I suppose that might have been his overall point, but he picked a very stupid way of going about it. It played beautifully into the stereotype of the old white Republican that feels threatened by the culture no longer being old-white-guy-centric.
Here's what I heard Rush say, starting at 39.39:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KKBbzBORgD4#t=39m39s
And this is how it was received:
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2014/12/29/rush-limbaugh-s-fear-of-a-black-james-bond.html
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/galanty-miller/rush-limbaugh-saving-the-_b_6383038.html
Well played, Rush.
How long have you listened to Rush?
The idea of black Bond caused Limbaugh to exclaim on his show last week that Bond was “white and Scottish, period.”
While Limbaugh did concede that Bond was a fictitious character, he still insisted, “We had 50 years of white Bonds because Bond is white. Bond was never black.” Adding, “I know it's racist to probably even point this out.”
“Probably racist”? No, I’d say definitely. How else do you describe the notion that certain roles should be labeled as "whites only”?
Limbaugh then tried to defend his asinine opinion by asking if people would be okay if Nelson Mandela was played in a movie by Kelsey Grammer? Well, it could happen, I guess. But since Mandela is a real person – as opposed to say, James Bond – it could prove difficult for audiences to believe Grammer’s Mandela when he complains about being discriminated against due to his skin color.
Really? Some dingbat named Dean Obeidallah writes all that ineffable twaddle about a tongue-in-cheek rambling of a radio personality? Calling Rush's opinion "asinine??"
Limbaugh makes comments like this because his right-wing fans require a non–stop diet of race-baiting red meat.
Good grief, this guy is a
flaming moron! Does this jackwagon realize that many of Rush's audience are liberals? Many are libertarians?
Does he thinks Rush broadcasts solely to KKK members?
Rush has stated on several occasions that I know of that in order to understand, fully, what he's saying and doing, you need to listen to his program for something like three months straight. Or maybe it was six?
Well, three for conservatives ...six for liberals.
Sorry, after that honeysuckle hogwash I refuse to even try to tackle The Huffington Post's reaction.
All I can say is I don't even know why they bother to try to analyze what they don't even have the IQ power to understand.
Limbaugh sometimes goes off on wild tangents from even my perspective. He once made a comment about astronomy (having to do with the distance to stars, something I'd studied in college) that revealed he was completly ignorant about what is learnable about our universe.
But when he stays on political/social topics, he's got a lot of smarts .... certainly a LOT more than Mr. Obeidallah!!!!