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Music Star John Legend Joins MSNBC Host in Mocking Black Rush Limbaugh Fan on Twitter

Feb. 27, 2013 11:27am Erica Ritz

MSNBC Host Touré and Singer John Legend Mock Black Limbaugh Fans on Twitter

Musician John Legend arrives at the 55th Annual GRAMMY Awards at Staples Center on February 10, 2013 in Los Angeles, California. (Photo: Getty Images)

Black Republicans, reports have shown, often face even more vicious condemnation from some on the left than the so-called “Tea baggers” and “bitter clingers.” When black actress Stacey Dash endorsed Mitt Romney before the 2012 presidential election, Twitter exploded with vile insults for the star, calling her an “indoor slave” and a litany of curse words.

On Tuesday morning, MSNBC host Touré and celebrated singer John Legend had some mocking words for black Rush Limbaugh fans. And while the comments weren’t as vulgar as what Dash received, their still smacked of condescension.

It began when Touré tweeted: “Being tweeted at by a Black Rush Limbaugh diehard fan is always fun.”

Legend responded: “You gotta respect that person’s tolerance for cognitive dissonance.” (His tweet appears to have since been deleted).

(Photo: Twitter/@Toure)

For those who haven’t brushed up on psychology in a while, cognitive dissonance is “a conflict resulting from incongruous beliefs and attitudes held simultaneously.” In this case, those incongruous beliefs are presumably being black and being a Rush Limbaugh fan.

Touré concluded by retweeting Legend’s response, adding that he isn’t able to “respect” the fans: “I wish I could!”

(Photo: Twitter/@Toure)

Back in October, Touré claimed the GOP is “an all white party” that is “hostile to blacks.”

Twitchy concluded:

“Listening to Limbaugh while black? Heresy! Clearly the poor dears don’t know what’s good for them like Legend does…And there’s liberal tolerance in a nutshell: No respect for individuality. No respect for different opinions. And definitely no respect for black Americans who refuse to kowtow to leftist thought police like Touré and Legend.”

(H/T: Twitchy)

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fight_back
Posted on February 27, 2013 at 12:19pm
Blacks like Toure’ are too stupid to realize they ARE the “House Negroes”. They do what the democrats tell them to say, do, even eat, like “good boys”. Being half black and hispanic, the black community is a joke and has no credibility when they allow this kind of think to carry on. Blacks in this country have no honor, no pride, no respect, and no responsibility. They wonder why we not as white vs black, but as a country have little to no respect for them. Dr. King, Medgar Evers, Rosa Parks, and many more would be ASHAMED of the black community today. They would be ashamed of Obama as well. Of course no one says this out loud because liberals aka facists would say this is racist. Well if the truth is racist then thats what I am.

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- SquidVetOhio
  Posted on February 27, 2013 at 12:54pm
  Ever notice the lighter the skin of the black guy, the more he hates whites? (Generally speaking)
  
  It’s like some Napoleon syndrome. Look at Ben Jealous and all of these racist clowns.
  
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- txannie
  Posted on February 27, 2013 at 2:02pm
  @fight….while I agree with you on what you just posted, equally as bad is the nasty insistance of many whites on calling some ‘red necks’, ‘trailer trash’, etc to describe white people. This kind of sniping because of one ‘class’ of peoples’ intolerance of another so-called ‘lower class’ people needs to stop. This country is supposed to be about freedom and equality for all with no class distinctions nor distinctions by color or how rich one might be. We have had a turbulant history of learning lessons to offer equality and fairness without removing freedoms from individuals, so why are we falling back into the awfull uncivilized actions of predjudice and intolerance? We have got to stop this on all levels of our American society and respect ourselves as Americans without a hypen in our ethnicity, which makes no difference if you are truly counting yourself as an American.
  
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- MIBUGNU2
  Posted on February 27, 2013 at 3:58pm
  Another White Black Guy and Towwe’ aren’t RACIST, NAAAA!!
  Not while being BLACK..these AH’s will never get over it……….
  I thought we were doing pretty good until 2008 !!!
  The “Great Uniter” was going to bring us TOGETHER….NOT !!
  Lie # 382
  
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- jmmjr49er
  Posted on February 27, 2013 at 4:48pm
  I like Toure’ when he was lead rapper in Wu Tang!
  
  Toure’ is special just ask him.
  
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malbro
Posted on February 27, 2013 at 12:19pm
Obviousley he is a racists………..

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- MIBUGNU2
  Posted on February 27, 2013 at 4:06pm
  Touré and Legend.” wait, you mean LeRoy and Rastis’
  Two RACIST TUR*S….liberal tolerance in a nutshell..!!
  
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neiman1
Posted on February 27, 2013 at 12:18pm
Almost as bad as the attacks on this site and others when a Gay Republican, or today, a Gay Gospel singer, is highlighted. Those who have no understanding go insane.

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- Beachmastermax
  Posted on February 27, 2013 at 12:29pm
  What is wrong with a happy republican or gospel singer?
  
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- Cavallo
  Posted on February 27, 2013 at 12:41pm
  What Neiman is saying is that being black means they have certain behaviors, that being black means they have certain beliefs and conduct that are defined by being black. Or maybe Neiman means that only sometimes you should judge on the basis of the activity and conduct and other times ignore that conduct and activity. Remember that being PC is a very treacherous maze, a labyrinth of tricks, traps, conditions and exceptions.
  
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- Gonzo
  Posted on February 27, 2013 at 12:49pm
  You are obviously as biblically illiterate as a gay gospel singer.
  
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- Your_Senile
  Posted on February 27, 2013 at 3:20pm
  What you must know
  
  Toures’ twitter icon reveals he is very comfortable with little boys. It makes him twitter-pated. must be a black cultural thing too.
  
  it is so
  
  Your Senile
  
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Really2012
Posted on February 27, 2013 at 12:13pm
reverse racism.. Way to go…

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- naughtycal
  Posted on February 27, 2013 at 12:18pm
  They fear any black that leaves the plantation of the collective. How dare he think for himself.he’s black he should get in line with people of his color and when he doesn’t they break out the whips and start beating in the court of public oppinion to make damn sure every other black knows what they’ll get if they dare start thinking for themselves as well. To quote Lisa Jackson (obama EPA CZAR)
  We someone breaks the rules WE CRUSIFY THEM AND SCARE ANYONE ELSE FROM BREAKING THE RULES
  
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- Toltepeceno
  Posted on February 27, 2013 at 4:20pm
  Wouldn’t reverse racism be “not racist’?
  
  Racism:
  1
  : a belief that race is the primary determinant of human traits and capacities and that racial differences produce an inherent superiority of a particular race
  2
  : racial prejudice or discrimination
  
  A person of any race can be racist towards another.
  
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EQUALIZER
Posted on February 27, 2013 at 12:13pm
A Legend in his own mind, a real washed up hack!

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SSN637
Posted on February 27, 2013 at 12:08pm
In order for a utopian or dystopian society to succeed, the individual MUST be taken out of the equation. Groupthink is the first vital step to tyranny.

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- naughtycal
  Posted on February 27, 2013 at 12:19pm
  Borg society
  
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- RLTW
  Posted on February 27, 2013 at 2:04pm
  CG Jung siad
  All mass movements, as one might expect, slip with the greatest of ease down an inclined plane made up of large numbers. Where the many are, there is security; what the many believe must of course be true; what the many want must be worth striving for, and necessary, and therefore good. In the clamour of the many resides the power to snatch wish-fulfilments by force; sweetest of all, however, is that gentle and painless slipping back into the kingdom of childhood, into the paradise of parental care, into happy-go-luckiness and irresponsibility. All the thinking and looking after are done from the top; to all questions there is an answer, and for all needs the necessary provision is made. The infantile dream-state of the mass man is so unrealistic that he never thinks to ask who is paying for this paradise. The balancing of accounts is left to a higher political or social authority, which welcomes the task, for its power is thereby increased; and the more power it has, the weaker and more helpless the individual becomes.
  Whenever social conditions of this type develop on a large scale, the road to tyranny lies open and the freedom of the individual turns into spiritual and physical slavery.
  
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Justan Noyence
Posted on February 27, 2013 at 12:08pm
Wow Touré and Legend, you sure are trying to force folks into your stereotypes, good going douchebags (yes I can do it too) LOL

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PatriotSunDevil
Posted on February 27, 2013 at 12:05pm
John Lesion, aka John Hasbeen, aka John Loser, you have a lesion in your own mind. The level of talent in that interview would not fill a thimble.

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kiwi1
Posted on February 27, 2013 at 12:05pm
At one time they were not allowed to read. Now they are now allowed to Think for themselves.

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Joshua81
Posted on February 27, 2013 at 12:04pm
Is this guy even black?? He looks like some kinda creamy+mocha+turd color.

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effenmontero
Posted on February 27, 2013 at 12:04pm
why is it trolls like this think their opinion matters . . . never liked this douche !

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SpankDaMonkey
Posted on February 27, 2013 at 11:59am
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A singing Free Lunch Slave good for entertaining not much else…..

Why are black people so angry?…..

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Pat Alexander
Posted on February 27, 2013 at 11:52am
This guy’s O’blamer Kool-Aid supplier has great integrity.

They are not diluting it, even a little bit..

Maybe he should actually listen to Rush a few times.

They should re-issue that old t-shirt: “My mind’s made up. Don’t confuse me with the facts!”

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IndyGuy
Posted on February 27, 2013 at 11:49am
John and Touré………Legends in their own minds….The rest of us know they are idiots…

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Beachmastermax
Posted on February 27, 2013 at 11:46am
Let’s see President Lincoln was a Republican. Does this make Toure’ an idiot?
First planc of the GOP…abolition. IBID.
First board members of the NAACP…12 republicans and one was black. IBID

Hey you black republicans, Toure’ thinks you need to get your b utt’s back on the liberal plantation. How dare you think for yourselves.

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mrmikejohnson
Posted on February 27, 2013 at 11:43am
The Blaze has gone from copying stories from DrudgeReport to copying stories from drudgereport and Twitchy.

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- Sharon Rose
  Posted on February 27, 2013 at 12:02pm
  be gone, troll.
  
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- obamagirl
  Posted on February 27, 2013 at 12:07pm
  exactly – where is the story here???? The right is really grasping at straws if this is actually a story.
  
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- The_Woofster
  Posted on February 27, 2013 at 12:24pm
  Ledgend who?
  
  No, not grasping at straws, just proving the hypocrite that he is.
  
  And let’s hear the lefty mainstream montague of the day….I wonder where they lift their stories from.
  
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- obamagirl
  Posted on February 27, 2013 at 12:37pm
  you must have hit a nerve here with the whackos cuz they’re coming out of the woodworks. Let’s see John Legend is a prominent law maker right? or wait a minute – he’s not. Not a story. He might be right but it’s not a story. What is the right wing so afraid of? Why are other’s opinions so scary to them? Oh well, most of you are just simpleminded and uneducated.
  
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- The_Woofster
  Posted on February 27, 2013 at 12:57pm
  Like Sharon said “be gone troll”
  
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- DIR
  Posted on February 27, 2013 at 2:47pm
  @OBAMAGIRL
  
  There is a lot to be afraid of, when thinking of liberals in general and barry in particular. Whereas you are concerned, we’re not afraid of you, just disgusted with you and yours. Take your BS to the phsychic friends network, where your prognostications will likely be more acceptable, with your accuracy probably not. Here, we don’t care for the smell of your BS. As far as John Legend is concerned, he is celebrated for his legendary stupidity. It wasn’t until now that I am to understand the whoopie cushion sounds coming from his rear end qualified him as a singer. The only song, I;m aware of, associated with this nut is the ‘musical fruit theme song.’
  
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progressiveslayer
Posted on February 27, 2013 at 11:40am
Hey John why are so racist? Why do you want to keep your brothers and sisters on the plantation? I bet you really like this huh you POS. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VKk2ePlpOdk

You’re sick.

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- MDECKER
  Posted on February 27, 2013 at 12:09pm
  “cognitive dissonance is “a conflict resulting from incongruous beliefs and attitudes held simultaneously” Can also describe one’s work as well.
  
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thegreatcarnac
Posted on February 27, 2013 at 11:37am
Toure, like all democrats, is a liar. The left always lets you know who are what they are afraid of by their treatment and defammation of that person or subject. They are all deathly afraid of Rush and Toure is afraid of black people who listen to Rush. His rant will not change the hearts of conservatives; even black ones.The left is afraid of the truth. Truth always scares them.

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Cavallo
Posted on February 27, 2013 at 11:37am
Blacks must think in a certain way. That way you can look at them and know exactly what their beliefs are and what their politics are without talking to them, right? It boggles the mind to think that in 95% (the percentage of blacks that voted for bobo) of the cases it would be true. MLKs dream is truly dead and rotted.

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- progressiveslayer
  Posted on February 27, 2013 at 11:58am
  It’s like that racist pig LBJ said I get the ‘N’s on welfare for life and they’ll vote democrat forever,problem is we really don’t have a two party system in modern day Amerika. If we had a true two party system we wouldn’t be 16.5 trillion in the hole with an ever expanding welfare/police state. We need a two party system and purge progressives from power ASAP.
  
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- Cavallo
  Posted on February 27, 2013 at 12:06pm
  Don’t forget that BoboCare will add 6.2 trillion to that score, at a minimum.
  
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Fubared
Posted on February 27, 2013 at 11:36am
Libs have proven over and over how racist they actually are. No wonders here.

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- Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra
  Posted on February 27, 2013 at 11:59am
  I have had blacks I worked with over the years, say some of the most vile racist things to my face, and when I confront them about it, their answer was “Hey, its our turn, you just got to take it, and if you say anything about it, we will turn you in to EEO and make stuff up about you. So STFU Kracker”
  
  And I have had them make snide comments about my mixed marriage, so anyone who says Whites are so racists, go into a black neighborhood and listen to what they will say to your face.
  
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- Fubared
  Posted on February 27, 2013 at 12:34pm
  Until just recently, I was the krazy kracker in my former hood. Spent too much time on the porch w the shotgun and rottie-not getting paid for security. Sad part was the old retirees with no options, couldn’t leave the open air drug market and stolen vehicle dump. No control over the ebt/bet younger generation at all. There may be some very rude awakenings on the horizon.
  
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- Cavallo
  Posted on February 27, 2013 at 12:35pm
  Get it on tape.
  
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- Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra
  Posted on February 27, 2013 at 12:46pm
  @Cavallo
  Actually, one of the gentleman, from Detroit, said some nasty things about my Philipino wife in front of the shop, “I know why you married your wife, no Black woman would have you.” That comment got him escorted out of the military. But the funny thing is he was talking to me at lunch one day and asked me what my family thought about my wife. I told him, I don’t care what they think, this is the woman I love and if they can’t accept that, I don’t need to talk to them, but everyone in my family loves her. He couldn’t understand that because he said, if he brought home anyone except a black woman, his family would disown him. That is sad, but it shows the thinking in the black community.
  
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- Fubared
  Posted on February 27, 2013 at 1:05pm
  Cavallo
  Perhaps TMI, but I shoot tape for part of my living… By the time things progressed to front porch shotgun/rottie action, we were by-passing the local city pd and calling the troopers for more serious incidents and told our neighbors to try the same-it started to work after a while. I was shot at before and it took 9 minutes for responders and they had me disarm for their safety of course, on my property…This was in a part of town where the pd hides on major holidays so as to not become targets. Things settled, as a Benelli and rottie will often do to certain scenarios. My biggest fear for a few years was dropping a 13 year old getting his props for the newest gang initiation on me, my property, or family. Aside from fun on the home front, most issues I ever faced were with meth head read necks out in the sticks with zero positive upbringing. Those decent poor old retirees have close to no options. So many of our inner cities are going the way of detroit and chi-town. Have had pretty serious issues in small town apalachia where the white, red necks rule-same crap, different color. Civility is just about pushing up daisies and we are stuck with nothing but dividers as a ruling class.
  
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MRARGUELLES267
Posted on February 27, 2013 at 11:35am
The Left is filled with conformist. It seems the only reason people identify with leftist views is because of popularity. Yes it sucks to be singled out. But why follow the crowed who will only jump off cliff like follow the leader.

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huey6367
Posted on February 27, 2013 at 11:35am
It’s not a race thing. Sounds as if you two are the racists.

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RaydocX
Posted on February 27, 2013 at 11:34am
ah yes, the acceptable racism of the Left: you cannot be a real person of color if you do not believe as we do and hate the same people we do.

it amazes me the Left will consciously tear down Condaleeza Rice or Herman Cain and then turn around and pretend that non-racially motivated statements are entirely based on race… don’t agree with the President’s socialist agenda? Racist. Don’t agree with American foreign policy? Racist. Don’t believe that raising taxes on those already paying the most in order to give more to people who are not trying to work at the available jobs? Racist.

In fact, deciding not to support Legend in future projects or performances based on his behavior here? Watch out, that will be called racist, too.

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00100111
Posted on February 27, 2013 at 11:34am
Racism is perfectly acceptable when employed by the Left. It will be fun to skin leftists alive. :)

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Fitzzz
Posted on February 27, 2013 at 11:34am
Toure (aka Farina)
Started out at MSNBC as a very flamboyant gay man,
but was told to tone it down, was interfering with the message
Now he tries to come across as a reg guy LOL

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- IndyGuy
  Posted on February 27, 2013 at 12:08pm
  So…He takes the lean forward thing seriously???
  
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