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:
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So during a discussion about what Limbaugh said and whether or not he should allowed to own an NFL team because of some comments that he NEVER said – this jack ass drops an ACTUAL racist comment and no one blinks?
If O’Reilly had said that or Limbaugh had said that all hell would have broken loose. Why is it ok for Ballentine to say it?
This is Obama’s America.If you are a minority and you leave the Democrat Plantation every racial slur the left knows is thrown your way.
This is not “Obama’s America” (whateverthehell that’s supposed to mean). And it’s not okay for Ballentine to say something like this. He needs to reassess his statement and offer an apology for throwing out such a racially-charged statement. It’s not okay for either side (left, right, black, or white) to engage in these race games…
I agree, Junk. And it’s a shame; Warren seemed like such a nice guest the other few times he was on “The Factor.” He appeared in a segment with Leslie Marshall over the summer. That summer segment was similar to the segment that followed him last night: two Democrats against Bill.
holy krikey! I saw the segment but missed the porch comment. What a jerk. I hate those kinds of hypocrites.
Good post!
This type of racism is endemic in the ranks of the party which claims to be the party of tolerance? When you start really analyzing what these Dimwits are actually all about, then you see they are some of the most bitter, hate- filled, intolerant people in existence today! The level of hatred and intolerance exhibited by this idiot who insulted Mr.Williams with a racial slur and his Libnazi komrades is at a level which would make any KKK Imperial Wizard or National Socialist Neonazi right proud! The only tolerance these Leftover hypocrites are capable of is reserved only for those who march lockstep with their extremist views! Hatred is what they are really all about and an agenda which suppresses any and all points of view which differ from their own! Welcome to the Brotherhood!
“This is Obama’s America.If you are a minority and you leave the Democrat Plantation every racial slur the left knows is thrown your way.”
rush, is that you?
This guy doesn’t represent anything but an ignorant blowhard. He doesn’t belong to any party because no party in their right or left mind would have him.
Juan hosting the factor tonight and I bet he will get terrific numbers. His opening was wonderful. Calling them out as he should have.
I look forward to mediaite posting that segment — well worth it.
The lefties are surely showing their racism. I’m sick and tired of them projecting their racism onto the right, when the racism appears to be deeply imbedded in the left.
Roger Godell should be forced to resign for what he did here — I mean, he turned over his decision making on Rush over to the Revurunds anyway.
Juan Williams called a house negro because he stood up for freedom of speech. Typical lefty loonism.
Ballentine seems to be getting the hang of that ‘nose-high-in-the-air’ Obama look. He’s certainly got a face for radio, I will say that.
Anthony De Rosa says:
October 16, 2009 at 7:40 pm
This guy doesn’t represent anything but an ignorant blowhard. He doesn’t belong to any party because no party in their right or left mind would have him.
Maybe yes… maybe no. There IS one group of people, however, who appear to be defending the New Black Panther Party in that voter intimidation case from Pennsylvania. Who’s administration is that again… I forget…
J$P Video! Juan Williams strikes back at racial slurs over the Limbaugh controversy
http://homepage.mac.com/mkoldys/blog/lry277432788.html
Juan Williams had a perfect right to go after Ballentine. Ballentine bascially called Juan Williams(in thinly veiled terms)a porch monkey. On top of that, Ballentine was too much of a coward to fess up to it. I think Mr. Ballentine should put on the white sheet(or black one), since he seems to be so attracted to racism.
OK Ballentine: Your sometimes highly refined arrogance, and now this NASTY CREEPY jab defies description, other than it seems a lot like Obama’s highly refined, sometimes aloof, and sometimes blatant arrogance.
Bravo to Juan Williams for NOT being a SLAVE to THOUGHT POLICE SLAVEMASTERS like you and much of the radical left wing smear machine, nor Whitey, or ANYBODY!
A small handful of people (Reid, Pelosi, etc.) are huddling behind closed doors, as you read this, Republicans, including “Republicans” like Snowe NOT ALLOWED. They will soon put together this “bill” that has still to be in print, with all kinds of gargantuan, ruinous taxes, penalties, gimmicks, government control TENTACLES EVERYWHERE, while LAUGHABLY describing it as healthy competition, last minute insertions guaranteeing no mechanism to verify citizenship while MILLIONS of illegals will get their care, refusing to codify anything to the contrary (despite Obama’s disingenuous “assurances”" otherwise!), tacking on all sorts of back door add ons greatly expanding abortion funding (despite Obama’s “assurances” to the contrary), that bankrupt our future by an additional 2-3 TRILLION (while they still LAUGHABLY whine about Bush’s paltry by comparison 450 Billion deficit, that “mess I inherited,”), that will also have highly empowered federal panels run by the mindset of Ezekiel Emanuel, Robert Reisch, etc. that “rate” each individuals “worth” to society and tell those not worth much to take pain pills, get out of the way, and die, including youngsters with neurodevelopmental disorders like palsy and autism, etc. etc.
All done SECRETLY by a handful of arrogant, IMPERIAL (Nixon was an amateur by comparison!) Elitists who are ready to ram it down the throats of 300 million plus people, with NO time allowed to read and understand, even briefly, what these “representatives” are voting on.
What TRANSFORMATIVE, TRANSPARENT leadership!! Right, Colin Powell? Brilliant general, thank you, SADLY a sucker as of late, who clearly helped enable this growing disaster.
Wouldn’t know anything about this arrogant, sinister, closed door fascism by watching CNN, Olbermann, Moyers, etc.; ONLY by watching FOX NEWS.
About those esctatically announced “Stimulus is working!” 30 thousand jobs near the DC area, wouldn’t know we paid on average $80,000 per “job” for $30,000 temporary jobs, unless watching FOX news. Watch CNN, Maddow, etc. and all you hear is parroting the news of the great “success” of the stimulus.
Although I greatly appreciate cogent commentary and simple reporting of basic, highly relevant FACTS that the media other than Fox usually intentionally ignore, it is also good to hear a balanced perspective,
to hear differing views, and JUAN WILLIAMS consistently and thoughtfully provides that, in a learned, informed, challenging but DECENT, CIVIL manner. And, anybody who really watches him, realizes he DOES NOT just lay down to conservative commentary by the colleagues he banters back and forth with.
And, he comments on each topic as he sees it, NOT from the porch, not from obeisance to anyone or anybody, whitey included.
Got that Ballentine? Even though I may ultimately agree with 30-60% of what Juan says, he is bright, articulate, informative, decent (yet not in the LEAST afraid to speak a dissenting point!) and someone from whom I frequently learn things, keeping conservatives on their toes.
Thought Police, Nasty Speech, Conform or else is your creepy deal Ballentine!
Just another quick thought. For all you libs out there. You’ve undoubtedly heard Obama tout his lollipop land utopia plans, premised in part with the intentionally disengenuous desire to “keep the insurance companies honest,” considering their “RECORD PROFITS,” ( and crowds go ‘yeah, yeah, stick it to ‘em’ in response to this devious, but effective demagoguery),
In case facts matter to Obama, & some other leftists, any guesses as to the average profit margin for said insurance companies. What kind of filthy “RECORD PROFITS” have they been making?
80%? 60%? 39%? 28%? 17%?
Answer? A whopping, “unconscionable” 3%!
Their average profit margin is LOWER than most other bread and butter industries.
Wouldn’t know that just listening to Couric, Moyers, CNN, Matthews, Maddow, Olbermann, Frankenjoke, Air America, Margaret Carlson, Krugman, Dowd, Reid, Pelosi, or PRESIDENT OBAMA, would ya??
We’ve all had good and annoyed days with insurance companies, but squeeze them into extinction and bankrupt the entire country behind closed doors based on such easily swallowed, deceitful demagoguery, with NO “hard hitting journalism” ASIDE FROM FOX NEWS?
Juan Williams… Rupert Murdock’s Faux News approved and paid for “liberal” house negro,.
He’s used whenever there’s a segment defending white racists or attacking black people.
Any perception of racism by a right-winger is simply imaginary.
The right can’t be racist, since the right-wing says there is no such thing as racism by the right-wing.
Only minorities, liberals and Democrats can be racist, but not Republicans and the right-wing.
This of course allows the right-wing to be as racist as they want, since right-wing racism doesn’t exist.
Dave, haven’t you heard?
Any perception of racism by a left-winger is simply imaginary.
The left can’t be racist, since the left-wing says there is no such thing as racism by the left-wing.
Only majorities, conservatives and Republicans can be racist, but not Democrats and the left-wing.
This of course allows the left-wing to be a racist as they want, since left-wing racism doesn’t exist!
Dave, your opinion about what they “use” Juan Williams for, is exactly that, an opinion. Spend any period of
time charting when he is on, in what capacity, including FREQUENTLY being on the panel with Fred Barnes,
Mara Liasson, and Krauthammer, and it isn’t even debatable that your opinion has as much to do with reality
as my opinion that the world’s best deep sea divers are always Sherpas.
Juan gives comments on issues from A to Z frequently, most of which have ZERO to do with some blanket defense of “white racists,” or blanket “attacking black people.”
Juan frequently disagrees with other panel members, and says why. He defends whites, blacks, asians and hispanics, along with attacking whites, blacks, asians and hispanics, DEPENDING ON THE PARTICULARS of what’s being discussed.
And. the majority of the times, he is niether attacking or defendinga particular individuals of any race, rather analyzing pros and cons of various policy proposals and related events.
I think Murdoch hired him whenever they need someone to defend broken wastebaskets, or attack Tuesday Night quilters.
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