April 10, 2007 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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| Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 podcast. | |
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| I'm pausing here because the audio sounds odd to me today. | |
| It's nothing in there. | |
| Remember just some of the vagaries of the cochlear implant. | |
| It's not a little bassy today. | |
| Anyway, it's a thrill to be with you, folks. | |
| Already Tuesday here of the Fastest Week in Media. | |
| Remember this a four-day week. | |
| My buddy Tom Sullivan from Sacramento will be here on Friday. | |
| If you want to be on the program today, telephone number is 800 282-2882, and the email address is Rush at EIBNet.com. | |
| Well, the uh the uh a judge has rejected the argument of Jose Padilla. | |
| Now, I've heard some people pronounce his name Padilla. | |
| Uh so I've and I I looks like it'd be Padilla to me. | |
| But anyway, a judge has rejected the fact that he was tortured. | |
| Uh Jose Padilla claimed that he was forced to stand in painful stress positions, that he was given LSD or some other drugs as a truth serum, that he was subjected to loud noises and noxious odors and forced to endure sleep deprivation, extreme heat, and cold, and harsh lights. | |
| Well, that doesn't sound so bad. | |
| I mean, that sounds just like your average college hippie party back in the 1960s. | |
| You got LSD there, you got um other drugs, truth serum, loud noises, noxious odors. | |
| It's all there. | |
| The president outlined his uh uh new immigration proposal yesterday. | |
| It happened during the program. | |
| We didn't uh join his uh remarks in progress, but uh we have a little summary here that we'll talk about here in just a second. | |
| But he's also uh going to invite Democrats to the White House to discuss the standoff they all have over the funding of the Iraq War, the supplemental funding bill. | |
| Um up there, even though he says he's not going to budge from his opposition to troop withdrawal deadlines in Iraq. | |
| Um this is the uh administration said all this uh this morning. | |
| Uh it's an AP story. | |
| Uh you know, the Democrats will then turn Bush down because he has a conservative agenda, they can't talk with anything like that uh with anybody like that. | |
| Uh and you know, speaking of which, what Hillary and Obama have now joined John Edwards in pulling out of the Fox News channel debate that was co-sponsored by the Congressional Black Caucus. | |
| You know what this really adds up? | |
| You know what this is? | |
| I uh it's it's not so much fear of Fox, although it may be, I mean, but they're opening themselves up to all kinds of questions. | |
| What? | |
| You you you you want to send Pelosi over there to talk to Basher Assad, and you'll go anywhere to talk to terrorist enemies and leaders, but you won't go on Fox News. | |
| What are you guys afraid of? | |
| But I t I think at a at it at a deeper level here, uh there is a there's an ongoing underneath the surface battle for who runs the Democrat Party. | |
| And the Congressional Black Caucus has just been told it ain't you guys. | |
| You want to get in bed with Fox. | |
| I mean, Howard Dean's out there sending out the signals and the blogosphere sending out the signals. | |
| You guys are not going to go on Fox. | |
| Uh and these Democrat candidates uh uh say we got Hillary, we have Obama, we have John Edwards uh have all sided with um the gang trying to run the Democrat Party from Howard Dean's side and the in the left-wing blogosphere. | |
| So that's one of the interesting subtexts to uh to all of this. | |
| But I still wonder how all of this is going to play out if it plays out at all in the minds of the American public. | |
| That's always what interests me. | |
| Uh when any of these news stories come down the pike. | |
| Uh, what will the American public think with the uh with an entire party refusing to appear on a single network? | |
| And of course, remember that in a presidential debate, the candidates are the stars, whoever the moderators are, and they would be comprised of a cross section. | |
| It wouldn't just be cr Fox News channel uh people, but even if it were. | |
| I mean, what's so tough about answering questions? | |
| These people are not going to be doing commentary. | |
| Uh the Fox News Channel people, the other people that might be on the moderator panel are not going to sit there. | |
| The interviewer panel are not going to be sitting there and uh and offering monologues or commentary or any of that. | |
| The candidates are the stars here. | |
| I mean, these guys can take any question you want, answer it however you wish. | |
| Uh I I don't know what Fox is going to do. | |
| I have I have uh no insight. | |
| Wouldn't it be great if they went ahead and televised the debate and just put cardboard cutouts of all the Democrats who aren't there? | |
| You know, get a cardboard cut out of Hillary, get a cardboard cutout of Edwards, a cardboard cutout of Barack Obama, and just ask them questions. | |
| Ask him questions anyway, and let the silence speak for itself. | |
| I mean, that's not unprecedented. | |
| That kind of thing has uh has been done before. | |
| As to the immigration debate, President Bush unveiled the basics of his latest immigration proposal yesterday. | |
| It's uh now this is an L.A. Times story. | |
| They say it's a new immigration proposal, and the president hopes to get this done by August. | |
| Uh it is a mix of tougher border enforcement and a complicated path to legal status for illegal immigrants that the White House hopes can break the congressional deadlock over this issue. | |
| Now, Rich Lowry, National Review Online has a really good piece on this today. | |
| And he says it it's it's it's it's breathtakingly contradictory, these are my words, to watch the Bush administration on this. | |
| On the one hand, when it comes to Iraq, no matter what the circumstance, we're not giving up. | |
| We're gonna fight, we're gonna do the right thing. | |
| We're gonna keep plugging away, and we're gonna go and finish the mission. | |
| When it comes to illegal immigration, the slightest bit of progress, which is now occurring. | |
| I mean, there are more and more raids that are taking place on the border. | |
| We're finding more and more houses uh where illegally smuggled aliens are are are holding up, catching more and more smugglers. | |
| And it seems like according to Lowry, the Bush administration wants to snatch victory uh uh from the jaws of defeat here, uh, or snatch defeat from the jaws of victory and and and say, well, but this is not working, we've got to come up with a new comprehensive plan. | |
| Uh he did say yesterday that he wants uh, you know, border security has to be first before anything else happens, but uh it it it it is an interesting piece that Lowry has written about, and he's the editor of National Review, uh uh th that it contrasts the Bush approach uh with Iraq versus illegal immigration. | |
| Whereas uh you know, if it's not working, uh let's let's give up on this and and uh do something else. | |
| Uh the plan, one one plan the president was vague about the details yesterday of his new effort, but uh one plan would require illegal immigrants wishing to remain in the U.S. to return to their country of origin first and pay a ten thousand dollar fine to obtain a three-year work visa. | |
| The visas would be renewable at a cost of thirty, five hundred dollars. | |
| Also illegal immigrants who were in the U.S. before June 1st of 2006, who paid various fees and fines and who met other criteria, including learning English, eventually could become citizens. | |
| Now, these conditions for visas and citizenship are more stringent than previous uh provisions in a Bush-supported bill that the Senate passed last year. | |
| That would be McCain and uh Kennedy and that bill, but it remains uncertain whether tougher conditions will overcome the objections of those who consider it amnesty. | |
| Uh, Bush said, uh as he has throughout the immigration debate that he opposed amnesty, which he defined as the forgiveness of an offense without penalties. | |
| He said he's gonna work with the Democrats who now control Congress and Republicans to find a practical answer that lies between granting automatic citizenship to every illegal immigrant and deporting every ill- Well, that's that's quite a ways. | |
| You got a lot of room to play around and move in there. | |
| Deportation, he said is just an impractical position, is not going to work. | |
| May sound good, may make nice soundbite news, but it won't happen. | |
| Um, you'd have to say that the plan is uh is more to conservatives liking, but uh they're not popping any champagne corks out there over this. | |
| Uh the it's it's because everybody thinks you when you get down to it, look, it's gonna have a bureaucracy that's gonna have to okay, you're gonna these people are gonna have to go back home. | |
| Well, it means they're gonna be deported. | |
| Whether they're whether you call it deportation or not, if you got people here, they're gonna have to first go back home, pay a fine, then come back. | |
| What do you gotta find them to send them home first? | |
| Uh it it it it's it's uh and a lot of people think that the way this is gonna end up anyway is blanket amnesty anyway, because once that's tried and it's discovered to be impractical. | |
| I mean, if you can't deport them, you can't deport them, and yet you gotta find them and send them back home. | |
| Uh collect the ten grand where were the where are they gonna get the ten grand? | |
| Student loan program? | |
| Where do they don't give them any ideas? | |
| Global warming stack uh continued to give birth overnight. | |
| We didn't get to it uh any yesterday, and it's had some exciting stuff in it. | |
| Lots of stuff to happen on the program today, some great uh audio sound bites, and of course your phone calls in McCain. | |
| It's talking about McCain uh, you know, last in fundraising, having trouble with conservatives. | |
| And I, you know, I I I'm not the first to point this out today. | |
| I pointed it out long before anybody else did many, many many moons ago. | |
| But you know, McCain was out there currying favor with his base, the drive-by media. | |
| And all that time he's out there attacking Republicans and attacking President Bush, and he goes on Hardball at night, he goes on the Sunday shows and does it where are those guys now? | |
| Where are they? | |
| They've thrown him overboard. | |
| They've thrown him under the bus because McCain has made the decision he's gonna stake his candidacy on the need to succeed in Iraq. | |
| He's gonna go heavy metal, pedal of the metal. | |
| Uh, and he's uh he's he's go he's going to make sure that that is the defining issue for him. | |
| Uh and it's uh it's an interesting strategy. | |
| So there's there's a lot percolating out there, uh, my good friends. | |
| We have to take a brief time out here, set the table for the rest of the program. | |
| We'll come back and get started with it right after this. | |
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| Mr. Snerdley tells me he's being bombarded with phone calls about the Don Imus and Rutgers situation. | |
| And I must admit that I'm having email inquiries about the same. | |
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| Um my inclination was to uh at first, my instincts were to avoid this this whole circumstance. | |
| Uh, but it is apparent that I'm uh not going to be able to. | |
| Uh as for, you know, th to me that this this really isn't so much about Imus. | |
| Uh Imus is who he is, and everybody's always known who he is. | |
| Uh it's more about uh the people that have propped Imus up and have looked the other way all these years over all these things. | |
| Uh and it's about a lot of hypocrisy in the drive-by media. | |
| Uh I don't know why people are so worried about what Imus said because hardly anybody ever hears it. | |
| He has so small an audience these days. | |
| His uh his show is a classic illustration of buzz creating the impression of a large audience when it the large audience actually doesn't exist. | |
| His ratings have been declining for quite a while. | |
| Uh which happens. | |
| But the guests that he has on this program, uh, drive-by media people continue to hype it and make it appear larger and more influential than it actually uh actually is. | |
| And so this kerfuffle has broadcast his comments about the Rutgers basketball team, a girls' basketball team, far beyond what uh anybody in his audience uh knew about it until this all happened. | |
| It's a striking feature in my uh email. | |
| I never uh I never heard of this show. | |
| I didn't know what that until all this started happening. | |
| So the whatever was said has been has reached a whole lot more people than it would have had it been left alone, because Imus's show just doesn't reach that many people. | |
| He's he's tried to walk a fine line for a long time. | |
| He's uh tried to be cutting edge with his satire and jokes, and then he's tried to be mainstream with that NBC gaggle of reporters and the newsweek types and the uh and the authors. | |
| And just like Senator McCain, I'm sure that Imus thought that liberal reporters and authors would give him cover uh in events like this, Credibility and uh and that sort of thing, but it it apparently has not done that. | |
| Uh but I think we should be clear about some things here. | |
| The Today Show attacked Imus today. | |
| But NBC owns the network that runs his simulcast of the radio show. | |
| CBS owns his radio show. | |
| NBC runs his uh simulcast on their on their NBC MSNBC cable network. | |
| Every NBC reporter for the network of any stature has been on that show or wanted to be on that show, including uh Chris Matthews and others, and now they're acting like they don't know the guy. | |
| Uh Al Roker's out there demanding he'd be fired, demanding he be can't. | |
| This is going on too far. | |
| The very network that propped this guy up and made him seem like the second coming is now is now acting like, oh, this is horrible. | |
| This is outrageous. | |
| Well, but this why we we don't know what we're gonna do about that. | |
| They don't pretend to ob to objectivity to report on this man as if they didn't know about him and his sidekicks all along. | |
| Uh I mean, they've known for for th whatever number of years they've been going on the show, they know what happens on this show. | |
| They're just that to them it was a great opportunity to sell a book that they had written or to amplify some report that they had done. | |
| It was just more media exposure to one thing that TV people can't get enough of is a camera or a or a microphone, and he offered it to them, and now all of a sudden, with a couple of exceptions, uh they they are they're trying to report objectively here as though, why, we don't know this guy, why we're just reporting on this as it's as it's happening. | |
| And I also find it in all this that that NBC and MSNBC get a complete pass, as do their reporters, as do Newsweek and Time Reporters. | |
| All the other reporters who go on the show are getting a free pass. | |
| You know, I've I've always um I've always heard if you if you go on some show or you take action to support of uh somebody that's doing something, you are tacitly supporting it by virtue of not condemning it and so forth. | |
| And yet all these guests uh that have created the buzz about this show and made it seem much larger than it actually is and has been for quite a while, uh uh are acting as though they're independent from it and we're and we're and we're not part of creating the atmosphere that allowed this kind of thing to continue to occur there. | |
| Uh I mean, let's face it, folks, the drive-by media, if if it weren't for the drive-by media, the IMA show would have been off the air a long time ago. | |
| They made him who he is in his current uh incarnation. | |
| He's got no ratings. | |
| He did the right things. | |
| He's out there backing Carrie for president. | |
| He's attacking the war effort in Iraq. | |
| Uh and he's uh you know, trying to buy some sort of uh allegiance with all this. | |
| Uh he's out there throwing my name around as if that gives him cover, and that's that's gutless. | |
| Can't stand on his own two feet, acting like a little six-year-old in the sandbug. | |
| But that's what it is. | |
| I mean, the media are so cowed. | |
| Uh this is really the the crux of this to me. | |
| The media are so cowed they won't say diddly about Al Sharpton or Jesse Jackson's past racist anti-Semitic comments. | |
| Well, Meredith Vieira did on the Today Show today, but she apologized to Jesse Jackson before bringing up this hymetown remark. | |
| I'm sorry, Reverend Jackson, I uh break this up. | |
| At least she brought it up. | |
| She apologized first. | |
| They're they're cowed. | |
| They're afraid to death of these guys. | |
| Uh you know, Sharpton, I mean, you can talk about words any given, but any good utter words. | |
| Sharpton's actions with Tawana Brawley actually harmed some people's lives. | |
| And he's got a ministry, and he's got a he's got a radio show. | |
| Uh the Democrat Party embraces both of these guys. | |
| Hillary kisses their rings. | |
| Nobody says diddly when this happens, talking about Sharpton and Jackson. | |
| And yet they all of a sudden now get to decide who's acceptable and who is not. | |
| Sharpton and Jack Jackson get to decide who should be on the air and who should not be on the air. | |
| Sharpton's got a radio show. | |
| I mean, they tell me that. | |
| I didn't know it. | |
| I knew he was going to get one. | |
| I never heard about his radio show till all this video from yesterday. | |
| Look what he's said. | |
| Look what Sharpton said and done. | |
| He's got a radio show. | |
| The difference is minorities in this society, I don't care what minority They are can get away with anything because they're disadvantaged and they've been discriminated against. | |
| And they must be heard, and they must lash out, and they must strike back against the injustices that have been perpetrated against them. | |
| So the same rules do not apply to minorities. | |
| They're they're they're allowed to be. | |
| In fact, it's impossible for them to be racist, I've been told, because they don't have the power to implement whatever racism they might have. | |
| Well, you be the judge of that today as to whether or not they have this kind of power. | |
| Nobody has stopped Sharpton. | |
| Nobody objected when he was going to get a radio show despite what he's done. | |
| Jackson had a radio show too, TV. | |
| They all failed, but nobody tried to stop them. | |
| And if we want to have a debate about race and speech, let's go ahead and have it. | |
| But let's be honest and open. | |
| I mean, how can you discuss what Imus said without discussing what some of his critics have said and done, and these critics who now been elevated to final arbiter steps. | |
| We'll be back and continue after this. | |
| Oh, baby, having more fun than a human being should be allowed. | |
| Oh, no. | |
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| Anyway, here's the telephone number, 800 282-288-2, and the email address is Rush at EIBNet.com. | |
| The drive-by media also obsessed with Vice President Cheney's appearance on this program last Thursday. | |
| Uh Ed got a substitute broadcast engineer today, Ed Robinson in for Mike Mamone, who is uh out getting the car washed and antique shopping. | |
| Honeydew day. | |
| Uh David Gregory was uh hosting Hardball last night for uh for Chris Matthews, and he had on his uh guest as his guest, former ambassador Richard Holbrook. | |
| And uh there were sound bites two and three here, Ed. | |
| Gregory says, Nancy Pelosi, House Speaker's trip to the Middle East, she got us some hot water making representations during her meeting with Basher Assad. | |
| The Israelis were prepared for discussion, resumption of peace talks. | |
| Uh Prime Minister of Israel made it clear, tried to clarify the Israeli position that first Hamas and Hezbollah had to be renounced by Assad. | |
| I mean, that's the backdrop to all this. | |
| Well, what is your comment about everything that's followed, Mr. Holbrook? | |
| I know Nancy Pelosi very well, and I know she understood the Israeli position quite clearly, and she, I'm sure, represented it clearly. | |
| She was sitting next to Tom Lantos, the chairman of the committee, the only Holocaust survivor in the history of Congress who knows these issues intimately as well. | |
| Now, on the larger issue of the Republicans uh attacking her for going, and Vice President Cheney actually having the incredible audacity to say it's bad behavior on her part in an interview with of all people, Rush Limbaugh. | |
| Frankly, David, that's that's absolutely ridiculous. | |
| He's not saying it's ridiculous, Cheney was here. | |
| He said it was audacious for Vice President Cheney, incredibly audacious to say that Nancy Pelosi was engaging in bad behavior. | |
| That those two words, bad behavior has shaken the left up. | |
| It has shaken up the establishment when it comes to uh Pelosi. | |
| It's shaken up the drive-by media. | |
| Here's Richard Olbrook, uh, who was to be Secretary of State or Ambassador somewhere uh for Kerry, who served in Vietnam, had he won the election. | |
| Now the the exchange continues here uh and gets to the point where Holbrook accuses David Gregory, David Gregory, of uh of spouting GOP talking points. | |
| The Congress is a separate but equal branch. | |
| But why is it appropriate to have Congress and have Democratic leaders pursuing shadow foreign policy? | |
| David, David, they're not pursuing a shadow foreign policy. | |
| They're making trips to the region. | |
| This whole thing has been blown out of proportion by a deliberate ambush plan by the uh opposition, in this case the Republicans, and frankly, exploited by journalists who were just looking for a fake controversy. | |
| There is no issue here. | |
| Congressman Wolf, a Major Republican was in the region a few days earlier. | |
| Republicans were on her trip. | |
| There's no issue. | |
| Yeah, but the Republicans didn't go out until until Bosch tell Assad that the Israelis are ready to negotiate peace despite the existence of Hezbollah and Hamas. | |
| It clearly look at the Democrats are clearly setting the table to establish their own foreign policy. | |
| And Holbrook knows it, and Holebrook's in favor of this. | |
| Lanto said as much. | |
| I mean, you know, you Tom Lantos is who he is. | |
| There's no question he's a you know the uh first Holocaust survivor to serve in the U.S. Congress, but he is who he is. | |
| He said what he said. | |
| They're trying to establish their own foreign policy. | |
| Look at they got they've already assumed they're going to win the presidency in 2008. | |
| And uh they're trying to cement this notion that the United States is uh is is hated in the world and and uh all of these problems that we face uh we face simply because Bush was elected president, there is no Islamo fascist threat. | |
| Uh there is no problem with Middle East peace that can't be resolved by more negotiations. | |
| No problem if we just get the Democrats over talking to these tyrants and show them what friendly people we really are and what nice people the Democrats are, and how the Democrats understand these people, how we can all just get together and uh get along that uh that there's no question that that's uh that's what was going on here. | |
| Uh but I find it this this was uh this was the fourth day last night, the fourth day of the controversy that ensued over the appearance of Vice President Cheney on this program, and those two words Nancy Pelosi engaged in bad behavior. | |
| It's like he knew. | |
| It's like Cheney knew the two words that would send these people into conniption fits. | |
| And he ordered them. | |
| Uh let's go to the phones. | |
| Mark in Fort Lauderdale, your first today on the Rush Limbaugh program. | |
| Nice to have you with us, sir. | |
| Mark in Fort Lauderdale, are you there? | |
| Yes, good afternoon, Russell. | |
| I'm fine. | |
| Thanks for a call. | |
| I'm calling regarding this this IMUS affair, and I want you to understand I don't have any personal feelings about Imus one way or the other. | |
| I don't watch his show or listen to it. | |
| But what I've been overcome with here is the fact that Al Sharpton, of all people on this planet, has been declared judge and jury uh in this affair. | |
| Al Sharpton is an individual who has catapulted himself to national prominence by using racism as a springboard. | |
| And I would hope that uh the people that listen to your show will Google the Tawana Brawley scandal of 1987. | |
| Now I j wait wait wait just a second here, Mark. | |
| I uh I I I understand that I don't know how long you've been on hold, but uh these are these are comments that I I made uh just just a few moments ago. | |
| And I let me let me talk about some of this in in terms of uh because this is the media. | |
| You know, that you you you you everybody is is is I think focusing on the wrong thing here. | |
| The media are not being honest in their reporting. | |
| Of course, Al Sharpton isn't clean and pure as the wind-driven snow. | |
| Uh, and of course Jesse Jackson isn't. | |
| Uh but you if you want to sit out there and and and worry about Sharpton being the arbiter, that happened because Imus went to his show. | |
| Uh and you know, Sharpton's out there we well, the media's propped him up. | |
| The media's made him one of these arbiters, and and uh uh and and I know it's it's it's it's confounding and it seems hypocritical, but I've tried to explain this. | |
| Everybody knows that I w I was once on TV with Al Sharpton on CNBC, and it was way, way back, I mean the early 90s, and Ollie North was the guest host, and it was a Saturday night, and I had been to a Marine Corps law enforcement foundation dinner over at Ellis Island. | |
| I was the featured speaker, and I had to hustle out of there to get over there and uh do this show, and I did it as a favor to Ollie. | |
| And Sharpton was a guest, and he came in and he was convivial and nice and so forth. | |
| We sat down and he said, I forget what the you know the raging topic of the day was. | |
| But after he he finished his opening riff, and I looked at him and said, I don't understand why you have any credibility left with people in your community. | |
| And he looked at me and just stunned, and he said, Well, what are you talking about? | |
| So, well, the Tawana Brawley thing. | |
| I mean, the whole thing was a scam. | |
| You know, I mean, look at look at the lives in that circumstance that were really affected. | |
| I mean, there there were lives genuinely affected by it. | |
| And and of course, the Reverend Jackson has had his own uh forays into these kinds of controversies. | |
| But what you have to understand, folks, and I I will say this till I'm blue in the face. | |
| I talked about this last it affects our foreign policy with the left and the media. | |
| You have to understand something about liberals. | |
| Among many things, everybody has tried to define liberal as succinctly and briefly as possible. | |
| But one of the things, and there are many, that you have to understand that guide liberals, is the fact that they will not be seen as anyone who as as a person who discriminates. | |
| Discrimination is as bad a sin as there is. | |
| They look at minorities and they see minorities as helpless victims of a tyrannical majority. | |
| I'm not even talking race here because this is the reason the Iranians get away with behaving the way they do. | |
| The reason the left is soft on Al-Qaeda, these are just small little bands of nomads, and United States has this big bad bear patrolling the world trying to take their resources and take their oil and now conquer their countries and so forth. | |
| What do you expect these little people to do? | |
| I mean, the only way they can get noticed is to stand up and kill some of our people. | |
| And that's why CNN will go out and actually show video of this happening of Al-Qaeda snipers shooting Americans. | |
| They think it's about time we got the uh the feeling learning what it's like to be a minority. | |
| And we got it's time for our comeuppance. | |
| So you're just gonna have to understand that there are there are many different sets of rules. | |
| A minority is going to be governed far a majority rather is going to be governed far more by the anti-free speech tenets of political correctness than any minority group is. | |
| And I don't care what the minority group happens to be, whether it be racial or sexual or gender or what have you. | |
| Uh the minority, as far as the left is concerned, uh, by definition has no power. | |
| And so all they they're just they're just these tiny little voices trying to be heard. | |
| Uh they are sympathetic figures. | |
| Uh Al Sharpton and and Jesse Jackson are sympathetic figures, but there's another factor in this, too, that you have to understand. | |
| The Democrat Party, this all goes down to politics, and you've got to put this in context with the drive-by media. | |
| The Democrat Party is an amalgam of constituencies. | |
| There are the group, you know who the big labor groups are. | |
| You've got the teachers' unions, uh, you have to throw the left-wing cook blogosphere in as one of the constituent groups. | |
| They're being pandered to a lot these days. | |
| You have uh the African American vote, civil rights coalitions, uh, the feminists, I mean, all of these different groups comprise the Democratic Party, and they're constantly waging a battle for who gets a seat at the table of power at the Democrat Party. | |
| And the Reverend Jackson and Al Sharpton have been granted seats at that table of power. | |
| And the reason is they deliver. | |
| On election day, they deliver. | |
| If they didn't, somebody would replace them as members of the civil rights coalition at that particular seat at the table of power. | |
| I mean, Ralph Nees is in this bunch, all these civil rights groups. | |
| So you're you're not going to have, and you shouldn't expect uh for the drive-by media and and liberal Democrats to hold minorities, Jesse Jackson, uh Al Sharpton, to anywhere near the same standard, they will hold a member of what they think is a majority. | |
| A majority to liberals is by definition tyrannical. | |
| Minorities uh by definition victims. | |
| And of course, victims are entitled. | |
| I mean, prisoners at Abu Ghrab, victors, victims, prisoners at Guantanamo, victims. | |
| Uh the evil majority, once again engaging in torture and outrageous behavior. | |
| The United States is always guilty. | |
| The majority is always guilty by virtue of their power in the in the liberal mindset. | |
| So while it is maddening to see that people like Al Sharpton with his his his history and Jesse Jackson with his become the arbiters of who gets to say what when, as far as liberals are concerned. | |
| Yeah, it's it's incredible, but that's that's a reality that you're gonna have to face with the drive-by media. | |
| I'll tell you, you know, I watched this press conference today from Rutgers with that coach and with the uh the the president of Rutgers and the president of the athletic director and so forth, and then the the students went up there. | |
| And I'll tell you, you know, there were there were a couple people uh who came out in IMAS's defense earlier this week. | |
| One was Thomas Oliphant, the Boston Globe, and the other was Howard Feynman. | |
| And they both said, hey, we're part of the gang. | |
| We're part of Posse Hero. | |
| We've got to hang together. | |
| We'll hang. | |
| It's going to be real tough for them to do that after this, because this press conference today that was held by the Rutgers female basketball team and then their coach and all the university officials. | |
| I mean, that was a made-to-order press conference for liberals and the drive-by media to advance the whole notion that there is this tyrannical majority out there that I mean it's going to be hard for liberals who have all this sympathy for minorities to ignore this that happened today and continue to pretend that well you know this is making much as uh being because they're good they're going to run the risk of of of uh being perceived by everybody not just us as the uh as the total hypocrites uh | |
| That they are. | |
| Anyway, I'm along in this segment. | |
| You know what that means. | |
| Next one's going to be a little shorter than it should be. | |
| I apologize for that. | |
| We will be back. | |
| Look, folks, maybe an easier way to explain this. | |
| What you're watching, what you're witnessing here is the twisted knots that liberals have tied this whole society in. | |
| You've got a liberal perpetrator. | |
| You've got a liberal judge and jury. | |
| And this is an uncomfortable position for them. | |
| And, you know, they're being pulled and tugged in a whole bunch of different ways. | |
| I mean, you know, every time we talk about David Greger, we could say frequent Don Imus guest. | |
| Chris Matthews, frequent Don Imus guest. | |
| Any number of it. | |
| Joseph Biden, John McCain, John Kerry, frequent Don Imus guests. | |
| And, of course, you know, of course, that's not a problem. | |
| Cheney appears on this show. | |
| That's outrageous. | |
| How ridiculous is that? | |
| But I don't know. | |
| I'm trying to... | |
| I know you're angry about a whole bunch of stuff. | |
| I am, too. | |
| I have been for a long time. | |
| But part of assuaging some of the anger is just to understand some of the things that lead to what appear to all of us to be just absolutely hypocritical and outrageous. | |
| Such as Al Sharpton being the final arbiter of what some liberals allowed to say in public. | |
| There's no... | |
| sane explanation for it that's why the answer is liberalism. | |
| There's no rational explanation for this you have to understand liberalism if you're gonna have to understand this. | |
| If you're going to under Paul in Philadelphia I'm glad you called sir welcome to the EIB network. | |
| Megados from the city of Brotherly Love Rush I just wanted to make a quick point here. | |
| How I mean IMAS says this and Al Sharpton comes out and calls him a racist but if a black radio show host would have said anything like this this would be a non-story I mean there would be normal language for a black person to use towards a woman I mean derogatory language is derogatory language. | |
| And why doesn't Al Sharp and say we just need to stop all derogatory language. | |
| This is another point. | |
| And I've I've I checked the email during the break and you know Rush about the offensive words that were used here. | |
| Has anybody turned on the latest top 10 rap tunes? | |
| We all know what's in those lyrics, and we all know. | |
| Well, that's right. | |
| We all don't know what's in those lyrics. | |
| But this is, look, and I'm telling you, Stanley Crouch at the New York Daily News had been writing for years about the debasement of black culture based on some of the lyrics in pop culture tunes. | |
| But folks, it's not just black culture. | |
| It's not just hip-hop and rap. | |
| Take a look at Hollywood. | |
| You know, white people, too, are debasing their own cults. | |
| culture with some of the rot gut that shows up on TV some of the rot gut that shows up in Hollywood movies and so forth and who's running all this it's liberals liberals run Hollywood liberals run most of it liberals are are in charge of the music industry this this is I know it's it's it's frustrating uh but here again you know it it's sort of like uh you if you're talking to a friend and you got some people in your family you're mad at you can say whatever you want about your family. | |
| You can tar and feather but if your friend shimes in yeah yeah yeah you know your brother you better you're not allowed. | |
| So you know the the members of the minority group itself are allowed to characterize each other however they want but don't you agree you bet you bet if you're not a member of the group because you're not entitled you're you're not allowed. | |
| And that's also uh at play here. |
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