Dec. 26, 2013 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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| Yes, America's Anchorman is away, and this is your undocumented Anchorman sitting in. | |
| No supporting paperwork whatsoever coming to you live from Ice Station E.I.B. in far northern New Hampshire where the snow is falling today. | |
| It's it's pretty as a picture until you uh you skid on the sharp bends uh going round the uh cliffs along the Connecticut and plunge into the icy river. | |
| But it's all good fun until then. | |
| Uh if you're uh if you're fleeing the country, uh you can't d do swing by and say hello, we always love to see you. | |
| You can't miss us a big sign on the highway saying last rush guest host before the border. | |
| Um this is a good day, by the way, to flee to Canada, because it's Boxing Day up there in all the shopping malls, so you will get some terrific boxing day bargains if you pick today to flee the country. | |
| You can re-establish yourself uh abroad in your new identity by getting all the things you need for your new life cheap at Canadian shopping malls uh this boxing day. | |
| Um I'm uh I'm gonna be in um uh Florida in in uh February in about a month's time, I think it is. | |
| Uh early early February, uh going to uh uh Jacksonville and St. Petersburg and uh Fort Pierce, Fort Myers, uh and I think wrapping it up in Miami on stage in Miami. | |
| And um so it's it's one of those things where uh if I'm uh if I'm if I'm heading to do some uh live stage shows. | |
| I think Mr. Certainly, in fact, is coming to see us in Miami. | |
| I uh think that's that's right. | |
| You yeah, couldn't I don't think we could uh get anywhere near Palm Beach. | |
| I think they ran us riffraff out of town, but uh but Miami we are coming to. | |
| But the uh so I was like I was like uh uh keeping an eye on local stories for so if I'm if I'm gonna be on stage uh somewhere. | |
| And uh th this I didn't realize that the guy who is the inspiration for Ron Burgundy uh has actually moved to the Jacksonville area, which I think is where I'm kicking off my little uh snowbird tour on February the seventh. | |
| He's basically done like me. | |
| He he he was way up hard pressed north uh across against the Canadian border in uh in Detroit, in Detroit, which is so far north uh that in fact you actually have to go south to get into Canada uh as the trivial pursuit question says, because Windsor, Ontario is south of Detroit, Michigan. | |
| Um because it was the whole uh border is laid out there like some Democrat uh friendly congressional district at that point. | |
| Um the um but uh but uh the guy who is the inspiration for Rod Burgundy uh who is a fella uh who was uh caught uh at a TV station in Detroit, Mort Krim. | |
| He's actually retired to Jacksonville, the Jacksonville area. | |
| So I would I may I I would be an honor to get to meet him. | |
| I saw Anchorman too with my kids the other uh the other day, and I have to say I kind of enjoyed it. | |
| And and I believe Mike uh down in New York. | |
| Mike, you you got a a an Anchorman bobblehead left on your front door for Christmas, is that right? | |
| Really? | |
| And you it it came from Amazon, and you don't recall ordering uh uh Ron Burgundy bobblehead at all. | |
| So somebody just sent you a Ron Burgundy bobblehead. | |
| I wonder what that means. | |
| So anyway, that's good to know. | |
| I would be suspicious. | |
| I wouldn't like I would be creeped out if I say I thought I heard Santa's reindeer, and it turned out it was uh like uh opened the front door, there was a Ron Burgundy bu bobblehead there. | |
| By the way, speaking of reindeer, I I haven't thought yet about who I'm gonna endorse in uh twenty sixteen. | |
| Um because I'm running for New Hampshire Senate myself on the uh uh I want an all I've tired of I'm tired of the Republican Party and made him keeps making a mistake by hiring American candidates. | |
| And so Ted Cruz is Canadian, I'm Canadian. | |
| Where we want an all ineligible ticket, I think. | |
| Uh because you you Americans have had a chance and look at the state of the place. | |
| So I think the Republicans should run an all Canadian ticket uh next time round. | |
| But uh I'm not sure where how Canadian he is, but I like the cut of this fellow's gib. | |
| Representative Steve King, Republican of Iowa, celebrated the holiday uh in Oslo, Norway, with some reindeer on a plate. | |
| Uh Congressman King tweeted from Oswald from Oslo, Merry Christmas season to my Scandinavian friends. | |
| Enjoyed a meal of Lutefisk reindeer and uh lefsa. | |
| Steve King. | |
| Uh That's uh the Lutefisk thing is that uh uh terrible cured cod that uh they eat all the time there. | |
| I mean it's not terrible, it's nice, but by the time you've had it for the 37th time it's getting to you a bit. | |
| Uh but that's like like how cool is that you know if you're looking like a real bad guy, Mr. I'm not gonna take it, not a milk toast weenie loser Republican, a guy who for c celebrates Christmas by eating Rudolph, that's like Steve King. | |
| That's this this guy Steve King, he's in Iowa already. | |
| It's like Christmas Day he eats Rudolph. | |
| I mean what's he gonna do for Valentine's Day? | |
| Rip the heart out of some random passer by just like that for Valentine. | |
| I like this guy's attitude. | |
| Steve King, he uh Republican of Iowa, he celebrated Christmas in Norway by eating Rudolph the red-nosed reindeer. | |
| Does the red nose mean the Rudolph the the reindeer's a bit past his best? | |
| I don't know. | |
| Anyway. | |
| As you recall before Christmas there was this big flap over the Duck Dynasty guy and about all uh the freedom of speech issues and all the rest of it. | |
| Freedom of speech is more than the First Amendment is more than government. | |
| The climate of speech the climate of speech is important too in free societies. | |
| What you can say, how you can say it. | |
| Too too many people are too touchy about all uh about all of it. | |
| There's a there's a thing that's happening now on the internet where uh more and more websites are are getting fed up with what they regard as uh incorrect comments. | |
| Now a lot of people are rude on the internet. | |
| Most of the people who uh respond to me on the Internet make various uh assumptions about my sexual practices uh including with close family members that just seems to be the uh way it goes on the internet but the the they're c they're they're not just cutting there so they're gonna cut back on things like racism, homophobia, hate speech, all the rest. | |
| Now it's one thing to say you can't use swear words or whatever. | |
| But the question, as we've seen with the Duck Dynasty thing, is how do they change, how do they define racism or homophobia or whatever? | |
| So if you just take the Bibles or the Catholic Church's position, that counts as homophobic and your comment gets deleted. | |
| That counts as hate speech and it's cut out there. | |
| And more and more of these websites are doing this kind of thing, including some of them cutting back on, for example, just to take a case that I'm being sued over by some touchy little dweeb, the matter of climate change. | |
| So if you oppose climate change, you won't be able to say that you oppose climate change on a website because people want to live in their bubbles. | |
| And they don't want to be discombobulated by having anybody from out of their bubble say something interesting to them. | |
| And of course, all these people are haters. | |
| All these people are haters. | |
| So the best way to not be exposed to these haters is to say you can't make homophobic comments. | |
| You can't make racist comments. | |
| make comments querying the so-called settled science of so-called climate change all these things are uh out so those comment changes uh wow another another great piece from you Paul Krugman I really like wow did another terrific piece that's all it's gonna be at the comments section eventually the most telling story on the on the climate here uh uh of free speech because I'll I'll say I'll say one thing about the Duck Dynasty. | |
| People have said uh everything they had to say from every angle here. | |
| And the salient point is this I I think and this is something I learned on my free speech battles in Canada and Australia and everywhere else. | |
| So we'll take what the Duck Dynasty guy was talking about. | |
| I got no duck in this fight. | |
| I don't watch the show I don't know the show I don't know anything about it. | |
| But this guy, Cliff Robertson, he he uh he says that he personally can't see the attraction Of homosexuality. | |
| And he sa and he says it quite uh uh in in a uh in a rather vivid and colorful manner that he can't uh and and a couple of guys on MSNBC actually said he isn't in a position to criticize it until he's tried it, by the way. | |
| So if so simply it's not enough just to say I it has no appeal to me. | |
| Unless you've tried it, you have no right to speak about it. | |
| And he should be very grateful uh that Glad and these other identity groups aren't actually making him go the whole hog on that. | |
| But here's the point. | |
| Most people who are opposed, most uh Christians who are opposed to gay marriage are opposed to gay marriage. | |
| They're not opposed to the other side arguing for it. | |
| They don't mind if Glad wants to s stand up and advocate for it. | |
| Uh they don't mind if uh President Obama wants to say stand up and advocate it for it. | |
| Glad and these other groups, it's it's they they don't want to extend the same courtesy to these other guys. | |
| They're not interested in hearing uh anybody uh make the opposing argument. | |
| They don't want to be exposed to the opposing argument. | |
| They want they they want there to be no ex uh uh opposing argument. | |
| And that's why they uh there's no people who say, well, let's start a conversation. | |
| Let's have a debate or whatever. | |
| You can't have a debate with someone whose opening gambit is to get you fired from your TV show, cost you a book deal like Paul Adine, uh, cost you your sponsors like they're now trying to do with Phil Roy any of endorsements, like they're not then you're not entering to uh into a policy discussion with somebody. | |
| You're you're having a negotiation with a guy who wants to destroy your life. | |
| You're in the same uh negotiation as this poor fellow from Maryland is with Al Qaeda, uh, wherever he's being uh held captive in the uh in the in the uh Northwest or uh in the in Waziristan or whichever part of Pakistan he's being held in, where you're negotiating for your life. | |
| These you're trying to find out what it will take to make these guys stop destroying you. | |
| And that's not a policy conversation. | |
| Uh that's about someone who wants just to destroy you. | |
| And and in that respect, the most relevant story is a story from a squire, uh a couple of days ago, uh, in which a lady called Kim Stafford recounts that last year, September 2012, she was invited to a fancy dress party that was Boston Tea Party themed. | |
| And she didn't really know where to get colonial garb late on a Saturday, so she thought, quote, why don't I dress up like one of those teabaggers? | |
| So she went along with a sign uh saying somewhere in uh in Kenya a village is missing their idiot. | |
| And she misspelt Kenya, K-E-N-I-A, to show that she's a stupid racist teabag, uh, who can't even spell uh the country that she's insulting. | |
| And everyone thought it was a really cute costume that Kim Stafford was going as the little racist, stupid teabagger, and they all took photographs of her and and posted it on Tumblr and uh other social media sites, and suddenly she discovered little Kim Stafford, | |
| little impeccably liberal I loath teasebaggers, uh Kim Stafford, discovered that people just assumed she was a stupid teabagger, uh and they were uh and they just started piling thousands and thousands and thousands of insults on her. | |
| Uh insult, insult, insult, uh, where she was uh crude insults, insults about how stupid she was, insults using uh profanities, insult in some tiltsons, thousands and thousands, the whole thing went viral. | |
| And and in retelling this, in retelling this story, neither Kim Stafford nor the genius pyjama boy at Esquire, who's writing it up. | |
| What's the name of the pajama boy? | |
| Uh the pyjama boy is called Ben Collins, who's the news editor at Squire, Esquire. | |
| Ne it occurs to neither of them that the people insulting little Miss Liberal Kim Stafford are her fellow liberals. | |
| That she is discovering what it's like to be an idiot, moron, racist teabagger, and to have thousands and thousands of people just insulting you and saying you uh n need to have this particular sex act happen to you and you need this and you need that. | |
| It doesn't occur either to Kim Stafford or the little pyjama boy who's writing the piece that it is liberals who are being vile and sexist and derogatory and profane and obscene about every aspect of Little Miss Liberal Kim Stafford's life. | |
| And that's the point. | |
| That's the point that she hasn't even grasped. | |
| It never occurs to her in complaining and whining. | |
| She went along to insult teabaggers, and uh on the internet everybody took her out. | |
| She did such a good job that everyone thought she was a real teabagger and insulted her. | |
| And she couldn't stand it, and it made her cry, and it made her want to curl up in a fetal position, and she doesn't understand. | |
| That's what all her nice uh college, Harvard, Yale, Ivy League types do to tea baggers, as they call them, every single day of the week. | |
| That's the problem. | |
| If you are if you are a tea bag, if you're one of those people who likes uh uh doing that kind of stuff, give me a call, because I love talking to liberals on this show. | |
| 1-800-282-2882, Mark Stein for Rush. | |
| Hey, Mark Stein for Rush. | |
| I I I missed out on all the Mannheim steamroller uh this season. | |
| I'm I I kind of I kind of missing it. | |
| We're back to the non-seasonal uh bumper music. | |
| Let's go to Joe in Hartford, Ohio. | |
| Joe, you're live on the Rush Limbaugh show. | |
| Great to have you with us. | |
| Hey, Mark, it's Jeff actually. | |
| How are you doing? | |
| Oh, Jeff, Jeff, my my mistake. | |
| Well, I'll I'll fire someone for it. | |
| I was not informed. | |
| Like Obama, I'm completely out of the loop. | |
| Uh good to have you with us. | |
| I was gonna say about the bumper music. | |
| Why they aren't playing you today. | |
| They well, I d we I have this, I have a rather clenched teeth discussion with Mike every sort of December twenty-third when uh when he is in possession of my Christmas album and he's picking out the approved EIB approved Christmas music for December twenty fifth. | |
| But anyway. | |
| Um that was gone. | |
| The individual who tried to uh ram this car into the presidential palace in uh France sort of a couple of days ago within the last day or two. | |
| Yeah, that that's true. | |
| It was like uh he basically did what uh uh what Mariam Carey uh i is accused of doing in Washington, and uh it's not clear whether she did do that or whether she actually got confused and just took a wrong term. | |
| All the videos disappeared, and three police agents lined up to to to gun her down, and she's dead, and her the baby in the car is still alive, fortunately. | |
| Yeah. | |
| Uh but j but Jeff, you this guy died to do it to the French president, is that right? | |
| Hey, and we've lost Jeff. | |
| Wow. | |
| He's he's has Jeff has Jeff gone there, Mike. | |
| He seems to have disappeared. | |
| He seems to have disappeared. | |
| But Jeff was talking about this uh and it's true, some guy, unlike Mariam Carey, who's dead, who's dead, she's a black woman who's dead, and Jesse Jackson and uh Al Sharpner got nothing to say about it. | |
| She's dead because uh she supposedly, if you even if you believe the official account, bumped a barricade round the White House. | |
| This guy uh at the Elysee Palace in Paris tried to ram the French president's gates. | |
| Uh he's a theater director. | |
| I don't know anything about him. | |
| He's uh I like to think of him as the theater director in Mel Brooks's great film The Producers. | |
| But that's just because I'm a homophobic stereotyper. | |
| But I like but this he was an enraged theater uh director who flew into a huff over cuts to cultural subsidies by the French government and decided to ram Francois Holland's Palace Gates at the Elise Palace in Paris. | |
| And uh they're all shrugging it off. | |
| They they don't need free police agents to hunt down uh the uh the person and gun him down in a hail of bullets, uh like the uh police agencies did, these three police agencies uh uh uh combined to do to marry him care on the streets of Washington uh a couple of months back. | |
| She had a one-year-old baby in the in the car. | |
| Uh I don't have a lot of time for Monsieur Hollande. | |
| He's the one who's driving all the wealthy French out of his out of uh to flee the country because of his seventy-five percent tax. | |
| He's a doctrinaire socialist. | |
| But at least he's got a sense of proportion when some crazed campy theater director uh decides to ram his palace gates. | |
| Uh he's shrugging it off. | |
| It's business as usual. | |
| Uh I was I was talking about this with somebody uh yesterday uh on Christmas Day this c topic of conversation came. | |
| I was talking about the light security around members of the royal family, uh up in Ottawa when uh uh Prince William and his lovely bride were there uh for Dominion Day uh uh last year or the year before. | |
| And again, when I saw the Queen in uh in Glasgow with my daughter in Scotland. | |
| A very light security because the Queen assumes that the risk is part of the job. | |
| Uh and even if somebody does nudge your barricade or nudge your palace gates, you don't gun them down in a hail of bullets. | |
| Uh the the the silence on the Mariam Carey case and the way all the video has disappeared from the internet is very and the way her lawyer, apparently, the family's lawyer is apparently in jail, like that video guy in Benghazi. | |
| It it does not speak well. | |
| It does not speak well. | |
| Lots more on Rush, straight ahead. | |
| Yes, indeed. | |
| Everything is all right, uptight, out of sight. | |
| Rush will return in the new year. | |
| Do not forget the great Mark Belling will be here, uh, an authentic all-American guest host to take you through Open Line Friday tomorrow on the Rush Limbaugh Show and uh and rush back in the new year. | |
| And you can go to Rush Limbaugh.com and it is and it is like Rush hasn't gone away. | |
| Uh so uh you need not be discombobulated by any sinister foreign guest host. | |
| All you have to do is go to Rush Limbaugh.com. | |
| I was mentioning this uh story about this this uh this college cute little liberal college coet, Kim Stafford, who uh who goes to a college party dressed up as one of those horrible racist teabaggers, and someone takes a photograph of her, and uh everyone, | |
| all the people, all her friends on the internet and everything assume she's the stupid idiot racist teabagger, and they and the thing goes viral, and they all start uh insulting her and making derogatory comments and ruin and destroy her life. | |
| And uh she's and and this guy and the pyjama boy at Esquire. | |
| And it pains me to say that about Esquire, because a squire has always been liberal, but it's uh it's it it had terrific writing in it at one time. | |
| The famous Esquire story, uh Frank Sinatra has a cold. | |
| It had like stuff that would r it would ri rivet you from the word go. | |
| This thing by whichever pajama boy has written this story, uh is uh it never occurs to him, and it never occurs to Kim Stafford, that all the people who are being mean to her on the internet are their fellow liberals. | |
| Ben Collins is the pyjama boy in question. | |
| Uh Ben Collins interviews Kim Stafford. | |
| Kim Stafford opens up about all the pain and grief she suffered. | |
| It's liberals who are insulting you. | |
| Genuine, you you were just playing a teabagger on the internet and they destroyed your life. | |
| Uh think what it's like if you're actually a real teabagger. | |
| You know, so so it's nice to call for civility and how do you take it back and why can't we all just get along and all the rest of it. | |
| You're actually wondering why you can't get along with your fellow liberals who found racist teabaggers as funny as you did, uh, and thought you were the genuine article. | |
| It's uh it's it's a tragedy. | |
| It never occurs to Kim Stafford or to the pajama boy from his uh that they now hire to write uh for Esquire uh uh to a tea and the same thing happened with Richard Cohen uh at uh the Washington Post. | |
| Richard Cohen was writing a piece. | |
| Uh this is like uh a couple of weeks back after the uh the election of the new mayor, the successor to Nanny Bloomberg in New York City, Bill uh de Blasio. | |
| And last month uh he was writing a piece about uh the the uh the deeply troubled feelings of the GOP. | |
| And he wrote, quote, people with conventional views must repress a gag reflex when considering the mayor-elect of New York, a white man married to a black woman and with two biracial children. | |
| Should I mention that Bill de Blasio's wife, Shirlain McCray, used to be a lesbian? | |
| This family represents the cultural changes that have enveloped parts but not all of America. | |
| Okay, so he says people with conventional views, by which he means Republicans, must repress a gag Reflex, because the white mayor of New York is married to a black woman who used to be a lesbian and they have two biracial children. | |
| And people assume the the internet being the internet, his fellow liberals assume that he's the one suppressing the gag reflex. | |
| I didn't even know Bill DeBlasio had a black lesbian wife. | |
| Well, I'm not I don't live in New York. | |
| Everything I heard, the guy, everything I heard the guy say in terms of policy sounded crazy enough. | |
| The black lesbian wife is the least of it. | |
| But he but Richard Cohen was the guy Richard Cohen uh is trying to impute racist homophobic views to Amer to American conservatives and instead his fellow liberals assume that he is in fact the one who has to repress a gag reflex when he says a white sees a white man with a black lesbian woman and their biracial children. | |
| And that's the point, you know. | |
| Uh liberals are obsessed with this stuff. | |
| Uh and they keep saying, oh, these are racist dog whistles. | |
| If you're talking about Obamacare, if you're concerned about wait times on the Obamacare w website, if you're upset about five million people having their uh health insurance policies canceled, it's racist. | |
| It's really because it's really because you'd like to take that black man in the White House and you'd like to uh string him up from a tree on the edge of town. | |
| It's uh all this all this stuff about uh health care and websites, it's all just racist code language, racist code language. | |
| Uh no, uh racist dog whistles, that's a phrase they like to use. | |
| No, if you can hear if you hear the dog whistle, you're the dog. | |
| Chris Matthews hears the racist dog whistles, he's the dog. | |
| Uh the other fellow who, Larry O'Donnell, he he hears the racist dog whistles, he's the dog. | |
| Richard Cohen hears the racist dog whistles, homophobic dog whistles, or homophobic duck whistles, as we should now say. | |
| Homophobic duck calls, as we should now say, in honor of Duck Dynasty. | |
| If you can hear the racist dog whistle, if you can hear the homophobic dog call uh duck call, you're the dog, like uh r ri Richard Cohen, oh, must repress a gag reflex. | |
| And every time when they're when they try when like like poor little Kim Stafford, uh she doesn't realize it's her fellow liberals who jumped on her and pounded her to a pulp and said you can't uh mocked her and hooted at her and jeered at her. | |
| And that's the point. | |
| The ones who want to shut down the conversation, the ones who want to, as we used to say in uh when I played rugby, play the man, not the ball. | |
| In other words, you uh instead of uh trying to get rest the ball away from the opposite player, you just uh kick him in the legs and uh and and uh and and uh boot him to the ground. | |
| The ones who always play the man and not the ball are the uh are the left, are the left, because they don't really want to talk about. | |
| They don't they don't actually want to discuss the issue, they just want to make the price of you discussing the issue too high by smash-mouthing you into the ground. | |
| And they do it to their fellow liberals. | |
| Right now, there's some little PR girl who was flying to South Africa from uh New York, and uh and she was uh she made a a reference to how she was worried about AIDS, but it was okay because she was a white person. | |
| And it was a subtle liberal joke about white privilege, that as a white person she lived in a little white bubble, so she wasn't at risk of contracting AIDS, which is uh rampant in South Africa. | |
| Uh and then she got on the plane and flew to South Africa, and in the course of the flight from the United States to South Africa, all her fellow liberal friends went bananas on Twitter uh uh uh because they assumed her little tweet uh was not about white privilege, but was an insensitive racist tweet uh about South Africa. | |
| And so by the time she get and her her company, her employer fires her, because they do, they're like A and E now. | |
| Oh no, no, we don't want GLAD, we don't want the gay and lesbian enforcers coming round and meeting us in the company parking lot with the tire iron, so they fire her. | |
| So she's gone, she's history, she's over. | |
| She's one of them. | |
| She's a liberal, and she made one little tweet, and she lost her job, and she was vilified as a racist when she was actually making a little subtle joke about being the beneficiary of quote white privilege, as they say in the idiot uh uh faculty lounges of American universities. | |
| And just for making that one little tweet in the time it took to leave New York City and get off the plane in Johannesburg, she'd lost her job, she'd been denounced across the internet as a racist, and she gets there and has to start apologizing for the pain she caught. | |
| Media Company IAC parted company with this girl, Justine Sacco, after her tweet, which Sacco, yeah, Sacco got sacked. | |
| She's no relation to Sacco and Vansetti. | |
| I don't I don't think. | |
| But uh she you you never know. | |
| You never know. | |
| Well, the it doesn't call it she Well Well, you're right. | |
| You're right, Mr. Snurley, because it's not about real heart. | |
| She tweeted, going to Africa, hope I don't get AIDS. | |
| Just kidding, I'm white, by which she means that she's in her little bubble of white privilege, so she is doesn't have to worry about it. | |
| And and she and nobody gets hurt. | |
| All these people, there are other little there are other little uh little white trusty fundy uh people from all the uh upscale colleges complaining about her no, nobody, there's no real offense pain there's that cause it just offers the blood sport of being able to. | |
| It's like hyenas. | |
| It's like jackals. | |
| Wow, there's a racist tweet we can all pounce on and tear it to pieces until it's shredded and there's blood all over the walls, and little Justine Sacco uh is sitting there in business class on on the plane to Johannesburg and doesn't realize that her career is over. | |
| She's she's there with her bag of mini pretzels, doesn't realize when she gets off the plane, her her career is over, her life is over, she's been exposed as a racist, and her life has been destroyed for one little tweet. | |
| And for every person like that, uh everybody everybody think I don't want to here, it's bottom line thing for me, by the way. | |
| I'm tired of being told I have to tiptoe around on eggshells, you know, uh, which is what it is. | |
| So that even if you're like uh the Phil Robertson and you and you're just like riffing in a uh characteristically Phil Robertson way, uh, it's not enough. | |
| You can't you gotta know, sorry, we gotta make the eggshells even thinner, and you've got to tiptoe on them even more carefully. | |
| And yes, you can be a big liberal PR person in New York, and you got your little uh your little ill-advised tweet, and it's not enough just to say, please don't do that again. | |
| Steve Martin, Steve Martin. | |
| Do you remember Steve Martin? | |
| Edgy, used to be an edgy comedian years years ago. | |
| Steve Martin, Steve Martin, who wrecked, by the way, uh the Pink Panther franchise. | |
| Uh that's something to hold against him. | |
| But he did a little joke. | |
| Uh somebody asked him, how do you spell Lasagna? | |
| Uh, and he did this little uh and sh she'd spelled it L-A-S-O-N-I-A. | |
| And he and he said, Well, it depends on whether you're in an Italian restaurant or an African American neighborhood. | |
| By which he meant that Lasonia spelt the way this uh his tweeter had tweeted to him, could conceivably be the kind of uh name that an African American girl uh might have these days. | |
| That's all. | |
| That's all. | |
| That's all he's saying. | |
| That's all he's saying, that that that there are all kinds of funny names out there now, and some people have different names according to uh which particular cultural background they happen to come from, and uh and sometimes you can tell by the name that some person is more likely to be African American than Hispanic. | |
| But it wasn't enough, no, no, no, no, no. | |
| He had to apologize for the tweet. | |
| He had to delete his horrible racist tweet. | |
| He did Steve Martin, this is Steve Martin. | |
| He's rich, he's wealthy, he's yeah, yeah, the d the tw Yeah, yeah, Lasonia, Lasonia and La Kwonda and Letitia and La Vissa and Lavatta, they all got mad with him. | |
| So he got so the most anodyne feeble, pathetic Steve Martin joke uh in the history of Steve Martin, even worse than his performance in the lousy old Pink Panther things, he has his his little dweeby nothing joke, he has to uh prostrate himself before the world for it. | |
| This this I don't want to be told by the the the enforcer identity group enforcers by the sort of big muscled dons of the identity group mafias that yes, you're tiptoeing around daintily like a little ballerina on your eggshells, but it's still not quite uh dainty enough. | |
| You've got to tiptoe even more daintily and lightly because the eggshells are getting thinner and thinner and thinner because they'll never be thinner enough. | |
| And these guys turn on their own. | |
| Why doesn't Steve Martin stand up for free speech? | |
| There's nothing wrong with making a joke about Lasonia. | |
| What's the what the hell's wrong with that? | |
| Why doesn't uh why doesn't he stand with Justin Sacco? | |
| Why doesn't Steve Martin say Justin Sacco and I we just made we just made a couple of lousy jokes? | |
| Why don't you give her a job back? | |
| Why do why liberals? | |
| These are liberals. | |
| I don't have a dog in this fight. | |
| I'd like 'em all. | |
| I'd like it. | |
| I'd like it if liberals just all took out each other over this stuff. | |
| But why don't liberals realize you can never walk on eggshells thin enough for these guys? | |
| Mark Stein for Rush, more straight ahead. | |
| Mark Stein for Rush on the EIB network. | |
| Let us go to Jeff in Lake Ozark, Missouri. | |
| Jeff, you're live on the Rush Limbaugh Show. | |
| Great to have you with us. | |
| Hi there, Mark. | |
| How are you? | |
| Hey, uh I'm uh I'm doing great. | |
| You you you've got uh you got a touch of uh some uh part of the British Commonwealth in your voice somewhere. | |
| Where are you from? | |
| Oh no, I'm actually from Missouri. | |
| Really? | |
| Oh that's very that's very odd. | |
| I thought you but you must be doing an impression of me. | |
| I thought that I had a t touch of Australia or or South Africa or something in there. | |
| I apologize. | |
| That's not my topic, but no, that's only because I've been living down there the last two years. | |
| Oh, right, right. | |
| American born and bred, yes. | |
| Oh right. | |
| Oh, right, so this is a cricket conversation. | |
| This is a cricket conversation, exactly. | |
| Oh, okay. | |
| It's Boxing Day, but like you must realize Rush affiliates, like there's like six hundred and something stations that carry Rush. | |
| Every twenty seconds you talk about cricket. | |
| Uh it's going it'll be down by it'll be down to about uh, you know, s forty seven affiliates by the end of this conversation. | |
| Uh but yeah, that's right. | |
| I've sort of become a cricket convert living down there for three or four years. | |
| I mean I also know that you're a pretty big cricket fan yourself, are you not? | |
| Yeah, that's right. | |
| And in fact, they uh Australia and England were playing on Boxing Day, but what you must bear in mind that it's not Boxing Day in Australia any longer, because they're whatever they are, sixteen hours ahead, so it's already Christmas Bang Holiday Friday or the uh or the Hog Friday before Hogmanay or whatever it is. | |
| It was a great day. | |
| I kind of wish I was down there, but here I am enjoying winter for the second time this year. | |
| So no, I think it was uh England were uh two hundred and twenty-six for six. | |
| Uh that's right, a six for two hundred and twenty-six is the Aussies would say. | |
| They they flip it around. | |
| Yeah Do you call the Brits or Yeah, no, no, but that that's the thing. | |
| So the i the in England they'd say uh two hundred and twenty-six for six. | |
| In Australia they'd say six for two hundred and twenty-six. | |
| That's right. | |
| And if you're American, you have no clue what either of those mean. | |
| I sure didn't when I got it down there, no. | |
| Well, that's that's great. | |
| Uh do they uh I don't even know how you watch cricket uh here. | |
| Do they have it on ESPN? | |
| Uh no, I don't stay up at like two AM in the morning on ESPN forty-five, you know. | |
| Really? | |
| It's it's like after it's like the channel that comes after the golden girls dubbed into Spanish or something like that. | |
| Exactly right, yeah. | |
| That's great. | |
| Well, thank you. | |
| Thank you for giving me a bit of boxing day cheer. | |
| And uh oh, I'm just looking, I'm just looking at the number of affiliates that have stuck with uh the Rush Limbaugh show. | |
| And we're actually down to 17 affiliates now, Jeff. | |
| Uh so uh I'll have to go before we're actually not on the air if we do any more of this cricket talk. | |
| Great to have you great to have you with us, Jeff. | |
| Happy New Year to you at Happy Boxing Day. | |
| Thanks. | |
| Thanks for calling. | |
| Mark Stein for Rush, we have lots more on the Excellence in Broadcasting Network, including rare non-cricket content coming up in just a moment. | |
| Uh I'm just I'm just trying to keep a uh track of where the celebrities stand on this duck dynasty thing. | |
| This is like uh your rock free speech and uh rock and roll update. | |
| Aerosmith's Joe Perry uh defends the right of the Duck Dynasty star to express his opinions. | |
| Uh Kiss Frontman Nikki Six does not. | |
| He says, uh no, Kiss Kiss Frontman Paul Stanley, uh beg your pardon, Kiss Frontman Paul Stanley also uh has blasted the suspension of the Duck Dynasty style. | |
| But Motley Crue's bassist, bassist Nikki Six says it's hate speech. | |
| It's hate speech. | |
| Did you ever think, by the way, that the that rock and roll is supposed to be the big iconoclastic? | |
| You say you want a revolution, you do this, do that. | |
| Uh gotta be gotta be free, gotta be free to do my thing, gotta be free to play my music my way and all the rest of it. | |
| Motley Crue's bassist now says, Ooh, that's hate speech. | |
| You can't say that. | |
| This is a rock band? | |
| Ooh, you can't say that. | |
| This is a rock band. |
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