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January 14, 2011, Friday, Hour #2
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The views expressed by the host on this program make more sense than anything anybody else out there happens to be saying, and it's for uh, well, multiple reasons.
Chief among them.
And that's what we do here.
We pursue the truth.
Truth is our agenda on the Excellence in Broadcasting Network.
And welcome.
It's Friday.
Live from the Southern Command in sunny South Florida.
It's open line Friday.
And greetings to you, ladies and gentlemen.
Welcome back, Rush Lindbaugh and Open Line Friday.
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Now, um, I mentioned closing the previous hour.
Let's turn the camera off.
We've got an audio problem here.
There we go.
All right, now we have a little bit of an audio problem that has been that that turned off automatically when I hit the uh a different button.
I never even touched that button.
Anyway, we are back, and I mentioned before the previous hour closed, ladies and gentlemen, there are other news items out there that have not been given much coverage because everybody's been so overwhelmed with the Tucson shooting and the aftermath and the wonderfulness of a nothing speech delivered by the president who waited until polling data came in to determine what he was going to say, and they waited for the t-shirts to get printed with the new logo, Together We Thrive to be created.
A masterful job, by the way.
They did all that in three days.
But while all that's been going on, there's there's other stuff out there.
And from uh just uh a couple of days ago from the UK telegraph, U.S. defense cuts.
You know, it's amazing.
I I would strongly suggest reading the Brit Media.
If you want to know what's going on in this country, if you want to know what's going on around the world, if you want to know what's going on uh in the world and how it's uh being affected by events in this country, read the UK media.
Even read The Guardian, a far-left liberal rag.
You can read the U.S. Telegraph, the Times Online.
Uh this is James Quorum.
January 13th, U.S. defense cuts are not about saving money.
They are about changing America's strategic role.
President Barack Obama has made it very clear that he's not in the least interested in getting American government spending under control.
A month ago, he urged Congress to pass a 1.2 trillion dollar spending bill larded with tens of billions of dollars for projects for Democrat Party core constituencies.
Luckily, Senate Republicans found enough backbone to stop Obama's latest binge spending program as Obama criticized the Republicans for their rare exercise of spending discipline.
Well, now we have a new budget proposal by the President.
He wants $78 billion in cuts in U.S. military spending.
And these are genuine cuts, not just reductions in the rate of growth, but genuine from the baseline cuts.
With large cuts to current troop strength.
Twenty-seven thousand men for the Army, as many as twenty thousand for the Marine Corps.
These cuts, along with the cuts Obama's already made to the U.S. Navy and the Air Force, cuts in aircraft and ship strength means significantly less military capability for the United States and the Western world.
Mr. Obama's framing the argument for cutting defense capability is partly overall need to control U.S. government spending, given his insatiable appetite for social welfare spending and his recent attempt to throw billions to the Democrat Party's loyalists.
His newfound concern for fiscal discipline comes across as blatantly dishonest.
Iran is arming rapidly, will soon have nuclear weapons.
An array of potentially hostile dictatorships are rapidly expanding their armed forces.
And President Obama seeks to cut United States defense capability.
And the story says these proposed cuts need to be seen as what they truly are.
It's not about controlling spending.
It is about changing the role of America in the world.
And you look at this combined with the START treaty.
He was, you know, let the Russians tell us when and where we must reduce nuclear weapons.
It is clear that what some of us have always thought about this gives great speeches.
fine oratorical speeches.
Uh, would make anybody in the ruling establishment class very, very proud.
uh Still, he has designs on this country that are not oriented toward maintaining it as a world superpower.
78 billion dollars in military cuts.
I also, the Wall Street Journal had a story.
January 8th.
This kind of stuff fascinates me, by the way.
Why Chinese mothers are superior.
Can a regimen of no play dates, no TV, no computer games, and hours of music practice create happy kids and what happens when they fight back?
You remember during the snowstorm that hit the Northeast.
You remember uh Governor Fast Eddie Rendell when he criticized the Eagles for canceling their game in the snowstorm.
He said these Chinese kids would have shown up at the game.
They would have shown up doing calculus on the way to the game, and they would have had the answers to all the questions before they got to the game.
He said the Chinese are killing us.
It is a theme of Donald Trump's, by the way, that the Chinese are wiping the floor with us.
So the Wall Street Journal has a story why Chinese mothers are superior.
A lot of people wonder how Chinese parents raise such stereotypically successful kids.
I mean, they show up at Stanford, University of California, they have GPAs that run rings or anybody else.
They have to put limits on the number of Chicom kids who can get in.
Because all of them have such high qualifications.
They wonder what these parents do to produce so many math whizzes and music prodigies.
What it's like inside the family, and whether they could do it too.
Well, I can tell them, writes Amy Chua, because I've done it.
Here are some things my daughters, Sophia and Louisa were never allowed to do.
Attend a sleepover, have a playdate, be in a screw play, complain about not being in a screw play, watch TV or play computer games, choose their own extracurricular activities,
get any grade less than an A, and not be the number one student in every subject except Jim and drama, play any instrument other than the piano or violin, not play the piano or violin.
I'm using the term Chinese mother loosely.
I know some Korean, Indian, Jamaican, Irish, and Ghanaian parents who qualify too.
Conversely, I know some mothers of Chinese heritage, almost always born in the West, who are not Chinese mothers, by choice or otherwise.
I'm also using the term Western parents loosely.
Western parents come in all varieties.
All the same, even when Western parents think they're being strict, they don't come close to being Chinese mothers.
For example, my Western friends who consider themselves strict, make their children practice their instruments 30 minutes every day, an hour at most for a Chinese mother.
The first hour is the easy part.
It's two hours.
And it's the third hour that gets tough.
Despite our squeamishness about cultural stereotypes, there are tons of studies out there showing marked and quantifiable differences, differences between ChICOMs and the Westerners when it comes to parenting.
In one study of 50 Western American mothers and 48 ChICOM immigrant mothers, almost 70% of the Western mothers said either that stressing academic success is not good for children or that parents need to foster the idea that learning is fun.
By contrast, roughly zero percent of the Chicom mothers felt the same way.
Instead, the vast majority of the ChICOM mothers said they believe their children can be the best students, that academic achievement reflects successful parenting.
And that if children did not excel at school, then there was a problem, and parents were not doing their job.
Other studies indicate that compared to Western parents, ChICOM parents spend approximately ten times as long every day drilling academic activities with their children.
By contrast, Western kids are more likely to participate in sports teams.
What Chinese parents understand.
I'll get to that in just a second.
Already the Western mothers are in revolt here at the EIB network.
What I'm getting screams on my FIFB.
Yeah, yeah, and Chinese mothers are only allowed to have one kid.
We'll get to that.
What Chinese parents understand is that nothing is fun until you're good at it.
To get good at anything, you have to work.
And children on their own never want to work, which is why it's crucial to override children's preferences.
This often requires fortitude on the part of the parents because the child will resist.
Things are always hardest at the beginning, which is where Western parents tend to give up.
But if done properly, the Chincom strategy produces a virtuous circle.
Tenacious practice, practice practice is crucial for excellence.
Note repetition is underrated in America.
I'm saying rote repetition is underrated.
Once a child starts to excel at something, whether it's math, piano, pitching, or ballet, he or she gets praise, admiration, satisfaction.
This builds confidence and makes the once not fun activity fun.
This in turn makes it easier for the parent to get the child to work even more.
This uh is true, by the way.
That part of this is uh extremely true.
Chinese parents can get away with things Western parents can't.
Once when I was young, maybe more than once, when I was extremely disrespectful to my mother, my father angrily called me garbage in our native dialect.
It worked really well.
I felt terrible and deeply ashamed of what I had done, but it didn't damage my self-esteem or anything like that.
I knew exactly how highly he thought of me.
It didn't, or I didn't actually think I was worthless or feel like a piece of garbage.
As an adult, I once did the same thing to Sophia, calling her garbage in English when she acted extremely disrespectfully toward me.
When I mentioned I had done this at a dinner party, I was immediately ostracized.
One guest named Marcy got so upset she broke down in tears and had to leave early.
We've all known a Marcy out there.
I've caused many Marcies.
In my life, by the way, proudly so.
You ever been the reason a woman left the woman left something in tears snertly?
Yeah, me too.
That is an easy one asking uh Snurtley.
Uh now, Alec Baldwin did the garbage approach in the phone call to his child amidst of the divorce, of course, the media crucified him for it.
Uh anyway, uh Susan the host tried to rehabilitate me with the remaining guests after Marcy ran out in tears.
The fact that uh Chinese parents can do things that would seem unimaginable, even legally actionable to Westerners.
Chinese mothers can say to their daughters, hey, Fatty, lose some weight.
By contrast, Western parents have to tiptoe around the issue, talking in terms of health, and never even mentioning the F-word fatty, and their kids still end up in therapy for eating disorders and negative self-image.
I also once heard a Western father toast his adult daughter by calling her beautiful and incredibly competent.
She later told me that made her feel like garbage.
Well, they've been there too.
Chinese parents can order their kids to get straight A's.
Western parents can only ask their kids to try their best.
ChICOM parents can say you're lazy, all your classmates are getting ahead of you.
By contrast, Western parents have to struggle with their own conflicted feelings about achievement and try to persuade themselves that they're not disappointed about how their kids turned out.
I thought long and hard about how ChICOM parents get away with what they do.
I think there are three big differences between the ChICOM and Western parental mindsets.
First, I have noticed that Western parents are extremely anxious about their children's self-esteem.
They worry about how their children will feel if they fail at something.
And they constantly try to reassure their children of how good they are, notwithstanding a mediocre performance on a test or at a recital.
In other words, Western parents are concerned about their children's psyches.
Chicom parents aren't.
They assume strength, not fragility, and as a result, they behave very differently.
For example, if a child comes home with an A- on a test, a Western parent will most likely praise the child and buy him a house.
I made that up, but at least promise one.
The Chicom mother will gasp in horror and ask what went wrong.
If the child comes home with a B on the test, some Western parents will still praise the kid.
Other Western parents will sit their child down, express disapproval, but they will be careful not to make their child feel inadequate or insecure, and they will not call their child stupid, worthless, or a disgrace.
Privately, the Western parents may worry their child does not test well or have aptitude in the subject, or that there's something else wrong with the curriculum and maybe the whole damn school.
If the child's grades don't improve, they may eventually schedule a meeting with a school principal to challenge the way the subject's being taught, or to call into question a teacher's credentials.
If a CHICOM gets a B, which would never happen, by the way, there would be first screaming, hair-tearing explosion, because CHICOM parents demand perfect grades because they believe their child can get them.
To the phones we go.
It's open line Friday.
We always try to take more phone calls on Friday, and we'll go to uh Long Island.
This is Nina.
Great to have you on the program.
Hello.
Okay, Rush.
I want to know why is no one blaming Hollywood and the music media for this young man's madness.
I'm just reading today.
The Black Swan, for example, the movie that's going to be up for Academy Awards.
An obsessed ballerina practices her way toward madness, creepy, freaky fun.
How about the Green Hornet?
Two dudes decide to become vigilantes.
Or Tron, drinking, mild profanity, sexual indujos for ages ten and older.
Or see, why is no one saying Hollywood is is dictating the madness of today?
Have you watched the TV?
Have you watched the commercials?
Often I look at the commercials and say, oh, yeah, I'd go see that one.
I mean, why don't we pinpoint that and say, Hollywood, would you please stop?
Because that's censorship.
And we did talk about this this week, and we pointed out the fact that nobody ever takes a look at the influences of Hollywood movies or music or TV shows or what have you.
And it's in fact, this guy's preferred viewing list is liberal documentaries like Zeitgeist, which in 9-11 was planned by George W. Bush and a whole bunch of other wacko leftist beliefs.
This guy was a truther.
He was a uh nutcase left and right.
His influences were all deranged leftist.
But you remember there have been there was a coalition once, Tipper Gore, the uh estranged wife of Al Gore, and and Susan Baker, wife of James Baker, and they had a joint coalition there to try to clean up lyrics or warning labels on television shows and movies, and they were they were they were run out of Washington.
Absolutely.
Absolutely.
It's this kind of thing that really I mean, during World War II, remember, you know, to get the people out of depression.
There were all those wonderful musicals, those comedies, you know, like that would turn the world around if we saw some happiness and joy in this world.
But instead, we only find misery and madness and murder and I mean, wow, you know, because we must relate to misery, madness, and murder, since that's what Republicans have given us.
All of this is political.
Everybody wants to take the politics out of the the left has inserted their political beliefs in virtually every form of media.
Even children's media is infiltrated with liberalism.
It's everywhere, and it's all politically based.
So we must identify with the depraved.
We must understand the outraged and all of this, and we must endeavor to understand why, and until their circumstances improve, no one else should be enjoying any aspect of their lives.
Well, I think that each one of us has to take a stand and bring up our children in a f in a better way.
And that's what Michelle Obama is missing when she talks about, you know, talk to your children.
No, she wants you to bring up your children her way, which again is with heavy doses of liberal indoctrination.
And we'll be back right after this.
Hello and welcome back.
It's Rush Limbaugh.
This is the Excellence in Broadcasting Network.
It's open line Friday.
Guess what the media's with the buzz uh uh with right now?
Apparently, there was a Rush Limbaugh billboard in Tucson.
I tell you a little story.
I didn't know about it.
I I had no idea about this billboard until uh somebody sent me a picture of it yesterday.
Yeah, the straight shooter billboard.
It hit Rush Limbaugh, straight shooter, and it was filled with bullet holes.
The billboard was filled with bullet holes.
They had to call it as KNST and talk radio, whatever it was.
When I saw the picture, and I and somebody rush, yeah, well, look at this, Rush.
What do you think of this?
And I thought, honest to God, because of previous billboards, I thought whoever put the billboard up wanted to make it look like people that didn't like me were shooting at the billboard.
Because that what it's that's what it looks like somebody's been shooting at the billboard, meaning angry liberals shooting at the bill.
It calls me straight shooter.
Now, the reason I thought this, uh, and Clear Channel put the billboard up, they've taken it down, and I didn't know anything about it.
I I When I was in Sacramento, one of the best billboard campaigns we had, and of course I was um uh considered to be controversial there.
And the first, it was a it was a a single billboard, well, it's billboard all around town, but there was the same billboard, and it was white with the text, Rush Limbaugh is a wonderful human being.
And a couple of weeks later, the billboard went up with tomatoes and other vegetables having been thrown at the billboard as though people were defacing it.
And then two weeks later, more defacing of the billboard to make it look like people were trying to rip it down.
Then the next billboard after that, and we did put these up.
Next billboard of was uh a hand on a car radio dial back when car radios had push buttons, and a hand was pushing a button for KFBK AM 1530, and the billboard said, wouldn't you just love to punch Rush Limbaugh?
I mean, I have agreed to billboards being put up promoting violence against me.
I didn't think you think it was funny.
Wouldn't you just love to punch that was a creative billboard?
Wouldn't you just love to punch Rush Limbaugh, punch the station?
So when I saw a picture of this billboard out in Tucson, I thought some creative guy had put a billboard up and then put bullet holes in it as though others, well, liberals were shooting the bullets.
That's what it looks like.
What are you laughing at in there, Sturdley?
What you can't believe I'm talking.
No, there were pictures of bullet holes.
It was made to none, then there were not real bullet holes, no one that were there were no, because uh it needed like a uh uh 48-inch gun to make these holes.
These were just made to look like they were painted on that look like the billboard had been shot.
Yeah.
Uh oh, and the emails I am getting deluged with emails about the ChICOM mom story.
Well, what do you think about it?
You didn't comment on the Chicom Mom story.
What do you?
It's all coming, folks.
We got a caller that wants to know about it.
Um, whether I agree or not.
I'll just I'll give you a little hint.
You know, I'm all for pushing kids.
I believe you have to.
If you leave a kid to his own devices, he'll end up a couch potato.
Every human being will seek a path of least resistance.
It's just the way we're wired.
It's the exception to the rule, I think, The self-starting kid that you know constantly runs around and does productive things.
Nevertheless, um Remember the Olympics, the Beijing Olympics, and everybody marveled the opening ceremony with the precision of all those ChICOM kids in uniform.
That worried me.
That troubled me.
And I said, whoa my God.
This is totalitarianism.
This is a bunch of what you get if you take this Chicom mother thing too far is you get people who never question authority.
And if they're taught to respect a certain authority like Mao or Marx or what have you, and it's not always good.
You can create mind numb robots this way.
You can create brilliant, highly achieved mind numb robots trained to respect whatever you want them to respect.
And if you take a look at pictures of ChICOMs publicize whether the Olympic opening ceremony or some of their military things, I mean, it's it's a well, I mean,
freedom is the natural yearning of the individual human spirit, but if if these kids don't think they're being denied freedom, if they if everything they're doing is about pursuing the best and their freedom is excelling for the state.
You can break a child's spirit, no kidding.
I've had it tried on me numerous times.
And to this day, people still try to break my spirit, Dawn.
Mean people everywhere out there, constantly trying to break my spirits.
I mean, it's a part and parcel of my daily existence.
Everybody's always trying to break your spirit.
Those that can't do what you do, those that resent you doing what you do, those that everybody's trying to break everybody's spirits.
It's the natural human condition.
Anyway, uh it's the same thing with kids can be vicious to each other.
They really are.
Anyway, I we'll talk more about the Chicom mom business when we uh when we get to the phones.
What was it?
Oh, uh I just wanted to this the story about the Tucson billboard.
My first thought was that some creative billboard writer in Tucson to put that thing up.
Rush Limbaugh straight shooter, and that the idea was that angry Democrats in Tucson were firing along bullets at the thing.
That's you look at the picture of the billboard, it's what it looks doesn't look like I'm shooting anything.
I'm not even pictured.
It's a billboard with my name on it with bullet holes in it.
What's anybody going to conclude?
Anyway, they've taken it down.
If you haven't seen it, you haven't seen it, you've missed it.
Here's uh here's Spearden in Tarpon Springs, Florida.
Nice to have you on the EIB network open line Friday.
Hey Rush, I'm glad to talk to you again.
You bet.
All right.
Uh I think that Meghan Kelly should get the Pulitzer Prize for her coverage of this uh Tucson atrocity.
She has done incredible interviews, and especially the moment the father, it was it was such a touching thing.
Like he even found time to praise America.
Uh the father, the father of Gabriel Giffords.
Uh no, that the father of the nine-year-old, the nine.
The father of the nine-year-old.
Oh, okay.
Okay.
Do you agree, man?
I I I think I think she didn't excellent.
Let me ask you a question out there, Spearden, with all due respect.
What are you doing watching Fox when this program's on?
Uh, I actually wasn't, man.
I heard it on a different uh talk radio stuff.
Oh, you can admit it.
You can watch television and listen to this program at the same time.
Many people do.
Hey, I don't, man.
I was on the, I was actually sitting in the airport at the time, trying to get down here.
Yeah.
Well, she does a great job, there's no question.
But do you understand who gives out the Pulitzers?
Yeah, I know.
If Walter Durante could get one, man.
Yeah, I mean, it's there's no, there's no chance.
It's like uh you you know that the the people who make the conspiracy movies and the cult movies uh and the violent video games, they're all made and distributed by major Democrat contributors.
Pulitzers are given out by likewise left-wing media types.
So the idea of Meghan Kelly or anybody at Fox uh getting a Pulitzer.
You know, if if we could do one thing and just somehow hack the Pulitzer Prize voting and see to it that some Fox personality is awarded a Pulitzer Prize.
Can you imagine you talk about little Marcy getting angry at a dinner party walking out in tears?
If Meghan Kelly or somebody fox, if we can hack in there and get somebody at Fox, a Pulitzer Prize, oh my gosh.
There would be there would be an earthquake.
They might cancel the whole program, might just cancel the whole Pulitzer idea.
By the way, didn't Obama get a Nobel Prize for bringing peace to the world, which hasn't happened yet?
He got a Nobel Peace Prize for wanting peace.
By the way, that speech to Cairo and the Muslims, how's that working out?
I'm Obama gave a brilliant, brilliant oratorical speech.
Very articulate to very, very intelligent.
I'm just wondering on race in this country.
How's that working out?
Uh Obama has given hundreds of speeches on health care, persuading us how it's great and we need it, but we don't want it.
So how effective is Obama actually, despite his great oratory and his intelligence, his brilliance, his refinement, or whatever it is that impresses people.
Speaking of the Nobel Prize, do you know who endows the Nobel Prize for those of you in Rio Linda that pays for it?
It's paid for uh from the from the estate of the inventor of dynamite.
So somebody who awards prizes, the inventor of dynamite gives Obama an award.
Where's the outrage?
I mean, isn't that promoting violence?
Isn't that sanctioning violence?
And try this headline, this from New Scientist.com.
Women who habitually take strenuous exercise might be at risk of damaging their cognitive function later in life.
Strenuous exercise is known to reduce estrogen levels in women and girls.
This can delay the start of menstruation and can lead to irregular periods in adult women.
Low levels of estrogen in premenopausal women have been linked to impaired mental functions in later life.
Mary Tierney, University of Toronto, reasoned that strenuous exercise might therefore lead to impaired cognition in later life.
She asked 90 healthy postmenopausal women to report their lifelong exercise habits and then tested their cognitive ability.
The results showed a statistically significant decrease in performance in various cognitive tasks in women who said that they exercised strenuously compared with those that had exercised moderately.
No, snurdly, I don't know whether exercise, strenuous exercise includes sex, the story does she whiz.
does it?
Open line Friday on Rush Limbaugh with half my brain tied behind my back, Just to make it fair, this is Dan in Lottsburg, Virginia.
Great to have you on the program, sir.
Well, Rush, thanks for being you right off the bat.
All-time listener, and the proud owner of two vast right-wing conspiracy coffee cups.
Thank you very much, sir.
I appreciate that.
I is as a Tea Party member, which there are millions of us.
I wonder.
Well, I I've been watching MSNBC, which you shouldn't do, but I do just to understand what the other side is saying.
What would happen, or what would have happened if a Tea Party member actually had been the shooter?
What do you think?
Well, I think they'd probably try to throw you off the air and probably throw the Tea Party members into re-education camps.
Well, it would be an ugly scene.
You would not be able to get away from it on the media.
And whoever they thought was influencing Tea Partiers the most would be identified as the leader of this cult-like influence.
That would of course be Sarah Palin.
Uh or or me.
Let me ask you, since you're doing hypotheticals, what is to stop them from doing it.
From doing it.
Yep.
You know, getting hold of a guy, paying him to go do something like this, and then when it's all over, claim that he is a tea party.
What's which which is more believable to you?
That a J you know Tea Party people, which is more believable, that a Tea Party person in light of all that's happened here is actually going to commit an atrocity like this, or that the Democrats or the left would pay somebody to go do something like this and claim to be a Tea Party or which is more likely of those two.
Well, I would I would go with the conspiracy of we sit here and they say names hurt.
Well, you know, every time they get up there and they call us teabaggers.
I get a little bit offended.
I mean, I don't want to be the person to sit down with my elderly uh Tea Party ladies and explain to them what a teabagger is.
Well, I think we should send Michelle Obama a letter asking her how we should answer that question when our children or other family members ask what is a teabagger.
What what what is the proper answer?
I think only the answer from uh source on high like that would suffice, don't you?
Yeah.
Yeah, I I I sure don't want to be the one to do it.
I didn't know what it was until I checked it out.
Yeah.
I I am just horribly offended every time it happened.
Right.
I'm also offended by the arrogance of well, primarily uh Speaker Pelosi, or uh a former Speaker of Pelosi.
When she gets up there and says Bush did it.
You know, I I one of the.
I was just I was just gonna say that if you take a look at actual assassin assassins, Lee Harvey Oswald, leftist.
Young.
Uh Democrats were behind the storming of the uh branch Davidian complex.
Uh Bill Clinton and Janet Reno.
Uh we have uh any number of if you look at the sixties, who was it was blowing up bank buildings and kidnapping airists and much leftists.
I mean, the the uh the people prone to violence, the anarchists or what have you, they're all left wingers.
Certainly.
You don't see this kind of stuff perpetrated by uh conservatives or or or right wingers.
I mean even uh James Earl Ray, I mean Martin Luther King's assassinate could not say the guy's a Republican conservative.
Uh the people that were for segregation, Democrats, people that opposed the Civil Rights Act were Democrats.
So this does you know, it it it it it doesn't happen.
And I've frankly ever since McVay, I have been waiting for one of these events to happen and for the for the perpetrator him or herself to come out and say she's a tea party, and then to say X influenced me to do this.
And I don't put it past somebody somewhere in the left in this country to do that, as they grow desperate, as they get so dis they keep hoping for this.
What do you think Tucson was?
They keep hoping for it here.
Listen to this soundbite.
This is Wednesday night, NPR, all things considered, Daisy Hernandez, a report on a Tucson shooting and a reaction from the Latino community.
Daisy Hernandez, co-editor of the essay anthology Colonize This Young Women on Today's Feminism, said this about the alleged Tucson gunman.
My eye scanned the mobile papers, I held my breath, finally I saw it.
Jared Lofner, not a Ramirez, Gonzalez, or Garcia.
It's safe to say there was a collective sigh of brown relief when the Tucson killer turned out to be a gringo.
Had the shooter been Latino?
Media pundits wouldn't be discussing the impact of nasty politics on a young man this week.
They'd be demanding an even more stringent anti-immigrant policy.
Daisy, you don't know how wrong you are.
If the shooter's last name had been uh Ramirez, Gonzalez or Garcia, the Republicans would have been blamed for this for driving the poor person to do it because of illegal immigration.
But see, nevertheless, everybody's waiting on baited, because they know the media is gonna blame somebody other than the PERP.
We'll be back.
Don't go away.
Maine Governor Paul LePage has told an unhappy MAA L C P chapter they can quote kiss my butt.
The governor made the comments to CNN affiliate WCCSH after being asked about criticism he received from the organization for refusing to attend an event it is sponsoring on behalf of Martin Luther King Day.
There is special interest.
End of story.
I'm not going to be held hostage by special interest.
My son happens to be black, so he can do whatever they like about it and kiss my butt.
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