Rush Limbaugh Wonders If 'Jewish Bankers' Will Have 'Buyer's Remorse' About Obama

Rush Limbaugh again lived up to his reputation for stirring controversy on his radio program earlier this week during a discussion about Scott Brown's upset victory in Massachusetts.

While opining about the prospect of more independents becoming disenchanted with Obama's agenda, Limbaugh launched into a ham-handed monologue about another group that he said might move away from Obama -- Jewish liberals.

"There are a lot of people, when you say banker, people think Jewish. People who have prejudice, people who have -- what's the best way to say -- a little prejudice about them. To some people, bankers -- code word for Jewish -- and guess who Obama's assaulting? He's assaulting bankers. He's assaulting money people. And a lot of those people on Wall Street are Jewish. So I wonder if there's starting to be some buyer's remorse there."

David Gibson at Politics Daily points out some interesting responses to Limbaugh's slapdash remarks

"Limbaugh's references to Jews and money in a discussion of Massachusetts politics were offensive and inappropriate,"Abraham H. Foxman, National Director of the Jewish Anti-Defamation League, said in a statement. While the age-old stereotype about Jews and money has a long and sordid history, it also remains one of the main pillars of anti-Semitism and is widely accepted by many Americans."

Marc Tracy of Tablet Magazine, an online Jewish publication, offered an explanation of the flawed logic behind the conservative talk radio host's comments:

"Limbaugh put the cart before the horse: what Obama said is offensive to Jews only if he was making the connection that bankers are Jews. But, of course, he wasn't. Instead, Limbaugh made the (offensive) connection himself, and then tried to cut-and-paste it into Obama's prior remarks. It doesn't really work that way. Sometimes a banker is just a banker."

Listen To Limbaugh's Remarks:

Comments

[ernieson]

09:15 AM on 01/26/2010

Throw enough S--T on a wall and some of it is going to stick.

[mellene]

06:20 PM on 01/25/2010

I can't believe this story has barely been covered. Oh that's right--he's the fair-haired darling of the right wingers and corporate types. Let's see, didn't the Supreme Court just change the playing field for corporations and who they can buy-off.

[riff4u]

06:16 PM on 02/22/2010

Let's see..... Rush hates doppers and has complained about themin the past...oops Rush IS a dopper. Then Rush complained about gays......hmmmmmm. His sexual orientation has been in question for years. The man is a complete hypocrite on most of the issues he goes off on.

[PathFinder]

05:34 PM on 01/25/2010

Rush LimBURGER is the moral equivalent of bin Ladin.

[d julien]

05:02 PM on 01/25/2010

What's the definition of oxymoron?

[KaAp]

08:49 PM on 01/24/2010

I long for the fairness doctrine to be brought back. This nonsense is really way out of control. Sometimes anti-Semitism is just anti-Semitism ...

[PSzymeczek]

08:12 PM on 01/24/2010

Gee. I hear "banker," and I think "White Anglo-Saxon Protestant."

[ESerafina42]

08:52 PM on 01/24/2010

Yeah, just look at the bunch that were up in front of Congress last year. WASPs to a man, and I do mean to a MAN.

[JanPoore]

08:53 AM on 01/25/2010

Bingo

[bagelmaven]

02:17 PM on 01/25/2010

PSzymeczek: PERFECT!!

[wilson0004]

07:47 PM on 01/24/2010

Mr. Limbaugh, who does speak his mind regularly went overboard this time. Mentioning a category of people is less than acceptable. If you speak of people, particularly those he mentioned it is totally out of line. He is a person who doesn't care who he hurts or demeans. I am truly sorry to have someone like him in the forum he has.

[dragonlady620]

10:40 PM on 01/24/2010

Where have you been? Rush does that all the time - always has. It's what he does.

[Mabo]

05:49 PM on 01/24/2010

Yawn...once again, people are posting based on the CLIP offered to them by HuffPo. Try listening to his program to hear what he says in context instead of being the mind-numbed robot that HuffPo wants you to be. You are playing right into their hands, believing their false premises because of a craftily edited clip.

[JanPoore]

08:57 AM on 01/25/2010

That would be torture and torture is illegal. Why don't YOU try watching Maddow, Olbermann, Matthews and Shultz on MSNBC instead of believing the false spin and intentionally edited clips that Faux News and Rusho the Clown puts on them to distort everything they say.

[schildpad]

12:54 PM on 01/25/2010

I watch him regularly, as a matter of fact. Have done since I was a kid. So why don't you stop making assumptions about everyone here just because they don't agree with you or with Rush.

[Lawyer822]

04:43 PM on 01/24/2010

Rush Limbaugh = Howard Stern... Shock JOCK!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[FoShizle]

04:13 PM on 01/24/2010

when fatback (Rush) rolls in, Dittoheads swallow.

[rudolph]

03:17 PM on 01/24/2010

It seems that there is no longer any line to step over.

[MostlyAngry]

03:10 PM on 01/24/2010

Too much over reaction here against Limbaugh. He is simply part of the shock jock crowd. This is where America has landed in the media world. Accept your fate and understand the new way of doing business and understanding things. His job is to promote ratings and money. He is being successful. Don't like him or don't agree with him? Then ignore him like I ignore the mainstream media. If you react emotionally to Rush's discourse then you deserve the pain. Some people agree with him as well. And, that is their right. You need to be a media discriminating detective if you are going to consume the product.

[ariveria]

03:51 PM on 01/24/2010

yes and that is how hitler started.

the best way to spread evil is to do nothing about it. if evil gives him good rating what does it say about the people that listen to him.

“When the Holy One Blessed be He created Adam, He took him and caused him to pass before all the trees of the Garden of Eden. He said to him, ‘See how beautiful and praiseworthy are my works; and all that I have created, I have created for your sake. Take heed that you do not damage and destroy my world.’” (Koheleth Rabbah 7:28)

Numbers 35:33
So ye shall not pollute the land wherein ye are:

[Keith Stephens]

05:19 PM on 01/24/2010

Reductio ad Hitlerum

[haval2]

02:08 PM on 01/24/2010

None of the tribes would claim this bag of hot air.

[BetterDays]

01:07 PM on 01/24/2010

Rush Speel Directions: Say something outlandish, make some bizarre connection that doesn't resist in reality, or accuse others of doing something that you are clearly perpetrating, i.e. race. Black is white and up is down. Appeal to an uninformed base by projecting your indecencies onto the left. Lather, rinse, repeat day after day after day.

[dragonlady620]

12:33 PM on 01/24/2010

Why do so many people treat Rush's remarks as legitimate commentary? He is not a political commentator, or a journalist, or an analyst - he is a shock jock, loosely defined as an entertainer, whose only interest is in ratings (= money) and whose qualifications to do anything but spew hate drivel are ZERO.
There was a time that Rush at least seemed to know the difference. Now he seems to have started believing his own bullsh*t.

[tiredofthesameoldstuff]

01:27 PM on 01/24/2010

He is the defacto chairman of the Republican party. The Republican party has admitted this.

[dragonlady620]

02:04 PM on 01/24/2010

That is definitely one of the reasons that so many people take him seriously. It's probably the reason that Rush has started to take himself seriously.
I am continuously surprised at how many people really believe that Rush is actually a legitimate political analyst. Perhaps I shouldn't be surprised if you consider the face of the current MSM landscape, or the fact that Fox Noise has validated Rush by having Rush interview with (pinhead) Chris Wallace.