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April 13, 2007 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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April 13, 2007, Friday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 podcast.
Yes, it's true.
Yes, yes, they left the door unlocked, and I'm back in the program.
Welcome, all you conversationalists across the fruit of plains, as Rush would say.
Good day to have you here on Friday the 13th.
And it is Friday the 13th.
It is Open Line Friday, of course, so you get to pick the topics.
But just in case you are starstruck today and you don't know what to say, I have picked a few of them for you.
Let's see what topic could we possibly talk about in talk radio today.
Corn futures?
Possibly.
I mean, is there anything?
This is one of those stories.
Welcome to the program.
Rush Out today.
He'll be back on Monday.
And so, and not only is Rush Out, but something strange has happened.
So is Snerdley, and so is HR.
And so we're sitting, the whole show is coming to you from Los Angeles today, which is a whole different twist.
So I don't know if you'll feel it.
This kind of a left coast approach to the whole thing.
But anyway, you might turn your radios facing west.
It might get you a better reception as we zoom across the country with you on this Friday the 13th.
How do you say that tricks a deck of phobia?
I don't know.
Maybe Don Imus now is thinking he might think it might be a bad number.
I mean, this is one of those stories, ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, and we've got, of course, Imus, but we've got really the first hour should be the apology hour because we not only have Don Imus and all the apologies that he has expressed, but we also, of course, have, what's his name, Nifong, Mike Nyphong, the Duke rape case lacrosse players at Duke.
And he's apologizing like crazy.
And we also then have, and I thought, do I want to do this today?
And you know me, folks.
We've been doing this together for many, many years here on the Rush Limbaugh program.
But one of the things that you know me from is the fact that my real life is I'm a financial person and I do this talk show stuff as kind of a, I don't know, a sickness, a hobby, something.
Anyway, I've done it for a long time.
And so I thought, well, financial, and there's this whole story coming out of the World Bank about Paul Wolfowitz.
And so I thought, oh, man, the audience isn't going to.
I start coming up with World Bank stories, and people are going to go, what is he talking about?
But Paul Wolfowitz, if you don't know this story, and Wolfowitz, of course, is one of the former Bush administration officials, one of the ones the media loves to call, the drive-bys like to call one of the neocons.
And so he goes over and takes a position ahead of the World Bank.
And now he's in trouble over there.
And the Wall Street Journal today, editorializing about it, said they thought it would take about a year.
Well, they're off by a few months, but that the left is trying to push Wolfowitz out the door at the World Bank because of his girlfriend and the pay package that he got for his girlfriend.
And so he's apologizing, and he's about ready to be run out the door because the board of directors, which is a group of government people from around the world, are meeting.
They met last night.
They may say something while we're on the air here today, but they have a big meeting coming up this weekend in Washington, the World Bank and the IMF.
And so we've got Imus being run out the door.
We've got Niphong being run out the door.
And we've got Wolfowitz just about ready to be run out the door.
And everybody's apologizing everywhere.
So this first hour, even though it's Open Line Friday, it might help if you just, if you need to apologize for something, this would probably be a good time to do it.
Phone number to join the program, 1-800-282-2882 as we go through the program.
Where do you want to start with Imos?
Where do you want to start?
I mean, this story about everything that can be said has been said, I think.
I mean, it's one of those where I think we all have our positions on it.
This isn't the end of Don Imus.
I predict this will not be the end of Don Imus, even though he's 65 years old.
He's been doing this for 40 years.
I wouldn't blame him for one second if he did not say, you know what?
Done.
I'm finished.
I've made my money.
I'm comfortable.
Hopefully he hasn't spent all his money.
And he'll move on from there.
He's actually, he's an old Sacramento radio guy.
Did you know that?
He started at Croy, an old legendary station in Sacramento.
So he also comes from Sacramento, not from there, but that's where he worked at one time.
But I don't know where he's going to go, but he's going to wind up someplace else, I predict.
I don't think, the reason why is I don't think anybody wants to have their career ended, whether they're a talk show host or whether they're a banker or whatever you do.
Nobody wants to have a long, illustrious, successful career ended on a black note, on a tarnish, on some sort of smudge.
And so I suspect he'll be picked up by somebody else somewhere sometime.
He'll certainly get the offers, I think.
And of course, there is our old friend Satellite Radio where he might, I mean, there's all kinds of places for him to go.
And remember, there was a couple of other radio guys out there that were thrown out the door by the same folks, Opie and Anthony.
And they went out the door because they had that sex episode over at St. Patrick's Cathedral.
They're back.
They're back.
So you have a marketplace.
And because of the fact I am a financial guy, I am a business guy.
First and foremost, I come from the world of business.
I look at this and I go, there's two issues why this is such a big debate.
And this isn't obligatory, but I don't like what he said.
I think it was wrong.
I don't like to go to comedy clubs because of all the four-letter words.
I'm not a prude.
I've been in the Army.
I know a lot of four-letter words.
I just don't like to spend my money to hear people say them.
I think it was despicable what he said.
Yet at the same time, I think the big hubbub about all of this is because of two things.
Well, first of all, is the focus is on the accusers.
Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson are two guys that you love to hate.
I mean, there's a lot of people that just don't like them.
And for lots of good reasons, because of the fact they're very hypocritical.
They've gone out and they've said things and they've done things.
And yet they turn around and throw stones at Don Imus.
So the focus for a lot of people to argue this is not about Imus, but about Sharpton and about Jackson.
And I think that's wrong.
I think it's the wrong way to argue your point.
I understand it's emotionally easy to do that, but that's really not the way to argue the point.
The second part of this, what I come from, is, again, the marketplace.
The focus should be on the marketplace.
Is it commercial or is it not commercial?
Commercialism.
You've got, I don't buy rap music.
I don't like the lyrics that are in rap music.
Some people do.
Now people are calling for rap music to be banned.
In fact, if CBS and CBS radio was really going to get serious about all of this, why don't they go ban all that music on some of their radio stations where they make millions of dollars?
No, I know they're not going to do that.
But where, I mean, the term hoe, first of all, I mean, folks, I don't know what it was when you grew up.
When I grew up, I never heard the term hoe.
I heard hooker, I heard whore, but I never heard hoe.
And where did the term hoe come from?
It came from, it came from the rap artists.
It came from, and that's there's a lot of the lyrics that we can't even say here on the radio.
So if it's commercially successful, if there's an audience to buy it, it should be allowed under the way we do things in this country to be able to be said.
Should it be said on the airwaves?
No, I don't think so.
But should it be available?
Can people go out on the street corner in this country because of the First Amendment?
You can go out there and call anybody anything you want.
You might get a mouthful of knuckles from somebody, but you can.
And there's a buyer for rap music.
And there's a buyer for Don Imus.
And as long as there are enough buyers of rap music and enough buyers for Don Imus, they should still be able to go out in this country and sell whatever they want to sell.
Now, for the radio, good grief.
What happened to the simple, simple, simple turn it off?
There's an off button.
If you don't like something, don't patronize it.
But if you don't like rap music, but somebody else does, what's it your what?
What's it?
What's it?
Why are you allowed to tell somebody else what they can and cannot buy?
What they can and cannot consume.
And that's the problem I'm having with this whole thing: is that from a commercial standpoint and from the marketplace standpoint, let that decide.
And this is where I have some problems.
MSNBC, I kind of understand why they dumped Imos.
And the reason why they dumped Imus, in my guesstimate, is, oh, I'm sure they were wringing their hands and fussing on what to do until somebody from sales came in the door and said, well, we've lost a whole bunch of advertisers.
We've lost a whole bunch of money.
Not coming back.
And to me, that was a legitimate reason to say, well, if there aren't going to be advertisers or big advertisers of the money, if we're going to lose money on this thing, then let's get rid of it.
I understand that business decision.
What I'm having troubles with is over at CBS.
They said it was based on the language coming out of CBS is that they based it on all these discussions that they have and that the discussions were the issue.
Where is this?
Les Moonves says there has been much discussion of the effect language like this has on young people, particularly young women of color trying to make their way in this society.
That consideration has weighed most heavily on our minds as we made our decision.
I'm sorry, I don't think Les Moonves made his mind up on that sort of stuff.
I would hope he would make his mind up, and I suspect he did, based upon the business side of this, of whether or not they could, in fact, continue to run this program with an audience, and with an audience, you'll get advertisers.
And I also think it's somewhat disingenuous, don't you, that there's Everybody knew that hired Imus what he has said on television for the last 10 years and what he has said on radio for the last 40 years and why did they not fire him before?
Because they made lots of money on him.
He's been on radio for 40 years.
Now, the other thing, well, I need to take a break.
The women at Rutgers, by the way, I understand why they would be upset.
They were called a really, really, really bad name.
The thing about this is, what's twisted about the way these things turn out is that I didn't know anything about Rutgers women's basketball.
I didn't know anything about the women that played for Rutgers.
And now I do.
And now I'm pretty impressed.
These are some really exceptional young ladies.
And they went up to the championship, the national championship for best.
Well, they lost to Tennessee, but still, I would think the women at Tennessee who won the championship are going, hey, what about us?
Because we don't know anything.
I don't know anything about the women at Tennessee, but I sure know about the women at Rutgers.
And wow, what an impressive group.
Speech is complicated.
And that's my point about this whole subject this hour.
Speech is very complicated in the world we live in today, in the workplace, the First Amendment, what the rules are, who can say one thing but somebody else can't.
We'll take a break and come right back.
The phone number to join the program, 800-282-2882.
My name is Tom Sullivan.
This is the Rush Limbaugh Radio Program.
Welcome back, Tom Sullivan in for Rush today.
He'll be back on Monday.
He's got a long weekend this weekend, off on a secret venture of fun.
He'll, I'm sure, discuss all of this with you as he gets back.
Tom Sullivan sitting in for Rush.
And, of course, Imus is the topic.
Really, it's more than that.
We've got Apology Hour going because there's all kinds of apologies, big apologies in the news today.
We've got coming up later in the program this whole business.
I'm going to need some help on this one.
Why are politicians running for president of the United States refusing to go on a program with Fox?
So this I've never seen a presidential candidate, a presidential race where a television network is an issue in the race.
I mean, it should be about the ward, about the economy, and not a television network.
So we've got that.
And then I've got some financial things for you as we go into later in the program.
But this whole business about speech, let me just briefly and quickly, if you take a look over the last, I don't know, 20 years, something like that, 25 years, speech has become much more complicated in our world that you and I live in today.
I'm not sure if it's the same all around the world, but it certainly is in this country.
What can you say?
What can't you say?
What can you say with a smile on your face?
What can you say in the workplace, to people that you work with?
What can't you say?
Why can one person say something, but you can't say that same thing?
Speech has become very, very complicated.
And the problem that I'm having, and I presume a lot of you are having, is that speech, the rules aren't fixed.
And so you and I are going out into the world every day, never sure if whether or not we're going to.
I mean, I don't sit around and lose sleep over it, but you're never sure of whether or not you're going to say something that's going to offend somebody or make somebody mad.
And so, where, and yes, of course you have the First Amendment.
You can stand and say anything you want to say, but can you say that same thing?
You can say it on a street corner, but can you say it in your place of work?
I think you leave your First Amendment at the door when you go to work.
I think the person who owns the company gets to tell you what you can and cannot do at work.
How you dress, how you look, how you talk.
I do.
I think it's how you treat your customers, how you treat your coworkers.
So, I think the First Amendment is fine, but in the workplace, I think the rules switch over to whatever the boss wants you to say or not say.
But censorship is something outside of the workplace.
And that's where I know Rush yesterday was talking about this.
All right, let's go get television and radio and let's get it cleaned up.
And let's make sure that the language is clean and that the clean is going to be defined by whom?
The Al Sharptons of the world?
I mean, his track record isn't clean, so I don't know if he's going to be the arbiter.
And then from there, of course, once we get TV fixed and we get radio fixed, then we go to Hollywood.
And we got to make sure those movies that keep coming out that do have an impact when you keep pounding a message on somebody's head.
That's Marketing 101.
It works.
It gets a message through and it changes society.
So we need to go in and we need to start having this arbiter go to Hollywood and start telling them what they can and cannot make in their movies.
And of course, the books.
You've got to go there too.
So speech is complicated.
The rules are not fixed.
They're confusing.
They keep changing.
And that's where we are.
800-282-2882.
Let's start with Bob in Lancaster PA.
Bob, hi, you're on the Rush Limbaugh program with Tom Sullivan.
Hey, how are you doing, Tom?
I'm doing great.
I want to put my two cents in here about this whole speech and how, you know, racism and all that good stuff.
I'm kind of gifted.
I've known five generations of my family.
We're Irish, not a big deal.
I was gifted.
You know, I knew my great-grandparents.
My grandparents are still alive.
My parents.
I'm 36 now.
I got kids of my own.
And I'll tell you what, there's a lot of years there where I can tell the difference of how my great-grandparents and grandparents talked about blacks and how things have gone through the generations that it got to the point where my kids, it's not even an issue to them anymore.
They don't even ever hear it.
I know.
And I wish we had, we're up against the clock, but I want to bring up what you just brought up is about how the rules of speech has also changed.
And maybe because Don Imis is 65, he grew up in a different speech pattern.
We'll talk when we come back.
And I just want to say, I want to say I'm just sorry.
I'm just sorry.
I don't know what I'm sorry about, but I thought it was an appropriate time for all of us to be apologizing for what it's for those of you just joining the program.
Rush is out today.
He'll be back on Monday.
Tom Sullivan signed in for Rush.
And because I am such a believer, I am such a believer in the free market.
I'm such a capitalist.
The free market fixes all wrongs.
And even though Les Moonves did not pick up the phone and call me directly for my advice, what I would have done in this situation was call in Don Imus and Al Sharpton and put them in the same room with me, and I would say, listen, Don, you're on suspension for two weeks.
No pay, by the way.
What you said was horrible.
But we know that you've been saying horrible things for a long time, and we've looked the other way.
Thank you very much for the revenue.
Actually, it wasn't that much revenue.
I'm kind of surprised by the low numbers.
But anyway, I digress.
I get back to, so I say, Don, after two weeks, you come back on the air.
And Al, after two weeks, I'm going to keep your business going too, because it's going to give you something to keep rallying around.
It's going to keep your business.
You're going to be able to go out there and raise all kinds of funds for your organization, the national, I can't remember the name of his organization.
Anyway, he will, and so it keeps it going, if it keeps going.
But we'll leave that to the people.
We'll leave that to the audience.
We'll leave that to the customers and the advertisers.
And so you go out there, and two weeks later, Don, if you don't get your audience back, and if the numbers go down and the advertisers, therefore, start demanding less, they don't have to pay so much for their advertising, then guess what?
We're going to throw you out the door.
You've got to reach a certain level of audience, and you've got to reach a certain level of advertising revenue, or you're out the door.
And Al Sharpton, for you, that gives you something that you can then go out and you can campaign to have people not listen.
It gives you something to rally around, too.
So everybody gets to go out there and compete for you, the customer.
And if you don't like what Don Imis said, then don't tune in.
If you want to support him, you tune in.
But that sadly, that choice has been taken away from us.
The marketplace does not get to determine.
John in Washington, John High, you're on the Rush Limbaugh program with Tom Sullivan.
Yeah, Tom, let me give you a scoop that I just heard about an hour ago on WMAL, ABC affiliate here in Washington, D.C.
But apparently there was some group called Media Matters, and they had one guy assigned to listening to Don Imis' show.
That was his only job.
And at 6 a.m. in the morning, he kind of picked up on that thing and he sent out a blast email to 100 reporters around the country and informed them of it.
And then also they got involved in notifying all the advertisers to cancel their advertisements.
And they had a spokesperson that came on the Chris Corps show about an hour ago, as I said on AM Talk Radio in Washington, D.C.
And that's a real scoop.
Now, the other thing, and that's the thing that caused it to be a lot of fun.
Yeah, Al Sharpton wasn't the first one.
He got it from some association of black journalists who received the information from exactly what you're talking about.
That group, Media Matters.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
The other thing is that two things happened this week, and both involving college teams.
One, of course, is the girls' basketball team at Rutgers, and the other was a team that didn't even get to play their season, that got it canceled, that their coach got fired, and Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson were both involved.
Imos did a lot of apologizing to everybody, but there's something missing.
I mean, Jackson and Sharpton were wrong, and they refused to apologize.
Yeah.
And, you know, the young woman, one of the players on the Rutgers team, said she's been scarred for life.
Well, I would argue at least the three guys that had charges against them down at the Duke La Crosse team are scarred for life.
One of the guys, he had a job offer.
One of them graduated last year.
He had a job offer on Wall Street.
I think it was like over $70,000 a year.
The offer was canceled when this thing hit the news.
Yeah, I know.
And in fact, there's a lot of talk about what's going to happen if they're going to go after Mike Nyphong or whether they're going to go after Duke University, which did suspend them from school, and they had not been found guilty of anything.
So there's a lot of questions, too, about the fact that, yeah, they were right there defending this woman who now the Attorney General of North Carolina says doesn't even know what she may actually believe.
She's a very troubled young lady.
So I'm with you.
I mean, it just, you pick and choose your battles, but to me, that's why I say you leave it to, at least in the era of not necessarily Duke University, but for broadcasting and for books and movies and everything else, rap music, if you don't like it, don't buy it.
It's just that simple.
It solves so many problems.
Bill in Stanton, Michigan.
Bill, hi, you're on the Rush Limbaugh program with Tom Sullivan.
Hi.
How are you?
Good.
What I'm calling about is it must have been two and a half, three weeks ago back during the tournament.
I know it wasn't the final game.
It was either the semifinal or the quarterfinal or whatever.
I was going through the channels looking for something to watch, and I came across the Rutgers game, and I watched it for three or four minutes, and then I shut it off because the look and the deportment and the sportsmanship that was being exhibited by the Rutgers team was so distasteful to me.
I probably am one of the three or four hundred people that actually saw the game.
Yeah, I think you are.
Yeah, I have, through all of this debate about Don Imus and all of that, if people had seen what I saw on television, the way these girls were made up and the way they acted, they looked more like they were representing a maximum security woman's prison rather than a major university.
Well, I think you're right, Bill, on your comment about the fact that not many people probably watched.
And that's what Imus had as his probable background on him, too, was whatever he saw.
I don't know if he saw it.
It sounded like he saw it from his comments.
I, on the other hand, have been very impressed by these young ladies in the way they've conducted themselves in their news conference, in the way that they're very articulate young ladies who are not only really good basketball players, but they also have done very well academically.
They're everything that I think a lot of people would want their daughters and sons to be, good people that are successful in all kinds of different walks of life, whether it's athletics or academics or both in this particular case.
So they may have looked rough.
They may have looked like they played a rough game.
I don't know.
I didn't see it.
I wasn't, like you said, one of the three or four hundred that saw the game.
But I don't think this is going to scar anybody there.
In fact, if anything, I think it's going to help them simply because of the fact that I did not know, and I presume a lot of you did not know anything about these ladies until all of this came out.
Again, I go back, though, and say, I wish that we would have had the choice to decide.
I would love to have seen if the audience would have come back for Don Imus.
And we're not going to know now.
Ferris in Hartford.
Hi, Ferris.
You're on the Rush Limbaugh program with Tom Sullivan.
It's an honor to talk on the world's most listened to radio talk show.
Here we are.
Here we are.
And some of the callers today are starting to get to the truth of this, especially the fellow who exposed the Media Matters blast email to its willing accomplices in the left.
And this has nothing to do with J. Donald Imos.
This has everything to do with the show.
And that show was not made up of J. Donald Imos.
That show was made up of Charles McCord, a Christian, Bible-quoting man with character.
Bernard McGurk, who is a splendid conservative comedian, Rob Bartlett, whose imitations of characters from everywhere from Truman Capote to Bill Clinton, made them, and that show, not Donald Imos, but that show was despised by the militant feminist movement and specifically the militant lesbian wing of that movement.
And this has nothing to do with race, Tom.
This has everything to do with the destruction of hope among two generations of young American males who were attacked on the view this morning, suggesting that the boys at Duke, if it was Duke University, am I correct?
Right.
That those boys, even though they were not guilty of this alleged rape by the lady who I would refer to as an H, who was a stripper, which the lesbians would like us to call an exotic dancer.
I know, I know, I got a lot of this in my local show where people say, wait, it doesn't matter what they do for a living, but the woman, the accuser, is out of her mind, apparently.
The Attorney General says that she, the 28-year-old woman, is troubled, saying she may actually believe the many contradictory stories that she tells.
Let's not focus on the characters involved in this.
This is a movement that is, you're starting to get a look at the truth by the prior caller who told you about the Media Matters last email.
Well, they've been around.
They do stuff on this show all the time.
They're going out.
There's a group out there that, and we'll get into this next hour, but there's a group out there going after Fox.
And they have a group that monitors it, sits around people that spend all day, every day, watching and recording everything that is said so they can go out and try and attack something that they disagree with.
And I'm going, this is dangerous stuff.
This is very dangerous stuff because if you disagree with something, then we should ban it.
We should censor it.
It's sounding a little Gestapo to me, doesn't it, to you?
That's the beauty of what this country is all about, is that you can say and I can say whatever we want to say.
We may get in trouble.
We may get into a fight.
In the workplace, you may get fired.
But you still have the right to go out and say what you want to say in this country.
Now, I'm just sad that we're not able to get to the point where we're going to be able to decide whether or not the audience would go back and follow Don Imos.
I suspect that his audience would have been bigger than ever.
I suspect there's a lot of people who did not know that Don Imos was even on the air.
Believe it or not, even though he's a legendary broadcaster.
When we come back, I'll tell you they're running a poll over at the Wall Street Journal on whether Don Imos should get a second chance in radio.
And I'll give you some numbers about all of this.
And even Reason Magazine has a very interesting piece about how we've gone from Lenny Bruce to Reno 9-11 American humor and how we all have laughed at some of these things.
800-282-2882.
My name is Tom Sullivan.
This is the Rush Limbaugh Radio Program.
Welcome back.
Tom Sullivan sitting in for a rush today.
He'll be back on Monday talking about Imus.
And Wall Street Journal poll.
Should Don Imus get a second chance in radio?
How do you think it's going?
How do you think it's going?
You think it's close?
You think it's not even close.
So, which way is it going?
72%, and they're getting a pretty good large number out of this whole thing.
72% of the people at the Wall Street Journal poll say Don Imus should get a second chance in radio.
72%.
I didn't know 72%, you could get 72% agreement on anything in this country.
So, I mean, that's, see, this is where, again, I'm not sure the big bosses sitting in the ivory towers of Broadcasting America even are in touch.
Because if you get a group of a small group of protesters to come into a city council chamber, they can change policy in most cities, even though the thousands, hundreds of thousands, or millions of people live in that city may feel differently.
And I think that's what we've got going on here.
I know I'm repeating myself, but the marketplace is the place to go.
And surprisingly, well, I mean, surprisingly behind this whole thing, which drives me crazy, is I'm looking at this, I've got this USA Today story by David Lieberman.
And he says, this is how bad MSNBC is doing.
Apparently, this Imus show in the morning is one of their bright spots.
Says here in the Lieberman piece, about 358,000 viewers a day watch the 6 to 9 a.m. weekday show on MSNBC.
Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, I work in a medium-sized city.
I have more audience on my little local radio talk show than Don Imus has across the country on MSNBC.
Yikes, something's seriously wrong.
Now, the other question is, and if you go to rushlimbaugh.com, there's an article right in the middle of the front page.
Who are they going to replace him with?
Is Al Sharpton going to be able to do the interview?
Is it going to be a black woman?
Better be.
Norm in Atlanta.
Hi, Norm.
You're on the Rush Limbaugh program at Tom Sullivan.
Good afternoon, Tom.
How are you?
I'm doing great.
Thank you.
Calling you from what could maybe very soon be called the former capitalist country of the United States of America.
I hope not.
I agree, but you know, you've hit a home run.
It's not a capitalist society.
Other people are pulling the strings.
You know, my whole issue with this is the fact that what is Don Imus?
He's a shock jock.
And has been for 40 years.
This isn't anything new.
It doesn't say that you have to like what he says.
And I personally don't like what he said.
I've never listened to the guy.
I've heard about him.
I've seen him on TV on some things.
But here's the deal.
He's kind of like that centerpiece on the washing machine.
He's an agitator.
That's what he gets paid to do.
Yes.
And in reality, Tom, the bottom line is, is that the guy who's crying in his beer this afternoon is going to be Al Sharpton because he knows for the fact that Don Imuses of the world are the foundation upon which his world rocks.
Yep.
And, you know, they can say what they want.
I know.
They can cry.
But the bottom line is without these guys, what are they going to do?
He would have been much happier, much, much happier if Imus had come back two weeks from now.
I'll bet you if you got a real honest reaction from Al Sharpton, it would be, oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.
I'll run him back on.
Because then he could campaign to have them not be listened to.
Well, short break.
Right back.
Tom Sullivan signing in for Rush Limbaugh, the Rush Limbaugh EIB Radio Network.
Welcome back, Tom Sullivan in with the Rush Limbaugh program.
Rush will be back on Monday.
Bob and the Bronx.
Bob, hello, you're on the Rush Limbaugh program.
Yeah, hi.
I really wanted to start out by saying that to me and to anyone with a set of ears and a set of eyes, it's crystal clear we, Reverend Al's double standards and Jesse Jackson's double standards.
The two so-called Reverends, you know, I mean, all we have to do is look back at the Tawana-Brawley.
I'm glad you brought that up, and that's what I was thinking when I saw that you're from the Bronx.
I thought, most of us don't know about the Tawana-Brawley case, but that's where Sharpton, and we only have a few seconds here, so I don't have time to get into it here with you.
But for those of you in New York, you know the Tawana-Brawley case.
You know that Al Sharpton 14 years ago made up all kinds of things, never apologized, never paid, and was supposed to give a payment to somebody.
He never paid anybody anything for the damage he did to other people.
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