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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, L. Rushbaugh on the cutting edge of societal evolution, as always, utilizing talent on loan from God.
We had half my brain tied behind my back just to make it fair.
A thrill and a delight to be with you today, as is the case each and every day here at the Limbaugh Institute for Advanced Conservative Studies behind the golden EIB microphone.
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And of course, we have many chairs here.
Foundations and institutes and think tanks have chairs.
They're usually behind desks where the thinkers sit.
And of course, chairs are named for those who endow them.
But I endow the Institute singularly, and I decided just to name my chair, the Attila the Hun chair, just to aggravate the liberals.
Anyway, phone number if you want to be with us, 800 282-2882, and the email address is rush at EIBNet.com.
Say, Ed, grab uh grab Al Gore and uh ball of fire.
We're gonna 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 know, 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, the uh that UN panel.
Last Friday, when they were prepared to release the uh the final full report, not just the summer, the final full report.
Hey, they're worried that the drive-by's were gonna 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 uh in the first place.
But but before we get to the global warming stack, I just want to remind you, uh, and I I say this frequently, we've been here eighteen uh eighteen and a half years here, be nineteen on August 1st, and there have been many episodes of sheer brilliance impressions on this program, and I remember it was them is in the mid-90s.
I first coined the term the concerned and then the offended.
And I pointed out that uh we have an uh 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 because they learned that if they say something offends them, they can genuinely, if they're minorities of any kind, not talking about race here 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 uh squelched, or the behavior that offends them uh stopped, or what have you.
I mean, it's it's the root of the um the anti-smoking craze, the secondhand smoke myth uh that's out there.
They're countless examples of it.
And we're in the midst of one now.
Everybody just righteously indignant, righteously offended.
Why, how could anybody say something like this?
But you know, the the the offended are very selective in what it is that offends them.
Uh they're only offended when certain people do or say things that offend them.
If others uh that are not members of the so-called majority engage in this 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.
Uh, cause because, you know, the the you've you've got the charge of racism and bigotry on the table, and that charge is usually leveled at at conservatives.
But the uh person in question here can in no way be considered a conservative.
So they're tying themselves in in knots over trying to do, you know, what what uh would be consistently correct and and uh uh makes sense for them to do.
Uh but they don't like doing it.
Uh they're have they're having they're having all kinds of problems.
That is and I just want to reiterate one point.
Um what when I say that the media is largely responsible for this, the responsible may be the the wrong word, but to say that the media is simply watching this from afar and being objective on it is a joke.
It is laughable.
The Today Show really lit him at Lauer, really lit into Don Imus today.
But guess what?
MBC owns the network that simulacly 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 IMA 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 the 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 uh for a couple of weeks.
They're gonna 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's getting a pass, MSNBC's 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.
Uh, you know, mutual usable society, if you will, or a mutual user society, they all sat there and and uh enabled this.
I mean, look, if it 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, uh television shows, radio shows that have a lot of buzz about them, but no audience.
Uh 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, whoa, he promised this wouldn't happen anymore.
Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
But they don't like doing it.
It's a very uncomfortable position because this is normally what they do to uh to conservatives.
Uh you know, the the media are so cowed in this, uh, they won't say diddly about L. 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, to Wanna Brawley episode.
And the Democrat Party's embracing these two guys.
Meredith Vieira had uh had uh Sharpton on the Jesse Jackson on today on the Today Show.
I'm sorry, Rever Reverend Jackson, but I must bring up the Jaime Town.
Sorry to do that.
But I well, there's fear there.
Little fear.
You've got to apologize for bringing up the Heime Town remark.
But somebody that, you know, gotta mention it, this happened and so forth.
So the bottom line is here that we've we've got an offended industry, we've got an industry of the offended and the concerned, and they spring into action of uh i i it's it's it's uh I don't know, it's almost it's almost like a plan.
Uh you know exactly what's going to trigger it, and when it happens, you know it's gonna get triggered, it's just gonna be a matter of time.
And of course, the question that I have is how long is it gonna 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 gonna kill us, this is gonna destroy us, this is gonna make us sick, this is gonna shorten our lifespan.
From global warming to whatever.
The the business of media today is chaos and fear, and to keep you constantly in tumult.
And then the offended chime in and well, we can't permit this to be civilized society and so forth.
I just wonder where the tipping point's gonna 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 out of I'm sick and tired of people that are just overly sensitive and so forth.
Um remember the old saw, hey, look, lighten up.
This is nothing.
It really boils down to this for the offended.
And 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 know.
Uh 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, you you've you people say things, let them bounce off.
It's no big deal.
And certain instances of it, it's it's it's uh it's difficult to do.
I mean, I will admit that.
People close to you, people that you know uh do things that offend you, take advantage of you, misunderstand generosity in some cases.
But I think that's more disappointment uh than it is wasting time being offended.
But 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 time out, 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, looking here, this is from uh from Reuters, their uh 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 uh effects on Parkinson's disease.
I mean, I've I just chuckled.
Because there's a classic illustration.
They've kept us in tumult and chaos over tobacco and nicotine.
It's gonna kill us, it's gonna cause cancer.
Then for a while, coffee was gonna raise your blood pressure and lead to a heart attack.
Uh eggs, cholesterol is gonna kill you and destroy you and so forth.
It just everything.
Uh oat bran was supposed to be as healthy as you can possibly be.
When you eat brand muffins, oat brand muffins, and it turned out that that turned out to be false.
Uh 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's important because both smoking and drinking caffeine affect dopamine in the brain, meaning they elevate levels.
I mean, that dopamine is powerful stuff, folks.
If the uh drug dealers ever figure out a way to make it, you can forget it.
Yeah.
Well, it it's smoking and drinking coffee uh uh it if you're worried about getting Parkinson's, uh it may not hurt you.
It may be from uh may some beneficial levels because to 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 fifty years after you start, uh, or whatever they say coffee's gonna do you, it's a balancing thing.
The w uh well, 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 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 start smoking and drinking coffee lick the disease, or at least limit its uh its uh impacts.
Now, uh 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 is too late.
I mean, there's this is not something that's gonna change it, but it it it might reduce the risk if you think that you're gonna get it.
When the disease runs in families, uh the study suggests that certain genes are causing it.
We need to consider these environmental uh associations while looking for genes that are involved in in uh Parkinson's.
Uh 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 gonna kill you or this is gonna save you.
And uh your head's probably swimming now.
Uh 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 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 uh that I'm sure he wasn't prepared to uh take up with him.
But it's relentless.
Uh they can't get any legislation passed, folks.
This is just going to continue with the harassment of the administration by the uh by the Democrats in Washington.
Go to Lacrosse, Wisconsin, Angela.
I'm glad you waited.
Welcome to the EIB network.
Good afternoon, Russ.
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 I'm so tired of these type of things coming up because I well, I'm I'm black and I 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 uh it was quite embarrassing whenever uh the the dust up came about um Barack Obama being articulate and and it it's right, right, right, well, wait.
Who said that?
Excuse me.
Who said that?
Said what?
That Barack Obama finally got somebody clean and articulate in the African.
There was a bunch of it was uh the liberals, of course.
It was Joe Biden that said, Right.
When Bill Cosby went out uh on numerous occasions and attempted to um, you know, uh tell tell certain audience members you know it's it's it's time to stop using these kind of words at home.
He was tarred and feathered, correct?
That's correct.
One of their heroes.
But it w what it is, it's a devaluing of oneself.
And and I and I really hope that people are paying attention to this.
The reason why um black people don't care if another black person says these very same things is because and I I I I can't say this is true across the board for all black people, but uh I believe it's true for some, is that the black people that say it doesn't have the value in their in their minds to to even care about what 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 and it's it's just again devaluing oneself and overvaluing another human being, and this is just it's ridiculous.
I could care less what Don Imus has to say, I could care less what any if I don't even know if Don Don Amus is a racist, more so than he is an idiot, but um 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 uh um uh I'm black, I'm part of the uh black community of the black race, and to have to uh um 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 um amazing.
Uh that's you're pretty advanced.
Because you were just we're in the context talking about words.
Now, your employer says it's something like that's a different situation.
You we're talking about people you don't know from a whole town far across the country from where you are.
Um and and all that.
Can you look at I gotta 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.
Uh mucho thanks.
We'll continue with Angela in LaCrosse, 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 I uh I I was very moved by what you said uh because frankly, I 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, parti uh people that didn't know me uh and and and those who did, and it it it uh for the long time 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 it was just it's it's a mess.
And I've I've just finally I forget what it was that triggered it, but I said I'm just not gonna waste time being offended by this stuff, particularly when it's words and especially what I know it's not true.
Well, so why why why get all worried about accusations about me the things that aren't true?
And and uh those are the things that you just you just left 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 all we have children, and how do we want our children to grow up uh 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 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 and teach our children that uh certain people, if they say this about you is is uh it's 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.
I uh and I don't mean to put you on the spot with this.
Okay.
Uh but this is about the Rutgers uh ladies' basketball team.
Okay.
Did you happen to see their press conference today?
Not really.
I I saw it, but I just I really I well it went on for close to 45 minutes.
So they had the coach, uh Vivian, I forget Vivian's last name, but she spoke the longest.
And she was, you know, very eloquent, but she made it clear.
Made it very very clear that uh their joy had been stripped from them.
The championship that they enjoyed.
The joy the joy had been stripped because they were called these names and and so forth and and uh uh that it become national thing, uh 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 uh story.
And a couple of the team members went up and and spoke briefly and the college president.
I mean, they they turned this into a uh uh a big event for the for the whole university for Rutgers.
My question to you is um well, I'm it's it's 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.
There they're that 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 Imus does not carry h her joy in his mouth.
Or in his pocket.
She wouldn't have tended that.
And she would have kept her joy and her happiness.
She probably wouldn't even pay any she m she would not have paid any attention to what Don Imus has said.
You are just ridiculous.
You are a brilliant woman.
Uh your daughter may have been made to appear, but regardless, what would have been her would not have appeared.
Well, you never know the point they were waiting for this opportunity there.
But then, you know, universities want to take the opportunity here for as much PR as they can get.
But that's such a that is that is such a great answer.
Um the the to let somebody they don't even know take their joy away, but that's a shame.
That that's that's that's that's horrible if that actually happens.
It is more about devaluing oneself and overvaluing someone else.
That's that's what it really boils down to me.
That's what I see.
I I just can't I can't take part in that.
And I and I would hope that enough black people would you know 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 will and I would hope that enough of us, and I heard um um uh 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 our poor little world.
I'm sick and tired of being portrayed like that.
I'm really sick and tired of it.
So you know uh I'm glad you called, uh Angelett's the you are uh you're a brilliant woman and your children are very fortunate.
Well, thank you.
How old are they?
Uh I have children uh ages twenty-five to three years old.
Wow.
Whoa, twenty-five to three.
Yes.
You are really brilliant.
All right.
Well, uh I I appreciate the call.
Thank you so much, and uh feel free to call back any time you want.
You bet.
Jennifer in Andover, New Jersey, you're next on the EIB network.
Hello.
Uh yes, hi, Rush.
Uh I just uh good afternoon.
Um I just wanted to 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, you know, a black American or or uh pigeonhole herself into a little group.
Because I think that's a the another big issue here with what you're talking about with uh the liberals wanting to all to be in a little multicultural group.
And um I think it's it's it's 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 um the common denominator is being American.
Well, but you know the root of this of people sequestering themselves into groups is uh and and and the offended and so forth is actually victimology, because victimology has become profitable.
Uh if you can uh uh 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 uh you can find a way to get benefits for it or redress uh that that is uh financial in some way.
And it also uh allows for people who knowingly choose victim status to excuse their own lack of excellence or performance or even effort uh in trying to make themselves because they say, well, I can't get anywhere that 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 to claim claim a stake here.
Everyone's pulling, it's not a polarized nation, it's it's a 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 if if we if they stopped and thought uh ourselves as American, and i y we'd have something a common denominator.
We could all you know, every 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 and I mean uh you know, no one's outraged when they're calling Condoleezza Rice names and they're calling, you know, George Bush a terrorist because there are I mean Condoleezza Rice doesn't I identify herself as you know part of the black culture.
She's an American.
So I you know, where is the outrage at that?
Where is the outrage at seem you know in our in our national leaders?
Because we don't identify ourselves as being maybe you know, as Americans.
It's just one group.
You know, maybe we'd all stick up for everyone and stick up for each other.
Maybe we're all saw each other as Americans.
Well, that's true.
There's a there's a reason for this, though.
Okay, if Snerdley keeps telling me, yeah, we're gonna reach a tipping point, people are gonna get fed up with all this group stuff and all the offended and all the concerned out there, and they're finally gonna get sick of waking up every day on TV and watching and hearing it.
This group or that individual, whatever is offended, and we gotta do something about it.
The problem is uh that uh th there are there are certain people, Sharpton and Jackson, the latest examples, who are allowed to say whatever they want, and nobody's gonna challenge 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 or do jokes.
If you if you're just critical, uh then somebody's gonna 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 not uh media figures or leaders.
They just they don't want to deal with it.
They don't want to be the controversy of of uh of being called a racist uh 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 it continues to uh to devolve.
But there as is the case with everything, there will be a tipping point.
I don't know when.
Uh just like I'm I'm convinced there's gonna be a tipping point with the way the Democrats are handling uh UN for U.S. foreign policy, the way they're dealing with the uh the troops and so forth.
There will be a tipping point on this, just as there was uh for them after Vietnam uh when they lost, they 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 uh uh light, where they've did the glory days of their past and and uh end up losing to Nixon, McGovern did in a landslide, and they're setting themselves up for that again.
Uh as I say I don't know when, but it'll be sooner uh rather than later.
There are always uh tipping points.
But you know, the the thing that you have to keep in mind, this this kind of story, the drive-by media loves this stuff.
They I mean, this this is knocked Anna Nicole Smith off the uh off the lead story ranks.
Well, for a while, she getting it back now.
Uh but uh this is this this made the order for the 24-7 news machine uh that's out there.
These kinds of stories that create the chaos and the uh and the tumult.
Anyway, I appreciate the uh 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 in waiting out there, Roger.
Nice to have you with us.
Oh, thanks.
It's great to be here.
I just need my rush pro rug so I can leave the jihad against liberalism.
Hey.
Real quick, talk about uh the one thing uh that lady that was on was beautiful.
I always say you always have to ask yourself, how does this affect anybody's life?
How did Imus's words affect anybody's life?
Not at all.
Well, you know, did you John McWerder, who is black and who is a scholar, was on uh John Gibson's Fox News show yesterday, I think.
Um yeah.
And uh Gibson and what do you think about this?
And John McWarter said, I'm too busy to worry about the comments of some little man.
Yeah.
Absolutely.
That's exactly right.
That is exactly you you don't allow this kind of stuff to upset you.
Um it's it it it's just it's distracting.
It's distracting and it's wasting energy.
And think back real quick to recent history, uh, 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.
It uh the things that were said affected the entire Duke Lacrosse team's life.
Yet we have not heard a single apology, nothing.
No, in fact, uh the charges still haven't been dropped against the.
Wait a second.
I'm sorry.
They were rich white guys.
Sorry, Rush.
I forgot.
Well, that's that that ties into what I was saying earlier about that the w when you're a minority, you're you're gonna get the benefit of the doubt in everything.
Uh 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 and the and the libs even said, look, it's it's not so much the nature of the evidence that matters here, it's the seriousness of the charge.
Uh that's why we've uh we've got to look into this.
Uh you know, the the Duke Lacrosse case is uh is a uh is uh is uh is a good example of the double standard that exists, but there's not just you know that's that's not just the outgrowth of uh of you know black-white relations in the country.
That that there's also a lot of feminism in that one uh that was driving people uh to draw conclusions before any evidence was ever in or presented.
It turns out there isn't any.
Uh 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.
Uh people don't become individuals anymore.
If you're a member of a group, if you're a minority, you will you can be typecast.
And if you're uh a member of a so-called protected majority, you can be typecast without anybody ever knowing you personally, knowing anything about you.
Uh and you know, 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 they're they're they're the ones that do all this.
I mean, the people that were jumping on the Duke Lacrosse players were all liberals.
Uh and the professors, the first 88 signed that letter, demand the coach got can.
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, this is this this the North Carolina's working on a reparation.
They just not reparations.
Uh uh North Carolina Senate just passed an apology for slavery bill.
And it's gonna 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 is 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 that that's actually how you intimidate.
Uh and and classic illustration of what's happening here.
Linda in Orange County, uh, California.
Uh, 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 uh I happen to be white, but when I heard what IMAS 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, the Rush, these young ladies are at a major university.
They are athletes.
My son is in college in an athlete.
I know what it takes, Rush, for them to have joined be been on a team of this stature.
They have accomplished more in their young lives than IMAS 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 Lance name, uh, mate made the point.
She was responding, well, some of the people defending uh the PERP here, uh uh, the suspect, uh 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 to politics and it's politics and they satire popular culture, and it is and Vivian Springer said, Wait a minute, my my team are not public figures.
They're they're not they're not politicians.
Well, it's arguable with their public figures.
They just won the national championship and ladies' basketball, but uh at any rate, I thought she had a good point uh uh in that regard, which is one of the things that you are echoing here.
But I'm I'm struck by how much this bothers you.
These 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 uh quasi it maybe all right, they're on TV, but wait a minute now.
I mean, John Kerry was running for president.
If he won, there you got a guy that's gonna have real power.
We're 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, it's it's it's it's uh and that's with numbers up like 30 percent.
I mean, you realize nationwide that's not one-tenth of one percent.
It's it's insignificant.
I gotta run here.
Linda, thanks for the call.
We'll be back.
I'm gonna 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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