{"id":338131,"date":"2020-02-26T16:05:00","date_gmt":"2020-02-26T21:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/?p=338131"},"modified":"2021-05-24T09:47:42","modified_gmt":"2021-05-24T13:47:42","slug":"nepotism-is-everywhere-not-just-government","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2020\/02\/26\/nepotism-is-everywhere-not-just-government\/","title":{"rendered":"Nepotism Is Everywhere, Not Just Government"},"content":{"rendered":"

RUSH: Curt in Sacramento. Great to have you, sir. Glad you waited. Welcome to the EIB Network.<\/p>\n

CALLER: (garbled cell) Best wishes to you, Rush. I wanted to… Since you were mentioning the congressional victory in the special election in Kentucky,<\/a> I\u2019ve heard nothing about that until you said something. I\u2019m on my phone app, and you can get anything from what Kim Kardashian had for breakfast to puppies being saved in sewer pipes. But they couldn\u2019t mention that a Republican won an election, and (crosstalk).<\/p>\n

RUSH: And captured a seat that\u2019s been held for 33 years by the Democrats.<\/p>\n

CALLER: It\u2019s something sufficient, and, I mean, nothing. Crickets. Like I said, I didn\u2019t even know there was an election going on. I\u2019d also just like to take this opportunity to comment on something you were talking about yesterday. You had two articles, one about Rod Rosenstein\u2019s sister and another about Rahm Emanuel\u2019s cousin or something, and they have been given high-paying government jobs. Are these families just so genetically superior to us that they\u2019re the only ones qualified for these positions or is this just more nepotism and (crosstalk).<\/p>\n

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RUSH: No, it\u2019s not just nepotism. It\u2019s incestuousness. It\u2019s a revolving door. But it\u2019s not just in government. It\u2019s everywhere. (sigh) I\u2019m not gonna be able to express this properly. I\u2019m gonna have to research it, but I\u2019m gonna try. The NFL is all troubled every year after head coach openings are filled and not enough African-Americans are hired, and they\u2019ve got the Rooney Rule. They\u2019ve got the Rooney Rule requiring that more African-Americans be interviewed to try to get them known by people who make hiring decisions at various NFL teams.<\/p>\n

And still, the hiring rate is unsatisfactorily low.<\/p>\n

If you look at who does get hired as head coaches, and if you follow the trail, it is astounding what a closed community the NFL coaching community is. For example, the defensive coordinator for the San Francisco 49ers… Well, this is where it\u2019s gonna break down because my memory is gonna fail me here. But the head coach of the Green Bay Packers is the brother of the offensive coordinator for the San Francisco 49ers, and all three — the defensive coordinator of the 49ers — were all together on a college staff somewhere.<\/p>\n

And it\u2019s this way on every team, or a lot of teams where this is the case. Like, the head coach of the Chicago Bears used to be with the Philadelphia Eagles, then the Kansas City Chiefs, and got to be known by… It\u2019s everywhere, this business of who you know mattering as much as what you know in terms of getting a job. It\u2019s not just in government. But it is predominant there — and that\u2019s one of the reasons people want to be an elite.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s one of the reasons they want to be in the establishment. This is how you guarantee your kids jobs. It\u2019s how you guarantee yourself a job! It\u2019s how you guarantee yourself a lifelong income and your relatives and so forth. It\u2019s just how it works. So, yeah, Zeke Emanuel is who you\u2019re talking about, Rahm Emanuel\u2019s brother. He\u2019s a doctor, but he happened to be one of the architects of Obamacare. Yeah, well, whether he\u2019s a better doctor than anybody else, we don\u2019t know.<\/p>\n

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And I\u2019m not bringing it up for that reason. But if Rahm Emanuel is a prominent Democrat, and he\u2019s got a brother who\u2019s a doctor, the odds are if Rahm wants him involved in the Democrat Party, he\u2019s gonna be. Rod Rosenstein\u2019s sister is who made the announcement from the CDC yesterday that it\u2019s not a matter of if; it\u2019s a matter of when we\u2019re all gonna be really, really affected by the coronavirus. I guarantee you, you would be… Well, I don\u2019t know if you\u2019d be surprised or not. But this is just how the world works and how life happens.<\/p>\n

You\u2019ve heard the old saying, “It\u2019s not who you know, it\u2019s who you…” But it is who you know, and it\u2019s where you come from in a lot of ways that determines these things. That\u2019s why people who achieve great things that have nothing — they have nothing backing \u2019em, they have no connections, they have nobody pulling levers or strings for \u2019em — that\u2019s why those people are largely resented, folks, because they represent a great threat to the existing order.<\/p>\n

Somebody comes out of nowhere, nobody knows \u2019em, nobody knows who they are, and they become prominent in a field? Those people are a threat to the existing order and establishment of whatever business we\u2019re talking about — medicine, broadcasting, you name it. Drive-By Media news. Politics.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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