{"id":33678,"date":"2009-10-12T01:01:01","date_gmt":"2011-05-19T01:50:18","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2018-09-25T14:29:19","modified_gmt":"2018-09-25T18:29:19","slug":"a_response_to_hateful_slander","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2009\/10\/12\/a_response_to_hateful_slander\/","title":{"rendered":"A Response to Hateful Slander"},"content":{"rendered":"
RUSH: Now, let me address one thing. The e-mail is loaded today with people requesting my comment on some of the outrageous slander and libel that\u2019s been on television and in newspapers since\u00a0last week about my potential purchase, being in a group, potential purchase of the St. Louis Rams. I mentioned last week, I can\u2019t do anything but confirm this. The people bidding on this, we all have a confidentiality agreement with Goldman Sachs through the brokers here and there are just certain things that can\u2019t be said about it, I can\u2019t answer specific questions about the status, who else is in the group, and I just want to tell you I\u2019m not surprised, I\u2019m a little disappointed that otherwise responsible journalists are believing a bunch of garbage. There\u2019s a quote out there that I first saw it in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch last week that I somehow, some time ago, defended slavery and started cracking jokes about it. And, you know, you say a lot of things in the course of 15 hours a week, over the course of 21 years. We\u2019ve gone back, we have looked at everything we have. There is not even an inkling that any words in this quote are accurate. It\u2019s outrageous, but it\u2019s totally predictable.It\u2019s being repeated by people who have never listened to this program, they certainly didn\u2019t hear it said themselves because it was never said. In some of the people\u2019s cases, like Michael Wilbon, he\u2019s better than this. I\u2019ve met Wilbon.<\/p>\n

When I started at ESPN I ran into him out at a golf tournament in Las Vegas and he welcomed me to the network and so forth. I\u2019m just mystified that somebody with that kind of brain would believe anything like this, and even if they don\u2019t believe it they obviously wish to be harmful and damaging, which, folks, you have to understand, I expect it. I mean 21 years the enemies\u2019 media monopoly has been destroyed by who? Me and those whose careers started after I started this one. They ought to hate my guts. The point is, when I talk about them, I tell the truth. I watch \u2019em, I listen to them, I report what they say and I tell them why they\u2019re wrong, and I play their own words. They have to go somewhere to find concocted quotes which are now bordering on slander, libel, whatever it is, that I never said, and they believe it, and even if they don\u2019t they use it on purpose.As I say, in the case of some of these people it\u2019s disappointing, because they are better than the things they are saying, writing and doing. Some of them are not better and some of them it\u2019s totally predictable. So one of the things that is going around out there is that black NFL players will boycott playing the game if I am an owner in the league, which of course is patently absurd. But this is being reported and it\u2019s designed to affect the outcome of all of this, which, again, I can\u2019t address. But Stephen A. Smith did. Stephen A. Smith, a black journalist and may still be a columnist for one of the Philadelphia papers, and really reamed me over the McNabb incident when it happened because he knew I was talking about the media there, not McNabb, but Stephen A. Smith, who then got a job at ESPN and is no longer there, he was on CNN\u2019s Your Money I think yesterday afternoon — it says here yesterday on the sound bite roster — and the host, Christine Romans, said, ‘Limbaugh may be part-owner of a football team. Some black NFL players say if he\u2019s the owner, they won\u2019t play. What\u2019s this all about?\u2019SMITH: Absolutely. If he has the money, there\u2019s absolutely nothing wrong with it, and those black ballplayers that are saying that, I\u2019m here on national television telling you they\u2019re lying through their stinking teeth. This is a bunch —<\/p>\n

ROMANS: Aren\u2019t they making a moral stand?<\/p>\n

SMITH: Please. Their moral standard is great. Oh, I\u2019m an athlete, and Rush Limbaugh happens to be the owner of the St. Louis Rams, so the New York Jets offer me $10 million, but Rush Limbaugh is offering me $20 million, I\u2019m going to have a problem with it?<\/p>\n

ROMANS: But what about McNabb? But what about McNabb?<\/p>\n

RUSH: What about McNabb? What about McNabb? What about McNabb? What about McNabb?<\/p>\n

SMITH: Please, they\u2019re lying. Wasting my time.<\/p>\n

ROMANS: Well, what about Donovan McNabb? Wasn\u2019t there a comment on ESPN?<\/p>\n

SMITH: The media is desirous that a black quarterback do well. Yeah, it caused a lot of controversy. I thought that Rush Limbaugh should have been, you know, criticized for that, which he was, and unceremoniously fired by ESPN. But the reality is that that does not mean that he should not own an NFL team. If he has the dollars, he should be allowed to do it. He\u2019s definitely an NFL fan. I\u2019ve listened to him talk about football. It\u2019s not like he\u2019s ignorant to the game of football. The man knows football. He\u2019s a Pittsburgh Steelers fan. Oh, you\u2019re going to pass up money because, oh, my God, I\u2019m offended by Rush Limbaugh being the owner? Who are you fooling? They\u2019re liars.<\/p>\n

RUSH: That\u2019s Stephen A. Smith on CNN\u2019s Your Money with Christine Romans. Do you realize — you all know who the Hutch is, former player, Dallas Cowboys, Seattle Seahawks — the Hutch is on this show many times a year and we talk about football and life, he\u2019s a preacher. He\u2019s black. All of this, as you well know, is just patently absurd. The disappointing thing is that people who could just turn on the radio and listen to this program and find out what they want to know somehow can\u2019t do that, like Stephen A. Smith has.<\/p>\n

Quick time-out. Back after this. Don\u2019t go away.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: St. Louis Rams, St. Louis Rams, St. Louis Rams, I\u2019m a longtime football fan, they were the Los Angeles Rams, before that the Minnesota Rams, that\u2019s why the Lakers are called — well, no, no, the Lakers were the Minnesota Lakers, basketball team. Anyway, St. Louis Rams, a verbal dyslexia there, ladies and gentlemen.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: Dawn said to me during the break here, ‘You didn\u2019t deny what they\u2019re saying you said about slavery!\u2019 I\u2019m not going to dignify it by denying it. Deny it? It\u2019s an outrageous slander, which I did say. People saying I made jokes about the good points, whatever, the finer points of slavery. So to set the record… No, not to set it straight. To confirm the record, I don\u2019t know how many times on this program I have gotten into arguments over the last 21 years with people when I have asserted that the Civil War primarily was about slavery. People have called me, ‘No, it wasn\u2019t! It was about states\u2019 rights. It was about this,\u2019 and I said, ‘Don\u2019t be silly. Abraham Lincoln knew what the union could not survive in one man was allowed to own another. I have uttered those words, quoting Lincoln favorably, too many times to count.<\/p>\n

Slavery — indentured servitude, whatever you want to call it — is abominable, particularly in a free country. I\u2019ve had people call this program and say, ‘Well, the Founding Fathers, I mean they were slave owners! Three-fifths of a person for blacks.\u2019 Yeah, it\u2019s a sad shame. It\u2019s an absolute sad shame but I\u2019ve given people the history. At the time there were 13 colonies. Getting them to all agree to rebel against the king and to declare independence, there were compromises necessary for that unity. Then when the Founders wrote the Constitution, they put the prescription in the Constitution for ending slavery, in the amendments — and in our founding document, the Declaration of Independence, ‘All men are created equal, endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights, among them life, liberty, pursuit of happiness.\u2019 How many times I\u2019ve quoted that, I can\u2019t remember.<\/p>\n

If I had said what they say I said, I would be gone. There would be nobody around. Snerdley would have resigned on the spot, even if I was trying to be funny. I\u2019ve endeavored to go a little deeper into it, though, and explain how slavery has led us into some of the acrimony that we still have today in that there are some people who won\u2019t forget it, who are still trying to capitalize on it and portray this country as though it is still in many ways no different than it was, and I have argued with those people vehemently. I\u2019ve had people say to me, ‘I think you\u2019ve got a blind spot. You don\u2019t know what it\u2019s like to have a heritage that black people in the country have.\u2019 Oh, I most certainly do not have a blind spot and I most certainly do understand it.<\/p>\n

I understand that all human beings have obstacles. We all have to overcome them. There\u2019s no better place to overcome those obstacles than the United States of America. The freest country and the freest people on earth, and what really saddens me and disappoints me to this day is that there are people who are not inspired and taught about how great they can be because they are Americans. Frankly, the biggest problem I face in the current climate of political correctness is that I\u2019m colorblind about it. I don\u2019t say politically correct things about it. For example in the Today Show interview, Jamie Gangel asked, ‘Weren\u2019t you moved by the election of the first black president?\u2019 Yeah, I was. Great historical fact. But I got over it pretty quickly because I don\u2019t see him as black. I see him as president of the United States and I\u2019m more concerned about his policies.<\/p>\n

I love this country. I want everyone in this country to succeed. I want everyone in this country to pursue happiness. I want everyone to benefit, as an American, as I have. I stand in no one\u2019s way! I am not the one putting obstacles in people\u2019s way. I\u2019m the one trying to sweep them away. And in so doing I don\u2019t speak politically correct language — and, as such, I\u2019m accused of being insensitive. I guess my problem is I treat people as adults. I treat them as informed. I treat them as educated and I treat them as equals. I don\u2019t condescend to people, and I don\u2019t run around feeling sorry for people because that doesn\u2019t help them. After you feel sorry for somebody then what do you do? It\u2019s all up to us to make the most of the one life we are blessed to be given by God, and I cringe when I see so many lives not reaching anywhere near their potential because others capitalize on their failure to do so.<\/p>\n

And that happens just only with racial issues, it happens with all minorities. We have assumed that we\u2019re an unjust and unfair country, that all of the minorities (for whatever reasons they\u2019re minorities) are victims of an unfair, unjust, immoral America. And there are white people that buy into that stuff, too, because they don\u2019t want to run around feeling guilty and they don\u2019t want to run around with people thinking that they are racists. It\u2019s all political correctness that has lead people thinking this. So when I, for example, say, ‘I think the media has a little interest in a black quarterback doing well,\u2019 I mean it! Most of the sports media is politically correct, and that kind of surface stuff matters to them. I\u2019m interested in people\u2019s hearts and their souls because that\u2019s what animates us as human being, not our skin color.<\/p>\n

I\u2019m colorblind. I have reached the point where everybody professes we need to go. I treat everybody equally. In the political arena, I don\u2019t care. Male, female, black, white, gay, straight, bisexual, if you are opposed to the things I think are great for the country, I\u2019m going to say so. I\u2019m going to criticize you. Not because of whatever it is distinguishes you from me on a surface basis, but because of ideas. I\u2019m just a lone guy here in the arena of ideas, sharing mine. I don\u2019t have the ability or power to force \u2019em on anybody. Yet there are those throughout our society and culture who are trying to force their views — whether they be militant vegetarians or environmentalist nutcases or what have you — on all of us. And too few people, frankly, have the guts to stand up and say, ‘Screw you! Live your life and I\u2019ll live mine. As long as we do so within the bounds of the law, it\u2019s none of your business what I\u2019m doing.\u2019<\/p>\n

I don\u2019t make it my business what other people are doing, certainly not to the point that I want to censor what they say or become an obstacle to what they can accomplish because I want everybody to succeed. That\u2019s what, frankly, broke my heart about these two sound bites, the situation in Detroit in Cobo Hall last week. ‘Well, what about these parodies? You make fun of people.\u2019 Hey, we\u2019re always up fronts and honest about those. All you have to do is listen here to understand them. There\u2019s nobody that listens to this radio program that thinks that those things are horrible. It\u2019s only the people who hear about it out of context. It\u2019s like Ms. Gangel in the interview. I doubt that this will make the cut, but I understand she played some of ‘Barack the ‘Magic Negro” and ‘Banking Queen\u2019 in the interview today. And she asked me the obligatory question: ‘Don\u2019t you think that\u2019s a little harsh?\u2019<\/p>\n

I said, ‘Would you ask Saturday Night Live these questions? Would you ask Saturday Night Live these…?\u2019<\/p>\n

I said, ‘Barack the ‘Magic Negro,\u2019 do you know where it came from?\u2019<\/p>\n

She said, ‘No.\u2019 I said, ‘You really don\u2019t? You don\u2019t know where it came from?\u2019<\/p>\n

‘No.\u2019<\/p>\n

‘Well, a black columnist for the Los Angeles Times wrote a piece, and the headline was ‘Obama the ‘Magic Negro,” and I explained it to her. ‘It\u2019s all about white people voting for the ‘Magic Negro\u2019 not because of what he believes, but it\u2019s a way for them to assuage their guilt,\u2019 and I told her what amazed me was all of the racism that was going on in the Democrat primary. I can\u2019t count the number of pieces written from Chicago to Los Angeles to New York about how Obama was not ‘authentic\u2019 because he didn\u2019t come from the civil rights struggle, that he wasn\u2019t ‘down for the struggle.\u2019 They\u2019re the ones who question his authenticity and, meanwhile, I\u2019m trying to figure out: What is this guy going to do as president? They\u2019re all worried about these social things. They\u2019re all worried about these surface things.<\/p>\n

‘Is Obama authentic? Is he down for the struggle?\u2019 It wasn\u2019t I who said of Obama, ‘It\u2019s great we finally got a clean, articulate black guy in our party.\u2019 That was Joe Biden, the current vice president, who is a Democrat. It wasn\u2019t I who said that. While all that\u2019s going on, I love to laugh at liberals. I love to make fun of them and throw their own words right back at them in a parody, and the reason we chose Sharpton to sing it is because he was upset when Biden said that Obama was ‘finally a clean, articulate black guy\u2019 that came along in the Democrat Party and Sharpton was withholding his endorsement. So we had Sharpton sing the song, and the lyrics of the song explain where the song came from! Yet somehow I became the author of the term, which I had never heard of until this piece in the LA Times. (interruption)<\/p>\n

(laughing) You think so? I\u2019ll tell you what. All right. The staff is suggesting I play the song, ‘Barack the ‘Magic Negro.” So grab the song. It\u2019s ready now. And you know what I\u2019m not going to do? I could tease you. I could say, ‘Oops, I gotta go to a commercial time-out,\u2019 a time-honored broadcast technique to hold you through the time-out. And I must tell you that local programmers around the country are saying, ‘Do it, Rush! Do it, Rush! Do it, Rush, for the quarter hour.\u2019 Nope. I\u2019m not teasing you. Here\u2019s the song. I want you to listen to the lyrics and I want you to remember… The lyrics explain the whole thing. This is simply great satire. This is huge comedy. If we\u2019ve gotten to the point where we can\u2019t poke fun at people who seek power over all of us, regardless their skin color, then we have reached a dangerous point.<\/p>\n

Jamie Gangel said, ‘Well, you\u2019re so controversial, so outrageous!\u2019 I\u2019m not controversial. Everybody that listens to me agrees with me. I said, ‘You know why you think I\u2019m controversial, is because I say things everybody thinks but doesn\u2019t have the guts to say.\u2019 Political correctness is like a vise grips around our throats. So here\u2019s the song. This is the song that everybody thinks (aside from you people) I somehow wrote, invented, created, the term and all that. Listen to the lyrics, and it\u2019s all in the song. (song starts) Oh, and they\u2019re really bugged that we use their favorite liberal singers Peter, Paul and Mary and their favorite marijuana song ‘Puff the Magic Dragon\u2019 as the parody melody.<\/p>\n

AL SHARPTON IMPRESSIONIST: Barack ‘the Magic Negro\u2019 lives in DC. The LA Times, they called him that ‘Cause he\u2019s not authentic like me. Yeah, the guy from the LA paper said he makes guilty whites feel good. They\u2019ll vote for him, and not for me \u2019cause he\u2019s not from the ‘hood. See, real black men like Snoop Dogg or me or Farrakhan, have talked the talk, and walked the walk. Not come in late and won! (refrain) Oh, Barack ‘the Magic Negro\u2019 lives in DC. The LA Times, they called him that \u2019cause he\u2019s black, but not authentically. (repeat refrain) Some say Barack\u2019s ‘articulate,\u2019 and bright and new and ‘clean.\u2019 The media sure love this guy, a white interloper\u2019s dream! But, when you vote for president, watch out, and don\u2019t be fooled! Don\u2019t vote ‘the Magic Negro\u2019 in \u2019cause… (music stops) \u2019cause I won\u2019t have nothing after all these years of sacrifice! I won\u2019t get justice! This is about justice! This ain\u2019t about me, it\u2019s about justice. It\u2019s about, ummm… (garbled with back-up singers) There won\u2019t be any church contributions! No cash in the collection plate. There ain\u2019t gonna be no cash money, no walkin\u2019 around money. (garbled with back-up singers) Barack is gonna come in here and say that he\u2019s authentic, that he\u2019s gonna be in the street in the struggle with the rest of us, down here where all of us struggle! (music fades out) This is crazy! I\u2019m not gonna have nothing.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Reverend Sharpton and the ‘Barack the ‘Magic Negro.” The funny thing about that is, too, that he gets so mad singing the song he leaves the lyric line and starts protesting. We put Reverend Sharpton through the bullhorn because that\u2019s how he came to be known leading protest marches. I mean, it\u2019s a brilliant, brilliant satirical treatment. He goes off and then the chorus starts trying to drown him out, trying to cover for the fact that he\u2019s blown the lyric line. Oh! It\u2019s probably all-time top favorite song and the ‘Banking Queen,\u2019 Barney Frank is in the top five. We\u2019ll play that next.<\/p>\n

But I just want to say one more thing about this country and one of the things I\u2019ve said repeatedly and constantly. This has nothing to do with the National Football League. It has nothing to do with the St. Louis Rams. It has nothing to do with anything other than a bunch of slanderous, jealous, incompetent sportswriters. One of the things that I am proudest of this country is that we are the country that went to war with ourselves to end slavery: 500,000 Americans, our most costliest war ever, to end slavery. There is nobody I know who wishes to revive it, who defends it. I don\u2019t know anybody, and I mean of 280, 300 million people in this country, I don\u2019t know anybody who wants to return to those days.<\/p>\n

Back with the ‘Banking Queen\u2019 in a second.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: As promised, ladies and gentlemen, and remember, every one of these parodies are based on words these people always say. Barney Frank, architect of the subprime mortgage crisis himself, along with Chris Dodd, he\u2019s the ‘Banking Queen.\u2019<\/p>\n

(playing of ‘Banking Queen\u2019)<\/p>\n

RUSH: And yet another brilliantly conceived, flawlessly written, executed and performed parody here on the Rush Limbaugh program. That\u2019s white comedian Paul Shanklin, by the way, on both parodies. Why say that? Because once when trashing this program they pointed out that the voice interpreter here is white. Okay, fine, he\u2019s white, white comedian Paul Shanklin.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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