Limbaugh Calls for Segregated Buses After Belleville West Beating

by Tina Kells | September 17, 2009 at 04:33 pm
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The video of a white kid being beaten up by two Africa-American kids on a Belleville West High School bus last week has caused a stir online but thanks to Rush Limbaugh that boiling hot pot has been stirred into a crazy frenzy. On his radio show Rush Limbaugh suggested that in Obama's America the only way white kids are safe is if the country returns to its segregated roots.

Like a crazy rant right out of 1951 Rush Limbaugh announced that in "Obama’s America the white kids now get beat up," and then went on to suggest that segregating school buses would put a stop to all the senseless violence. After all, everybody knows that white kids don't bully each other, right? Stop the races from sharing a school bus and everyone will be safer!

If I ever thought that Rush Limbaugh might NOT be a moron he has finally opened his mouth enough times to remove all doubt. How he has taken this incident as proof that white people are not safe with a half-white President in the White House is beyond me. Sure Obama is also half African-American, and the first person of that race to become US President, but how does that translate into a country unsafe for white kids?

Rush Limbaugh doesn't just make me mad, he himself IS mad, and he is trying to spread that madness throughout the USA. Sadly, it is a madness that seems to be catching on and the sooner he stops talking the better. While police have said the Belleville attacks MAY have been racially motivated, this does not mean that all white kids have targets on their backs with President Obama in the White House. Not even close. Kids bully one another, using race as a reason or not, and segregating the school buses will do nothing to change that.

The way that Limbaugh incites anger against the President seems dangerously close to attempting to "influence the policy of a government by intimidation or coercion." In case you don't know, section 802 of the Patriot Act makes that an offense and labels it "domestic terrorism." Maybe it is time somebody finally put the Patriot Act to good use by employing it to silence the hate-filled, and increasingly mad, Rush Limbaugh.

hate radio host Rush Limbaugh jumped on the story and claimed that in “Obama’s America the white kids now get beat up.” Yesterday, Limbaugh proposed a solution to this problem — a return to segregated busing:

LIMBAUGH: 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.

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Blue Crush

From Howard Dean:  

There's a lot of money to be made in passing out hate of the kind that Rush Limbaugh is doing... There's a long unfortunate American tradition of this going back to Father Coughlin and people before that. They appeal to the very worst in people. They appeal to the side of all of us that is about anger and fear and hatred. They empower it and it is and evil thing to do and very, very bad for the country.

   ****VIDEO****

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The_Cynic

That man is sick, ill, morally corrupt!

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marianmo

lets segregate idiots like limbaugh who are inciting hate, put them with those who think the same way...hmmmmmm where...alcatraz might be available,,,,,,,,cut off rheir communication with the rest of thode who dont think as they do....they can create their own segregated society while the rest pf the world works to resolve differences, not creaye hate

 

 

 

 

 

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Barry Artiste

Why anyone listens to this drugged out whacko is beyond me, he ranks up their with Mr. Consdecending Maury Povich and Springer. Anything for ratings,lets be sensational.

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Tom Aikins

What you have to realize about Rush Limbaugh is that he is, in essence, a clown. Think about it. What does a clown do? He tries to get a reaction from people, usually laughter, but  a reaction nonetheless. That's all Limbaugh does but the problem with being a clown in front of the same audience all the time is that you have to keep getting more and more outrageous to get a reaction from people. If you don't, the audience gets bored and eventually tunes out. Remember the movie Network? It's a prime example of this point because the Howard Beale character had to keep getting more and more outrageous to maintain his ratings, to keep the audience interested. So does Limbaugh because ratings and money are all that matter to him. Let's face it. He has nothing else. No one will live with him. He's an ex-junkie and a fat slob. The only thing he has in his miserable life is his radio show so he will do anything to keep it on the air. Soon, he will go over the top and even his most ardent supporters will realize what a charlatan he is. This latest race remark -- not his first by a long-shot, going back to his Donovan McNabb remark a few years ago -- would seem to be pretty egregious to most halfway intelligent people but his audience has proven over the years that they are not at that level. However, he will overstep the mark even with the lunatic fringe that idolizes him someday and that will be his downfall. Couldn't come sooner as far as I'm concerned as he represents the most virulent form of hatred that exists in the U.S. 

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An Obama voter becoming more and more saddened

I can't believe I have sympathy for his cause. I consider myself a rational person of adequate intelligence. However, hear me out...I went to public schools in the inner city of minneapolis and rode the bus everyday. I saw beatings and intimidation like this ALL THE TIME. I am white. I always stood up for myself, but that often meant fighting multiple assholes while the rest of the bus laughed while I fought for my right to exist. I never got my ass kicked like this kid, but I have seen kids get worse outside of the bus. I realize that blacks have suffered violence like this at the hands of whites for long periods in American history. But let's be honest, since Civil rights Whites have been getting worked over by blacks at alarming rates. Don't belive me? Check out the latest census statistics of crimes concerning black on white violence. The statistics are staggering. I omit them with the hope that you will do some research and become angry on your own. Regardless of you how you feel about Limbaugh and race relations, you cannot condone any racially motivated crime- and yet thousands of beatings and murders and rapes are tolerated each year. What is the solution? I believe the black community needs to stand alongside the rest of America when events like this take place. Where are black leaders crying for justice when the card is flipped? These kids should walk to school for the rest of their education. There is ZERO TOLERANCE for white kids, lets have the same for black kids when they decide to beat a person's face in simply for how they look. Reverse racism is very real (the term "Reverse racism is bullshit on it's own, but I digress). I cringe at the thought of segregation of transportation because it could mean...what do we segregate next? Still, my personal experience has taught me that many white children are very much in danger attending public schools. Let's not lose sight of the fact that thousands of white families PAY to keep their kids seperate for beatdowns like in Belleville. The private school industry has been making thousands off of this stance.... I do not think Whites and Blacks are destined to hate each other. These behaviors are taught and reinforced. Segregation won't help at all. But if there is no change from within the Black community I do not see any improvement soon. I sure as hell am not going to stand for my children to attend school with future criminals like these two pukes. The bystanders are just as sickening for their hateful smiles.

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deblancmusic

you have got to kidding me".   in the history of all school massacre's they have always been perputrated  by little white kids with access to their parents extensive gun collection.. never in school shooting history has a black child come to school with the intention of hunting down and murdering everything in sight... so in retrospect, the black child would be in more danger if he comes in contact with white children.... columbine etc etc etc.... if you don't believe me, then you google this topic for info........

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Roy C

I am listening to his "rant" just now and that was pure sarcasm and, frankly, Tina, I have to ask you if you have actually listened to the audio before going on your own rant about this.

It was completely and totally sarcastic. Period. Here is the transcript below.

He is angry, as I am, about those kids being beaten up and now the police, because the victim is white and the assailants black, deny that race had anything to do with it.

His point is that since the white kids are evil racists, you should segregate them from the blacks to protect the blacks by putting the whites behind bars in buses with guards.

That is not the point you imply that he made. Not at all.


RUSH:  Hey, look, folks, the white kid on that bus in Belleville, Illinois, he deserved to be beat up.  You don't know about this story?  Oh, there's video of this.  The school bus filled with mostly black students beat up a white student a couple of times with all the black students cheering.  Of course the white student on the bus deserved the beating.  He was born a racist.  That's what Newsweek magazine told us in its most recent cover.  It's Obama's America, is it not?  Obama's America, white kids getting beat up on school buses now.  You put your kids on a school bus, you expect safety but 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," and, of course, everybody says the white kid deserved it, he was born a racist, he's white.  Newsweek magazine told us this.  We know that white students are destroying civility on buses, white students destroying civility in classrooms all over America, white congressmen destroying civility in the House of Representatives.  

We can redistribute students while we redistribute their parents' wealth.  We can redistribute everything.  Just return the white students to their rightful place, their own bus with bars on the windows and armed guards.  They're racists.  They get what they deserve.  Newsweek magazine told us this, post-racial America. 

I wonder if Obama is going to come to the defense the assailants the way he did his friend Skip Gates up there at Harvard.  I mean the assailants are presumed innocent due to the white racism we all know runs rampant in America.  The Drive-By Media is ginning up all this criticism of Obama.  Again today it's all based in racism, the criticism of Obama's health care plan or whatever, it's all based in racism and so, if he's going to apologize for America, Obama needs to apologize for the right reasons.  White Americans are racists who have created what they call free markets that really just enslave the rest of America and her trading partners.  It was white Americans that ran off Van Jones.  

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.  Greetings, folks.  How are you? (interruption) What do you mean you can't look at everything through a racial prism? Obama does.  And his media is looking at everything through a racial prism.  The left looks at everything through a racial prism.  Hey, they hit us; we hit back twice as hard.  Greetings, folks, Rush Limbaugh behind the Golden EIB Microphone and the telephone number if you want to be on the program, 800-282-2882.  

Look, this thing on the bus cannot possibly be a hate crime.  The cops are probably lying about what happened even though we have the video.  The video was probably doctored and edited.  We all know that cops are liars, racist pigs and that the white kid deserved it.  I mean that's modern 2009 going into 2010 America. 


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Tina Kells

Yes Roy C of course I listened, and I think the sarcasm you speak of is in the ear of the listener. I find nothing even remotely cute or funny in his presentation and while you feel it was sarcasm, I think it was racism disguised as cheekiness. Frankly, there are some things in life we don't need to look to excuse and his statements easily fall in that category. As you are so fond of pointing out with other members, racism comes in many forms. Just because it is sarcastic (which I think is a matter of opinion) does not make it less racist or less wrong.

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