“Look, let me put it to you this way: the NFL all too often looks like a game between the Bloods and the Crips without any weapons. There, I said it.”
-- Rush Limbaugh
“The NAACP should have riot rehearsal. They should get a liquor store and practice robberies.”
-- Rush Limbaugh
“Take that bone out of your nose and call me back.”
-- Rush Limbaugh, to a Black woman caller on his program
“[Black Americans] are 12 percent of the population. Who the hell cares?”
-- Rush Limbaugh
“Obama’s entire economic program is reparations.”
-- Rush Limbaugh
“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.”
-- Rush Limbaugh
“They’re out there protesting what they actually wish would happen to them sometimes.”
-- Rush Limbaugh, on women protesting sexual harassment
"What does it say about the college co-ed Susan Fluke [sic] who goes before a congressional committee and essentially says that she must be paid to have sex — what does that make her? It makes her a slut, right? It makes her a prostitute."
-- Rush Limbaugh
"So Miss Fluke and the rest of you feminazis, here’s the deal. If we are going to pay for your contraceptives and thus pay for you to have sex, we want something. We want you to post the videos online so we can all watch.”
-- Rush Limbaugh
“Let the unskilled jobs that take absolutely no knowledge whatsoever to do — let stupid and unskilled Mexicans do that work.”
-- Rush Limbaugh
“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?”
-- Rush Limbaugh
“You just gotta be who you are, and 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.”
-- Rush Limbaugh
“Holocaust? Ninety million Indians? Only four million left? They all have casinos — what’s to complain about?”
-- Rush Limbaugh, on the genocide of Native Americans
“To some people, bankers — code word for Jewish — and guess who Obama’s assaulting? He’s assaulting bankers. He’s assaulting money people. And a lot of those people on Wall Street are Jewish. So I wonder if there’s starting to be some buyer’s remorse there.”
-- Rush Limbaugh
“When a gay person turns his back on you, it is anything but an insult; it’s an invitation.”
-- Rush Limbaugh
"It's preposterous that Caucasians are blamed for slavery when they've done more to end it than any other race. If any race of people should not have guilt about slavery, it's Caucasians."
-- Rush Limbaugh
“So you go into Darfur and you go into South Africa, you get rid of the white government there. You put sanctions on them. You stand behind Nelson Mandela — who was bankrolled by communists for a time, had the support of certain communist leaders."
-- Rush Limbaugh
“Have you ever noticed how all composite pictures of wanted criminals resemble Jesse Jackson?”
-- Rush Limbaugh
“The media has been very desirous that a black quarterback do well... in black coaches and black quarterbacks doing well. I think there’s a little hope invested in McNabb and he got a lot of credit for the performance of his team that he really didn’t deserve.”
-- Rush Limbaugh
"A lot of young people are spending a lot of time on the World Wide Web. I came across a post last night at, of all places, [Gawker] ... is a ... Basically it's a militant homosexual site, entertainment. Not militant. It's a gay site."
-- Rush Limbaugh
"In this commercial he is exaggerating the effects of the disease. He is moving all around and shaking and it’s purely an act. This is the only time I’ve ever seen Michael J. Fox portray any of the symptoms of the disease he has."
-- Rush Limbaugh, on Fox having Parkinson's
"This is really shameless, folks. This is really shameless of Michael J. Fox. Either he didn’t take his medication or he’s acting."
-- Rush Limbaugh, on Fox having Parkinson's
More on Rush Limbaugh's violent homophobia, including celebrating on-air the deaths of AIDS victims.
Yesterday, just before noon, The Washington Post, through CEO William Lewis, announced it would not endorse a candidate in the 2024 presidential election.
It was shocking for two immediate reasons.
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The most grave—and, frankly, terrifying—reason is that the United States is obviously at threat of sliding into a horrific dictatorship from which it’s difficult to see how we’d ever recover.
Donald Trump and J.D. Vance have made it abundantly clear that they aspire to devolve our nation into the world’s most powerful authoritarian regime. One need look no further than the chilling plans outlined in Project 2025.
I’m writing this after traveling back from the future, specifically Nov. 12th.
It’s a long story, but I know a lady who knows a lady who has a friend with a DeLorean souped up with an off-market flux capacitor and the trip got made.
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Anyway, we don’t have much time, so I’ll cut to the chase.
I got some good news and some bad news and some more good news.
Here’s the first good bit: Election Night went mostly okay, though not without a lot of stress.
By 1am on the East Coast, it was basically clear that Vice President Harris and Governor Walz were going to win the bulk of the swing states, all of them by pretty small margins.
I'd love to be wrong on this because any other answer would imply a straightforward fix, but I'm pretty damn sure the "Democrats aren't reaching young men" critique is never backed up with suggestions because the critic knows it isn't about messaging. It's about misogyny.
Sometimes, I'll see other answers offered that don't make any sense.
"Well, young men are worried about student loans."
VP Harris has talked about student loans, and Pres. has forgiven the loans of 5 million people. Also: how is this strictly about young men?
"I mean, maybe not student loans. It's about upward mobility. Young men need a future."
VP Harris laid out an expansive economic vision for all working class families. How are young men affected disproportionately? How is this strictly a young men's issue?
The Harris-Walz campaign just announced an extensive economic plan for rural communities. Deeply impressive vision for working class families in rural areas.
I have been especially concerned with a growing attitude among many progressives and Democrats that AI disinformation is a problem limited only to conservatives, particularly Trump supporters.
And that is painfully false, and we need to talk about it.
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Are there things about AI that I find cool and interesting and hopeful?
Of course.
From medicine to education to national security, artificial intelligence has made once improbable strides possible, seemingly, to most of us, overnight.
It hasn’t been overnight. The technological advances we’re witnessing—and those on the horizon—are the culmination of decades of the labor of determined and brilliant people.
Tonight, Hurricane Milton will slam into Florida's west coast in the Tampa Bay region. It's expected to be one of the strongest hurricanes to ever make landfall in the U.S., threatening many millions of lives.
Here's what Pres. Biden is already doing to help prepare:
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Pres. Biden has already approved an emergency declaration for Florida. Under an emergency declaration, FEMA provides direct Federal support to states for life-saving activities and other emergency protective measures, such as evacuation, sheltering, and search and rescue.
Pres. Biden was first briefed on Monday re: Milton’s potential impacts and the work FEMA is doing to preposition life-saving resources in advance of the storm. He received another briefing yesterday from Homeland Security Advisor Liz Sherwood-Randall.