{"id":359268,"date":"2020-08-06T16:15:00","date_gmt":"2020-08-06T20:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/?p=359268"},"modified":"2020-08-06T16:27:44","modified_gmt":"2020-08-06T20:27:44","slug":"bidens-racism-reminds-me-of-al-campanis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2020\/08\/06\/bidens-racism-reminds-me-of-al-campanis\/","title":{"rendered":"Biden\u2019s Racism Reminds Me of Al Campanis"},"content":{"rendered":"

RUSH: I just want to have one more little turn at Biden\u2019s comments today<\/a>. Actually, they were yesterday at the National Association of Black Journalists\u2019 and the National Association of Hispanic Journalists\u2019 virtual convention. And I\u2019ll tell you at the outset that some of you may have a problem with this. Some of you may have a bit of disagreement with me about this. But you\u2019ll see why.<\/p>\n

I\u2019m gonna play two things for you. One happened back in 1987 on Nightline, the other one yesterday with Joe Biden. And here again, sound bite number 1, NPR, Lulu Garcia-Navarro saying to Joe Biden, “Are you gonna reengage with Cuba?” The question is, Trump did this and Trump\u2019s done that and Trump\u2019s getting us out of the world and Trump\u2019s — this woman, “reengage with Cuba.” Obama did that in a way that was not beneficial to the United States, so Trump comes along and takes the relationship with Cuba back to where it should have been. So, now this woman is saying, since Trump is bad orange man, automatically bad guy, automatically wrong, Biden automatically right, Democrat, answer to every problem, “Are you going” — and she is Hispanic herself, Lulu Garcia-Navarro — “Are you going to reengage with Cuba?”<\/p>\n

BIDEN: Yes. And, by the way, what you all know but most people don\u2019t know, unlike the African-American community with notable exceptions, the Latino community is an incredibly diverse community with incredibly different attitudes about different things.<\/p>\n

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RUSH: He\u2019s talking to an Hispanic reporter. And he knows that. And he says, “Look. What you all know but most people don\u2019t know, like Biden knows something that most everybody doesn\u2019t, you know that unlike the African-American community, you Hispanics, we love you guys. You are diverse. You have incredibly different attitudes about different things. But African-Americans, hell, come on, man, they\u2019re all the same, you know what I mean? They think the same way, they act the same way, they\u2019re just the same. That\u2019s what he said.<\/p>\n

Let\u2019s go to back to Nightline 1987. Ted Koppel was interviewing then vice president of the Los Angeles Dodgers, Al Campanis. And Ted Koppel said to Campanis, “Why is it -” 1987 here, folks. This is a year before this program began. Mr. Campanis, vice president the Dodgers, “Why is it there are no black managers, no black general managers, no black owners? Is there still that much prejudice in baseball today?”<\/p>\n

CAMPANIS: I don\u2019t believe it\u2019s prejudice. I — I — I truly believe that they may not have some of the necessities to be, uh, let\u2019s say a field manager or perhaps a general manager.<\/p>\n

KOPPEL: You really believe that?<\/p>\n

CAMPANIS: I don\u2019t say all of them, but they surely are short. How many quarterbacks do you have, how many pitchers do you have that are black? Why are black men — or black people not good swimmers? ‘Cause they don\u2019t have the buoyancy.<\/p>\n