Detroit News columnist slaps Rush Limbaugh - Awesome

[LuckyTheDog]

Rush-ing to judgment: National commentators don't understand Detroit's plight

They came in droves.

By 10 a.m. Wednesday, Cobo Center was drawing a bigger crowd than you could squeeze into Comerica Park for a free Eminem concert.

All that was in the air was a whiff of hope -- the promise of help -- and that hope drew tens of thousands, so many people that 150 police officers arrived on the scene to contain people. There was jostling, minor injuries and the frenzy of a crowd excited about rumored promises that weren't going to be delivered.

What was just as predictable as Detroit's chaotic botched application process for Detroiters seeking access to federal stimulus dollars was the national and international response: Laughter.

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"Detroit's Model Citizens Line Up for Money from Obama's 'Stash' " is the way Rush Limbaugh's Web site headlined a story about the stampede for grant applications at Cobo. Two breathless days of commentary were devoted to the appalling greed of broke Detroiters. He also nationally aired WJR-AM's (760) onsite interview with a Detroit woman who explained she'd come to Cobo for "Obama money."

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Everyone's had their fun at the expense of an impoverished city and a woman whose enthusiasm eclipsed her common sense.

Still, would a white woman's need seem quite so funny? Would Rush and Glenn Beck and the far-right-race-supremacists lagging just behind still leap to insult?


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[rfranklin]

1. As we are told so often these days...it has NOTHING to do with racism...

I have had Democrats say that to me. I find it astoundingly naive.

[JohnnyLib2]

2. His use of that interview was sickening.

First class jerk, as my elders might say.

[LuckyTheDog]

3. I think this column should go viral

I think Laura Berman is a hero for writing that.

I would encourage everyone to post that on Facebook, tweet it on Twitter, etc.

Rush is a tool. He should know that it's noticed.

[Bozita]

13. I think you're correct on all counts.

[LuckyTheDog]

14. Please help spread this around (nt)

[OffWithTheirHeads]

4. Remember what happened to the Vichy French after the war

Rush and his Klan will be getting theirs.

We the People are pissed, desperate and getting real close to nothing left to lose.

[LuckyTheDog]

5. Rush wants civil unrest

The right thinks a race war would work to its advantage.

[Maccagirl]

10. So did Charles Manson.

n/t

[Maccagirl]

11. Dupe-delete

n/t

[John Kerry VonErich]

12. I see it this way.

Not a race war, but a political war. Never have I believed that race and religion will have wars. To everything there is politics.

[bleever]

6. Race baiting for fun and profit.

Big profit, in Rush's case.

Keep talking, Rush, because you're running the GOP towards extinction.

[LuckyTheDog]

7. Where did you get that flag picture?

I love that.

[bleever]

8. That

I made. You're free to borrow it.

[LuckyTheDog]

9. Thanks. I will (nt)