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Rush Limbaugh Lashes Out At Eric Holder Over Black Panther Comments

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Rush Limbaugh continued to wade into the dangerous waters of race by discussing comments Eric Holder made regarding the ongoing controversy involving the New Black Panther voter intimidation case. Limbaugh was angry with accusations Holder made that the continued focus on the case demeaned his “people.” In Limbaugh’s rant he did, however, get a fact wrong.

The segment stemmed from a Politico article entitled “Eric Holder: Black Panther case focus demeans ‘my people.’” Limbaugh quoted this section:

“The Attorney General seemed to take personal offense at a comment Culberson read in which former Democratic activist Bartle Bull called the incident the most serious act of voter intimidation he had witnessed in his career.

‘Think about that,’ Holder said. ‘When you compare what people endured in the South in the 60s to try to get the right to vote for African Americans, to compare what people subjected to that with what happened in Philadelphia, which was inappropriate….to describe it in those terms I think does a great disservice to people who put their lives on the line for my people,’ said Holder, who is black.”

Limbaugh angrily repeated that Bull only said his career, not in history and then implied that Holder was playing “the race card” in bringing up the voter suppression of the 60s. However, Holder isn’t the first to bring it up. While Politico said “career” it was actually Bull who brought up that situation in his sworn statement (warning: PDF) about the 2008 event. Here’s the quote in question:

“To me, the presence and behavior of the two uniformed men was an outrageous affront to American democracy and the rights of voters to participate in an election without fear. It would qualify as the most blatant form of voter intimidation I have encountered in my life in political campaigns in many states, even going back to the work I did in Mississippi in the 1960’s.”

The work he refers to is his work on black voting rights which he had brought up a few minutes earlier as proof of his expertise in the matter.

Limbaugh had better reason to attack Charlie Rangel. Limbaugh took him to task for comparing the abolishing of collective bargaining to slavery. Now that is a situation where accusations of the Atrocity Card (similar to the Race Card) actually fit. Like Nazi comparisons, bringing up slavery to win an argument isn’t exactly something that should be done lightly.

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  • JazzyJim

    Rush a racist? His the Grand friggin Poobah of the KKK.

  • Hugo Daun

    Poor old EIB (egocentric impotent blimp)! So attention-starved!

    At least he’ll always have those Dominican lady-boys to comfort him.

  • Annie Oakley

    Holder’s “Justice” Department is a political arm of the Democrat Party and everyone with a truthful bone in their body knows it.

    If taxpayers were getting their money’s worth, it might be worth considering. But the Civil Rights Division under the Obama administration has become a prime example of government waste.

    You are aware of the division’s extreme politicization under Holder, including the outrageous dismissal of the New Black Panther lawsuit after the case had already been won and the money wasted in stonewalling information and witness requests from Congress and the U.S. Civil Rights Commission.

    Then there’s the shameful objection to a proposal by Kinston, N.C., to introduce non-partisan city council elections, the pronouncement that the division will not enforce federal law to ensure the integrity of state voter rolls, Deputy Assistant Attorney General Julie Fernandes’ out-spoken opposition to race-neutral enforcement of the Voting Rights Act (VRA), and politically motivated, selective responses to open record requests.

    This is also the same Justice Department division where, during a Voting Section staff meeting called to address chronic tardiness, numerous attorneys demanded permission to arrive at work up to 30 minutes late without penalty. Others wanted to work from home.

    At that 2009 meeting, then-Section Chief Christopher Coates refused to tolerate this brazen disregard of job rules. The new chief has reversed course and even allows litigation managers to work from home.

    Working from home is supposed to improve productivity. But that certainly hasn’t happened in the Voting Section. In the 26 months since Holder took over, it has filed only one lawsuit under Section 2 of the VRA, and that was a case developed during the Bush administration, filed by J. Christian Adams.

    The section has also filed only four cases under the VRA’s language minority provisions, all of which were also started during the Bush years. And the National Voter Registration Act? No action at all, other than to drop a lawsuit started under Bush.

    To put this in context, the Bush administration – which Holder and his Civil Rights Division chief, Tom Perez, miss no opportunity to criticize – averaged two Section 2 cases every year, brought more cases under the language minority provisions than in all other years combined since 1965, and filed 10 cases under the National Voter Registration Act. All of this is easily verifiable at the division’s own website.

    Meanwhile, Holder and Perez preposterously claim that the division is “once again open for business.”

    That certainly doesn’t jibe with reports from lawyers inside DOJ, who tell of Voting Section attorneys so bored that many spend the day playing computer Solitaire, watching videos, and venting at the lack of activity.

    Attorneys beg for work and are told there is none. If Holder denies this, you should require that the DOJ Inspector General provide the evidence that I am told they have already collected on this point. Similar problems plague the division’s Employment and Special Litigation Sections.

    Perhaps we should be thankful that the ideologues inhabiting both the political leadership and career supervisor positions in the division aren’t wreaking more havoc. But this is no way to run a government. American taxpayers should not have to fund such nonsense.

    A former counsel to the assistant attorney general for civil rights, Hans von Spakovsky is a senior legal fellow in The Heritage Foundation’s Center for Legal and Judicial Studies.

    Read more at the Washington Examiner: http://washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/op-eds/2011/02/theyre-playing-games-literally-justice-department-0#ixzz1FO3Cd1Xk

  • Tricky

    Now we know he isn’t informed. And does very little research. Could it be, that he really is just making stuff up? And by stuff, I mean controversy.

  • http://TheDividedStatesBlog.com Publius219

    Why are the waters dangerous for Rush? Even if he came out and said he fvcking hates nlggers his listeners would still listen and defend him to the death. There’s no danger for him.

  • BadGenome

    Publius219 said:
    Why are the waters dangerous for Rush? Even if he came out and said he fvcking hates nlggers his listeners would still listen and defend him to the death. There’s no danger for him.

    Right, and even if he doesn’t say anything about race the left will just fabricate a bunch of shit just like they did when he wanted to get involved in the NFL, so he might as well say what’s on his mind.

  • JazzyJim

    JazzyJim said:
    Rush a racist? He is the Grand friggin Poobah of the KKK.

  • JazzyJim

    Calling the 3 African American’s that were investigated and chargers dismissed under King George W. Bush’s reign as “The New Black Panther Party”, is like me calling the Teabagers “The New KKK” wouldn’t you say? Except my statement would be closer to the truth.

  • http://TheDividedStatesBlog.com Publius219

    BadGenome said:
    Right, and even if he doesn’t say anything about race the left will just fabricate a bunch of shit just like they did when he wanted to get involved in the NFL, so he might as well say what’s on his mind.

    Yeah, since he had never offended the NFL before with racially insensitive comments or anything.

  • Davo

    Just look at the Liberals here. Shining truth on you people is like shining light on Dracula…………..it sends you into a frenzy of terror. But then, thats predictable when you see the Hussein and Holder regime on their way to the dumper ALL DemoCrits eventually end up in when Americans realize they’ve been suckered again.

  • RichS

    JazzyJim said:
    Rush a racist? His the Grand friggin Poobah of the KKK.

    No, that would be the deceased Democrat Senator from West Virginia.

  • illusive man

    I kind of feel bad for the two panther-hoodrat’s, I wonder if they will ever learn the truth that the reason that there life’s suck so bad is because of the 50+ year’s of “Liberal” rule? I wonder if they will open there eye’s and see how “Liberalism” turned the hood in to a place of woe and misery. I hope that they will rise against there “Liberal” oppressor and finally achieve the freedom to lead there own life’s and make there own decisions. That or forever remain as the mental slave’s of the dem’s and “Liberal’s” and end up as just another statistic.

  • NOBAMA 2012

    Holder “my people”

    Well, well, well…I guess those of us who aren’t Black can’t expect Holder to represent us since we aren’t Holder’s “people”…had any White person said that, they would be FIRED ON THE SPOT! PERIOD

  • BadGenome

    Publius219 said:
    Yeah, since he had never offended the NFL before with racially insensitive comments or anything.

    Which begs the question: if what he actually says is so bad, why does the left insist on fabricating quotes? Just part of their ongoing love affair with manipulating history?

  • Davo

    Publius219 said:
    Yeah, since he had never offended the NFL before with racially insensitive comments or anything.

    Your sarcasm betrays your gullibility in believing claims by the DCMMN (Democrat Campaign Media Masquerading as News) that they themselves admitted were lies they made up about Rush. That brings up the question: Shouldn’t people that easy to fake-out refrain from voting? Think about it.

  • Annie Oakley

    Publius219 said:
    Yeah, since he had never offended the NFL before with racially insensitive comments or anything.

    Crud, even this sixty year old woman knew at the time that Donovan McNabb was a poor quarterback. Rush was right and a recent comment re. McNabb by a Philly sportscaster said the same thing. Rush got screwed on the Rams deal and we all know it.

  • The_Reasonable_Lib

    BadGenome said:
    Which begs the question: if what he actually says is so bad, why does the left insist on fabricating quotes? Just part of their ongoing love affair with manipulating history?

    Now THIS is funny. I guess the bullshit conservatives pulled in Texas never happened.

  • BadGenome

    The_Reasonable_Lib said:
    Now THIS is funny. I guess the bullshit conservatives pulled in Texas never happened.

    They didn’t exactly cover themselves in glory, I guess, but since they were battling liberal nonsense with their own brand of nonsense and I don’t live in Texas, I found it hard to give a shit.

  • ChrisNH

    “My people”? This administration is full of selfish hacks who care only about certain constituents and everyone else be damned. Holder. Mrs. Butterworth, and King & Queen Obama deserve to be lambasted continually.

  • http://TheDividedStatesBlog.com Publius219

    Annie Oakley said:
    Crud, even this sixty year old woman knew at the time that Donovan McNabb was a poor quarterback. Rush was right and a recent comment re. McNabb by a Philly sportscaster said the same thing. Rush got screwed on the Rams deal and we all know it.

    McNabb took a team to like what…5 NFC title games and a Super Bowl? I think most teams would be pretty content with a QB that bad. He’s not HOF, but he’s in that tier just under. Any football fan in the last 10 years will remember Donovan McNabb in 20 years. Well, maybe not since Americans have the attention span of ants for anything but Charlie Sheen.

  • http://TheDividedStatesBlog.com Publius219

    And Michael Jackson.

  • Dysanthrope

    Good. I wouldnt want to be one of his “people.” I would much rather work hard, care for my family, and give back to my community, than be able to jump high. The majority of his people neglect and abandon their children, live off the government, and contribute nothing to the betterment of their community. Thanks, but I’ll stick with “my people.”

  • http://www.thecobraslair.com Cobra

    Annie Oakley said:
    Crud, even this sixty year old woman knew at the time that Donovan McNabb was a poor quarterback. Rush was right and a recent comment re. McNabb by a Philly sportscaster said the same thing. Rush got screwed on the Rams deal and we all know it.

    Annie Oakley said:
    Crud, even this sixty year old woman knew at the time that Donovan McNabb was a poor quarterback. Rush was right and a recent comment re. McNabb by a Philly sportscaster said the same thing. Rush got screwed on the Rams deal and we all know it.

    Annie Oakley said:
    Crud, even this sixty year old woman knew at the time that Donovan McNabb was a poor quarterback. Rush was right and a recent comment re. McNabb by a Philly sportscaster said the same thing. Rush got screwed on the Rams deal and we all know it.

    Have you developed cataracts or glaucoma in your advanced age?

    Donovan McNabb Career:

    * Most consecutive pass completions, 24; vs New York Giants, Nov. 28, 2004; vs Green Bay Packers, Dec. 5, 2004
    * Second-best touchdown-to-interception ratio of all time, (209-96, 2.18) behind Tom Brady (217-92, 2.36)
    * First NFL Quarterback ever to throw for more than 30 touchdowns and fewer than 10 interceptions (2004)
    * One of six quarterbacks of all time to have over 25,000 passing yards and 3,000 rushing yards (alongside Randall Cunningham, Steve Young, Fran Tarkenton, Steve McNair, and John Elway)
    * Currently the third-highest winning percentage among active quarterbacks (83-45-1, .647) behind Peyton Manning (119-59-0, .669) and Tom Brady (88-25-0, .779)
    * 20th most passing attempts by a quarterback of all time

    [edit] Eagles records

    * Most Career Attempts (4,303)
    * Most Pass Completions (2534)
    * Most Passing Yards (29,320)
    * Most Passing Touchdowns (203)
    * Most Single-Season Completions (345, 2008 season)
    * Most Single-Season Yards (3,916, 2008 season)
    * Most NFC Championship Appearances (5)

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donovan_McNabb

    Annie Oakley said:
    Working from home is supposed to improve productivity. But that certainly hasn’t happened in the Voting Section. In the 26 months since Holder took over, it has filed only one lawsuit under Section 2 of the VRA, and that was a case developed during the Bush administration, filed by J. Christian Adams.

    LOL–most White Conservatives of your age group OPPOSED the Voting Rights Act of 1965 to start with.

    And J. Christian Adams? This joker…

    “In 2006, during Adams’ time in the Justice Department, the Bush DOJ decided not to pursue charges in a nearly identical situation against white members of the Minutemen who were allegedly intimidating Hispanic voters in Arizona.

    And this information is not exactly buried. Perez referred to it in the testimony he gave before the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights in which he discussed the decision not to seek additional charges in the New Black Panther Party case:

    In another case, in Arizona, the complaint was received by a national civil rights organization regarding events in Pima, Arizona in the 2006 election when three well-known anti-immigrant advocates affiliated with the Minutemen, one of whom was carrying a gun, allegedly intimidated Latino voters at a polling place by approaching several persons, filming them, and advocating and printing voting materials in Spanish.

    In that instance, the Department declined to bring any action for alleged voter intimidation, notwithstanding the requests of the complaining parties.

    Neither Limbaugh nor Adams — who was reportedly hired by a Bush appointee who politicized the Justice Department — accounted for this discrepancy while flinging accusations about racial motivations in dropping the charges against some of the New Black Panther defendants.”

    http://mediamatters.org/blog/201007010055

    Sorry, Annie Oakley. This is 2011. African-Americans have internet access. We can douse any cross you light on here with the waters of truth.

    –Cobra

  • roxsteady
  • screwauger

    roxsteady said:
    Been to any good parties lately Rush?

    http://www.thesmokinggun.com/documents/crime/rush-limbaughs-dominican-stag-party

    And I assume your point is that you are jealous of Elrushbo. Get over it or blame Blue Cross for not covering your viagra

  • OxyCon

    Cobra said:
    Have you developed cataracts or glaucoma in your advanced age?

    Donovan McNabb Career:

    * Most consecutive pass completions, 24; vs New York Giants, Nov. 28, 2004; vs Green Bay Packers, Dec. 5, 2004
    * Second-best touchdown-to-interception ratio of all time, (209-96, 2.18) behind Tom Brady (217-92, 2.36)
    * First NFL Quarterback ever to throw for more than 30 touchdowns and fewer than 10 interceptions (2004)
    * One of six quarterbacks of all time to have over 25,000 passing yards and 3,000 rushing yards (alongside Randall Cunningham, Steve Young, Fran Tarkenton, Steve McNair, and John Elway)
    * Currently the third-highest winning percentage among active quarterbacks (83-45-1, .647) behind Peyton Manning (119-59-0, .669) and Tom Brady (88-25-0, .779)
    * 20th most passing attempts by a quarterback of all time

    [edit] Eagles records

    * Most Career Attempts (4,303)
    * Most Pass Completions (2534)
    * Most Passing Yards (29,320)
    * Most Passing Touchdowns (203)
    * Most Single-Season Completions (345, 2008 season)
    * Most Single-Season Yards (3,916, 2008 season)
    * Most NFC Championship Appearances (5)

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donovan_McNabb

    I’m a big McNabb fan and proudly wear his jersey, but he seems to have reached his peak and his play is now rapidly deteriorating. Coach Andy Reid is really good at getting rid of players who no longer have it. McNabb’s still young enough to turn it around. I hope he can.

  • Davo

    Cobra said:
    Sorry, Annie Oakley. This is 2011. African-Americans have internet access. We can douse any cross you light on here with the waters of truth.

    Speaking of football, McNabb was great enough to be replaced by a newly freed inmate of the prison system, only to be lifted even “higher” in washing-out in Washington.

    Yep…………..as usual, Rush was right all along. Now, back to your self-depreciating racism……..

  • More Liberty4

    I’d like to ask Holder if justice is supposed to be blind. He appears to think that it shouldn’t. And since when are violations of the law supposed to be viewed in relative terms.

  • More Liberty4

    JazzyJim said:
    Calling the 3 African American’s that were investigated and chargers dismissed under King George W. Bush’s reign as “The New Black Panther Party”, is like me calling the Teabagers “The New KKK” wouldn’t you say? Except my statement would be closer to the truth.

    You are a liar, or just oblivious of the facts. Bush’s JD was investigating, then when President “57 states” came in they dropped the charges.

  • http://TheDividedStatesBlog.com Publius219

    Davo said:
    Speaking of football, McNabb was great enough to be replaced by a newly freed inmate of the prison system, only to be lifted even “higher” in washing-out in Washington.

    Yep…………..as usual, Rush was right all along. Now, back to your self-depreciating racism……..

    That’s one way to frame Michael Vick. Others I have heard are “most physically gifted quarterback in the history of football”, and so on. He ain’t exactly the guy from Longest Yard.

  • Judge Mental

    More Liberty4 said:
    You are a liar, or just oblivious of the facts. Bush’s JD was investigating, then when President “57 states” came in they dropped the charges.

    It’s even worse than that. The DOJ got a default judgment against them but, before the court could sentence them, the DOJ, under newly-appointed AG Holder, dismissed the case.

  • X-3

    More Liberty4 said:
    I’d like to ask Holder if justice is supposed to be blind. He appears to think that it shouldn’t. And since when are violations of the law supposed to be viewed in relative terms.

    Heretofore, in the Attorney General’s office justice was pretty much blind. When Eric Holder was appointed USAG, justice became afflicted with stupidity in the form of arrogance. Of all the USAGs, I believe history will show the tenure of Eric Holder to be the most damaging to the US.

  • X-3

    In my lifetime–which is a considerable number of years–I have seen no USAG who has less regard for the citizenry in general and who has been more inclined to protect other segments of the population–specifically those whose intentions are to destroy the United States.

  • http://www.thecobraslair.com Cobra

    Davo said:
    Speaking of football, McNabb was great enough to be replaced by a newly freed inmate of the prison system, only to be lifted even “higher” in washing-out in Washington.

    Yep…………..as usual, Rush was right all along. Now, back to your self-depreciating racism……..

    Back it up with STATISTICS, or you’re just whistlin’ Dixie like many of your other right winged friends here.

    –Cobra

  • Davo

    Cobra said:
    Back it up with STATISTICS, or you’re just whistlin’ Dixie like many of your other right winged friends here.

    –Cobra

    OK, now try real hard to hang in there with these “statistics;”

    1. Philadelphia Eagles=McNabb gone.
    2. Washington Redskins=McNabb gone.

  • Annie Oakley

    Cobra said:
    Back it up with STATISTICS, or you’re just whistlin’ Dixie like many of your other right winged friends here.

    –Cobra

    Rush Limbaugh Was Right
    Donovan McNabb isn’t a great quarterback, and the media do overrate him because he is black.
    By Allen Barra
    Posted Thursday, Oct. 2, 2003, at 6:33 PM ET

    Limbaugh leaves over unfair football flap
    In his notorious ESPN comments last Sunday night, Rush Limbaugh said he never thought the Philadelphia Eagles’ Donovan McNabb was “that good of a quarterback.”

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    If Limbaugh were a more astute analyst, he would have been even harsher and said, “Donovan McNabb is barely a mediocre quarterback.” But other than that, Limbaugh pretty much spoke the truth. Limbaugh lost his job for saying in public what many football fans and analysts have been saying privately for the past couple of seasons.
    Let’s review: McNabb, he said, is “overrated … what we have here is a little social concern in the NFL. The media has been very desirous that a black quarterback can do well—black coaches and black quarterbacks doing well.”
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    “There’s a little hope invested in McNabb, and he got a lot of credit for the performance of his team that he didn’t deserve. The defense carried this team.”
    Let’s take the football stuff first. For the past four seasons, the Philadelphia Eagles have had one of the best defenses in the National Football League and have failed to make it to the Super Bowl primarily because of an ineffective offense—an offense run by Donovan McNabb. McNabb was a great college quarterback, in my estimation one of the best of the ’90s while at Syracuse. (For the record, I helped persuade ESPN Magazine, then called ESPN Total Sports, to put him on the cover of the 1998 college-football preview issue.) He is one of the most talented athletes in the NFL, but that talent has not translated into greatness as a pro quarterback.
    McNabb has started for the Eagles since the 2000 season. In that time, the Eagles offense has never ranked higher than 10th in the league in yards gained. In fact, their 10th-place rank in 2002 was easily their best; in their two previous seasons, they were 17th in a 32-team league. They rank 31st so far in 2003.
    In contrast, the Eagles defense in those four seasons has never ranked lower than 10th in yards allowed. In 2001, they were seventh; in 2002 they were fourth; this year they’re fifth. It shouldn’t take a football Einstein to see that the Eagles’ strength over the past few seasons has been on defense, and Limbaugh is no football Einstein, which is probably why he spotted it.
    The news that the Eagles defense has “carried” them over this period should be neither surprising nor controversial to anyone with access to simple NFL statistics—or for that matter, with access to a television. Yet, McNabb has received an overwhelming share of media attention and thus the credit. Now why is this?

  • Annie Oakley

    Sorry, I am not especially good on cutting and pasting here, and there’s no edit feature…

  • http://www.thecobraslair.com Cobra

    Annie Oakley said:
    McNabb was a great college quarterback,in my estimation one of the best of the ’90s while at Syracuse. (For the record, I helped persuade ESPN Magazine, then called ESPN Total Sports, to put him on the cover of the 1998 college-football preview issue.)

    From the same piece you posted. You’re not helping your cause.

    Davo said:
    OK, now try real hard to hang in there with these “statistics;”

    1. Philadelphia Eagles=McNabb gone.
    2. Washington Redskins=McNabb gone.

    Those aren’t “statistics”, Davo. Tell me what part of:

    “* Currently the third-highest winning percentage among active quarterbacks (83-45-1, .647) behind Peyton Manning (119-59-0, .669) and Tom Brady (88-25-0, .779)”

    ….Do you NOT understand?

    X-3 said:
    In my lifetime–which is a considerable number of years–I have seen no USAG who has less regard for the citizenry in general and who has been more inclined to protect other segments of the population–specifically those whose intentions are to destroy the United States.

    You were born after 2008 I guess.

    “Hans von Spakovsky served as counsel to the Bush DOJ’s Civil Rights Division assistant attorney general. In a letter opposing Spakovsky’s nomination to the Federal Election Commission, Joseph Rich, the head of the voting rights section from 1999-2005, wrote that Spakovsky served in that capacity from 2003-2005 and “assumed the role of de facto Voting Section chief.”

    Spakovsky was counsel to assistant AG reportedly suspected of voter suppression. A June 24, 2007, McClatchy article (via Nexis) reported that “[f]our days before the 2004 election,” when Spakovsky served as counsel to the Assistant Attorney General, “the Justice Department’s civil rights chief sent an unusual letter to a federal judge in Ohio who was weighing whether to let Republicans challenge the credentials of 23,000 mostly African-American voters.” The article also reported, “Former Justice Department civil rights officials and election watchdog groups charge that his letter sided with Republicans engaging in an illegal, racially motivated tactic known as ‘vote-caging’ in a state that would be pivotal in delivering President Bush a second term in the White House.” From the article:

    The case was triggered by allegations that Republicans had sent a mass mailing to mostly Democratic-leaning minorities and used undeliverable letters to compile a list of voters potentially vulnerable to eligibility challenges.

    In his letter to U.S. District Judge Susan Dlott of Cincinnati, Assistant Attorney General Alex Acosta argued that it would “undermine” the enforcement of state and federal election laws if citizens could not challenge voters’ credentials.

    Former Justice Department civil rights officials and election watchdog groups charge that his letter sided with Republicans engaging in an illegal, racially motivated tactic known as “vote-caging” in a state that would be pivotal in delivering President Bush a second term in the White House.

    [...]

    Joseph Rich, a former chief of the department’s Voting Rights Section, called the Ohio scheme “vote caging.”

    Acosta declined during the weekend to say whether Hans von Spakovsky, the division’s voting counsel at the time, had any role in writing the letter.”

    http://mediamatters.org/research/201007130044

    This country is not just about YOU, my angry right winged friends.

    –Cobra

  • Annie Oakley

    I guess you missed the first part of the article about McNabb. Weren’t we talking about his ability as a PROFESSIONAL QB ??? BTW, Limbaugh’s comment and this article are from 2003. McNabb did get better but he wasn’t ever as good as his hype. Rush wasn’t racist, he was accurate.

  • DEFENDER-90

    Is this ESPN or MEDIAITE?

  • Liberal Tormentor

    “This Department of Justice does not enforce the law on the basis of race.” – Eric Holder

    Bull Freaking Crap. You are a disgrace to the office of Attorney General.

  • Liberal Tormentor

    Box of Rox says:

    Been to any good parties lately Rush?

    Had an original thought lately?

  • http://www.thecobraslair.com Cobra

    Annie Oakley said:
    I guess you missed the first part of the article about McNabb. Weren’t we talking about his ability as a PROFESSIONAL QB ??? BTW, Limbaugh’s comment and this article are from 2003. McNabb did get better but he wasn’t ever as good as his hype. Rush wasn’t racist, he was accurate.

    Take your eyedrops, Annie. Those cataracts are acting up again.

    McNabb went to SIX PRO BOWLS.

    “McNabb led the Eagles to four consecutive NFC East division championships (2001, 2002, 2003, and 2004), five NFC Championship Games (2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, and 2008), and one Super Bowl (Super Bowl XXXIX, in which the Eagles were defeated by the New England Patriots).”

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donovan_McNabb

    Why people listen to drug addicted college dropout like Limbaugh’s opinion on ANYTHING is beyond me.

    –Cobra

  • http://www.thecobraslair.com Cobra

    Liberal Tormentor said:
    “This Department of Justice does not enforce the law on the basis of race.” – Eric Holder

    Bull Freaking Crap. You are a disgrace to the office of Attorney General.

    Yeah, bring back Alberto Gonzales and John Ashcroft, right? You people would sacrifice a goat and hail Satan if Rush said it was a good idea, wouldn’t you?

    –Cobra

  • Liberal Tormentor

    Still seething with rage, I see, Cobra. What a sad way to live.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Chris-Jones/1384303476 Chris Jones

    Eric Holder is a disgrace.

  • Davo

    Cobra said:
    McNabb went to SIX PRO BOWLS.

    Nobody here said McNabb wasn’t a good QB, Cobra………..just that Rush was accurate his assessment that considering many other NFL QB’s AT THE TIME that race played a large part in the media attention McNabb got. That the black commentators on the show with Rush AT THE TIME OF HIS COMMENT weren’t offended and some even agreed, is proof that Rush was character-assassinated by the PC media unhappy accurately.

    Cobra said:
    Why people listen to drug addicted college dropout like Limbaugh’s opinion on ANYTHING is beyond me.

    –Cobra

    Well let’s see………..Rush’s career as a talk show host and Conservative pundit began in 1989. Using pre-NEA math, counting 1989 that adds up to 23 years at the top of his “game.” Now, how many years has McNabb been at his NFL career?

    Can you provide a lot of instances where Rush made a prediction or assessment that DIDN’T eventually turn out to be true? Ya’ see, that’s the problem you Liberals have with Rush……………..you just hate it that he’s usually right. Truth matters, especially when it doesn’t align with attempted political assassinations or an agenda of racism.

    being ID’ed as racist.

  • http://www.zazzle.com/talkingpoints NORBIT Jr.

    By “my people” was Holder endorsing the rant of the New Black Panther’s mantra of “killing cracka’ babies”?

    —————–Watch out AGAIN! – Here Come the DEMOCRATS & the ‘RACIST’ LIE! ———————

    Just pay attention at who’s first to bring RACE into a debate – THE INTOLERANT LEFT!

    Who promotes the primitive concept of “GROUP-IDENTITY” – THE INTOLERANT LEFT!

    Who uses accusations of ‘RACISM’ to smear political opponents -THE INTOLERANT LEFT!

    Who feigns outrage over Glenn Beck, yet lauds the likes of Jackson, Sharpton, Waters, Farrakhan, & my personal favorite, the Rev. Wright – THE INTOLERANT LEFT!

    ———————————————
    Vote GOP…RACIST!
    Watch FOX….RACIST!
    Police…RACIST!
    Gun Owners…RACIST!
    Southerners…RACIST!
    Christians…RACIST!
    Want lower taxes…RACIST!
    Enforce immigration laws…RACIST!
    Elderly @ town halls…RACIST!
    Support family values…RACIST!
    Personal Responsibility…RACIST!
    White & disagree with liberals…RACIST!
    Black & disagree (Clarence Thomas)…UNCLE TOM!
    —————————————————————

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Dronetek-Bulk-Vanderhuge/100000918732763 Dronetek

    Sounded more like Rush ‘tore him apart’ to me.

  • Dysanthrope

    I can understand the dumocrat’s frustration with Rush; he has been slapping them around for 23 years now. And, like the dependent fruitcakes they are, they keep coming back for more. I can only hope that some club-clutching punk tries to keep me from voting some day, that would be interesting.

  • Dysanthrope

    Norbt, you forgot defending ourselves against muslim extremists=racist.

  • Pablo

    Cobra said:
    From the same piece you posted. You’re not helping your cause.

    Great college QB does not equal great NFL QB. If it did, Tim Tebow would be starting. McNabb is (was?) a solid QB, but he just can’t close the big deal, despite having been surrounded with some excellent teams. The guy can play, but he was not all he was cracked up to be and he never fulfilled the promise the media was sure he had.

    Limbaugh was right about it, and his critique was not of McNabb but of the media coverage of McNabb.

  • Sean68

    Could you imagine a white politician protectively using the phrase “my people” in front of a non-white in a public hearing at the national level? And Holder’s Justice Dept. has been CREDIBLY accused of racial double standards. Of course he never really had to answer for that in the national media because the national media didn’t want to highlight these accusations because they know how potentially damaging this narrative is to Obama’s re-election chances.

    And can anyone else recall Shirley Sherrod’s use of the phrase (in 2010) “his own kind,” recalling the time she sent a white farmer to a white lawyer who might be able to help him? And yet the mainstream media doesn’t bat an eye at non-white displays of ethnocentrism. But it’s certainly not just blacks who practice racial chauvinism.

    The hispanic congressman Luis Guiterrez made the following statement just a few months ago, a declarations, by the way, which got zero coverage in the major media:

    “I have ONE loyalty, and that is to the immigrant community.”

    Does that not astound anyone here?

    The dirty little secret is that every non-white group thinks this way. But when white people express sympathies or pursue their own interests, they get pulverized by the white (predominantly jewish) media, whose own sympathies can be summarized with the following:

    Multi-culturism for the US and Europe; ethnonationalism for Israel!

  • BR

    Sean68 said:
    Could you imagine a white politician protectively using the phrase “my people” in front of a non-white in a public hearing at the national level? And Holder’s Justice Dept. has been CREDIBLY accused of racial double standards. Of course he never really had to answer for that in the national media because the national media didn’t want to highlight these accusations because they know how potentially damaging this narrative is to Obama’s re-election chances.

    And can anyone else recall Shirley Sherrod’s use of the phrase (in 2010) “his own kind,” recalling the time she sent a white farmer to a white lawyer who might be able to help him? And yet the mainstream media doesn’t bat an eye at non-white displays of ethnocentrism. But it’s certainly not just blacks who practice racial chauvinism.

    The hispanic congressman Luis Guiterrez made the following statement just a few months ago, a declarations, by the way, which got zero coverage in the major media:

    “I have ONE loyalty, and that is to the immigrant community.”

    Does that not astound anyone here?

    The dirty little secret is that every non-white group thinks this way. But when white people express sympathies or pursue their own interests, they get pulverized by the white (predominantly jewish) media, whose own sympathies can be summarized with the following:

    Multi-culturism for the US and Europe; ethnonationalism for Israel!

    And, for a white to say “you people” is racist. But a black saying “my people” is ok.

  • D REX

    pleeeze do not refer to Limpball as a Racist…….he has a chauffeur thats black

  • CosmosDan

    illusive man said:
    I kind of feel bad for the two panther-hoodrat’s, I wonder if they will ever learn the truth that the reason that there life’s suck so bad is because of the 50+ year’s of “Liberal” rule?

    I see this repeated fairly often. Where did the 50 years of liberal rule occur?

    I assume you’re talking about the US but looking back 50 years I don’t see consistent liberal rule. Do you?

  • http://www.thecobraslair.com Cobra

    Donovan McNabb Career:

    * Most consecutive pass completions, 24; vs New York Giants, Nov. 28, 2004; vs Green Bay Packers, Dec. 5, 2004
    * Second-best touchdown-to-interception ratio of all time, (209-96, 2.18) behind Tom Brady (217-92, 2.36)
    * First NFL Quarterback ever to throw for more than 30 touchdowns and fewer than 10 interceptions (2004)
    * One of six quarterbacks of all time to have over 25,000 passing yards and 3,000 rushing yards (alongside Randall Cunningham, Steve Young, Fran Tarkenton, Steve McNair, and John Elway)
    * Currently the third-highest winning percentage among active quarterbacks (83-45-1, .647) behind Peyton Manning (119-59-0, .669) and Tom Brady (88-25-0, .779)
    * 20th most passing attempts by a quarterback of all time

    [edit] Eagles records

    * Most Career Attempts (4,303)
    * Most Pass Completions (2534)
    * Most Passing Yards (29,320)
    * Most Passing Touchdowns (203)
    * Most Single-Season Completions (345, 2008 season)
    * Most Single-Season Yards (3,916, 2008 season)
    * Most NFC Championship Appearances (5)

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donovan_McNabb

    I’m STILL waiting for one of you right winged football experts to explain to me, with the statistics posted above, how Rush Limbaugh’s quote:

    “”I don’t think he’s been that good from the getgo.”

    Is accurate.

    –Cobra

  • Annie Oakley

    You go, Rush!!!!!

  • http://www.thecobraslair.com Cobra

    Annie Oakley said:
    You go, Rush!!!!!

    LOL. I’m sure you’re a fan of Limbaugh’s expertise on academics (college dropout) marriage (three divorces) and the correct application of prescription drugs, too.

    Right wingers are hilarious.

    –Cobra

  • TeaPartyPatriot

    Under “You Lie!” hussein and his imbecile AG (and Black Panther Party supporter and defender) holder, the Department of IN-Justice has become a sham of a joke of a travesty of a parody of a farce of a law-respecting and law-enforcing organization. It’s time for the total failure, racist, incompetent joke and disgrace to America known as “holder” to be fired. And, if the DOJ continues to not do the proper job, IT MUST BE DE-FUNDED.

  • mibwilso

    Rush is determined to keep the whole “Obama and his team hate white people” meme going.

  • J Baustian

    Mr Holder is clearly not fulfilling the responsibilities of an attorney general of the US. There are two ways he can rectify this situation.

  • http://www.thecobraslair.com Cobra

    TeaPartyPatriot said:
    Under “You Lie!” hussein and his imbecile AG (and Black Panther Party supporter and defender) holder, the Department of IN-Justice has become a sham of a joke of a travesty of a parody of a farce of a law-respecting and law-enforcing organization. It’s time for the total failure, racist, incompetent joke and disgrace to America known as “holder” to be fired. And, if the DOJ continues to not do the proper job, IT MUST BE DE-FUNDED.

    “Defund” the Department of Justice? LOL! I suppose you pine for the DOJ of, oh….60 years ago, huh?

    Typical.

    –Cobra

  • captaingrumpy

    If its OK for Moses,it’s OK for me,OK.

  • captaingrumpy

    How can a DOJ be politicised ???? The AG should be impeached by Congress.

  • CAconservative

    Cobra:

    Albert Einstein was also divorced, and failed to give his ex-wife any credit for his accomplishments. Does that make him, Rush, or Mr.Culbersoon any less significant? Mr.Holder twisted the core of this issue to make it appear that Mr.Culberson was being racist so that Holder could give the usual “we shall overcome speech”, even when it didn’t apply, in a sad attempt to cover his, and this administrations flagrant racism. Anyone that doesn’t see the obvious racism in the Obimbo administration do so because they don’t want to admit the obvious.

  • chicgoods7
  • SueDi

    Obviously, Holder doesn’t believe Black Panthers with billy clubs in their hands is intimidation at a polling place.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Joseph-Glackin/100000892011713 Joseph Glackin

    ToiletPaperPatsy says the DOJ should be defunded. He’s upset about the New Black Panther Party. The Philly PD said that the Party consists of three (3) somewhat addled street people. If they deserve Fed. scrutiny, what about the the mobs that were bussed in to disrupt ballot counting in Fla. in 2000? They were organized by a political hack named John Roberts, who is now Chief Justice, SCOTUS.

  • Garth

    Dysanthrope said:
    Norbt, you forgot defending ourselves against muslim extremists=racist.

    This little more than a lame bumper sticker. This is how the whack jobs think.

  • jim bronson 990cc

    Pablo said:
    Great college QB does not equal great NFL QB. If it did, Tim Tebow would be starting. McNabb is (was?) a solid QB, but he just can’t close the big deal, despite having been surrounded with some excellent teams. The guy can play, but he was not all he was cracked up to be and he never fulfilled the promise the media was sure he had. Limbaugh was right about it, and his critique was not of McNabb but of the media coverage of McNabb.

    Who has McNabb had to throw to?

  • Gasket

    CAconservative said:
    Cobra:

    Albert Einstein was also divorced, and failed to give his ex-wife any credit for his accomplishments. Does that make him, Rush, or Mr.Culbersoon any less significant? Mr.Holder twisted the core of this issue to make it appear that Mr.Culberson was being racist so that Holder could give the usual “we shall overcome speech”, even when it didn’t apply, in a sad attempt to cover his, and this administrations flagrant racism. Anyone that doesn’t see the obvious racism in the Obimbo administration do so because they don’t want to admit the obvious.

    Are you f’n stupid? You are comparing Einstein to Rush Limpballs? Are we going to compare the similarity of a piece of coal to a fine diamond next? I mean…they are both hydrocarbons. You rightwingers prove your stupidity every day. BTW, Einstein was a scientist. He did not opine daily on political and moral matters by telling people what is wrong and what is right like the demagoging drug addict does.

    J Baustian said:
    Mr Holder is clearly not fulfilling the responsibilities of an attorney general of the US. There are two ways he can rectify this situation.

    Yeah…because he’s not dancing to the tune of you miscreants.

    SueDi said:
    Obviously, Holder doesn’t believe Black Panthers with billy clubs in their hands is intimidation at a polling place.

    Really? When did he say that or are you hallucinating again sweetheart?

    Dysanthrope said:
    Norbt, you forgot defending ourselves against muslim extremists=racist.

    Don’t forget, to a putrid rightwinger, ANY Muslim=Extremist Muslim. (Look at the other thread where they are yelling at little kids and women)

    Sean68 said:
    But when white people express sympathies or pursue their own interests, they get pulverized by the white (predominantly jewish) media, whose own sympathies can be summarized with the following:

    Minority ethnocentrism is a RESPONSE to white separatism. Don’t look at the genesis of this mindset in a vacuum. Minority communities were forced into clustering and taking care of themselves via racism, segregation and white supremacy. These nativist and xenophobic forces are still going strong. There’s a reason why both are looked at differently via the media. One’s premise is of subjugation and superiority, the other is of empowerment as a response to the subjugation and institutional racism that’s still prevalent.

  • Sean68

    “Minority ethnocentrism is a RESPONSE to white separatism. Don’t look at the genesis of this mindset in a vacuum. Minority communities were forced into clustering and taking care of themselves via racism, segregation and white supremacy. These nativist and xenophobic forces are still going strong. There’s a reason why both are looked at differently via the media. One’s premise is of subjugation and superiority, the other is of empowerment as a response to the subjugation and institutional racism that’s still prevalent.”

    White people are a minority on the planet and becoming a minority in this country. At what point are we allowed to think in terms of our collective interest?

  • Sean68

    By the way, just because I didn’t challenge your premises doesn’t mean I accept them.

  • http://www.thecobraslair.com Cobra

    CAconservative said:
    Cobra:

    Albert Einstein was also divorced, and failed to give his ex-wife any credit for his accomplishments. Does that make him, Rush, or Mr.Culbersoon any less significant? Mr.Holder twisted the core of this issue to make it appear that Mr.Culberson was being racist so that Holder could give the usual “we shall overcome speech”, even when it didn’t apply, in a sad attempt to cover his, and this administrations flagrant racism. Anyone that doesn’t see the obvious racism in the Obimbo administration do so because they don’t want to admit the obvious.

    Where’s the “racism?” Are you trying to tell me that the hyped up NON-STORY about two black guys wearing funny hats carrying sticks in Philadelphia “proves” that the Obama DOJ is “racist”, while not even mentioning the VOTE CAGING of African-American voters last decade?

    Do you even KNOW vote caging took place?

    Do you even KNOW what vote caging is?

    –Cobra

  • http://www.thecobraslair.com Cobra

    Sean68 said:
    “Minority ethnocentrism is a RESPONSE to white separatism. Don’t look at the genesis of this mindset in a vacuum. Minority communities were forced into clustering and taking care of themselves via racism, segregation and white supremacy. These nativist and xenophobic forces are still going strong. There’s a reason why both are looked at differently via the media. One’s premise is of subjugation and superiority, the other is of empowerment as a response to the subjugation and institutional racism that’s still prevalent.”

    White people are a minority on the planet and becoming a minority in this country. At what point are we allowed to think in terms of our collective interest?

    At what point did “you” STOP is the more accurate question. Minorities in America didn’t come up Jim Crow, sir.

    –Cobra

  • http://www.thecobraslair.com Cobra

    jim bronson 990cc said:
    Who has McNabb had to throw to?

    Worse, they don’t know football. Tim Tebow started the last three games of the season for the Denver Broncos.

    McNabb has had fine career. The statistics are undeniable.

    –Cobra

  • Sean68

    Cobra said:
    At what point did “you” STOP is the more accurate question. Minorities in America didn’t come up Jim Crow, sir. –Cobra

    While I appreciate the fact that you speak without qualification of white people as a collective lump of hate, white people have been brainwashed NOT to think in terms of their own selfs-interest. A remarkable accomplishment on the part of the left, which encourages ethnocentrism in all other groups.

  • Sean68

    Cobra said:
    At what point did “you” STOP is the more accurate question. Minorities in America didn’t come up Jim Crow, sir. –Cobra

    Oh and as for myself I used to be the most indulgent of indulgent white liberals. There was nothing a black person could do that I wouldn’t rationalize in terms of slavery, jim crow, racism, prejudice etc. But what good did my indulgences do you?

  • http://www.thecobraslair.com Cobra

    Sean68 said:
    While I appreciate the fact that you speak without qualification of white people as a collective lump of hate, white people have been brainwashed NOT to think in terms of their own selfs-interest. A remarkable accomplishment on the part of the left, which encourages ethnocentrism in all other groups.

    Actually, it’s YOU who are declaring YOURSELF “spokesman” for all Whites in your posts. Your statements certainly don’t represent those of Haley Barbour’s friends at the Council of Conservative Citizens:

    “(2) We believe the United States is a European country and that Americans are part of the European people. We believe that the United States derives from and is an integral part of European civilization and the European people and that the American people and government should remain European in their composition and character. We therefore oppose the massive immigration of non-European and non-Western peoples into the United States that threatens to transform our nation into a non-European majority in our lifetime. We believe that illegal immigration must be stopped, if necessary by military force and placing troops on our national borders; that illegal aliens must be returned to their own countries; and that legal immigration must be severely restricted or halted through appropriate changes in our laws and policies. We also oppose all efforts to mix the races of mankind, to promote non-white races over the European-American people through so-called “affirmative action” and similar measures, to destroy or denigrate the European-American heritage, including the heritage of the Southern people, and to force the integration of the races.”
    http://cofcc.org/introduction/statement-of-principles/

    Or Republican State Representative Russell Pierce, the guy who helped write the notorious SB 1070 in Arizona:

    “PHOENIX (AP) — A state lawmaker who wants to reinstate a 1950s federal deportation program known as “Operation Wetback” is under fire again for sending supporters information from a white separatist group.

    Republican Rep. Russell Pearce has apologized for e-mailing the article from the West Virginia-based National Alliance. But that hasn’t stopped criticism from all directions, including state GOP leaders….
    …The article lashes out at how the media portrays “any racially conscious White person who looks askance at miscegenation or at the rapidly darkening racial situation in America.”

    It says the “media masters” force on the public their view of “a world in which every voice proclaims the equality of the races, the inerrant nature of the Jewish ‘Holocaust’ tale, the wickedness of attempting to halt the flood of non-White aliens pouring across our borders … .”
    http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2006-10-12-race-supremacy_x.htm

    Or your friends in the TEA PARTY….

    “So a new poll by researchers at the University of Washington caught my eye. The findings are sure to fan the flames further. “People who approve of the Tea Party, more than those who don’t approve, have more racist attitudes,” says Christopher Parker, a University of Washington professor who directed the survey. “And not only that, but more homophobic and xenophobic attitudes.” For instance, respondents were asked whether they agreed with various characterizations of different racial groups. Only 35 percent of those who strongly approve of the tea party agreed that blacks are hardworking, compared with 55 percent of those who strongly disapprove of the tea party. On whether blacks were intelligent, 45 percent of the tea-party supporters agreed, compared with 59 percent of the tea-party opponents. And on the issue of whether blacks were trustworthy, 41 percent of the tea-party supporters agreed, compared with 57 percent of the tea-party opponents.”

    http://www.newsweek.com/blogs/the-gaggle/2010/04/09/new-poll-finds-tea-partiers-have-more-racist-attitudes.html

    I guess neither “brainwashing” or your “indulgent White liberalism” had any effect on these folks, huh Sean?

    –Cobra

  • Anonymous

    Did you know there are more white people living off the government that blacks  Some of them are rich and get corporate welfare..  Also, white slaveowners are deadb eat dads, who abandoned their children and sold them as slaves.  What kind of values are those. 

  • Anonymous

    They didn’t scare anybody…..everybody voted…..Why are you so scared?…..

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