I forgot about that one!

Oh, and his “Black gospel” singers!

How can Limbaugh complain about racism toward Rice when he did the same to Moseley Braun?

I am astounded.

He referenced this link: http://www.thespectrum.com/news/stories/20031004/opinion/389226.html

Can you list some of these examples, please?

BTW, has everyone seen Michelle Malkin’s revisionist history of the internment of Japanese-American citizens? She was validated by pretty much every conservative out there despite the fact that people who have spent years researching the subject have eviscerated her book.

What forum?

“And no, this kind of conduct is not exclusively liberal. But conservatives generally get punished for it, liberals generally don’t.”

I didn’t hear a peep out of anyone when Limbaugh did his thing, other than on liberal blogs. The media never touched it. Hannity and Colmes didn’t have him on their show to explain it. Nothing.

I still don’t get how drawing Dr. Rice as a parrot is racist or sexist. If you disagree with Pat Oliphant’s opinion of her, then fine. But when were black women ever drawn as parrots? Is this some racial caricature I missed?

And the “Brown Sugar” thing in Doonesbury was about Bush always coming up with nicknames for everyone.

I would agree, though, that the cartoons placing Dr. Rice in the same context in which Limbaugh placed Moseley-Braun is wrong. I’m not sure what kind of punishment you want, though. After all, Limbaugh is still doing well, even after the whole drug abuse thing.

I call this the “Moses syndrome”: Basically it is what happens when the savior of a people assumes his role of savior as a career. Moses didn’t save the Jews till retirement age after all.

In terms of the Democratic Party, I would say it goes further to include the statement that an educated inner city community is a dangerous community (politically that is). Without a poor, uneducated populace, what would be left of the Democratic base? Just check out the exit polls, if you don’t believe me.

In regards to the racism question, the liberals assume because they’ve assumed the liberal label that they are incapable of being racist, ignorant or any other base behavior. However, their racism has become more and more overt in recent years. Between obvious examples of racism such as the many political cartoons and examples like racism of the left towards arabs and Muslims (such as in the libs favorite Saint Michael Moore), how many such egregious racist comments and ethical slurs the left will spew out before even the main stream media finally notices and comments about it.

Just because a liberal disagrees with the war in Iraq shouldn’t make Dr. Rice unqualified.

That is the problem for liberals. They’ll need to get over the fact that people can legitimately disagree and not be lying, facist, etc.

http://www.tnr.com/doc.mhtml?i=express&s=hely111704

What most of the people here are saying is that racism is wrong. When it appears, the purveyor of it should be punished. I haven’t seen Limbaugh in that forum again since shortly after the incident you direct us to.

The point therefore is: Where it the outrage and punishment for the “artists” who draw these racist, sexist cartoons of a highly qualified, well educated candidate for Secretary of State?

And no, this kind of conduct is not exclusively liberal. But conservatives generally get punished for it, liberals generally don’t.

These attitudes sneak in all kinds of ways. Men candidates rarely find their “looks”, “hairdos” or “dress” a matter of comment. (Unless of course they are gay)

Even in this thread, there are comments about Dr. Rice’s appearance and affect that you would probably never see written about a man candidate.

http://www.thespectrum.com/news/stories/20031004/opinion/389226.html

Wednesday morning, as the McNabb matter was boiling over, Limbaugh played a spot on his radio show about the Democratic Party candidates for the presidency. The satire carried a rather juvenile take on the “Gone With the Wind” film with each candidate portrayed as one of the movie’s characters.

When it came to Carol Moseley Braun, a black woman seeking her party’s nomination, the voice caricature was that of the Butterfly McQueen character Prissy. Her line? “I don’t know nuthin’ ’bout runnin’ fo’ president.”

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Everyone was saying?

Coming into this discussion a day late, has at least allowed me to see a considerable number of comments (55).
I am stunned and amazed that so many of the liberals commenting here fail to see the racist implications of the cartoons available by following your links.

These are the same people who call George Bush a “racist” in spite of the fact that he has placed more people of color into more positions of power, than any other President before him. These are the people who call any black with a conservative viewpoint an “Uncle Tom”, or worse, a “house n****r”.

It is quite apparent that the liberals in the Democrat party are still unable to get past the party’s racist roots. Wrapping yourself in liberalism doesn’t give you the right to resort to racist stereotypes simply because it serves your warped world view.

What is truly sad is that prominent Black Americans who have embraced liberalism and the Democrat party will ignore this type of thing. Either they feel that the end justifies the mean, or they are afraid of biting the hand that feeds them.

They should be trumpeting the fact the people of color are attaining such lofty positions of power (finally) in this country, but instead are more caught up in the fact that this or that person doesn’t buy into their own political philosophy.

Shame on the leadership of the NAACP, Jesse Jackson, Al Sharpton, etc. First, for not speaking out about what a proud day it is for this country to have a Black woman nominated as Secretary of State, and second for not demonizing and taking to task all of the racist liberal cartoonists and commentators for their attacks on Dr. Rice.

Disagreeing with Dr. Rice about her politics is one thing, but do it in a way that doesn’t recall the worst of this country’s past.

Fortunately, her grace and ability speak for themselves. She’ll remain a formidable figure in politics for some time to come, I’d wager. By resorting to these racist cartoons, the MSM is simply exposing their shallow bond with minorites as one based purely on political support, not mutual respect.