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June 28, 2013 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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June 28, 2013, Friday, Hour #3
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It is Friday, folks, and there's still lots to come here, so let's just get started here, shall we?
Live from the Southern Command in sunny South Florida, it's open line.
Yesterday, Bob, heading into the weekend, Open Line Friday, your chance to talk about anything.
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I want to go back to the Zimmerman trial here for just a second.
Something really fascinating here, folks.
Yesterday we had testimony from a woman named Rachel Gentel.
Today we had testimony from a former neighbor of Zimmerman by the name of John Good.
These two witnesses, it's stunning to me to watch, again, media portrayal of what happened here.
The witness today, again, I wish I hadn't have to quantify everything I say anymore.
I wish I did it in a sane world.
I was just telling Mr. Snerdley, I hate this too, folks.
I hate this.
And you know it.
I've been doing this for almost 25 years.
And for most of those years, I'd have people call here and say, Rush, what you don't get is that most people in this country are just stupid.
And I would always argue with them.
And I would say, no, the people of this country are great.
They're good.
They're decent.
I don't know that I think that so much anyway.
We just seem to be surrounded by, I don't know if it's stupid, but just ignorant.
But I hate to have to quantify, qualify everything I say.
But in the case of these two witnesses, there's no contest which one has really had impact in this case.
And it was the guy today, but you're not going to hear much about him.
Because Rachel Gentel is a sympathetic, I mean, she made the order for people that want to advance the liberal agenda.
Just there is no.
Don't doubt me on that.
Just don't doubt me.
Now, from CBS News, I want to share with you what they're reporting about today in the Zimmerman trial.
Neighbor testifies that it was Trayvon Martin on top in the fight moments before the fatal gunshot.
Remember, the Zimmerman defense is self-defense.
He was being beaten up.
We had a witness who essentially said this today.
A neighbor.
His name is John Goode.
Former neighbor of George Zimmerman testified that he saw two men in a tussle outside his home the night of February 26, 2012, and said he now believes the person on top in the altercation, which would moments later turn fatal, was Trayvon Martin.
Whoever is on top is on offense.
It was Trayvon Martin who was pounding Zimmerman's head and banging Zimmerman's head into the ground and into the concrete.
And Zimmerman has the wounds on his face and on the back of his head to indicate this.
And by the way, when somebody's sitting on top of you and pounding your head, there's no way you can do anything but fully absorb the blow.
You can't dodge it.
You can't create a glancing blow by getting your head out of the way because you've got nowhere to go.
So somebody sitting on top of you pounding your head is serious.
It's far more impactful if both people are standing up and somebody socks you in the head.
There's no give in the situation that this witness described Zimmerman and Trayvon Martin in.
Good said that he was at home watching television with his wife when he heard a faint noise that seemed to be getting closer.
Outside, he said he saw a person on top of another man.
The man on the bottom, who he said he now thinks was Zimmerman, was yelling for help.
At first, it was, what's going on?
And nobody answered, Good said, describing calling out to the men.
He said, what's going on?
And nobody answered him.
And then at that point, the person on the bottom could finally see, and I heard somebody yell, help.
And then at some point, I said, cut it out.
And then I said, I'm calling 911.
And that's when I thought it was getting really serious.
The altercations seemed to escalate according to this witness.
The struggle moved to the cement pathway.
He said the person in dark clothing on top of the other guy in a mixed martial arts position, this guy watches MMA.
He later described to police that it was a ground and pound move.
He said he saw arm movements going downward, though he couldn't be certain the person on top was striking the person, but he couldn't, it looked to be one way to him.
The person you know to be Trayvon Martin was on top, correct?
Asked the defense attorney Mark O'Mara.
Yep, he was the one raining blows down on Zimmerman, correct?
That's what it looked like, said this witness.
Remember, Trayvon Martin had no wounds on his body apart from the gunshot.
He had scrapes on his knuckles, but that was it.
But this testimony, this witness today, is not getting, it doesn't seem to be, is not getting anywhere near the coverage that Gentel's testimony, which is practically meaningless, by the way, got.
Her testimony involves a phone call.
What, you think I'm in trouble for saying that?
No, I'm not.
My point is, this country is so, it is so polarized, and particularly around racial issues, that we have a poor 19-year-old black girl who can't write or speak English very well, and she becomes a sympathetic figure and immune from criticism.
You don't dare do that.
That would be racist and so forth.
But her testimony was compared to what we heard this morning, involved a phone call.
She wasn't an eyewitness to anything.
She is basically recounting hearsay within the construct of a courtroom.
What she's talking about is hearsay.
Like Snerdley was telling me, we were in a room trying to fix one of the 15 broken coffee machines here.
And he was talking about Haroldo and how Harolo's out there on Fox and he's talking all about the gang mentality in the NFL.
And why don't the NFL provide, why doesn't it provide mentors and father figures for these gang guys to keep them on the straight and arrow and so forth.
And Snerdley said, you know, the problem is, back when you were talking about watching a game and saying it looked like the Crips and Bloods, what nobody understood why you love the game.
You were trying to sound a warning there, but you didn't want the game to descend into that.
And he's exactly right.
But instead, people looked at what you were saying as out of context.
They didn't hear you.
They didn't add to the fact that you're a big football fan.
They just saw an opportunity to attack a conservative on race and they did it.
You happened to be the guy they went after.
But he's exactly right.
My whole point with all of that was I just, I didn't want to see the game descend.
I wanted it to remain special.
And by the way, it's not anymore.
I was talking about that with him, too, about why.
I think getting so much older than the players is a factor.
It's easier to look up to them when you're closer to their age.
Now you know what a bunch of really young, immature buffkuses they can be.
But regardless, you don't put them on pedestals the older you get.
So the game changes as a fan.
It just does.
But even without that, the game is just changing.
And the gang culture that's taken over, it's obvious every Sunday in small little ways.
And this Hernandez thing, Heraldo's talking about it, he won't get any grief for it.
I will probably again for this.
But the point here is that we have stories all over the place about Rachel Gentel today.
We have salon.com.
We have CBS, ABC, NBC, Balden stories on how wonderful she was, how great she was, and how intimidated she had to be, and how really consistent she was.
They were really together and how tough it is for young women like that in America today.
But she did her duty and all this.
And there's a story in a website called Global Grind by Christina Coleman, who is, it says, the news and politics editor at Global Grind and a Howard University alumnus.
There's a picture of her here.
And she's a very pretty young woman.
But her piece is why black people understand Rachel Gentel.
And the basic thrust of this story is that white people are from Mars, black people are from Venus.
We are a universe apart.
A half century of decimating the black race in America has resulted in a divide so deep and wide that there's no bridging it and there's no understanding it.
And there's no commonality.
In my mind, when I looked at this yesterday, I thought Rachel Gentel was shredded.
I thought her credibility was pretty much destroyed.
But if you thought that, I guarantee you in the rest of the media, you and I are profound minorities.
Because the story is how great she was, how wonderful, what a great citizen.
I mean, she really hung in there against these bullies and these prosecutors, but she was consistent.
And the prosecutor had no idea how to relate to her when she said, we don't call a cops where I live.
The defense lawyer, a defense lawyer had no idea, no clue.
And the point of this story here by Christina Coleman is one of the reasons that we think her testimony was so ineffective or defective was because we just can't understand people like her.
We white people just can't understand.
Like, we can't understand the culture that leads to the shooting in Chicago, and therefore we have no business talking about it.
And we don't understand the culture of violence in the NFL.
White people just don't get it.
And it's, it's, by the way, Ms. Coleman says that she doesn't expect us to.
Let's cut to the chase, she writes.
Any attorney, jury member, judge, or white person in that courtroom is not going to understand Rachel Gentel, and I don't expect them to.
In fact, I certainly understand why white people wouldn't like her.
What is this doesn't like her?
Whoever said they don't like her.
I don't know whether she's telling the truth or not, but I do know that she is a tool.
She's a useful tool for a bunch of leftists who are looking at this trial as an opportunity to advance a political agenda because leftists look at everything as an opportunity to advance a political agenda.
And that's what this trial is for leftists.
And it's what this trial is for civil rights activists.
And that's what's wrong.
The fact that we can't have an American citizen show up as a witness and judge her as a witness without regard to her skin color or her heritage or background or what native language she speaks.
The fact that we got to think about all that first, to me, is illustrative of the problems that we have in the country.
Bipartisanship, common ground, getting along.
We have people who are separatists in this country and want it that way.
Well, what we don't understand, the reason, I'll read what Ms. Coleman says here.
The reason white people don't understand Rachel Gentel has something more to do with white privilege than what they would call her capricious nature.
Let's for one second try to understand why Rachel is angry or blunt or unintelligent.
Now, by the way, Ms. Coleman says here that the word for angry is emotional.
She was emotional, but she's usually angry.
When black people would describe Rachel Gentel as hood, that means that she was blunt.
And when they describe her as unintelligent, that means that she's multilingual.
And English is not her first language.
And so if you don't speak English, well, people think you're dumb or stupid.
But she's not, but that's what people think of her.
And because we have this kind of prejudice that we look at her as angry, blunt, and unintelligent, then we aren't able to go any further.
The thing is, back to what Ms. Coleman writes, the thing is what white people see in Rachel has little to do about her own issues and more to say about the America that white people are blind to.
Let's take her testimony on not calling the police, for example.
Rachel told the defense attorney Don West that she didn't call a cops after she heard the scuffle between Trayvon Martin and the man that was following him for numerous reasons.
First, she believed that he was right near his daddy's house and that Tracy would help him.
She also was under the impression that if there were a life or death situation, somebody would certainly come to his aid.
But as West, the lawyer, continued his questioning, riddled with nuances to throw Rachel off the track.
And see, he did that because she's a minority, don't you know?
Defense lawyers never try to throw witnesses off track.
Only when they have minorities up there do they do that, I guess.
But as West continued his questioning, riddled with nuances to throw her off track, the glaring subtext of this all became clear.
Don West just doesn't understand why Rachel Gentel didn't call the police when she heard a struggle.
Rachel, who is a black woman, doesn't call the police.
Why?
Black people and police officers don't mix.
And white people are never going to understand that.
Distrust in the police stems from decades of being disenfranchised and treated unfairly by those who are supposed to protect us.
And yes, I'm taking it there, distrust in white people.
Government, LAPD, NYPD.
Ms. Coleman, if you distrust the government so much, why do you keep voting for Democrats?
It says black people distrust white people, government, LAPD, NYPD.
You guys can't wait to elect Democrats every chance you get.
And they are the government.
Anyway, the point is that Christina Coleman continues writing here.
Black people can understand Rachel's hesitancy when it came to contacting cops because the fear and doubt that comes with dealing with law enforcement is as entwined into the tapestry of our culture as is our slavery past.
And that would be the slave past that might have affected her great-great-grandparents, but certainly not her.
But Rachel Gentel and the culture of her slavery past, coupled with distrust for white people, means they're never going to call cops.
And that's what we white people just are never going to understand.
Someone with white privilege wouldn't grasp this.
Black people can.
Black people understand this and they overlook it.
Something someone with white privilege wouldn't exactly grasp.
Got to take a break, folks, as I look at the clock.
We'll be back.
Don't go away.
So we have more 60s claptrap here.
But you know what is Rachel, I'm sorry, racial differences business.
Which is it today?
Is it racist to say that black people aren't like white people?
Or is it racist to claim that blacks are like white people?
Because I get confused because I know a lot of black people who get criticized for being too white.
They do too well in school.
They do speak too well, whatever.
And they're criticized.
They're not authentic.
But I just, here's the thing about Christina Coleman's piece.
I haven't said, and I don't know how many other people, I haven't talked about Rachel Gentel in any sort of a racist or racial even connotation.
We've stuck to the testimony, which was really tough to believe.
I don't care how consistent it was.
But look at the contortions.
So we have a piece here, why black people, why white people will not understand Rachel's, whatever it is.
But we have a whole piece.
It's unfortunate.
We have a whole piece written here to explain or criticize people on racial grounds who haven't even said anything.
Ms. Coleman is just assuming what people think.
It bothers me.
This whole racial strife stuff, this divide bothers me.
It bothers me as an American.
It bothers me for the future of the country.
Of course, it bothers me politically.
But all this, this stuff happens, and it just Seems to cement the idea that any kind of unifying of people of any difference is just hopeless in this country, at least at the moment.
So here's how Christina Coleman ends her piece.
And I just, I have to tell you, this is literally distressing to me.
But most importantly, if there's anything that black people can understand that those judging Rachel Gentel are not, it's the loss of life without justice.
I guess that's supposed to be Trayvon Martin, and we don't know that yet.
And the witness today, by the way, far more impactful on this trial than Rachel was.
Anyway, as Rachel Gentel sits on the stand, nervous, mumbling, and annoyed, it's not that she's just a hood rat with no media training from a hostile environment.
Who the world is saying that?
A hood rat with no media training from a hostile.
It's not just sees that.
It's that her world.
Let me read this.
It's that your world and our world are exclusively, excuse me, Cliche, worlds apart.
And that, my friends, was never Rachel Gentel's fault.
See, it's hopeless.
It's hopeless.
We've come different worlds.
It's no.
By the way, here's Ebony, Ebony Magazine.
When you make fun of Rachel Gentel, you make fun of us.
Who's making fun of her?
Well, Snerdley is, but you haven't heard him.
Not making fun of her.
This is another thing, this presumption.
All these things are going on out there.
When we saw Rachel Gentel on the witness stand yesterday, we saw ourselves.
We saw the daughter of immigrants, the product of Miami, New Orleans senior high school, the poignant realities of the disparities in our public education system that provides unequal opportunities to many immigrant students, students.
You people, Ebony, stop voting Democrat if you want to change that.
You want to straighten out the public education?
You want to straighten out the inequities in the public school?
Stop voting Democrat.
Who you've been voting for for 50 years?
Who you've been depending on for 50 years to bring you out of all this?
Who have you been depending on?
They've been letting you down every day, every year for 50 years.
Who runs the public school system for crying out loud?
You do.
You and your Democrat allies.
Man, I tell you, this is painful, folks.
It's really painful.
For those of us that want a great country, that want a country where every citizen here could be depicted in a Norman Rockwell painting.
And I'll be disparaged for that.
That just goes to show how out of touch you are, Limbaugh.
Do you realize what we think of Norman Rockwell?
I'm sorry.
I didn't know.
Here's Bill in Lubbock, Texas.
Hi, Bill.
Great to have you on Open Line Friday.
Hello.
Well, thank you very much, Rush, for taking my call, Eric.
It's just an absolute pleasure.
And you just keep up the good work.
Thank you, sir, very much.
Rush, I wanted to call in and talk to you about this immigration issue.
I live out here in the Badlands of Texas, out here around Lubbock, Texas, and we have a whole bunch of illegal immigrants, undocumented guest workers, or illegal aliens.
Which one of those is correct?
I don't know, but there's a whole bunch of them out here.
And I know a lot of these people.
I've known some of them back 11 years.
It's been here 11 years.
Well, today I went out.
We were out doing some ag work in some of the farms out here and got to talking to some of these guys, asking them about what they think about this.
And they're very, very concerned.
A lot of them were telling me, well, we don't really want to become United States citizens.
There were two things that they brought up that really scared me.
They did not want to become United States citizens.
I said, why not?
They were so afraid that the United States government was going to take so much taxes once they had to pay into the federal income tax or into the tax.
Are you kidding me on this?
I am dead serious.
They did not want to become illegal.
Let me ask you a question.
Now, this is so we're going to have amnesty here.
You know what?
These people are going to have to become citizens, right?
No, they don't have to walk in and march in and register.
And that's their mentality: they're afraid that the government's going to take so much money out of their pockets.
Yeah, I take it back.
I take it back.
Illegal immigration will continue at 75%.
Yeah, they're afraid that they're going to have to, you know, the money's going to be taken out of their subject menu.
Pathways.
They're going to put it a pathway.
So it'll be an option.
They don't have to become citizens.
They can stay in the shadows, which is where I'm looking for the ship.
That's the first point they brought up.
And the second point that was concerning them is the scuttle talk back in town.
These guys were the guys from Mexico.
I didn't talk to the Hondurans, the El Salvadorans, the Bolivians, and the guys from down there in Guatemala.
I didn't even talk to those.
These are guys from Mexico.
The second thing that's really got them concerned is their talk back home.
The guys back home in Mexico are getting ready to make a massive surge into our country.
As this thing starts progressing and they're watching it, they're going to start making a massive surge.
You think we got 300 or 400 a day down here in Texas coming across?
It'll be 3,000 or 4,000 a day.
Why does that bother them?
Pardon me?
Well, you said they don't want this to happen.
Because they're afraid they're going to lose their jobs.
Oh.
They're afraid that the illegal immigration that's going to occur is going to cause them to lose their jobs if they'll have to compete against cheaper labor.
It's unbelievable.
You've got to be kidding me.
This is getting.
Unbelievable, Rush.
This is the theater of the absurd now.
So we have illegals worried that more of them will cause wages to fall and maybe jobs to be lost.
Correct.
Now, these guys are very, very concerned about this.
You know, wait till the Republican Party hears about this.
Wait till the Republican Party.
They're doing all this to be loved by Hispanics.
Wait until the Republican Party finds out that a lot of the illegals currently here don't want anymore.
You know, I'd like to be in the room when Steve Schmidt or some Republican consultant walks into Rubio and says, hey, you know what?
We may have a problem here.
You know, what's that?
Well, a lot of the illegals here don't want amnesty, and they don't want it for anybody not yet here in the country.
Oh, well, why?
Because they don't want to become citizens, and they don't want competition for their jobs.
They don't want their wages to.
And the Republicans, you mean we're doing this, and the Hispanics are going to get mad at us?
Yeah, it's entirely possible.
It's a fantasy, but wouldn't it be funny if it was true?
Okay, here you go.
No, I didn't forget this.
Wall Street Journal, Gabrielle Glazer with the story, Why She Drinks, Women and Alcohol Abuse.
And it is a quite lengthy story, but one of the things I am good at is editing, finding the meat of the story, stripping away all the extraneous BS and getting you right to the essence.
And essentially, what this story in the Wall Street Journal says is that rich white women are drinking too much white wine.
They have succumbed to clever marketing.
And it has become a health issue, a feminist issue.
It's a consumer issue.
It's actually a crisis.
What's happening here is that women, not all, some women are too educated.
And when they become mommies, it's just not enough to stimulate them.
They get bored.
And then the marketing campaigns against them kick in, and they go out and start drinking white wine.
And then they become luscious.
And when they become luscious, that's when they're vulnerable to the advances of other men, which equals excitement in their lives and a respite from the tedium of motherhood.
And it is an example of how the whole idea of being educated and getting ahead can somehow end up being a problem because if all you're going to do with that education is be a mommy, you are headed for white wine.
Red wine is non-mentioned.
Pinot Chablis, Chardonnay, so forth and so on.
More women, it's from the story, more women are drinking now than at any time in recent history.
Did you know that?
More women are drinking now than at any time in recent history, according to health surveys.
One of this survey was taken by that outfit that works for Samsung.
In the nine years between 1998 and 2007, a number of women arrested for drunken driving rose 30%, while male arrests dropped 7%.
Because, see, men are not bored.
Their drinking is with buddies in the bar where they're having a good time.
Women are drinking the white wine at home and then heading out to buy the groceries.
Plus, unstated, but many of them are vegetarians and there's nothing to soak up all the white wine that they're drinking.
It goes right to the brain receptors.
Right?
And then the guys in the bars who are drinking less are waiting for the white wine drinking women to cruise by them on the way home from the grocery store.
And they head them off at the pass and end up in a Motel 6 or whatever's nearby.
All because the women are bored and drinking too much white wine.
Between 1999 and 2008, the number of young women who showed up in emergency rooms for being dangerously intoxicated rose by 52%.
The rate for young men rose just 9%.
See how unfair?
It's also men apparently handle their booze better than women do, and it's this, that's not fair reader.
And Monday, we'll have a story from an angry feminist on why you don't understand, why we men don't understand women who drink.
We're just worlds apart.
Sadly, my friends, we're out of busy broadcast mode.
It has been a great week.
It really has.
It always is.
I guess it's the biggest thrill.
These three hours each day with you.
I hope you have a great weekend.
Thanks so much.
Oh, by the way, we have the latest two If By T winners that Kathy and I will be calling maybe this weekend or the first part of next week.
Big that the Jeep Patriot grand prize winner for calling them.
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