I suspect that the moveon.org and Democraticunderground types would have felt obliged to denouced President Bush as call him a racist. Look at how when President Obama or President Clinton takes actions to avoid poor blacks (such as sending their children to an all white school), the left defends the actions. But if middle class whites send their children to private schools or move to the suburbs, the left automatically will call them racist.