Welcome to Limbaugh's America

[Hansel]

Here's what Rush Limbaugh had to say about Black and White teenagers getting in a fight on a school bus over a seat:

You put your kids on a school bus you expect safety but in Obama's America the white kids now get beat up with the black kids cheering 'yeah, right on, right on, right on.' Of course everybody said the white kid deserved it he was born a racist, he's white.

However, here's the reality of Limbaugh's America

Beaten, robbed, a victim of hate

Derrick Thomas was on his bike with home in his sights, returning about 1 a.m. Wednesday from hanging out with his girlfriend and cousin in Brooklyn Park.

Before he knew to be terrified, Thomas, who has autism, found himself flying over his handlebars and writhing on his back on the concrete. Standing over him, he said, were three men armed with an ax, brass knuckles and a gun.

They beat and kicked the 18-year-old while screaming a racial epithet, and they ordered him to strip naked, he told police.

more at link

http://tinyurl.com/y9w5t3h

We can only expect it to get worse if someone doesn't come forward to dial down the rhetoric.

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[PDJane]

1. I remember stuff like this.

I'm old enough to remember the rhetoric before the assassination of Kennedy and King, to remember all the overt and covert racism, to remember the killing of census and voter registration workers. I remember the anti-abortion rhetoric, the sexism and the outright stupidity.

I did not think that I would have to live through this again.

[ck4829]

2. Sounds like this totally not-creepy guy from 2006 (Name, age, and location match up perfectly btw)

A man faces burglary charges after two incidents in which he allegedly implored women from outside their bedroom windows to have sex with him _ and thrust one or both hands through the window screens.

When arrested a short time later, Bryan Westerlund, 18, claimed he was drunk, according to a criminal complaint filed in Hennepin County District Court.

"It's kind of a bizarre case," said police Capt. Greg Roehl, who noted that only about 14 minutes elapsed between the break-ins.

As she was watching TV in bed, a woman said, a man stuck his hand through the window screen and proclaimed in crude terms a desire to have sex with her.

He left when she said she was calling 911. His hand was light-skinned, she said.

A short time later, less than a half-mile away, a woman was awakened by a voice at the window saying, "Hey, come here." She went to the window, she said, and an arm broke through the screen, grabbing her head and hair.

"I want to be with you," the man said. "I want to have sex with you."

She pulled away, she said, and the man reached in and grabbed her again with both hands. She bit him, broke free again and called 911, the complaint said.

The second victim later identified Westerlund as the intruder, and a police dog tracked his scent from the second residence to the first.

At the time of Westerlund's arrest, Roehl said, he had an outstanding warrant for a petty misdemeanor charge of marijuana possession.

http://www.scrippsnews.com/node/17174

[Jackpine Radical]

4. See? I tolja about that Devil Weed!

"he had an outstanding warrant for a petty misdemeanor charge of marijuana possession."

That Mary Wanna stuff turned this guy into a frothing sex maniac.

[Fire_Medic_Dave]

3. Do you think any racism was involved in the bus incident?

[Hansel]

5. Not according to witnesses.

It was a fight over a seat on the bus and race didn't have anything to do with it.

http://tinyurl.com/knk3cy

[Fire_Medic_Dave]

6. The racist witnesses cheering in the video?

[Hansel]

7. Do you have information that the cheering was racially motivated?

I was a kid once and saw many fights. In every instance some kids cheered just because they would get excited by fights and wanted to take sides. I always thought it was ghoulish, but it is what it is. Kids cheers at fights.

[Fire_Medic_Dave]

11. Yes.

[proud2BlibKansan]

8. And you know they are racists how?

[MidwestTransplant]

9. Good job threatening the president too Limbaugh/Beck thugs. Now they are Federally fucked too.

Hope they are in jail for a long long time.

[zbdent]

10. I remember in some sort of "critical thinking" learning experience,

along the lines of when you use phrases like "everybody" or "every" or "all", you are really falsifying your argument (something to that effect) ... because it is very unlikely that 100 percent of any group agrees perfectly ...

and where does Rush have the statements from EVERY kid on the bus saying "yeah, he deserved it he was born a racist, he's white"? Because that's what Limbaugh asserts ... that EVERY SINGLE KID ON THAT BUS (presumably including the "white kid" who got beat up) said that the white kid deserved it and was born a racist.