Rush Limbaugh: Obama Created Recession As 'Payback' For Racism

Rush Limbaugh said on his July 2 radio show that he believes Obama tanked the economy on purpose, both as "payback" for 230 years of racial oppression and because Obama simply doesn't like America.

He railed: "Who is Obama? Why is he doing this? Why? Why is he doing it? Is he stupid? Is it an accident? Is he doing it on purpose or what have you? ... I think we face something we've never faced before in the country -- and that is, we're now governed by people who do not like the country, who do not have the same reverence for it that we do. Our greatest threat (and this is saying something) is internal."

Limbaugh went on to compare Obama to the Black Panthers:

"So in this interview with J. Christian Adams yesterday talking about [how] he and his line attorneys were told to just drop the case against the New Black Panthers for voter intimidation in Philadelphia, he said that there were people in the office, DOJ, who said, 'Well, you know, those people suffered the indignity of slavery, discrimination, segregation and so forth.'

He said somebody else said, 'This is payback,' meaning, 'All right, look. We don't care if it's the New Black Panthers or whoever it is. Black people in this country have never, ever had a fair shake. This is payback. O.J. Simpson was payback. How does it feel?' That word 'payback' is not mine, [but] it is exactly how I think Obama looks at the country: It's payback time... There's no question that payback is what this administration is all about, presiding over the decline of the United States of America, and doing so happily."

LISTEN to some of Limbaugh's comments:

To drive home his point, Limbaugh used a HuffPost story about a woman whose unemployment benefits expired as evidence for Obama's racial revenge plot: "[HuffPost is] using this as an indictment of the Republicans and the Democrats for not extending unemployment benefits. This needs to be looked at in a different light.... Payback time. This woman's going to find out what it was like, in Obama's view, for other Americans to live as they did in this unfair and immoral country for the 230 years we've been around."

Comments

[Rileyman]

03:29 PM on 07/15/2010

Isn't it amazing that a man who is least affected by the economic crisis is the one who shouts out the loudest about it..??
Do you really think Rush cares about a family of four making thirty thousand dollars a year..??

[Yurdelite51]

08:14 PM on 07/15/2010

You are very correct, but his ditto heads do not agree evidently they love supporting him in the lifestyle of luxury. Stu.pid is as stu.pid does.

[Yurdelite51]

08:41 AM on 07/14/2010

'There's no question that payback is what this administration is all about, presiding over the decline of the United States of America, and doing so happily."'

Unbelievable, simply unbelievable.

[Alex Young]

08:00 PM on 07/15/2010

"payback, the concept that those who have been blessed with superior intelligence, a generous heart, a compassionate spirit, and unique abilities are predisposed to payback to the community and those less fortunate for the benefit of all."
(see , give back)

i agree that the President Obama is clearly "guilty" of this.
and as an american i am so proud he is my president.

[Yurdelite51]

09:37 PM on 07/15/2010

Good one. Thx.

[Oxonian2001]

10:36 AM on 07/10/2010

Huh?

If anything, Obama has been distancing himself from race--perhaps too much so: first of all, by criticizing Holder for his comments on race (i.e., Americans are too cowardly to do so); secondly, his back-pedaling on the Gates issue last summer with the beer summit, and thirdly, his denial of Jimmy Carter's claims that much of the bagger and Repug animus against him was racially motivated.

So I don't know what planet Rush is on: but this just goes to show what drug addiction can do to you. That's why so many so-called "elitist libs" can't tolerate listening to him or any of his ilk drivel nonsense for more than 5 minutes. (Even that is punishment.)

[Soulsurfer]

09:51 AM on 07/10/2010

The turn back strategy works well for the wingers; accuse the other side of what you're guilty of. The rethugs obviously hate America, since they continue to do nothing to help the country. We all know what they're against (full employment, peace, health care for all citizens, a just society, corporations that play by the rules), but only occasionally do we see what they're for. Limbaugh's comments could be used to describe the right's attitude; wreck the country rather than see President Obama succeed.

[Yurdelite51]

08:16 PM on 07/15/2010

The problem is they already wrecked the country and continue to show us they have no ideas about how to fix it.

[Walter H]

09:33 AM on 07/10/2010

This is good news. It will force people to back away from him or be at risk of appearing to be insane.

[charles116]

03:32 PM on 07/10/2010

Hopefully.
They are already drifting from Sharron (can't spell her name right) Angle.

[madisonhack]

08:04 AM on 07/10/2010

"I think we face something we've never faced before in the country -- and that is, we're now governed by people who do not like the country, who do not have the same reverence for it that we do. Our greatest threat (and this is saying something) is internal."

Limbaugh went on to compare Obama to the Black Panthers"
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This is no different than the way the Nazis turned a cry for nationalism into an organized policy of antisemitism as a cure-all for what ailed post WWI Germany. Economics, false pride, and then finding someone to blame is the tried and true way of coalescing the masses into doing the bidding of the few.

Limbaugh knows what he's doing and he should be prosecuted for sedition - there's nothing free about his speech.

[rgateman]

08:24 AM on 07/10/2010

The repube party is the same as the 1930's nazi's in their outlooks and the teabaggers are the equivalant to the brownshirts. Just listen to the old tapes from that era and then tune in limbag, beck, hannitty, FOX, Palin, Bachmann, Angle or Paul.

Palin - Bachmann 2012! glory!

[342HP]

08:04 AM on 07/10/2010

So Obama is the REAL quantum leaper huh?

Obama has amazing super powers. He is supposed to be fixing the leak in the Gulf, so he's Aquaman too.

Maybe Rush's listeners are into comic books.

[General Public]

08:01 AM on 07/10/2010

The recession started in the fourth quarter of 2007, before Barack Obama was even taken seriously as a candidate (back then everyone thought Hillary Clinton would easily win the nomination). George W. Bush was president until January 20, 2009. So it is factually wrong to say Barack Obama had anything to do with creating or starting this recession in any way, shape, or form. I saw right-wingers posting comments online blaming Obama for the recession even before he got elected, back in early fall 2008, and they claimed Obama caused the recession because investors knew Obama was going to win the election and would implement radical Marxist socialism as taught by Saul Alinsky and Obama's ex-preacher Jeremiah Wright, while also being a secret Muslim illegal immigrant from Kenya with a fake Hawaiian birth certificate who practiced Chicago-style politics and was a crook like Tony Rezko and associated with the New Black Panther Party. These right-wing kooks were around before the election, blaming Obama for things he had nothing to do with, pretending to be disgruntled Hillary supporters and calling themselves PUMAs while spouting right-wing talking points Hillary would never agree with in a million years, and later they organized themselves into the Teabaggers. On Politico's website, those kooks post this kind of nonsense all the time, but now I see where their latest material comes from... it is all copied from Rush Limbaugh's crazy radio rants. The kooks are incapable of original thought, apparently.

[Yurdelite51]

08:33 AM on 07/14/2010

Faved because I totally agree with you and you saved me from having to write it.

Thanks too for calling out the cra.zies on Politico because the conservatives are vicious there. Also, check out Jake Tapper's blog on ABC because the same Politico types hang out there. Now, why would they be hanging out on Tapper's blog? Because he is as disrespectful a journalist toward this president as I have seen.

[micifus]

07:42 AM on 07/10/2010

Seriously, there's no other word for this man than disgusting
...and sickening...
...and loathsome.
...and nauseous, revolting, repugnant, abhorrent, repulsive and detestable.

That about describes him. Although his new wife might also add "filthy rich".

[hypnotoad72]

08:08 AM on 07/10/2010

So he divorced his previous wife; the one who made the cool ties that Rush sold under his own name and only made the occasional token reference that she did all the work?

Oh well, more republican family values - I'm not surprised.

[meercat19]

02:13 AM on 07/10/2010

Limbaugh = racist right wing sheepherder.

[Sgt Riley]

01:59 AM on 07/10/2010

"Rush Limbaugh was arrested at an airport because he had illegal Viagra. So apparently, Dick Cheney isn't the only Republican who's locked and loaded." --David Letterman

[Sgt Riley]

01:58 AM on 07/10/2010

In Washington, in response to President Obama's stimulus package, Rush Limbaugh proposed his own stimulus package. That's true. You see, that's what this country needs. What we need is a stimulus package proposed by a fat DJ. That's what's going to set the country back on track. Actually, Rush Limbaugh's stimulus package is just a package containing a big bottle of stimulants." --Craig Ferguson

[hypnotoad72]

08:09 AM on 07/10/2010

LOL! Craig always rocks the house!!

[Sgt Riley]

01:57 AM on 07/10/2010

"Did you hear that Rush Limbaugh's Manhattan penthouse is on the market for $14 million? It's an amazing property. Over 4,000 square feet. And that's just the medicine cabinet." --Craig Ferguson

[charles116]

03:40 PM on 07/10/2010

Ba-rump-bump.

[Sgt Riley]

01:55 AM on 07/10/2010

Rush Limbaugh got married over the weekend, and right about now I think he's probably on a Viagra drip. He married a much younger woman. The honeymoon went well. Mrs. Limbaugh was able to dial 911 while trapped under Rush." –David Letterman

[Sgt Riley]

01:54 AM on 07/10/2010

"Rush Limbaugh got married over the weekend. This is actually his fourth marriage; he blames the first three breakups on Obama." --Craig Ferguson