Rush Limbaugh Discussion Takes Turn After Racial Slur on O’Reilly Factor
At the very end of a segment on The O’Reilly Factor about Rush Limbaugh being dropped from the bid for the St. Louis Rams, a racial slur creeped into the conversation.
Aimed at FNC contributor Juan Williams, the slur was then compounded by tweets bragging about it from Warren Ballentine, who made the comment, and no remorse today either.
The Washington Times reports on the entire back-and-forth that continues this afternoon. While discussing “Barack The Magic Negro” song that Rush Limbaugh played, Williams and Ballentine, both African American, disagreed on whether that was “racial”.
Just before the end of the segment, Ballentine said, “You can go back to the porch, Juan. You can go back. It’s ok.”
He was almost gleeful while bragging about it on Twitter: “ok howd i do u hear me tell jaun back to the porch lmao” he wrote, among several other comments. Today, he wrote, “You gotta love how now Iam the racist LMAO gotta love the washington post and the GOP.”
The Times also has a clip of his web radio show, and he wasn’t remorseful in any way:
Now if you want to take what I said about Juan Williams as racial, you go right ahead. All I said was he could go back to the porch. I didn’t call him a house negro. I said he could go back to the porch. Now if you took it as such, that means you took it as such.
To say Ballentine won’t be back on Fox News is an understatement – and if it continues to become a major media story, expect Williams back talking to Bill O’Reilly tonight or early next week about the comment, and the vitriol aimed at him and other African Americans who appear regularly on Fox News.
Here’s the segment last night:
