8 Rush Limbaugh Quotes on History

Rush Limbaugh quotes on history

6. I mean, let's face it, we didn't have slavery in this country for over 100 years because it was a bad thing. Quite the opposite: slavery built the South. I'm not saying we should bring it back; I'm just saying it had its merits. For one thing, the streets were safer after dark.

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7. You know who deserves a posthumous Medal of Honor? James Earl Ray [the confessed assassin of Martin Luther King]. We miss you, James. Godspeed.

25. As I said yesterday, truce is an old Arabic word. Goes way, way back in Islamic-Arabic culture, and it means, 'We will get you later.'

27. I heard that Gorbachev digs America. I'd be diggin' America too if I were raised a Commie and my only escape was vodka!

30. Is it possible that Kerry sleep-boated to Cambodia?

34. I mean, why didn't these morons leave New Orleans before the hurricane? I'll tell you why: because they wanted to rape and loot! That's just the way some people are! And if they're black - if the rapists and looters are black - it's not George Bush's fault! We've had these problems ever since the Emancipation Proclamation. Once the whites leave town, all you've got is overwhelming lawlessness. That's not racism, Mr. Snerdley; it's a proven, demonstrable fact. Have you even seen a ghetto in Greenwich, Connecticut? I rest my case.

39. They oughtta change Black History Month to Black Progress Month and start measuring it.

83. If Thomas Jefferson thought taxation without representation was bad, he should see how it is with representation.