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March 12, 2015, Thursday, Hour #2

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	And welcome back, ladies and gentlemen.
	I'm America's real anchor man, Rush Limbaugh meeting and surpassing all audience expectations every day.
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	I remain surprised.
	I still am surprised by what makes news on this program, or what I say that makes news.
	And now I know that this is the most talked-about radio talk show out there, and I'm the most talked-about host.
	So I got here today, and I I uh start doing show prep.
	I didn't see any this last night.
	And I find out that page six has made a big deal out of my comment yesterday over the uh the rap lyrics that were uttered by and and sung by the uh these frat boys at uh at OU.
	And Snerdly to remember this.
	I simply said on the program yesterday that if Kanye West sang those very lyrics at the Grammys, he'd get a standing o, probably win awards.
	And that lyrics like that in rap music have created celebrities, millionaire celebrities, and near royalty out of the artists that perform them.
	Now you shook your head at some point, I don't think.
	And then I said, Well, maybe, okay, but you can't deny, I said, that people who sing these lyrics are treated like royalty and win awards left and right.
	So that has made the news.
	That has made the news at e-entertainment, it's made the news at TMC, it's made the news at page six, and what's also fascinating about it is it's been reported factually.
	There isn't any snark in it.
	What?
	There isn't any snark in this.
	I am stunned.
	Normally, I would have been myself hung in effigy over these, but but there's no snark no matter where you look at the way they and and also I pointed out yesterday when I was making um my my references to this.
	I had discovered that over on Morning Joe on MSNBC, which we don't play audio from because I have instituted a ban on that whole network, understandably, so it's trash.
	But that Mika Bzinsky blamed rap music for those frat boys singing what they were singing.
	It was unheard of.
	And Scarborough agreed with her.
	And to me, this was this has opened up coverage of an event like this that I haven't seen in a long time.
	There is actual discussion taking place now of the free speech rights of the frat boys and how the university is denying them.
	And the usual civil rights coalition is not up in arms over this.
	Well, you say yet, but there's something different about this.
	You were going to tell me why there's no snark being reported or i in the reports of what I said.
	Why is there no because there usually is.
	Right.
	Right.
	Oh, oh, oh, I see.
	Um, that may be true.
	Snurdley's point is that what I said is undeniably true, and that everybody's been thinking it.
	That here you have these frat boys singing songs, and look, I I built this, I'm I I set this up, by the way.
	I thought very, very wisely.
	How have they been educated?
	What have they been listening to as young kids growing up?
	What in the world have they heard?
	We've had the liberal education agenda, which has taught these these frat boys when they were in high school and junior high middle school or whatever.
	They were taught that everything they said was wrong.
	They were supposed to have never gone there because they have been properly educated to understand what racism is and what mean-spiritedness is.
	And they were, and this is in one sense, a giant failure of liberal education.
	On the other hand, They're out singing these songs and they're making these videos and they're watching other people do this, getting rich doing it, and becoming celebrities and living on the red carpet, which is where everybody seems to want to be these days, at the red carpet at an opening.
	And Snurd, are you telling me that the reason there's no snark is because everybody's thinking what I articulated about the various words.
	Well, that the N-word, the N-word particularly, but but also, you know, hoes and bitches and this kind of all those lyrics are common.
	They're common.
	They're rampant and common.
	Uh and but it's still, to me, it was it was, I don't know, surprising, that there has not been, other than from the university president, some there has not been universal condemnation of these Frank boys.
	Not universal.
	There's some people speaking up in their defense based on freedom of speech.
	And there's some of these young college websites, not college reform, that there's a website called FIRE.com, and I don't have the that's an acronym, and I don't have it in front of me, but they've written a big long college kids talking about how their free speech rights have been have been denied, and this is happening all over the university system in this country, and it's a bad thing that these kids have they have their free speech rights and they're being denied, kicked out of school because of it.
	It's um it's a new day.
	And so we have some audio sound bites that somewhat illustrate this, not entirely.
	They come from CNN, and we'll start this as last night on CNN tonight with Don Lemon, and he is uh uh talking about my remarks, comparing the uh the OU chapter Sigma Alpha Epsilon uh to rappers and popular music.
	According to Rush Limbaugh, Rush Limbaugh says if Kanye West recorded the chant, it would be an instant hit.
	Listen.
	If this had been a song by Kim Kardashian's husband, and they'd sung this song at the Grammys, it'd be a hit.
	Can we agree with that?
	But I'm telling you, this stuff gets awards, and the people that sing it are portrayed as American royalty in terms of celebrity.
	You can't deny that.
	And then Lemon threw it to his guests.
	Now, you would think, based on previous experience, that I would be literally roundly just criticized, beat up left and right, called names, didn't happen.
	Don Lemon turns to his first guest, the attorney, uh Riva Martin, and an Oklahoma State University media professor, Joey Senate, about me and my remarks.
	Lemon says, Ariva?
	Does uh does old Rush have a point here?
	They can sing that song at the Grammys, they can sing that song out on the sidewalks in the public.
	But if white students sing that song on a bus at a public university, Title VI says the president has an obligation to rid that campus of that racial hostility, so that those students, those black students can be free to learn in the same way that white students are.
	Oh, yeah, you could sing that song at the Grammys wouldn't bother me.
	You can sing that song um out on the sidewalks.
	But if you sing it on campus, the campus president has a right under Title VI to get rid of those kids, which is what happened.
	So next, Don Lemon, uh, let's see, what is this?
	Joey Senate is next, uh, who is uh one of the uh he's a university media professor at Oklahoma.
	The U.S. Supreme Court has already said twice when it comes to public university campuses, they are not enclaves immune from the First Amendment, that it does protect offensive speech, no matter how offensive to good taste, and you are now trying to uh equate their speech, which is what they were punished for, with conduct.
	And yes, if they had been involved in decision making at the fraternity that was discriminatory, then that would be a conduct.
	So now they're so wait a minute.
	That all they did was say things.
	They didn't do anything to anybody.
	There wasn't any real racist conduct.
	There wouldn't, they just uttered, and so people are defending their free speech rights.
	People are defending their rights.
	Some that There are some people even.
	I don't have the, I didn't print the articles that I'm sorry.
	I frankly didn't know I was going to even get into this until I saw these sound bites and saw that I had become part of this story again.
	I wasn't even going to go there again.
	So I don't have the things printed in front of me, but there's some people suggesting that these students are being railroaded because their free speech rights are being denied, and they didn't do anything.
	They're just mimicking what they've grown up hearing on the radio, on television or what have you, or what they stream, however they get their content.
	They're just mimicking it.
	But they didn't do anything to anybody.
	The point is they've got defenders.
	And that to me is someone new.
	Somewhat strange.
	Then they brought in Mark Lamont Hill, who he's a traveling professor.
	He's every time he's on TV, he's a professor at a different school.
	Let's see, where is he now?
	Mark Lamont Hill, Morehouse College today.
	Morehouse College professor Mark Lamont Hill.
	This is still Don Lemon.
	And uh and Lemon says, okay, should we just allow it everywhere then?
	Because Lemon has not gotten any condemnation of this.
	In three guests, he hasn't gotten any condemnation yet.
	And certainly not of me, and not very much condemnation of these franc boys.
	So here's Lamont Hill answering the question, well, should we just allow it everywhere, Mark?
	I just let these kids say it just so we know that it's there.
	I don't think we should police people's speech.
	People should be able to say what they want.
	We should be able to have transparent ideas in the circulating in this nation, but there should be consequences for speech.
	When in the hell did this start?
	I'm telling you something very odd going on out here.
	I don't think we should police people's speech.
	That's exactly what these people have done their entire careers.
	It's called political correctness.
	It's called liberalism.
	All of a sudden, these franc boys, you'd be amazed, folks, I'm really, I'm sorry I didn't print out all these different places I've read it.
	You'd be amazed at the number of advocates they have who claim I even saw somebody, and this is, I'm telling you, this is the result of generational cycling.
	I remember way back when I was much younger, when I first began to intellectually understand and talk about the whole concept of free speech as a constitutional right.
	I remember running into William F. Buckley, as many of you know, one of my uh heroes and idols, and Buckley was one of the first people I had heard say that the answer to offensive speech is more speech.
	The reaction to offensive speech is more speech, not restrictive.
	The only way to discredit offensive speech, which is the specifically the kind of speech protected by the first.
	I mean, if everybody said what everybody agrees with, you wouldn't need a First Amendment guaranteeing it.
	The First Amendment free speech clause exists because everybody knows you're gonna hear things that offend you.
	And particularly in the political arena, which is what the First Amendment free speech thing was really aimed at.
	They didn't want to limit political speech in any way, shape, manner, or form.
	And it's all because you know they're gonna hear things you don't like, you don't want to hear, you're gonna be offended by.
	And just because you were offended was no grounds for stopping it.
	So the answer, the first theory that I came across in dealing with offensive speech, the answer was more speech.
	And that's I read it last night in one of these young college websites suggesting if you're bothered by these jerks at this university at this fret, the answer to them is more speech of the condemnation kind.
	Just condemn the hell out of what they said of you.
	But the answer is not restricting speech, that doesn't help anybody.
	And I'm starting to see this repeated now.
	Uh as a as sort of a cycle.
	My point is that young people are beginning to articulate the free speech arguments that I first heard when I was their age, however, money number of years ago.
	But I can't think of the last time I have encountered a story where college kids or anybody was out singing.
	You know, wait a minute, that's the difference here.
	That's these kids are parroting.
	These Frat boys are parroting what's already out there.
	They're not creating it.
	They're mimicking it.
	And the people who are who are not offended by it know that.
	And to condemn the Fret Boys would be to condemn the rap music business, which they can't do.
	They don't want to go there.
	So they're kind of forced into defending the Frat Boys.
	The Frat Boys did not invent any of this.
	But nevertheless, they're being defended by people who just last week would be condemning the hell out of them.
	Anyway, I just I thought it was fascinating.
	And the reporting on me, no snark.
	Just straight up factually correct.
	They didn't invent anything I didn't say.
	They didn't add snarky comments to what I said.
	They just reported it.
	And they reported whatever people's reaction to it was.
	And it was even when they talked about Mika Bzhinski blaming rap music, there was even no condemnation of that.
	Well, maybe a little, but more than anything, there was understanding, and maybe even a little agreement with it.
	Now there has to be a reason why.
	And we're going to dig deep and we're going to figure out what it is.
	Now the university president that expelled these fret boys is David Borin.
	David Boren, a long line, old line Democrat, a former member of the U.S. Senate, former governor of uh of Oklahoma.
	And apparently he was operating as he should have under what our previous guest here said are CNN's guest under Title VI and getting rid of them and closing down the uh fraternity.
	Anyway, I've got to take quick time out here, my friends, and we'll do that and be back with much more right after this.
	Don't go away.
	Let me clarify something on the frat boys.
	They were not actually singing a rap song.
	They were using words that are omnipresent in rap music, but they were not mimicking a rap song.
	The point is that you can't, if if if you travel anywhere in America and you hear music, you can't miss these words anymore on the radio now, or however people are streaming musical content.
	If you can hear what they're listening to, you can't miss it.
	You can't miss the uh the N-word.
	You can't miss you know the BIH word.
	You can't miss Ho.
	You can't you can't miss all these these these vile lyrics.
	It's everywhere.
	And I I think I think people are fed up with it.
	So you have these these these frat boys who um they're on a bus, they're probably consuming adult beverage.
	I still think one of the factors here, they're just trying to impress a bunch of girls, which is what frat boys do.
	That's why there are frat boys.
	That's why there are fraternities.
	And they're just trying to impress the girls with their bravery, their courage, their creativity, or what have you, and somebody overheard it and blah blah.
	I'm just, I'm telling you, I think the reason that so many people are coming to their defense.
	By the way, that group FIRE, fire.com that I uh could not remember the name of the acronym, it is foundation for individual rights in education.
	It's an entire free speech movement devoted to freedom of speech and education.
	It's a direct outgrowth of the censorship that accompanies political correctness.
	I mean, there's all kinds of backlash, folks, in in uh certain segments of uh uh younger generations to all of this PC stuff.
	And I think the reason the Frat Boys have have so many usual suspects coming to their defense, namely, well, like these guests at Don Lemon had, because to condemn the Franp Boys would immediately then force them into a position they don't want to be on is defending the same words when sung by a ramper.
	I mean, if the front boys are guilty of of vile, disgusting speech, then what about the rappers who are becoming millionaires, multimillionaires, and winning awards using the words.
	That has to be what the the mitigating factor is, no question, in my mind.
	All right, here we go.
	Mike and Des Moines, you're next on the uh EIB network.
	Great to have you here.
	Hello.
	Hey, Russ, thanks.
	It's an honor.
	Uh okay, hey, yesterday early in the show, you were talking about um making a point on conservatives who are not intimidated by the media or their handlers either, that sort of thing.
	And you were uh part of course Scott Walker and uh and in my opinion he he he's not intimidated at all because he has a set of core values that that is solid.
	And what came to mind when you were talking about yesterday was a here's a possible analogy I think and this is happened to me.
	When you first came on the show I believe I'm a charter member listener.
	I think it was the first week it was August of 86 if I remember right.
	But I first heard you Rush on WHO and I thought who is this guy?
	This is exactly what you know you've made this point before.
	I think right now might could be a water moment for our Gen Xers or millennials coming up to have a leader that opens your eyes to that because we know they're out there.
	And and it's deep Rush I worked in public sector for a while at a local level and you know we had HUD contracts that kind of stuff but when these powerful liberal politicians get in it's not just the president or governor it's who they appointed as key administrative positions and they hire who they want and then it goes down the line.
	And you've got worker bees that think the same way.
	And, Rush, I tell you, it's got to change.
	And I believe it can change.
	And we need people like Walker who, based on their core values...
	Let me tell you, you mentioned Walker.
	I've got a fascinating addendum to Walker.
	You know, Obama reacted to him signing that right-to-work law in Wisconsin.
	And Walker fired right back.
	I've got to expand the story that I got into not in enough depth yesterday.
	I also want to expand on a point you made about when you first started listening to the program.
	I appreciate the call Mike Okay welcome back great to have you Mike and Des Moines raised a couple of great points one about this program one about me.
	He started out by his reaction when he first heard this program.
	And his charter, he said August 1st, 86, August 1st of 88 is the actual year.
	But what he said he heard was somebody validating what he already believed.
	He said, and that is the case.
	That is exactly why this program took off.
	there wasn't a national conservative media voice back in 1988.
	You know people forget and 88's a long time ago it seems like yesterday to me all these 26 years seem like yesterday to me but in truth the generation ago and in 1988 the only cable news network was CNN back in 1988 we still had the media monopoly we had ABC, CBS and NBC, and we had the newspapers the New York Times the Washington Post we had USA Today, we had the LA Times and they owned it.
	They literally owned what was media they owned what was the news the narrative every day and they also were in charge of what wasn't the news what never got reported they owned what was commented on.
	They owned the commentary.
	They owned opinion-making.
	They owned everything.
	They had a total majority, and that had led to what Spiro Agnew and a whole bunch of people had referred to as a silent majority, people that were unrepresented in the so-called mainstream media.
	And here I come, bumbling and stumbling into all this, just trying to have a successful radio show.
	And people all over the world, when they heard it, glommed onto it, not because they were mind-numbed robots who were being Svengali'd into a greeting with.
	No, they were simply reacting to hearing somebody who sounded just like them.
	I validated what people believed.
	I was like a giant billboard.
	I wasn't creating anybody that, well, they might have been persuading some.
	But I was simply saying things people already felt already thought and his comment was that I was unafraid that I that I I fearlessly just kept saying it.
	And that's because I would love to tell you it was an act of bravery and fearlessness.
	But I was just I finally just had a chance to do a radio show the way I wanted to do it.
	It was the it was the um, if you count the three years prior in Sacramento, it was the first time in my entire career I had been given the freedom to be who I really am.
	And that's all I was doing.
	I mean, I was just, you know, liberalism's crazy.
	I was laughing at it, making fun of it, making jokes about it all over the which just wasn't done.
	And it didn't take long.
	You know, within three months, I'd become a racist, sexist, bigot, homophobe, hate monger, extremist, you name it.
	But I kept going.
	And that's what he was talking about.
	And the further point that he was making, he was talking about millennials, he thinks it's time to repeat.
	He thinks that there's a group of young people who are about to encounter this program or other elements of conservative media and react to it the way he did and everybody else did back in 1988.
	And I hope he's right about that.
	There are cycles that take place as generations go by.
	And I think that would be cool if if there were a sort of a regeneration of uh uh of all that that happened in 88, which would which would be manifested by a bunch of people who um have not listened here because they think I or the program or people like me or ABC and D. They don't that that's ew, that's then they stumble into it, and they find out that everything they've heard about it is wrong and ended up liking it.
	So that's what he's saying he was hoping for, and he was building on that by talking about Scott Walker.
	I had mentioned Scott Walker yesterday as somebody who's fearless, has gone up against the left, has beaten them three elections in a row while being targeted for destruction, while his wife and kids were targeted for destruction, and he's done it again.
	The guy is fear, and I'll tell you somebody else is fearless that's gone.
	Ted Cruz, I I never mean to leave Ted Cruz out of this.
	I don't anybody I haven't endorsed anybody.
	I'm nowhere near that.
	So don't I I and I'm I'm not picking anybody here.
	Uh Walker is just the latest arrival, and so he's garnering a lot of attention.
	But Ted Cruz is fearless.
	Uh Marco Rubio can be fearless, and so can Mike Lee now and then.
	I'll tell you who else is this Tom Cotton guy.
	This new senator from Arkansas.
	This guy is willing to tell this administration and the UN and the Iranian mullahs whatever they need to hear.
	He doesn't care what people say.
	He's gonna tell them the truth.
	And this is going to be infectious.
	People are going to respond to this leadership once they see it and become exposed to it.
	They're demanding it, in fact, and they haven't seen it from the existing Republican leadership.
	And whenever they do see it, they react to it favorably and positively.
	Now the the latest Scott Walker story, as you know, Walker did yet another.
	His story, by the way, let me preface it this way.
	You know, I played in the Ernie L's for autism, charity golf tournament on Monday.
	I've played in every one of them.
	This was the sixth or seventh.
	And it they're always uh one of the first or first or two Mondays, second Monday in March.
	And every year uh run into a host of people, as you would expect, and they're all friendly.
	They are all us.
	And I'm not talking about the golfers.
	I'm just most of them are too, but I'm talking about just the the gallery, people that show up, uh the people that work at the clubs where the tournaments are held.
	Uh I don't I don't run into problems, is the point.
	If there are, they stay in the background, they don't say anything.
	Everybody is supportive, they are uh big fans and all that, and it's a lot of fun.
	And invariably they all ask me, every year, it's it's it's predictable.
	I the cigar dinner, the same thing where wherever I go.
	At this point in every election cycle, okay, Rush, oh, who do you like for the Republican nominate?
	Who's it gonna be?
	Who's it gonna be?
	Who do you think it's gonna be?
	And I alternately get frustrated with the question because I think this is really about much more than just who the nominee is going to be.
	And that's important, don't misunderstand.
	But so when I tell them this year that I have not right now, I'm going to tell them who I like, and I mentioned Scott Walker.
	It's an interesting case study because, if I'm being honest, most people don't know.
	They've heard the name, they might know that he is a governor of a state.
	They might know he's a governor of Wisconsin.
	But they don't know what he's done.
	And part of that's understandable.
	I mean, here we are in Florida.
	He is in Wisconsin.
	What he's done hasn't made consistent national news.
	His campaigns, these recall elections have made national news, but not of the kind that penetrate people's memory.
	And I think that's a problem.
	I have always thought, and none of the Republican Party can't choose either when it comes to candidates seeking the presidency.
	They can't.
	But the frustrating thing for me of Scott Walker is that.
	I'm going to be redundant here, which I'm not excited about, but he's shown the way.
	Everybody who has called me over the course of the past six years to complain about what's happening with Obama the Democrats.
	Everybody who has called me and said, why don't the Republicans do X, my answer has always been, there is a guy doing exactly what you want.
	He's doing it exactly the way you want.
	And he's kicking butt and he's beating them.
	His name's Scott Walker.
	And the fact that this isn't known is indicative of a marketing and branding problem that the that the party has.
	We all know what we're up against, and we all know who's beating us.
	We all know why, and we all think we know what needs to be done to reverse it, and there's a guy that's doing it and has been doing it and has been showing how to do it, and has been exhibiting leadership characteristics that everybody seems to be wanting and demanding, and they don't know.
	And I'm not talking about uninformed dolts that are asking me these questions.
	I'm talking about people that are prepared to commit big money to people.
	They don't know.
	They all know who Mitt Romney is, and they all know who Jeb Bush is, and they know who Ted Cruz is.
	They don't know Scott Walker yet, which may be okay because he's leading now, and this is a little bit early to be leading.
	The frontrunner status this early offers you really only one place to go.
	But as I tell his story, their eyes widen and they get all enthusiastic.
	I'm gonna check that out.
	I said, good, you do that.
	So you're you're you're gonna vote for it.
	No, no, I'm not telling you that.
	I'm just I haven't, you know, I'm not gonna go on record picking anybody yet.
	That's not that's not the point.
	Here is the latest news, though, that defits the message I'm trying to convey here.
	This is from Investors Business Daily, now called Investors.com.
	Scott Walker punches back twice as hard at Obama.
	If Republicans want to know how to respond to President Obama's barbs and attacks, they should pay close attention to what Governor Scott Walker said after Obama smacked him for signing a right to work bill.
	Obama, who believes that he should comment on anything and everything under the sun, issued a written statement condemning the right to work law in Wisconsin.
	Obama said, I'm deeply disappointed that a new anti-worker law in Wisconsin will weaken rather than strengthen workers in the new economy.
	Obama then claimed that Walker's action was part of an inexcusable assault on unions, led by powerful interests And their allies in government.
	But what's really interesting is how Walker responded to Obama's tantrum.
	Rather than meekly taking Obama's blows, as most Republicans do, Walker punched back, and he punched back hard.
	On the heels of vetoing Keystone pipeline legislation, which would have paved the way to create thousands of quality middle class jobs, the president should be looking to states like mine, like Wisconsin, as an example of how to grow our economy, Walker told National Review.
	Despite a stagnant national economy and a lack of leadership in Washington, since we took office, Wisconsin's unemployment rate is down to 5%, more than 100,000 jobs, and 30,000 businesses have been created.
	In two sentences.
	Scott Walker jammed Obama's phony concern for union workers right back at him and pointed out that Wisconsin is legitimately growing its economy despite the flat recovery that Obama's policies have produced nationwide.
	Now, normally, when Obama goes after a Republican, the result is silence.
	The Republicans have this screwy belief, and by that I mean the leadership, and the consultants and the donors.
	They have this screwy belief that if there's any criticism of Obama, it will it will undermine our effort at gaining the support of independence and the Reagan Democrats.
	So they've got themselves talked into.
	We can't be critical of Obama.
	Well, here's Obama going right for Scott.
	Scott Walker has undermined the liberal agenda in Wisconsin the entire time he's been governor.
	And he has implemented his agenda while thwarting theirs.
	And as a result of implementing his agenda, he has cut taxes, he's created a budget surplus, he's created a hundred thousand new jobs, thirty thousand new businesses.
	Is that not what this country needs?
	Not just in one state, but all over the place.
	He's doing it with Reaganomics.
	He's doing it with supply set, whatever you want to call it.
	He is limiting, he is he's downsizing the command and control structure of liberalism.
	This is a blue state we're talking about, where he's done this.
	And he's done this in the midst of Sarah Palin type treatment.
	He's gotten Sarah Palin type treatment and more.
	He's withstood every attack.
	He's done it without any crying, without any whining, without any moaning, without any complaining whatsoever.
	He doesn't even listen to it.
	He just ignores it and goes about the business of implementing his agenda on the basis that's what he was elected to do.
	He won the election.
	He has analyzed he won the election because he spelled out his agenda.
	It was supported.
	He's got the mandate to implement it.
	He does it.
	Exactly what everybody seems to think is necessary to reverse course nationwide.
	So that's what I tell people when they ask me, and I'm just I shouldn't be, but I'm I'm I'm openly shocked to their faces that they don't know any of it.
	That gotta know, I know.
	Take it away, take it away.
	Fastest three hours in media.
	Two of them are already done.
	Gone, over with, behind us.
	Another exciting one straight ahead.
	Don't miss it.
	Be right back.

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