{"id":314604,"date":"2019-07-03T16:05:00","date_gmt":"2019-07-03T20:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/?p=314604"},"modified":"2019-07-08T14:21:23","modified_gmt":"2019-07-08T18:21:23","slug":"your-host-kaepernick-nike-and-china","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2019\/07\/03\/your-host-kaepernick-nike-and-china\/","title":{"rendered":"Your Host, Kaepernick, Nike — and China"},"content":{"rendered":"

RUSH: Now to the Kaepernick situation specifically. Now, Mike, on this, we\u2019re gonna do sound bites 1 and 2 and then we\u2019re gonna jump to 21 and 22. We start out… This is Griff Jenkins this morning on Fox & Friends. He is filling in today for somebody. They conned Griff Jenkins into working today so that some of the regular hosts could get a day off at Fox & Friends. They introduce a clip of me talking about Nike\u2019s decision to pull the Betsy Ross shoes because Kaepernick doesn\u2019t like this.<\/p>\n

JENKINS: Colin Kaepernick has a problem. I\u2019ll tell you who else has a problem with this story is Rush Limbaugh. Here is what he had to say…<\/p>\n

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RUSH ARCHIVE: Did he not tell us that he was kneeling to protest police brutally? Did he not tell us this? He did! That\u2019s all it was. He was protesting the fact that the cops were shooting people like him. … It was all about the cops. Except it wasn\u2019t! It was about the flag all along! He was taking a knee because he opposes the country! He opposes the national anthem. He opposes honoring the flag. This proves it! … They always lie to us. They hide so much of their real core. Even when they are in the process of displaying it, they still deceive.<\/p>\n

RUSH: They then turn to Brian Kilmeade for instant analysis of your host, El Rushbo.<\/p>\n

KILMEADE: Thirteen stripes and 13 stars. Now we have 13 stripes of the original colonies. We put the stars on, uh, for the states they come. So essentially if you\u2019re against the 13 stars, you\u2019re against the 13 stripes, you\u2019re against the flag.<\/p>\n

RUSH: So Kilmeade with that line of thinking endorsed the points made by your beloved host. Now, the Nike decision is related in part to Kaepernick\u2019s claim that the Betsy Ross flag was designed and deployed at a time the nation had slavery, and so the Betsy Ross flag is a symbol of slavery and the celebration of slavery — and, as such, that flag needs to come down. It\u2019s not a celebration of slavery, but that\u2019s how they want to cast it.<\/p>\n

But think about this. You\u2019ve no doubt heard over the years the stories of where and how Nike (what do you call them, sneakers, tennis shoes, Air Jordans) are made. They\u2019re made in sweatshops in the jungles of Asia. The people that make these shoes are actual slaves. They work seven days a week. They work for veritable peanuts. They are youths in many cases, and they are paid practically nothing. They kept none of the spoils of the profits generated by the sale. So here\u2019s this shoe outfit. Look, labor costs are the number one costs for any business and particularly a manufacturing business.<\/p>\n

Labor costs are at the top. Every business wants to reduce \u2019em. Standard Business Practice 101 for evil capitalists, reduce labor costs. Because it\u2019s the number one costliest item, usually in the P&L statement, the budget. Nike has taken that to the extreme of paying nothing, and these literally are sweatshops! People sweat their lives off in these overheated, close-quarter factories. It\u2019s been documented — and note that there\u2019s no concern for that, that Nike…<\/p>\n

Even though this is well known and gets talked about now and then, it never fully attaches to Nike or any other manufacturer using similar people, pay scales, working conditions. It never attaches to them for any length of time. Now we move to later in the day on the Fox News Channel. This morning Bill Hemmer has as his guest the new senator from Missouri, Josh Hawley. We have two bites with Hemmer also introducing a sound bite of me from yesterday\u2019s program and asking Senator Hawley to react to it…<\/p>\n

HEMMER: Nike facing some kind of backlash for pulling its Fourth of July sneakers from the shelves. We\u2019ll speak with the Republican slamming that decision — leading the way, in fact. He\u2019s next<\/p>\n

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RUSH ARCHIVE: Make no mistake about it. Colin Kaepernick and his behavior and Nike going along with him, in my estimation, is flat-out un-American. It\u2019s anti-America, let\u2019s put it that way.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yeah, I used un-American a couple of times. It\u2019s anti-American, is what it is, and that\u2019s inarguable, as is their reaction to any kind of celebration in Washington tomorrow. (impression) “You can\u2019t do that! You can\u2019t politicize the Fourth of July!” They\u2019re wanting equal time. Equal time for what? You know, a Democrat makes a speech, a Republican makes a speech\/State of the Union. Yeah, we give equal time to the other party. (chuckles) What is the equal time to celebrating the founding of freedom in the United States?<\/p>\n

Opposition to it. So after playing that quite cogent sound bite where Nike and Kaepernick are actually behaving as anti-Americans, Bill Hemmer said to Josh Hawley, Republican of Missouri, “You\u2019ve said, Senator Hawley, that Nike is a symbol of everything wrong with the corporate economy. They take advantage of our laws, but they send jobs overseas, sweatshop wages, partner with aggressive regimes, aggressively avoid paying any U.S. taxes — and then they tell Americans to shut up and buy their stuff. Enough said?”<\/p>\n

HAWLEY: It\u2019s terrible, Bill, what they\u2019re doing here. Betsy Ross, let\u2019s not forget, was an independent businesswoman who had her own shop in Philadelphia who designed our nation\u2019s first flag, who sewed our nation\u2019s first flag. I mean, she\u2019s truly a founding measure. I mean, this is something that the best of America, and this is controversial to Nike? But, meanwhile, Nike\u2019s still willing to make a buck in China! They\u2019re still willing to partner with an authoritarian, repressive regime. They want the money in China.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s why they\u2019re willing to take direction from the Chinese Communist Party. I\u2019m mean, let\u2019s not forget Nike just pulled a design in the Chinese market because the Chinese market didn\u2019t like that the designer of a pro-democracy activist. So they\u2019re all about where they can make a quick buck — and let\u2019s be honest, Nike is more and more anti-American. They\u2019re shipping jobs overseas. Now they\u2019re engaging in this kind of anti-American activity. I mean, it\u2019s really… It\u2019s a shame to see.<\/p>\n

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RUSH: That reminds me. I\u2019ve got something here in The Stack<\/a>. Hawley talking about the ChiComs and how rotten they are. I read something on one of my tech blogs, and I printed it out, and I\u2019m looking for it right now. I want to find this for you. It\u2019s about a really obscene practice that the ChiComs have recently implemented. (shuffling papes) Where did I put this? Stick with me here, folks. I know I… Here it is! Here it is. The original report here is from a blog site, website called Motherboard, and here is the summary of the details:<\/p>\n

“Foreigners crossing certain [ChiCom] borders into the Xinjiang region…” It\u2019s probably “Zing-yang.” I just called it “Ying-yang” to Americanize it. “Foreigners crossing certain Chinese borders into the Xinjiang region, where authorities are conducting a massive campaign of surveillance and oppression against the local Muslim population, are being forced to install a piece of malware on their phones that gives all of their text messages as well as other pieces of data to [ChiCom] authorities, a collaboration by Motherboard,” a German publication, the U.K “Guardian, the New York Times, and the German public broadcaster NDR has found.”<\/p>\n

So because of a crackdown on Muslims in China, anybody crossing the border into China in the Xinjiang region, authorities are stopping and putting malware on their phones so that they can be tracked, including their text messages, their location, and all that. Okay. So this has been reported. So I wanted to find tech blog reaction to this, \u2019cause these people hate Donald Trump. These people think Donald Trump is the worst scum on earth. So here\u2019s a typical reaction: “Well, what do you expect going into China?”<\/p>\n

As though, “Hey, it\u2019s China! Nothing you can do about it!” Do these people not realize…? This actually is one of my subpoints of the day. You know, not realizing early enough where we are head and toward where we are trending. Google! Google totally changes their operations to do business with China. China basically runs Google search in China. The ChiCom government determines what will be returned on any search of Google in China. Google says, “Eh! Well, you know, if we want to do business in China; we gotta follow the local laws.”<\/p>\n

So the ChiComs? Nothing wrong with the ChiComs! But, boy, these people hate Donald Trump — and, boy, these people hate Republican. You listen to them talk about Republicans. (impression) “Republicans are dumb, stupid. They are oppressors. They want to deny people civil rights! They want to deny people human rights. Republicans are mean-spirited racist, sexist, bigot, homophobes.” But, hey, you know, it\u2019s China. What are you gonna do?<\/p>\n

I mean, if these people really believe in their hearts — if they\u2019re really human rights activist and civil libertarians — don\u2019t they oppose it everywhere? And if they see it happening in China, “Eh! Well, it\u2019s China. What do you expect?” And then out of the next corner of their mouths we get a diatribe on what a rotten SOB Donald Trump is, and how dangerous he is, how stupid he is. If you don\u2019t stand up against this stuff, even if you\u2019re not gonna do anything about it… I mean, people standing up against ChiComs in America, I know, is not gonna stop the ChiComs. But you gotta be consistent don\u2019t you?<\/p>\n

If you hate this kind of suppression, you gotta stand up against it. “Oh, I don\u2019t know. Google needs to do business in China. They\u2019ve gotta obey the laws of where they are. You can\u2019t just… You can\u2019t push back against the ChiComs.” Oh, really? Now, what if this kind of stuff…? What if we ever elect somebody in this country that wants to do the same kind of thing? What happens if the governor of California decides that if you cross the border into California, you gotta surrender your phone so they can put malware on it to follow you wherever you go, especially if you\u2019re Republican?<\/p>\n

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You say, “Aw, come on, Rush! It\u2019ll never happen. You do not take a story of what\u2019s happening in China, Rush, and then extrapolate it to what… Of course we can\u2019t! It would never happen in the United States.” How much stuff happening today is stuff you said 30 years ago would never happen in the United States? The more Gavin Newsom talks, folks — and you combine it with what I think really motivates them: outright, sheer hatred for us.<\/p>\n

As far as they\u2019re concerned, we are the greatest threat to their existence anywhere in the world. American conservatives and Republicans and the greatest threat to your domestic left that they think they face. So, yeah. “Rush, it would never happen. They couldn\u2019t get away with it. There are federal laws against it. You can\u2019t just grab somebody\u2019s phone and put malware on it and follow people around.” Yeah, sanctuary cities aren\u2019t legal, either — and coming into the country isn\u2019t legal, either. There\u2019s a whole lot of stuff you can\u2019t do that everybody\u2019s doing every day.<\/p>\n

No, I\u2019m not predicting that any governor of California… What I\u2019m trying to point out here is these holier-than-thou left-wing human rights\/civil rights activists, when the ChiComs or some communist government does exactly what they oppose, they shrug and they look away and say, “Well, that\u2019s China. What are you gonna do?” It\u2019s that kind of attitude that makes it possible. So if a Democrat came along, by the way, and wanted to do something like that, who\u2019s to say there wouldn\u2019t be a bunch of Democrats saying, “You know what? If a Democrat\u2019s doing it, it\u2019s a good idea. A good idea! It may need to be done. Track Republicans.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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