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Rush: I'm Another Victim of Left-Wing Bias

Liberals in the media want to keep conservatives down

By John Johnson,  Newser Staff

Posted Oct 17, 2009 10:24 AM CDT

(Newser) – Rush Limbaugh is the victim of a vast left-wing conspiracy. Or so he argues in a Wall Street Journal essay in the wake of his NFL adventures. Lefties in the news business, "including the sportswriter community," have nothing but "contempt" and "blind hatred" for conservatives, he writes. The charge of racism "is too often their sledgehammer. And it is being used to try to keep citizens who don't share the left's agenda from participating in the full array of opportunities this nation otherwise affords each of us."

Limbaugh scoffs at criticism of his racial views. "You mean, my belief in a colorblind society where every individual is treated as a precious human being without regard to his race? Where football players should earn as much as they can and keep as much as they can, regardless of race? Those controversial racial views?" He also stands by his 2003 comment about the media cheerleading for Donovan McNabb because he's black. "Half a decade later, the media would behave the same way about the presidential candidacy of Mr. Obama."

Rush Limbaugh in his Palm Beach, Fla., radio studio in September.
Rush Limbaugh in his Palm Beach, Fla., radio studio in September.   (AP Photo/Photo courtesy of Rush Limbaugh)
Rush Limbaugh in January.
Rush Limbaugh in January.   (AP Photo/Rob Carr, file)
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oldgoat
Oct 19, 2009 7:51 AM CDT
Only Rush could dump so much garbage out and then turn around and complain that it is the lefts fault that he got booted. With all the controversey he has created over the years he doesn't think that just maybe he is his own worst enemy?
Caps
Oct 19, 2009 1:32 AM CDT
AnnieOkie58, that's because MrsKKK is a right wing nut in denial.
AnnieOkie58
Oct 19, 2009 1:17 AM CDT
True that is Caps...but it still just bewilders me..how MrsK and a few others who post here...refuse to take the blinders off...Then there are times I wonder if MrsK and the others are plants on this site...just to stir the pot up...surely they cant be that naive.

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