{"id":394615,"date":"2021-04-27T16:09:00","date_gmt":"2021-04-27T20:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/?p=394615"},"modified":"2021-04-28T15:27:40","modified_gmt":"2021-04-28T19:27:40","slug":"shes-at-it-again-el-rushbo-always-had-maude-behars-number","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2021\/04\/27\/shes-at-it-again-el-rushbo-always-had-maude-behars-number\/","title":{"rendered":"She\u2019s At It Again! El Rushbo Always Had Maude Behar\u2019s Number"},"content":{"rendered":"

BRETT: I\u2019m thinking about the current culture under which we live. I know that\u2019s a broad, encompassing phrase. So let\u2019s look at the current iteration of culture under which we live.<\/p>\n

Cancel culture. Do you know that there are people in Hollywood who don\u2019t believe that what we\u2019re watching play out is actually cancel culture? More on that in just a second. But take a look around at all of the changes that we\u2019ve seen take place just in the last four or five years. Setting aside the coronavirus pandemic, look at just the way the culture has trended since — let\u2019s say for argument\u2019s sake — just about 2016, 2017.<\/p>\n

We have seen a full mobilization by activists to drive people from the public stage based upon interviews they give or based upon opinions they have, and it\u2019s not just that you\u2019re to be driven from the stage. You\u2019re to be disappeared from the popular culture! Now, I do believe with the incredibly low ratings of the Oscars two nights ago that something interesting is manifesting. There is a segment of the population in our country, in our culture that is just opting out.<\/p>\n

\"\"They\u2019re just saying, “You know what? Hollywood doesn\u2019t respect us. Hollywood doesn\u2019t respect me. Hollywood wants to take these positions? Let Hollywood watch Hollywood. I\u2019m out.” The idea that the ratings were, what, 9.9 million for the Academy Awards — and I understand. It was a weird world, the pandemic, all that sort of stuff. The fact of the matter is people are fleeing.<\/p>\n

In a free market, people are fleeing and choosing to consume other bits of information and entertainment. But it\u2019s not a free market both ways. Because if the Hollywood elites, if the Big Tech oligarchs are able to decide whether or not your point is valid, whether or not you are worthy — whether or not you may proceed to express your opinions, your thoughts, your beliefs, be a part of a debate…<\/p>\n

If they decide you get to proceed, you get to proceed; if they decide you must go away, well, they will disappear you. It\u2019s that simple. LeVar Burton was on The View and was talking about this cancel culture narrative, and he contends that “cancel culture” is a “misnomer.” No, I don\u2019t remember, that it\u2019s not a cancel culture. He says it\u2019s a “consequences culture.” It\u2019s a culture of consequences.<\/p>\n

“Actor LeVar Burton said Monday on ABC\u2019s The View that the term ‘cancel culture\u2019 was a ‘misnomer.\u2019 Burton said what is really happing is a ‘consequence culture and that consequences are finally encompassing everybody.'” Well, it\u2019s another way of saying consequences are being delivered by — What? — the clear-thinking, analytical folks that get together to judge whether something is good or bad, or is it the mob, a mob of people who just ascend either on social media or in real life on somebody\u2019s front yard to demand what fix, exactly?<\/p>\n

The First Amendment is the First Amendment.<\/p>\n

You have a right to your opinions.<\/p>\n

You have a right to your opinions. But when we\u2019re looking now at what cancel culture is creating, \u2019cause he says it\u2019s “consequence culture” and he says that “systemic racism” is alive and well, but it\u2019s no cancel culture. It\u2019s a consequence culture, and as a result, the systemic racism is alive and well, and so anything goes in terms of battling that narrative.<\/p>\n

Well, on Sunday mornings Fox News Sunday Chris Wallace was speaking to Senator Lindsey Graham and asked Senator Lindsey Graham, “Is there systemic racism in the country in policing and in other institutions?”<\/p>\n

GRAHAM: No, not in my opinion. We just elected a two-term African-American president. The vice president is of African-American and Indian descent. So our systems are not racist. America is not a racist country. So this attack on police and policing? Reform the police, yes. Call \u2019em all racist, no. You know, America is a work in progress, but best place on the planet, and Joe Biden spends a lot of time running the place down. I wish he\u2019d stop it.<\/p>\n

BRETT: Joe Biden does. The president does oftentimes point to the sins we have experienced and uses those sins and says those sins are apparent and happening en masse today. Yesterday on The View you had a conversation during a discussion about Senator Lindsey Graham\u2019s remarks that he doesn\u2019t believe that there is systemic racism in America. And cohost Joy Behar said this.<\/p>\n

\"\"BEHAR: What\u2019s clearly appalling is, um, Lindsey Graham, who says that there is no systemic racism in this country. I mean, somebody needs to give Lindsey a — a — a — uh, globe. ‘Cause which country he\u2019s living in. I mean — is it possible for somebody to get dumber as they get older? I don\u2019t remember him being this bad when he was a younger guy. What the heck happened to this guy? First of all, systemic racism is not about tokenism! It is not about the vice president being black or the president being black. It\u2019s about what goes on in the lives of everyday people in this country. White privilege needs to be dealt with. These are the things. It has nothing to do with Kamala Harris being a — a vice president!<\/p>\n

BRETT: What Joy Behar engaged in there was what\u2019s called “a press.” She didn\u2019t have a response to Lindsey Graham so she throws two insults his way. “Give him a globe and ask him what country he lives in.” That falls flat. Not a real contention. And then he gets dumber as he gets older. Again, not a response. That\u2019s an insult that she would have used back in 1936 when she was doing stand-up comedy in New York. The reality is we have to recognize progress that\u2019s been made in order to understand what has worked and how we can continue to improve.<\/p>\n

If you were to say to somebody that there\u2019s absolutely no redemption, no room for improvement, no nothing, what you end up with at that point is, you end up with people — and eventually a nation — going to a place that believes that rehabilitation and redemption is not able to be handled or fixed. Redemption is fundamental to the human experience, that we can strive and do better and improve day after day. Otherwise, we\u2019re just not learning anything.<\/p>\n

Well, back in April of 2016 Rush talked about the time when Joy Behar<\/a> forgot that she actually agreed with him about America not wanting to watch a woman age at president. Here\u2019s how it sounded.<\/p>\n

RUSH: The babes at The View have just discovered what I said maybe eight years ago about the concept of an aging female president. Remember when at the end of a monologue defending Hillary Clinton…? She was under assault for this. I was defending Hillary Clinton, and I asked the question, “Do the American people want to observe their president obviously aging?”<\/p>\n

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