What do leftist documentary maker Robert Greenwald, Little Green Footballs blogger Charles Johnson, and Daily Beast contributor Max Blumenthal have in common?
They all peddled malicious, false quotes attributed to Rush Limbaugh and are unrepentant about furthering false information regarding the talk show host.
NewsBusters parent company the Media Research Center has a new Web site complete with video and/or screenshots of these and others in the media furthering the phony quotes.
In Greenwald's case, his www.rushisaracist.com Web site still contains video with CNN's Rick Sanchez reading the now-infamous "slavery" quote.
While Sanchez has since issued a retraction, neither Greenwald nor Blumenthal have. What's more, an unrepentant Johnson angrily declared on September 21:
There will be no retraction. The quote is disputed, but it has not been proven false. And there are plenty of other racist quotes that you seem to be just gliding right past that are NOT disputed.
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October 16, 2009 - 15:38 ET by mad53PAHey Johnson,
If there are many other racist quotes that are not in dispute, then I have a simple question:
What are they and please list them?
I'll be waiting!!
A lot of them are listed here
October 16, 2009 - 16:15 ET by nwahshttp://mediamatters....
There are two things that are more of features than statements:
Ebonics translations from his black call screener, Bo Snerdly, and the regular use of The Jeffersons "Moving on up" theme song as a backdrop of elected or appointed African-American officials.
Any of these thing taken out as an isolated joke or jokes is one thing. But when you look at the entire group its gets really tough to contextualize it away. You have to wonder, ok, why does bufooning African-Americans attract you so much, no matter who started it?
Looking at it as an entire
October 16, 2009 - 16:31 ET by mattmLooking at it as an entire group IS taking it out of context. Sheeesh!
If you did that same thing to his critics it would be abundantly obvious that the bigotry resides squarely on the Left. (Like the black guy who told Juan Williams to "go back to the porch" - which is calling him an Uncle Tom, just for defending Rush.)
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always punching from the left.
October 16, 2009 - 19:38 ET by bktgo figure.
Using a bunch of liberals to try to make your point doesn't work. It's like using the same word when attempting to define the word.
Please take the link to
October 16, 2009 - 15:39 ET by Scuba DudePlease take the link to Little Green Footballs off of the blog links.
The Obama Administration: THE most fiscally irresponsible Administration EVER
I agree
October 16, 2009 - 15:44 ET by bre1227After reading this I clicked on the link and saw the three most recent postings. Why direct any traffic to this kook's blog?
Done
October 16, 2009 - 15:48 ET by Ken ShepherdPerhaps long overdue.
Thank you, Ken. LGF does not
October 16, 2009 - 15:50 ET by d1carterThank you, Ken. LGF does not deserve any more attention from the right thinking blogosphere. There is something really crazy going on at that site and it goes beyond liberal versus conservative.
d1,
October 16, 2009 - 16:41 ET by R D HelmLOL-My theory involves Polaroids.
:-)
-Dave
Thank you Ken. Much
October 16, 2009 - 20:22 ET by Scuba DudeThank you Ken.
Much appreciated.
The Obama Administration: THE most fiscally irresponsible Administration EVER
LGF
October 16, 2009 - 20:42 ET by BufordThank you Ken, I was not a regular follower/contributor of LGF but it has been removed from my lists.
I'll keep my freedom my money and my guns, you can keep the "CHANGE".
Johnson just banned the
October 16, 2009 - 16:04 ET by Guapo DiabloJohnson just banned the balloon kid and his brothers from posting comments at LGF, then took another sip of koolaid.
The only way Rush is a
October 16, 2009 - 16:18 ET by mattmThe only way Rush is a racist is if you equate liberalism with being black.
Maybe the absurdity of that equation, which has been a destructive force in the Black community for decades, will finally be exposed and Blacks will finally be emancipated from the liberal plantation.
Tell the truth? That would be very refreshing in America today!
October 16, 2009 - 19:05 ET by Patriot IItake a look at this you "birthers" and remember the A.H.'s that called you birthers and the his kenyan birth wasn't true!! Here it is from his own lips!!
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October 14, 2009
http://thepostnemail.wordpress.com/2009/10/14/ap-declares-obama-kenyan-born/
AP declares Obama “Kenyan-Born”!
2004 PIECE DISTRIBUTED WORLD-WIDE PUTS FOCUS ON TIMELINE OF CLAIMS
by John Charlton
What most people
know is that the Associated Press (AP) is one of the largest,
internationally recognized, syndicated news services. What most people
don’t know that is in 2004, the AP was a “birther” news organization.
How so? Because
in a syndicated report, published Sunday, June 27, 2004, by the Kenyan
Standard Times, and which was, as of this report, available at
http://web.archive.org/web/20040627142700/eastandard.net/headlines/news26060403.htm
The AP reporter stated the following:
This report
explains the context of the oft cited debate, between Obama and Keyes
in the following Fall, in which Keyes faulted Obama for not being a
“natural born citizen”, and in which Obama, by his quick retort, “So
what? I am running for Illinois Senator, not the presidency”,
self-admitted that he was not eligible for the office. Seeing that an
AP reporter is too professional to submit a story which was not based
on confirmed sources (ostensibly the Obama campaign in this case), the
inference seems inescapable: Obama himself was putting out in 2004,
that he was born in Kenya.
The difficulty
in finding this gem of a story is hampered by Google, which is running
flak for Obama: because if you search for “Kenyan-born US Senate” you
wont find it, but if you search for the phrase without quotes you will
find links which talk about it.
For those who
believe what they see, here is the screen capture of the page from the
Kenyan Sunday Standard, electronic edition, of June 27, 2004 — Just in
case that page is scrubbed from the Web Archive:
AP Declares Obama "Kenyan-born" on June 27, 2004
Readers should
take note that this AP story, was syndicated world-wide, so you should
be able to find it in major newspapers, archived in libraries
world-wide. If any reader does this, please let The Post & Email
know, so that we can publish a follow up-story. You can scrub the net,
but scrubbing libraries world-wide is not so easy.
Hanen of Sentinel Blog Radio broke
the public news of the existence of this AP story at on October 14,
2009 at 12:31 pm. However, The Post & Email can confirm that a
professional investigator had uncovered this story months ago, and that
certified and authenticated copies of this report, meeting Federal
Rules of evidence, have already been prepared and archived at many
locations nationwide."
We will see if it gets any traction
October 16, 2009 - 23:55 ET by general companyI noticed on of the commenter on your link has some audio of the Keys debate, be interesting if the Obama aknowledgment gets some play.
My Gov. thinks I am dangerous, so be careful
"Television is a freak show" Bernie Goldberg
Patriot ll... So do you
October 17, 2009 - 00:06 ET by bigtimerPatriot ll...
So do you think this is going to be used in any of the court cases...especially the on-going one in Ca. set to go not that long down the road?
'Doubling down on stupid is not a particularly good idea'~Breitbart
I'm not sure how much credit
October 17, 2009 - 00:16 ET by dumbanguishI'm not sure how much credit I'd give the Jack Ryan story. They didn't even spell Obama's name right.
deleted.
October 16, 2009 - 19:37 ET by bktnt
Little Green Footballs used
October 16, 2009 - 21:26 ET by P. AaronLittle Green Footballs used to be half decent. Charles Johnson's constant banning of people that disagree with him has sure hurt the post counts there.
Yep... You start doing
October 16, 2009 - 23:56 ET by bigtimerYep...
You start doing that it will get you in the end after a time...and it has LGF.
'Doubling down on stupid is not a particularly good idea'~Breitbart
Well I quit
October 17, 2009 - 00:01 ET by general companyGoing there, not so much because Charles ban so many folks, it was because he was wrong.
My Gov. thinks I am dangerous, so be careful
"Television is a freak show" Bernie Goldberg
'can't prove a negative
October 16, 2009 - 23:51 ET by Edward LeeMy, what integrity. "The quote is disputed, but it has not been proven false"? Excuse me, but how does one go about proving someone never said something? Prove that Greenwald or Blumenthal have never said, "I enjoy torturing puppies when no one is watching". Since one cannot, surely they will not mind such a quote being attributed to them widely and loudly, to be followed up in a few days by the caveat, "The quote is disputed, but it has not been proven false". They would be hypocrites to object.
The Journalistic Standard...
October 17, 2009 - 11:55 ET by Wildcatter1980...is not that an accusation needs to be proven false. No, the accusation must be proven to be accurate or true or whatever term you choose to use that indicates it is correct beyond a shadow of a doubt. Without such a standard, what would there be to stop people from making false accusations in order to effect a desired outcome despite the absence of real evidence? (Then, again, look at what just happened to Rush!)
Obviously, a shadow of a doubt has been cast upon the veracity of the "slavery" and "James Earl Ray" quotes and, as such, people like Charles Johnson, rather than getting their dander up, should not only retract their accusations, they should issue apologies for their inaccurate reporting without having first confirmed the truthfulness of the accusations they were reporting.
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