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April 30, 2014 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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April 30, 2014, Wednesday, Hour #3
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Hi folks, and welcome back.
It's the most listened to radio talk show in America, where I am proud to say there is only one speech code for everybody here.
One speech code.
However, that's not the case in America anymore.
There are at least two speech codes, and if you don't know which one applies to you, you are going to be the next Donald Sterling.
I mean, there are certain things minorities can say that you can't if you're not a minority.
And there are certain and there's less and less that the so-called majority can say.
It's a, you know, that the speech codes, the permissible speech is dwindling for those who are said to be non-minority, i.e.
majority.
Uh the speech code for minority is wide open and expanding.
And you better realize which one applies to you.
Otherwise, you are gonna befall or have the same thing happening happen to Sterling.
And I've got two media people that have said that.
That's not my idea.
I did not come up with that.
I'm not gonna play the sound bites because I don't want to advertise these guys, but I'm gonna write here in my formerly nicotine-stained fingers.
Two speech codes, at least two speeches.
Yeah, there's certain people who say certain things, and there's certain things other people can't say, and you'd better realize.
And by the way, it was applauded.
Nobody's concerned about it.
It's it's viewed as a positive thing in America.
Yes, because it means that the rights of minorities are expanding.
And because minorities have been oppressed since the founding of the country.
And I tell you when I you know, I knew there was going to be trouble back when the 70s, when affirmative action first came up.
Uh I actually did a quasi series of talk shows back in the 70s.
It was it was a music show with some phone calls to satisfy a community service requirements of license renewal.
And one day affirmative action came up, and I just asked a question, uh, some some some advocate of affirmative action called in.
And I said, okay, well, when does it end?
They said, never.
I said, what?
Never.
Yeah, never.
I said, you mean there's not a day in the future where you're gonna say, okay, past grievances have been dealt with and the slate's clean and we're all even going forward?
No, no, no, no.
Affirmative action never ends.
And that was right.
Affirmative action never ends.
Affirmative action is just what?
Well, at one time it was quotas.
Now it's it's it's it's come to encompass a whole lot more than just quotas.
Affirmative action includes the new speech code.
Affirmative action allows certain behavior and other people not allowed.
It's certain advantages and preferences over it's all based on race.
And there's no end to it.
And the and the people that came up with it never intended for there to be an end.
And it wasn't, you know, they said it was to redress prior grievances or uh cases of discrimination.
But it wasn't.
Because there was never, and I say even when that discussion said, well, who's the way it came up was I said, who is going to sit in judgment of when we've evened everything out here and the slate's clean.
Is it nobody?
Because it's never gonna be clean.
We can never fully pay for what happened in the early days of this country.
No matter how long this country exists, the price can never be fully repaid.
I heard that back in the 70s.
And lo and behold, here we are in the 2014s.
You saw when the state of Michigan constitutionally kind of did try to do away with it.
The wise Latina on the Supreme Court, Justice Sotomayor, was not too wise and not too happy with the uh With the Now she was on the losing side, but that, yeah, but that just the affirmative action, you know what really is?
It's racial profiling at its worst.
State sponsored discrimination.
State sponsored discrimination.
Exactly what affirmative action is.
State sponsored discrimination.
Let's see.
What is it?
Kevin Johnson.
Kevin Johnson's a mayor of Sacramento.
He's also...
Um...
He is.
He might I don't know if he's if he's chairman of the Players Association.
Yeah, he is.
He's chairman of Player Association.
He's a mayor of Sacramento.
He used to play for the Phoenix Suns.
And I I know Kevin.
Back when Paul Westfall was the coach of the Suns, I took a bunch of road trips with him.
And one of the road trips was into Sacramento.
Kevin is his that's his hometown.
And he had a he had a he had a uh a charity that that it was for minority kids to go to after school and and so forth to learn things and not be on the street and all that.
It was a it was a uh uh positive reinforcement type place and had a fundraiser.
And it was scheduled for when the Phoenix Sons were due to play the Kings at Sacramento, and I happened to be on the trip, so I went to this thing.
And of course, everybody was shocked to see me.
Although I was not been a stranger.
I'd been running around with the the Phoenix basketball team for a while.
And ended up being the high bidder for a Ronnie Lott New York Jets jersey, which I think disappointed some people there.
But I got to know Kevin a little bit.
Uh and now he's the he's the mayor of Sacramento.
And he was at a press conference yesterday as the chairman of the players association after the commissioner made his announcement of uh how they're gonna fry Sterling.
And we have two sound bites here, and there's a lot of people, as the mayor of LA was there and some other NBA players, but here's the first two sound bites from Kevin Johnson.
This is a very stark reminder that we still have a lot of work to do.
Yes, we have an African American president.
Yes, justice happened in a swift manner and forceful.
Yes, that occurred today.
But these events remind all of us that hatred and bigotry are far from over.
I hope that every bigot in this country sees what happened to Mr. Sterling and recognizes that if he can fall, so can you.
And that was that was greeted with uh resounding applause and support and so forth.
It kind of makes the point that it's never gonna be over.
It was like when Obama was elected.
How many how many people do you think?
How many white people voted for Obama thinking that there'd be the end of racism?
Because nobody likes this.
Nobody likes this racial divide.
Nobody has made comfort.
I take that back.
There are a lot of people making money off of it.
There are some people actually who promote it and like, and again, the Democrat Party's the home of this stuff.
But for the most part, your average ordinary American wants no part of it.
And as Bernie Goldberg pointed out on Meghan Kelly's show the other night, the overall condemnation Donald Sterling is receiving is evidence that there isn't racism, institutional racism in this country.
It just doesn't exist anymore.
There's nobody out defending Sterling.
Nobody out trying to call for calm or anything.
I mean universal condemnation.
Once people found out who the guy is.
And yet, and yet Kevin Johnson says here, oh, that doesn't matter.
It's still out there.
It doesn't matter.
We got a black president, we got a black attorney general.
Uh uh it doesn't matter.
It's like when Obama was elected.
I I told people this is only going to exacerbate racial disharmony.
And people, how do you mean?
I said, because any criticism of Obama's policies is going to be chalked up to racism.
Nobody is going to be permitted substantive disagreement with Obama and his policies.
It's all going to get chalked up to racism.
And I said, by the time is done.
Nobody's going to have the guts to criticize Obama.
He's going to have a clean slate ahead of him because nobody is going to have the guts to be critical, because everybody who does is going to immediately be labeled a racist.
And that's exactly what's happened.
So here Sterling is gone and notice there's it seems to me there's not any satisfaction.
Just seems like the anger gets even worse.
Even when a situation gets rectified.
And I know that most people don't want this.
Most people don't want there to be racial strife.
They don't have any desire for it whatsoever.
Most people agree with Rodney King.
Can't we all just get along?
You have to go to the Democrat Party to get this fixed.
They're the state sponsors of this stuff.
And here I'm reminded again with Kevin's soundbite here, what Bernie Goldberg said.
He said there isn't any racism.
If there were, Sterling would have some supporters, but everybody can't wait to get in line to condemn the guy.
And yet, no, no.
We got a black president, we got a black attorney general.
It doesn't mean anything.
Here, let's just play the second Kevin soundbite.
This Kevin Johnson's second soundbite will move up.
Let me just show you how much this moment meant to our country.
You know, yesterday, before the ruling, I get a call from Vice President Biden, and he says, tell those players that we are standing with them, that none of us would accept the disdain and the comments that were so reprehensible by Mr. Sterling.
When you have the president and the vice president and the White House standing with the players in this league, that is a testament to what sports can do.
Sports bring people together.
It allows us to talk about real issues.
You know, it wasn't that long ago where I kept hearing, no, no politics here, Rush.
We don't want any politics here at ESPN.
They're not gonna, we're not gonna combine anybody's political views with our sports casts.
And now look, sports is as politicized as the news.
Maybe even more so.
And the sports media is identical to the news media.
Anybody else that I want to play on this before we move on to others?
Nope, that's it.
That wraps that up.
Let's take a brief time out, and uh we'll come back.
It's gonna be like going back to the old days.
I got some James Carville sound bites here.
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Just to make it fair.
Osage City, Kansas.
This is Cliff, and welcome, sir, to the EIB network.
Hi.
Oh, Rush.
I got one complaint with you, but that's not why I called.
My complaint is with uh silver.
Or not silver.
The Donald's.
He's he's being persecuted for using his First Amendment rights.
I mean, they're just automatically he's guilty for using his First Amendment rights.
His First Amendment rights says that he can do this.
Well, are you talking about First Amendment free speech?
Right.
Well, not really.
I mean, the the the First Amendment's free speech clause only says that the government can't shut you up for political speech, but any business can penalize anybody, any employee they want for saying things that the boss doesn't agree with, the company doesn't stand for.
So Uh free speech is not a is not the if somebody wants to try to defend Sterling, free speech is not the way to go here.
Because the NBA can punish him if they want to.
I mean, their bylaws and constitution, uh, if he's bad for business, and clearly this kind of stuff is.
Look at what this really boils down to again is it was going on for 33 years before this.
Uh this New York Times story is amazing to me.
I've quoted it two or three times today.
Is the New York Times not a newspaper?
So why is the New York Times got a story today asking?
Not reporting, but asking why nobody reported on this guy for 33 years.
Don't they have reporters there?
The New York Times has a story wondering why nobody told anybody about Sterling for all these years.
Why didn't the New York Times tell people?
Now you you you could say, well, Rush, I heard your soundbite to Kevin Johnson.
He sounds mad, but maybe they've got a right to be mad.
I mean, the players knew, and in the NBA, they knew that this guy was a sanctioned owner, and nobody did anything about him for 33 years, and finally this guy's been caught.
It's understandable that they would feel happy.
I mean, who wants to work for this kind of guy?
But the point is they did.
Free agents willingly went there and signed contracts.
They took the guy's paychecks.
I don't think anybody in this is uh I I it's it's hard to find the victims here when you get right down to it.
I'm not defending Sterling by any stretch, but with with this known for so many years, and nobody making any effort do anything about it.
Elgin Baylor did, but only after he got fired.
He worked there for 23 years.
He got fired, you know, illegal termination based on racial discrimination, age discrimination, that kind of thing.
Um I think that this guy has been who he is for 33 actually his whole life, but 33 years is the length of time he's owned a team, so that's the years that people are looking at, and he's none of this was a shock to anybody.
Nobody in LA.
Nobody in the NBA.
Was this a surprise?
And again, I asked people throughout last 15 years, how does he get away with it?
And the answer always came back, he's a joke.
His team's a joke.
The Lakers owned the town.
The Clippers never won anything, never even had any winning seasons.
They were just a laughing stock.
And so was he.
And so he was never a threat.
Plus, he was buying insurance policies.
He was donating the NAA L C P and getting humanitarian awards.
Here's uh Jim in Danville, Virginia.
Welcome to the EIB network.
Hello.
Hey Rush, an honor to speak with you.
Thank you.
Just want to call and thank you for writing both of your Rush Revere books.
Oh.
Um I wanted to relay a story uh about my daughter, my 13-year-old.
She had uh just started reading the first book, uh Rush Revere and the uh Brave Pilgrims, and she came home from school right after she had started and said, Dad, I'm gonna have to put this off for a little while.
I just got an assignment to do a a book report on a historical uh fictional book.
And uh a book based on history, but uh in a fictional written in a fictional uh version.
And I said, Well, why don't you do it on Rush Revere?
And she said, Well, Dad, it that book's not on the list.
And I said, Well, take the book to school, show it to your teacher, and see if she'll allow you to do that.
And she did, and the teacher agreed to allow her to do that.
Do that particular book.
And she ended up getting a hundred on the book report, and she received five extra points for uh given an oral version uh uh of the report in the class.
You know, th this that's amazing on a number of levels.
Because we hear stories routinely and have over the years of teachers that are just the opposite of this one.
Not gonna let anything like that in this classroom and and and you know, punishing students for various things.
But this is like the third or fourth time that we've had a parent Call here and say that the kid wanted to take the book to school and the teacher said, Okay, bring it in.
That is that that to me is big.
Well, it was even more uh amazing because her teacher is is very liberal.
And uh but she enjoyed the book so much that she downloaded it the the audio version of it to her iPod and and uh listened to it on our iPod also.
Your daughter.
Yes.
But still the teacher, why why do you think the teacher let the book in?
I think she was intrigued by you know um the book.
She had never heard of it.
And uh I I think uh because Laura shows so much interest in the book that she would have uh agreed to allow her to do it.
Well, and then your daughter gets a hundred plus five extra points, and that's obviously because she read the book and liked it and knew it.
Yes.
And that that is uh that that's great too.
You know, y you remind me here that we are planning.
We have so many plans for rush revere and and liberty down the road.
We we plan to do a book report contest uh in the future on the website.
The Rush Review of the Adventures or Rush Revere website at which is a a portal at the two if com website.
I think eventually Revere is gonna get his own website, he's gonna demand it before all is said and done, even though he's an employee of the tea company, he's gonna demand it.
But we are gonna do a book report contest.
Uh this is just great news.
I really appreciate you calling.
I'm glad that you got um that you got in.
Uh and I want to send you an autographed copy of both.
So don't hang up.
Mr. Snurdy'll get your address right after this.
By the way, folks, I haven't mentioned this in about a month, but we're coming up on the last two weeks to vote for Rush Revere and the Brave Pilgrims is the best children's book of the year.
Uh the the website, and we'll we'll link to this, so I think we've got the link at Rush Limbaugh.com, but uh make sure that Coco highlights the link, CC BookAwards.com.
And it's uh it's an annual thing they do.
It's is to promote children's literacy and and and reward people that uh help further that whole thing along, children reading and making it interesting for them.
And it's uh the CC book awards.com, and we were nominated.
It's based on sales.
The nominations are based purely on sales, and then the readers vote.
The children vote on uh which which book should win in what category.
And so we the voting, I guess the May 12th or 13th.
One of the uh either one of those I'm not sure.
I think it's the twelfth.
So you got two weeks, basically, at CC BookAwards.com.
And if you can't remember that, just remember to go to Rush Limbaugh.com.
We'll have a link there.
If you haven't voted yet.
And if you want to.
Here's uh here's Gay Nell in uh in New Orleans.
Great to have you on the EIB network.
Hello.
Rush, I am so honored to speak to you.
I can't tell you how many times I tried to call even doing Katrina, I tried to get you.
So you're your clear mind and your advice.
Um, I have a question for you.
You alright?
If if they can take people's property away or foul things they say or horrible things they say, it's not gonna happen to a Reverend Wright, a Lewis Farrakhan, or for that matter, sometimes Al Sharpton.
Um there was such horrible things said about people through them.
And and we didn't dream that we would take somebody's property away for saying file things or for being prejudiced.
That's not you know, they can actually if they'd uh allowed the capitalism system, this guy would have ended up without his ball team anyway, because people could have not bought tickets.
They could have not played for him, they could have done a whole lot of things, and then nature would have taken its course because I believe people are generally good people.
Yeah.
I don't understand how they think they can force him out of a job when I mean out of an ownership, when he said something.
I mean, i you can't take things away because you disagree with them.
My goodness.
What do you mean you can't?
They just did.
I know, but that's not that's not Americans.
That's not free.
We didn't I mean, you say he's not protected into freedom of speech.
Well, were those people that said those file things about Halen protected by freedom of speech?
You know, I mean, it's the file things about a handicapped child.
It's called in 2014 justice.
Now you ask, well, why don't they take away Reverend Wright's house?
Church or Reverend Sharpton's car.
I mean, he owes the IRS about a million bucks.
Right.
And and the reason is that Reverend Wright and Reverend Sharpton are perfectly allowed to say whatever they want to say.
Why?
Well, because they are victims.
They are victims of a 200 plus year oppressed minority.
Well, I'm gonna tell you something that's gonna sound really silly to you, but if you're from New Orleans, you will understand.
We are victims of the same thing.
Because we did not leave people to die.
We did not not tell people to evacuate.
We did everything we could in this city for a natural disaster.
We did have a problem.
We had a deer in the headlights governor who didn't realize that the um National Guard belonged to her.
See, again, your governor was a woman, again, a member of a protected minority.
So she cannot be held to the same standard as a male governor.
She's permitted to be incompetent.
So selected discrimination we have?
It's just it's because America has been so unjust and immoral to certain of its citizens since it was founded.
You all know that the Republicans are waging a war on women.
What what what women are gonna have to defend themselves, you're gonna have to give them some latitude.
And we had slavery in the past, and so those those two groups are permitted to pretty much do and say whatever they want to do.
I just had a story last uh yesterday and get a chance to it, but now you heard about the glass ceiling for women.
Now, unfortunately it's become the glass cliff.
Because women are becoming CEOs and then they don't cut it and they get fired and they're being replaced by white guys, and it's humiliating.
It's being called the glass cliff that the women are now being thrown over, and it's all it's because America is just so unjust and immoral.
And that's that's why Sterling can have his team, property, whatever he he can be suspended from having to do with it, uh, because of who he was mean to.
Now, what about people who speak out against Jews?
Do they have to lose their property too?
Uh we are full of people in the world.
Well, that depends on that depends on where that happens.
Oh, okay.
So it can happen from somebody who's a high-standing government.
Well, I mean, John Kerry, John Kerry just basically said that the Jews of Israel are a bunch of slaveholders, and and nothing happened to him.
Well now minority that he belongs to, I'm not sure.
Or what what on what unjust people?
Un what can I say?
Uh slaves people or or unjustifiably judged people that he belongs to.
The Democratic Party.
The Democrat Party has made his well, no, that's it has all of this stuff has a political base to it.
All of this would not exist if there were not political power attached to it.
And the Democrat Party's made it possible.
You know, you talk about the mayor, Kathleen, whatever her name was down there.
Don't forget school bus Nagan.
This is the guy that left the school buses there to get flooded along with the residents.
But he had some slack cut because he's a minority too.
Uh and there it's just it's just like these media guys that are saying there's two speech codes now, and you better figure out which one applies to you.
And if you don't, the same thing's gonna happen to you that happened to Donald Sterling, and the media is gonna applaud it when it happens to you.
Look, if people are gonna call here and ask me about I'm gonna answer it.
The reason why Reverend Wright can say whatever he wants is because he's a victim of this country.
And so it's understandable that he'd be mad.
It's understandable that he'd be filled with rage.
We'd better learn and understand why.
That's what we're told.
And same Reverend Sharpton, we can do a hoax on Tawana Broly end up on television.
Because he'd permitted.
Certain things, and it's the way they are.
I gotta take a brief time out now.
Be back after I catch my breath.
Thanks for the call.
Don't go away, folks.
Author of the year.
That's a category that I am nominated for.
It's Cit Children's Choice Book Awards, is what it is.
CC Bookawards.com and I am nominated for author of the year.
And the voting goes through uh through May 12th.
Fox is just now doing a discussion of Maureen Dowd's New York Times column today, which we talked about uh earlier and ditto Benghazi.
Um some of you are wondering, well, what was you gonna talk about?
We did it earlier in the program today.
I was a pretty pretty good riff, if I say so myself.
It wasn't a riff about Obama's just massive dismal failure.
Speaking of which, do you think if we had a president who was really interested in unifying people, bringing them together, that all of this would be allowed to go on like this.
We we we've we've had our society, our culture has been roiling for five years here, going on six years.
And the presidency is a very powerful thing, and it can be it can be used for a lot of good.
The presidency can be used for inspiration, uplifting motivation, but there hasn't been any of that in five years.
All of this division is not only allowed to happen, it seems to be exploited, it seems to be profited from.
Again, there's the new Democrat Party.
I'm sorry, but they are the sponsoring agent of this stuff.
We had we had somebody who had real reverence for the office of the presidency.
Long ago, steps would have been taken to to make sure that that this strife was at least somebody made some attempt to deal with it.
Uh, in at least if nothing else, an inspirational way.
Now, Maureen Dodd's column today is just it's classic.
Hey, Barry, you're you your lack of manhood showing man, you're whiffing.
You're an embarrassment on the world stage.
I'm sorry, folks.
I where was this seven years ago during the campaign?
You know, Obama is is no different than Donald Sterling in one regard, and that is that everything that we know about Obama today was knowable in 2007 and 2008.
And just like the media never reported on Sterling, the media never vetted Obama properly.
But who he is and what his policies were going to be and what Obamacare was going to be, it was all knowable.
And people that listened to this program knew exactly what was gonna happen when Obama was elected.
That's why we said, I hope he fails.
We knew a stimulus was gonna be, we knew what was in store for us economically.
A socialist president, redistributing wealth, raising taxes on the wealthy, doing away with wealth as best as he can.
It was all knowable.
So here comes Maureen down.
Hey hey, hey, what happened, Barry?
Remember when he told her he was not comfortable with people making fun of his big ears, and she said, we're trying to toughen you up.
That was during the campaign, it was a 2007 or 2008.
What happened to that toughen him up stuff?
You know, it's it's it's a it's a day late and a dollar short.
Is all of this stuff was predictable.
That's what makes it so damn tough to deal with.
You get right down to it.
And it's just a shame.
None of this had to happen.
But that doesn't do anybody any good because it has happened.
Back after this.
Don't go.
That's it for us, folks.
Sadly, out of busy broadcast moments for today, but there's always tomorrow, which will be Thursday.
That's unbelievable.
But it will be.
We'll see you then.
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