{"id":248439,"date":"2017-09-26T15:00:00","date_gmt":"2017-09-26T19:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/?p=248439"},"modified":"2021-04-22T12:26:00","modified_gmt":"2021-04-22T16:26:00","slug":"why-i-dont-engage-emotional-liberals-like-lebron-james","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2017\/09\/26\/why-i-dont-engage-emotional-liberals-like-lebron-james\/","title":{"rendered":"Why I Don\u2019t Engage Emotional Liberals Like LeBron James"},"content":{"rendered":"

RUSH: Mark in Fort Worth, Texas. Great to have you. How you doing, sir?<\/p>\n

CALLER: I\u2019m great, Rush. Christmas came early this year for me. I\u2019ve been a listener for 29 years. This is the first time I\u2019ve gotten through to you. This is the best.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, thank you, sir. I appreciate that.<\/p>\n

CALLER: You\u2019re welcome. Hey, I have a possible solution to this whole thing with the NFL. I saw LeBron James this morning on TV and he\u2019s gonna be even more vocal and use his platform —<\/p>\n

RUSH: Okay, I need to you slow down. Whoa, whoa, please slow down a little bit so I can keep up with you.<\/p>\n

\"\"CALLER: I\u2019m sorry. So LeBron James was on TV this morning said he was gonna use his platform to speak out further about these issues. And of course he\u2019s been a big proponent for Black Lives Matter, so I\u2019m suggesting as a possible solution, and use your platform, to challenge LeBron James to lead the way. Sell his mansion in Brentwood, move his family to his old neighborhood in Cleveland. Build a home there, move there, invest in his neighborhood, invest in businesses to create jobs, invest in low-income housing, even offer free housing.<\/p>\n

Maybe invest in some schools. Put his children in school in his old neighborhood, and he recently became married as well, so set an example and give back to his community and then lead the way and then encourage other athletes to do the same. Put money back into their own neighborhoods. They make this money, but he\u2019s spending his money in Brentwood these days.<\/p>\n

\"\"RUSH: Well, this is something that I have always avoided for professional and programming purposes. I do not engage in personal feuds or challenges or causes like cutting up your credit cards and sending \u2019em to Exxon. I don\u2019t know that LeBron James doesn\u2019t spend some of his money on his neighborhood in Ohio. I don\u2019t know. I\u2019m not gonna assume that he doesn\u2019t just \u2019cause he lives in Brentwood. And to challenge LeBron James to do something is just not my style. I don\u2019t think it\u2019s effective. It might make a great media show, but it\u2019s not the way I choose to go about these kinds of things.<\/p>\n

I don\u2019t look at LeBron James as somebody\u2019s mind I can change. I\u2019m not gonna change LeBron James\u2019 mind. Like Scalia told me once, he\u2019s not gonna change Stephen Breyer\u2019s mind on anything. He doesn\u2019t even try. And I wouldn\u2019t waste my time trying. But the same people who to listen LeBron James might listen to me or vice-versa. He\u2019s now put himself in the arena of ideas, which is where I live every day. He\u2019s gone from the basketball court to the arena of ideas. And so I just choose to deal with this in a different way.<\/p>\n

My target has always been what I call the audience, the people, the population. I don\u2019t waste my time challenging Algore or Tom Steyer or Leonardo DiCaprio or any of these people because it\u2019s showbiz, and half if not more of what they\u2019re doing is showbiz. They really don\u2019t know what they\u2019re talking about anyway half the time. They\u2019re engaged in emotional appeals. Do you remember when Boko Haram first kidnapped whatever number of girls it was, 300, what was the country? I\u2019m having a mental block, what country in Africa did it happen? Doesn\u2019t matter.<\/p>\n

Okay, let\u2019s just call it Nigeria. It could have been Namibia, could be Nivea. Whatever Trump calls it is what we\u2019ll call it. Well, he got the name of an African country wrong the other day, and the media just went nuts with it. He called Nambia Namibia or something like that. But let\u2019s say it\u2019s Nigeria. Here\u2019s what happened. So 300 girls got kidnapped by a bunch of terrorists. And what was the U.S. reaction? Michelle Obama cut a video that then showed up on Twitter and Facebook, and she was holding a sign: #bringbackourgirls. A Twitter hashtag, #bringbackourgirls.<\/p>\n

\"\"What did old El Rushbo do? Pointed out the folly. What are we gonna do now? We expect the Boko Haram terrorists to see the hashtag, #bringbackourgirls and start quaking in fear and return them? And then I said, obviously Michelle Obama is engaged in something other than getting the girls back here. Well, the reaction to that ranged from, “Have you no heart? Are you so cold-hearted and cruel that you have no soul?” because I had dealt with something not emotionally, I had challenged an emotional play.<\/p>\n

All it was doing was making the people doing the hashtag feel better. They weren\u2019t accomplishing a single thing except making themselves feel like they were involved and making them feel like they mattered and making them feel like they were making a difference. They weren\u2019t making a difference, they weren\u2019t involved, and what they were doing didn\u2019t matter. And I, in pointing that out, I was scorched by dummkopfs who had not the ability to understand that what they were doing was meaningless and in fact was probably being laughed at by the very terrorists who had kidnapped the girls.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s a long answer here, Mark, but that\u2019s why I don\u2019t engage these people doing emotional things, \u2019cause it\u2019s a total waste of time. All that\u2019s gonna happen is that you upset the very delicate emotional place they created for themselves, where they think they\u2019re doing God\u2019s work. They think they\u2019re doing the Lord\u2019s work. They think they\u2019re mattering. They think they\u2019re making a difference, and I come along and point out that a hashtag is probably about as effective as not saying anything. And they can\u2019t handle it. I became public enemy number one for about five days, maybe five hours. It didn\u2019t bother me. Don\u2019t misunderstand. But it doesn\u2019t accomplish anything except a media show, and I just have never rolled that way.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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