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RUSH: Let\u2019s go to the phones. Rich in Manchester, Michigan, you\u2019re first. I\u2019m glad you waited, and welcome to the program.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Rush, how are you today?<\/p>\n

RUSH: Fine, sir. Thank you very much.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Good. You\u2019ve been talking to me for over 20 years now. It\u2019s a thrill to be able to talk back at you.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Thank you, sir.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Even though it\u2019s to take issue. I got an issue with this cracker thing that\u2019s going on in the news and on talk radio. You know, it\u2019s like, you know, kill the cracker women, kill the cracker babies, kill every iota of a cracker, and it\u2019s a very offensive racial epithet.<\/p>\n

RUSH: I wholeheartedly agree.<\/p>\n

CALLER: I think what we need to do, maybe, is try something a little less offensive, like maybe ‘C-word.\u2019<\/p>\n

RUSH: Wait, wait, wait, wait. Wait a second. You think I need to be less offensive?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Well, I think everybody does, including you. I didn\u2019t really think that you would be getting in on this cracker thing that\u2019s all over the media, but —<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, see, that\u2019s the point: It\u2019s not all over the media. That is precisely the point, Rich.<\/p>\n

CALLER: It is when you only listen to talk radio and watch Fox News. I could listen to CNN — or watch CNN.<\/p>\n

RUSH: It\u2019s not on CNN. It\u2019s not on CBS, ABC, NBC, New York Times, Washington Post, LA Times, USA Today. It\u2019s not there. Nobody\u2019s talking about the offensive death threats that are being enunciated daily by the New Black Panther Party. Nobody\u2019s talking about the voter fraud case the Department of Justice threw out because black defendants aren\u2019t going to be prosecuted according to Obama and Eric Holder. It\u2019s not all over the media, and now I\u2019ve put it there where it deserves to be and it deserves to be in there because the rest of the country needs to know who it is that\u2019s talking this way.<\/p>\n

CALLER: I understand, but don\u2019t you think it would be a little less offensive if you heard, like, ‘I want to kill every iota of a C-word instead\u2019 of cracker?<\/p>\n

RUSH: I don\u2019t know what you mean by ‘C-word.\u2019<\/p>\n

CALLER: Ummm. Well, it\u2019s because it\u2019s a racial epithet.<\/p>\n

RUSH: If I start talking about ‘killing every C-word,\u2019 nobody\u2019s going to know what the hell I\u2019m talking about. There\u2019s a bunch of different possibilities for C-word. I don\u2019t even want to get into them.<\/line> <\/line> CALLER: Oh, you\u2019re right. Yeah.<\/line> <\/line> RUSH: Yeah. I always am right — and, by the way, offensive? When did that ever bother me? The purpose here is not to be offensive or to not offend. The way I look at it, you can\u2019t go through life without offending people these days. There are people who live to be offended. Speaking personally, I don\u2019t give people the power to offend me. I don\u2019t. I don\u2019t give people that much power to make me upset by what they say. But this is serious stuff. We\u2019ve got Barack Obama. We got a supposedly a postracial country now, a postracial president, postpartisan. We\u2019re supposed to be in utopia now, and the tea party is being called racist by the NAALCP! Obama finally has a grievance with Al-Qaeda. They\u2019re racist! All of this is absurd, and what I do is illustrate the absurd by being absurd. <\/line><\/p>\n

So George Steinbrenner passes away and I say, ‘That cracker made a lot of millionaires outta African-Americans.\u2019 It\u2019s undeniably true. According to Khalid Sheikh Mohammed Shabazz, King Samir Shabazz, people like that describe them as crackers because he\u2019s white. But he made millionaires out of a lot of African-Americans. Well, if they can use the word with impunity, because it\u2019s not circulated widely that they\u2019re speaking this way — and these are people that the Department of Justice is protecting, Rich. Malik Shulu Zulu Shabazz, King Shamir Shabazz — who is a minister, by the way. The Department of Justice refers to him as a minister, and he\u2019s out talking about killing cracker babies, and this man is being shielded from prosecution by the Obama Justice Department. And what about the original, legitimate crackers? <\/p>\n

Does anybody know who the original legitimate crackers were? I will hold off in informing you about this. But there are original crackers and they should be offended at all this, and I\u2019m not talking about Ritz or Saltine. There are some original crackers, and I\u2019m not talking about graham crackers. I especially don\u2019t want to upset him. The original crackers are native Floridians. Brian, a native Floridian, is a cracker. The term was originally applied to native Floridians. A cracker. The term has now been co-opted by the New Black Panther Party and its affiliates and allies. So I\u2019m sorry if it offends you, but the fact is it\u2019s not being reported. The people who are using the term in a derogatory fashion, who are threatening violence and death against white people and white babies are being protected and shielded by the Obama, Eric Holder Justice Department. So that\u2019s why we make a big deal. <\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: All right, from the Urban Dictionary, the definition of ‘cracker\u2019 from the Urban Dictionary: ‘White slave driver,\u2019 because he would crack the whip. So that\u2019s the definition of a ‘cracker\u2019 in the Urban Dictionary. In Florida, the cowboys of Florida were called cracker cowboys, in modern times (which is now for those of you in Rio Linda). ”Florida cracker\u2019 is used informally by some Floridians to indicate that their family has lived here for many generations. It\u2019s considered a source of pride to be descended from frontier people who did not just live but flourished in Florida during a time before air-conditioning, mosquito repellent, and screens.\u2019 So Senator Bill Nelson is an esteemed and proud cracker, you might say. <\/p>\n

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RUSH: St. Louis, Michigan. This is Eileen. It\u2019s great to have you here. Hi.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Hi. Rush, I just wanted to call and give you the definition of a cracker since I am a descendant of a true cracker of Palm Beach County.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Oh, cool.<\/p>\n

CALLER: My grandfather was born in Palm Beach County in 1898.<\/p>\n

RUSH: You\u2019re talking about Palm Beach County, Florida?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yes.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yes.<\/p>\n

CALLER: And I was also born in Palm Beach County in 1940. But the true definition of the cracker, they were cattlemen.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yeah.<\/p>\n

CALLER: And they spent their days rounding up scrub cattle, and then they would drive them to Fort Myers, and they would use the whip on the drives, and crack the whip over the cattle and they would sell them and load them on boats and sell them to Cuba.<\/p>\n

RUSH: So the crackers sold cattle to Cuba?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yes.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yeah.<\/p>\n

CALLER: And that\u2019s where they got their name, they called them crackers.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Thank you very much, Eileen.<\/p>\n

CALLER: That is the history of the crackers. They were pioneers.<\/p>\n

RUSH: You can find the original usage of the word ‘cracker\u2019 in Shakespeare. Yeah, you can find a definition of cracker that means supreme ego. I mean there\u2019s many kinds of crackers. And, by the way, some of you have written to correct me, thinking that I incorrectly identified the British biscuits as crackers, that those are cookies. I know that. I was just looking for any excuse to use the word ‘cracker\u2019 today. I know that British biscuits are cookies, and I know that British crisps are potato chips, but ‘cracker\u2019 is the word of the day. <\/p>\n

Now, I have a question that I want to ask all of you. We are told in our culture that it\u2019s okay for members of groups to use derogatory or inflammatory or offensive terms about themselves but that nobody else can. For example, it\u2019s okay for rappers and others in the black community to call each other the N-word, but nobody else can. If you do that they\u2019ll Imus you. But we are crackers, are we not? They say we are crackers. Well, Snerdley, you\u2019re not, but I mean according to the New Black Panther Party, Malik Zulu Shabazz and Minister King Samir Shabazz, we\u2019re crackers. Therefore we can use the term, right? I can call Brian a cracker. I can call Steinbrenner a cracker. I can call Dawn a cracker \u2019cause I am one, right? Isn\u2019t this the way it works? But they can\u2019t call us crackers. If they call us crackers it\u2019s offensive, but somehow something\u2019s gotten out of whack here \u2019cause I called Steinbrenner a cracker and I\u2019m the one committing the offensive act, from other crackers. Steinbrenner and I are both crackers, according to King Zulu Shabazz or whoever it is. So we can use the term, they can\u2019t, but they use it and then get away with it. I\u2019m just saying. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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