{"id":398538,"date":"2021-05-20T15:53:00","date_gmt":"2021-05-20T19:53:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/?p=398538"},"modified":"2021-05-21T17:31:57","modified_gmt":"2021-05-21T21:31:57","slug":"rush-defied-the-cancel-culture-before-it-had-a-name","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2021\/05\/20\/rush-defied-the-cancel-culture-before-it-had-a-name\/","title":{"rendered":"Rush Defied the Cancel Culture Before It Had a Name"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BRETT: Kirstie Alley was on Fox Nation\u2019s Tucker Carlson Today talking about the Hollywood reaction to her support of Trump. It\u2019s really&#8230; I mean, it\u2019s unbelievable the way the folks in Hollywood have gone after Kirstie Alley. Alley, by the way, is no staunch conservative by any stretch. She actually voted Democrat most of her life. Here\u2019s what she told Tucker Carlson.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-398633\" src=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/KirstieAlleyTucker.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/KirstieAlleyTucker.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/KirstieAlleyTucker-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/KirstieAlleyTucker-480x270.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>ALLEY: I was on a set and I spoke up. I didn\u2019t know it was gonna be some big deal. &#8220;Yeah, I think I\u2019m gonna vote for Trump.&#8221; Oh, my God. Some producer took me aside and said, &#8220;I\u2019m going to too, but if anyone hears me say that, I\u2019ll never work again.&#8221; People go, &#8220;You\u2019re so brave.&#8221; No, I think I\u2019m stupid, because honestly it is a real situation. And it is a real blackballing situation, and it\u2019s so strange to me because artists are free thinkers, for the most part.<\/p>\n<p>CARLSON: Yes!<\/p>\n<p>ALLEY: You can be cooking meth and sleeping with hookers as long as, apparently, you didn\u2019t vote for Trump. (laughing)<\/p>\n<p>CARLSON: Mmm-hmm.<\/p>\n<p><script>!function(r,u,m,b,l,e){r._Rumble=b,r[b]||(r[b]=function(){(r[b]._=r[b]._||[]).push(arguments);if(r[b]._.length==1){l=u.createElement(m),e=u.getElementsByTagName(m)[0],l.async=1,l.src=\"https:\/\/rumble.com\/embedJS\/u4\"+(arguments[1].video?'.'+arguments[1].video:'')+\"\/?url=\"+encodeURIComponent(location.href)+\"&args=\"+encodeURIComponent(JSON.stringify([].slice.apply(arguments))),e.parentNode.insertBefore(l,e)}})}(window, document, \"script\", \"Rumble\");<\/script><\/p>\n<div id=\"rumble_vepsqh\"><\/div>\n<p><script>\nRumble(\"play\", {\"video\":\"vepsqh\",\"div\":\"rumble_vepsqh\"});<\/script><\/p>\n<p>ALLEY: You know, I feel like I\u2019m in the Twilight Zone a bit, with the whole concept of it, because, you know, an example is on Twitter. I had many celebrities followed me, and now I think like three follow me. And I am going, &#8220;I\u2019m the same person. You know, I\u2019m the girl who voted for Obama twice,&#8221; and I\u2019m like, &#8220;So, you liked me when I voted for Obama, and now you\u2019re this?&#8221; And it made me have to rethink, weirdly, my whole friendships.<\/p>\n<p>BRETT: There are a lot of closet conservatives in Hollywood, as Alley found out on that set, that don\u2019t dare reveal their truth for fear of never working again. And it\u2019s a legitimate fear. One individual who\u2019s not afraid is actor Nick Searcy, Rush\u2019s buddy and former EIB guest host.<\/p>\n<p>If you\u2019re familiar with <a href=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/daily\/2015\/02\/19\/nick_searcy_renounces_conservatism\/\">Nick, you know he\u2019s hilarious. He once took a page out of Rush\u2019s book and illustrated absurdity by being absurd<\/a> after he wrapped on a project and knew what he had to do in order to land another gig in the liberal coven that is Hollywood.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: You know our old buddy Nick Searcy? Nick Searcy is a famous, world famous actor, played a U.S. Marshal on Justified that just finished shooting, final season, they\u2019ve wrapped it. Nick Searcy was a scout for the Oakland A\u2019s in Moneyball. I mean, he\u2019s been in all kinds of productions. Nick Searcy is one of us. He used to be. Well, now that Justified has finished shooting, Nick Searcy has renounced conservatism.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-398578\" src=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/APPFREESPEECH.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/APPFREESPEECH.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/APPFREESPEECH-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/APPFREESPEECH-480x270.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/>Well, he\u2019s looking for work now in Hollywood, and so he has posted on Facebook. He started with a tweet. Now he\u2019s posted the following on Facebook: &#8220;Now that Justified has finished shooting, and I am free to pursue other projects, I would just like to say to all the producers in Hollywood, I was just kidding about all that anti-Democrat stuff I posted. Barack Obama is not only the greatest president in American history, possibly the greatest human being who has ever lived.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I applaud every single thing he\u2019s ever done, and I now see the error of my ways and support every policy he has ever and will ever propose. My agents are standing by for your call.&#8221; Nick Searcy. Oh, you\u2019re not buying it in there? Snerdley\u2019s not buying it. You must know Nick pretty well then. (laughs) I know he\u2019s fearless and he\u2019s got his own.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-259182\" src=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Searcy.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"625\" height=\"397\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Searcy.jpg 4596w, https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Searcy-300x190.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Searcy-768x487.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Searcy-1024x650.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Searcy-1080x685.jpg 1080w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 625px) 100vw, 625px\" \/>He does have a Twitter ID and he\u2019s fearless there, but this is classically funny. I mean, this is just, this is just in their face. You know, Nick sent me some of his cigars over there. I got \u2019em last week, an autographed box of Nick Searcy cigars. Yeah, he\u2019s got his own line of cigars over there, it\u2019s his own band and label on the things, too. Yeah. It\u2019s great.<\/p>\n<p>BRETT: He was obviously being sarcastic, but as Rush often said, &#8220;All good humor contains an element of truth.&#8221; Kirstie Alley learned the hard way as have others. It\u2019s almost like Hollywood as reverted back to 1947. But instead of communism, it\u2019s conservatism that gets you tarred and feathered in your career, and that\u2019s one of the huge challenges that\u2019s out there. I mean, even the folks that used to be high-profile rock &#8216;n\u2019 roll people have come around regarding freedom and liberty and conservatism. They understand that there\u2019s a lot more at stake than just satisfying a few folks out there.<\/p>\n<p>BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n<p>BRETT: I\u2019m looking at this situation with Lori Lightfoot, and I\u2019m shaking my head and scratching my head at the same time. Literally, I\u2019m shaking and scratching at the same time, because Lori Lightfoot, who is the &#8212; I think safe to say &#8212; failing mayor of the city of Chicago is now halfway through her term and is &#8220;slamming the overwhelming whiteness of the Chicago press,&#8221; and has said that in order to &#8220;commemorate the midway point of her first term as the mayor of the city of Chicago as a woman of color,&#8221; she wants to only do interviews with &#8220;reporters of color.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>She says that this is what we\u2019re gonna do. &#8220;We\u2019re gonna only talk to folks who are people of color. We\u2019re not going to talk to the other reporters out there. The Constitution didn\u2019t consider me a person in any way, shape, or form because I\u2019m a woman, because I\u2019m black, because I\u2019m gay. I\u2019m not an originalist.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I mean, okay. You can say that. The Constitution didn\u2019t consider you a person in any way, shape, or form because you\u2019re a woman because you\u2019re black because you\u2019re gay and you\u2019re not an originalist. But those people that aired in writing in that way, right?<\/p>\n<p>According to the standards in which we live today and according to the standards which were established as a result of what took place with the Civil War, where more than 600,000 Americans died to preserve the union and to make the union &#8220;a more perfect union,&#8221; to quote a president&#8230; You can say that, but those Founding Fathers also left us a mechanism built into the Constitution that excluded you back then, that made an ability to include you by amending it.<\/p>\n<p>So I would say, it is still worth talking to white reporters. I mean, you\u2019re sort of punching at a third group of people that had nothing to do with the original writing of the U.S. Constitution. What does a 30-year-old white or Hispanic man or woman in Chicago have to do with the Founding Fathers? I think it\u2019s a fair point. There\u2019s a lot of other stuff going on out there, and it was <a href=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/daily\/2003\/10\/03\/i_ll_gladly_lose_a_job_to_stand_up_for_free_speech\/\">Rush who talked, back in 2003, about how he would gladly lose a job to stand up for free speech.<\/a><\/p>\n<div id=\"zype_60a650fae72c2200011b1e91\"><\/div>\n<p><script src=\"https:\/\/player.zype.com\/embed\/60a650fae72c2200011b1e91.js?api_key=6yUf3WZePk78GtpC3BXdZSqZ5ma_gYmV_rEJ8OYJZ0wq3AlDKM2RFnOcBN0xiMco&amp;controls=true\" type=\"text\/javascript\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Look it, I know I\u2019m right about this. I\u2019m not going to retract anything. I\u2019m not going to back off of there. Absolutely. Not yet in this country is there anything to apologize for in expressing an opinion &#8211; particularly about sports, for crying out loud! When absolutely &#8211; you know, I used this line and my wife says I\u2019ve overdone it &#8211; at the end of the day in sports nobody\u2019s taxes get raised, nobody gets sent off to war.<\/p>\n<p>But, yeah, people get their feelings hurt in sports every day. Their teams lose. They get disappointed by a whole bunch of things that happen in sports. But it is in a distinct place in our culture. It does contribute quite a bit to the self-esteem of populations, cities where there are professional and college teams, no question about it, and there are high, great sensitivities.<\/p>\n<p>But I am not going to sit here and apologize or regret anything I said because, A, I was right; B, I\u2019ve got people now who agree not only was I right, but that what was said was not anything that needs to be apologized for. Now, there are a lot of people who disagree with that, but that\u2019s fine.<\/p>\n<p>You know, over the course of my hosting this program, ladies and gentlemen &#8212; and I do have in almost all that we\u2019re talking about today &#8212; I have a 15-plus-year reference that I can cite, and I certainly have here. I have not once, never on this program &#8212; other than in the cases where we\u2019ve had wacko callers who have engaged in profanity or things that are in obvious, obvious ways over the line.<\/p>\n<p>I have never, ever said that something somebody said to me shouldn\u2019t be heard. I have never told them they don\u2019t have the right to say that and how dare they call me and how dare they think that. That has never been part of this program. What I\u2019ve always said on this program is, &#8220;Meet me in the arena of ideas.<\/p>\n<p>Meet me smack-dab in the arena of ideas, and I\u2019ll discuss anything with anybody, and I\u2019m willing to be wrong, and I\u2019m willing to be stupid. I\u2019m willing to run the risk of being both because this is what freedom is essentially all about in a free society.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-390661\" src=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/APP-Rush-TRIBUTE-Video-GRABS-EIB-Mic-Empty-Chair-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/APP-Rush-TRIBUTE-Video-GRABS-EIB-Mic-Empty-Chair-2.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/APP-Rush-TRIBUTE-Video-GRABS-EIB-Mic-Empty-Chair-2-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/APP-Rush-TRIBUTE-Video-GRABS-EIB-Mic-Empty-Chair-2-480x270.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/>There are others, not me, who are telling other people to shut up, to not say things because they don\u2019t have the right to say things, they don\u2019t have the right to think things, and they ought to be punished when they do, but it\u2019s not me. I\u2019m not the one that\u2019s intolerant nor are many on my side of the ideological aisle.<\/p>\n<p>It is the other side that has created speech codes: political correctness. It is they who have determined what\u2019s appropriate and what isn\u2019t, and what punishment ought to descend to people or ascend to people who have violated their codes. In fact, people who disagree with me on this program get moved to the top of the caller roster line.<\/p>\n<p>I have always made that promise, and that promise has always been kept. So nobody is told to shut up here. Nobody is told what they shouldn\u2019t say, told they can\u2019t say things on this program. It\u2019s quite the opposite. I\u2019ve always, as I say, said, &#8220;Meet me in the arena of ideas.&#8221; In this instance, it is now being said that well, everybody knew what they were going to get at ESPN.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-398545\" src=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/2003\/10\/RUSHESPNPUBPHOTO.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2003\/10\/RUSHESPNPUBPHOTO.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2003\/10\/RUSHESPNPUBPHOTO-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2003\/10\/RUSHESPNPUBPHOTO-480x270.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>And nobody should be surprised by this, and that ESPN is actually to blame for this. What is this kind of thinking in a free country with free speech? The characterizations of not only what I\u2019ve said, but what others have said to me is pretty dangerous. You know, the effort, I guess, to silence some people from speaking because they\u2019re afraid of what others\u2019 reaction to it will be, is pretty successful.<\/p>\n<p>I don\u2019t play the game by those rules, and I\u2019m willing to accept what happens. But I am not, at same time when the outcry results, going to say, &#8220;please forgive me, I guess I really didn\u2019t mean it.&#8221; I meant everything said, thought about it the night before, intended to say it, very proud that I said it. I think it\u2019s right. So throw me in jail. So fire me! That\u2019s what people have wanted to do, that\u2019s what people are applauding today.<\/p>\n<p>Fine, I\u2019ll gladly.<\/p>\n<p>If that\u2019s what it takes to stand up for free speech, fine.<\/p>\n<p>BRETT: The thing that had Rush so far ahead of the time back in 2003 relative to today was this idea of the left wanting to determine, one, whether you had the right to express yourself; and, two, what the terms were that you would be permitted to express yourself. So they went from saying, &#8220;I can\u2019t believe you said that,&#8221; to saying, &#8220;You may not say these things,&#8221; to saying, &#8220;We have already decided you\u2019re likely to say these things, so let\u2019s precancel you.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s what\u2019s so infuriating about the free-speech conversation, and to go back to Lori Lightfoot, it\u2019s this idea that &#8220;I believe that this country is so flawed, right? Systemic racism? It\u2019s so flawed that they can\u2019t even talk to these reporters made up of these particular racial backgrounds to even talk to them. We\u2019re gonna wall them off completely.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-368918\" src=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/APP-101520-Lori-Lightfoot-3.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/APP-101520-Lori-Lightfoot-3.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/APP-101520-Lori-Lightfoot-3-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/APP-101520-Lori-Lightfoot-3-480x270.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/>&#8220;We\u2019re gonna only talk to these reporters over here,&#8221; and her presupposition that\u2019s incredible is that a reporter of color would not ask her a difficult question or that a white reporter would ask her a tough question. There are plenty of fawning reporters across the spectrum. There are plenty of critical reporters from across the spectrum.<\/p>\n<p>And that\u2019s the maddening thing when you break people down to simply their racial or sexual or political or religious identity. People are three-dimensional creatures with three-dimensional ideas. And this idea we\u2019re gonna set a standard of purity in which you must check each of these boxes before we even entertain a question from you, or even entertain a conversation or a debate with you&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>When Rush said he\u2019d meet anybody in the arena of ideas, you know he\u2019s right. One of the biggest memories I have in the last couple years was that back and forth Rush did with Charlamagne Tha God, that appearance. That was bold, and he was a bold guy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RUSH: I meant everything I said, very proud that I said it. I think it&#039;s right. So, throw me in jail. So, fire me! 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