Walter E. Williams, who filled in for The Drugster today while he was doing his Oxycontin runs and doctor shopping, was being a psychopathic lunatic. He is the economics professor at George Mason University. Today, he was on a roll that made Mark Steyn (a Canuck Rush flunky) look like a Moderate Republican. He was named Psycho Talk on The Ed Show today. Surprised that Olbermann did NOT name him on WPITW.
I would be surprised to see him fill in for him tomorrow in which it would be most likely Mark Steyn's turn.
Walter E. Williams' Wikipedia page.
Limbaugh Fill-In Walter Williams Says [Insert Insane Statement Here]
Published Tue, May 25, 2010 4:02pm ET
By Kate Conway
Sitting in for Rush Limbaugh today was George Mason economics professor and conservative columnist Walter E. Williams, who immediately dove into an absurd and uninformed commentary on Rand Paul's statements about the 1964 Civil Rights Act. His first contribution to the discussion was an attempt to redefine discrimination as the act of choosing. He illustrated his point by equating racial discrimination with being discriminating in his choice of wife, weakly joking that he "harmed" the women he "discriminated" against by denying them the opportunity to become his wife. Suggesting that people who disagree with his position on the Civil Rights Act might feel "white guilt," he then directed listeners to a section of his website granting "amnesty and pardon ... to all persons of European descent." Williams wrapped up this section of the show by discussing for nearly ten minutes the discredited idea that the free market would have eventually eliminated racial discrimination as it if had merit.
In the second hour of the show, Williams ranted about "salt tyrants," stating that a tyrannical precedent was set by "anti-tobacco zealots." He claimed in passing that an FDA study finding secondhand smoke to be harmful to your health was "fraudulent," and said that the FDA and the Obama administration have taken the position that what the American public wants is irrelevant -- if you disagree with them they'll fine you, put you in jail, or put you out of business. He suggested that we will reach a point at which salt will be so regulated that schoolchildren will be asked to inform on their parents' salt intake, and told a caller who said she had a medical condition requiring extra salt consumption that she might have to get a prescription for salt. In an unrelated absurdity, Williams suggested that perhaps on top of the single vote every American is already entitled to, for every additional $20,000 in income tax a person pays he should get one additional vote.
Williams started out hour three with a bang by suggesting that secession might be an appropriate course of action for those who feel that the government interferes too much in private affairs. He compared the problems facing the country to a marriage in which one partner has broken the marital vows and said that, rather than staying together and fighting, a more peaceable solution would be separation due to "irreconcilable differences." He stated that secession need not always be violent, absurdly citing, among other examples, West Virginia's secession from Virginia during the Civil War. Williams then spent most of the rest of the show lauding free markets, claiming that they benefit poor people much more than regulated markets. To illustrate his point, he claimed that in poor neighborhoods some people have nice (and supposedly free-market) cars but the government-run schools are universally bad. Williams' free-market enthrallment apparently runs so deep that he actually concluded the show with an argument against child labor laws, stating that if poor families need their children to work to earn money they should be allowed to do so. When a caller objected to Williams' rationale, saying that he wanted his children to have the opportunity to be educated, Williams told him it was better to be uneducated than to starve. Laws that once protected children from mines, he said, now just protect them from air-conditioned offices.
Walter E. Williams talking crazy
Schultz cites Walter Williams' comments on discrimination, women as "Psycho Talk"
May 25, 2010 7:04 pm ET
From the May 25 edition of MSNBC's The Ed Show:
Limbaugh fill-in Williams asks caller: "Why don't you want child labor?"
May 25, 2010 3:19 pm ET
From the May 25 edition of Premiere Radio Networks' The Rush Limbaugh Show:
Is this man promoting Child Labor?
Rush fill-in Williams tells caller: "I believe in keeping wives under control"
May 25, 2010 2:36 pm ET
From the May 25 edition of Premiere Radio Network's The Rush Limbaugh Show:
Wow, is that man a rabid sexist, even worse than Boss Limbaugh himself.
Rush fill-in Williams: Each "American should have one vote, plus one additional vote for each $20k he pays in income taxes"
May 25, 2010 2:08 pm ET
From the May 25 edition of Premiere Radio Networks' The Rush Limbaugh Show:
Is this batshit man promoting election rigging in favor of the Republican and the Tea Potty? I believe so. This is like Operation Chaos 2.0 going on. He is doing his best to promote the Teapican viewpoint.
Rush fill-in Walter E. Williams warns of "tyranny" of salt regulation in processed foods
May 25, 2010 2:14 pm ET
From the May 25 edition of Premiere Radio Networks' The Rush Limbaugh Show:
Limbaugh flunky Williams downplays discrimination, equates it with being discriminating in choosing wife
May 25, 2010 1:58 pm ET
From the May 25 broadcast of Premiere Radio Networks' The Rush Limbaugh Show:
Drugster's Oxycontin Show fill-in Williams says government can force businesses not to discriminate because "they have guns"
May 25, 2010 2:06 pm ET
From the May 25 broadcast of Premiere Radio Networks' The Rush Limbaugh Show:
Rush fill-in Williams urges Paul to "vigorously defend his position," says Maddow is "a person of little understanding"
May 25, 2010 1:47 pm ET
From the May 25 edition of The Rush Limbaugh Show:
Walter E. Williams Flashback:
From the 09.04.2009 edition of Premier Radio Networks' The Rush Limbaugh Show:
Columnist Willilams: "minimum-wage laws are one of the most effective tools in the arsenals of racists everywhere"
One of the more insidious effects of minimum wages is that it lowers the cost of racial discrimination; in fact, minimum-wage laws are one of the most effective tools in the arsenals of racists everywhere, as demonstrated by just a couple of examples. During South Africa's apartheid era, its racist unions were the major supporters of minimum wages for blacks. South Africa's Wage Board said, "The method would be to fix a minimum rate for an occupation or craft so high that no Native would likely be employed." In the U.S., in the aftermath of a strike by the Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen, when the arbitration board decreed that blacks and whites were to be paid equal wages, the white unionists expressed their delight saying, "If this course of action is followed by the company and the incentive for employing the Negro thus removed, the strike will not have been in vain."
Tragically, minimum wages have the unquestioned support of good-hearted, well-meaning people with little understanding who become the useful idiots of charlatans, quacks and racists.
Columnist Willilams: "minimum-wage laws are one of the most effective tools in the arsenals of racists everywhere"
Accusing Clinton of "mimicking black dialect," Walter Williams didn't note she was reciting hymn in Selma speech
September 12, 2007 8:01 pm ET
SUMMARY: Syndicated columnist Walter Williams accused Sen. Hillary Clinton of "insulting blacks" during her Selma speech on March 4 by "mimicking black dialect." He wrote, "Commemorating a key point in American history is one thing, but a white person mimicking black dialect is demeaning and insulting." But as Clinton herself stated during the speech, she was quoting from a hymn by Rev. James Cleveland.
09.12.2007: Accusing Clinton of "mimicking black dialect," Walter Williams didn't note she was reciting hymn in Selma speech
I believe this fill-in is likely one of the most radical fill-ins ever for the GOP God Rush.
Teapican = combination of Tea Party and Republican.