Thread by @BethJoslinRoth

Tonight the #tnleg will be voting on a resolution honoring Rush Limbaugh, clearly a top priority in a state with hundreds of thousands suffering without health insurance & one of the worst gun violence problems in the entire country.

This is who the TNGOP want to honor {THREAD}

He argued that white people shouldn't be blamed for slavery. "It's preposterous that Caucasians are blamed for slavery when they've done more to end it than any other race," he said in 2013, adding that "if any race of people should not have guilt about slavery, it's Caucasians."

He called the Georgetown Law student Susan Fluke a "slut" and a "prostitute" in 2012 when she argued before Congress for contraceptive coverage under the Affordable Care Act.

He was forced to resign from ESPN in 2003 after he said the Philadelphia Eagles quarterback Donovan McNabb got undeserved praise because "the media has been very desirous that a black quarterback do well."

He mocked the actor Michael J. Fox, who has Parkinson's disease, in 2006. Limbaugh said, “He is exaggerating the effects of the disease. He’s moving all around and shaking and it’s purely an act This is really shameless...Either he didn’t take his medication or he’s acting.”

In 2008, Limbaugh infamously compared Barack Obama to a cartoon monkey, and he regularly commented on Michelle Obama's body, referring to her as "Moochelle Obama" and "Michelle, my butt."

In 1988 he called Amy Carter "the most unattractive presidential daughter in the history of the country," and in the early 1990s he called Chelsea Clinton the "White House dog."

Other notable quotes from Limbaugh, the man the Republican leadership of the #tnleg think deserves to be honored:

”Feminism was established so as to allow unattractive women easier access to the mainstream of society.”

“I think it’s time to get rid of this whole National Basketball Association. Call it the TBA, the Thug Basketball Association, and stop calling them teams. Call ‘em gangs.”

“Holocaust 90 million Indians? Only four million left? They all have casinos, what’s to complain about?”

“Everything in Africa’s called AIDS. The reason is they get aid money for it. AIDS is the biggest pile of-the biggest pot they throw money into.”

“I’m a huge supporter of women. What I’m not is a supporter of liberalism. Feminism is what I oppose, and feminism has led women astray. I love women. I don’t know where all this got started. I love the women’s movement, especially when walking behind it.”

“If you feed them, if you feed the children, three square meals a day during the school year, how can you expect them to feed themselves in the summer? Wanton little waifs and serfs dependent on the State. Pure and simple.”

“They’re out there protesting what they actually wish would happen to them sometimes.”
- Limbaugh, on women who protest against sexual harassment

“Let the unskilled jobs that take absolutely no knowledge whatsoever to do — let stupid and unskilled Mexicans do that work.”

There are more American Indians alive today than there were when Columbus arrived or at any other time in history. Does this sound like a record of genocide?”

“I think this reason why girls don’t do well on multiple choice tests goes all the way back to the Bible, all the way back to Genesis, Adam and Eve. God said, ‘All right, Eve, multiple choice or multiple orgasms, what’s it going to be?’ We all know what was chosen.”

cc: @JRClemmons @VoteGloriaJ @RepLamar @TNRepParkinson @beckfortn @RepMikeStewart @VoteBo @TNDemocrats

I really hope someone will read some of these disgusting racist and sexist quotes on the floor tonight.

@JRClemmons @VoteGloriaJ @RepLamar @TNRepParkinson @beckfortn @RepMikeStewart @VoteBo @TNDemocrats And here's the actual resolution itself that unsurprisingly does not acknowledge the myriad disgusting and vile things Limbaugh has said. Really, you should read it for yourself.

capitol.tn.gov/Bills/111/Bill…