When the Right Wing Attacks Music Stars

Rush Limbaugh calls out Kanye West over SAE's racist chant.

To the Left - Republican-rooted politicians and talking heads have been calling out music stars for years, standing atop their soap boxes to spit venomous rhetoric about American-made culture. Check out how pundits like Rush Limbaugh, Bill O'Reilly and Mike Huckabee have come for the necks of Jay Z, Beyoncé, Ludacris and others to push their agendas.— Michael Harris (@IceBlueVa)(Photos from left: Darren McCollester/Getty Images, Lester Cohen/WireImage, Slaven Vlasic/Getty Images)
Rush Limbaugh vs. Kanye West - Rush Limbaugh is the latest talking head defending Sigma Alpha Epsilon's racist rant song and told his radio audience, "If this had been a song by Kim Kardashian's husband, and they had sung this song at the Grammys ... it'd be a hit."(Photos from left: Pascal Le Segretain/Getty Images, Ethan Miller/Getty Images)
The Morning Joe Crew vs. Waka Flocka - Waka Flocka felt the flames this week after The Morning Joe Crew tried to shift the blame on hip hop for Sigma Alpha Epsilon’s racist chant. Pointing out that Waka had canceled his show at the University of Oklahoma, co-host Mika Brzezinski stated, “If you look at every single song, I guess you call these, that he’s written, it’s a bunch of garbage. It’s full of n-words, it’s full of f-words. It’s wrong. And he shouldn’t be disgusted with them, he should be disgusted with himself.”Joe Scarborough also chimed in with, "The kids that are buying hip hop or gangster rap, it's a white audience, and they hear this over and over again. So do they hear this at home? Well, chances are good, no. They heard a lot of this from guys like this who are now acting shocked."(Photos from left: John Ricard / BET, Peter Kramer/NBC/N.../content/dam/betcom/images/2015/01/Music-01-01-01-15/011415-music-mike-huckabee-beyonce-jay-z.jpg

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To the Left - Republican-rooted politicians and talking heads have been calling out music stars for years, standing atop their soap boxes to spit venomous rhetoric about American-made culture. Check out how pundits like Rush Limbaugh, Bill O'Reilly and Mike Huckabee have come for the necks of Jay Z, Beyoncé, Ludacris and others to push their agendas.— Michael Harris (@IceBlueVa)(Photos from left: Darren McCollester/Getty Images, Lester Cohen/WireImage, Slaven Vlasic/Getty Images)

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