Updated: From HotAir.com
No harm in admitting the lie now that his NFL bid’s dead. First, via the Standard, comes this belated HuffPo postscript to a post that’s three years old:
Editor’s Note: An earlier version of this post contained quotes attributed to Rush Limbaugh, which Limbaugh has since denied making. As is our policy when a fact in a blog post is called into question, we gave its author 24 hours to substantiate the quote. Since he has not been able to do so, the quotes have been deleted from the post.
And now here’s Sanchez, kinda sorta apologizing — on Twitter — for airing the bogus slavery quote on his show earlier this week:
i’ve know rush. in person,i like him. his rhetoric,however is inexcusably divisive. he’s right tho. we didn’t confirm quote. our bad.
Okay Ben, where’s your retraction? I’m thinking a glass of ice water in hell before we see that.
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Yesterday Smith proved he’s an uninformed know-it-all in his childish diatribe about Rush Limabugh.
Smith started out with this.
At last we know what “EIB” really stands for, and it’s not “Excellence In Broadcasting.”
It’s “Excellence In Boo-hooing.”
Oh, that’s cute. Smith then went on to do the opposite of “Boo-hooing” by taking to task Limbaugh with a pack of lies. It sounds like Ben attends the church of the Reverend Jeremiah Wright one week, and Reverend Al Sharpton or the Reverend Jesse Jackson’s the next week.
Thank God for an America that made you accountable for your actions, because, make no mistake, that’s what this is all about here. This is about your chickens coming home to roost — not Al Sharpton’s, not Jesse Jackson’s, YOUR chickens — and nothing else.
Smith’s obviously suffering from a lack of editorial control, something that seems to be running rampant with the local MSM here of late. What Smith fails to point out is the lies the Reverend Sharpton and others have been tossing around and purporting to be the truth. For example this one, which Smith failed to mention and was the lie that started the fake outrage.
“Slavery built the South,” Limbaugh was reported to have said. “I’m not saying we should bring it back. I’m just saying it had its merit. For one thing, the streets were safer after dark.”
That lie came from Bryan Burwell, a liberal columnist in St. Louis with the Post-Dispatch and he sourced from the 2006 book, “101 People Who Are Really Screwing America,” by John Huberman. The problem is, Burwell and Huberman cannot provide any documentation Limbaugh made the statement, because he didn’t. CNN and MSNBC also broadcast the lie, and to-date, neither has been able to source it as fact.
You’re the one who decided to make your fortune by pandering to all of our worst instincts, Rush. You’re the one who chose to get rich by stoking resentment and cultivating division and playing your listeners for fools by playing a minuet on all their worst and most unfounded fears.
What’s the matter Ben? It sounds like you’re simply jealous that Rush made it, while you’re stuck in a third-string job since 1977 at a hack of a newspaper. And talk about stoking resentment? Smith is merely pandering to the left-wing nutcases that believe every last word of garbage spewed by the liberal mainstream media. Welcome to the big-time Ben.
You’re the one who spent 20 years making one openly racist comment after another and justifying it by claiming it was all part of some bogus war on political correctness. Now after all that you want us to believe you never said any of those things? Now you want us to buy that, gosh, you really don’t have anything against black people — especially now that you want to buy into a league that’s 65 percent black, and that you once compared to the Crips and the Bloods?
What Limbaugh said during his radio show once was “the NFL all too often looks like a game between the Bloods and the Crips,” referring to rival street gangs.
Not a bad analogy if you ask me, and certainly not racist. Limbaugh said it at a time when one NFL player after another was being arrested for gun charges, brawls in bars and on the streets, possession of illegal drugs, murder and more. I’m doubting Ben gets to a real intercity very often, if ever. Gangs come in black, white, Hispanic, Korean, Russian and many other ethnicities. In spite of what Ben thinks, they’re not all black.
And there’s one more thing Ben failed to mention. The former Madison Square Garden President and current St. Louis Blues and Real Salt Lake majority owner Dave Checketts has big-time backer and former admitted Nazi helper George Soros in his camp. Soros helped the Nazis round up Jews and send them to their death camps. His “fellow” Jews. He admitted his role in a “60 Minutes” interview. Soros also financed Checketts failed attempt to buy the Los Angeles Dodgers in 2003.
Where’s the outrage Ben?
Ben, your cows are coming home to roost. Go stuff your pie-hole with another double Quarter Pounder, before it’s too late.
P.S. You may want to look into that diet Rush is on. The guy looks pretty damn good.
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This viewpoint is the reason I don’t get the local newspaper and why newspapers are swimming in red ink.
Rush seems to be doing well for himself.
Dan:
You REALLY nailed this one.
I don’t agree with Rush on everything, but when he’s RIGHT…by God, he is RIGHT! It’s about POLITICS.
And when you also have Black civil rights people IN DEFENSE of Limbaugh countering with the plethora of “professional” players that exhibit LESS than professional behavior in their lives (Where is Johnny Unitas or Joe Greene when you need ‘em?) that says it all.
But it’s OK to have thugs buy into other teams…it’s just SO “politically-correct”.
(but that’s just MY opinion)
Ben Smith is the resident warthog at the Journal Gazette. I get the paper sometimes, and I let my gerbils piss all over his picture.
Mitchell:
LMAO…I do the SAME thing for my CATS (and the Sports section)…!
Bob G.,
I’m not EVEN going to tell what I do with Tracy Warner’s section. It’s to close to lunch time.
A failure on 2 fronts. Ben’s a horrible writer, and he’s also a partisan fool. The newspaper bosses at the News Sentinel made the same mistake with Nancy Nall – they saw a small spark of talent and then POOF! made her a “columnist”. At that point all journalistic sense left her body and she eventually became a caricature of her self spewing, ego-driven, opinions out to an audience who could have cared less – driving one of the most noted declines in readership and subscriber numbers this town has ever seen. I was one of them and I worked there. Ben, while once a halfway decent sports writer, has somehow been allowed to speak editorially for the Journal Gazette, and, like Nall, has wasted whatever intrinsic talent he had on trying to impress his editors/owner, and neglecting to realize he’s regarded by readers as only a sportswriter masquerading as a polished journalist.
I was going to say something along the lines of, don’t be suprised, you know AWB is the only real news in Ft. Wayne. But all your previous comments remind me I’m being redundant.
Douglas B. said:
“Ben, while once a halfway decent sports writer, has somehow been allowed to speak editorially for the Journal Gazette, and, like Nall, has wasted whatever intrinsic talent he had on trying to impress his editors/owner, and neglecting to realize he’s regarded by readers as only a sportswriter masquerading as a polished journalist.”
I agree and the same could be said of Keith Olberman. They’re both a joke and an embarrassment.
There are so many lines being attributed to Rush (some true, some not). Which line did
Ben refer to? Bone in the nose? Or Another? I read Ben’s column and could not find it.
Suffice to say, Rush has made enough racially insensitive comments over the years that he does fall into the category of being a racist as far as I’m concerned. The Magic Negro song Rush played repeatedly was racist as hell. There are dozens of other incredibly insensitive comments uttered by Rush that are absolutely indisputable.
I might lean left, but I listened to Rush for more than six years on a daily basis and I firmly believe he is a racist, a feminist and a gay-baiting bigot.
Dan, stick to the decaf…..
Regardless what Ben Smith’s personal feelings are, he’s not very bright to reiterate and re-print false quotes about anybody in a newspaper. Don’t they have a freaking editor over there or are their lawyers that good they don’t give a shit?