Ep 9 segment: Morton Downey Jr's ethnic slur that started Rush Limbaugh w/ Jeremy Newberger

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🗓️ 21 August 2015

⏱️ 16 minutes

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On this segment of The Katie Halper Show, Jeremy Newberger talks about his film "Evocateur: The Mort Downey Jr. Movie." Check out which ethnic slur got Downey Jr. fired and helped launch Rush Limbaugh's career. Listen to Ron Paul get called slime and Al Sharpton get called "a fat clown."

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0:00.0	Hello and
0:05.0	it is Wednesday, August 19th and we are here live in the studio at WBI 9th
0:10.0	and we are here live in the studio at WBAI 99.5 FM or WBA.org on the internet on the web.
0:20.0	Great to be back, great to be here as always. Yeah, so today we have no Jeremy Newberger who was going to be talking to us about his film Avocator the Mort Downey Jr. movie. Oh Oh yeah which is about the pioneer of right wing
0:35.6	trash TV loved him loved him whose torch is carried by the likes of Sean
0:40.6	Hannity Bill O'Reilly and Glembeck, and Rush Limbaugh today.
0:44.2	Love the tree, hate the fruit.
0:46.7	Well, he did change later in his life, though,
0:49.3	towards the end.
0:50.2	Well, sort of.
0:51.5	Kind of.
0:52.3	He stopped liking cigarettes, because he stopped liking cigarettes.
0:54.0	Well, yeah, yeah, yeah, exactly.
0:57.0	He said Chinaman and he got fired and guess who replaced him?
1:00.0	Rush Limbaugh, the much less racist. Just kidding.
1:04.0	Chinemann is like the most modest, non-racist thing
1:06.0	that Limbaugh has ever said.
1:08.0	In fact, his fans would be disappointed.
1:10.0	They'd call him PC, right?
1:12.0	If he said Chinaman. Yeah, but we're so excited to have our first guest with us who made a film about Morton Downey Jr. Jeremy Newberger are you there?
1:23.2	I am here.
1:24.6	Hello, it's so good to be on your show.
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