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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.
The speech code for minorities wide open and expanding.
And you better realize which one applies to you.
Otherwise, you are going to befall or have the same thing happen to you 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 going to play the sound bites because I don't want to advertise these guys, but I'm going to write here in my formerly nicotine-stained fingers.
Two speech codes, at least two speech codes.
There's certain people who say certain things, and there's certain things other people can't say, and you better realize.
And by the way, it was applauded.
Nobody's concerned about it.
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'll tell you when I, you know, I knew there was going to be trouble back when the 70s, when affirmative action first came up, I actually did a quasi series of talk shows back in the 70s.
It was a music show with some phone calls to satisfy community service requirements of license renewal.
And one day affirmative action came up, and I just asked a question, some advocate of affirmative action called in, and I said, okay, well, when does it end?
He said, never.
I said, what?
Never.
Yeah, never.
I said, you mean there's not a day in the future where you're going to 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 come to encompass a whole lot more than just quotas.
Affirmative action includes the new speech code.
Affirmative action allows certain behavior that other people are not allowed.
It's certain advantages and preferences over it.
It's all based on race.
And there's no end to it.
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 cases of discrimination.
But it wasn't because there was never and I say even when the discussion, 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 in the slates clean?
He said, nobody.
Because it's never going to 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 tried to do away with it, the wise Latina on the Supreme Court, Justice Sopho Mayor, was not too wise and not too happy 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.
Kevin Johnson.
Kevin Johnson's a mayor of Sacramento.
He's also, he is, I don't know if he's chairman of the Players Association.
Yeah, he is.
He's chairman of the Players Association.
He's a mayor of Sacramento.
He used to play for the Phoenix Suns.
And I know Kevin.
Back when Paul Westphal 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, that's his hometown.
And he had a charity that it was for minority kids to go to after school and so forth to learn things and not be on the street and all that.
It was a positive reinforcement type place.
And he had a fundraiser.
And it was scheduled for when the Phoenix Suns 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've not been a stranger.
I'd been running around with 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.
And now 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 how they're going to fry Sterling.
And we have two sound bites here.
And there's a lot of people.
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 greeted with resounding applause and support and so forth.
And it kind of makes the point that it's never going to be over.
It was like when Obama was elected.
How many people do you think, how many white people voted for Obama thinking that it'd be the end of racism?
Because nobody likes this.
Nobody likes this racial divide.
Nobody has made comfortable.
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 is 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 Megan 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 any of this.
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.
It doesn't matter.
It's like when Obama was elected, 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 it's 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, it just seems to me there's not any satisfaction.
It 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 is Kevin Johnson.
Second soundbite will move on.
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 brings people together.
It allows us to talk about real issues.
You know, it wasn't that long ago where I kept hearing, now, no politics here, Rush.
We don't want any politics here at ESPN.
We're not going to 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 the others?
Nope, that's it.
That wraps that up.
Let's take a brief time out and we'll come back.
It's going to 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, O Sage City, Kansas.
This is Cliff, and welcome, sir, to the EIB network.
Hi.
Hello, Rush.
I got one complaint with you, but that's not why I called.
My complaint is with Silver, or not Silver, the Donaldson.
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 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 free speech is not.
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, they're bylaws in the Constitution 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.
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 has 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 could say, well, Rush, I heard your soundbites of Kevin Johnson.
He sounds mad, but maybe they've got a right to be mad.
I mean, the players knew 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 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 this known for so many years and nobody making any effort to 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.
But 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 none of this was a shock to anybody.
Nobody in L.A., nobody in the NBA was this a surprise.
And again, I asked people throughout the 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 LCP and getting humanitarian awards.
Here's 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.
I wanted to relay a story about my daughter, my 13-year-old.
She had just started reading the first book, Rush Revere and the Brave Pilgrims, and she came home from school right after she had started and said, Dad, I'm going to have to put this off for a little while.
I just got an assignment to do a book report on a historical fictional book, a book based on history, but in a fictional, written in a fictional version.
And I said, well, why don't you do it on Rush Revere?
And she said, well, Dad, 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 particular book.
And she ended up getting $100 on the book report, and she received five extra points for giving an oral version of the report in front of the class.
You know, 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 going to let anything like that in this classroom.
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 to me is big.
Well, it was even more amazing because her teacher is very liberal.
But she enjoyed the book so much that she downloaded the audio version of it up to her iPod and listened to it on her iPod also.
Your daughter.
Yes.
I was going to say the teacher would have done that.
But still a teacher.
Why do you think the teacher let the book in?
I think she was intrigued by the book.
She had never heard of it.
And I think because Laura showed so much interest in the book that she would agree to allow her to do it.
Well, and then your daughter gets 100 plus five extra points.
And that's obviously because she read the book and liked it and knew it.
Yes.
And that is that's great.
You know, you remind me here that we are planning.
We have so many plans for Rush Revere and Liberty down the road.
We plan to do a book report contest in the future on the website.
The Rush Revere of the Adventures or Rush Revere website, which is a portal at the 2fbt.com website.
I think eventually Revere is going to get his own website.
He's going to demand it before all is said and done.
Even though he's an employee at a tea company, he's going to demand it.
But we are going to do a book report contest.
This is just great news.
I really appreciate you calling.
I'm glad that you got in.
And I want to send you an autographed copy of both.
So don't hang up.
Mr. Snurdy will 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 as the best children's book of the year.
The website, and we'll link to this, and I think we've got the link at rushlimbaugh.com, but I'll make sure that Coco highlights the link, ccbookawards.com.
And it's an annual thing they do.
It's to promote children's literacy and reward people that help further that whole thing along, children reading and making it interesting for them.
And it's the ccbookawards.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 which book should win in what category.
And so the voting, I guess, the May 12th or 13th?
One of the, either one of those.
I'm not sure.
I think it's the 12th.
So you got two weeks basically at ccbookawards.com.
And if you can't remember that, just remember to go to rushlimbaugh.com.
We'll have a link there if you haven't voted yet.
And if you want to, here's Gaynell 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 for your clear mind and your advice.
I have a question for you.
All right.
If they can take people's property away for foul things they say or horrible things they say, why is nothing ever happened to a Reverend Wright or Louis Farrakhan or for that matter, sometimes Al Sharpton?
There were such horrible things said about people through them.
And we didn't dream that we would take somebody's property away for saying foul things or for being prejudiced.
That's not, you know, they can, actually, if they'd have 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.
I don't understand how they think they can force him out of the job when, I mean, out of an ownership, when he said something.
I mean, 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 American.
That's not free.
We didn't, I mean, you say he's not protected in the freedom of speech.
Well, were those people that said those foul things about Halen protected by freedom of speech?
You know, I mean, there's some foul 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 or his church or Reverend Sharpton's car?
I mean, he owes the IRS about a million bucks.
Right.
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 going to tell you something that's going to 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 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 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 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.
Women are going to have to defend themselves.
You're going to have to give them some latitude.
And we had slavery in the past.
And so those two groups are permitted to pretty much do and say whatever they want to do.
I just had a story last, or yesterday I didn't get a chance to do 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 why Sterling can have his team, property, whatever.
He can be suspended from having to do with it because of who he was mean to.
Now, what about people who speak out against Jews?
Do they have to lose their property, too?
We are full of people in the world.
Well, that depends on where that happens.
Oh, okay.
So it can happen from somebody who's a high-standing governor.
Well, I mean, John Kerry, John Kerry just basically said that the Jews of Israel are a bunch of slaveholders, and nothing happened to him.
Well, now, minority does he belong to.
I'm not sure.
Or what unjust people does he belong to?
What can I say?
Slaved people or unjustifiably judged people does he belong to?
The Democratic Party?
The Democrat Party has made it.
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.
And 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 going to happen to you that happened to Donald Sterling, and the media is going to applaud it when it happens to you.
Look, if people are going to call here and ask me about, I'm going to 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 better learn and understand why.
That's what we're told.
And same Reverend Sharpton.
We can do a hoax on Tawana Broy, end up on television because he's permitted.
Just certain things, and it's the way they are.
I got to 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 at C6.
Children's Choice Book Awards is what it is.
CCBookAwards.com, and I am nominated for Author of the Year.
And the voting goes through May 12th.
Fox is just now doing a discussion of Maureen Dodd's New York Times column today, which we talked about earlier.
And Ditto Benghazi.
Some of you are wondering, what was you going to talk about?
We did it earlier in the program today.
Pretty good riff, if I say so myself.
It wasn't a riff about Obama's just massive dismal failures.
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'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 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 your Democrat Party.
I'm sorry, but they are the sponsoring agent of this stuff.
We had somebody who had real reverence for the office of the presidency long ago, steps would have been taken to make sure that this strife was at least, somebody made some attempt to deal with it.
At least, if nothing else, an inspirational way.
Now, Maureen Dodd's column today is just, it's classic.
Hey, Barry, your lack of manhood showing, man, you're whiffing.
You're an embarrassment on the world stage.
I'm sorry, folks.
Where was this seven years ago during the campaign?
You know, Obama 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 going to happen when Obama was elected.
That's why we said, I hope he fails.
We knew what his stimulus was going to 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.
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 2007 or 2008.
What happened to that toughen him up stuff?
You know, it's a day late and a dollar short.
Because 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.
Chewy-O!
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