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April 10, 2007 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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April 10, 2007, Tuesday, Hour #2
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And here we are.
Welcome back, my good friends, El Rush Ball on the cutting edge of societal evolution.
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Say, Ed, grab Al Gore and Ball of Fire.
We've got to do our global warming.
If I don't get to it early, I'll keep putting it off and putting it off because I don't want to bore you people.
You can't do this stuff every day because people get tired of hearing about it.
And I think that's something, by the way, that's happening to the whole movement, is they're just going overboard every day with some of these most outrageous.
In fact, that UN panel, last Friday, when they were prepared to release the final full report, not just the summary, the final full report, hey, they were worried that the drive-bys were going to overreact and start using words like catastrophe and apocalypse and so forth.
And they were right.
I don't believe they were concerned about it in the first place.
But before we get to the global warming stack, I just want to remind you, and I say this frequently.
We've been here 18 and a half years here, the 19 on August 1st.
And there have been many episodes of sheer brilliance and prescience on this program.
And I remember it is in the mid-90s.
I first coined the term the concerned and then the offended.
And I pointed out that we have had at that time an ever-growing group of people out there who exist for the simple reason to be offended.
They're just waiting and looking for any reason to be offended.
And the reason they are is because they learned that if they say something offends them, they can genuinely, if they're minorities of any kind, not talking about race, if they're minorities of any kind, they can generally, via political correctness or other sort of things, sympathy, get the words that offend them squelched or the behavior that offends them stopped or what have you.
I mean, it's the root of the anti-smoking craze, the secondhand smoke myth that's out there.
There are countless examples of it.
And we're in the midst of one now.
Everybody just righteously indignant, righteously offended.
Why?
How can anybody say something like what is wrong?
But, you know, the offended are very selective in what it is that offends them.
They're only offended when certain people do or say things that offend them.
If others that are not members of the so-called majority engage in similar behavior or utter similar words, you never hear that they're offended.
That's what's sort of delectable and juicy about this.
This is all libs.
This is all libs, and they're tying themselves into knots here because, you know, you've got the charge of racism and bigotry on the table, and that charge is usually leveled at conservatives.
But the person in question here can in no way be considered a conservative.
So they're tying themselves into knots over trying to do, you know, what would be consistently correct and Makes sense for them to do, but they don't like doing it.
They're having all kinds of problems.
I just want to reiterate one point.
When I say that the media is largely responsible for this, responsible may be the wrong word, but to say that the media is simply watching this from afar and being objective on it is a joke, is laughable.
The Today show really lit in Et Lauer, really lit into Don Imus today.
But guess what?
NBC owns the network, the simulcasting radio show.
As if they didn't know.
Did they just learn this last week?
Every reporter for that network of any stature has been on the Imus show or wanted to be on that show, including Matthews and David Gregory.
And the list is long and far and wide.
And they've all known what's been going on.
Now they've got to pretend that they're objective in covering this event, even though they've sat there while guests on this show and heard similar things for all of these recent years and never said a word about it.
But now all of a sudden they can be objective.
Now, the network that put this show on television, NBC, has decided, well, we can't put up with this in order to suspend this show for a couple of weeks.
They're going to pretend objectivity.
And that's exactly what is going on.
This is pretend objectivity, as if they didn't know about what was happening on this show for all of these years.
And in the process of this, guess who's getting a total pass?
NBC is getting a pass.
MSNBC is getting a pass.
Their reporters are getting a pass.
The reporters from Newsweek and Time Ago on this show, they're getting a pass.
But they were all enablers.
They were going on the program for their own selfish reasons.
They were there for selfish reasons of the host.
You know, mutual usable society, if you will, or mutual user society.
They all sat there and enabled this.
Look, if it hadn't been for all of these liberal media types going on this program, the truth of its smallness would have been known long ago.
I have said many times in describing, you know, buzz and PR, there are a lot of things, movies, television shows, radio shows that have a lot of buzz about them, but no audience.
This is one of them.
And the buzz comes from the guests who appear on the program.
These reporters who are now doing their damnedest to appear objective about and shocked and outraged.
Why, this can't go on any longer.
Why, he took a pledge.
Why, he promised this wouldn't happen anymore.
Blah, But they don't like doing it.
It's a very uncomfortable position because this is normally what they do to conservatives.
You know, the media are so cowed in this, they won't say diddly about Al Sharpton or the Reverend Jackson's past.
They both have made racist and anti-Semitic comments.
And Sharpton, in his case, sickening actions.
I mean, Tawana Brawley episode.
And the Democrat Party's embracing these two guys.
Meredith Vieira had Sharpton on, or Jesse Jackson on the day on the Today Show.
I'm sorry, Reverend Jackson, but I must bring up the Haime Town.
I'm sorry to do that.
There's fear there.
Little fear.
You've got to apologize for bringing up the Haime Town remark.
But somebody that, you know, you got to mention it, this happened and so forth.
So the bottom line is here that we've got an offended industry.
We've got an industry of the offended and the concerned.
And they spring into action.
I don't know.
It's almost like a plan.
You know exactly what's going to trigger it, and when it happens, you know it's going to get triggered.
It's just going to be a matter of time.
And of course, the question that I have is: how long is it going to be before the American people simply get tired of all this?
Every day, you wake up, you turn on the news, you find out somebody's outraged about something.
They're outraged about secondhand smoke.
They're outraged.
Look at the drive-by media for crying out loud.
Folks, all it does is try to keep us in chaos and tumult every day.
This is going to kill us.
This is going to destroy us.
This is going to make us sick.
This is going to shorten our lifespan from global warming to whatever.
The business of media today is chaos and fear, and to keep you constantly in tumult.
And then the offended chime in and then, well, we can't permit this to be a civilized society and so forth.
I just wonder where the tipping point's going to be, where a majority of people say, I don't want to grow up and be offended every day.
I don't want to wake up.
I'm sick and tired of people that are just overly sensitive and so forth.
You remember the old saw?
Hey, look, wipen up.
This is nothing.
It really boils down to this for the offended.
Now, I've mentioned this before on many previous occasions on this program.
I very seldom get offended.
It's a waste of time.
It's a waste of energy.
And it's a waste of intellect.
But more than that, it is a surrendering of self, a surrendering of power.
Why in the world would you want to grant people, people you don't even know, the ability and power to offend you?
And see, the dirty little secret is that half or more of these people who are offended are not.
They are in the midst of a political agenda.
Liberalism runs clear through this whole controversy.
And being offended is simply a liberal tactic in order to squelch behavior and speech that you don't like.
And when you say your feelings are hurt and you've been offended by this and you don't understand why, you have to essentially, if you strip it all away, people are admitting that they're just a bunch of linguini-spined, limp-wristed individuals who have no guts and no courage.
I mean, how in the world?
Why in the world would anybody want to run around and make their whole life being offended?
Who wants to grant somebody that kind of power, that kind of authority over them in order?
I mean, people say things, let them bounce off.
It's no big deal.
And certain instances of it, it's difficult to do.
I mean, I will admit that.
People close to you, people that you know, do things that offend you, take advantage of you, misunderstand generosity in some cases.
But I think that's more disappointment than it is wasting time being offended.
We've got a whole being offended culture out there.
And never, ever forget this: that the vast majority of these people who are trying to create as many of you in that group of offended are simply executing a political agenda, as all of liberalism is.
Quick timeout.
We'll be back and continue after this.
And we're back, El Rushmo, having more fun than a human being should be allowed to have meeting and surpassing all audience expectations on a daily basis.
Well, looky here, this is from Reuters, their health and science editor.
People from families prone to Parkinson's who drink coffee or smoke are less likely to develop the disease, researchers said yesterday, and a finding that reinforces earlier observations and offers potential paths to treatment.
I remember when I first heard that nicotine might have positive effects on Parkinson's disease.
I mean, I just chuckled.
Because there's a classic illustration.
They've kept us in tumult and chaos over tobacco and nicotine.
It's going to kill us.
It's going to cause cancer.
Then for a while, coffee was going to raise your blood pressure and lead to a heart attack.
Eggs, cholesterol, going to kill you and destroy you and so forth.
Just everything.
Oat bran was supposed to be as healthy as you can possibly be.
We need brand muffins, oat brand muffins.
And it turned out that that turned out to be false.
Now what are we supposed to get?
Parkinson's disease sufferers who are being told that a new finding reinforces earlier observations that people who drink coffee or smoke are less likely to develop the disease.
The researchers doubt that smoking and caffeine protect from Parkinson's, but they say the information offers clues about how environment works with genes to cause disease.
Dr. William Scott of the University of Miami Scruel of Medicine, who led the study, said the findings point clearly to dopamine, which is a message-carrying chemical in the brain that falls to low levels in Parkinson's.
Dopamine is important because both smoking and drinking caffeine affect dopamine in the brain, meaning they elevate levels.
That dopamine is powerful stuff, folks.
If the drug dealers ever figure out a way to make it, you can forget it.
Well, smoking and drinking coffee, if you're worried about getting Parkinson's, it may not hurt you.
It may be from some beneficial levels because you keep your dopamine up, which is what falls when you get Parkinson's disease.
On the other hand, if you're worried about getting lung cancer 50 years after you start, or whatever they say coffee's going to do you, it's a balancing thing.
There's nothing in here about embryonic stem cells and smoke and a cup of coffee.
What are you throwing embryonic stem cells in here?
Well, I know that, I know, I know, I know, I know.
Embryonic stem cells are supposed to hold, even though there's no evidence it does anything yet.
They've had no success here.
They've had cord blood and adult stem cells are showing a lot of success, but not embryonic.
But I know that that's the big key.
So maybe if we get embryonic stem cell research going and then get people to start smoking and drinking coffee, lick the disease, or at least limit its impacts.
Now, other researchers had noted that both smoking and drinking coffee seem to reduce the risk of Parkinson's, but no one had tracked it in families prone to Parkinson's.
And of course, if you get Parkinson's, too late.
I mean, this is not something that's going to change it, but it might reduce the risk if you think that you're going to get it.
When a disease runs in families, the study suggests that certain genes are causing it.
We need to consider these environmental associations while looking for genes that are involved in Parkinson's.
Anyway, for what it's worth, it's your life.
You know, do what you want.
Take all this stuff, take all this research.
Every day, there's a different study that comes out and says this is going to kill you or this is going to save you.
And your head's probably swimming now.
House Judiciary Committee, by the way, has served a subpoena to the Attorney General Alberto Gonzalez, seeking documents related to the firings of U.S. attorneys.
And this is totally unnecessary because Gonzalez is willing to appear.
They just don't want him to appear.
They're trying to delay his appearance.
He's been wanting to get up there since before they went on vacation.
And the subpoena is for documents that I'm sure he wasn't prepared to take up with him.
But it's relentless.
They can't get any legislation passed, folks.
This is just going to continue with the harassment of the administration by the Democrats in Washington.
Let's go to La Crosse, Wisconsin.
Angela, I'm glad you waited.
Welcome to the EIB Network.
Good afternoon, Rush.
Hi.
Hi, I just want to shout out to Thomas E. Mitchell Jr. at the Community Journal in Milwaukee.
I just want to say that I am just, I'm so tired of these type of things coming up because, well, I'm black and I just, I don't, I agree with you whenever you said about just some things you shouldn't just pay attention to.
And to just devalue oneself and overvalue another human being by giving them words to just strike you down, just stop you cold, it's ridiculous.
And I'm really sick and tired of it.
And it's just, it was quite embarrassing whenever the dust up came about Barack Obama being articulate.
Right, right, right, right, wait.
Who said that?
Excuse me?
Who said that?
Said what?
That Barack Obama finally got somebody clean and articulate in the African-American.
It was the liberals, of course.
It was Joe Biden that said that.
When Bill Cosby went out on numerous occasions and attempted to tell certain audience members, it's time to stop using these kind of words at home.
He was tarred and feathered, correct?
That's correct.
He was one of their heroes.
But what it is, it's a devaluing of oneself.
And I really hope that people are paying attention to this.
The reason why black people don't care if another black person says these very same things is because, and I can't say this is true across the board for all black people, but I believe it's true for some, is that the black people that say it doesn't have the value in their minds to even care about what they may say against another black person.
But if a white person overvaluing another human being, if a white person says it, then it's, oh my God, I can't believe it.
And it's just, again, devaluing oneself and overvaluing another human being.
And this is just, it's ridiculous.
I could care less what Don Imis has to say.
I could care less what any, I don't even know if Don Imis is a racist more so than he is an idiot, but I could care less what he has to say.
I could care less what a racist has to say about me.
This is just going, this is ridiculous.
And I'm really sick and tired of being, I'm black.
I'm part of the black community of the black race.
And to have to be looked at as if I care if somebody white calls me the N-word, I could care less.
I will not give anybody the power to strike me down with a word ever.
And I teach my children the exact same thing.
Who cares?
So I just want to make that very clear.
Well, that's amazing.
You're pretty advanced because we're just, we're in the context talking about words.
Now, your employer says it's something like that.
It's a different situation.
We're talking about people you don't know from a whole town far across the country from where you are and all that.
Look at, I got to take a break here, Angela.
Do you have a couple minutes you can hang on?
I can.
I can hold on.
Well, I appreciate that.
Mucho thanks.
We'll continue with Angela in La Crosse, Wisconsin in just a second.
No need to think about it, folks.
I do that for you.
And we welcome back to the microphones of the EIB Network, Angela in La Crosse, Wisconsin.
You know, I was very moved by what you said because, frankly, I wish more people were that way.
It took me a long time to learn.
I used to be so affected by what other people thought of me, people that didn't know me and those who did.
And for the long time, it kept me in prison because I spent so much time trying to please people I thought didn't like me or thought there was something odd about me.
And I was just surrendering the power to be who I am to all these people who themselves were screwed up.
They were just, it was just a mess.
And I've just finally, I forget what it was that triggered it.
I'm just not going to waste time being offended by this stuff, particularly when it's words and especially when I know it's not true.
So why get all worried about accusations about me, the things that aren't true?
And those are the things that you just bounce off, and that's essentially what you said.
You don't have time for this.
I don't have time for it, and I think that we waste too much time on it, especially, you know, we have children, and how do we want our children to grow up if we teach them to believe that certain people, white people, matter to the point where we're all God's children, so every person matters.
I look at every person and see God.
God made the different races for his pleasure and would hope that we would join in that pleasure of people of different races.
However, we can also be used by evil and teach our children that certain people, if they say this about you, is an egregious crime and you shouldn't take that.
You should be offended.
And it's just not the truth.
And I'm just not buying into it anymore.
Let me ask you a question, though.
And I don't mean to put you on the spot with this.
But this is about the Rutgers ladies' basketball team.
Did you happen to see their press conference today?
Not really.
I saw it, but I just, I really.
Right, well, it went on for close to 45 minutes.
So they had the coach, Vivian, I forget Vivian's last name, but she spoke the longest.
And she was very eloquent, but she made it clear, made it very clear that their joy had been stripped from them.
The championship that they enjoyed.
The joy had been stripped because that they were called these names and so forth and that it became national thing that everybody was now looking at them this way or at least had those thoughts about them put in their heads because of the the national specter of this story.
And a couple of the team members went up and spoke briefly.
And the college president, I mean, they turned this into a big event for the whole university, for Rutgers.
My question to you is, well, it's impossible for you to answer because you don't know these women on the team, but I just wanted you to try to relate your own philosophy to theirs.
Everybody made it clear here that this really bothered them.
Well, first of all, if I had a daughter on that team, she would not have appeared on there.
I would have told her you would not attend that press conference.
Well, I wouldn't even have to tell her that.
She would know that she wouldn't attend anything like that because she would know that Don Imis does not carry her joy in his mouth or in his pocket.
She wouldn't have attended that, and she would have kept her joy and her happiness.
She probably wouldn't have even paid any, she would not have paid any attention to what Don Imis has said.
This is ridiculous.
You are a brilliant woman.
Your daughter may have been made to appear, but regardless, what would have happened?
No, she would not have appeared.
Well, you never know.
I do know.
They were waiting for this opportunity there, but universities want to take the opportunity here for as much PR as they can get.
But that is such a great answer to let somebody they don't even know take their joy away.
I mean, that's a shame.
That's horrible if that actually happens.
And it is more about devaluing oneself and overvaluing someone else.
That's what it really boils down to me.
That's what I see.
I just can't take part in that.
And I would hope that enough black people would express this because I know a lot of people feel this way.
I'm not the only black person that feels this way.
And I would hope that enough of us, and I heard John McHoyter, I believe that's his first name, talk about the silent black majority.
Well, it's time for us to stop being silent about this because you have people running around acting like we're so defeated.
We're just defeated little human beings and any little thing can just rock our poor little world.
I'm sick and tired of being portrayed like that.
I'm really sick and tired of it.
So.
Well, I'm glad you called, Angelett.
You are a brilliant woman, and your children are very fortunate.
Well, thank you.
How old are they?
I have children ages 25 to 3 years old.
Wow.
25 to 3.
Yes.
You are really brilliant.
All right.
Well, I appreciate the call.
Thank you so much.
And feel free to call back anytime you want.
Thank you.
You bet.
Jennifer in Andover, New Jersey.
You're next on the EIB network.
Hello.
Yes.
Hi, Rush.
Good afternoon.
I just wanted to keep going with what you were talking about of being offended and what the last caller.
And she obviously sees herself as being an American and not just being a black American or pigeonhole herself into a little group.
Because I think that's another big issue here with what you're talking about with the liberals wanting all to be in a little multicultural group.
And I think it's splitting ourselves up into teeny, tiny little fractions, so everyone is getting offended at our own little tiny group instead of maybe if we all saw each other as being the common denominator as being American.
Well, but you know, the root of this of people sequestering themselves into groups and the offended and so forth is actually victimology because victimology has become profitable.
If you can proclaim yourself a victim of some injustice perpetrated by your country or by the majority or whatever and form a group on that basis, then you can find a way to get benefits for it or redress that is financial in some way.
And it also allows for people who knowingly choose victim status to excuse their own lack of excellence or performance or even effort in trying to make themselves because they say, well, I can't get anywhere.
The world is stacked against me.
The country is unfair.
It's injustice here, injustice there.
I am an official victim.
And there's a political party and an ideology that has promoted this, and that's liberalism because there are votes among victims.
Every little group feels threatened.
So they're all trying to claim a stake here.
Everyone's pulling.
It's not a polarized nation.
It's a Swiss cheese nation.
Everyone's pulling it until there's holes in it.
And my fear is that everyone's pulling, pulling, pulling.
I mean, if they stopped and saw ourselves as American, we'd have something, a common denominator.
Why can't we all just get along?
Well, maybe if we all got along as Americans, and the rest of the world sees us as just kind of splitting apart.
And I mean, no one's outraged when they're calling Condoleezza Rice names and they're calling George Bush a terrorist because Condoleezza Rice doesn't identify herself as part of the black culture.
She's American.
So where's the outrage at that?
Where is the outrage in our national leaders?
Because we don't identify ourselves as being, maybe as Americans, as this one group.
Maybe we'd all stick up for everyone and stick up for each other.
Maybe we all saw each other as Americans.
Well, that's true.
There's a reason for this, though, because Snerdley keeps telling me, yeah, we're going to reach a tipping point.
People are going to get fed up with all this group stuff and all the offended and all the concerned out there.
And they're finally going to get sick of waking up every day on TV and watching and hearing it.
This group or that individual, whatever is offended, we've got to do something about it.
The problem is that there are certain people, Sharpton and Jackson, the latest examples, who are allowed to say whatever they want, and nobody's going to challenge them because nobody wants to be called a racist.
And if you are merely critical, if you are, you don't even call anybody names, you don't have to even make fun of them, do jokes, if you're just critical, then somebody's going to come along and call you a racist.
And a lot of people don't want to go through that.
I mean, I'm talking about average Americans, not media figures or leaders.
They just don't want to deal with it.
They don't want to be the controversy of being called a racist or a bigot or any of that kind of thing because it destroys their reputation.
And so there's silence when all this stuff happens.
And that's why it continues to devolve.
But as is the case with everything, there will be a tipping point.
I don't know when.
Just like I'm convinced there's going to be a tipping point with the way the Democrats are handling U.S. foreign policy, the way they're dealing with the troops and so forth.
There will be a tipping point on this, just as there was for them after Vietnam, when they lost.
They thought they'd done the greatest thing in the world.
They still think it's one of their days of shining armor or shining light.
They did the glory days of their past and in that losing to Nixon, McGovern did in a landslide.
And they're setting themselves up for that again.
As I say, I don't know when, but it'll be sooner rather than later.
There are always tipping points.
But the thing that you have to keep in mind, this kind of story, the drive-by media loves this stuff.
I mean, this has knocked Anna Nicole Smith off the lead story ranks.
Well, for a while, she's getting it back now.
But this made the order for the 24-7 news machine that's out there.
These kinds of stories that create the chaos and the tumult.
Anyway, I appreciate the call, Jennifer.
Brief time out here.
We'll be back and continue on the EIB network in just a quick minute or two.
And back to the phones to Orlando, Florida.
This is Roger.
I appreciate your patience and waiting out there, Roger.
Nice to have you with us.
Oh, thanks.
It's great to be here.
I just need my rush prayer rug so I can lead the jihad against liberalism.
Hey, real quick, talk about the one thing that ladies that was on was beautiful.
I always say you always have to ask yourself, how does this affect anybody's life?
How did Imos' words affect anybody's life?
Not at all.
John McWhirter, who is black and who is a scholar, was on John Gibson's Fox News show yesterday, I think.
Yeah, enemy yesterday.
And Gibson, what do you think about this?
And John McWhorter said, I'm too busy to worry about the comments of some little man.
Yeah.
Absolutely.
That's exactly right.
You allow this kind of stuff to upset you.
It's just distracting.
It's distracting and it's wasting energy.
And think back real quick to recent history of some people that did say something that did affect people's lives.
It cost the team its championship.
It cost the team three players.
It cost a member of the team his job in New York.
It cost the coach's job when nothing happened.
The things that were said affected the entire Duke La Crosse team's life.
Yet we have not heard a single apology, nothing.
No, in fact, the charges still have been dropped against.
Wait a second.
I'm sorry.
They were rich white guys.
Sorry, Rush.
I forgot.
Well, that ties into what I was saying earlier about that when you're a minority, you're going to get the benefit of the doubt in everything.
It's like Anita Hill and Clarence Thomas.
You might say, well, where's the minority there?
Anita Hill.
Clarence Thomas is not a black guy.
Clarence Thomas is too white.
He's conservative.
So she comes along at the last minute with this charge, and the Libs even said, look, it's not so much the nature of the evidence that matters here, it's the seriousness of the charge.
And that's why we've got to look into this.
You know, the Duke LaCrosse case is a good example of the double standard that exists.
But there's not just, you know, that's not just the outgrowth of black-white relations in the country.
There's also a lot of feminism in that one that was driving people to draw conclusions before any evidence was ever in or presented.
Turns out there isn't any.
But it fit the template that liberals have constructed of the various groups, not individuals, but groups that were involved.
And that's another problem with groupthink.
People don't become individuals anymore.
If you're a member of a group, if you're a minority, you can be typecast.
And if you're a member of a so-called protected majority, you can be typecast without anybody ever knowing you personally, knowing anything about you.
And for all this talk, folks, about racism and so forth, let me say this again.
The people in this society who first look at individuals and tie them to groups are liberals.
They see skin color first.
They see gender first.
They see sexual orientation first.
They see economic and socioeconomic circumstances first.
They don't see individuals.
They're the ones that do all this.
I mean, the people that were jumping on the Duke LaCrosse players were all liberals.
And the professors, the first 88, signed that letter, demanding the coach got canned.
No evidence whatsoever.
Where was the university defending its customers?
Its students.
It was nowhere.
I mean, everybody folded a tent the minute the allegation was made precisely because nobody wanted to be accused of racism.
You know, North Carolina is working on a reparation.
They just, not reparations, North Carolina Senate just passed an apology for slavery bill and it's going to go to the House.
And what do you bet before it's all said and done that a bunch of Republicans in the House of North Carolina go ahead and say, okay, we apologize for slavery, which will lead then to reparations.
And the reason they'll do so is simply so if they vote against it, they'll be afraid that in the next campaign, the opponent will do a TV commercial calling them a racist.
And that's how you paralyze independence thought, and that's actually how you intimidate.
And classic illustration of what's happening here.
Linda in Orange County, California.
Is that right?
Yeah, nice to have you, Linda.
Hi, thank you.
We love you, Rush.
But this morning, I'm just outraged.
I am very upset about these Don Imus comments.
And let me tell you, I happen to be white, but when I heard what Imus did, I was outraged for these young ladies.
And all those young ladies became my daughters.
What I see are a group of very intelligent, I mean, Rush, these young ladies are at a major university.
They are athletes.
My son is in college and an athlete.
I know what it takes, Rush, for them to have joined, been on a team of this stature.
They have accomplished more in their young lives than Imus ever has.
They are the future of our country.
How dare he take non-political people and try to tarnish their joy or their success?
Now, that is an interesting point.
A coach, Vivian, I forgot, I remember her last name, made the point.
She was responding, well, some of the people defending the perp here, the suspect, Vivian Stringer is the coach's name.
Some of the people defending the perp have gone out and said, hey, look, it's a satire show.
It's a politics and it's politics and they satire popular culture.
And Vivian Springer said, wait a minute, my team are not public figures.
They're not politicians.
Well, it's arguable whether public figures.
They just won the national championship, ladies' basketball.
But at any rate, I thought she had a good point in that regard, which is one of the things that you are echoing here.
But I'm struck by how much this bothers you.
These women are not your daughters, yet they've become your daughter.
Oh, absolutely, Rush.
I feel exactly the same way about these young women as I did that morning with John Kerry and his comments about Mary Cheney, to take non-political people, young people who are living their lives who quasi.
Maybe, all right, they're on TV.
Man, but wait a minute now.
I mean, John Kerry was running for president.
If he won, you got a guy that's going to have real power.
We're talking about an insignificant radio guy here.
He is insignificant, Rush.
And I hope the American people vote with their remote controls and never watch him again.
There are only 300,000 watching it anyway.
I mean, and that's with numbers up like 30%.
I mean, you realize nationwide that's not one-tenth of one percent.
It's insignificant.
I got to run here.
Linda, thanks for the call.
We'll be back.
I'm going to get to this global warming stack in the next hour.
If it causes global warming, to get to it, sit tight.
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