Conor Freethedork: Rush Worse Racial Demagogue Than Al Sharpton

Okay, the only way Conor with one N gets a pass on this is if he's trying to score with an attractive black chick for the first time and his parents are out of town this weekend.

But even a cursory review of Limbaugh’s radio archives reveal the talk radio host to be a frequent race-baiter, one of the guys who obsessively trades on race.

In fact, based entirely on statements made by Mr. Limbaugh in 2009, one begins to wonder whether he's been a bigger racial demagogue than even Al Sharpton during that period.

Let's make this short and to the point. I don't have a lot of time to waste on Conor the Flicked-Flea tonight. Evidently our young Conor with one N's education sparred him any introduction to concepts such as parody and satire.

In short, if someone, or something is being used as a regular topic for satire, or parody, that someone, or something will regularly be invoked. Because today's Left, especially as regards Sharpton and Jackson, but along with every one else over there, so often uses race to exploit and divide via race baiting, race and race baiting will be a regular theme for the artist engaging in said parody and satire as part of his shtick.

Simple enough, yes? Well, no, unfortunately, that's not quite simple enough for Conor with one N to grasp. You see, in his politically correct and otherwise un-noteworthy little mind, when said artist is performing parody, or satire, why, they are doing the very same thing that the object of their humor is doing. Duh. I don't think I've seen such a lack of artistic sense since Tommy Smothers; though, to be fair, he was only playing an idiot on TV.

But not our Conor, nut uh. The insipid, un-insightful and brainless twit that Smothers played is actually him. And he's more than proud and happy to strut his stuff at any Leftist rag that will pay him to do it just as often and as broadly as he can. Thank God the nitwit doesn't have the intelligence to conceal his stupidity making him someone who might actually do some damage to the Right.

If there's one thing we can now conclude of this silly faux post-Modern-ist but genuine imbecile, it's that he'd make a helluva critic of post-Modern-ist Art. One can only imagine the cerebral fireworks of watching Conor go into full mental meltdown trying to comprehend that.

Finally, if he has succeeded in  proving any concept, it's that if you actually pay, or otherwise reward him, you can make even a semi-trained monkey dance. Oh, I wrote monkey! No doubt I too now qualify as a race baiter extraordinaire in Conor with one N's nub of a thing he actually has the audacity to call his mind.

Comments

[Conor Friedersdorf]

Dan,

Is it your position that Rush Limbaugh is engaged in parody when he calls Sonja Sotomayor a racist? So his actual position is that she isn't a racist?

Are you arguing that Mr. Limbaugh doesn't actually mean to assert that President Obama is the biggest reverse racist in history -- that it's just satire, and he actually doesn't think that he is a reverse racist at all?

I understand that Mr. Limbaugh often engages in parody and satire on his program. But it is obvious, if you listen to the audio of the instances I cite in my piece, that he is being serious.

It is at least gratifying to see that the only defense of Mr. Limbaugh's actions that can be mustered is that he didn't actually mean what he said -- taken together, the comments I gather are quite devastating.

[zaugg]

Ouch, that's going to leave a mark. Oh look, Coner must have you bookmarked, he can't be all bad, can he? <<

[North Dallas Thirty]

"Is it your position that Rush Limbaugh is engaged in parody when he calls Sonja Sotomayor a racist?"

Question, Conor: what DO you call a person like Sotomayer who baldly states that a person of one race and gender will always make a better decision than one of another race and gender -- on multiple occasions?

In case you're not familiar with it, I refer you to this definition.

rac⋅ism
  /ˈreɪsɪzəm/ [rey-siz-uhm]

–noun
1. a belief or doctrine that inherent differences among the various human races determine cultural or individual achievement, usually involving the idea that one's own race is superior and has the right to rule others.

http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/racism

The fact that you are still desperately trying to score with Andrew Sullivan and the Obama Party does not make your attempt to redefine blatant and obvious racism as practiced by Sonia Sotomayer and Barack Obama any less hilarious or inept.

Case in point:

"Are you arguing that Mr. Limbaugh doesn't actually mean to assert that President Obama is the biggest reverse racist in history -- that it's just satire, and he actually doesn't think that he is a reverse racist at all?"

Again, Conor, are you familiar with the educational theories your Barack Obama not only endorses, but actively pushed and funded to be taught in public schools?

"Carruthers is a defender of Leonard Jeffries, professor in the department of black studies at City College in Harlem, infamous for his black supremacist and anti-Semitic views. Jeffries sees whites as oppressive and violent “ice people,” in contrast to peaceful and mutually supportive black “sun people.” The divergence says Jeffries, is attributable to differing levels of melanin in the skin. Jeffries also blames Jews for financing the slave trade. Carruthers defends Jeffries and excoriates the prestigious black academics Carruthers views as traitorous for denouncing their African brother, Jeffries. Carruthers’s vision of the superior and peaceful Kemetic philosophy of Ptahhotep triumphing over Greco-Euro-American-white culture obviously parallels Jeffries’ opposition between ice people and sun people.

More of Carruthers’s education philosophy can be found in his newsletter, The Kemetic Voice. In 1997, for example, at the same time Carruthers was advising SSAVC on how to set up an African-centered curriculum, he praised the decision of New Orleans’ School Board to remove the name of George Washington from an elementary school. Apparently, some officials in New Orleans had decided that nobody who held slaves should have a school named after him. Carruthers touted the name-change as proof that his African-centered perspective was finally having an effect on public policy. At the demise of George Washington School, Carruthers crowed: “These events remind us of how vast the gulf is that separates the Defenders of Western Civilization from the Champions of African Civilization.”

According to Chicago Annenberg Challenge records, Carruthers’s training session on African-centered curricula for SSAVC teachers was a huge hit: “As a consciousness raising session, it received rave reviews, and has prepared the way for the curriculum readiness survey....” These teacher-training workshops were directly funded by the Chicago Annenberg Challenge. Another sure sign of the ideological cast of SSAVC’s curriculum can be found in Annenberg documents noting that SSAVC students are taught the wisdom of Ptahhotep. Carruthers’s concerns about “menticide” and “genocide” at the hand of America’s white supremacist system seem to be echoed in an SSAVC document that says: “Our children need to understand the historical context of our struggles for liberation from those forces that seek to destroy us.”"

http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=YTQ0YjhlOGVhYjQ0OWRhZjI2MmM4NTQ4NGM5Mjg0MzU=

[Jim Ryan]

Uh, guys? Friedersdorf doing satire.

Exposing the cesspool of racism flowing the Democratic Party is racist. Got it? As a corollary, exposing the detestable race-baiters amongst the Dems is race-baiting. See? He takes the moonbat and presents him in stark relief.

Satire isn't easy. It takes brains to do it well like that.

[Jimmie]

Someone leet Conor know that when he writes "In fact..." he's obliged to put a fact behind it.

[Otter]

So..... when a person is a racist and someone points out, ie QUOTES, that person's racist remarks (for example, Sotomayer's racist remarks or Hey! J. Jackson's racist remarks, or Farakhan's racist remarks, or Wright's racist remarks, or ad infinitum).... conor with one 'n' believes THAT is the definition of racism?

What a D**k.

[Paul Zummo]

Conor:

No no matter how much conservative bashing you do, no one the left is going to like you. And because you are such an intellectual simpleton, no one on the right respects you.

Good luck with that career.

[Jack Okie]

Oh, Conor, just cut it out. Find a career that fits your talents (like writing classified ad copy). You are so out of your depth, even at a run-down flea-bag site like the DB, you are pathetic. Not long ago you were touting yourself as the new William F. Buckley, and now you're all PC. Are you a tartuffe or just another two-bit hustler? My money is on the latter, which makes you, as W.C. Fields put it, just a tartuffle.

[Eli]

Conor's article said nothing. He can't prove racism, but decides to take a stab at a lesser charge of race-baitng. Just like a liberal, move the goal posts.

Hey Conor, the discussion is racism. Now since it is common knowledge that the quotes atrributed to Rush are fakes; maybe a discussion on abuse of power by the media may be appropriate; not doubling down on stupid. Your logic is the same as Dan Rather-fake but accurate.

How about condemning over zealous media whores that wanted it to be true so badly, but it wasn't? Why didn't these pros do their due diligence? or fact check? these are 'professionals'.

As a professional do you think those that broadcst this incorrect information should be punished? There is demonstrable harm and damages in this case. Is a lukewarm apology sufficient?

Your standards are suspect. If double wasn't a standard, liberals would have no standards.

[templar knight]

"How about condemning over zealous media whores..?"

That would be self-immolation for Conor, Eli.

[mark l.]

wow.

conor is the first white guy I have seen that actually has offerred to defend sharpton.

There are two implications:
either conor didn't grow up in the northeast, or he spent his life locked in a closet.

it was funny how he found a speaking slot at the 2004 democrat convention, based largely upon his "rehab" appearances on msnbc.

[Conor Friedersdorf]

God, the comments in this threat are remarkable for their ignorance of what I actually wrote. I did not defend Al Sharpton, I think he is a despicable demagogue. I did not accuse Rush Limbaugh of being racist -- I specifically said that he isn't. And contra Dan's title, I didn't even say he is a worse racial demagogue than Sharpton overall -- just that it is likely true for the last year.

[Otter]

'just that it is likely true for the last year'

...there go the goalposts again.

[the bishop]

Funny guy, Conor, than again you didn't have any objections against Obama's stated policies, or the way Sotomayor would steer the Court, you may have complained about the second guessing of Officer Crowley, I'm giving you that. What
exactly are you conservative about, again?

[North Dallas Thirty]

"I did not defend Al Sharpton, I think he is a despicable demagogue."

Which is, of course, why you then proceed to attack Rush Limbaugh instead.

One of these days, Conor, you might, in an accidental fit of principle, go off on Al Sharpton the same way that you do Rush Limbaugh. And we will then consider offering you sympathy when Andi Sullivan, OB-GYN, kicks you out of his love nest.

But until then, you're little more than a useful idiot for the Obama Party who is very aware that his paycheck and what little chance he has at self-respect is attacking and tearing down Republicans and conservatives at the behest of Barack Obama.