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RUSH: Now, get this story. This is the Ninth Circus Court of Appeals. Public schools in California can bar clothing with slogans that are hurtful. The Ninth Circus ruled this yesterday. This is in the case of a student who wore a T-shirt saying homosexuality is shameful. “The 2-1 decision by a three-judge panel of the U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals backed a San Diego-area high school\u2019s argument that it was entitled to tell a student to remove a T-shirt with that message. The officials were concerned the slogan could raise tension at the school, where there had been conflict between gay and straight students. The student sued, claiming the school\u2019s dress code violated his free speech, religious freedom and due process rights. Writing for the panel\u2019s majority, Judge Stephen Reinhardt–” Now this guy, folks, this guy is way, way out there to the left. His wife is Ramona Ripston. She\u2019s been on TV a number of times. She\u2019s an ACLU chick. Can you imagine life at these two people\u2019s house?<\/p>\n

I think of these liberals, I just think of them living their private lives and what they must do behind closed doors. You know it isn\u2019t fun. You know they\u2019re just sitting there wringing their hands and worried about the fate of communism and what will we do reenergize it and so forth. I do. I share these innermost thoughts with you. I think of these libs behind closed doors and the last thing I see them doing is enjoying life. I see them fretting all the time. Anyway, “Reinhardt affirmed a lower court\u2019s decision against an injunction against the school and said schools may bar slogans believed to be hurtful. Students ‘who may be injured by verbal assaults on the basis of a core identifying characteristic such as race, religion, or sexual orientation, have a right to be free from such attacks while on school campuses,\u2019 Reinhardt wrote.<\/p>\n

‘The demeaning of young gay and lesbian students in a school environment is detrimental not only to their psychological health and well-being, but also to their educational development,\u2019 Reinhardt added. In his dissent, Judge Alex Kozinski said the majority would gag campus dissent to Poway High School\u2019s policies. ‘The types of speech that could be banned by the school authorities under the Poway High School hate policy are practically without limit. Any speech code that has at its heart avoiding offense to others gives anyone with a thin skin a heckler\u2019s veto – something the Supreme Court has not approved in the past,\u2019 Kozinski wrote.”<\/p>\n

This is exactly right. Now, you people wondering, “Why are we spending so much time on this, Rush?” I\u2019ve dealt with this my entire broadcast career. You know, and I\u2019m not advocating this particular T-shirt here, homosexuality is shameful, that\u2019s not the point. The point is, like Mr. Snerdley and I talking about this story today. He said, “Well, who gets to sit there and decide what\u2019s hurtful?” And I said, “The hurt.” So we\u2019re going to have a new group. We already have the offended. If you go back to the archives of this program I have told you who the offended are. There\u2019s a professional business, the offended are political correctness aficionados, and they shut things up that they don\u2019t want to hear by claiming that it offends them. And this is the way the minority reaches out and gags the majority.<\/p>\n

Judge Kozinski is exactly right here. You know my theory on being offended, nobody has the power to make me feel offended, it\u2019s up to me. I don\u2019t get offended, folks. I really don\u2019t get offended. I have not only a thick skin, but I\u2019m not going to let somebody have that kind of power. Can you imagine being such an emotional vegetable that you go through life and you\u2019re just scared to hear anything because it might offend you? What kind of life is that?<\/p>\n

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By the way, we now know that hurtful speech has been banned by the Ninth Circuit. You can\u2019t hurt anybody when you say anything. Folks, do you understand how that\u2019s going to shut everybody up if this spreads? I mean, “You can\u2019t say that, it offends me. You hurt my feelings.” You may not even be talking to somebody and they hear you say something, “You can\u2019t say that, shut up!” You know, people too weak and too spineless to not even be able to overlook it. I mean do you want to let somebody have that kind of power over you to offend you, you go right ahead, but in the meantime, I don\u2019t know if you knew this<\/a> or not, the California Supreme Court, this is not the Ninth Circus, “The California Supreme Court ruled on Thursday that writers have the right to talk dirty and make lewd comments while creating a television situation comedy without having to worry about being sued.<\/p>\n

“The court said the writers of the hit TV series ‘Friends\u2019 did not create a hostile work environment or sexually harass a woman who worked for them by transcribing their raucous work sessions creating programs. The case was closely watched in Hollywood, where several leading writers and civil liberties lawyers said the suit threatened to undermine freedom of speech and the creative process. A spokesman for Warner Bros. Television, named as a defendant in the suit, hailed the ruling, saying: ‘Now we can continue doing what we do best, writing and producing hit television shows–‘” cussing, making all kinds of despicable, deceitful remarks, I don\u2019t care who hears them, and nobody can do anything to us about it. “The unanimous ruling by the –” (interruption) who\u2019s safe, H.R.? Well, yeah, we\u2019re safe because you people can\u2019t come after me for hurtful speech because I am creating in the process.<\/p>\n

The difference here, sex talk, offensive talk, when you\u2019re creating art, writing a TV series — (laughing) — it doesn\u2019t matter who you offend. Andres Serrano knows this, and so does the person who put elephant dung on the Virgin Mary at the Brooklyn museum. No, if you offend somebody in the process of, uh, being creative, which of course we are here on the EIB Network. So, you know, I\u2019m immune. But if you put on — (interruption) yeah, you\u2019re safe also because you all are part of the creative process, absolutely right. Everybody working on this program is safe. I mean, I can\u2019t be sued for sexual harassment; I can\u2019t be sued for anything based on this ruling in California — now, I know this ruling in California is California, but it\u2019s precedent out there. So all of us in the creative process — (laughing) — we have free rein to make you mad, to hurt your feelings, and offend you \u2019til you die, and you can\u2019t do anything about it. If you\u2019re just an average schmo running around in school someplace wearing a harmless little T-shirt, you\u2019re in trouble, according to the US Ninth Circus.<\/p>\n

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