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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 this faux outrage, this faux surprise.
CNN has even bumped trying to find the Malaysian jet liner for this story.
This might become their next miniseries.
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.
A CNN InfoBabe waving around.
Boy, I 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 it's circle the wagons, it's CYA, it's it's everybody gotta act shocked, gotta act saddened, gotta act disappointed, gotta act surprised, gotta act, oh no, how horrible is this, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
Lee Steinberg, poor guy.
Uh, the original Jerry McGuire, the source for Jerry McGuire, Lee Steinberg is sports agent, he was just on CNN, and he he made a plea for calm, and it didn't fly.
He said, could we just calm down?
Look, it's it's only Monday morning here in California, and this only came to light on Saturday.
You gotta give the NBA time.
They'll deal with this, they'll get it right, and then some African American woman is on 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 it's your own political party that has been covering this stuff up.
It it's it's I just I just I marvel at this.
I this is the kind of stuff that um on the wrong day can make you lose faith in everything.
Because they 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.
You must 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.
And you know.
Oh well, the greetings, my friends, and welcome back.
Uh great to have you.
Rush Linbought 800 282-2882, the uh email address L Rushbow N-E uh L Rushboy at uh EIB net.com is the email address.
No, I was just I'm sorry.
I uh while I was thinking of the email address, I started wondering if they're not careful out there, they're gonna light a match.
If they're not, if they're well, if they're not careful, they're gonna make some people mad to the point that they start exhibiting their anger.
Yeah, if they're they they're gonna have to be real careful about how far they go with this this this show of faux outrage we wouldn't want this to lead the civil unrest.
We wouldn't want this to lead to civil unrest.
How long is it gonna be before somebody trots out rod?
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.
Ooh.
What?
Oh, Mr. Snerdley is just asked what else are they hiding?
You mean what that they know that he's said or done or what?
Oh, oh, oh, oh, that is a good question.
Who else they covering up for?
What what what other left wing racists or bigots out there give money to the right places and are being covered up?
And and and uh massaged, if you will.
That's a good question.
Because when there's one, there's not Sterling's not the only guy.
Let's just put it that way.
Okay, let's get back now to the Republican Party and and and the suicide mission that they're on.
Again, this is uh 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 I 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 bit for 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 stains.
I look I I know ruling class, establish I've said it all myself.
I just know me, eternal optimist.
I hold out hope that 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 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.
It's it's there's no question about it.
It's not a it's not a debatable answer, and it's always been curious.
Why are the Republicans falling for this?
From the Jeb Bush uh wing of the party to the Carl 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 Reed that's come out here and warning the Republicans this.
I mean, this is incredible.
Let's break it down.
This is the this 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 in 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.
This has been common sense for years.
Well, I know our own people dispute it.
It's not disputable.
and 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 sound bite?
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 it's Bob Schiefer.
Grab his number 20.
Bob Schiefer.
Uh so I can find the soundbite, decided what the transcript is.
Sorry about this.
Here we go.
This is Slay the Nation.
Bob Schiefer is talking to uh the Washington Post political correspondent Nia Malika Henderson.
You know, uh getting back to Republican politics, uh 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 that if Jeb Bush doesn't run it, 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 Schaefer 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.
Sit tight.
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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.
If the 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 Hildzik, LA Times columnist, tweeted at local voter records show Sterling's a registered Republicans in 1998.
We followed up on it and a search of the LA County Registry 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 uh we want to get it right here, as you know.
To the phones we 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 said, look, he was gonna say, we're not succeeding.
We millennials are not seceding, 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 Y, 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?
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 LA.
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 Reid made his racist statement?
And I'm African American.
I'm extremely offended.
Which racist statement, which 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 um he made a statement about the way Obama speaks.
Oh, we can just employ the Negro dialect any time he goes.
That's absolutely right.
Yeah.
And why did Obama rush to his aid and keep him from being uh from losing his job?
The cause he's still in office.
The cause.
The cause above all.
Why did Peter Jennings and Tom Brokow circle the wagons of Dan Rather and 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 are senior, all of them who made statements are hypocrites.
Because no one was up in arm 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 he's running for mayor or something at one point.
So he's in uh political arena.
So why didn't he call for Harry Reed's uh ragged?
Bill, let me ask.
Look at you're you're in LA.
I mean what what gets me about if if I know how long this has been going on, if I am a and I don't live in LA, if I am familiar enough with with who Donald Sterling is, what he's done, what he said, certainly Magic Johnson has to know.
Certainly, all these people will 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 LA that pays attention to sports and the and the people in sports that make LA 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, I nobody Bill, I gotta tell you something.
I I like you.
You are laser focused on Harry Reed.
I really 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 demonstration.
The races that they 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 gonna give you the details later, but try this headline.
I tell you in advance, I love the headline.
Polar bears face threats to survival thanks to too much ice.
*laughs*
It's folks, do you realize 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.
Polder 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 Carey, 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 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 are you dispute that?
What do you mean they can't be this stupid?
This is not stupid.
This is dangerous.
This is not.
This 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.
Now 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 Kerries, the Democrats.
This is just a really dangerously absurd thing to be saying.
You really the people saying 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.
They're brother.
It doesn't look like that from sitting here anymore.
It certainly doesn't look like Israel is our ally with this bunch.
Here is uh here's Jerry in my adopted hometown of Sacramento, California.
Hi, Jeremy.
Good morning.
Glad to talk to you again.
Thank you, sir.
Say, uh, you know, the left really has no credibility when it comes to this issue of uh 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 woman's body parts.
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 uh offensive speech needed to be protected.
You know, when Larry Flint said all those lousy things about that pastor.
You know, and uh the left and the media celebrated that.
So they either got a complain about all of it or none of it.
But it's also any credibility.
Well, again, you're you're illustrating here that it's simply a political calculation or strategy.
The whole the whole racist or racialist is the more accurate way to describe this one.
Uh excuse me, the racialist uh attitudes that they process, profess to uh 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 I I try not to mention myself in these things, but there have been two noted occurrences today, and I'm not gonna play the sound bites of it.
And both of them have been on ESPN, and both of them have linked me to Donald Sterling.
And they and they're both just like the NFL banded together to deny the racist limball 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 croc that media matters had put out.
There was a fake quote, something I never said, I'd got anything close to worse.
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 f in a book that had been published by Media Matters, and this guy's looked it up, didn't call me, didn't check it, just ran with it.
And so these these local weeds that are on ESPN now, these these half baked commentators, they think all that was said, they think it was all true, and and this 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 gotta find this Jesse Jackson quote, where he compared picking pot cotton to playing basketball.
I find it, folks, here.
Hang on to a second.
Reverend Jackson, number 11.
Grab this.
This is uh Saturday the afternoon ESPN.
Where else?
Really, they've got these guys, and probably have been more than two.
That have just been two that I've been told about.
And I'm not gonna play the sound bias because I'm gonna give these guys any further amplification than they already have.
But it was ESPN Sports Center with the anchor Zubin Mahente.
Speaking to the uh Reverend Dax of the monochrome coalition about Donald Sterling and his racist remarks to his girlfriend V.Stiviano.
And the anchor Zubin Mehente said Doc Rivers, the coach of the Clippers, is African American.
Their biggest free agent acquisition, Chris Paul is African American.
Uh Reverend Dax, 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 me, as persons about winning us about money, uh, 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.
No, 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.
I You see, and the 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, they haven't protested anything.
If he objectifies them and sees them as persons, it's about winning.
So Sterling ain't cares about winning, but he just uses them.
See, he doesn't really care about them as people.
And this is how the whole left wing operates.
They start they they they uh They uh grant themselves the purest of intentions and then question everybody else's.
Deny everybody else's.
But how do you, if we're just gonna go 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 black president, you've got black attorney general.
You've got the wealthiest TV performer in American history is a is an African American woman.
That would be the Oprah.
Some of the wealthiest Americans are African African American now.
Yeah, Rush, but they're just athletes.
What does if that we're going to start qualifying it now?
Some of the wealthiest white people are athletes, too.
Some of the wealthiest white people are athletes, too.
Yeah, I think I think Sterling.
Doesn't the Reverend Jackson have a record of attacking Jewish people?
What was it he said about New York City called it what?
Jaime town.
That's right.
He called it Heimat.
But see, the Reverend Jackson, what he went and prayed with who?
Bill Clinton?
To uh 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 Heime Town?
Well, it wouldn't have been a rabbi.
Maybe it was.
Oh no.
Um 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, what is how many, how many millions in back taxes the Reverend Sharpton still owe?
And he's getting an award.
Lifetime Achievement Award, the NAALCP LA branch.
Yeah, Reverend Jackson, that's what it, when he the Jaime 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 re-election, 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.
This is uh this is and it's it's fallen into their lap, but this is all they've got.
And you take a 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 what's going on here is voter turnout for the midterm election of November among minorities.
That's that's what 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.
NAALC PLA says they're not gonna tell anybody how much money Sterling gave them.
Plus they're gonna give it all back.
And have you heard of the iPhone scheme involving the homeless?
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