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Oct. 21, 2010 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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October 21, 2010, Thursday, Hour #3
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Ah, this is now this is this is good The esteemed media matters for America according to the daily caller the daily caller is uh chatsworth osborne jr's website The Media Matters for America is suggesting that NPR now needs to fire Mara Liason.
Yes.
NPR's Mara Liason and her long-running association with Fox News has often raised questions.
This might be the proper time for NPR to finally address that thorny issue.
Says media matters for America in a post entitled, What About Mara Lyason?
If you look at NPR's code of ethics, there's simply no way Lyason should be making appearances on Fox.
Now, Media Matters and NPR, both funded by George Soros.
This would seem to be an in-house decision.
Now, we have, and we're doing this, this is just fun.
We have the internal memo from the CEO of NPR explaining to the staffers over there why this happened to Juan Williams.
Dear A-Reps, whatever that means, A-R-E-P-S, in-house acronym.
Thank you for all your varying feedback on the Juan Williams situation.
Let me offer some further clarification.
First, a critical distinction has been lost in this debate.
NPR news analysts have a distinctive role and set of responsibilities.
This is a very different role than that of a commentator or columnist.
News analysts may not take personal public positions on controversial issues.
Doing so undermines their credibility as analysts.
And that's what's happened in this situation.
As you all will know, we offer views of all kinds on your air every day, but those views are expressed by those we interview, not our reporters and analysts.
And we're supposed to believe this.
This crock.
Second, this isn't the first time we have had serious concerns about some of Juan Williams' public comments.
Now, what?
What could Juan have said previously to have caused them concern at NPR?
Could it be that defense of me, the Magic Negro, while also on Fox when Juan was called an Uncle Tom?
This isn't the first time we've had serious concerns about some of Juan's public comments, despite many conversations and warnings.
Over the years, Juan has continued to violate this principle.
May I take a brief departure?
I love to talk about sometimes things happened in my past.
I got fired once.
I got fired eight times.
One of the times I got fired was for using the word therefore too much.
The reason I was fired for using the word therefore too much was that they had no cause.
You know, I was, you couldn't kick me out of the radio station.
They had a problem with my, I was doing commentary and I had a problem with my conservatism at this particular radio station.
But they didn't want it known they were firing me for content.
So they had to come up with a build a case for cause, insubordination.
So they sent me a memo.
You cannot use the word therefore.
Therefore clutters the mind of the listener and confuses and causes it, listener to have terrible difficulty in comprehending the clarity of the news that we are broadcasting each day here at K blah, blah, blah.
So I endeavored, folks, and I and I had coaching sessions after every, I was on there for three hours in the afternoon, coaching sessions for an hour and a half after every three-hour show.
And I was a co-host and they would bring me in and I have to review tape and I had to listen to the program director tell me everything I was doing wrong.
And they issued me warnings.
And I knew what was going on.
They wanted me to blow up.
They wanted me to curse them out and threaten them and that make it easy for them to fire me.
And I just agreed with everything they said.
I thanked them for working so hard with me to teach me how to do it better.
I went out of my way to tell them I'm working hard.
I'm practicing at home.
I'm practicing at home at night, not using the word therefore.
They also said I was calling my co-host, the female dear, DEA art, that's too sexist.
That was not respectful.
I couldn't do that anymore.
Didn't bother her.
She kind of liked it because very few other people were calling her dear.
But anyway, this went on for about three weeks.
And finally, one day they called me in, and there were three lawyers and stenographer, and they were taking notes, and they were nervous as hell and reading me the reason I was being fired.
And they gave me a pretty hefty severance package.
The anti-lawsuit vaccination, as it were.
This was 20 years ago, early 80s, when this happened.
So when I read this internal memo here, this isn't the first time we've had serious concerns about some of Juan's public comments, despite many conversations and warnings.
Over the years, Juan has continued to violate this principle.
Just uppity.
He's not taking direction.
He's not listening to his superiors.
Third, these specific comments and others Juan has made in the past are inconsistent with NPR's ethics code, which applies to all journalists, including contract analysts.
In appearing on TV or other media, NPR journalists should not express views.
They would not err in their role as an NPR analyst.
They should not participate in shows that encourage punditry and speculation rather than, well, how the hell long has he been doing this?
Now they're going after Mara Lyason for the same reason.
For the same thing.
Unfortunately, Juan's comments on Fox violated our standards as well as our values and offended many in doing so.
And then this, this, folks, is the piece des résistance.
Maybe I should preface this by saying, therefore, we're profoundly sorry that this happened during fundraising.
It happened during fundraising week.
These are people who couldn't support themselves if they had to.
This happened during our annual begathon.
We're profoundly sorry that this happened during fundraising week.
Juan's comments were made Monday night.
We did not feel it would be responsible to delay this action.
It was a tough decision.
And we appreciate your support.
Thanks, Vivian Schiller, president and CEO of NPR.
Maybe they should hire Rick Sanchez to replace Juan Williams.
They obviously have an opening over there.
Now, my question, how could it not have happened during fundraising week?
Aren't they raising money every day at NPR?
Aren't they giving away some cheap little bag or coffee mug?
Asking for some pledge.
Without your pledge, we cannot dust at NPR.
And, you know, Schiller, is that not the perfect name for somebody that runs an organization called NPR?
Shiller?
As in you, Shill?
And now they're going after Mara Lyason.
Mara Lyason, I mean, I'm sure she thinks she is in a protected class.
And now the left is going after its own because they're on Fox.
It's all because they're on Fox.
It's not because of this Muslim stuff.
I'm sorry, Middle Eastern liberals.
That's what we're calling them now here on the EIB network.
So NPR, they're just a bunch of shills for the ruling class.
And Juan embarrassed them out there during pledge week.
Anyway, brief time out here, folks.
Oh, and try this headline.
This is a Reuters.
UN study highlights the price of nature to mankind.
Governments and businesses need an overhaul of policies and strategies to respond to the rapid loss of nature's riches worth trillions of dollars but long taken for granted.
A UN-backed study said yesterday, damage to natural capital, including forests, wetlands, grasslands valued at $2 to $4.5 trillion annually.
That's the cost humanity.
That's the cost of humanity to nature.
There is no end.
There is no end to the ways they make up or conceive devices here in order to separate us from our money.
Now, capital.
Forest is capital.
Anyway, and this is what Obama really wants to run.
That's what he really wants, is lead, run the UN.
Oh, I want to run a theory, but I got an email.
Rush, you're missing it here on the Republicans.
You keep talking about these ranking Republicans and this story about Mitch McConnell.
They're smart by saying they expect Obama to pivot, move in their direction.
They're trying to set Obama up as the guy of no.
They're trying to make it look like Obama's the obstacle.
They're pretty smart.
Okay, if you think that, let me give you a Winston Churchill quote.
If you will not fight for the right, when you can easily win without bloodshed.
If you won't fight for the right when you can easily win without bloodshed, if you will not fight when your victory will be sure and not too costly, you may come to the moment when you will have to fight with all the odds against you and only a small chance of survival.
There may be even a worse case.
You may have to fight when there is no hope of victory, because it is better to perish than to live as slaves.
Winston Churchill said a number of great things during World War II, but this is right on the money.
won't fight when you can easily win.
If you won't fight when your victory will be sure and costly, then you are doomed to lose down the line.
You know, some people might say that Juan Williams canned during fundraising week because it's fundraising week.
Their donors are all liberals and it's a great, great promotion out there.
Juan Williams.
Where are they going to find another African American with an Hispanic name?
That's the real question.
They got to fill two different minority categories here with one guy.
I mean, it's possible they could do it.
Maybe Whoopi Goldberg.
I don't know if she would deign to work at NPR.
There's another Juan Williams quote that upset NPR.
And he said this about Michelle Obama.
And this comes to me from the editrix of our newsletter to Limbo letter, Diana Locos.
You know she's got this Stokely Carmichael and a designer dress thing going.
I can't tell you the number of women who send me notes begging me to comment on the way Michelle Obama dresses.
And I'm not going there.
I wouldn't touch any of this because there's no winning.
There's just no way.
You could come up with some of the most fabulous lines in the world and you get Juan Williams.
You would get William, it'd be Williams knocked.
I mean, when I read, when I read that the fashion designers say that she's setting new fashion standards in a, you know, I think McNabb.
I just, I can't, I can't.
I can't deal with it.
So I don't, you wouldn't believe the number of women who want me to repeat the things they say about, no, they don't like it at all.
They don't, they don't, oh, no, they don't like, and they don't like that, that the libs say she's setting new standard fashions in a positive way.
They really don't like that.
One of them said, I, you know, I shouldn't.
No, okay, I won't do it.
You know, you have to talk, you know, to talk about Michelle Obama's wardrobe is a no-wan situation.
But, I mean, one of them, when she met the king and queen of Spain, here's Juan trying to get his job back.
Audio sound by 27.
Juan Williams trying to get his job back on Fox and Friends this morning.
Brian Kilmead says, this NAA LCP report is just a political scare tactic aimed at rallying African-American voters for the midterm elections.
This is the NAA LCP report claiming they have finally concluded, regretfully, that the Tea Party is a bunch of racists.
I tell you what, right from the start, I have been very clear and I have written that I didn't see racism in the Tea Party at its start, that this was about big government and animosity towards big government.
People were upset about high taxes and a lot of people concerned about health care reform.
But I must tell you guys that when I go to a Tea Party rally and I see the signs, there's some signs there that just look to me like racism.
And when you hear some of the sentiments expressed, this guy Mark Williams, who was a spokesman for the Tea Party and went online and he did this racist, I think he might have thought it was funny mocking of black people.
This crosses a line and makes me as a black person uncomfortable.
So the report may be weak, but it's not that there is nothing to be concerned about.
Well, what a great NPR type thing to say.
The report may be full of it, but it's really good to be concerned about it.
So it didn't work.
It didn't.
Well, no, you can't report on the racism in the NAACP because there isn't any.
Because they don't have the power to implement their racism.
This is what the Reverend Daxon has always said.
It looks to me like with this soundbite that Juan has pivoted.
And he's moving back in the direction of the NPR.
They showed him the whip hand and he responded.
That's what happened here.
So he's moving back, and he's trying to get in their good graces.
He did it on Fox today.
Tina Baton Rouge, Louisiana, welcome to the EIB network.
Great to have you here.
Oh, my dear Rush, congratulations on your recent upgrade.
Thank you.
And my comment was, I remember when our beloved, oh so esteemed now Vice President Bite Me said that you couldn't walk into a 7-Eleven without seeing an Indian or hearing an Indian accent.
Yeah, that's right.
Everywhere.
That's right.
Nobody commented on that.
Well, they did.
They said, oh, that's just bite me being bite me.
Well, yeah, they always use that excuses.
Yeah, they just excused it.
Oh, that's just Joe.
You know, that's just Joe being Joe.
Yeah, well.
Nobody comments and makes, you know, no one asks for that.
That's what I mean.
We're supposed to look the other way because these are such good people.
They're so compassionate.
They're such nice people.
I love that characterization, my marriage as an upgrade.
It's a hell of an upgrade.
Okay, Andrew in East.
Syracuse, New York.
Hello, sir.
In Canton Light Bulb Dittos, Rush.
Thank you very much.
You know, I was appalled yesterday when I heard on Fox News, I believe it was either the Brett Baer report or during one of their breaks at the half hour, that the Health and Human Services Department is going to be using $30 million of our hard-earned money to communicate to us all the good things about Obamacare.
And it was appalling to me because they've been doing that since the election of 2008 and every day thereafter since the administration was inaugurated and sworn in.
So I'm asking myself, why do these people who have the bully pulpit at their disposal and who can go to any print source or any broadcast source and get all the time they want have to use our taxpayer money to communicate to us?
Because they know we don't believe them, but it's also a SOP to the unions.
Whenever you see all these monies, these funds being used to spread a message or to build this project, they're just slush funds.
This is just, it's not going to go to what they say it's going to go to.
This is money that's going to be used to be passed out to unions, Obama support.
This is electioneering money.
Well, not so fast because this afternoon, Rush, while I was listening to your show at the very beginning, during the first soft break, I actually heard an advertisement from the Health and Human Services Department paid for by the Medicare program to help inform people of the Medicare fraud enforcement provisions of the Obamacare legislation.
And what strikes me as appalling is that after we have communicated to them time and again that we don't want this bill, they are now going to be a lot of people.
Exactly.
That's right.
And we have Republicans who think Obama is going to pivot in our direction.
Doesn't compute.
Well, guess what?
It turns out, ladies and gentlemen, that the propaganda campaign, Department of Health and Human Services to spend $30, what, million, billion dollars of your money to explain the health care debacle actually has happened.
They have, in fact, unbeknownst to me, purchased time on this program.
We have been running sometimes during the commercial breaks.
I listen to music and I keep myself up and in a good mood.
I've been listening to Telstar by the tornadoes past couple days.
You know, I go back and forth various tunes, obsessive with these things.
So I missed this.
Here it is.
I.e., from Obama.
So I'm kind of torn here.
We're getting their money.
Some of it coming back to me.
Some of it's yours.
They're actually.
Well, editorial policy doesn't have anything to say about this.
We took money from CNN, you know, for a Spitzer and a Ditzer.
So I just, I just, how about your government telling you, your government, your government, from the Obama regime saying, if it sounds too good to be true, it is from this, from this bunch.
Thirdly, did ABC News really report this?
Get this, folks.
ABC News, NPR CCO or CEO, Vivian Schiller, quote, whatever feelings Juan Williams has about Muslims should be between him and his psychiatrist or his publicist.
Isn't that her personal opinion?
That's what she said.
So now Juan Williams needs a shrink.
In addition, they had to can Juan Williams during pledge week.
Now he's a lunatic.
Why am I laughing at this?
I don't know why I'm laughing.
Yeah, Juan needs to get his mind right.
They are vicious.
They really are.
I mean, what's happening?
I'm sure NPR is being just lit up today over how bad a decision this is.
Yeah, I'm sure they pulled their comments because they had talking points, what the people are supposed to say when anybody questioned them about why Juan Williams was summarily canned.
And just like when you disagree with a liberal decision, you're the idiot.
So now they've gotten their backs up and they're really ticked off.
Oh, yeah, well, look, you tell him to go talk about that with his psychiatrist.
You don't tell a liberal how to run their business, folks, especially in the news business.
Ladies and gentlemen, as your humble servant and masterful observer of human behavior, I ask you the following: Have you ever said I should have been more careful or I should have tried harder?
Well, we all know that should have never fixed anything.
What would you say if your computer crashed right now, if it crashed today?
You probably say, I should have used carbon, I should have listened to Limboy.
I should have used carbonite, shouldn't won't get your data back.
NPR won't get your data back.
Juan Williams won't get his data back or his job back.
Yeah, one Williams.
I shouldn't have said that.
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This is Jimmy.
Jimmy, great to have you on the EIB network.
Hi.
Hello, Rush.
Getting back for a second to political correctness.
Political correctness is Marxist mind control.
If you follow all of the things, all the beliefs and statements that are politically correct, it is so harmful and destructive to us.
And I studied Marxism and communism for 45 years, mostly from within.
Whoa.
Whoa, whoa, whoa.
You studied 45 years Marxism and Communism from within.
What does that mean?
I have their training manuals like how to penetrate the Negro organizations.
They make statements like capitalism is racism.
To destroy racism, you have to destroy capitalism.
And then, of course, later on, capitalism was white people.
It's Republicans.
So all of these charges of racism, it used to be when you talked against the Rosenberg Adam spies, you were called anti-Semitic.
The big thing now, as you know, is the charge of racism.
That censorship through ridicule.
The left is organized and they really know what they're doing.
I think the last time I talked to you, Rush, was maybe 17 years ago.
I sent you a copy of the book Red Cocaine.
And in that book, they warned about the movement in Mexico, which we're seeing now.
The total turmoil and collapse and borderline revolution right on our borders.
So we had enough warning, Rush, on a lot of this stuff, and it's all coming to fruition right in front of us.
One more thing, Rush.
If you want to get liberals more mad at you, refer to Obama as Obama Dinejad.
I find that gets the left really crazy.
Obama Dinizad.
All right.
Well, it's yours.
You know, I don't want to steal your thing.
You've got that covered, but it is clever.
Barack Obama Dineizad does have a.
It flows.
It has good alliteration.
Barack Imam Obama Dineizad.
Barack Obama 12th Imam Obama Dinezad.
Any number of variations, I think, work well here.
And the iambic pentameter of that, you can't get any better.
Barack Imam Obama Dineizad.
Oh yeah.
Imam Barack Hussein Obama Dineizan the 12th.
And other Middle Eastern liberals today said.
Have a quick question here born of compassion.
Will Juan Williams be able to use his NPR health care plan to go see his psychiatrist that the CEO Schiller suggests that he should do?
Now, if he has a mental illness, Aren't they firing somebody who's disabled?
And therefore, he could sue Americans with Disability Act.
There are all kinds of avenues.
You know what I would do?
Can you name three conservatives on NPR?
Can you name two conservatives on NPR?
You need a week.
Can you name, no, regular, not guest.
Can you name one conservative on NPR?
Is there anybody at Fox we could put on NPR, keep one on Fox and send them over to NPR?
Is anybody at Fox that we can send NPR to level the playing field?
I'm just asking.
Send Shepard Smith over there, Shepard Smith to NPR?
Okay.
Here's the story, by the way.
President Obama's Health and Human Services Department on Tuesday announced nearly $30 million in grants to help consumers see the benefits of the Democrats' new health care law, and they did buy time on this program.
We just played you the commercial.
These benefits include helping consumers file appeals and grievances against their existing health insurance plan.
That's right.
Obamacare is so popular that they now have to bribe you to file a complaint against your existing health care plan.
This is what they're doing.
They're bribing you to go out and rip your own health care insurance plan to shreds eventually so that we'll have to get to the public option or single payer.
Make no mistake about it.
Doug in Louisville, great to have you on the EIB network, sir.
It's Greg Rush.
How are you?
Fine.
Is this Doug or is not Doug?
It's Greg and Louisville.
Oh, it's Greg and Louisville, okay.
Yeah.
Yeah, my question is, well, first, I think the federal government should not be in the broadcast business.
And my question is, will the Republicans have the guts to defund NPR?
It's not in the Constitution.
And they can do anything they want.
If they get the House, not one penny can be spent if they have the backbone to stand up for it.
What do you think?
My doubt.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
I was going to say.
Anyway, there are people who dream of such stuff.
You know, average city, get rid of it.
You know, let NPR, let the liberals go out and form their own business network and let them see if they can make it in the marketplace like all the rest of us have.
Why should we pay for them?
It doesn't sound unreasonable.
What makes it sound unreasonable is when you ask, you think the Republicans would defund it.
That sounds unreasonable.
Not the idea of doing it.
Asking if the Republicans would do it is where you obviously hit the stumbling block.
Steve and Dayton.
Wait a minute now.
We just said Dayton, Nevada.
Is that right?
Steve?
Yes, Dayton, Nevada is correct.
Dayton, Nevada.
Yes.
Where is Dayton, Nevada?
It's about 19 miles east of Carson City out in the middle of nowhere.
So how close is it to stoplight?
Oh, a long way away from, you mean searchlights?
Searchlight, yeah, searchlight.
Yeah, a long way.
That's way down in southern Nevada near Las Vegas.
Okay.
Okay, earlier, Rush, before I get started here, Megan Dittos from a Dan's Bake Sale veteran.
Thank you.
Earlier, you were talking about the senators that are talking about making deals with Obama, how they're willing to work with him.
And you said that they were talking they had a rush problem.
I would like to suggest to them that they're not going to have a rush problem.
They're going to have a citizens problem because we are informed.
We're engaged.
We're out there working our tails off to get these conservative candidates elected, such as Sarah Angle here in Nevada.
And we know, we know that the hard work is ahead of us looking down the road past this election, going right up to 2012.
know how much we're going to have to keep working and keep motivated and keep pouring the money into this and the time and the effort to get our people elected and these people that want to make deals if they have can't learn from the groundswell of public opinion that's going on now that we are fired up and we are ready then they're going to look and it's going to be interesting to see this is This is what everybody's waiting to see if they do get them.
Nobody doubts they hear you.
That's not the question.
It's not whether they hear you.
It's not whether they know what you think and what you're doing.
It's, you know, when I say they're sitting, what are we going to do with the limbo problem?
You're right.
What are we going to do about these people that expect us to go divisive?
That's there are some Republicans doing that.
There's no question.
Anyway, excuse me.
A lot of phlegm today, folks.
It happens when I laugh a lot.
And I've been laughing a lot today.
I don't know why some of this stuff is making me laugh, but I'm following my instincts, so it must be okay to laugh.
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Say, this might explain Vivian Schiller.
Prior to joining NPR, she served at the New York Times Company, Senior Vice President, General Manager of New YorkTimes.com.
She led the day-to-day operations of New YorkTimes.com, the largest newspaper website on the internet overseeing product, technology, marketing, classifieds, strategic planning, and business development, which is bizarre since there's no political correctness on display at the New York Times.
By the way, before we get to it, I want to wish a happy 40th birthday to Michelle Malkin.
Yesterday, the Big 4-0 yesterday, and I meant to give her a shout-out yesterday.
And with everything going on, and NPR firing Juan Williams today, I forgot about it, so I wanted to get it in today.
See you tomorrow, folks.
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