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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 and 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.
When 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.
This is a benevolent dictatorship.
Tell that to the Fairness Doctrine crowd.
There is no First Amendment here for anybody but me.
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.
Here's the telephone number, 800-282-2882.
And the email address is rush at EIBnet.com.
I just got a note from a friend who predicted, you heard me say that Al Gore has canceled all speaking.
Everything.
He's canceled.
He's cleared his calendar for the 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 the booking agency that Gore uses to do his speeches.
And they said he's 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, I think, at Breitbart.com and liveleak.com.
I was advised to watch this, and I did.
And it's Chris Matthews being, well, berated, if you will, by a black Army veteran after the Ann Coulter show on MSNBC earlier this week.
No, I want to know why all of a sudden, why politicians are Olympics, but U.S. troops are not.
People who actually put on a uniform, go out and fight and die.
Okay, she's calling in and complaining about somebody.
One person had said something in the book.
Ann Coulter's not elected to the Senate.
Okay.
John Kerry is.
Dick Durbin is.
Okay.
And if we want apologies, then personal attacks are stopped.
Who's going to attack this soldier?
Okay, let's see.
Dick Durbin, his companion, the Knox.
How Bo Grade is now open under new magic, okay?
But our soldiers are not out there blowing them damn cells off.
And I, as a veteran, take a distance.
You don't think they should have criticized Dr. Graham.
No, no, they shouldn't.
Hey, look, policy is made by civilians.
Troops only do what they can.
Let me tell you something.
This kind of shrink is denying that that was a policy from the top.
I believe it was.
You don't agree.
I believe it was possible for the top turbulence.
I believe it.
You believe.
I believe it was policy.
Okay, wait, wait, wait.
Wait a minute.
Wait a damn minute, Chris.
If we want to talk about policy made from the top, let's talk about the mess that happened over in Rwanda.
And Rwanda, and that's, this is a black veteran.
And his point was, he was, he was, what are you wasting time here with Ann Coulter?
So you're getting one person, 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 Coulter's not elected to the Senate.
And he said, look, well, what do you, you know, Matthew said, who's been attacking the soldiers?
What kind of question is 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 say that we've lost the war in Iraq?
What are you doing?
What do you do when you run around and impugn the integrity and the intelligence of enlisted personnel by saying, ah, they come from the wrong side of the tracks?
That'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?
How do you not know that the troops are being attacked by Democrats if you host a cable news show as Chris Matthews does?
And of course, this guy fired right back.
Well, Dick Durbin called the troops Nazis and so forth.
And it was Ted Kennedy who said that Abu Ghrab is now open, the same under new management, comparing our running of Abu Ghraib to Saddam Hussein.
This was cool because this is a veteran who's fed up with this kind of coverage.
And he was in the audience, and he sought Matthews out after the show to give him peace of his mind.
And to Matthew's credit, he stood there and talked to it.
There was a camera rolling, and I think Matthews knew it.
But it's we'll give you the link at rushlimbaugh.com 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 new national poll made available to McClatchy newspapers and NBC News.
The poll was by Mason Dixon Polling and Research.
And it found that 52% of Americans wouldn't consider voting for Clinton.
Former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney was second in the can't stand him category, 46% 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, Larry Harris, principal at Mason Dixon, said that the survey provides a snapshot of the challenges that she faces, carrying a lot of baggage.
You know, I'm waiting for the first 2016 preference polls to be conducted with a drive-by media.
Who would you prefer, Chelsea Clinton or one of the Bush twins?
It's about how absurd all this gets.
Let's go to some soundbites from the All-American Presidential Forum on PBS last night.
Tavis Smiley hosted the Democrat Forum.
And let's see, this is, oh, they had the winner of an online contest to submit questions for the debate.
Criscilla Cohen Scott from Bowie, Maryland, asked the first question.
She said, 1903, the noted intellectual W.E.B. Du Bois, the problem of the 20th century is the problem of the color line.
Is race still the most intractable issue in America, 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.
So, much of this is just pandering.
And expect them to do this.
I mean, this is their voting block.
But this Brown versus Board of Education thing, 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 60 years ago and 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 has a breathtaking piece in the New York Times saying it's about time Brown versus Board of Education went by the wayside.
It is no longer practical.
The circumstances that exist in the country today are not the same as back then.
And he mentions that he interviewed extensively Thurgood Marshall, who was a lead lawyer in that case, Brown versus Board of Education, who later ended up on the Supreme Court.
And in his interviews, Thurgood Marshall said 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 education.
We had this report the other day, this Harvard political scientist, five-year 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 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 the rear.
And of course, that was the whole message of forced bussing, and we know how that worked out.
And all she wanted, she had no idea she was creating this kind of firestorm.
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 premise of Brown versus Board of Education is being misrepresented by people who don't want to let go of it because it has its iconic status.
When you hold on to Brown versus Board of Education, you keep talking about it, 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.
In fact, I would suggest that there has been more segregation of races since Brown versus Board of Education than integration.
And the segregation is being brought about by various civil rights groups who, despite being granted the right to integrate and so forth, have decided to separate themselves for whatever reasons.
And you know it and I know it.
And I got to take a break.
We'll be back after this.
Stay with us.
Hi, welcome back.
By the way, for those of you remembering the polling data we did on Mrs. Clinton, this is the Mason-Dixon poll.
What does it say here?
52% of Americans would not consider voting for Mrs. Clinton.
What is it, 47%?
I'm not sure what it is.
I'm not sure it's probably 47.
But remember, the Clintons don't need 50% of the vote to win elections.
Bill never got 50% of the vote.
Got 47% in 92 because you had Perot out there.
He got 49% in 96.
The Clintons don't need 50%.
They just need some dupe like Bloomberg to get in the race.
Well, not Bloomberg, but Bloomberg might take votes away from her.
But they've shown that they can win the presidency without getting 50% of the vote.
So this probably doesn't scare them.
Now, here's a little observation for you.
Mrs. Clinton going on and on and on and on how 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 up the road from Manhattan.
It's about, interestingly, 90 minutes from Manhattan.
Chappaqua is an area of New York that is called Whitelandia.
So let's assume here, for the sake of discussion, that some authority, some court, decided that a number of kids from Harlem schools are going to be bused up to Chappaqua.
What do you think the reaction up there would be?
I mean, I don't.
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 be 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 maybe turn it the 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.
Well, not 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 they're covering their bases with this.
But I'm just suggesting to you that 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.
And this is, let's see, who asked this question?
USA Today's Dwayne Wickham.
He said, this question is 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% 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 wider way.
Wait a second.
Wait a while.
Why is that?
How does he know this?
Prove this.
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.
This is one of those things, you know, I would say prove it.
Here's the rest of his bite.
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.
A mother who talks to her child on a regular basis from infancy to being a toddler, that child when it's two years old, will have vocabulary 300 words more than the child not talking.
So it's simple.
You got to 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.
He's become one of the cleanest and most articulate black candidates the Democrat Party has ever fielded, quote unquote, Joe Biden.
How did Barack escape this gap?
I mean, I assume he started out, 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, let's go to cut seven because we're getting close here to the piesta resistance in all this.
We're not going to get to all of it before the break, but here's Mrs. Clinton addressing the same subject.
No, no, no, no.
Sorry, sorry.
It's on AIDS.
They moved on to AIDS.
I forgot to move my cue sheet forward by a page.
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.
Let me 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.
This forum is what it was, and 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 into a little hedonism.
I was into sibiritic pursuits.
The last thing I was going to do after this exhausting week was to watch this.
But here we are.
Man running America, you know it and I know it.
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 PBS.
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 Rushvau, 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 going to 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 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 on 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, is engaged in denial.
They're engaged in denial.
There was laughter underneath that assertion here that Barack got tested for AIDS.
But once again, we have here on clear display.
This is, 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 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 to fend for themselves.
They are the quintessential American victims.
And by gosh, 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.
I went to the black sections of my town and I said it's not unmanly to wear a condom.
There were rallies out there, but this is just offensive.
It's dehumanizing.
Anyway, Barack Obama had to respond to this.
I just got to make clear: I got tested with Michelle when we were in Kenya and Africa.
So I want to confusion here about what's going on.
And I got tested to save my life because I thought it was a good question.
I was testing with my wife.
And I'm sure, Michelle, I appreciate you clarifying.
There you go.
So, Biden, you just know that give this guy enough time when he opens his mouth and he's going to 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 Open Live Friday.
Mega Diddles from Chicago, and I can't believe what I just heard out of Biden.
But the reason I want to call today is, Rush, I've been listening to you for going on about 18 years.
And I hope Biden's listening to this also.
You have been an incredible inspiration.
Your daily pursuit of motivating people, and I know I'm not alone in your audience, has allowed me to succeed in so many different areas.
And 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 appreciate that.
You are bringing tears to Mr. Snirdley's eyes.
He's a softy.
He wells up in there.
But I really do appreciate it.
It's very nice of you to say.
Thank you very much.
Hey, Rush, thanks, and God bless you.
Same to you, sir.
God bless you.
I appreciate hearing that because there's so much that happens on this program that is inspirational, upbeat, optimistic, good cheer, all those kinds of things.
And we've been around for 19 years on August 1st, and yet 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 happens here.
And 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 because they fear the eminence, the growth, and the expansion of this program.
And they fear you because you're informed and motivated and you get involved.
Joe in Livonia, 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 you and your family for being out there.
Yes, I am.
And I 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 a 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 today.
I still have a postcard of you that I got from your radio station.
And it's still hanging on my wall.
Wow.
But what I wanted to get to was that 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 little chart that says what are the primary pollutants.
Yes, yes, yes, yes.
And the amazing thing is, is that I see the primary pollutant is ozone.
Now, how can ozone be a pollutant?
Well, it is a pollutant if it's not really pollutant.
It's not really like CO2.
They keep calling that a pollutant, and it's not.
And they keep saying that carbon dioxide, CO2, the more molecules in the atmosphere, the worse it's going to get.
And we're going to get greenhouse gases.
It's not true.
All of this is.
Now, ozone at surface level can cause problems.
It can burn your eyes.
It can cause haze.
It can cause discomfort.
You might call it pollutant.
It's not going to kill you unless you, and it's not going to kill you, period.
If you have a respiratory problem, if you're elderly, they tell you to stay inside.
They give ozone alerts.
Ozone in the stratosphere is what reflects and protects us from ultraviolet B radiation.
Right.
And UVB is what keeps us from the ozone, actually, is a great, the first shield, the sunscreen, if you will, to prevent us from getting some burned and cancer.
But ozone produced not by the stratosphere, but produced 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 don't live in the stratosphere.
The ozone that's in the atmosphere, that's far and far away.
We're never going to get there, and it's not, 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.
You can't see it, it forms a little haze.
It's um, I guess you can see it somewhat, but it, it, it's just more of an irritant than anything else.
But it's not permanent, it comes and goes, and it's it's part of the overall natural climate cycle, the um 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 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 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'd be Nancy Pelosi's office.
Pelosi Reed discussed six months of Democrat accomplishments.
This is what we were watching in there, Snerdley, in your office at the top of the hour.
And what did it take us about 30 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 60 votes like they do in the Senate.
Republicans don't require 60 votes in the Senate.
The Senate requires 60 votes.
It's the cloture.
It's a filibuster rule.
I don't know if she obviously knows this.
This was just one of these cheap thrill attacks on Republicans.
I won't bore you with what they say because really didn't say anything.
Uriah in Jacksonville, North Carolina.
You're next, sir, on the EIB network.
Hello.
Hi, Mr. Rush.
It's a pleasure and an honor to speak with you, sir.
Mr. Rush, I've got just a couple of questions that I wanted to ask you.
My first question is: really, it's a sports question retaining to the Miami Dolphins.
What do you think about the Dolphins taking John Beck over Brady Quinn in the draft?
And I know that was about two months ago, but I just wanted to see what your opinion was.
I'll 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 the turnpike here.
And when Brady Quinn was still available, the Dolphins' big problem is having a quarterback.
They've had Jay Fiedler.
They've had Joey Herring.
They have not had a quarterback that can build a franchise around since Marino.
And they were just hole.
And when Brady Quinn, the Notre Dame quarterback, was still available, they were all expecting that.
And then they didn't even pick an offensive player with the choice.
And Brady Quinn ended up going to Cleveland.
And they were fit to be tied.
How could this happen?
The one thing this franchise needs, and they didn't take it 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, but their judgment has been he's not the answer.
It has to be what it was.
Now, why they thought he's not the answer, 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 the early word out of the Browns mini camps is that he hadn't distinguished himself yet.
It's mini camps.
They haven't even got to training camp yet.
So if I were a Dolphins fan, I'd be puzzled by it.
You always wonder whether your front office knows what the hell it's doing.
Yes, sir.
Mr. Rush, I've got a second question.
I'm not going to, well, my second question is.
What is it, Mr. Uriah?
Yes, sir.
I was wondering, me and my wife personally are paying off our debts and things of that nature and in a position to purchase our first home.
I wanted to know, you know, what would it take to get a scholarship to the highly coveted and prestigious Limbaugh Institute?
Well, there are no scholarships necessary.
All you need is a radio.
Oh, okay.
Yes, sir.
Yes, sir.
Okay, so I was actually.
If you listen to the program every day, you are admitted through the giant front doors to the Limbaugh Institute, and here you are, and you have full access to all of the knowledge and all of the important items said and referred to on this program.
So you don't need a scholarship.
It doesn't cost you anything.
Oh, yes, sir.
I was just curious about that.
And my third statement, Mr. Royal.
Wait a minute.
You said you only had two, Mr. Uriah.
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 HIV and the black community.
And one of the things which I really do hold, Mr. Biden, and a lot of people with the ideology believe that it's basically education.
As an African-American male, I can tell you that one of the issues is the fact that what's prevalent in the black community, which needs to change, is the influence of rap music.
Because as you look at rap music and you look at hip-hop music, the main driving force of that there is sex outside of marriage, which, of course, that's how HIV and AIDS are contracted.
I'm going to tell you, Mr. Uriah, I'm going to be very serious about this.
There's no question you have people out there who look, and several of them are prominent black sociologists who think rap music has been destructive and is not at all helpful.
And they say that it emphasizes the absolute worst of the culture and promotes the worst of not just that culture, but just behavior.
Now, the rap artists, quote unquote, will tell you, no, no, no, no, we are simply reflecting our life experiences, and 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, 56% of young black kids today live in single-parent homes, and the vast majority of the single parents are mothers.
Now, the reason for this is the welfare state crafted by the American left.
And 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, codependence of these people on government as possible because that's what empowers liberals.
And so the destruction of the black family, it wasn't this way.
You go back and talk to blacks who lived in Harlem in the 50s.
Family units were intact.
They went to church every day.
They had intellectual and sports competitions with white schools.
This is before Brown versus Board of Education.
The black experience in this country is not what the Reverend Jackson and Reverend Sharpton today complain about it as being.
It's not always been that way.
And 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 held up 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, make sure that 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 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 of a father.
And 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 got to look at what caused that.
It's Open Line Friday.
I am El Rushbo, America's real anchorman, one big hour to go.
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