Limbaugh Cries About Black ‘Uncle Toms’ Who Helped Defeat Tea Party Senate Candidate
Sen. Thad Cochran (R-MS) won a hotly contested primary run-off election Tuesday against tea party challenger State Sen. Chris McDaniel, and the conservative entertainment complex is pissed. Glenn Beck actually fired a rifle on his show to illustrate his disgust. Sarah Palin threatened to leave the Republican Party. Laura Ingraham accused Cochran of “race-baiting.” McDaniel himself refused to concede. But the most ironic, racially-charged and whiny reaction came from Rush Limbaugh.
We’ll swing back to Limbaugh’s remarks presently, but it turns out that Cochran won due to a not insignificant number of African-Americans and Democrats voting for the GOP incumbent in the open primary, ostensibly because Cochran convinced them they probably don’t want an extreme tea party candidate walking away with Cochran’s Senate seat. It bears repeating that it was an open primary, which means it’s perfectly legal to vote in any primary irrespective of party.
FiveThirtyEight confirmed that by courting Democrats and African-Americans, Cochran was able to boost his turnout numbers just enough to top McDaniel, 51 percent to 49 percent.
About 375,000 voters showed up Tuesday compared with 318,904 on June 3, an increase of more than 17 percent. Cochran raised his vote total by more than 38,000 votes, while McDaniel pulled in only an additional 30,000. That was more than enough to erase McDaniel’s 1,386 vote lead in the first round.
Cochran’s campaign explicitly tried to increase his turnout in the runoff by bringing Democratic-leaning African-Americans to the polls. […] we have county-level results to go on, and that data suggests that traditionally Democratic voters provided Cochran with his margin of victory.
And now the right-wing freakout kind of makes sense. It was the blacks! Or “the black Uncle Tom voters,” as Rush Limbaugh said on his Wednesday show… CONTINUE READING
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By: Bob Cesca
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arc99 June 26th, 2014 at 10:10
What goes around comes around Rush.
Remember your personal project back in 2008 known as Operation Chaos? Remember how you were encouraging Republicans and conservatives to vote in the Democratic primaries being contested by Hilary Clinton and Barack Obama?
Karma’s a b*tch, ain’t it Rush..
Suck on it…
arc99 June 26th, 2014 at 10:10
What goes around comes around Rush.
Remember your personal project back in 2008 known as Operation Chaos? Remember how you were encouraging Republicans and conservatives to vote in the Democratic primaries being contested by Hilary Clinton and Barack Obama?
Karma’s a b*tch, ain’t it Rush..
Suck on it…
mmmjv June 26th, 2014 at 17:18
Herman Cain and Allen West helped defeat a tea party candidate??
mmmjv June 26th, 2014 at 17:18
Herman Cain and Allen West helped defeat a tea party candidate??
JamesMMartin June 26th, 2014 at 19:23
Not surprised he would demonize African-Americans for exercising their right to vote as they please. If Limbaugh had his way, no black Americans would vote. Period. Neither would the 47% Romney talked about in the secret video that lost the White House.
JamesMMartin June 26th, 2014 at 19:23
Not surprised he would demonize African-Americans for exercising their right to vote as they please. If Limbaugh had his way, no black Americans would vote. Period. Neither would the 47% Romney talked about in the secret video that lost the White House.
SkeeterVT June 29th, 2014 at 10:33
Any lingering doubts that Rush Limbaugh is a racist were utterly destroyed by his rant about “Uncle Tom blacks” voting for Sen. Thad Cochran in the Mississippi GOP primary against his far more right-wing Tea Party opponent, state Sen. Chris McDaniel.
Sen. Cochran himself publicly branded McDaniel an extremist — a fact that Limbaugh conveniently neglected to mention.
Now we know with certainty that Limbaugh, as well as Glenn Beck and Sara Palin — the latter whom I openly denounced as a right-wing demagogue unfit for either the presidency (2012) or vice-presidency (2008) — is an extremist.
He’s also become a 400-million-dollar-a-year drag on Clear Channel Communications, the parent company of Premiere Radio Networks, which distributes Limbaugh’s show to 600 radio stations across the country.
Confronted with declining ratings and a growing advertiser boycott, it’s only a matter of time before Clear Channel’s worsening bottom line will prompt mounting pressure on the company from its stockholders to dump Limbaugh; his latest racist rant will rapidly accelerate that pressure.
SkeeterVT June 29th, 2014 at 10:44
P.S.: As for Glenn Beck, Fox News head honcho Roger Ailes must be breathing a sigh of relief right now: “Thank God I fired that wacko!”
SkeeterVT June 29th, 2014 at 10:33
Any lingering doubts that Rush Limbaugh is a racist were utterly destroyed by his rant about “Uncle Tom blacks” voting for Sen. Thad Cochran in the Mississippi GOP primary against his far more right-wing Tea Party opponent, state Sen. Chris McDaniel.
Sen. Cochran himself publicly branded McDaniel an extremist — a fact that Limbaugh conveniently neglected to mention.
Now we know with certainty that Limbaugh, as well as Glenn Beck and Sara Palin — the latter whom I openly denounced as a right-wing demagogue unfit for either the presidency (2012) or vice-presidency (2008) — is an extremist.
He’s also become a 400-million-dollar-a-year drag on Clear Channel Communications, the parent company of Premiere Radio Networks, which distributes Limbaugh’s show to 600 radio stations across the country.
Confronted with declining ratings and a growing advertiser boycott, it’s only a matter of time before Clear Channel’s worsening bottom line will prompt mounting pressure on the company from its stockholders to dump Limbaugh; his latest racist rant will rapidly accelerate that pressure.
SkeeterVT June 29th, 2014 at 10:44
P.S.: As for Glenn Beck, the news that he actually fired a rifle while broadcasting his radio show from his ranch in reaction to Cochran’s victory over McDaniel has got to get Fox News head honcho Roger Ailes breathing a sigh of relief right now: “Thank God I fired that wacko!”
Elliot J. Stamler July 5th, 2014 at 20:14
First, it is true that Democratic blacks account for Sen. Cochran’s victory. However to call them “Uncle Toms” is preposterous but then everything Limbaugh the obese drag addict says is preposterous. They are anything but Uncle Toms–they saw a major chance to prevent a nostalgic white supremacist/segregationist being elected to the US Senate–it is only logical they would do all they legally could to prevent that.
Second, the key word is “legally.” No competent lawyer believes the votes of those Democrats was illegal and the statute cited by McDaniel would be upheld-it is unconstitutional under the doctrines of void for vagueness and functional unenforceability.
Third, McDaniel were he to prevail might well find thousands of WHITE Cochran voters enraged at him and vote for moderate-and-reasonable conservative Democratic candidate, former Congressman Travis Childers.
Fourth, and to me the single most important AND IGNORED fact of this primary is that McDaniel did in fact get a substantial majority of the WHITE Republican vote which again proves that the substantial majority of WHITE Mississippians are in fact unchanged from what they have always been: racists and nostalgic segregationists and white supremacists. Since 99.5% of the Mississippi Republicans are in fact white it goes to show that racism is still deeply and ineradicably ingrained in most white Mississippians. Not all-but a large majority-and THAT is the ultimate tragedy.
Elliot J. Stamler July 5th, 2014 at 20:14
First, it is true that Democratic blacks account for Sen. Cochran’s victory. However to call them “Uncle Toms” is preposterous but then everything Limbaugh the obese drag addict says is preposterous. They are anything but Uncle Toms–they saw a major chance to prevent a nostalgic white supremacist/segregationist being elected to the US Senate–it is only logical they would do all they legally could to prevent that.
Second, the key word is “legally.” No competent lawyer believes the votes of those Democrats was illegal and the statute cited by McDaniel would be upheld-it is unconstitutional under the doctrines of void for vagueness and functional unenforceability.
Third, McDaniel were he to prevail might well find thousands of WHITE Cochran voters enraged at him and vote for moderate-and-reasonable conservative Democratic candidate, former Congressman Travis Childers.
Fourth, and to me the single most important AND IGNORED fact of this primary is that McDaniel did in fact get a substantial majority of the WHITE Republican vote which again proves that the substantial majority of WHITE Mississippians are in fact unchanged from what they have always been: racists and nostalgic segregationists and white supremacists. Since 99.5% of the Mississippi Republicans are in fact white it goes to show that racism is still deeply and ineradicably ingrained in most white Mississippians. Not all-but a large majority-and THAT is the ultimate tragedy.