So how does this sort of person come to be? Blog featured on CNN - a "young evangelical woman"

[NRaleighLiberal]

Commentary: Limbaugh is still relevant

Editor's note: Rachel Motte blogs at www.evangelicaloutpost.com and writes for Wheatstone Academy, a Christian educational program for high school students. She is a graduate of Biola University and the Torrey Honors Institute.
CNN) -- It's no secret that liberals throughout the nation are rejoicing at Rush Limbaugh's supposed status as leader of the Republican Party. I can see why. He's easy to pick on.

His rhetoric is extreme, and his personal life has at times been less than picture-perfect. I've heard some pundits refer to Vice President Joe Biden as "the gift that keeps on giving." I imagine the left feels the same way about Limbaugh.

Rush was an integral part of my childhood. I must have been 6 or 7 when I started listening in the late 1980s. I remember that my parents and their friends found him refreshing, and I remember that he made them laugh.

I memorized his song parodies and even tried to write a few of my own based on the events I heard him talk about. When I was 11, I once spent several hours trying to call his show, redialing after every busy signal, over and over. I never got through. It's probably just as well; I think I had planned to try to talk him into running for president. I no longer think he'd make a good president -- we're all much better off when he sits behind the EIB microphone.

Rush taught me a lot about personal responsibility, the value of freedom of speech and the love of country. At 26, I've outgrown many of my childhood habits, but I never outgrew Rush.

Much, much more (sadly) at the link -

http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/03/06/motte.rush/index.html

Makes my head hurt to think that a purported "Christian Evangelical" can resonate with the pig that spews.

[TXDemGal]

1. Okay, I'm revealing some prejudices here

but I would guess she was home-schooled in the fundie home-schooler tradition. The so-called liberal media needs a new generation of wingnut commentators & it looks like this woman has been chosen.

[Believing Is Art]

4. Not necessarily

I knew a girl like this in college. She went to public high school in a very urban and liberal area near DC. Some of it was her family. Some of it was her willful ignorance and self-imposed bubble. I met her sister, and while she was by no means liberal, she was much less naive and extreme. I guess there are people out there who are just wired differently.

[Ikonoklast]

2. Another racist that hides behind religion.

Ho-hum.

Wonder if she laughed at 'Barack The Magic Negro'.

Bet she was in stitches.

[Truthiness Inspector]

10. She might have been in stitches but...

the "Barack the Magic Negro" didn't start with Rush, he was making fun of an LA news outlet that used that phrase. Does anyone here care about getting facts straight?

[Maru Kitteh]

11. Yeah, that's what he was doing.

Rush isn't the kind of opportunistic pig who would seize on the opportunity "showcase" someone else's outrageous comments/parody/whatever OVER and OVER and OVER and OVER and OVER again just so he could take cover and say "What, ME? I'm not a RACIST! I didn't say those things!" Who got the publicity for it?

Yeah. Rush would never do anything like that.

[Truthiness Inspector]

12. At least you admit he didn't start it, now...

you do realize the irony of a liberal publication using that term and Rush pointing that out, right? He did seize on an opportunity, but it's not the one you think. He didn't start it, he pointed out the problem and made fun of it.

Now, do you have any words for the person who actually coined the phrase that was later lampooned?

[EmilyAnne]

16. Who the hell said that he "started it?" Are you 12 years old? He has played the Barack the Magic

Negro song on his show so many times. The song is racist.
Period.

Many people harshly criticized the article that inspired the song. Now, what the hell does that have to do with Rush Limbaugh or the poster that you are for some bizarre reason picking an argument with?

Did you also enjoy when Rush played the Jeffersons theme to introduce stories about Carol Moseley -Braun. I mean, he didn't write the "Movin' On Up" lyrics. And she was moving on up by being elected to the Senate. So, it was all just a celebration of her success.

Its all so ironic when such a great guy like Rush Limbaugh says racist things to point out the racism of liberals. Its so ironic that only someone as shrewd as you gets it! Thanks for educating us.
You're awesome!

Here's more from the Rush Limbaugh who lampoons liberals for their racism.


"As a young broadcaster in the 1970s, Limbaugh once told a black caller: "Take that bone out of your nose and call me back." A decade ago, after becoming nationally syndicated, he mused on the air: "Have you ever noticed how all composite pictures of wanted criminals resemble Jesse Jackson?"

In 1992, on his now-defunct TV show, Limbaugh expressed his ire when Spike Lee urged that black schoolchildren get off from school to see his film Malcolm X: "Spike, if you're going to do that, let's complete the education experience. You should tell them that they should loot the theater, and then blow it up on their way out."

In a similar vein, here is Limbaugh's mocking take on the NAACP, a group with a 90-year commitment to nonviolence: "The NAACP should have riot rehearsal. They should get a liquor store and practice robberies."

When Carol Moseley-Braun (D-IL) was in the U.S. Senate, the first black woman ever elected to that body, Limbaugh would play the "Movin' On Up" theme song from TV's Jeffersons when he mentioned her. Limbaugh sometimes still uses mock dialect -- substituting "ax" for "ask"-- when discussing black leaders.

Such quotes and antics -- many compiled by Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting (FAIR) for our 1995 book -- offer a whiff of Limbaugh's racial sensibility. So does his claim that racism in America "is fueled primarily by the rantings and ravings" of people like Jesse Jackson. Or his ugly reference two years ago to the father of Madonna's first child, a Latino, as "a gang member-type guy" -- an individual with no gang background.

In 1994, Limbaugh mocked St. Louis for building a rail line to East St. Louis "where nobody goes." East St. Louis is home to roughly 40,000 residents -- 98 percent of whom are African-Americans. One of its 40,000 "nobodies" is star NFL linebacker Bryan Cox.

Once, in response to a caller arguing that black people need to be heard, Limbaugh responded: "They are 12 percent of the population. Who the hell cares?" That's not an unusual response for a talk radio host playing to an audience of "angry white males." It may not play so well among National Football League players, 70 percent of whom are African American. "

http://newsone.blackplanet.com/elections/top-10-racist-limbaugh-quotes/

[tkmorris]

13. No. None of us care about facts.

I think that's your cue to split. Seeya.

[Truthiness Inspector]

14. Wrong. That's YOUR cue to pony up some facts. n/t

[Ikonoklast]

17. He saw fit to repeat it ad nauseum, however.

I never stated that he was the originator of that canard, just another shill to get it out in the mainstream.

Nice try, though.

[Maru Kitteh]

3. Gee, I wonder which of his "parodies" she memorized?

The racist ones or the homophobic ones, or perhaps the misogynistic ones?

Lovely.

[katandmoon]

5. What a truly tragic childhood she had

[depakid]

6. Another sad casualty of media deregulation...

[madrchsod]

7. "she lives in a time of her own..."

http://artists.letssingit.com/13th-floor-elevators-lyrics-she-lives-in-a-time-of-her-own-rw24mcn

[gratuitous]

8. She can't keep her story straight for three paragraphs

"His personal life has at times been less than picture-perfect," followed by "Rush taught me a lot about personal responsibility." I guess that means when Rachel gets busted for doing drugs, she'll blame her maid, too.

:shrug:

[Critters2]

9. Just today a Methodist colleague was bragging to me that Rush is a

member of her denomination. If Rush were UCC (not bloody likely, of course), I wouldn't tell a living soul. I do not understand how some people's brains work.

[EmilyAnne]

15. Christian evangelical "personal responsibility":

1. Tell Jesus that you're sorry and its OK. Unless you're gay. Or had an abortion, for which you will be forever haunted by until the day you die.

2. Don't use a condom. Its not personally responsible to use one because they don't work 100% of the time. And pass that on to every teenager you know!

3. If people need help, they're not personally responsible. Especially if they're poor. Or black.

4. If black people talk about how horribly they or their ancestors have been treated, they are not "personally responsible" because, in order to be "personally responsible," black people must get over it. I mean, we let them go to school with us, share our water fountains one of them is even the president so....what more do they want?