{"id":77404,"date":"2014-12-26T14:09:05","date_gmt":"2014-12-26T14:09:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=77404"},"modified":"2014-12-26T14:06:02","modified_gmt":"2014-12-26T14:06:02","slug":"limbaugh-idris-elba-shouldnt-play-bond-hes-black","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=77404","title":{"rendered":"Limbaugh: Idris Elba shouldn&#8217;t play Bond; he&#8217;s black"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>James Bond was white, is white and should always be white &#8230; at least according to Rush Limbaugh.<\/p>\n<p>On his radio show Tuesday, Limbaugh was reacting to a story that came from the leaked Sony emails &#8230; saying Idris Elba, star of &#8220;Luther&#8221; and &#8220;The Wire,&#8221; should take over the iconic part from\u00a0Daniel Craig.<\/p>\n<p>But Limbaugh feels that Elba (who he describes as &#8220;African-English,&#8221; since Elba is a Brit) is not right for the role because Bond was created as a white guy and should stay that way.<\/p>\n<p>Limbaugh said, &#8220;Now Sony is suggesting that the next James Bond should be Idris Elba, a black Briton rather than a white from Scotland. But that&#8217;s not who James Bond is, and I know it&#8217;s racist to probably even point this out.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Limbaugh tried turing the tables, asking people what they would think if\u00a0Barack Obama\u00a0was played by George Clooney and Kate Hudson were to play Michelle.<\/p>\n<p>Rush has a bunch of other examples you just have to hear.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/KKBbzBORgD4\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><br \/>\n&#8211;<br \/>\nSource: tmx.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>James Bond was white, is white and should always be white &#8230; at least according to Rush Limbaugh. On his radio show Tuesday, Limbaugh was reacting to a story that came from the leaked Sony emails &#8230; saying Idris Elba, star of &#8220;Luther&#8221; and &#8220;The Wire,&#8221; should take over the iconic part from\u00a0Daniel Craig. But [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":77405,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[34,38,6],"class_list":["post-77404","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-ghana-standards-authority","tag-palaver-newspaper","tag-togbe-afede"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77404","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=77404"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77404\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/77405"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=77404"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=77404"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=77404"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}