Limbaugh On The Super Bowl: "They're dumping on Grossman because he is white."

[matcom]

:eyes:

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On the February 5 broadcast of his nationally syndicated radio show, Rush Limbaugh, responding to media coverage of Chicago Bears quarterback Rex Grossman, stated "they're dumping on this guy -- Rex Grossman -- for one reason, folks, and that's because he is a white quarterback." Limbaugh later insisted in conversation with a caller that, "they just want this guy not to do well 'cause he's a white quarterback," and that Grossman was "targeted for destruction." The Bears lost to the Indianapolis Colts 29-17 in Super Bowl XLI.

Limbaugh was forced to resign from his position as a football analyst for ESPN in 2003 after he claimed that Philadelphia Eagles quarterback Donovan McNabb was overrated because "he media has been very desirous that a black quarterback do well." The following season, McNabb led his team to the Super Bowl.

Several weblogs took note of Limbaugh's comments, including American Princess, Night Bird's Fountain, and Skull/Bones.

From the February 5 broadcast of Premiere Radio Networks' The Rush Limbaugh Show:

LIMBAUGH: And before we go to the break here, folks, I've got to get something off my chest. You know, the game was the game. And the game was what it was. But I - I can't handle anymore press criticism of Rex Grossman. They're writing his name W-R-E-C-K-S. They're just -- worst quarterback ever to play in the Super Bowl. And it's been like this since the Green Bay game -- actually since the Arizona game, a little crescendo of it in the Green Bay game, the last game of the season for the Bears. And it's just unrelenting! It's just -- they're focusing on this guy like they don't focus on anybody! And I tell you, I know what it is. The media, the sports media, has got social concerns that they are first and foremost interested in, and they're dumping on this guy -- Rex Grossman -- for one reason, folks, and that's because he is a white quarterback.

http://mediamatters.org/items/200702070012

[LynneSin]

1. wait, Peyton Manning is also *gasp* WHITE

and he got MVP

Limbaugh needs to get back on the OxyContin and big time!

[salin]

32. perfect response. n/t

[underpants]

2. That is just flat out funny

sad too but mostly funny.

When will my people EVER get a break????

[Hugin]

3. I think Limpboy should change his name to prove he's united with the Bears...

Really.

[underpants]

6. (in the same week) Some people might call this a trend

http://mediamatters.org/items/200702060001

[matcom]

7. ....

:eyes:

[sniffa]

4. i agree with him

i'm sick of my race constantLy being heLd back simpLy because we're white. x(

[Jeff In Milwaukee]

14. Women and minorities are hogging all the wealth and power in this country

Something must be done! If Lou Rawls weren't dead, I bet there'd be a telethon in the works.

[Nickster]

5. Uhhhh, Rex just plain sucks, sorry to break it to you Limpballs. n/t

[Patiod]

8. And doesn't Smith's loss prove blacks can't coach?

/surprised Rush didn't float that one as well....

[madinmaryland]

9. That one really puts rush in a conundrum...

I guess that would mean that blacks can coach, since one did win the super bowl.

What a moran!!

[Patiod]

10. I have to admit I stole that joke from Al Franken

Thought it was pretty funny

[Deep13]

11. We're dumping on Rush because he's an asshole.

x(

[Giant Robot]

12. When will Rush just come out and admit

That he is racist. I think his fans will understand and be supportive, and then we don't have go around and pull up all these quotes to prove it, because he will have owned up to it. Really a big time saver, and certainly would not surprise anybody. Come on Rush, be a man and just say it. We know it. In that little cholesterol clogged heart of yours you know it too. In fact, where can I send this to him, since I doubt he reads DU, or reads much?

Oh, and the media is down on Rex because: 1) In case you haven't noticed, the media likes a single target, not a team or group of people.; and 2) He did a horrible job in the game with costly turnovers at the worst possible moments, one being an interception run back in for a touchdown.

Jackass.

[Deep13]

17. His fat head can't fit in the pointy hood.

[Giant Robot]

23. Oh I am sure they would special order one for him

Hero worship him and all. Gack.

[fishnfla]

13. 0.0 QB rating in the Packer game. And the media gets the credit!

0.0 rating against this years Pack? Thats when the media noticed the suckiness of him.

I mean, if you gety beat by the Pack.....hey wait what am I saying? <punches self>

[Giant Robot]

24. Hey now

If it was against last year's Pack ok, but this year's....well ok they weren't great but they were average dammit. That is head and shoulders above suck. And I'm an Eagles fan.

[Twillig]

27. The notorious 'Blutarsky' rating.

Grossman made Packer and Viking fans happy at the same time. Not easy to do.

Give him that.





(edit: Learn to type spell, twillig.)

[mark414]

15. this is really real? this isn't satire?

christ almighty what a nutcase...

you don't think one of (or maybe) THE worst QB rating of a starting super bowl quarterback has anything to do with that???

grossman sucks and he played a shitty super bowl. if the bears have any brains they'll get rid of him. but i'm a packers fan...i hope he stays around for a long time :)

[slj0101]

16. As opposed to that "colored boy" Peyton Manning?

:eyes:

Limbaugh needs to be raped by a horse.

[matcom]

18. ...

:spray:

you owe the company a new keyboard

[slj0101]

22. If you couldn't tell,

I despise that bloated, deaf fuck for spawning an army of brain-dead twunts who think he's some sort of fatback messiah. When he dies, I won't piss on his grave, I'll shit in his coffin. Fuck Rush.

Glad you're amused. :D :thumbsup:

[slj0101]

21. dupe

[huskerlaw]

19. Actually, it's because he sucked

really, really fucking bad.

But whatever, Limpdick.

[treestar]

20. Poor Rush. Those white heterosexual males are always being

persecuted. And the Christians. And the drug takers, I mean, er, . . .

[KitchenWitch]

25. Hello - what is Peyton Manning's ethnicity?

He ain't Chinese!

[lpbk2713]

26. I'm not terribly disappointed.

Mainly because I don't have any high expectations for any RW radio propagandist hatemongers.

[Archae]

28. Ever hear of Billy James Hargis?

He was a TV preacher during mostly the 1960's.
He was a racist, and frothing anti-communist, everything *HE* didn't like, including rock music, was a "communist plot."

Anyway, I saw a video on PBS a couple years ago of Hargis preaching.
It was like watching and hearing Rush Limbaugh.
The styles and voice are nearly identical.

After Hargis' carreer collapsed due to a sex scandal, Hargis moved to Neosho, Missori where he continued to preach on the radio.
Still preaching about "communist plots," against integration, etc.

Offhand, I'd say there's a connection...

[montanto]

29. People, this ain't the first fuckup for rush.

Just look back at everything else he's said! It's a wonder to me that anyone actually listens to him.

Anyone remember when he said that drug dealers and addicts should be put to death??

Hmmmm. Got me thinkin' about that ol' death penalty.

[MrScorpio]

30. Further proof that Mean People Suck

And are stupid too

[GoddessOfGuinness]

31. ...

[jakefrep]

33. Lush Dimbulb is too stupid to realize...

....that he got canned from ESPN because his white-male-victimhood schitck doesn't wash in the sports world, which is more or less a meritocracy.

[Hippo_Tron]

34. I thought this was The Onion before I looked at the source

:rofl: