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RUSH: John in Miami. Welcome to the EIB Network. Hello, sir.<\/p>\n
CALLER: Mega Gator dittos, Rush.<\/p>\n
RUSH: Thank you, sir.<\/p>\n
CALLER: I have a report from the ground that I want to preface a little bit. It involves the Trayvon Martin case. I want to say not that it\u2019s not serious. It\u2019s a very serious case, and maybe there was wrongdoing and maybe the law needs to be revisited. And maybe there\u2019s great tension in Sanford, Florida. However, and the point I wanted to get to is that by in large throughout the community down here, the tension and the anger that is played up in the media does not exist.<\/p>\n
CALLER: Throughout south Florida, which is a pretty broad area, which you would expect to be equal or more so than throughout the country.<\/p>\n
RUSH: Okay, interesting question. You\u2019re speaking of south Florida, but have the race industry guys been able to really work up the whole nation about this?<\/p>\n
CALLER: Well, it\u2019s interesting. There was a march last weekend that drew I think about a tenth of what they expected.<\/p>\n
RUSH: Well, it was less than they expected. I don\u2019t know if it was that small, but it was certainly beneath expectations, you\u2019re right.<\/p>\n
CALLER: Right. And I think the whole campaign is falling short, and it\u2019d be interesting to see what happened next. I think Obama —<\/p>\n
RUSH: You know why it\u2019s falling short?<\/p>\n
CALLER: ‘Cause it\u2019s manufactured.<\/p>\n
RUSH: It\u2019s manufactured, plus it\u2019s a media controversy. It\u2019s not a real life controversy. They\u2019re trying to manufacture it into a real life controversy. They\u2019re trying to portray that this is life in America. This is the template, the template that these media people have. This is what they\u2019re taught in journalism school. It\u2019s what they\u2019re taught as liberals from the moment they\u2019re born. That this is a racist country. That there is still slavery, for all intents and purposes. That there is still massive discrimination. And the way to assuage it is to just ladle as much guilt on white people as you can. Shelby Steele has written about this eloquently many times, even in book form, much less columns. <\/p>\n
But I\u2019ll tell you, it\u2019s fascinating. Here they are, the best and brightest, the smartest, the most educated, the most curious — I\u2019m talking about the media — and they are the most closeted, closed-minded, sealed off from reality people you will ever meet. It is breathtakingly true. I\u2019ll give you example of what I\u2019m talking about, just off the top of my head. The National Football League has had black head coaches for a long time. The National Football League has had black quarterbacks. It\u2019s an integrated league. The only thing it doesn\u2019t have yet is black ownership. Yet, a black defensive coordinator, black assistant coach will get a head coaching job and the media will treat this as though the guy just got released from the plantation. They really do. It is as though this particular coach just got off the plantation. No longer is he picking cotton. It\u2019s such a great day in America. <\/p>\n
It doesn\u2019t matter if the coach is qualified or not. All that matters is his race. And the reason it\u2019s such big deal to them is because their view, and it\u2019s widespread in the media. I\u2019m not giving you an example of a couple of extremists. Widespread view that there is still massive discrimination, massive oppression in the league, in the country, in every business. And it\u2019s never treated as a human being got a job, a human being got an opportunity, a human being has just moved up the ladder. It\u2019s always somebody has overcome the obstacles that are continually put in his way by the country. And it offends me, it irritates me, and it makes me sad at the same time. The idea that with this group of people, we\u2019re never gonna get past race. <\/p>\n
This whole Sanford, Florida, thing, you would think, after what happened with the Duke lacrosse case, that there would be a little embarrassment and a little humiliation, and then a little warning, “Maybe let\u2019s not go so far this time. Remember what happened at Duke. We were all wrong.” And the reason there isn\u2019t any humiliation, the reason why there isn\u2019t any hesitation is because the lesson from Duke is not that they got it wrong. The lesson is they failed to pull it off. The objective in the Duke lacrosse case was to make sure those players were found guilty. That didn\u2019t happen. This time it\u2019s a chance to win it. <\/p>\n
Tawana Brawley, full-fledged hoax. Everything after Tawana Brawley should be doubted and viewed with suspicion, but it\u2019s not. But the Duke lacrosse case is recent, and everybody knows about it, and it fits so well because there wasn\u2019t one aspect of it that was true. And every bad actor in this thing behaved according to stereotype, from the faculty on down. The learned faculty, the moment the allegation was made by the victim, not the cops, the cops got in line soon enough — the moment the victim made the allegation, case closed because, “Okay, we\u2019ve got it. This is what America is. America is a racist, sexist, bigoted country, where young black women are made to strip and dance for a bunch of rich white guys. It\u2019s the only chance they got. Our country sucks because of it.” So the opportunity to establish that as America presented itself, and the fact that none of it was true did not shame anybody in the media. It did not help them learn in dealing with the next instance. They just chalked it up, “Well, we gave it our best.” <\/p>\n
So here comes Zimmerman <\/a>and Trayvon Martin, Sanford, Florida, and now, okay, a brand-new chance for us to show what this country is really all about. Oh, I remember Nifong, the DA. He fell right for it, too. He was involved in the stereotype, right? He was right there. He was running for reelection or doing something and he was looking at public opinion polls or whatever. The nature of the evidence, doesn\u2019t matter. It\u2019s the seriousness of the charge. It\u2019s always the case with the left. (interruption) Well, yeah, the whole faculty wanted the kids strung up. Eighty-four members of the Duke faculty, I think it was, signed some official statement condemning these four kids and their families and that lacrosse coach and lacrosse team. And nobody was guilty of anything. <\/p>\n You would think that the next time something like this comes up there\u2019d be a little — you and I, if we had made such an egregious error, we\u2019d be told to learn from it. We would be told to be very careful, if we survived it. You and I would be fired for doing what the media en masse did. You and I would have no more credibility to say anything about anything and be believed. But that\u2019s not true of the civil rights coalition, the race hustlers, the race business leaders. They\u2019re just on to the next one. And, by the way, they\u2019re on to the next one with glee, a little happiness. Another opportunity to try to tell people what this country\u2019s really like. <\/p>\n They know that a black guy was shot by a guy who isn\u2019t black, therefore it\u2019s a racial incident. The nonblack guy\u2019s filled with rage and hatred. That\u2019s what this country\u2019s all about, and they\u2019re out to prove it, and if they can\u2019t prove it they\u2019ll try make it look like it happened anyway. And that\u2019s what\u2019s going on here. And that\u2019s why, when the Washington Post takes time out to write a column about Mary J. Blige in a Burger King commercial <\/a>for fried chicken, it\u2019s just frustrating. They don\u2019t want to get past it. There are so many things far more important, but this stuff is holding everybody back, and the agenda behind all of this is aimed at establishing in as many minds and hearts as possible this country sucks. That\u2019s what\u2019s going, and it doesn\u2019t. And that\u2019s what\u2019s offensive about this. <\/p>\n You and I couldn\u2019t get away with one-tenth of what happens. You and I would be fired, canned. We\u2019d lose all credibility. We wouldn\u2019t be listened to if we were that demonstrably wrong, purposely wrong. What happens to you at your job if you do the equivalent of doctoring a 911 tape like this producer at NBC? What happens to you at your job? (interruption) Exactly right. You\u2019re not only fired, you are held up as the worst example. You are humiliated. You become an object lesson in how not to do the job. At NBC you get shielded and protected, and they attempt to explain it all away. (interruption) Why would they think to do it in the first place? Oh. Well, that\u2019s the point I was making yesterday. You and I wouldn\u2019t even think of doctoring something that isn\u2019t true to make it look like it\u2019s true because we live in Realville. Who wants to be right by virtue of a lie? You\u2019re not right. You can\u2019t be right. You and I don\u2019t even think this way.<\/p>\n BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n RUSH: Lynchburg, Virginia. It\u2019s Peter. Peter, thanks for the call. Great to have you on the program, sir.<\/p>\n CALLER: How are you today?<\/p>\n RUSH: Good. Thank you.<\/p>\n CALLER: Snerdley and I had a little chuckle about where I was calling from. My hometown of Lynchburg and my subject matter.<\/p>\n RUSH: What is your subject matter?<\/p>\n CALLER: Well, we were talking about Mary J. Blige and the so-called outrage —<\/p>\n RUSH: No, it\u2019s not so called.<\/p>\n CALLER: Well, evidently the advertisers as well as the media seem to like to stir this up right about now. Have you caught an Aunt Jemima pancake commercial lately?<\/p>\n RUSH: No, I honestly haven\u2019t. I really haven\u2019t.<\/p>\n CALLER: It comes up as an animation now, and the animation appears and sounds to be Caucasian, but when it reverts back to the bottle, it goes back to being a black woman. I don\u2019t know if you\u2019ve noticed that.<\/p>\n RUSH: No, because I haven\u2019t seen the commercial.<\/p>\n![](\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/RushJoinRush247.jpg\"\/)
<\/a>The Duke lacrosse case, for many in the media, was not a learning thing. It was not something about which there\u2019s to be any shame. It was a lost opportunity. If they coulda convicted those kids, they would have. So now it\u2019s on to George Zimmerman. And look what\u2019s done. NBC doctors a 911 tape. ABC doctors a police video. CNN misreports the 911 tape. These are not workplace accidents. These are not things that occur in the haste and the hustle and bustle to get the story out. These happened because the people in charge had a preconceived notion of what they want to happen, of what they want the truth to be, of what they want the outcome to be. And so whatever it takes to make that happen they will do. If they gotta doctor a 911 tape to make this guy out to be a racist, then they will, because they know he is. They know because of what happened there.<\/p>\n
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<\/a>CALLER: Well, no one really I\u2019m sure has paid much attention to it, but advertisers do direct their products toward a certain clientele, so to speak. And depending on who they are and their targeted audience —<\/p>\n