Rush Limbaugh: Idris Elba Can’t Be James Bond Because He’s Black

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Count conservative radio host Rush Limbaugh as one of the opponents of actor Idris Elba saying “shaken, not stirred” in a future James Bond movie.

Limbaugh argued during his show on Tuesday that Elba shouldn’t be cast as Bond because he’s a “black Briton” and the MI-6 protagonist was conceived as a white man from Scotland.

“James Bond is a total concept put together by Ian Fleming. He was white and Scottish. Period. That is who James Bond is, was,” Limbaugh said. His comments were flagged by The Guardian. “But now [they are] suggesting that the next James Bond should be Idris Elba, a black Briton, rather than a white from Scotland. But that’s not who James Bond is and I know it’s racist to probably point this out.”

Limbaugh likened Elba playing Bond to George Clooney and Kate Hudson playing President Barack Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama in a biopic.

Elba’s name has been mentioned before as a possible Bond. Less than a week ago, The Daily Beast reported that in leaked emails Sony Pictures Entertainment co-chairman Amy Pascal suggested that Elba should succeed Daniel Craig as James Bond.

“Idris should be the next bond,” Pascal wrote in an email to former Columbia Pictures vice president Elizabeth Cantillon on Jan. 4, 2014.

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  1. In the drug-riddled mind of this racist, child-molester-turned-talk-show-shock-jock, I’m sure Santa and Jesus are “white” also.

  2. Rush being unable to distinguish a fictional character from a real person does not surprise me in the least!

  3. The only thing more irrelevant that thRush commenting on American topics is thRush commenting on British topics.

  4. Avatar for pine pine says:

    Oh no a BLACK James Bond Rush ? Hide all the woman and children.LOL!!!

  5. a black Britain

    Briton

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