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July 22, 2013 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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July 22, 2013, Monday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of The Rush 24 7 Podcast.
That's what it says.
That's what it says right there on the screen.
It says Royal Baby is on the way.
What does that mean?
Now we know that the Duchess of Cambridge is in there.
She's in labor.
That means we all know what that we all know what that means.
Royal baby is on the way.
What a way to describe a birth.
Royal baby's on the way.
What does that mean?
I leave it to you to graphically interpret.
Greetings, folks.
Great to have you back.
Great to be back.
Well, I just I wonder what is it.
Royal baby is on a you picture a birth.
You know what happens at a birth.
Yeah, I mean, we all know what happens at a birth.
Even people in Rio Linda know.
It happens in the kitchen there.
They know what happens in a birth.
So what does it mean?
Royal baby on the way.
It's, I know it's the play by play.
So are we getting a uh uh I don't find what if there were if there were a media person in there, play by play to scrape, and there's the and and coming next, and it's on the way and coming in.
What was that?
Somebody hit a button.
Oh, popping sounded popping sound.
It's anyway, popping.
No, I'm I'm just I'm amazed.
I'm just folks, I'm just you know, I played golf.
I was I was up at uh at Southport, Connecticut, the country club of Fairfield for the uh for the weekend, and it was steamy.
I mean, it was a sauna up there.
But anyway.
Um there wasn't any talk about the Royal Baby, and there really wasn't much talk about Trayvon.
Um, although there was one I've got to report one little instance to you, and it'll happen during the audio soundbite, so sit tight.
But mostly what everybody talking about was the economy.
And it's not what you see in the news.
You know, Snerdley comes in today and and he's uh saying hello after having seen him since Thursday.
He said, I if I have to hear another word about Trayvon, I'm so sick and tired of the word Trayvon, I'm tired of Zimmerman, I'm tired of Obama, I'm tired of race, I'm tired of the N-word, I'm tired of all this.
And I said, What do you mean?
It's all anybody's still talking about.
And by virtue of the audio soundbite roster, it's true.
Most of this is Zimmerman today.
Most of the Zimmerman and Trayvon.
Cookie gave me some stuff that uh everybody would love to hear my comments on that uh I was unable to make on Friday because it wasn't here, thanks to Mark Stein for hosting again.
Um but there is some salient uh points that uh need to be made.
Plus we've got we've got uh yeah, I've struck uh the Duchess of Cambridge's and labor, the royal family and in labor.
I mean, when's the last time these people did any work?
I mean it's just me.
I just get, you know, I'm a word guy, and words mean things, and royal family and labor.
This is about the only time that that really happens.
Detroit.
It is almost except it isn't unimaginable what has happened to Detroit.
Almost unimaginable, except it isn't unimaginable.
It's in it was in fact entirely predictable.
What has happened to Detroit.
And it has been predicted, and it's just the first of sadly what will be many to come.
A lot of people alive today have no memory of the Detroit that was.
Detroit, Michigan was at one time one of the great cities in the world.
It was among the richest and most successful cities in this country.
It was the envy of the world, primarily because the assembly line to mass produce automobiles was invented there.
And the automobile industry's home was Detroit Motown, Barry Gordy.
It was the envy of the world.
And now it's the biggest city in the United States to ever go bankrupt.
And why?
Two things They're actually under the same umbrella.
Unions and unchecked liberalism have led to the bankruptcy of Detroit.
Would you like to hear something that is to me interesting historically?
Detroit, now bankrupt, was where companies first started offering health care benefits and other perks in order to compete for skilled labor during World War II when there were wage and price controls.
And so with wage and price controls, the market will always outsmart government and limits.
And so the birth of health care benefits was created in Detroit as a means of becoming attractive to people seeking good jobs because there were wage and price controls in place in World War II.
And now those very benefits have killed the city of their birth.
The birth of the health care benefits.
I mean that chickens have come home to roost in the famous words of Reverend Wright.
Is that not something?
The city where health care benefits were created have been brought down essentially by health care benefits and pensions and unions.
Whatever else Detroit is, it is the epitome of everything that's wrong with the Democrat Party.
And yet, Obama is going to launch another speaking tour today about his latest new economic plan, which is really just the same old thing he's been saying for five years.
And what Detroit has been practicing for the last 30 years.
Detroit has been run exclusively by the Democrats for the over 30 years, folks.
The last Republican mayor in Detroit was elected in 1957.
Only one Republican has been elected to the City Council in Detroit since 1970.
Back in 1960, the city of Detroit actually had the highest per capita income in the country.
My, how things change.
1960, 53 years ago, the city of Detroit actually had the highest per capita income in the entire nation.
Sixty years ago.
Detroit was the fourth largest city in the United States.
And since then, in the last 60 years, Detroit has lost 63% of its population.
The statistics, there are 25 facts about Detroit and its plunge to bankruptcy that will stun and amaze you.
And I have them coming up for you as the program unfolds today before your very eyes and ears.
I know that many people might be tired of the Trayvon Martin George Zimmerman story and Obama's reprehensible.
I heard about this Friday night.
I was at the cocktail party, heavy hors d'oeuvre part of the member guest golf tournament weekend.
I had not heard.
I was, folks, maybe six hours sleep a night up at sunup to play golf for 19, 27, 18 holes in It was just in the heat.
I didn't get to any news of any substance until my flight home yesterday afternoon, except for one thing.
I was told what Obama said in his speech on Friday about what 34 years ago he could have been, Trayvon or whatever it was.
you And it was how I was told this and what interesting little conversation took place at that event Friday night.
And as I say, I'll get to that because it sets up nicely with an audio sound bit coming up here in mere moments.
I'm not teasing not going to wait till third hour for it.
It's coming up.
But I'm trying to maintain some s maintain some semblance of uh of order here.
Shelby Steele, uh long one of our favorites here at the EIB network.
He's at the Hoover Institution.
Palo Alto out at Stanford, a conservative think tank.
He's an African American, he's conservative, brilliant, a terrific and prophetic writer.
Has a piece of the Wall Street Journal, The Decline of the Civil Rights Establishment.
And in this piece, Dr. Steele posits that black leaders weren't so much outraged at injustice in the verdict as they were by the disregard of their own authority.
Now, last week, I offered an opinion of my own in the aftermath of the verdict.
And if I had to, I could go back to the uh archives, the Rushlimbaugh.com website and find it for you.
In fact, I'm sure after I do this, Coco will and highlight it.
By the way, this comment of mine led to an all-day discussion of abject stupidity on MSNBC.
What I said was that the left was not really invested in Trayvon Martin.
They didn't really care so much about the verdict in the substantive sense.
What they were worried about was they just didn't get their way.
They're a bunch of spoiled brats, and since Obama's election, they've gotten their way on everything except guns and a couple of other minor things, but they've got Obamacare, they got Obama elected, they've got gay marriage now heading down the tracks, they've got that they're they're getting everything they want, and what they don't win democratically, Obama just rights into law by virtue of an executive order or an executive proclamation.
And this came along and they didn't get it.
And they were ticked off that they didn't get it because they get what they want.
The thing is they're never happy when they get what they want.
So I basically said it to left through a temper tantrum over the Zimmerman verdict.
Shelby Steele goes way beyond that.
He says that what really is happening here is that the Sharptons of the world and the Jacksons of the world were outraged by the fact that nobody cared about him anymore, and they didn't intimidate anybody, and that there weren't any mass riots the moment after the verdict.
Here are a couple of pull quotes.
The Reverends Jackson and Sharpton have been consigned to a hard fate.
They can never be more than redundancies, echoes of the great men they emulate.
Because America has changed.
Hard to be a king or Mandela today when your monstrous enemy is no more than the cherubic George Zimmerman.
Another pull quote.
One wants to scream at all those outraged at the Zimmerman verdict.
Where is your outrage over the collapse of the black family?
Today's civil rights leaders swat at mosquitoes like Zimmerman when they have gorillas on their back.
Seventy-three percent of all black children are born without fathers, married to their mothers, and you want to bring the nation to a standstill over George Zimmerman.
Another poll quote, is there anything good to be drawn from the Zimmerman Martin tragedy?
It is only the further revelation of the corruption and irrelevance of today's civil rights leadership.
And Shelby Steele is right on the money with all of this.
When you've grown used to American institutions being so intimidated by the prospect of black wrath that they invent mushy ideas like diversity and inclusiveness simply to escape that wrath.
Then the crisp reading of the law that the Zimmerman jury displayed comes as a shock.
And it was a shock.
At least to me, I thought this jury would come back with guilty.
For the exact reasons that Shelby Steele sights here.
Fear.
Fear of what would happen because of the influence of Sharpton and Jackson.
Fear of unrest and riots and all that.
Even the sheriff's department there thought there would be.
But the jury came back with not guilty.
The interpretation is they weren't scared.
They weren't worried.
Sharpton and Jackson have lost their mojo.
But it's not just that Sharpton and Jackson have lost their mojo.
The country's changed, times have changed, and time has marched beyond them.
And they are relics of the past.
They remain stuck in their civil rights mentality from the 60s and 70s.
Heck, probably farther back than that.
Their mentality is that this country's still a slave nation.
And they're aided and abetted in that by some hip-hop music and the gangster rap culture, but the country's move beyond it.
The country's changed in a lot of ways that people haven't seen.
This or haven't actually noticed.
This is one of them.
On television of recent weeks, you could see black leaders from every background congealing into chorus of umbrage and complaint, but they weren't so much outrage at a horrible injustice as they were affronted or offended by the disregard for their own authority.
The jury effectively said to them, you're not gonna call the tune here.
We are gonna work within the law.
Shelby Steele writes that today's black leadership pretty much lives off the fumes of moral authority that linger from the glory days in the 50s and 60s.
The Zimmerman verdict lets us see this and feel a little embarrassed for the civil rights leaders today.
Consider the pathos of a leadership that once transformed the nation, now lusting for the conviction of the contrite and mortified George Zimmerman, as if a stint in prison for Zimmerman would somehow assure more peace and security for black teenagers everywhere.
This, despite the fact that nearly one black teenager a day is shot dead on the south side of Chicago, to name only one city by another black teenager.
And so the facts of life, the reality of life, is undercutting.
The favored and presumed mindset of the civil rights leadership.
That mindset still says that the biggest problem black people face in America is white people.
Times have changed.
This verdict, he's got a great point about the Cherubic Zimmerman.
I mean, how no?
It was it was always going to be a difficult thing to work up a lot of angst and fear over somebody that looks like the Pillsbury Doughboy.
They've got a point.
At any rate, Shelby Steele is a great piece.
Uh it's in the Wall Street Journal, and more of it coming up, as well as two or three other ancillary things, a great audio soundbite roster starting when we get back with Anthea Butler, the University of Pro of Pennsylvania prof. Uh, who weighed in on this and chastised the white god for making all this wait till you hear this woman.
We'll be back, folks.
Great to be back.
Sit tight.
Okay, let's go to audio sumbite number one.
This funny, this is Saturday night, New York City, the Harlem Book Fair panel discussion, religion and political activism.
A panelist, University of Pennsylvania associate professor of religious studies and author Anthea Butler.
And during a discussion about her op-ed, America's racist God.
Now remember, this woman teaches kids at an Ivy League school.
She is a professor, associate professor of religious Studies, Anthea Butler at Penn, the University of Pennsylvania.
I got attacked by the right.
I got attacked by Fox, Sean Hannity, Rush Limbaugh.
I'm saying all y'all's names out loud.
Daily caller, all of them.
They came at me this week.
I didn't have no church people to clean up my Twitter feed.
These people call me a B, the C, everything else they could call me except a child of God.
Okay.
And why did they do that?
Because I had the nerve to critique this American God.
Small G now, not big G. But they were like, oh no, you're coming after God.
Uh I don't know who she's talking about.
Calling her the B word.
What is the B word?
See, I'm clean and pure as the wind, and with the C word.
What's the C word?
Oh, it's that one?
Somebody called her that.
Well, who?
Who called her that?
And it wasn't here.
And we uh and how would they know?
We didn't, we didn't uh anyway, there's one more.
Here, folks.
Sit tight, we'll be back.
And we're back.
I'll rush ball with half my brain tied behind my back just to make it fair.
Anthea Butler.
You know, this this woman is a liar.
I don't know who called her a B or a C. I think she ought to name names.
She said that after listing my name and Hannity's name and the Daily Caller, and so she was implying that it was me or one of the others listed who called her those names, and that did not happen.
All we did was laugh at her.
All we did was have a little fun with her.
Now we just checked during the break, the collection of attacks, quote unquote, on Anthea Butler that she was talking about.
And I don't see any.
I don't see the C word or even the B word.
The worst I saw was the A word.
Listen to the way we're having to talk these days.
This is absolutely absurd.
What is happening to the language and the from the supposed citadels of higher education?
Those were tweets or comments from online people from talk radio people or a daily caller.
Anyway, this this woman, she's just as as most liberals are, just filled with rage and anger.
It's impossible for her to be happy.
She's got to corrupt, she's got to pollute.
She has to twist minds.
She has to revise history to make herself feel worthwhile, I guess.
She went on to say that uh all of us white racists out there, just uh we misunderstood what she was attacking.
She was just attacking our God, not the God.
She was just attacking the God of all the white racists out there.
And uh, and there's nothing that we can do about it because she's got tenure.
Here's the last soundbite.
Anthea Butler, professorette at the University of Pennsylvania, or Pennsylvania, whatever they call it.
But see, I was coming after their God.
I was not coming after the God of the scriptures, the God that we know of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.
I was coming after the God they worship, mammon, the God they worship, racism, the god they worship, white supremacy.
Thank God I got a great institution that takes care of me.
I have tenure.
I can't get fired.
You know, I hate to I I never heard of this what the god of racism?
Have you ever heard of the Gamamon?
Do you know what that is?
Snerdley, what is Mammon?
The God of Mam M-A-M-M-O-N, the god of mammon is the god of white racism.
And I've never heard of it.
And and and that's who we supposedly were.
All we did was react to what this professor said in her rage and her anger, but then she flips everybody off and says, Well, you can't do anything about it because I have.
Mammon is material wealth or greed.
The god of Mammon is the okay, personified as the deity, God of wealth and greed, and so forth.
never heard of it.
Anyway, I don't know how much you spend to send your kids to this school, but it's a waste of money if uh your kids taking a course taught by this woman.
You know, I folks, I have to tell you something.
This this white guilt.
It's time for all this white guilt to end.
I know it won't, because I know that most people are scared to death and live lives totally immersed in fear.
Because that's what other people want them to live like, but I'm sick of it.
White guilt is doing nothing for anybody, and white guilt is not solving anything.
And besides that, a little history lesson for you.
If any race of people should not have guilt about slavery, it's Caucasians.
The white race has probably had fewer slaves and for a briefer period of time than any other in the history of the world.
Now, sadly, we're not talking about the rest of the world when the civil rights coalition gets ginned up.
They're talking about America and slavery.
And that can't be denied, it happened.
But compared to the kind of slavery that still exists in the rest of the world and has existed.
By no means was it anywhere near the worst.
I mean, the Chinese, the Arabs, black Africans, in fact.
I mean, forget about it.
Even American Indians were constantly warring against tribes, other tribes for slaves.
You know how many wars were fought for slaves to claim them?
My gosh, folks, the uh ancient Israelites were all slaves.
The the the the exodus, the war, everything was there have been so many wars fought over this.
Ancient Rome went to war to win more slaves.
We're pikers compared to the uh the rest of humanity throughout human history.
Even yes, even American Indians, I know the image is that they were the embodiment of perfection.
They were just cool and fine until we arrived, and then it was all over for them.
But even they were constantly warring against other tribes for slaves.
It was their primary reason for going to war.
But despite all that, no other race has ever fought a war for the purpose of ending slavery.
Which we did.
Nearly six hundred thousand people killed in the Civil War.
It's preposterous that Caucasians are blamed for slavery when they've done more to end it than any other race, and within the bounds of the Constitution to boot.
And yet white guilt is still one of the dominating factors in American politics.
It's exploited, it's played upon.
It is promoted, used, and it's unnecessary.
Now I'm back to a couple passages here from um Shelby Steele, the decline of the civil rights establishment.
He says the Reverends Jack Jackson and Sharpton have been consigned to a hard fate.
They can never be more than redundancies, echoes of the great men they emulate.
Because America has changed.
It's hard to be a Martin Luther King or a Nelson Mandela today when your monstrous enemy is no more than the cherubic George Zimmerman.
So why did the civil rights leadership use its greatly depleted moral authority to support Trayvon Martin?
I mean, this young man was, after all, no Rosa Parks, a figure of indisputable human dignity set upon by the rank evil of white supremacy.
Travon threw the first punch and then continued pummeling the much smaller Zimmerman.
Yep, Travon was a kid, but he was also something of a menace.
The larger tragedy is that his death will come to very little.
There was no important principle or coherent protest implied in that first nose-breaking punch.
It was just dumb bravado.
A tough guy punch.
The civil rights leadership rallied to Travan's cause, and not, by the way, to the cause of those hundreds of black kids killed in America's inner cities this very year.
The civil rights leadership rallied the Trayvon's cause to keep alive a certain cultural truth.
That is the sole source of the civil rights leadership's dwindling power.
Put bluntly, this leadership rather easily tolerates black kids killing other black kids, but it cannot abide a white person in Zimmerman with his Hispanic background pushed into a white identity by the media over his objections.
But it cannot abide a white person getting away with killing a black person without undermining the leadership's very reason for being.
The purpose of today's civil rights establishment is not to seek justice, but to seek power for blacks in American life based on the presumption that they are still in a thousand ways victimized by white racism.
This idea of victimization is an example of what Dr. Dr. Steele calls poetic truth.
Like poetic license, it bends the actual truth in order to put forward a larger, more essential truth.
One that of course serves one's cause, but that has no real basis and truth.
Poetic truths succeed by casting themselves as perfectly obvious.
America's a racist nation, the immigration debates driven by racism, Zimmerman radically stereotyped Trayvon, and we say yes, of course, lest we seem racist.
Poetic truths work by moral intimidation, not reason.
Exactly right, which takes us to uh Obama's speech on Friday and the way I heard about it and what happened then.
So sit tight.
That's next.
And we come back.
And we're back.
Great to have you, Rush Limbaugh and the Limbaugh Institute for Advanced Conservative Studies.
I want to take you back to me on this program.
March 24, 2008.
This was during the presidential campaign year.
Obama had not yet won the Democratic presidential nomination.
This was during the time of Operation Chaos, where this program was doing everything it could to keep Hillary Clinton's hopes alive, and to keep the Democrat primary race interesting to the audience of this program.
Obama was then senator, United States Senator from Illinois, and I proffered an opinion for you, the audience of this program.
He represents the same damn stuff as Jesse Jackson.
There's no difference.
I'm convinced of it now.
There's no difference in Obama and Al Sharpton.
There's no difference in Obama and Jesse Jackson.
Just Obama had a much better mask than those guys.
Those guys were argumentative and challenging, and Obama was pleasing and contrite and so forth.
So that's 2008.
It's just to set up what comes next.
That Obama and Jackson and Sharpton, same objective, same mindset, same cultural references, same views of America.
I believed it then, and I know it now.
So Friday afternoon in Washington, the daily press briefing, Obama shows up without a teleprompter, by the way, and a drive-by's, which you'll hear in a moment, were ecstatic.
The drive-byers were beside themselves with happiness and joy and glee because Obama came out and actually sounded coherent without a prompter.
And there's a reason for that, by the way.
Here's the uh first of two sound bites we have from Deprez.
When uh Trayvon Martin was first shot, uh, I said that this could have been my son.
Another way of saying that is uh Travon Martin could have been me.
Uh 35 years ago.
There are very few African American men in this country who haven't had the experience of being followed when they were shopping in a department store.
That includes me.
There are very few African-American men who haven't had the experience of walking across the street and hearing uh the locks click on the doors of cars.
That happens to me, at least before I was a senator.
Okay.
So that happened on Friday afternoon when I was in a sauna called a golf course in Connecticut, and I had no idea it had taken place.
So Friday night, as part of this weekend tournament festival, there is a heavy hors d'urvanco party at the club, showed up with my hosts, and making the rounds and talking to people.
And somebody in a group, uh by the way, a very famous lawyer, I will not tell you who because this uh everything I always assure people that what they say to me, unless they say otherwise, is confidential.
But you'd know the name of this lawyer.
I don't know who the woman was, might have been his wife, might have been a friend, but anyway, he told me what Obama said, and I'm I'm I'm looking at him, my mouth is wide open and in in disbelief.
And I say, he said, what?
And then it was repeated for me, and then a woman, this is very interesting to me anyway, as one who studies life or lives life by observing it.
Woman said, Yeah, and you know, he had a point.
It could have been Obama 34 years ago.
And I, folks, I came close to losing it.
I realized I was a guest, and I dialed it back somewhat.
And I said, yeah, but it didn't.
What is all of this could have, would have, might have, it didn't happen to him.
What happened to Trayvon Martin did not happen to him.
Probably because he never did what Trayvon Martin did.
It didn't happen to Obama.
This is this is a blatant attempt.
It's exactly what Dr. Shelby Steele is talking about.
Why are these people so invested in Trayvon Martin?
Here's the president talking about this could have been him 34 years ago.
It could be him tonight if he's in Chicago.
If he's a kid in Chicago today, it could be him.
What is this?
It could have been Trayvon Martin, it could have been me 34 years ago.
It is countless black kids today.
Except the perps are not George Zimmerman's.
And so why this investment in Trayvon Martin and Dr. Steele has it exactly right.
It is to perpetuate the myth within the black community that all blacks remain helpless victims of white supremacy, white racism.
When George Zimmerman isn't a Caucasian to begin with, there was no white racism involved here.
If anything, and Rachel Gentel let the cat out of the bag, this was homophobia.
Trayvon Martin, you notice people still haven't gone there.
You notice that that aspect of what uh she told Pierce Morgan still has not been picked up on.
At least I haven't seen it now.
It could have happened over the weekend and I didn't see it.
But Travon thought that he was being pursued by a gay predator and took actions to stop that right there, here and now.
That's why I played the clip for you of me from 2008 saying that Obama is no different than Jesse Jackson or Al Sharpton and with this comedy, making a point to go to the White House press room, pointing out it could have been thirty-five years ago.
I don't know.
I that this that that's the kind of thing I just think that's utterly irresponsible.
It is certainly not healing.
It's it's not even uh emotionally honest.
But it is exactly who I've always thought Obama is.
Anyway, folks, I I've I've been meaning to mention this.
The whole property just hasn't I haven't done it.
We've got Liz Cheney coming up at the top of the next hour.
She has decided to run for the Senate from Wyoming, and among other things, she says the deal making is over.
She's not going to do it.
So we'll talk to her about her quest at the top, well, after we get back to the top of the next hour.
We got a uh we got a call on on the hall from Dallas.
Claiming I was exactly right about Indians going to war over slaves.
He knows.
So anyway, we have lots still remaining.
I can't wait to get to your phone calls the next hour.
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