Having failed to prevent Rush Limbaugh from becoming a successful and wealthy entertainer, the mainstream media has apparently decided that they will attempt the next best thing; attempt to keep Rush Limbaugh from spending his money in the way he desires. In this case, Rush apparently desires to spend his money on a portion of the controlling stock in the St. Louis Rams of the National Football League. In the initial stages of this story, the media attempted to thwart Limbaugh’s plans by trumpeting his comments from several years ago to the effect that the media was overrating Donovan McNabb as a quarterback because they were desirous of seeing a black quarterback succeed. One assumes that the media has at long last realized the self-evident truth that Limbaugh’s comments about McNabb could not be construed as racist by anyone not determined to find racism in any sentence containing the word “black.” Therefore, they have set about with phase two of this story, attacking Limbaugh as racist with completely fabricated and unsourced quotes… from Wiki.
I first became aware of this latest brouhaha when I opened FoxSports.com this morning as I typically do to check and see if anything interesting happened in the previous evening of sports. I was greeted with a huge front-page box featuring this insipid column from the execrable Jason Whitlock. By way of reminder, Jason Whitlock recently wrote this ridiculous column, which somehow passes for insightful commentary while Limbaugh’s comments about McNabb are evil, thoughtless, and racist. But I digress. The newest basis for the assertion that Limbaugh is an eeeeeevil racist is as follows, according to Whitlock:
Here are two quotes attributed to Limbaugh in a 2006 book, “101 People Who Are Really Screwing America,” by Jack Huberman.
- “You know who deserves a posthumous Medal of Honor? James Earl Ray (Dr. King’s assassin). We miss you, James. Godspeed.”
- “Let’s face it, we didn’t have slavery in this country for over 100 years because it was a bad thing. Quite the opposite: Slavery built the South. I’m not saying we should bring it back. I’m just saying it had its merits. For one thing, the streets were safer after dark.”
The first of these quotes has already been debunked most thoroughly, long before Rush’s bid to buy the Rams became public news. It is self-evidently the complete fabrication of someone with a wiki account, which was then picked up by the unscrupulous Huberman and reported as fact (with no citations at all) in his book. The other, also attributed to Huberman, has never been sourced, and Huberman has never cited any original article, or even given any indication as to when this alleged statement was made. Of course, these facts make it utterly impossible to refute the claim; without any date or context, Rush cannot even call witnesses who were present during the alleged confirmation to confirm or deny that he ever made such a statement. It is literally impossible for Limbaugh (or anyone else) to offer convincing proof that they have never at any time made a given statement (other than their own denial, which Rush has already given). It is preposterous to ask anyone to prove that they did not make a statement if you cannot even so much as offer a time and place where the statement is alleged to have occurred.
And yet, this is the position in which Limbaugh finds himself. And worse, idiots like Whitlock seem to think that it’s entirely appropriate to believe this completely unsourced accusation:
Limbaugh claimed on his radio show Monday that his staff could not find any proof that he ever joked about slavery. I’m sorry. Limbaugh doesn’t get the benefit of the doubt on racial matters.
See? In Jason Whitlock’s world, anyone at any time can claim that some unidentified person told them that Rush Limbaugh said [X], at a time and place they can’t identify, and if it touches on anything racial, it is fair to assume that Rush really said it because he doesn’t get “the benefit of the doubt.” This isn’t about the “benefit of the doubt,” it’s about whether the accusation is serious enough to create any doubt at all in the first place.
I wonder if Jason Whitlock would be amused to discover the same standard applied to him. After all, I have access to a widely-read website as well. You know how easy it would be for me to say, on the front page of this website, that “Jason Whitlock raped a woman”? Then do you know how easy it would be for some jerk with a vendetta against Whitlock to put that in his Wiki article and credit me as the source? Oh, well, I suppose the rumor is out there now. If Whitlock doesn’t like it, I guess he can prove it never happened. He’d better get busy accounting for every 30-second segment of his life if he wants us to believe him. We wouldn’t want to be accused of giving him “the benefit of the doubt.”
He’s earned a fortune with racial satire. He knows what he’s doing. You can argue the comments are presented out of context and were meant as jokes. Then I’d argue that Limbaugh needs to get on the comedy-club circuit and out of the business of attempting to influence presidential politics.
Or, actually, you could argue that the comments never happened. Given the obvious fact that Huberman ripped off Wikiquote for his first alleged Limbaugh racial slur, and gives no source whatsoever for the second, we don’t need to yet even have the argument about whether they disqualify Limbaugh from owning the Rams, because we haven’t uncovered anything that would convince any serious person that the comments were ever made in the first place.
I guess Whitlock’s piece is refreshing in one way: unlike the other alleged news outlets covering this “story,” Whitlock frankly admits that he believes these things about Limbaugh because they fit his own preconceived narrative of what Limbaugh is about, not because of the factual foundation upon which they are based. In a sense, that’s fine; no one of even functional intelligence reads Jason Whitlock expecting to find facts, reasoned analysis, or objective reporting on the world. That’s more and more true of news outlets like CNN as well, but they are still desperately trying to maintain the facade. If they want to do so, they should immediately retract and apologize to Rush Limbaugh, or just take the Whitlock route and frankly admit the biases they have. In that sense, perhaps Chris Matthews is the most honest player in this particular farce:

Jason Whitlock is a rapist?
roscopico Tuesday, October 13th at 4:51PM EDT (link)Now that’s interesting.
I heard he likes killing puppies.
Im Himmel gibt’s kein Bier…
Jason Whitlock - rapist?
Jack_Savage Tuesday, October 13th at 4:59PM EDT (link)Wow. He really needs to answer this charge, because of its serious nature. And as a sports guy, he doesn’t get the benefit of the doubt because we all know that men involved in sports are either committing, plotting to commit or attempting to resist the urge to commit rapes.
I hope he comes clean and doesn’t try to stonewall by ignoring this. I am going to Google “Jason Whitlock rapist” and see what comes up. This could be big news.
We’ll have to clear this up before we get to the puupies thing.
Just wait until you hear...
mschmitt Tuesday, October 13th at 5:02PM EDT (link)how he kills the puppies.
Jason Whitlock a rapist, who kills puppies while raping women and Jason Whitlock rapes women while killing puppies?
Crowe Tuesday, October 13th at 5:11PM EDT (link)I’d like not to believe that Jason Whitlock is a rapist and Jason Whitlock kills puppies and Jason Whitlock kills puppies while raping women and Jason Whitlock rapes women while killing puppies…. I’d really like not to believe that. But he doesn’t deserve the benefit of the doubt since I already think it of him and he hasn’t proved he doesn’t. Not that his proof would matter since he clearly doctored it.
This is fun.
“We sleep soundly in our beds only because
rough men stand ready in the night to visit violence upon those who would do us harmDear Leader Obama gives us leave to do so.”Jason Whitlock accused of rape
Leon H. Wolf Tuesday, October 13th at 5:18PM EDT (link)You know, I’d just hate to wake up tomorrow and find a headline out there that read “Jason Whitlock Accused of Rape” so that people googling “Jason Whitlock rape” or “Jason Whitlock accused” would find it. Then it would say on the internet that Jason Whitlock raped a woman and everyone in the media would have to believe it because it’s on the internet.
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They’re *illusions*, Michael. A trick is something a whore does for money. Or candy!
who is this guy?
kasart Thursday, October 15th at 11:31PM EDT (link)who is this guy? These women look like they would like me also. We sure he is not in a strip club? Brief governs us all if you do not question what you read and see, then how as a people of a world will we see the truth?
Veteran of war.
Kasart
Win
Leon H. Wolf Tuesday, October 13th at 5:09PM EDT (link)http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&source=hp&q=jason+whitlock+rapist&aq=f&oq=
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They’re *illusions*, Michael. A trick is something a whore does for money. Or candy!
So, there you have it:
Dan McLaughlin Tuesday, October 13th at 5:23PM EDT (link)Jason Whitlock, rapist.
Of logic, and of the English language, perhaps, but a rapist nonetheless, as far as Mr. Google is concerned.
“No compromise with the main purpose, no peace till victory, no pact with unrepentant wrong.” - Winston Churchill
Oh my, this is getting serious
Jack_Savage Tuesday, October 13th at 6:17PM EDT (link)Maybe we should update his Wikipedia page?
Has he responded to this most very charge? Shall we no longer give him the benefit of the doubt? (oops, that’s right - he’s a sports guy so he doesn’t GET the benefit of the doubt). Does he think that continuing to stonewall us will help his cause, or that we will simply go away while these accusations swirl around him?
Jason Whitlock, your SILENCE is DEAFENING!
Congrats, Leon, on "Jason Whitlock is a rapist" win...
Crowe Wednesday, October 14th at 12:14PM EDT (link)You (we) even caught the attention of an uncouth sports blogger in Kansas City!
The Legend of Jason Whitlock, rapist, spreads!
And if there’s any doubt that Jason Whitlock doesn’t mind the objectification and degradation of women, here he is with two “friends.” (I wonder if Jason Whitlock raped one or both of those women?)
“We sleep soundly in our beds only because
rough men stand ready in the night to visit violence upon those who would do us harmDear Leader Obama gives us leave to do so.”I don't think he necessarily raped them per se...
edniceville Wednesday, October 14th at 6:35PM EDT (link)But it is quite apparent they are trashy hookers whom he probably refused to pay, cheapskate that he is. So, I guess, in a way, he DID rape them! What an IDIOT!
Well, it may have been rape, but it wasn't rape-rape.
Vladimir Tuesday, October 13th at 5:15PM EDT (link)1. The girl was under the age of consent, and
2. She was under the influence of roofies.
There is no opinion, however absurd, which men will not readily embrace as soon as they can be brought to the conviction that it is generally adopted. - Arthur Schopenhauer
Who said it was a girl?
bs Tuesday, October 13th at 5:20PM EDT (link)Well, Crowe did, but I think he got that out of Wikipedia.
I heard it was an armadillo.
Decorum is fo’ suckas
I have a photo of Jason Whitlock snorting cocaine off the butt of a dead prostitute.
Third Street Tuesday, October 13th at 5:15PM EDT (link)It’s a Photoshop fake, of course, and I had to create it out of whole cloth, but I’ve got it nonetheless. Therefore, I’m afraid we can’t give Whitlock the benefit of the doubt that it didn’t happen.
(And by "butt" I mean "dismembered head.") NT
Third Street Tuesday, October 13th at 5:16PM EDT (link)Of a dead puppy?
roscopico Tuesday, October 13th at 11:42PM EDT (link)Now that would make headlines.
Almost worse than clubbing seals, which somebody surely has nominally true photographic evidence of as well.
Truly sick.
Im Himmel gibt’s kein Bier…
Dead Puppies Aren't Much Fun (n/t)
Finrod Wednesday, October 14th at 12:32AM EDT (link).
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Finrod’s First Law of Bandwidth:
A picture may be worth a thousand words, but it takes the bandwidth of ten thousand.
They are for JASON WHITLOCK!
Third Street Wednesday, October 14th at 12:48AM EDT (link)Or so I hear.
Bet you Jason Whitlock doesn't own a pipe organ
Finrod Wednesday, October 14th at 11:42AM EDT (link)Get your mind out of the gutter, I’m talking a real pipe organ, as in the Ogden Edsl song– for which someone has made a music video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ak0_fa1DDpc
—
Finrod’s First Law of Bandwidth:
A picture may be worth a thousand words, but it takes the bandwidth of ten thousand.
Poor puppies!
13Bravo Wednesday, October 14th at 9:14AM EDT (link)I personally would like to give Jason Whitlock the benefit of the doubt. All I ask is that he verify that he didn’t admit to confessing to the accusation claiming that he raped those puppies. I have to admit though that I tend to believe that he is guilty based on the fact that I think that it is just the sort of thing that someone like him would do.
Turn it off.
wgsampson Tuesday, October 13th at 4:54PM EDT (link)I haven’t been a baseball fan since the strike. They chose to spit on the fans, so I said no thanks. I have no problem giving up professional football too. If they vote against RUSH based on lies, that will happen. I can watch college games on Saturday, and go to the park and play ball with my son on Sunday. To hell with the NFL.
cnn YOU LIE !!!
lewincolorado Tuesday, October 13th at 4:57PM EDT (link)The dem/lib/marxist establishment is really showing its’s true colors. There is a war going on and it is about the future of our country.These people don’t want to prevent Rush from being (a minority) owner , this is just like declaring war on Fox–It is really about the left take over of our country.
Shot across the bow -
wgsampson Tuesday, October 13th at 5:17PM EDT (link)Okay this is a war. Let’s let the NFL see what it would be like without conservatives in their audience. Pick a weekend - say the weekend before Thanksgiving - then make it known that conservatives will not watch the NFL that weekend. That includes Monday night - we must be vigilant. We can make the premptive strike - it’s just football, and it’s just one weekend. We can’t always play defence. We have to attack.
Real men watch football, and real men are conservative - except for blacks - but they have been brainwashed - for the most part. How will the NFL cater to the limp-wristed, arugalla munching crowd? Let’s see:
1. No pads, but extra tight uniforms.
2. All players are watered down before the game.
3. No tackling, just touch, two below would be appropriate.
4. Both teams have to share the same huddle between plays - AND THEY MUST HOLD HANDS.
You think thats funny but if you boycott NFL
reginagroves424 Tuesday, October 13th at 6:29PM EDT (link)Think of the news if the Conservative and grass roots shut down I wonder how that would effect the NFL and owners and god forbid the Media.
I watch Football but I can live without it for a couple of night to prove a point how about a night the Rams Play
REGINA GROVES
This bozo's already been fired from ESPN
Finrod Tuesday, October 13th at 5:02PM EDT (link)Taken directly from Jason Whitlock’s wikipedia page, which unlike him, has a source listed for this:
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Finrod’s First Law of Bandwidth:
A picture may be worth a thousand words, but it takes the bandwidth of ten thousand.
Ha! Well, as it turns out
Leon H. Wolf Tuesday, October 13th at 5:08PM EDT (link)He is right about Lupica and I can’t stand Jackson.
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They’re *illusions*, Michael. A trick is something a whore does for money. Or candy!
Given that "fake but accurate" is their standard since the Bush years
bk Tuesday, October 13th at 5:02PM EDT (link)What are we to expect?
And in the meantime if you quote them accurately it’s called “hate speech” or “taken out of context”.
So anything we say is racist and anything they say is accurate. Must be nice!
you got it right !!
lewincolorado Tuesday, October 13th at 5:09PM EDT (link)Just like they don’t lie, they are just ” disingenuous”
I used to respect Jason Whitlock. (So much for that.)
Third Street Tuesday, October 13th at 5:09PM EDT (link)A few years ago, Whitlock famously came out against the glorification of the Jena Six and the culture of black victimhood.
Guess he was just kiddin’.
He's been spending most of his time since then
Leon H. Wolf Tuesday, October 13th at 5:10PM EDT (link)repenting of that time period.
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They’re *illusions*, Michael. A trick is something a whore does for money. Or candy!
Jason Whitlock didn't rape a woman...
$peciallist Tuesday, October 13th at 5:11PM EDT (link)I heard he raped many women….just look at the guy
http://thebovinecomedy.wordpress.com/2009/08/13/jason-whitlock-writes-jesus-i-dont-even-know-where-to-start/
I just googled it.
Steve Summers Tuesday, October 13th at 5:19PM EDT (link)“Jason Whitlock Rapist” gets 48,100 hits.
It should be obvious that he’s guilty. I know there are occasional inaccuracies on the web, but the sheer volume of hits, as well as the seriousness of the charge, should cause people to take this matter very seriously.
I’ll bet he has child pornography on his computer too. Or at the very least, he has easy access to it.
Are we sure the woman wasn't
edniceville Wednesday, October 14th at 6:38PM EDT (link)actually a minor? That would make him a Pedophile Rapist! I heard she was only 15!
This is a textbook example of a high-tech lynching
civil_truth Tuesday, October 13th at 5:21PM EDT (link)We’ll be seeing more and more of these if we don’t get the wannabe totalitarians out of power.
And Rightly So!
Reminds me of the game in school about starting rumors.
penguin2 Tuesday, October 13th at 5:39PM EDT (link)A message starts at one end and by the time it goes through the whole group, the end statement has almost no resemblance to the beginning statement.
Before today, I had never heard of Jason Whitlock, can’t stand much of ESPN except for the games, and now I’ve discovered he has quite a history…
I do like games.
Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God.
Benjamin Franklin
Let me get this straight....
baserunr Tuesday, October 13th at 5:46PM EDT (link)Here is a rich white guy. He wants to buy a business, so he can hire lots of collage age kids, many of them minorities, to do particular jobs. And most of these are good jobs, many paying in excess of a million dollars a year. They have fabulous health plans, and a retirement plan too. Many can retire in their early 30’s. Rush wants to do all of this, and he believes he can still realize a return on his investment. And for this he is considered a racist? Providing well-paying jobs to kids who may not have even graduated college, and he is a racist?
Through the looking glass we go….
“The day you think you know it all is the day your trouble starts.”
I wonder if Rush saw this coming
booksum Tuesday, October 13th at 6:27PM EDT (link)Rush seemed genuinely upset today…I wondered as I was listening if he actually didn’t see this coming?…THe filfthy corrupt Democrat Party Main Stream Media scumbags have all the integrity of Bernie Madoff so I think Rush should prepare himself..If this latest Democrat Scum doesn’t succeed more will follow…
The Democrats terror wing, the KKK
10ksnooker Tuesday, October 13th at 6:28PM EDT (link)I would like to hear how the liberals apologize for the Democrats racist history.
What you thought Abe Lincoln formed the KKK?
They appologize by re-writing history
Next93 Tuesday, October 13th at 10:20PM EDT (link)Next time you see a documentary about black history, count how many times you hear the Democrat party’s role mentioned prior to LBJ.
Slavery and the civil war? Sure - but no mention of which party controlled the statehouses that voted for secession. Jim Crow laws? Absolutely, but no mention of which party passed them, or which party enforced them at the local level. Sherifs turning a blind eye to Klan attocities? It’s right there, but no mention of which party those sherifs belonged to. Plenty of pictures of fire hoses and police dogs being turned on civil rights protesters, no mention of the party affiliation of the sherif who ordered it. White prosecutors refusing to seek indictments, no mention of the party affiliation of the prosecutors. Apparently, Black History is important, but not so important that we can upset the narrative
Remember, we’ve ALWAYS been at war with Eastasia.
Constitutional limits on the powers of the federal government:
It’s not just the law, it’s a good idea!
Civic Duty.
aj5443 Tuesday, October 13th at 7:00PM EDT (link)I did my civic duty and openly complained to Fox about the idiot’s article. You can’t just go around calling people racist without consequences…espesically with dubious quotes and idiotic reasons…self political preservation.
Andrew
The problem with common sense is that it is not.
My impression listening to Rush's show today is that he's issuing a warning
Cheryl Tuesday, October 13th at 7:08PM EDT (link)and that the letter is going out to those as a formality and if their slander does anything to disrupt a business transaction, he’ll exercise is right ot file a suit.
Maybe Whitlock and other talking heads don’t realize it, but their bosses do.
Bernie Madoff deserves an apology, booksum
longwalker Tuesday, October 13th at 7:08PM EDT (link)To compare him to the filthy corrupt Democratic party Main Stream Media scumbags is an insult to Bernie Madoff. He has, in comparison, more intergrity in his little finger than that entire group of intellectual perverts.
Do not classify the words or deeds of your opponents as being hatefull, malicious or criminal in nature if they can also be easily characterized as simple ignorance or gross stupidity. Anon.
Shades of Miguel Estrada
loganyung Tuesday, October 13th at 7:38PM EDT (link)Why are they doing this? For precisely the same reason that they filibustered Miguel Estrada. If Miguel Estrada ultimately makes it to the Supreme Court, he breaks the false stereotype that conservatives want to discriminate against Hispanics. If Rush gets ownership of an NFL team, he will have lots of positive interaction with of African American players, and that will likely lead to him developing a a base of African American support. That would be poison to liberals.
30-second segment! Now that's funny!
dvdmsr Tuesday, October 13th at 8:09PM EDT (link)But probably too kind.
Building Bridges Between American Conservatives & Libertarians By Calling For A Return To More Local Control On Social Issues (The Resoration Of Federalism) And To Smaller More Fiscally Responsible Gov’t
Hey, let's not let Chris Matthews off the hook
throwback59 Tuesday, October 13th at 8:19PM EDT (link)He’s basically calling for someone to take Rush out. If Rush or any other Conservative had made that comment about about Matthews or Olbermann the media would be calling for their arrest.
They are always whining
Warrior Wednesday, October 14th at 3:51AM EDT (link)about how supposed right-wing rhetoric leads to violence. Now they have endorsed, or at least not denounced, a film portraying the assasination of Prez Bush and have said nothing about Chris M publicly fantasizing about the death of Limbaugh.
These clowns ought to wake up and smell the double cappacino mocha latte…
“Attorney General Holder’s decision to re-open the criminal investigation creates an atmosphere of continuous jeopardy for those whose cases the Department of Justice had previously declined to prosecute.”
—–signed by former [CIA] directors Michael Hayden, Porter Goss, George Tenet, John Deutch, R. James Woolsey, William Webster and James R. Schlesinger.
Read http://www.redstate.com/warrior/ for insightful commentary on today’s events…
These fools will not be satisfied
edniceville Wednesday, October 14th at 6:40PM EDT (link)until someone takes a shot at them! It is most likely coming!
I'd like to think that my liberal college English professor would give him an "F"
scottbomb Tuesday, October 13th at 8:40PM EDT (link)I’m not allowed to cite any “wiki” because they are notoriously innacurate and can be edited by anyone.
I must cite my sources when quoting others.
This is basic.
And yet so-called “journalists” do this all the time nowadays. Fact-checking? What’s that? As long as it sells…
http://www.HowObamaGotElected.com
“The American people will never knowingly adopt socialism. But, under the name of ‘liberalism’, they will adopt every fragment of the socialist program, until one day America will be a socialist nation, without knowing how it happened.” - Norman Thomas, U.S. Socialist Party presidential candidate 1940, 1944 and 1948
Those aren't the only nitwits libeling/slandering Rush...
Rightshift Wednesday, October 14th at 12:20AM EDT (link)… Mike Freeman from CBS Sports libeled Rush in his October 7th column.
Who gives these idiots jobs? The only thing they should be writing are orders while waiting tables. This is journalism? Maybe their bosses need to acquire a bit more brass in their shorts.
“Sometimes the law defends plunder and participates in it. Sometimes the law places the whole apparatus of judges, police, prisons and gendarmes at the service of the plunderers, and treats the victim - when he defends himself - as a criminal.” — Frederic Bastiat
It's true! It's true!
livefreenh Wednesday, October 14th at 6:52AM EDT (link)One time my sister made the statement “I did some research on the internet to see if it was true.” I mentioned to her that she was wasting her time, since I could give her the answer much easier. I added a page on my home page that said this: “Carol, it’s true.” Now whenever whe wants to know something, she goes to that web page and confirms it.
It must be true; the internet said so.
If anyone wants the link, let me know. It’s really true.
Why I stopped taking the KC Star.
Andy W. Wednesday, October 14th at 8:55AM EDT (link)Liberal Rag.
That and they stopped carrying the good comics.
come on 2010 and 2012
Keep up the good work Sam Graves (R, MO-6)
The way to stop Whitlock
fayers Wednesday, October 14th at 9:08AM EDT (link)Cancel your subscribtion to any paper that carries his colmn.
Fred, Nashville, N.C.
Glenn Beck
dclamage Wednesday, October 14th at 11:57AM EDT (link)Eh the vast Left-wing conspiracy also invented the “Glenn Beck raped a little girl” rumor, ostensibly to give him a taste of his own medicine. But lies often take on a life of their own. Whether the original intent was deliberately malicious or not. At some point, the unquashed rumor becomes Slander. The originator(s) are legally culpable and should be brought to justice. A large civil fine is in order!
– Dan Clamage
FYI
mschmitt Wednesday, October 14th at 12:04PM EDT (link)http://blogs.pitch.com/plog/2009/10/dittoheads_smear_jason_whitlock_kansas_city.php
No fake--Whitlock disses Serena Williams
horsesense Wednesday, October 14th at 9:32PM EDT (link)Jason Whitlock is in no position to complain about Rush–check out this link where he disses Serena Willimas for being fat–it’s real.
http://deeplyproblematic.blogspot.com/2009/07/jason-whitlock-serena-williams-is-fat.html
Wiki is a rag ....
daezy Wednesday, October 14th at 10:18PM EDT (link)and the more this kind of stuff comes out, the more people will realize how unreliable their material is.
Mark Levin (Liberty & Tyranny) has been under assault from them, too.
All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to remain silent. ~ Thomas Jefferson
http://uslibertyjournal.blogspot.com/