"Gould 0738" wrote in message
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Maybe you can interest Rush in some nitrous. He's one of your neighbors I
hear.


How incredibly disappointing. I disagree with every word that falls out of
Limbaugh's face, ....


Wow, what an open minded person you are. Nothing but partisan politics for you I see.

Back to the topic. What Rush said was certainly not racist. It was politically
incorrect but not racist.

BTW: How about these gems for examples of double standards:

1. Dusty Baker, Chicago Cubs Manager - On Saturday, July 5, 2003, Dusty Baker made his
opinion on the "day vs. night" controversy publicly known: "Personally, I like to play
in the heat," Dusty said. "Most Latin people and minority people do. You don't find too
many brothers from New Hampshire or Maine, right? We were brought over here because we
could work in the heat. Isn't that history? Your skin color is more conducive to heat
than it is to the lighter-skinned people. I don't see brothers running around burnt.
That's a fact. I'm not making this up. I'm not seeing some brothers walking around with
some white stuff on their ears and noses.''

Status - No actions by the media or MLB or apologies from him. He is still the Cub's
manager

2. Jimmy "The Greek" Snyder - he says the black athlete is "bred to be the better
athlete because, this goes all the way to the Civil War when ... the slave owner would
breed his big woman so that he would have a big black kid." Snyder later apologizes for
the comments.

Status - immediately fired by CBS

3. Fuzzy Zeller on Tiger Woods - "That little boy is driving well and he's putting
well. He's doing everything it takes to win. So, you know what you guys do when he gets
in here? You pat him on the back and say congratulations and enjoy it and tell him not
to serve fried chicken next year. Got it? Or collard greens or whatever the hell they
serve."

Status - severely reprimanded by the media and the PGA. K-Mart fires him as a
spokesman.

4. Shaquille O'Neal, center for the Los Angeles Lakers of the National Basketball
Association. On June 28, 2002, he made the following comments, "Tell Yao Ming,
ching-chong-yang-wah-ah-soh" and the comments were replayed several times on Fox Sports
Radio's Tony Bruno Morning Extravaganza on December 16 and 17, 2002.

Status - No actions by the media or NBA or apologies from him.

5. Earl Woods, father of Tiger Woods. Earl said this about Scotland: "That's for white
people. It's the heart of golf for people who came from there. It sucks as far as I'm
concerned. It is the sorriest weather and I've made the public statement that people
had better be happy that the Scots lived there instead of soul brothers. The game of
golf would have never been invented. We would have been inside listening to jazz and we
wouldn't have been stupid enough to go out in that weather and play a silly-#%^*! game
and freeze yourself to death. We would have been inside laughing and joking with rum
and stuff. Now, Africa ... I played golf in Africa and I knew I was home."

Status - No actions by the media or PGA or apologies from him.

6. Al Campanis, LA Dogers manager in 1987. During an April 1987 television interview on
Nightline, said, among other things, that blacks "may not have some of the necessities
to be . . . a field manager or . . . a general manager."

Status - fired

7. Howard Cosell, sports announcer for ABC sports. In 1983, during a broadcast of
Monday Night Football he exclaimed, "Look at that little monkey run!" about Washington
Redskins receiver Alvin Garrett, an African American.

Status - Cosell resigned two months later, following intense public outcry.

8. Julian Bond, NAACP Executive. Although he didn't use the word "Republicans" in his
remarks before the 94th annual NAACP convention in Miami Beach, he left little to doubt
that's who he meant, referring to those who control the White House, the Congress and
the Supreme Court.

"They preach racial neutrality and practice racial division," he said. "(T)heir idea of
reparations is to give war criminal Jefferson Davis a pardon. Their idea of equal
rights is the American flag and Confederate swastika flying side by side."

Status - no actions taken

9. Harry Belafonte - he recently likened Secretary of State Colin Powell to a "slave
permitted to come into the house of the master."

Status - no actions taken

10. Donna Brazile, Democratic political. She was promoted by Gore to shake up his
sagging presidential bid and claimed in an interview that the GOP was only interested
in photo ops for blacks and suggested Watts and Powell were being used. "They'd rather
take pictures with black children than feed them," Brazile added.

Status - no actions taken

11. Jesse Jackson, calling New York City "Hymietown"

Status - no actions taken

12. Sen. Robert Byrd, a member of the KKK stating "There are white ******s. I've seen
a lot of white ******s in my time. I'm going to use that word."

Status - no actions taken

13. Senator Trent Lott, said to Strom Thurmond's birthday audience "I want to say
this about my state. When Strom Thurmond ran for president, we voted for him. We're
proud of it. And if the rest of the country had followed our lead, we wouldn't have had
all these problems over all these years, either."

Status - Forced to step down.

Do you see a pattern here?

And I could continue. The list goes on, all showing double standards.