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The Price of Listening to Rush

By Jeffrey Lord on 12.8.10 @ 11:39AM

The price of listening to Rush Limbaugh?

Letting Al Sharpton have a radio show.

Yes, it's true. The Reverend Al Sharpton has announced on the Sergeant Schultz Show over at MSNBC that he wants the FCC to take Rush Limbaugh off the air.

And yes, the Reverend Al, who, with the Reverend Jackson composes half of the legendary Justice Brothers, is also the man who has made race-baiting and anti-Semitism a way of life -- and as a result has his own radio show on an FCC regulated station. That would be radio station WWRL at 1600 on the dial in New York City. Justice Brother Sharpton's charming record, for those who have come in late, has been compiled in part by David Horowitz over at Discover the Networks.

It seems that Justice Brother Sharpton the lovely radio host has, among his other activities too numerous mention:

• Helped incite anti-Jewish riots in Crown Heights, New York in 1991 in which a Jewish student was murdered.

• Been convicted of libel for his role in the Tawana Brawley racial hoax.

• Incited anti-Semites against Freddy's Mart which was burned by one of Sharpton's followers, killing seven people.

So what we have here with the Reverend Al is a man with a demonstrated record of anti-Semitism and race baiting. And this record has enabled him to have a show on one radio station in New York. One. On the other hand, twenty million Americans across the land listen to Rush Limbaugh -- who is, perhaps not coincidentally, long and repeatedly on record as a staunch defender of a color-blind America. And oh yes -- free speech.

So perhaps we know the real reason why Al Sharpton wants Rush off the air.

After inciting anti-Semitic riots and fueling a racial hoax, Sharpton has learned there's one thing he can't do well in a free society.

Get a radio audience.

View all comments (25) | Leave a comment

bubba| 12.8.10 @ 12:13PM

It's too bad that most of Al's followers are not capable of reading your article, much less comprehend it.

Ken (Old Texican)| 12.8.10 @ 12:18PM

Yeah, Jeffrey!

Write the darned article in e-bonics...then read it aloud...very slowly.
(I'm bad. I know I know...grin)

Interested Conservative| 12.8.10 @ 12:22PM

Ken - It's "I bad", not "I'm bad".

Franklin| 12.8.10 @ 7:43PM

No, it's "I be bad".

irish19| 12.9.10 @ 12:29AM

That is correct, Franklin. You gets a gold star to add t'you bling.

Michael L. Hauschild| 12.8.10 @ 3:56PM

Wait till the FCC inserts his foreword into your ebook.

Alan Brooks| 12.8.10 @ 1:56PM

You are right, but not enough blacks are on the air. I hear Spanish-language stations all over the frequencies, but not blacks.
Does Thomas Sowell have a regular TV or radio show? not as far as I know.

Bob K.| 12.8.10 @ 5:42PM

It would be nice if he did but he is in his 70's now and it might be tough.

Maybe some conservative network (like FOX ?) could give him a 5 minute segment in one of it's shows 3 or 4 times a week. It would then be shown a couple of times a day.

irish19| 12.9.10 @ 12:30AM

That would be sweet! I wonder if J. C. Watts might be willing to do a segment as well.

Lullabys, Legends and Lies| 12.8.10 @ 12:37PM

If I was a Taxi driver in New York, and I saw Al waving me down, I'd listen to the Taxi Drivers Union Leader, and drive right on by him Not because he's black, but because he's a known criminal who's miraculously escaped justice for way too long. And this guy's a leader in the black community? You've got to be kidding me!! No justice, no pizza for you Al!! The FCC is just another example of the Government, like PBS, NPR, NEA, and so on, and so on, that the Republicans have got to get a leash on, because if left to their own devices, they'll always turn very hard to the left (which means away from freedom). Now if the Liberals had a "good" message to deliver to the American People, they'd have ratings on their radio programs, but alas, as hard as they try, they can't even get their own supporters to listen to their own crap, not even to Al's crap.

Nick| 12.8.10 @ 1:53PM

LLL,

Come on!

You know we would all contemplate hitting Sharpy-Sharp, if we saw him on the street!

Not to kill, no. Just to mame. Ha-ha!
(That's a joke, libs.)
(It's from a movie. Bonus points to whoever can name it.)

Penny| 12.8.10 @ 3:38PM

Uncle Buck, 1989?

Nick| 12.8.10 @ 5:11PM

Ding !
Ding !
Ding !

We have a winner!
Congratulations Penny.
You've just won a brand new Chrysler Cordoba. You can pick it up at Morty's office.
(That's also from a movie. No fair using google.)

Lullabys, Legends and Lies| 12.8.10 @ 6:17PM

Hey Nick, you better tread carefully, the Liberals don't have a sense of humor about anything (as you well know)!! Although David Axelrod thinks that drunk driving is funny, or at least when he was referring to where and what he was doing 30 years ago tonight (on MSNBC's-Morning Joe today), when he heard that John Lennon was dead.

"I was driving home from a Chicago Bulls game with a friend," said Axelrod. "We heard this on the radio, and I almost swerved off the road."

Axelrod added, "I also had a couple of beers at the game, so that could have been part of it."

He was quick to walk back on the remark, calling it a joke and saying, "I should not joke about that."

So maybe 30 years ago tonight, if Al Sharpton just happened to be walking down a road somewhere in Chicago, David Axelrod might've swerved and hit him with "his" car, and "then" , and only THEN it might have been funny!! But when you say it Nick? Then it's not funny!! Only Liberals can get away with such jokes, although they really don't have a good enough sense of humor to make it clear that it's really a joke (like Axelrod did)!! Or did he actually admit to drunk driving this morning?

Nick| 12.8.10 @ 8:12PM

LLL,

Good point.

We joke about hypotheticals, liberals joke about actualities.
We joke about libs possibly getting hurt, although not wishing them real harm, libs find it funny when conservatives actually do get hurt.

Like when Vice-president Chenney accidentally shot his poor hunting partner.

Lullabys, Legends and Lies| 12.8.10 @ 10:16PM

Nick: Yep, you're right, Liberals suck!! Which is why I'm making my upcoming New Year's Resolution, the same as it was for this year, which is to singlehandedly destroy the Democratic Party in America (alright, maybe I'm bragging just a little bit!!). I didn't quite accomplish that this year, but I sure did help put a dent in their Commie Pinko armor, which put a big dent in my bank account too, but I'll get over that (it's QE2 inflated money anyway). You see, I took an oath to support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic, so I have to keep fighting the Democratic Party since they appear to me, to be the "biggest and most dangerous" domestic enemy we have ever, or will ever face, and I wouldn't want to break that oath, or my resolution. Alright, so it's not the most original New Year's Resolution ever, being that it's probably the most popular one on this site, but I never claimed to be a deep thinker, but it sure was fun sticking to it this year (and sticking it to them).

Nick| 12.9.10 @ 12:06PM

LLL,

Agreed!

Christmas came early this year.
Here's to continuing to stick it to all the stinking liberals of the democrat party next year!

Ryan| 12.8.10 @ 1:13PM

When Al was thinking about getting into radio, Rush even OFFERED to help Al get started!

Ted| 12.8.10 @ 6:21PM

The Rev Al doesn't need his own show.

All he needs to do is to call Hannity and ask for some air time.

danny| 12.8.10 @ 8:04PM

ah ted, you've noticed that too........ along with newt, mccain and just about any other liberal or rino you could name.

Liberal Reader| 12.8.10 @ 9:26PM

Mr Lord,

Everytime I come back to American Spectator to see all I'm missing, I find you've written some diatribe about racial politics.

The TRUE racists, it always seems to turn out around here, are BLACK. The TRUE victims of racisim are WHITE.

....And Saddam attacked us on 9.11, tax cuts for the wealthy stimulate the economy, Sarah Palin has a good handle on American foreign policy, and the Founding Fathers were unified in the purity of their Christian faith and belief that the income tax would be the first step to Marxist Dictatorship.

It's all so simple! I wonder more people don't get it!

Lullabys, Legends and Lies| 12.8.10 @ 10:21PM

Boring!!

Nick| 12.9.10 @ 11:58AM

Marxist Reader,

What was your Military Occupational STRATEGY again? Ha-ha!

Browns44| 12.9.10 @ 8:26AM

Amazing, simply amazing! The Very Reverend Al Sharpton demands the FCC remove Rush while on the Ed Schultz Show, the very same show whose blog site (www.bigeddieradio.com) removes or blocks conservative posters. Simply amazing!
The truth is that in the free market of ideas, liberalism can not succeed. A fact proven again and supported again by Rev. Sharpton's cry for Govt. to remove a conservative voice from the air ways.
Liberalism, failing America since 1932!

Brad| 12.9.10 @ 9:24AM

Not a huge correction, but "Liberalism, failing America" since 1912 (i.e. Woodrow Wilson)... unless there is actually a distinction between "liberalism" and "progressivism". By the way, Wilson = another great racist, just this time of the caucasian variety.