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June 29, 2007 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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June 29, 2007, Friday, Hour #2
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Welcome back, folks, and greetings to you, music lovers, thrill seekers, and conversationalists all across the fruited play in the Rush Limbaugh programs on its Friday.
Live from the Southern Command in sunny South Florida.
It's open line Friday.
And you know the drill on open line Friday, where we go to the phones, you can talk about pretty much whatever you wish to discuss.
And that's not the case Monday through Thursday, Monday through Thursday.
It's totally about what I want to talk about, what I'm interested in.
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Tell that to the fairness doctrine crowd.
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Except on Friday, you do have access to it.
But remember, folks, you may have the right to speak, but none of us have the right to be heard.
Nobody has to listen to us.
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And the email address is Rush at EIBNet.com.
I just got a note from a friend who predicted or heard me say that Al Gore has canceled all speaking in gate.
Everything.
He's canceled, he's cleared his calendar for the uh next six months.
One of the places he was supposed to go and schedule to go to give a speech was Taipei, and the guy in Taipei said, Well, we got hold of the Harry Walker agency, which is a booking agency that Gore uses to do his speeches.
And uh they said he's uh getting ready to prepare his presidential run, his announcement.
Of course, Al Gore's been out there denying that he's going to run and so forth.
But you know, the first live Earth concert's coming up on July 7th, and I got a note here from a friend who says, I predict that he'll announce his candidacy on July 7th at the first live Earth concert.
He said, I hope it snows.
It's in New Jersey somewhere.
Want you to hear audio.
There is video to this.
It's available at uh at I think at Brightmart.com and at Liveleak.com.
We um I was I was advised to watch this, and I did, and it it's it's Chris Chris Matthews being uh well, berated, if you will, by a black army veteran after the Ann Coulter show uh on uh MSNBC earlier this week.
No, no, no, no, no.
I want to know why all of this while politicians are limped, but U.S. troops are not.
People wacky put on a room, go out and fight and die.
Okay, she's calling in and complaining about somebody, one person that said something in the book.
Anne Coulter's not elected to the sink, okay?
John Kerry is, Dick Durbin is, okay.
And if we want apologies and personal taxes, stop.
Who's gonna attack this soldier?
Okay, let's see.
Did Durbin his companion in the knock?
Abu Grade is now open under new magic, okay?
But our soldiers are not out there blowing them damn cells up.
And I, as a veteran, take a joke.
You don't you don't think they should have criticized Happy Gramm?
No, no, they shouldn't Chris.
They don't hey look, policy is made by civil.
Truth only do what they can.
Let me tell you something.
This administration is denied that was a policy from the top.
I believe it was.
You don't agree.
We believe it was possible from the top, don't I?
I believe it.
No, you believe.
I believe it was policy.
Okay, wait a minute.
Okay, well, wait a minute.
Wait a damn minute, Chris.
If we want to talk about policy made for the top, let's talk about the mess that happened over in white.
And uh Rwanda, and that's uh this is a black veteran.
And what his point was he was he was what are you wasting time here with Ann Coulter?
So you can one person uh he's I'm getting sick and tired.
You never criticize politicians.
You're always criticizing people out there, one person who wrote something in the book, but you don't criticize John Kerry.
You don't criticize Dick Durbin.
You don't criticize anybody who's elected.
Ann Calder's not elected to the Senate.
And he said, Look, well, what what are you you know, Matthews said um who's been attacking the soldiers?
What?
What kind of question is that who's been attacking the soldiers?
How about the entire Democrat Party leadership in both the House and the Senate?
What do you call it when you invest in defeat?
What do you call it when you say the surge is worthless when you've when you say that we've lost the war in Iraq?
What are you doing?
What do you do when you when you run around and impugn the uh integrity and the intelligence of enlisted personnel by saying, ah, they come from the wrong side of the tracks, it's the only place they can go to get an education.
That's the only place they go to have a future.
They don't really want to be in the military.
What do you do?
I mean, how how do you not know that the troops are being attacked by Democrats if you host a cable news show?
uh as Chris Matthews does, and of course this guy fired right back.
Well, Dick Durbin called the troops Nazis and so forth, and and uh it was Ted Kennedy who said that Abu Ghrab is now open, the same under new management, comparing our running of Abu Ghrab to Saddam Hussein.
Uh, this was cool because this this is a a veteran who's fed up with this kind of coverage, and this he was in the audience, and he sought Matthews out after the show uh to uh give him peace of his mind.
And of Matthew's credit, he stood there and talked to it, and there was a camera rolling, and I think Matthews knew it.
Uh, but it's uh we'll give you the link at uh at rushlimbaugh.com uh later when we update the site to reflect the contents of today's program.
More than half of Americans say that they would not consider voting for Senator Hillary Clinton for president if she's the Democrat nominee.
This, according to a uh it's a new national poll made available to McClatchy newspapers and NBC News.
The poll was by Mason Dixon polling and research.
And it found that fifty-two percent of Americans wouldn't consider voting for Clinton.
Uh former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney was second in the can't stand them category, forty-six percent saying they wouldn't consider voting for him.
Clinton has long been considered a politically polarizing figure, it says here, who would be a tough sell to some voters, especially many men, but also Clinton haters of both genders.
Clinton haters.
Anyway, uh Larry Harris, uh principal at Mason Dixon said that the survey provides a snapshot of the challenges that she faces, carrying a lot of baggage.
I you know, I'm waiting, I'm waiting for the first 2016 preference polls to be conducted with a drive-by media.
Who would you prefer, Chelsea Clinton or or or uh one of the Bush twins?
It's about how absurd all this gets.
Let's go to some sound bites from the all-American uh presidential forum on PBS last night.
Uh Tavis Smiley hosted the Democrat Forum.
Uh and uh let's see, this is uh oh, they had the winner of an online contest to submit questions for the debate.
Chrisilla Cohen Scott from Bowie, Maryland asked the first question.
She said uh 1903, the noted intellectual W. E. B. Du Bois, the problem of the twentieth century is the problem of the color line.
Is race still the most intractable issue in America, and especially I might add, in light of today's U.S. Supreme Court decision, which struck down the use of race as a factor in K-12.
It is abundantly clear, especially today, that race and racism are defining challenges, not only in the United States, but around the world.
You know, we have made progress.
You can look at this stage and see an African American, a Latino, a woman contesting for the presidency of the United States.
But there is so much left to be done.
And for anyone to assert that race is not a problem in America is to deny the reality in front of our very eyes.
You can look at thousands of African Americans left behind by their government with Katrina.
You can look at the opportunity gap, the cradle to prison superhighway that the covenant talks about, and you can look at this decision today, which turned the clock back on the promise of Brown v.
Board of Education that was resting on the fact that children are better off if they are part of a diverse integrated society.
So, yes, we have come a long way, but yes, we have a long way to go.
The march is not finished.
Now, so much of this is just pandering.
I I uh and expect them to do this.
I mean, this is their their voting block.
But this Brown versus Board of Education thing, you know, I understand that that's an iconic thing, but the problem with the civil rights coalition in this country today is they live in the past.
Progress is not something that they're really interested in.
They love going back to these iconic things of sixty years ago and uh reliving them and having anniversaries about them and pretending that things are still the same.
And I mentioned earlier Juan Williams has really a breathtaking piece today.
Juan Williams is black as a breathtaking piece of the New York Times, saying it's about time Brown versus Board of Education went by the wayside.
It's is no longer practical.
The circumstances that exist in the country today are not the same as back then.
And he he mentions that he interviewed extensively Thurgood Marshall was a lead lawyer in that Case, Brown versus Board of Education, who later ended up on the Supreme Court.
And in his interviews, uh Thurgood Marshall uh said uh that the whole point of Brown versus Board of Education was not integration, and it was not diversity.
We weren't trying to get the races together.
We were trying to get black kids access to decent schools, because back then the school boards were spending more money on the white schools than anywhere else, and we just wanted our kids to have access to the same quality buildings and books, materials, teachers, and uh, and education.
Uh we had this report the other day, this Harvard political scientist.
Five years study, diversity destroys the concept of just putting people together because you think they should be together.
You got to put people together because you know the woman that started this case that the Supreme Court decision uh yesterday dealt with.
All she wanted to stop was having to drive her kid 90 minutes away to school.
That's all she wanted was a pain in a rear.
And of course, that was the whole message of forced busing, and we know how that worked out.
And all she wanted, she had no idea she was creating this kind of fire storm.
She just said, This is ridiculous.
I got a school much closer to my house, but I'm told I got to send my school over a kid over here for diversity.
Diversity doesn't work.
Diversity is not substance.
Diversity is just liberal kaleidoscope mentality, thinking that they're doing wonderful things and being good people.
So the whole the whole premise of Brown versus Board of Education is being misrepresented by people who don't want to let go of it because it's uh it has its iconic uh status.
When you hold on to Brown versus Board of Education, you keep talking about it, you uh you you you fallaciously put forth the notion that we're still living under such circumstances, that we're still living under such discrimination, we're still living under such prejudice and economic gaps and disparities.
Not the case.
So they don't want to let go of that, and that's why they're concerned that Brown versus Board of Education went away.
The uh in fact, I would I would suggest that uh there has been more segregation of races since Brown versus Board of Education than integration.
And the segregation is being brought about by uh uh various civil rights groups uh who, despite granted being granted the right to integrate and so forth, have decided to separate themselves uh for whatever reasons.
And you know it and I know it.
And I gotta take a break.
We'll be back after this.
Stay with us.
By the way, for those of you uh remembering the uh the polling data we did on Mrs. Clinton, this is the Mason Dixon poll.
Uh what does it say here to the 52% of Americans would not consider voting for Mrs. Clinton?
Uh what is it, 47%?
Well, I'm not sure what it is.
I'm not sure it's probably 47.
But remember uh the Clintons don't need 50 percent of the uh vote to win elections.
Bill never got 50 percent of the vote, he got 47 percent in 92 because you had Perot out there.
He got 49 percent in uh 96.
The Clintons don't need 50 percent.
They just need some dupe like Bloomberg to get in a race.
Uh well, not Bloomberg, but Bloomberg might take votes away from uh from her.
But uh they've they've shown that they can win the presidency without getting 50 percent of the vote.
So this probably doesn't scare them.
Now, here's here's a little observation for you.
Mrs. Clinton going on and on and on and horrible it is that this Supreme Court decision is absolutely rotten.
The thing about liberals is that they always come up with two sets of rules, one for themselves and one for the rest of us.
And the rule for themselves exempts them from the rules they set for everybody else.
Now, she lives in Chappaqua, New York, and that's just you know, it's just up the road from Manhattan.
It's about interestingly 90 minutes from Manhattan.
Uh Chappaqua is an area of New York that is called White Landia.
So let's assume here, for the sake of discussion, that uh uh uh some authority, some court decided that a number of kids from Harlem schools are gonna be busted up to Chappaqua.
Uh what do what do you think the reaction up there would be?
I mean, I I don't I see Mrs. Clinton would be fine because she doesn't have her kid in school up there anymore, so since she's not hardly there either, she's in Washington and out campaigning.
She'd over fine with it, but you think the people in her community would like and you think the people of Harlem want to go 90 minutes every day up to school?
And always maybe turn turn it, turn it other way around.
Yeah, bring the kids from Chappaqua down to Harlem.
And You watch what happens.
I mean, that's what this case was about.
Wasn't that Brown versus Board of Education so much?
It was just about liberals telling you what you got to do with your kids and where you got to send them to school, what they can and can't eat when they get there, what they can and can't drink when they get there, what kind of vehicle they can and can't ride on to get there, what kind of recess games they can't play when they get there, what food they have to avoid in the cafeteria.
The liberals are just they want to run everybody's life.
Now you might say, well, Rush, I don't think anybody have a problem with this because Clinton has his office in Harlem, so uh they're covering uh covering their bases with this.
But I'm just I'm just suggesting to you that if uh if Hillary Clinton were ever subjected to the stuff she supports for everybody else, her stack would blow.
She wouldn't put up with it.
We go on now to the subject of poverty and education.
Um, this is uh see who asked this question.
USA Today's Duane Wickham said this question's about the link between education and poverty.
According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, last year the unemployment rate of black high school graduates, black high school graduates 33 percent higher than an unemployment rate for white high school dropouts.
To what do you attribute the inequity which keeps many black families locked in the grip of poverty?
Senator Biden responded with this and said We should remind everybody that the day before a black child, a minority child steps into a classroom.
Half the achievement gap already exists.
That is, they already start behind.
So the moment they walk into that school, they are already behind.
And that gap widens in a wide- Wait a second.
Wait a why?
Why is that?
How does he know this?
Prove this.
You you don't think that is a racist statement and a bigoted statement and a prejudice statement.
He's just telling this audience of black people that he thinks their kids start out behind.
Now they don't understand that they've been insulted.
They think he's supporting them because of course, if it's true their kids start out behind, it's got to be somebody else's fault.
Uh this is one of those things, you know.
I I would say prove it.
Here's the rest of his bite.
Biden's because we do not start school earlier.
We do not give single mothers in disadvantaged homes the opportunities that they need in order to know what to do to prepare their children.
Stop the tape, stop the tape once again.
You see, ladies and gentlemen, that you don't have what it takes to raise your own kids.
The government, run by Democrats for how many of the last how many years out of the last 40 has not done a good enough job of teaching single black mothers how to be good mothers.
Mother who talks to her child on a regular basis from infancy to being a toddler.
That child when it's two years old.
Well, a vocabulary, 300 words more than the child not talking.
So it's simple.
You gotta start off and focus on the nurturing and education of children when they're very young, particularly children from disadvantaged families.
You know, Barack Obama didn't have this problem.
Barack Obama somehow escaped that gap.
Uh he's become one of the cleanest uh and most articulate uh black candidates the Democrat Party's ever fielded, quote unquote Joe Biden.
How did Barack escape this gap?
I mean, I assume he started out uh what, behind?
But he launched himself, and now he's doing better in the polls for the presidential nomination than is Biden.
Let's see, do we have uh let's go to cut seven because we're getting close here to the piece de resistance and all this.
Uh we're not gonna get to all of it before the break.
But here's Mrs. Clinton uh uh addressing the same subject.
No, no, no, no, sorry, sorry, it's uh on AIDS.
They moved on to AIDS.
I forgot to move my cue sheet forward by a page.
Uh, what's the plan to stop and protect these young people from this scourge of AIDS?
And here's a portion of Mrs. Clinton's answer to the question.
I just put this in perspective.
If HIV AIDS were the leading cause of death of white women between the ages of 25 and 34, there would be an outraged outcry in this country.
That is shameless.
That is just that is just pandering of the worst order.
Um I I you know this this is this forum is what it was and it's it existed for this express purpose.
But look, here we are.
I don't know if you saw it, I didn't see it.
By the time last night came around, folks, I was exhausted and I was uh I was into a little hedonism.
I was into Sybitic pursuits.
The last thing I was gonna do after this exhausting week was to watch this.
But here we are.
Uh uh uh man running America, you know it and I know it.
Uh an untamed piece of a GOP message machine airing for millions of Americans who didn't watch it, didn't see it, didn't hear it, what Democrats said last night at their all-American presidential forum on um on PBS.
Uh take that, those of you who are on the prowl on the fairness doctrine.
But the best of the AIDS comments comes up after this.
And I promise we'll get to your phone calls after that.
And we are back serving humanity.
El Rush fall the cutting edge of societal evolution.
Let me read to you one thing from this Juan Williams piece in the New York Times.
It's headline, Don't Mourn Brown versus Board of Education.
He says this and he's right on the money.
Probably gonna take some heat from this if he hasn't already.
Racial malice, no longer the primary motive in shaping inferior schools for minority children.
Many failing big city schools today are operated by black superintendents and mostly black school boards.
Today the argument that school reform should provide equal opportunity for children or prepare them to live in a pluralistic society is spent.
The winning argument is that better schools are needed for all children, black, white, brown, every other hue, in order to foster a competitive workforce in a global economy.
Now, how do you think that would have gone over last night if one of those candidates had said this in the all-American presidential forum on PBS?
All right, now we get we get to the meat of the coverage here.
This is Joe Biden.
Who asked this question?
Public radio's Michelle Martin.
I'm sure you'll all agree there are a lot of beautiful young people out there in the audience today, so you can imagine how disturbed we were to find out from the Centers for Disease Control that African Americans are 17% of all American teenagers, yet they are 69% of the population of teenagers diagnosed with HIV AIDS.
What's the plan to stop and protect these young people from this scourge?
And Joe Biden said this.
What's happened is there's a policy of neglect, denial, and lack of honesty out there.
The fact of the matter is there's neglect in the part of the medical and the white community focusing on educating the minority community out there.
I spent last summer going through the black sections of my town holding rallies in parks, trying to get black men to understand it's not unmanly to wear a condom.
Getting women to understand they can say no.
Getting people in the position where testing matters.
I got tested for AIDS.
I know Barack got tested for AIDS.
There's no shame in being tested for AIDS.
It's an important thing.
Because the fact of the matter is in the community, in the community's engaged in denial.
They're engaged in denial.
There was laughter underneath that uh uh assertion here that Barack got tested for AIDS.
But once again, we have here on clear display.
This is I'm uh my mind is working at about 95% speed today, folks.
I'm not coming up with the words I want here to describe this, but this is it's more than pandering.
This is insulting.
What Biden just said here, there's neglect on the part of the medical and the white community focusing on educating the minority community out there about AIDS.
I guess to Joe Biden and every one of these people that spoke in this forum last night, it is not up to the black community to learn defend for themselves.
They are the quintessential American victims.
And by gosh, if uh if the white community doesn't educate them, and if the white community doesn't take care of them, and the white community doesn't warn them, and the white community doesn't give them condoms, then they are doomed in the United States.
If I'm sitting in the audience, I'm black and I hear that, I revolt.
Uh uh uh uh I went to the black sections of my town, and I said it's not unmanly to wear a condom.
Uh there were rallies out there, but this is it this is just it's offensive.
It's it's it's dehumanizing.
Anyway, Barack Obama had to uh respond to this.
I just gotta make clear I got tested with Michelle when we were in Kenya and Africa.
So I want to I don't want any confusion here.
All right.
About what's going on.
And I got tested to save my life because I was the best.
And I'm and I'm sure Michelle appreciates you clarifying.
There you go.
So Biden.
You just know that give this guy enough time when he opens his mouth and he's gonna step in it.
One way or the other.
All right, let's go back to the phones because it's open line Friday.
This is Mark in Chicago.
I'm glad you waited, sir.
I appreciate your patience.
Hey, Rush, thank you for taking my call on uh open line Friday.
Mega Ditto's from Chicago, and I can't believe what I just heard out of Biden.
But uh the reason I want to call today is uh Rush, I've been listening to you for oh going on about eighteen years.
And I hope Biden's listening to this also.
Uh you have been an incredible inspiration.
Your daily uh pursuit of motivating people, and I know I'm not alone in your audience, has allowed me to t to succeed in so many different areas.
And uh I wanted to personally tell you today, Rush, that your legacy in this nation will be described down the road as priceless.
Wow.
Well, I I I I appreciate that.
You are you are bringing tears to Mr. Snerdley's eyes.
He's a softy.
He welds up in there.
But that I I I really do appreciate it.
It's very nice of you to say.
Thank you very much.
Hey, Rush, thanks, and uh God bless you.
Same to you, sir.
God bless you.
I um uh I I appreciate hearing that because there's you know, this uh so much that happens on this program that is inspirational, upbeat, optimistic, good cheer, all those kinds of things.
Uh and we've been around for we're there'll be 19 years on August 1st, and yet there are there are people who have not sampled this program yet because they have read the criticism of the program.
That's the last thing they would ever expect that uh that happens here.
And uh it's it's it's sort of fascinating to me that I can remain such a mystery to so many people after 19 years of this.
Actually, if you want to I don't think I am a mystery.
I think they all know.
I think they purposely try to discredit uh because they fear the uh eminence, the growth and the expansion of this uh of this program, and they fear you because you're informed and motivated, and you get involved.
Joe in Lavonia, Michigan, you're next at Open Line Friday.
Hello, sir.
Yes, sir, Mr. Limbaugh.
Yes.
God bless you, sir.
Thank you, sir.
Me and my family thank you for what you do.
Well, you're very kind.
I appreciate that.
Thank uh you and your family for being out there.
Yes, I am, and I uh sorry I missed your first year of being on the radio, and I can remember when I was when I first heard you.
It was at my new job, and uh guy I was working with said, you have to listen to this guy, he's a card.
And you were probably hooked instantly.
Instantly, yes, sir.
And I haven't missed a day.
I still have a postcard of you that I got from your radio station.
And it's still hanging on my wall.
Wow.
But uh what I wanted to get to was that uh I watched the weather channel.
Well, that could be a mistake, depending on what you're watching there.
Yeah.
And the thing is is that they have this uh this little chart that says what are the primary pollutants?
Yes, yes, yes, yes.
And the amazing thing is that I see the primary pollutant is ozone.
Now, how can ozone be a pollutant?
Well, it is a pollutant if it's uh uh it's not really pollutant, it's uh it's it it's not really a it's not really like CO2.
They keep calling that a pollutant, and it's not.
Uh and they keep saying that carbon dioxide CO2, the more molecules in the atmosphere, the worse it's gonna get, and we're gonna get greenhouse gases.
It's it's not true.
All of this is now ozone at surface level can cause problems.
It can burn your eyes, it can um uh it can uh uh cause haze, it can cause discomfort, you might call it pollutant.
It's not gonna kill you unless you and it's not gonna kill you, period.
It if you if you have a respiratory problem, if you have a uh uh if you're elderly, they tell you to stay inside to give ozone alerts.
Ozone in the stratosphere is what uh reflects and protects us from ultraviolet B radiation.
Right.
And and UVB is what uh keeps us from getting uh the the ozone actually is is is a great the first shield, the sunscreen, if you will, uh to prevent us from burned and cancer and this.
But ozone uh produced uh not by the stratosphere but produced at the at surface level can be a problem.
I just didn't understand because they say, well, we have to protect the ozone layer, but then ozone can be harmful.
Well, that's right, but we're we don't live in the stratosphere.
The ozone that's in the atmosphere, that's far and far away.
We're never gonna get there, and it's not it's it's serving its purpose there.
Ozone at street level.
I mean, I've lived in Manhattan and they have they've had a couple of ozone alerts.
Uh you can't see it.
It it just it forms a little haze.
It's um I guess you can see it somewhat, but uh it it it's just more of an irritant than anything else.
But it's not permanent.
It it comes and goes, and it's it's part of the overall natural climate cycle, the the um uh ecological cycle here.
It's just it's it's always been, it always will be.
Uh the weather channel, you mentioned it, they're they're on a they're on a global warming kick uh out there, Joe, and uh all of that is oriented toward convincing you that we are polluting ourselves to death and creating global warming and and so forth.
The Weather Channel, when they get to that subject, uh has adopted an agenda.
And that's uh that's what you were watching.
I appreciate the call and I thank you so much for your comments.
And we, ladies and gentlemen, be right back with more broadcast excellence right after this.
I was just sent this press release from the Speaker of the House's office.
I mean, Nancy Pelosi's office.
Pelosi Reed discussed six months of Democrat accomplishments.
This is what we were watching in their snerdly in your office at the top of the hour.
And what did it take us about thirty seconds for them to list their six months of accomplishments?
Even with Republicans trying to block Oh, she said something she said, folks, minor thing maybe to you.
She said we in the House, we don't have to worry about Republicans requiring sixty votes like they do in the Senate.
Republicans don't require sixty votes in the Senate.
The Senate requires sixty votes.
It's the cloture, it's it's a filibuster rule.
I don't know if she obviously knows this.
This was just one of these uh cheap thrill attacks on uh on Republicans.
Yeah, well I won't worry bore you with what they say because really didn't say anything.
Uh Uriah in Jacksonville, North Carolina, your next, sir, on the EIB network.
Hello.
Hi, Mr. Rush.
It's uh pleasure and uh honor to speak with you, sir.
Mr. Rush, I've got uh just a couple of questions um that I have wanted to ask you.
Um my first question is uh really it's it's a sports question, uh retaining to the minute offense.
Uh what do you think about the Dolphins taking uh uh uh uh John Beck over uh Brady Quinn in the draft?
And I know that was about two two months ago, but I just wanted to see what your opinion was.
Tell you what this means.
And I know that the Dolphins caught all kinds of grief.
They had this big draft party down there at their headquarters in Davy, which is a hop skipping trip down to Turnpike here.
And uh they were when Brady Quinn was still available.
The Dolphins' big problem is they haven't a quarterback.
They've had Jay Fiedler, they've had uh Joey Herring, they have not had a quarterback that can build a franchise around since Marino.
And they were just whole when when when Brady Quinn, the Notre Dame quarterback, was still available, they were all expecting that, and they and then they didn't even pick an offensive player with the choice, and Brady Quinn w ended up going to uh Cleveland.
And they were fit to be tied.
My guy, how could this happen?
The one thing this franchise needs, and they didn't take it.
Whoa, what was this new coach lost his mind?
I'll tell you something.
There had to be a reason they didn't take Brady Quinn.
They're not stupid.
Now they might have made a mistake.
They might have made they might they might have, but their judgment has been he's not the answer.
Right.
It has to be what it was.
Now, why they thought he's not the answer, that's that's a roll of the dice.
He can end up being the greatest quarterback the Cleveland Browns have ever had.
Well, one of the greatest.
But uh the the early word out of uh the Browns mini camps is that he's uh uh he hadn't distinguished himself yet.
But it's mini camps, they haven't even got the training camp yet, so um I I can uh if you if I were Dolphins fan, you know I'd be I'd be puzzled by you you always wonder whether your front office knows what the hell it's doing.
Yes, sir.
Uh m Mr. Rush, I've got a second question.
Um I'm not gonna uh I well, my second question is uh What is it, Mr. Yoruya?
Yes, sir.
Uh um uh I was wondering, um me and my me and my wife personally are uh you know paying off our debts and things of that nature and uh in a position to purchase our uh first home.
Uh wanted to know uh you know uh uh what would it take to get a scholarship to the highly coveted and prestigious uh Limbaugh Institute Well, they we don't there's no scholarships necessary.
All you need is a radio.
Oh, okay.
Yes, sir.
Uh yes, sir.
Okay, so I'll be actually.
If you listen to the program every day, you are admitted through the uh the giant front doors to the Limbaugh Institute, and uh here you are, and you're you have full access uh to uh all of the knowledge and all of the uh uh important items uh said and referred to on this program.
So you don't even you don't need a scholarship.
It doesn't cost you anything.
Oh, yes, I was I was uh just uh just curious about that.
And and my third, my third statement, Mr. Rush.
Wait a minute, you said you only had two, Mr. Uroya.
You want a bonus question now.
Okay, go on what's the third question?
Yes, sir, and I apologize.
I was just listening to Joe Biden and his comments on uh HIV in the black community, and one of the things which uh I really do hold Mr. Biden and a lot of people with the ideology believe that it's basically education um as an African American male, I can tell you that one of the uh issues is the fact that the what's prevalent in the black community, which needs to change is the influence of rap music.
Because as you look at rap music, you look at hip hop music.
That the the main driving force of that there is sex outside of the marriage, um, which of course that's how HIV and AIDS are uh contracted.
And I really tell you, you know, uh uh uh Uriah, Mr. Uriah, I'm gonna be very serious about this.
There's there's no question you have people out there who look and and several several of them are are prominent black sociologists uh who think rap music has been destructive and and is is not at all uh helpful.
And the and that they say that it it emphasizes the absolute worst of the culture and promotes the worst of not just that culture, but just of just behavior.
Now the rap artists, quote unquote, will tell you no, no, no, no.
We uh simply reflecting our our our life experiences, and uh we are essentially poets and we are telling you about our life.
Whatever you think of rap music.
Hear me and hear me loud.
If you want to talk about the destruction of the black family, and it's a destruction that is undeniable.
Fifty-six percent of young black kids today uh live in single parent homes, and vast majority of the single parents are mothers.
Now the reason for this is the is the welfare state crafted by the American left.
And it is it is crafted with the assumption that people are incapable and incompetent of fending for themselves.
It is fashioned with the notion of creating as much dependence, uh codependence of these people on government uh as possible because that's what empowers liberals.
And so the the destruction of the of the black family units.
It didn't, it wasn't this way.
You go back and talk to uh uh blacks uh who uh lived in Harlem in the fifties.
Uh family units were intact.
They went to church every day.
They uh they they had you know intellectual and sports competitions with white schools.
This is before Brown versus Board of Education.
Black the black experience in this country is not you know what the j the Reverend Jackson or Reverend Sharpton today complain about it as being.
It's not always been that way.
Uh and it's there are several middle class and upper class black families now who you also never hear about.
They're not promoted as role models.
They're not they're not held up as uh uh as something to be emulated because they don't promote the civil rights prescriptions of getting where you want to go, which is affirmative action, uh uh, make sure that uh you follow liberal prescriptions on things.
But the welfare system, despite its good intentions, and sometimes I even question whether they were existing, but despite its good intentions, they gave fathers, and not just in the black community either, but it's it's really hit home there, gave fathers everywhere an opportunity to skip out.
Didn't have to be home because the federal government was taking up the financial responsibilities uh of a father.
And that's that begot all these other things that you're complaining about, like rap music, so forth and so if they're singing about their circumstance and condition, you gotta look at what caused that.
That it's open line Friday.
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