Hostile Response Quotes
The “remarks” were complaints to the legal authorities that her husband had been just lynched. The language of AP describing the event of the late 19th century was all the more remarkable since Ms. Turner was 8 months pregnant. She was hung upside down, and while still alive her belly was slit open. When the baby fell out and started to cry, one of the Valdosta citizens crushed its head with his boot heel. Then they doused her with gasoline and burned her alive. The mob then fired hundreds of shots into Turner's body. This quotation shows how even the national Associated Press syndicate felt it had to report a lynching, torture, infanticide amd murder without any moral or ethical commentary as if they were reporting a drought or an auto accident. The domination of Jim Crowe attitudes in the South and even parts of the North surpressed serious journalism regarding lynchings until Ida Wells {624106} made the breakthrough.
Limbaugh, a very successful political talk radio host, had a nasty habit of insulting people on the left, attacking their sexuality, their appearance, and other things that had nothing to do with politics. However, he himself seemed to be immune from attack until Reagan, on the air, gave him some of his own medicine.
