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I have here a series of soundbites.
They're from MSNBC, Lawrence O'Donnell interviewing Herman Kane.
One, two, three, four, five of them.
And our policy here, ladies and gentlemen, is not to include on our soundbites the employee of the network.
We just use the guest.
It's primarily about fair usage.
For example, Lawrence O'Donnell doesn't work here.
He works at MSNBC.
And so what happens on his show within time constraints is fair for us to use or free for us to use under fair usage rules.
But we've always drawn the line at actually using the talent, unless it's just a quick sentence or two.
And I'm going to abide by that because it's a broadcast courtesy as well as anything else.
But I was so close to making an exception because O'Donnell berates Herman Kane for not being a good black.
He berates him for not actually understanding what it is to be black.
And Herman Kane stands his ground here.
And this is the kind of thing that makes me think we are never going to overcome this divide because of the left.
Now, they claim that they are the ones who are colorblind.
They are the ones who are open-minded and tolerant and when in fact they are the biggest bigots among all of us.
No, O'Donnell is not black.
He is the plantation master.
The libs run a plantation, and the blacks in the Democrat Party are the people that work for them.
And in order to serve in the Democrat Party as a black, you've got to toe the line.
It's just a reworking on the old traditional arrangement.
So I've told you before, the Democrat Party is a coalition of disparate groups, various different constituents, and they really have nothing in common except for one thing, and that is big government running everything.
And the way these groups stay in the good graces of the Democrat Party is to deliver votes and money.
So in the case of the Reverend Jackson, Reverend Jack, and the whole civil rights coalition, from people for the American Way to whatever the groups are, Jesse Jackson gets his seat at the Democrat Party power table by delivering votes and money and talking up the cause.
And if he ever strayed from it, he's gone.
Bye-bye.
With no personal affection for Jesse Jackson.
It's really a loose-knit bunch of disparate constituency groups.
But when you hear some of these questions and Herman Kane's answers, you'll understand, if you don't already, I'm sure you do, that the left is never, for all their talk about colorblindness, want to get rid of America's original sin of slavery and get rid of their white guilt.
It ain't going to happen if the black is a Republican.
It ain't going to happen if the black is a conservative.
Let me give you an example.
Here is a question.
This is last night.
The last word is the name of O'Donnell's show.
And he's talking to Herman Kane.
He says, the book you're selling down there at Barnes ⁇ Noble today, you write the civil rights movement was a few years in front of me.
I was too young to participate when they first started the freedom rides and the sit-ins.
So on a day-to-day basis, it didn't have an impact.
I just kept going to school, doing what I was supposed to do, and stayed out of trouble.
I didn't go downtown, try to participate in sit-ins.
Counter to our real feelings, we decided to avoid trouble by moving to the back of the bus when the driver told us to.
Dad always said, stay out of trouble, and we did.
Where do you think black people would be sitting on the bus today if Rosa Parks had followed your father's advice?
This is what Herman Kane said.
My father was not giving Rosa Parks advice.
You are distorting the intent of what I said.
I was a high school student.
The college students were doing the sit-ins.
The college students were doing the freedom rides.
If I had been a college student, I probably would have been participating.
But if you are a high school student in the 10th or 11th grade, you're under 18 years of age, you didn't need to get arrested and be in the middle of that.
That was the intent of what I said relative to me not being involved.
This is what my dad meant.
It was not prudent for a high school student to be in the middle of what was going on in terms of those demonstrations.
Then O'Donnell says, Mr. Kane, in fact, you were in college from 1963 to 67 at the height of the civil rights movement, exactly when the most important demonstrations and protests were going on.
You could easily, as a student at Morehouse between 63 and 67, actively have participated in the kinds of protests that got African Americans the rights they enjoy today.
You watched from that perspective at Morehouse when you were not participating in those processes.
You watched black college students from around the country, white college students from around the country come to the South and be murdered fighting for the rights of African Americans.
Do you regret sitting on the sidelines at that time?
Let me ask you a question.
Did you expect every black student in every black college in America to be out there in the middle of every fight?
The answer is no.
So for you to say, why was I sitting on the sidelines?
I think that that is an inaccurate deduction that you're trying to make.
You didn't know, Lawrence, what I was doing with the rest of my life.
You didn't know what my family situation may have been.
Maybe, just maybe, I had a sick relative, which is why I might not have been sitting in doing the freedom rides.
So what I'm saying, Lawrence, is with all due respect, my friend, your deduction is incorrect and it's not logical, okay?
Okay, see where this is going.
He's not authentic.
He didn't march.
He didn't protest.
He didn't get mixed up in all of that.
He's not really black.
He didn't wasn't interested in that.
He didn't.
Well, no, they've, how come he didn't ask Obama?
Because they have asked.
Why do you think they did during the 2008 campaign?
They made all kinds of references to the fact that Obama didn't do any of this.
The fact that Obama wasn't down for the struggle was, remember, that's why Sharpton early on was not for Obama.
Where do you think the magic Negro thing came from?
That columnist in the LA Times?
Because Obama wasn't authentic.
He wasn't down for struggle.
And when he went to Selma and started talking about how his dad was inspired by what went on there and started talking to the black dialect the same day, Hillary said, I ain't no way Todd.
Why these people routinely insult their audiences?
Hillary Obama using the black dialect.
That was something that Obama had to overcome.
There was, I mean, the media didn't give anybody trouble.
It was individual newspaper columnists, Sharpton.
Sharpton was also, don't forget, he had Biden back then talking about, finally, we Democrats got a clean and articulate black guy.
And Sharpton said, what do you mean?
I take showers every day.
I can talk.
People forget this, but Sharpton was not, he was not on board this campaign from the get-go.
Anyway, you see what this is going?
Lawrence O'Donnell is telling Herman Kenny, you're not black enough.
You're not authentic.
Why weren't you down there marching to get your head cracked open like everybody else?
Next question.
I gave your book a fair reading, Mr. Kane.
I didn't read anything about a sick friend.
What I read was a deliberate decision, and I participate in the civil rights movement, the civil rights protests, and I read a misleading sentence that indicated that in time you were in high school at the time, when in fact you were in college from 63 to 67, right when it was happening in Atlanta.
Lawrence, I'm going to try this one more time.
I graduated from high school in 1963.
Okay.
I didn't start college until the fall of 1963.
Now, I don't understand why you are trying to make a big deal out of this small point when we have an economy that is on life support.
We got 14 million people out of work, and you want to try and do something that is incorrect from my words in my book.
Let me remember when I said back during the campaign, 2008, everybody was saying, you know, if we elect Obama rush, we could pretty much wipe the swap clean.
I mean, that'll end racism and Just erase and make up for all those horrible years of slavery and everything.
I said, no, well, it's going to make it worse.
It is going to get worse because any disagreement with Obama is going to be chalked up to racism.
Any controversy over policy whatsoever is going to be chalked up to racism.
Any opposition at all chalked up to racism, I said.
And has that not happened?
Tea Party, who are they?
A bunch of racists.
Everybody disagrees with Obama is a racist.
We're never going to overcome this, folks.
The left can't afford for us to overcome.
The left needs this argument.
The left needs this nation to royal over this.
The left needs perpetual white guilt over it.
And so the election, if it were to happen, of a Republican black, contrary to what the popular sentiment might be, think of the treatment Clarence Thomas has gotten.
And this is a little forerunner here.
It wouldn't be pretty.
It wouldn't solve anything.
The left can't afford for that to be solved.
I don't know if McDonald was marching or not.
You know, a lot of white people today claim they were there marching.
Some were and some weren't.
But you can't ask Lawrence O'Donnell where he was because he's the journalist.
See, journalists have in their own minds an immunity from any examination of the way they live or have lived.
It's not about them.
So the next question from Lawrence O'Donnell.
A recent NBC Wall Street Journal poll showed overwhelming bipartisan support for increasing taxes on income over a million dollars.
It's 81% support for increasing taxes for incomes over a million dollars.
Has the Democrat Party somehow managed to brainwash 81% of the American people into supporting that idea?
The answer is yes.
The Democrats have succeeded at brainwashing a lot of the American people.
First of all, taxing people more that make over a million dollars isn't going to solve the problem.
Secondly, they have just taken class warfare to another level.
When for decades you are telling the American people that we ought to take more from the rich in order to help pay off our debts, but yet the debts don't get paid off.
They are just playing the class warfare card.
I would counter that, Lawrence, with 50% of the taxpayers now pay 97% of the taxes.
I think that's pretty fair already.
All right, so here's O'Donnell.
Mr. Kane, you've also said in the past that African Americans have been brainwashed into voting for Democrats.
That's an awful lot of successful brainwashing by Democrats.
You're now saying the Democrats have brainwashed Republicans, brainwashed Democrats, 81% of the country into thinking that there should be higher income taxes on incomes over a million dollars.
You're willing to take your brainwash idea and accuse 81% of the American people being brainwashed.
They brainwashed a lot of black Americans into just voting Democrat and not even considering an idea that would come from a conservative or Republican.
The second part, yes, some people, both Republicans and Democrats, have bought into the class warfare card, but a lot of people haven't.
So, you know, that number could be 81% or 85%.
That just means that they've been succeeding.
Now, what I'm doing is to try and un-brainwash people by presenting solutions that will allow everybody to try and achieve their dreams based upon their own individual effort in this nation.
That's what this nation is supposed to be about.
So that's how it ended.
And it's this little forerunner of what would happen if Kane were to continue and improve and even get the nomination.
The whole silliness of is he authentic or not would become the central discussion point about him.
Got to take a break here.
As you know, we're really rebounding here, folks.
103,000 jobs had it.
Yes.
103,000 jobs September.
45,000 of them were Verizon workers returning from being on strike.
And I don't believe the number.
I don't know.
It just doesn't.
There's no evidence of this out there, but it is what it is.
We'll be back.
Look over.
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Okay, so the protests, I finally, ladies and gentlemen, have seen a whole bunch of pictures of the Occupy This protest, and they're nothing.
You look at pictures of, say, look at the 9-12 event, Tea Party event in Washington.
You look at any number of Tea Party events.
By the way, the 300 and some odd Tea Party events, not one arrest, already 700 arrests.
In Sacramento, the Occupy Sacramento group, the local eyeball news crew showed up out there asking, why are you here?
And these people go nuts.
They don't know why they're there.
In some places, Hispanics admit to have being paid to show up.
Oh, yeah.
And the organizer, yep, yep.
I have to tell you, there's some people here paid.
Now, I'm not going to identify them for you, but this is not spontaneous and it's not large.
And I didn't know.
Now, maybe I just didn't think about this hard enough.
I didn't know that the left had such jealousy of the Tea Party.
That's what this is all about.
I just thought it was pure hatred.
I thought they hated the Tea Party for all the obvious reasons.
It's organic, leaderless, spontaneous, and it's real.
It's made up of people who've never before done anything like they're doing, showing up at town halls, engaging in public protest.
And every member of the Tea Party is a solid individual.
Most of them work, take time off from work to do what they're doing, and they dramatically, dynamically oppose everything the Democratic Party stands for.
Well, you can understand the Democrats hating and reviling, but what I didn't know is they're jealous.
I think the jealousy may be stronger than the hatred.
And so their jealousy has led them to create this mock imitation, which is a sham.
It is looked at in that light.
This is laughable.
Most of the protesters at these things don't even know why they're there.
They can't answer the question, what is your agenda?
What do you want?
All they can say is, well, they hate the banks, punish the banks.
It's really, it's a joke.
Tell you what, we're going to do.
I put together a montage of the questions.
I want you to hear Lawrence O'Donnell asking these questions himself.
So just a montage of the questions.
You've heard Herman Kane's answers.
You heard him stick to his guns.
Basically, what you have here, folks, this is, Herman Kane's going to face this from here on out, regardless how high he goes, how far he goes.
The die has been cast now.
He's going to be baited.
He is going to be insulted just because he's black.
They are going to get away with racism.
And Lawrence O'Donnell proves it, illustrates it.
The left will get away with racism.
Herman Cain, unqualified, is not the right kind of black.
He won't behave the way liberal Democrat masters demand that their black people behave.
Herman Cain not down for the struggle.
Herman Kaine's father knocked down for the struggle.
Herman Kaine's father didn't care that black people were getting beat upside the head.
He's not a real black.
And who gets to determine who a real black is?
Democrat Party, the American left.
So here's a montage of Lawrence O'Donnell.
It's the same thing with Clarence Thomas.
You know, people back then in the early 90s didn't understand why.
I mean, this went further than the fact that Clarence Thomas was conservative.
I mean, these people that were opposing Clarence Thomas were, and by the way, it's ginning back up over Obamacare.
Clarence's wife, Ginny, had a website.
She worked with the Heritage Foundation trying to say that she was out doing things in the political arena.
He wasn't telling anybody about, might taint his view on things, try to pressure him to recuse himself.
When actually, if anybody needs to recuse themselves in the Supreme Court in Obamacare, it's Selena Kagan, who actually tried cases before the Supreme Court on behalf of the administration about Obamacare and related matters.
Anyway, it's all about, in Clarence Thomas's case, it was purely and simply about the Civil Rights Coalition.
That was the Thurgood Marshall seat, as it was known.
And the fear was Clarence Thomas is confirmed, he then becomes automatically the most powerful, influential black man in America.
And he's not a Democrat, and he's not a liberal.
And he didn't get anywhere using the recipes and the mandates of the left, affirmative action, protest, march, all.
He didn't do any of that.
So he's not qualified.
He's not a real black.
He wasn't authentic.
Can't have that.
So it was bringing out the puby care on the coke can time, whatever they come up with.
And then that gave birth to this silly notion, the seriousness of the charge.
No, actually, that was the second prominent time it had been used.
The first time the seriousness of the charge excuse was used was when this sicko named Gary Sick at Columbia University wrote a book claiming that George H.W. Bush, while vice president for Reagan, flew over to Paris in an SR-71 and made a secret deal with the Iranians to not release the hostages before the election.
So he puts it in the book, there's no evidence for it.
Tom Foley, Speaker of the House, despite the fact that there's no evidence, the seriousness of the charge requires us to investigate.
And they investigated, they found nothing because it's not possible.
So the seriousness of the charge came up again with a puby care in a Coke can with Anita Hill and X-rated videos and stuff.
I mean, pull out all the stops because of the threat a non-authentic black presents the Democrat Party.
Same thing here with Herman Cain.
If a conservative black's ever elected president, folks, you're going to see genuine racism every day from the highest institutions of the media and the Democrat Party.
It would be horrible.
It would just be sick.
So here's a montage.
I want, rather than hear me read Lawrence O'Donnell's questions, here's a montage of the questions he asked Herman Cain.
Where do you think black people would be sitting on the bus today if Rosa Parks had followed your father's advice?
You watched from that perspective at Morehouse when you were not participating in those processes.
You watched black college students from around the country and white college students from around the country come to the South and be murdered, fighting for the rights of African Americans.
Do you regret sitting on those sidelines at that time?
Well, I gave your book a fair reading and I didn't read anything about a sick friend.
What I read was a deliberate decision to not participate in the civil rights movement and the civil rights protests.
And I read a misleading sentence that indicated that in time, what you tried to say here in the show, that you were in high school at that time, when in fact you were in college from 1963 to 1967, right where you see, Herman Cain is now disqualified because he didn't march and his father didn't march.
And apparently, they didn't want to.
They're not qualified.
What is that?
Here we are in 2011.
What does it really matter?
In the daily scheme of things, with the things this country faces, what does it really matter?
And of course, Obama didn't.
Obama didn't.
They tried to create a story linking his father to the great march in Selma.
It was a joke.
So baiting him, putting him down, it's all happening.
It's partly because his book is out, but also because he's shooting up in the polls.
CBS 13, Eyeball News, Sacramento, hundreds of protesters gathered in Cesar Chavez Park yesterday to stand in solidarity with the growing nationwide demonstrations aimed at corporate greed.
Is that what they're after?
Because you ask these people and they don't know.
It's not, these people are not in large number.
It's not a big assemblage, no matter wherever you go.
I know, I just, as I say, they're just jealous.
The Democrats are just jealous of the Tea Party.
They're jealous of the Tea Party because that's the kind of stuff that usually happens spontaneously with the Democrats.
Now they're having to pay people to get out there.
Not having to call their union thug buddies and use force to get people out there in the protest march to ostensibly support Obama.
Obama's rabble rousing.
He's trying to gin up all this protest behavior, and they're still having to organize it and pay for it in some places.
And in Sacramento, Occupy Sacramento, which is portrayed as the local foothold for the rally that has entered its third week in front of Wall Street, New York City, drew impassioned speakers and a wide variety of viewpoints when the rally began yesterday morning.
Police warned the protesters they could be subject to citation or arrest by 11 p.m., but no arrests had been reported by midnight.
Organizer Anthony Bundy said that he has what he referred to as a message team working on the primary goals of the local protest, which he admitted was kind of vague.
That message team will reveal why we're here Friday morning.
So you guys are in the process of forming the reasons why you're here, the press said.
You show up and then you figure out why?
Exactly right, Bundy said.
Really?
You show up here and then after you get here, you try to figure out why you're here.
That's exactly right.
Other protesters gave clearer reasons for their attendance, saying that wealth disparity and corruption in the business world was causing harm to society.
I'm here because of corporate greed and financial greed are ruining this country, said a retired educator.
Groups of demonstrators gathered around TV cameras, periodically tried to shout down reporters with accusations of manipulating coverage of the protests.
Other isolated protesters tried to convince attendees to avoid speaking with the media altogether because nobody knows what they're talking about.
What exactly are the contributions to society these protesters have made?
How many jobs have they created?
How many jobs have they held?
Have they built any homes for people?
Have they invented any life-saving drugs?
Have they produced a drop of gasoline or a watt of electricity?
Have they produced any food?
Have they built stores?
Corporations are nothing but businesses.
And businesses are small, medium, and large.
Small, medium, and large, what?
Small, medium, large collections of people, productive citizens who make things, provide services, respond to the wants and needs and desires of other people.
These protesters, who are actually few in number, have contributed nothing.
They're parasites.
They are pure genuine parasites.
Many of them are bored, trust fund kids, obsessed with being something, being somebody, meaningless lives.
They want to matter.
Others are just showing up for the fun of it to rabble-rouse.
A couple or three of them might actually have genuine beef about something, but it isn't legitimate.
Not one of them can cite a single contribution to culture, society, or the country at large.
They sit around and I just saw a picture of a large group of people this thing with one guy using an Apple laptop.
And I'm wondering, where did this guy get that?
Who bought that for him?
Who made it for him?
He's out there protesting everything that put that laptop on his lap.
Quick timeout.
We'll be right back.
Don't go away.
Bones are next.
Larry O'Donnell.
You know, there's some gay rights issues happening in the country now, gay marriage and gays getting politically active.
Is Larry O'Donnell joining any of these gay marches and protests to show his solidarity?
Or does he not care?
He's a journalist.
I'm sorry you can't ask those journalists are immune from any comparison of their way they live their lives to the way they report on how others live theirs.
Joe in Albany, as we start with you on Open Line Friday today.
Hello.
Hey, Marsha.
I was telling you that I was saying that the Republican Party is the biggest affirmative action organization for black people in America.
As long as you're willing to pretend that, you know, racism doesn't exist and betray your race, you're welcomed with open arms.
I mean, imagine if, say, Ruth Bader Ginsburg had $700,000 in spousal income from moveon.org, and then they ruled on some huge bill that moveon.org had before them, say like the Citizens United decision, and Ruth Bader Ginsburg had fraudulently not declared her spouse's income from moveon.org.
There'd be impeachment hearings in the House right now.
We're not seeing any of that with Clarence Thomas, and that's exactly what happened.
His wife took $700,000 from the Heritage Foundation.
He went and ruled on Citizens United, which Heritage Foundation had a hand in.
And it's radio silence from you guys.
What did Heritage have to do with Citizens United?
She his wife worked at Heritage.
What did Heritage have to do with Citizens United?
They wanted to see it repealed.
So, so did I.
So his wife took it.
So did I. You know what?
I've had dinner with Jenny Thomas, and I think I bought it.
So you're telling me that Ruth Bader Ginsburg takes $700,000 from MoveOn, Ron is.
I'm going to tell you here that if you want to open this door, I'll guarantee you I can find more examples of this kind of chicanery on the left than you can cite.
I can find more conflicts of interest.
I can find, and plus, this is the problem with taking calls from people like you.
I don't know how to deal with people like you.
There's no talking to you about that.
This is a call.
You want to get rid of Clarence Thomas because you know a worthless, unconstitutional piece of legislation might be overturned, might be declared unconstitutional.
And you don't want that.
You want an unconstitutional piece of legislation to be declared legal and constitutional.
And so you'll do whatever, you'll follow whatever Pied Piper type advice you get from these left-wing blogs that you read in order to support the supposition that what's illegal should be made legal.
There is nothing constitutional about the individual mandate, and it doesn't, all these little side issues that you want to try to come up with here to distract from what's really going on is exactly why this country is never going to make any progress whatsoever as long as people like you have any power.
Because your aim is to tear down this country and to destroy it and remake it in an image that nobody wants and nobody would enjoy.
This is pure inanity.
And I say it's this is nerdy.
You asked me, what would I say to these protesters?
It's like talking to a brick wall.
Anyway, who's next?
Where are we going next?
Louie in Denver.
Welcome to the EIB Network, sir.
Hello.
Get us Rush.
Herman Keene's comment about a third of the black will think for themselves.
I don't think it's a black thing.
I think it's a cross of all lines.
I'm white.
I've tried for a long time to talk about conservative topics with my friends, and they all agree on the surface when you ask them specifics.
When it comes down to it, I ask if you're voting Republican.
No, I'm a Democrat.
So the brainwashing is everywhere.
And I'll state a poll.
With today's economy going on, with what's going on in today's economy, how could 40% of the people be happy or approve with what the president is?
And I would like to see Herman not run from it, to use it, turn it on and go, tell me one thing that they're doing that the president is doing that you like.
Nobody will be able to answer it.
Well, the reason.
Reason they won't answer it is because they don't want to admit to you they're happy to be on the dole.
They don't want to, oh, you got 40%, 47% of the people not paying any income tax, for example.
The statistics of the number of households that get some sort of assistance from the government, it's shocking.
The Democratic Party has been very successful for the last 80 years, 50 years, whatever, in creating a whole bunch of dependents.
And I don't think it's as bad as everybody else thinks.
2010, the midterms 2010 wouldn't have happened.
Obama wouldn't have happened if the truth about him and his policies had been part of the campaign.
No liberal will ever win a national election, being honest about who they are.
So this percentage of people have been brainwashed of the total population.
It is not true.
And there are more and more people waking up because they see exactly now what liberalism is.
I'm hopeful about this.
I just hope that we get a fearless, strong conservative nominee to go along with the current situation because Katie barred the door.
That could blow the roof off.
We'll be right back.
You could even say, ladies and gentlemen, Herman Kane is marching now.
He's marching to protect the liberty and property of all Americans from avowed socialists like Larry O'Donnell, who proudly proclaims that he is one.