{"id":316247,"date":"2019-07-19T16:13:00","date_gmt":"2019-07-19T20:13:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/?p=316247"},"modified":"2019-07-22T15:24:52","modified_gmt":"2019-07-22T19:24:52","slug":"hot-fox-friends-appearance-has-them-talking-out-there","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2019\/07\/19\/hot-fox-friends-appearance-has-them-talking-out-there\/","title":{"rendered":"I Condemn Myself for My Hot Fox & Friends Appearance"},"content":{"rendered":"

RUSH: To the audio sound bites. I was on fire on Fox & Friends today<\/a>, so much so that, as I say, I apologized to them if I was too hot for morning TV. There are ways to describe good TV, bad TV. TV is a medium where you\u2019re supposed to be cool, meaning you\u2019re not — bright lights. You\u2019re not supposed to raise your voice, not supposed to gesticulate a lot. TV\u2019s a cool — you can\u2019t come in, for example, you can\u2019t start yelling on TV because people are watching you in their homes. You wouldn\u2019t go into their homes and start yelling.<\/p>\n

Well, I got a little animated out there today and so I apologized and asked them if it was too hot. They said, “No, no, no! You\u2019re not anywhere near too hot. Keep it going.” So, anyway, Bill Hemmer later in the day on Fox grabbed a sound bite of me from my appearance and asked his panel to react to it. And here\u2019s the start.<\/p>\n

\"\"HEMMER: Limbaugh framed it the following way a bit earlier today here on Fox.<\/p>\n

RUSH ARCHIVE: People are fed up, I think, hearing how rotten their country is. And they\u2019re fed up hearing the media give those people an additional platform to broadcast their hate and their disgust with the country. So I think what happened at that rally is a combination of people having fun, they\u2019re with a president they love, it\u2019s a takeoff on “lock her up.”<\/p>\n

RUSH: And that was Hillary Clinton, “lock her up.” Now on to the panel, first up, James Freeman, who is the assistant editor, the editorial page of the Wall Street Journal.<\/p>\n

FREEMAN: I would like the president to set a different tone, but I think it should be pointed out here that one of the reasons there is this focus on Congresswoman Omar is the comments from her about the United States, about our troops. I think that is the root of this controversy, but obviously it should be addressed in different ways than we heard at that rally and the president has been expressing.<\/p>\n

\"\"RUSH: So basically, yeah, Limbaugh\u2019s right, but we wish Trump wouldn\u2019t do that. We wish Trump would condemn the chants when they start. They make us nervous. It\u2019s not presidential. So everybody\u2019s gotta go on record disavowing the chants but supporting what they mean and why they\u2019re happening. Oh, yeah. We gotta disavow the chants. We gotta condemn the president. The president needs to set a higher tone. But we can, at the same time, say we understand it.<\/p>\n

And I cannot tell you how frustrating this is to me. I addressed it a little bit yesterday. There are days when it actually makes me mad, the fear people have over what the media\u2019s gonna say. “See, Rush, they\u2019re gonna cast us as bigots and those people make us look like bigots.” No. We\u2019re not bigots. We\u2019re not racists. We\u2019re none of these things, and your defensive attitude about it is what makes people think that we are! Gotta learn to laugh along with this stuff instead of being so damn scared and defensive — and it\u2019s of the media! This fear is of the media!<\/p>\n

“Well, Rush, the media can make and destroy people.” Well, I guess. You know, they\u2019ve tried to destroy me, and they haven\u2019t succeeded, and they\u2019ve tried to destroy Trump and they haven\u2019t succeeded. \u201cWell, Rush they\u2019ve done some damage to Trump.” Of course, but being afraid of \u2019em is not getting anybody anywhere. You never placate \u2019em. You can never satisfy \u2019em.<\/p>\n

They\u2019re never gonna give up on claiming that we\u2019re racist, sexist, bigot, homophobes no matter what we do, no matter how much money goes to charity, no matter how many little old ladies we help across the street, no matter how many lives we save, no matter what we do, they\u2019re never gonna give up with it because it is a campaign tactic designed to help Democrats win. They\u2019re never gonna give it up. So trying to adopt attitudes and say things to tame the media is a losing proposition.<\/p>\n

Here\u2019s Jenna Ellis Rives. She\u2019s on the Trump 2020 advisory board. This is her weighing in.<\/p>\n

\"\"RIVES: I think that Rush Limbaugh is right, that the American people are so tired of this, because we love our country, we love what it stands for, and we love the fact that our government is there to preserve and protect our God-given rights rather than having someone who has taken advantage of the American dream and then just completely spits all over it.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Amen. But they had a different treatment over at CNN. Moments ago, Inside Politics\u2019 John King on CNN setting up and playing a clip of me from this morning\u2019s Fox & Friends.<\/p>\n

KING: Some Republicans tell the president: \u201cAt least dial back the rhetoric, focus on the policy, talk about the Green New Deal, talk about socialism, talk about what Omar has said, offensive words about Israel.\u201d Rush Limbaugh telling the president, “You\u2019re on to something. Keep going.”<\/p>\n

RUSH ARCHIVE: So I think what happened at that rally is a combination of people having fun, they\u2019re with a president they love, it\u2019s a takeoff on “lock her up,” Hillary Clinton. I hope they continue to illustrate how wacko, how morally bankrupt and substantively bankrupt they are. That\u2019s why I hope Omar keeps talking. I hope Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, I hope they keep talking. I hope that Trump continues to succeed in making all of these people the face of the Democrat Party. That\u2019d be great.<\/p>\n

KING: Do Republicans hope an old white guy keeps mocking the accent of a Latino member of Congress?<\/p>\n

RUSH: You hear that? That\u2019s his reaction to the sound bite, that I am mocking the accent of a Latino member of Congress by pronouncing her name, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. That\u2019s his whole reaction. Now, if I were your typical Republican, “Oh, my God. Oh, my God. I\u2019m sorry, I didn\u2019t mean it. I need to rise to a higher tone. Please forgive me. I will never say Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez ever again. I\u2019m just trying to have fun on the radio. Please don\u2019t think ill of me. Don\u2019t think of me like those other white supremacists.”<\/p>\n

That\u2019s how I would behave if I wanted to be like everybody else reacting to this chant business.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: Now, what am I gonna condemn myself for? Well, I just played the sound bite moments ago, John King at CNN played a sound bite of me appearing on Fox & Friends today. And in that sound bite I pronounced Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez that way. And he has accused me of mocking a young woman and her Latino accent.<\/p>\n

And so, ladies and gentlemen, I have decided I need to condemn myself for this lack of sensitivity, for this racism, for this bigotry. “I was really upset by it. Just trying to have fun. I didn\u2019t mean anything to anybody. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, I\u2019m just a guy on radio trying to be different, you know, trying to be unique. I\u2019m just being who I am here, and now they\u2019re calling me names and I can\u2019t afford them to call me names so I\u2019m gonna condemn myself. I didn\u2019t mean anything. I\u2019m sorry, okay? Please leave me alone.”<\/p>\n

\"\"There. I\u2019ve condemned myself. I have fixed the mistake. I have sought the goodwill of my enemies. We\u2019ll see if it works. We\u2019ll see if my official condemnation of me buys me any peace. Now, of course, I know that it won\u2019t. ‘Cause I\u2019m even joking about the condemnation. And I know you people are sophisticated enough to know that.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: So I\u2019m on Fox & Friends today. You people weigh in on this, tell me if you think I\u2019m wrong here. Okay? I\u2019ll subject myself to your judgment.<\/p>\n

So I\u2019m on Fox & Friends today, and I\u2019m talking about the chants, \u2019cause they\u2019re asking me about it. I want to talk about the Stand Up for Betsy Ross T-shirt, which we did at the end of the segment, but they asked me about the chants and Trump and this and that, so I answered it.<\/p>\n

And in mentioning one of the names of The Squad, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, I pronounced her name that way. Which I\u2019ve already come under fire for on this program and you people have told me, \u201cDon\u2019t stop. Keep doing it.\u201d Because you realize it\u2019s in good fun! It\u2019s not mocking anybody. But here\u2019s John King, who must have heard it for the first time in this sound bite on CNN just about an hour and a half ago.<\/p>\n

\"\"KING: Some Republicans tell the president: \u201cAt least dial back the rhetoric, focus on the policy, talk about the Green New Deal, talk about socialism, talk about what Omar has said, offensive words about Israel.\u201d Rush Limbaugh telling the president, “You\u2019re on to something. Keep going.”<\/p>\n

RUSH ARCHIVE: So I think what happened at that rally is a combination of people having fun, they\u2019re with a president they love, it\u2019s a takeoff on “lock her up,” Hillary Clinton. I hope they continue to illustrate how wacko, how morally bankrupt and substantively bankrupt they are. That\u2019s why I hope Omar keeps talking. I hope Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, I hope they keep talking. I hope that Trump continues to succeed in making all of these people the face of the Democrat Party. That\u2019d be great.<\/p>\n

KING: Do Republicans hope an old white guy keeps mocking the accent of a Latino member of Congress?<\/p>\n

RUSH: So now I\u2019m an old white guy and I am mocking, I am mocking the accent of a Latino member of Congress, and he asked, \u201cDo Republicans hope an old white guy keeps –? So next, some CNN reporter might go to members of Congress, “Did you hear Rush Limbaugh mocking Cortez?\u201d \u201cNo, I don\u2019t know what you\u2019re talking about.\u201d Here, listen to the bite. Then they play me saying Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and the reporter, \u201cI certainly condemn that, I think that\u2019s way over the top. I can\u2019t support that, oh, no, that\u2019s embarrassing.”<\/p>\n

That\u2019s what they\u2019re hoping to get. They\u2019re hoping to get Republicans essentially condemning what I was doing. This is how it works. Because I don\u2019t defer. I don\u2019t beg their forgiveness and understanding. Folks, I hate to tell you, but I really do like myself and I like hearing myself speak. If you were right as often as I am, you would like hearing yourself speak too.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: The fact of the matter is, folks, in pronouncing Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez\u2019s name the way I did, I\u2019m actually trying to be respectful of it. That\u2019s how it is pronounced. Not Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, as a bunch of people would say. You go to a Mexican restaurant say, “Give me one of them enchiladas.” No. “Give me a couple them margariters.” No. I try to be respectful of people who speak differently than I do.<\/p>\n

By the way, I am a student of speech and of the voice, and I love giving myself a workout now and then. And it\u2019s not just Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. Oh, we have had so much fun with Senator Kennedy over the years, and others.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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