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July 23, 2013 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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July 23, 2013, Tuesday, Hour #3
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Greetings and welcome back folks.
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Lots of people, lots of people gathered outside a door, which may open, and some people might walk out.
It's the hospital, the lindow wing of a private hospital.
So another point here, by the way.
The Duchess of Cambridge did not go to a public hospital in the UK for the birth of the royal heir.
Went to a private hospital.
Imagine that.
That's that middle-out economy working so well in the UK.
Anyway, I mentioned at the top of the program, Zeph Chaffetz, who has written a biography of me called Army of One.
He's also written a biography of sorts of Roger Ailes, wrote a book in 1990 called Devil's Night Out and Other True Tales of Detroit.
Chaffetz spent a year in Detroit reporting what was going on there.
And even as far back as 1990, it was obvious that Detroit was in extreme trouble.
Now, his point, after spending a year on the ground there and reporting it daily, is that, yeah, liberalism was a problem and unionism was a problem.
The auto industry decline was a problem.
They all contributed to the mess that is Detroit.
But he learned that it was something more profound than those three, even combined together, that made Detroit what it is, and that was race.
It's an excellent book, Devil's Night Out and Other True Tales of Detroit.
And let me give you a brief book report, as it were.
Detroit, as we mentioned yesterday, used to be a jewel.
Detroit was the city with the highest per capita income in the country for a while.
It was the city where healthcare benefits were born as an employee perk because competition for good employees was so great during World War II wage and price controls that employers, they couldn't pay anybody anymore because of the controls.
They had to come up with inventive ways around the controls to attract workers and health care benefits were born.
And interestingly, everything comes home to Roost.
It comes home to Roost.
And it's fascinating to me that unions and pensions and health care benefits all contributed to the demise.
But again, according to Chaffetz, that's not the main thing.
In his opinion, for decades, Detroit was the most racist city in the North, and it wasn't accidental.
It was the policy of the police department to hire southern lawmen and give orders to kick butt.
City was completely segregated.
Urban renewal crowded all the blacks into very small neighborhoods.
City was racially tense for years.
Now, in 1967, the blacks in Detroit rioted.
They burned down and looted whole neighborhoods.
Whites fled so fast that they were moving into unfinished houses in the suburbs.
The depopulation of the city, which resulted and which had started with the building of freeways in the 50s, became a full-fledged exodus after the riots.
So in 1973, the new black majority, the majority of people in the city proper were black, they elected the first black mayor in 1973, Coleman Young.
Now, unlike black mayors in other cities like Andrew Young in Atlanta, Coleman Young did not come out of the civil rights movement, per se.
He came from a radical wing of a radical black organization.
To some, he was charismatic.
To some, he was hilariously funny.
Even to me, he was funny.
I even got into a knockdown drag out with the guy over something in the early days of this project.
I don't remember over what, but I mean, this guy was hilarious.
He was hilarious while appearing incompetent and boobish, but he wasn't.
He was tough as nails and he did not believe in turning the other cheek.
And against him, it's important to remember that he did not come out of the civil rights movement.
Selma is not what animated this guy.
You know, getting beat upside the head, marching across bridges in southern cities didn't happen to him.
He was a radical separatist that had its origins far from the civil rights movement.
And Chaffetz writes that he knew Coleman Young very well.
Got to know him in his reporting and his year in Detroit.
Coleman Young, when the whites started abandoning the city after the black riots, and it was easy to do with the building of the freeways in the 50s,
when they were moving into unfinished houses just to get out of town, Coleman Young publicly would accuse white people of abandoning the city and then trying to control it from the outside.
So he declared war on the hostile suburbs.
He nixed gun control on the grounds that it would be dangerous to disarm his people in the face of the KKK lurking beyond Eight Mile Road.
To him, the white flight was just the equivalent of the KKK that had moved to the suburbs.
And his people in the city, he was not going to take their guns away from them.
And he didn't.
So the city of Detroit was heavily armed and it was heavily radicalized.
He also, in declaring war on the hostile suburbs, discouraged outside investment that didn't run through his office.
He turned the police force into his militia and he set out to create a black city-state south of Eight Mile Road.
Now, under Mayor Coleman Young, Detroit had an official nationalist doctrine that referred to the riots as the rebellion and the former white administrations that used to run the city as occupying powers.
That's how he talked about them.
He was leading the rebellion of the city inside, you know, south of Eight Mile, and the occupying powers were outside the city.
And to make the point even clearer, he erected a statue in honor of Joe Lewis.
It was a giant black fist right at the freeway entrance to downtown Detroit.
A giant black fist in honor of Joe Lewis right at the freeway entrance to downtown Detroit.
So it was clear that Coleman Young harbored hatred for the whites who had fled the city after the black riots.
Well, that hate was reciprocated.
The whites who might have wanted to invest or live in the city decided not to.
They decided to stay out.
This caused downtown Detroit to become a ghost town, which, according to Chaffetz, in his book, was fine with the mayor.
He built a political machine that kept himself in power for 20 years by fanning the fires of racial grievance and separatism.
He told Chaffetz, Coleman Young told Zeb Chaffetz that his role models were Boss Daly of Chicago, Boss Curley of Boston, Mayor Kavanaugh of Detroit, and other ethnic tribal leaders of the past.
And he was very open about it.
And all of these people, all of these people that he admired had looted their cities on behalf of themselves and their political base.
And Coleman Young said, now it was my turn.
And that's what he did in Detroit.
The 20 years of Colemanism, the 20 years that he was mayor, were a long experiment, one long experiment in municipal black nationalism and ideological separatism.
And by the time he left office, the city was a shambles.
And he was followed by Dennis Archer and then Kwame Kilpatrick.
Archer became a prisoner of the system.
Kwame Kilpatrick became a prisoner of the federal penal system.
I forget what the it.
Well, it was multiple acts of corruption, but I forget the details of what it was.
But it all happened.
I mean, this program was happening while all this was going on in Detroit.
And Kwame Kilpatrick and Dennis Archer were role, they were, well, Coleman Young was their mentor.
He was their role model.
So even it is said that even Dave Bing is part of the Coleman Young legacy.
So what you have, Detroit is a city with no tax base, no budget, no money, no services, no schools, hardly any employment, no viable political life.
And it's now ruled by a Republican governor, as is the result of the bankruptcy.
So I wanted to mention this to you based on my reading of Devil's Night and other True Tales of Detroit.
And these are just factual claims made by the author, Zev Chaffetz.
You know, a lot of people, just in a strict political sense, admired Coleman Young for what he was able to pull off.
There was nothing really admirable about what he did to the city, but that he was able to do it.
A lot of people admired him and envied him.
This happens throughout human history.
Thugs, scallywags, all kinds, really.
Clinton was admired for how well he was able to get away with lying.
The press marveled at how good he was at it.
They loved him for it.
Coleman Young used to call himself the MFIC, the MF in charge.
I forget what I wish I could remember, but something happened in Detroit, and I we were on the air there.
WJR was our, still is, and I was openly critical, and he just didn't phase it.
He didn't care.
He had his little fiefdom there, and he was running it.
And it was the way he wanted it to be.
The whole point of this, folks, is that yes, all of these factors were relevant in the destruction of the city.
Liberalism, unionism, unending pensions, payouts to people that no longer work.
But the point is that Detroit became a separatist place, and it just didn't have a chance.
It was a city that was governed and ruled by anger, racial anger.
It was really a textbook example of the problems that result.
And it's just, you know, Art Laugher is out saying so.
A number of other people are saying it.
This is just the first such city of what will be many to declare bankruptcy and go down this road.
Now, what they all do have in common is they've all been run by Democrats.
Whatever Coleman Young was, whatever racial characteristics he harbored, racist, whatever, he was still a Democrat.
It was still liberalism, and it was still government as the focus of everything.
And it's a sad commentary, and it's a bit of a shame.
Coleman Young cannot be ignored when discussing the current status and state and plight of Detroit and what his politics were.
And it was racial separatism that brought it about.
So I wanted to, I found it interesting.
There's much more to this, obviously.
It's an entire book.
This is just a brief little book report.
But again, the title of the book, Devil's Night and Other True Tales of Detroit, published in 1990 by Zev Chaffetz.
Now, I've got to take a brief time out, and we'll be back and continue.
Oh, they're driving away.
The press didn't get to see the baby much, but they did see the baby.
The baby baby answered some questions.
Oh, the mother and father answered the questions.
Well, Snerdley said, Yeah, the baby walked out and they answered some questions.
The baby didn't walk out.
They walked out with the baby.
And Dawn just said, the baby's got Kate's lips.
Oh, yeah, there's a replay on Fox.
Let me wait here.
I want to see the lips.
The baby has Kate's lips.
When you look at that couple, just asking this rhetorically, when you look at that couple, who do you think calls the shots?
Be back right after this.
Don't go away.
I think it's safe to say, ladies and gentlemen, that if Detroit Mayor Coleman Young had had a son, he would look like Barack Obama.
I mean, a dead ringer for Barack Obama.
I noticed one thing.
I just took a look at the royal baby, and I had to observe, I couldn't miss it, the baby already has his father's thinning hair.
You didn't notice that?
I mean, see, this is the difference.
You saw the baby's lips.
I never, I just saw, man, the kid's hair is already thinning, just like dad.
Here's David and Tulsa.
It's great to have you on the EIB network.
Hello.
Hey, good afternoon, Rush.
Yeah, my brother called me up.
He lives in Washington, D.C., and there's an uprising going on there with the city council.
As you know, they're trying to impose artificial minimum wage on Walmart.
And Walmart's threatening to cancel six stores that they're going to open there.
And he's one of the citizens who's obviously going to try to apply for a job there.
And the city council has miscalculated big time because the citizens know that Walmart's not bluffing with him closing those stores.
And they're more than happy to work for the minimum wage because they know that's not going to be their salary, you know, their wage.
It's not just that.
It's not just that, David.
It's not just that Walmart's an employer.
Walmart's where you go to get cheaper things.
If Walmart pulls out of there, it obviously takes a lot of jobs with it, but it also takes low prices.
Oh, absolutely.
And the stores who are in the area, they want the foot traffic that the Walmart stores are going to bring.
They're not concerned about the competition.
They're saying, hey, that's going to bring more people that are going to walk through my door.
Okay, well, let me ask you a question.
You say that you're hearing a lot of citizens in D.C. are furious about Walmart pulling out.
Who are they mad at?
They're mad at the city council for wanting to impose the artificial minimum wage.
Are they really?
Oh, absolutely.
Yeah, my brother said that his friends are furious.
And they're talking about it on the news.
People are calling City Hall saying, hey, look, Walmart's not bluffing.
They made the profit that they have without those six stores.
But the city council is going to try to make it, they're going to try to get the population all angry at Walmart for pulling out.
Yeah, but it's not firing on them.
The citizens know they're not bluffing.
They're saying, look, we want the job.
We want to work.
We want to be able to stop.
I would hope that's true, but I don't know.
I just have so many doubts about places run by Democrats.
I mean, the people in those towns elect these people.
They must believe what they say.
I hope you're right.
I hope what you've heard is right, David, that they're angry at the city council.
Hell, the city council doesn't even pay that wage to anybody.
And demanding walls.
It's not just Walmart either.
It's all big box stores that happen to be Walmart size.
There aren't very many, but they don't have unions.
I mean, that's, I know.
By the way, it's hard for me as an independent American to keep up with all this royal family stuff.
This baby that hasn't been named yet, it's an heir.
Is this baby going to inherit Downton Abbey?
Does it get that too?
A Pew Research Center poll released Monday by the Pew Research Center shows that Latino, illegal immigrants, given the opportunity to vote, would vote Democrat at an 8 to 1 clip.
31% of illegal immigrants of Latino descent identify themselves as Democrats compared to just 4% who identify as Republicans.
Another 23% lean Democrat compared with 15% who lean Republican.
Over time, illegal immigrants also begin identifying with political parties.
For those illegals in a country under 10 years, 26% identified with Democrats, 9% for Republicans.
And the bottom line is Latino immigrants eligible to vote identify as Democrats versus Republicans at a 54 to 11% clip.
That's Latino immigrants eligible to vote.
Now, the Washington Post misreports this.
Their headline says, illegal immigrants favor Democrats 54 to 19.
It's Latino immigrants eligible to vote favor Democrats 54 to 11.
Illegals favor Democrats 8 to 1.
But again, we had a brilliant caller in the first hour who asked the question.
Where did Pew find the illegals to take the poll?
The illegals, we are told, are living in the shadows.
And we are furthermore told that the illegals will not come out of the shadows until they are promised a pathway to citizenship and or amnesty.
And yet the researchers for the Pew Research Center were able to find them.
They either found their cell phone numbers, their throwaway cell phone numbers, their landline phone numbers, or they were able to knock on the door where they live.
We don't know how this is possible.
The Republican Party, the Democrat Party, tells us that we have to do this to bring these people out of the shadows.
Folks, I'm not trying to be funny here.
Washington, forget Republican, but Washington is telling us we have to do amnesty to find out who these people are.
We have to do amnesty to find out how many there are.
We think it's 11 million, 12 million.
We have to do this to find out who they are so that we know what we're dealing with.
We have to find out who they are and how many there are so that we can gauge whether or not border security is working.
And we have to do this before we secure the border.
That's the latest from the Republican Party and a gang of eight.
We got to go amnesty pathway before border security because we have to know how many we're talking about.
And yet the Pew Research Center was able to find them and learn that by an eight to one margin they plan on voting Democrat.
Now as I said earlier, ladies and gentlemen, the reason I believe this is because previous polling data backs this up in polls of legal immigrants and how they vote.
70% Democrat.
73% Democrat, in fact.
Now, if the Pew people and the Democrats were trying even more to get the Republicans to commit suicide, they would have a poll that gave the Republicans more hope.
The Pew Center for Research, People of Press, whoever did this, would produce a poll which said that illegal immigrants favored Democrats by 50 to 40 percent.
That would give the Republicans hope.
That would force Senator McCain out on his podium.
CC, this is why we must do this.
They're waiting to vote for us.
Why, we're already at 40% without doing it.
If we grant them amnesty, we might get over 50%.
But they didn't do that.
The Pew people put out a poll showing the futility for the Republicans of trying to get this group's votes.
That's interesting.
Then there's a companion story to this from Yahoo News by someone named Liz Goodwin.
A Republican-led push to legalize young, unauthorized immigrants has been met with stony resistance from groups representing the very dreamers that such a bill would help.
In a nutshell, this story says the DREAM Act would legalize the children here of illegals.
And this story says that those kids, those young Hispanic kids, don't want to be legalized by Republican policy.
They don't want that.
They want the Democrats to do it.
Proponents of the so-called DREAM Act in this story have rejected the Republicans' effort to pass their own version of the bill, which is very telling.
They want the Democrats to do it.
So, now that story, here again, you have to look at this.
It's the drive-by media.
They're the Democrats.
They have an agenda.
The agenda here is to wipe out the Republican Party.
So you put out a story like this.
The tendency is to disbelieve it.
I find it fascinating that they go in front of these young kids and these DREAM Act kids.
Now, we don't want the Republican Party to help us.
We don't want their help.
We want it to come from the Democrats.
Well, that's not going to inspire the Republicans very much, which I would think the Democrats would want to do.
Anyway, that's it on immigration.
It's not surprising other than the Pew people were able to find the illegals to pull them, or at least enough of them to produce a qualified random sample.
Here is Tara in Lake Charles, Louisiana.
Tara, I'm glad you called.
Great to have you on the program.
Hi.
Hi, Rush.
Third time caller.
First time I spoke with you was in 1990 or 91.
So it's been a while.
Oh, no, just yesterday.
Let me give my best wishes, please, to Pumpkin.
I'm so glad to hear she's going to be okay.
You know, this is an amazing thing.
This cat is 16 years old.
We've had an 18-year-old one, so we're cat people.
Yeah.
I know how special they are.
But Snerdley told me to get right to my point.
I didn't know if you had heard this guy Sunday morning with Fareed Zakaria.
He was on his show talking about banning all college football.
He wants to do away with college football.
What was his name?
He's not doing away with college football.
You're going to do away with the NFL.
And that's what you've been saying now for a while.
And I mean, you've always said, oh, nobody's going to believe that.
Nobody's going to think they can do away with football.
But this guy was really clever in the way he equated football players with dogs that are used in dog fights.
And he said that he couldn't believe all the outrage when Michael Vick was convicted of the dogfighting.
Everyone, you know, was up in arms because we're all against dogfighting, obviously.
But he said he couldn't believe that no one realized that Michael Vick himself was being used as a dog in a dog fight because football players are the same as dogs being used.
You know, I'm going to tell you something, Tara.
I have been waiting.
I did not know this happened.
It hasn't been widely reported.
I didn't see it.
But I have been waiting for something like this to happen.
Once the racial component of this enters the fray.
Well, and also that people who love football and who also love animals are going to say, oh, well, wait a minute.
You know, we don't want to mistreat our animals, so we don't want to mistreat our football players.
So he's going to, using that kind of logic, there are people who would think this is stupid to say to get rid of football.
They're going to say, oh, well, wait a minute.
Maybe it is that bad.
No, I think, well, possibly.
I think there's a different path that this takes.
Do you remember this guy's name, by the way?
No, I don't.
I'm sorry.
I do not remember his name, but it was on the geek.
Snerdley just told me it was told me it was Malcolm Gladwell.
That's it.
That's it.
Well, Malcolm Gladwell is not insignificant.
Malcolm Gladwell is an eminent author.
He has a book called Outliers.
And it was a bestseller.
Malcolm Gladwell is not, he might be a radical, but he's not some Looney Tunes character out there that nobody has ever heard of.
I may be confusing him with some, but there's a guy who wrote a book in which he discovered that the profoundly upper echelon of successful people work at least 10,000 hours at their craft, be they athletes or anybody else.
And I'm thinking it was Malcolm Gladwell who wrote that book, but I'm not sure.
I could be confusing him with somebody else.
But I do know who Gladwell is, and I do know he wrote the book Outliers.
Let me know how this is going to happen.
And what he was saying is akin to this.
You have this game of football and it's gladiators, and it's barbaric.
And just as you have dogfights, I mean, dogs, everybody, you know, they're just being used.
It's like cockfighting.
Dogfighting is used to entertain a bunch of brute, barbaric human beings.
And it's a shame, and it's barbaric that we should allow this kind of savagery for our entertainment.
So this guy, Gladwell, goes on for reads a caria and compares football to that.
Where this is leading, Tara, the majority of players in the NFL are African-American.
I can tell you where this is headed.
It's not long since Gladwell has now made this comparison.
If you're right, if you've interpreted him correctly, and I didn't see this.
But if he talked about Vic and Vic was sent to prison for dogfighting and the irony is that Vic is in his own dogfight, that the NFL essentially uses human beings in the equivalent act of dogfighting and they charge a lot of money to see it,
then what's going to happen next is somebody is going to say, well, now wait a minute, the majority of players in the NFL are black, and all the owners are white.
And look at what happens to these players.
They get concussions.
Their bodies are mangled for the rest of their lives.
Some of them end up with dementia.
Some of them die early.
What are we doing to our players?
How can we be this inhumane?
And then add to it that it's a bunch of rich white guys who own the teams and are hiring a bunch of black men to do this to entertain every just like at the old Coliseum of Rome.
This is on tap to happen now.
Mark my words.
Once this guy starts comparing college football in the NFL to dogfighting or cockfighting, it's not long before we hear that the players, no matter how highly they're paid, no matter how well compensated they are, they're still being exploited for the entertainment of a bunch of lazy people sitting in air-conditioned comfort,
reveling in this pain and suffering, reveling in these hard hits, reveling in the destruction that is taking place before their very eyes and applauding it.
This is next to happen.
This effort to inflict damage on the NFL is an attack on capitalism and capitalists and so forth.
And so this is not far away now that Gladwell has crossed this barrier.
Anyway, I got to take a break.
Tara, thanks for the call.
We'll be back.
Don't go away.
Okay, it was Malcolm Gladwell.
He is the author of Outliers, and it is Outliers that has the 10,000-hour rule that nobody gets good at anything until they put in at least 10,000 hours at it.
And we've got the sound bites for this.
We'll get them tomorrow.
We have the Farid Zakaria show and the dogfight in comparison to Vic and all the rest of this stuff.
So we'll get to that tomorrow.
My instincts on do not doubt me on this, folks.
Do not, it's a long way to go before this all happens.
But the trend is begun, and the trend line is obvious.
It's going to happen.
Get this.
New York City mayoral candidate Anthony Weiner admits that he sent additional explicit photos and texts to a woman online.
He used the name Carlos Danger.
I wonder what the Hispanics think of that.
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