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April 28, 2014 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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April 28, 2014, Monday, Hour #2
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Yeah, here you go, right on cue.
Now here comes the NAA LCP LA chapter reacting to the Donald Sterling scandal.
All is faux outrage, this faux surprise.
CNN has even bumped trying to find the Malaysian jetliner for this story.
This might become their next mini-series.
And I just saw some anchorette on CNN waving papers around.
Look at what I found.
Look what I found.
This guy's been doing this kind of stuff since 2003.
No kidding.
Now, CNN Infobabe waving around.
Boy, you should see what I've got him saying here back in 2003.
Right?
But everybody's known about this.
Every Democrat, every NBA employee, expert, commissioner, you name it, the NAA LCP in LA, everybody has known it.
It's just that his money talked.
But now, now everybody, it's circled the wagons.
It's CYA, it's everybody got to act shocked, got to act saddened, got to act disappointed, got to act surprised, got to act, oh no, how horrible is this, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
Lee Steinberg, poor guy, the original Jerry Maguire, the source for Jerry McGuire, Lee Steinberg, a sports agent, he was just on CNN, and he made a plea for calm, and it didn't fly.
He said, could we just calm down?
Look, it's only Monday morning here in California, and this only came to light on Saturday.
You got to give the NBA time.
They'll deal with this.
They'll get it right.
And then some African-American woman is the other guest.
No way, we're not waiting.
You see what Supreme Court just did, struck down affirmative action in Michigan.
I'm a woman, a woman of color.
I'm raising children of color, and we are fed up.
We're tired of this.
Ma'am, it's your own political party that has been covering this stuff up.
It's geez, I just, I marvel at this.
This is the kind of stuff that on the wrong day can make you lose faith in everything.
Because these clowns just get away with it.
They just get away with this stuff.
They're the ones that swept this under the rug.
They're the ones that covered it up.
They're the ones that took his money.
They're the ones that look the other way.
How about all the players in the league that have signed free agent contracts and gone there have known who owns the team?
Now look at that.
I bet, what are there, 20 people there at the NAA LCP event all lining up waiting to get to the microphone to express their outrage and their surprise and their sadness.
Oh, well, greetings, my friends, and welcome back.
Great to have you.
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No, I was just, I'm sorry.
While I was thinking of the email address, I started wondering if they're not careful out there.
They're going to light a match.
If they're not, if they're, Well, if they're not careful, they're going to make some people mad to the point that they start exhibiting their anger.
Yeah, they're going to have to be real careful about how far they go with this show of faux outrage.
We wouldn't want this to lead to civil unrest.
We wouldn't want this to lead to civil unrest.
How long is it going to be before somebody trots out Rodney?
No, Rodney King died, didn't he?
Oh, no.
Well, who took his place?
Nobody yet.
Well, we'll just wait and hope for calm in Southern California, all the while keeping a sharp eye on latest developments.
And as the latest developments develop, we'll pass them on to you.
What?
Well, Mr. Snurdley is just asking, what else are they hiding?
You mean that they know that he's said or done?
Oh, oh, oh, oh, that is a good question.
Who else are they covering up for?
What other left-wing racists or bigots out there give money to the right places and are being covered up and massaged, if you will?
That's a good question.
Because when there's one, Sterling's not the only guy.
Let's just put it that way.
Okay, let's get back now to the Republican Party and the suicide mission that they're on.
Again, this is from the Spokane, Washington Spokesman Review.
With the news this week that more than 600,000 Washington state residents have acquired new health care plans through the state exchange, U.S. Representative Kathy McMorris-Rogers said it's unlikely the Affordable Care Act will be repealed.
Well, slavery was repealed, prohibition was repealed.
Why not Obamacare?
Well, it's an entitlement rush, and we've never repealed an entitlement.
Well, I know, but people are only now starting to realize how bad this is.
Why didn't we just reform prohibition instead of repeal it?
Why didn't we just reform slavery instead of repealing it?
But somehow we can't repeal it.
You know, the Republican Party, I must tell you, I guess I am a little surprised, even though I've said to you what I've said, I guess I miscalculated just how shell-shocked they really are.
I mean, I've known they're shell-shocked.
I have known that they're suffering post-traumatic stress disorder.
I have known all of that.
But I had no idea how bad it really is.
This immigration, forget Obamacare for a second.
This pledge to get immigration done by August?
Are they trying to sabotage their own efforts to win the Senate and hold on to the House?
I have here in my formerly nicotine-stained - I know ruling class established.
I've said it all myself.
I just me, eternal optimist.
I hold out hope at somewhere there is an opposition party Or that there is within the Republican Party some opposition besides the Tea Party.
Washington Post, why immigration reform isn't the answer to Republicans' demographic woes.
This is stunning that the Washington Post would publish this.
So how can the GOP start winning larger shares of non-white voters?
Reforming the immigration system might not be the answer, says the Washington Post.
Why not?
Well, because reforming the nation's immigration laws could very well create a whole bunch of new Democrats, including in some key swing state.
The hell do you say?
The Washington Post is saying this.
Now, you and I have been on this tear for months, bordering on years now.
It's only common sense why the Democrats want amnesty.
They need a permanent underclass.
They need to register new voters.
They've got all the evidence that arriving immigrants are people that believe in big government and are more inclined to vote Democrat than Republican.
We've known this.
This is statistically shown.
There's no question about it.
It's not a debatable answer.
And it's always been curious, why are the Republicans falling for this?
From the Jeb Bush wing of the party to the Karl Rove wing, to any number of wings, but there is this belief that the Republicans are never going to win the White House unless they do something about the Hispanic vote.
And then they have been convinced that the only way to get the Hispanic vote is to support and be responsible for and be seen as eagerly supporting and in love with amnesty.
And the Democrats have been telling the Republicans too, you're never ever going to win the White House unless you get it right on immigration, as though the Democrats are interested in us winning the White House again.
So the Washington Post, it may as well be Harry Reid that's come out here and warning the Republicans this.
I mean, this is incredible.
Let's break it down.
This is in the Washington Post story.
If many of the Hispanic non-citizens across the country became voting eligible citizens through amnesty, some of those states become much more interesting politically.
Take Texas, where only 22% of voters were Hispanic, but they make up 37% of the total population of the state.
The pattern is similar in Arizona, where 17% of voters were Hispanic, but they accounted for 29% of the total population.
In other words, if illegal aliens get amnesty, more Hispanics will vote and they will swing Texas and other states into the Democrat column.
Now, the Washington Post reports this today as though it's news to them, as though they've just hit on something.
This has been common sense for years.
Well, I know our own people disputed.
It's not disputable.
This is indisputable what's going to happen here.
But the Republicans have got themselves believing that they lost in 2012 because of Hispanics.
And they're never going to win again unless they do amnesty.
This is Twilight Zone stuff here.
And with the Washington Post even issuing a warning to the Republicans, that's alternative universe stuff as well.
And yet the Republicans are plowing straight ahead.
In fact, let me find the soundbite because I'm scattered all over the place.
The one, maybe you can, maybe you guys up there know it's the one where Romney may run again if Jeb Bush doesn't.
Let me find that.
Is that a soundbite?
Is it not a soundbite?
Did I read that somewhere?
I don't know.
Too many things on the.
Yeah, I can't find the soundbite either, but it is a soundbite.
Oh, it's Bob Schieffer.
Grab his number 20.
Bob Schieffer.
Let's see if I can find the soundbite.
Just so I want the transcript here.
Sorry about this.
Here we go.
This is Slay the Nation.
Bob Schieffer is talking to the Washington Post political correspondent Nia Malika Henderson.
You know, getting back to Republican politics, Jeb Bush is apparently now thinking about running.
And, you know, I have a source that told me that if Jeb Bush decides not to run, that Mitt Romney may actually try it again.
They're very concerned that the party is not moving forward, that the party has moved so far to the right that, you know, they can't elect a presidential candidate.
Do you know what that means?
That means if Jeb Bush doesn't run, that Romney's thinking of going again to make sure that the conservatives don't get the nomination.
Now, Romney has already demonstrated he knows how to lose.
The Republicans have already tried Romney and Romney lost, and they're thinking of doing it again if Jeb doesn't go.
This according to Bob Schieffer now, because they have got to stop this suicidal move to the right the Republican Party is making.
Except it isn't making a move to the right.
Where is the evidence?
Break time.
Be right back after this, folks.
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Donald Sterling, since 1998, has been a registered Republican.
Just learned this.
But now, wait a minute.
Wait a minute.
That doesn't change anything.
Because it means the NAA LCP has been giving awards to a Republican all these years, which they that would have been news, which they wouldn't have done if they'd known it.
Nobody knew it.
Now, the source for this is the estimable Mother Jones.
Now, wait a second.
I want to share with you, even they issue a qualifier here.
On Sunday, Michael Hiltzig, L.A. Times columnist, tweeted that local voter records show Sterling's a registered Republican since 1998.
We followed up on it.
And a search at the L.A. County Registrar Recorder's website for Sterling's name, date of birth, and address confirmed he is a registered Republican.
But they say there is little reason to get excited about Sterling's political affiliation.
But if you choose to do so, you ought to get it right.
Meaning it doesn't matter.
There's no ground to be gained by pointing out the guy is a Republican because he's been donating to Democrats.
He's been supporting Democrat causes, but we want to get it right here, as you know.
To the phones, we go.
Oh, we had a young millennial on the young side, 17 or 18 years old, right?
And he hung up before we could put his call on the internet.
What he wanted to say, and I found this interesting, he says, look, he was going to say, we're not succeeding.
We millennials are not succeeding, but we're taking it personally.
We're seeing ourselves as the failures, not Obama or his policies.
Now, that is, I wish this caller had not disconnected because I'd like to explore that.
Because they all vote expecting candidate X or why whoever they vote to do things for them.
So why are they taking their failure personally if they voted for the guy they thought was going to create all the right circumstances for them?
So, but he's gone.
So that's all we can do.
I can't put words in his mouth to have a pretend discussion with him.
So we'll go to L.A.
This is Bill.
Welcome, sir.
You're up first.
It's great to have you on the program today.
Hi.
Hey, thanks, Rush.
It's nice talking to you.
Listen, I'm extremely offended by the Sterling story because why wasn't everybody up in arms when Harry Reed made his racist statement?
And I'm African-American.
I'm extremely offended.
Which racist statement?
Which racist statement of Harry Reid's are you referring to?
Well, he made a couple.
One, I don't remember the latest one, but he made a statement about the way Obama speaks.
Oh, it can just employ the Negro dialect anytime.
That's absolutely right.
And why did Obama rush to his aid and keep him from losing his job?
The cause.
He's still in office.
The cause.
The cause above all.
Why did Peter Jennings and Tom Brokaw circle the wagons and give Dan Rather an awards dinner after he did a fake story on Bush and the National Guard to protect the movement?
Absolutely.
And they're hypocrites.
They're all hypocrites.
Magic, Arsenio, all of them who made statements are hypocrites because no one was up in arms about Harry Reid, and I'm still upset about that.
Why is Magic a hypocrite?
Well, I mean, he comes out, he, you know, he was running for mayor or something at one point, so he's in the political arena.
So why didn't he call for Harry Reid's racist racist?
Well, Bill, let me ask.
Look, you're in L.A.
I mean, what gets me about, if I know how long this has been going on, if I am, and I don't live in L.A., if I am familiar enough with who Donald Sterling is, what he's done, what he's said, certainly Magic Johnson has to know.
Certainly all these people have to know that this is not anything new that they learned on Saturday.
Absolutely.
I knew this for years.
Well, of course.
That's my point.
Everybody in L.A. that pays attention to sports and the people in sports that make L.A. sports have known this.
And even outside sports, given Sterling's housing development scandals.
Absolutely.
And they're a bunch of hypocrites, as far as I'm concerned.
Because why is Harry Reid still in office?
Well, you know, Bill, I got to tell you something.
I like you.
You are laser-focused on Harry Reid.
I really.
I love that.
Because the man's a racist.
I mean, he made racist statements, so why is he still in office?
He's permitted.
Absolutely.
He's permitted because he's a democrat.
He's the races they, the races that they still want to associate with.
It's the cause, man.
You know it as well as I do.
Thanks, Bill.
We'll be back.
Don't go away.
I'm going to give it to details later, but try this headline.
I'll tell you in advance, I love the headline: Polar bears face threats to survival thanks to too much ice.
Folks, we are surrounded by insanity everywhere.
No matter where we look, no matter where we go, no matter what we do, we are surrounded by insanity.
Insanity and lunatics and lying schemers are triumphing all over the place.
Well, I don't know really how much they're triumphing.
It looks like they are, but are they?
Actually, winning hearts and minds.
Polar bears face threats to survival thanks to too much ice.
Quick, somebody call El Gore.
And this next is serious.
Our idiotic Secretary of State, John Lurch Kerry, has just warned Israel that if it doesn't make peace soon, it could become an apartheid state like the old South African Jewish leaders.
Sorry for that, the printer going off behind me.
I have no idea.
Somebody's printing me something, probably a new audio sound, but Jewish leaders are fuming over the comparison.
He said, if there is no two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict soon, Israel risks becoming an apartheid state.
The Secretary of State, our idiotic Secretary of State, said this to a room of influential world leaders in a closed-door meeting last Friday.
Senior American officials have rarely, if ever, used the term apartheid in reference to Israel, and Obama has previously rejected the idea and the word should apply.
No, he doesn't.
Otherwise, Kerry wouldn't say it.
John Kerry wouldn't say something like this unless Obama approved it, agreed with it, knew about it, sanctioned it, or what have you.
What do you dispute that?
What do you mean they can't be this stupid?
This is not stupid.
is dangerous.
This is not this goes beyond stupid or stupidity.
This is calculated, but this is dangerous.
Israel does apartheid state.
Does John Kerry not know how many people of Arab descent live in Jerusalem alone?
Peacefully?
That are Israeli citizens?
But it is stupid, but it's, I'm telling you, it's calculated.
And remember, who, again, who again the anti-Semites?
Oh, not these guys.
No, no, these are the tolerant ones, of course.
The leftists, the John Kerrys, the Democrats.
This is just a really dangerously absurd thing to be saying.
The people that say something like that is going to inspire and fuel and give impetus to?
Man, you talk about painting a target?
Supposedly, Israel is our ally there.
It doesn't look like that from sitting here anymore.
It certainly doesn't look like Israel is our ally with this bunch.
Here's Jerry in my adopted hometown of Sacramento, California.
Hi, Jerry.
I'm glad you waited.
Welcome to the program.
Good morning.
Glad to talk to you again.
Thank you, sir.
Say, you know, the left really has no credibility when it comes to this issue of offensive speech.
You know, I was parked at a stoplight a while back beside a cop car.
The teenager walks across the street with a t-shirt that says, Jesus is a.
It's a four-letter C-word.
Talk about a woman's body part.
Ask the cop, can you do something about that?
The cop says, no, it's protected speech.
Well, that's protected because the Supreme Court ruled that offensive speech needed to be protected.
You know, when Larry Flint said all those lousy things about that pastor, you know, and the left and the media celebrated that.
So they either got to complain about all of it or none of it.
There's no credibility.
Well, again, you're illustrating here that it's simply a political calculation or strategy.
The whole racist or racialist is the more accurate way to describe this one.
Excuse me, the racialist attitudes that they profess to criticize in people.
It's just a strategy.
And they wait in eager anticipation for the next Donald Sterling to show up.
They're not really trying to solve any of this is the point, folks.
They're not trying to get rid of any of this.
They play off of it.
They live off of it.
They thrive on this stuff.
They will manufacture it if they have to.
I'll tell you something that really ticks.
I try not to mention myself in these things, but there have been two noted occurrences today, and I'm not going to play the soundbites of it.
And both of them have been on ESPN, and both of them have linked me to Donald Sterling.
And they're both just like the NFL banded together to deny the racist limbaugh the right to own the Rams, so should the NBA get rid of Sterling.
You know what all that's based on?
Fake made-up quotes started by a lazy reporter in St. Louis who believed a bunch of crock that Media Matters had put out.
There was a fake quote, something I never said.
I'd get any close to where if I had said it, I would not be on the air today.
And it was supposedly I had said something about blacks and slavery and had been better off back then than they were today.
And they ran, and there were three or four totally made-up quotes that I never said that had appeared in a book that had been published by Media Matters.
And this guy's looked it up, didn't call me, didn't check, he just ran with it.
And so these local weeds that are on ESPN now, these half-baked commentators, they think all that was said.
They think it was all true.
And this is how it works, and this is why they live for these moments.
All of these people on TV supposedly outraged over what Sterling said.
From Jesse Jackson to Sharpton to your average African-American comic, they're not mad about this.
They thrive on it.
It gives them an opportunity to advance their political agenda.
The last thing they want is for this stuff to ever stop.
They'd be put out of business.
I got to find this Jesse Jackson quote where he compared picking pot cotton to playing basketball.
I find it, folks, here.
Hang on just a second.
Reverend Jackson, number 11, grab this.
This is Saturday afternoon, ESPN.
Where else?
Really, they've got these guys, there probably have been more than two, that had just been two that I've been told about.
And I'm not going to play the sound bias because I'm not going to give these guys any further amplification they already have.
But it was ESPN Sports Center with the anchor Zubin Mahenti speaking to the Reverend Zach of the Monochrome Coalition about Donald Sterling and his racist remarks to his girlfriend, V.Stiviano.
And the anchor Zubin Mahenti said Doc Rivers, the coach of the Clippers, is African-American.
Their biggest free agent acquisition, Chris Paul, is African-American.
Reverend Zach, how do you reconcile Sterling making these comments considering so many people that he is around are African-American, and all these players have signed free agent contracts to play for his team?
Well, if he objectifies them, excuse them, as persons, it's about winning, it's about money and not about their dignity, which is also important.
If we're just going from picking cotton balls to picking basketballs without the dignity of a relationship between worker and owner, then we're not making progress.
Oh, we're not making progress.
No, no, no.
The guys playing for Donald Sterling and the Clippers are making $20 million a year haven't moved an inch forward from their predecessors picking cotton.
You see, and the Reverend Jackson actually wants us to believe this.
See, so here again, Sterling doesn't really.
Yeah, he's paying these guys, but he doesn't mean it.
He's paying these guys, but he really doesn't want to.
Yeah, he's paying these guys, but he really doesn't like them.
Yeah, he's paying these guys, but he really doesn't offer them any dignity.
Yeah, he's paying these guys, but he really secretly hates them.
It makes a lot of sense, doesn't it?
A guy that's owned this team since 1981, doing all this stuff he hates, paying all these people all of this money, and he really hates it.
He's just nothing but an old cotton farmer who's got these players picking basketballs instead of picking cotton.
There you have the Reverend Jackson moving the nation forward off of this issue.
What do you mean, how do you offer somebody dignity?
I don't think they care.
They're playing basketball.
They want the opportunity to play basketball.
He shows up at all the games.
He goes to the locker room now and then.
They have made, this is my point.
Nobody has made any effort to keep him at arm's distance.
He shows up at the games.
It doesn't affect the way they play.
They haven't walked out.
They haven't protested anything.
If he objectifies them and sees them as persons, it's about winning.
So Sterling cares about winning, but he just uses them.
He doesn't really care about them, his people.
And this is how the whole left wing operates.
They grant themselves the purest of intentions and in question everybody else's.
Deny everybody else's.
But how do you, if we're just going to go from picking cotton balls to picking basketballs without the dignity of a relationship, then we're not making progress.
See, this is where it all breaks down.
Because we have made, I don't know how much progress.
You've got a black president.
You've got a black attorney general.
You've got the wealthiest TV performer in American history as an African-American woman.
That would be the Oprah.
Some of the wealthiest Americans are African-American now.
Yeah, Rush, but they're just athletes.
What?
Are we going to start qualifying it now?
Some of the wealthiest white people are athletes, too.
Yeah, I think Sterling, doesn't the Reverend Jackson have a record of attacking Jewish people?
What was it he said about New York City?
He called it what?
Jaime Town.
That's right.
He called it Jaime.
But see, the Reverend Jackson, he went and prayed with who?
Bill Clinton?
No, it was Clinton who prayed with Jackson over Monica and the stain on the dress.
Who did Jackson go pray to for forgiveness over calling New York Hymy Town?
Well, it wouldn't have been a rabbi.
Maybe it was.
Who knows?
But see, this is how they all can get away with it.
And they still able to run their shakedowns.
At the Monochrome Coalition, a National Action Network, how many millions in back taxes the Reverend Sharpton still owe?
He's got an award, Lifetime Achievement Award, the NAALCP LA branch.
Yeah, Reverend Jackson, that's when he was the Haimy Town, he said he was sick and tired of hearing about the Holocaust.
That's what it was.
That's what he said.
This is all the Democrats have for this reelection, folks, is race.
And if you haven't noticed, Democrat projected turnout way down, particularly single women and minorities.
And so that's what this is.
It's fallen into their lap, but this is all they've got.
And you take a look at all the time spent on what Donald Sterling said.
Compare it, say, to the number.
What is that game that people run around?
Knockout.
Are all of the shootings in Chicago where young black kids have been shot dead?
How much time has any of that gotten versus what Sterling said on tape?
And you will see.
And we all know what's going on here.
We all know, but the low information voter, what's going on here is voter turnout for the midterm election in November among minorities.
That's what the media and all these guests on TV are ginning up via Sterling.
Because they've all known it.
I'm telling you, this is not news to anybody in the sports community or real estate community in Los Angeles.
NAALCP LA says they're not going to tell anybody how much money Sterling gave them, plus they're going to give it all back.
And have you heard of the iPhone scheme involving the homeless?
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