Easley: Bashir Gone For Stuff Limbaugh Gets Away With Every Day

Martin Bashir’s departure from MSNBC after bad-mouthing Sarah Palin is the kind of remarks Rush Limbaugh says regularly with impunity, as Jason at PoliticusUSA points out.

Last week, Limbaugh called the Pope a Marxist, “I gotta be very careful. I have been numerous times to the Vatican. It wouldn’t exist without tons of money. But regardless, what this is, somebody has either written this for him or gotten to him. This is just pure Marxism coming out of the mouth of the pope. Unfettered capitalism? That doesn’t exist anywhere. Unfettered capitalism is a liberal socialist phrase to describe the United States. Unfettered, unregulated.”

In July, Limbaugh used the N-word on his show, “This was between nine and ten p.m. last night on CNN, who are in a quest to become the, again, most respected news organization in the country, perhaps even the world. So “nigga” with an A on the end… (interruption) Well, I think I can now. Isn’t that the point? ‘Cause it’s not racist. That’s the point. I could be talking about “a male.” I could be talking about a Chinese male, a guy at the Laundromat. You could be talking about a man.”

Also in July, Limbaugh told white people not feel bad about slavery, “You know, folks, I have to tell you something. This white guilt, it’s time for all this white guilt to end. I know it won’t because I know that most people are scared to death and live lives totally immersed in fear because that’s what other people want them to live like, but I’m sick of it. White guilt is doing nothing for anybody, and white guilt is not solving anything. And besides that, a little history lesson for you. If any race of people should not have guilt about slavery, it’s Caucasians. The white race has probably had fewer slaves and for a briefer period of time than any other in the history of the world.”

In 2009, Limbaugh told Jews to get over the Holocaust. He also told Native Americans to stop complaining. In 2010, Limbaugh discussed Barack and Michelle Obama’s slave blood, “I don’t know why Michele my belle is not there, but as has been said by several black civil rights leaders, Obama does not have authentic slave blood, but Michele does. We can only speculate. Maybe she is at a skybox at a baseball or football game, who knows?”

Of course, there were the Sandra Fluke comments that inspired an advertiser boycott that rages on today.

Conservative defend Limbaugh and hate speech on the right, but attack liberals when they are also guilty of stepping over the line.  Bashir apologized. Limbaugh didn’t. Bashir gave up his job. Limbaugh rides on.

By: Alan

Alan Colmes is the publisher of Liberaland.