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RUSH: Now, folks, Snerdley told me that he can\u2019t wait for the audio sound bites that I talked about in the opening hour of the program where the media all over this country on the day after Christmas and the week after Christmas was totally absorbed with my commends on Idris Elba, the black British actor being positioned as the next actor to play James Bond when Daniel Craig\u2019s contract expires after the next one, not the one they\u2019re currently filming, but one more. And of course what I said was, the totality of what I said was, why do we want to blur these lines? James Bond is a fictional character created by a real man named Ian Fleming. He\u2019s white. He\u2019s Scottish. He wasn\u2019t black. <\/p>\n

And then I furthermore said, let\u2019s look at it the other way around. Let\u2019s say that some Hollywood bigwig wants to do a biography movie The Life and Times of Barack Obama and cast Mel Gibson, what do you think the reaction to that would be? And playing Michelle (My Belle) Obama would be Gwyneth Paltrow, what do you think the reaction would be? And I said to Snerdley, “I don\u2019t want to play these sound bites because all it is is the media calling me a racist,” and I said, “frankly, Mr. Snerdley, my audience is tired of me being called a racist. They know I\u2019m not one, and they hate it. And they\u2019re not amused by it.” <\/p>\n

He said, “That\u2019s true, but there\u2019s a life lesson.” There is in a way. Not a life lesson, but there\u2019s an object lesson in this that — I won\u2019t go ahead and try to make it. We\u2019ve got a montage here. How many of these things are there? There are two of them. And the first one is a montage, and this montage runs 47 seconds, and it spans the dates December 24th through December 29th. New York to LA, Boston to New Orleans, Chicago to Dallas, to San Francisco, this was the big news over the holidays.<\/line><\/p>\n

REPORTER: The harsh comments Rush Limbaugh had about Idris Elba.<\/p>\n

REPORTER: Leave it to Rush Limbaugh to stir up some controversy.<\/p>\n

REPORTER: Limbaugh insists James Bond must be white.<\/p>\n

REPORTER: Rush Limbaugh sparking controversy.<\/p>\n

REPORTER: If Rush Limbaugh has his way, the next one will not be Idris Elba.<\/p>\n

REPORTER: Rush Limbaugh is once again inciting outrage.<\/p>\n

REPORTER: Rush Limbaugh has come out against having a black James Bond.<\/p>\n

REPORTER: James Bond is white and should always be played by a white actor; so saith Rush Limbaugh.<\/p>\n

REPORTER: It made Rush Limbaugh mad.<\/p>\n

REPORTER: “James Bond was white, is white, and always will be white.” Those are words from Rush Limbaugh.<\/p>\n

REPORTER: Predictable reaction from radio provocateur Rush Limbaugh.<\/p>\n

REPORTER: He\u2019s gotta thank Rush Limbaugh, \u2019cause if Rush didn\u2019t put it out there, there wouldn\u2019t be this much heat around it.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Okay. Now, I know you all don\u2019t like hearing this garbage. I know that you get ticked off when you hear these no-names and these numskulls running around just every one of them saying the same thing, every one of them sounding the same, every one of them as blind and brain-dead as the rest, with this incessant criticism of racism. I don\u2019t play this to laugh at it, but I\u2019ll tell you something here. Is it racist to suggest that James Bond is a white character created by Ian Fleming? It\u2019s not racist to suggest this. We\u2019re so far off the beaten path, we can\u2019t even talk about it.<\/p>\n

Eric Holder runs around (imitating Holder), “We don\u2019t have any courage in this country. We got a bunch of cowards afraid to talk about race.” I\u2019m not, despite what happens to me when I do. But there\u2019s no racism intended here. I have no bias whatever against Idris Elba. In fact, I think he\u2019s a great actor. It isn\u2019t even about him. This is about this gal Amy Pascal who thinks that Idris Elba would be a great James Bond, and we know why she says it. She\u2019s trying to buy off Al Sharpton. She\u2019s trying to buy off any of the other hustlers because she\u2019s in trouble because of the Sony leak. <\/p>\n

But it is not racist to make an observation like this. And I know that there\u2019s The Wiz, which is the black version of the Wizard of Oz and I know that there\u2019s now a black version of Annie, Little Orphan Annie and all that. But I\u2019m merely attesting to the fact that James Bond is a real character, a real character created by a real guy, and modeled, by the way, after somebody named James Bond, if you must know the truth, a friend of Ian Fleming\u2019s. He was not an agent, but other characteristics of his friend. It\u2019s an invention, obviously. But this idea that this is all racism? <\/p>\n

In order to make the point, which these people, I guarantee you, none of them knew the entirety of what I said because not one of these people actually ever heard me say this. They all heard this or probably read it from one place. They are the last thing that you would associate with being reporters. They\u2019re not curious. They\u2019re not interested in the truth. They are the ones looking for easy comments. They\u2019re the ones looking for easy controversy, by invoking me. They\u2019re the lazy ones. They\u2019re the ones trying to get noticed.<\/p>\n

I have 47 seconds here and every damn one of these people had the same comment. There\u2019s no uniqueness, no originality in these people. They\u2019re just a bunch of followers. I simply asked an associated question: Would it be accepted if the movie of The Life and Times of Barack Obama was cast, pick your white guy. I picked Mel Gibson because he\u2019s universally reviled in Hollywood right now, just to tweak \u2019em, but pick anybody, pick any white actor, pick Clooney. Clooney would be honored, by the way, to do it. Pick Clooney. <\/p>\n

Do you think that the Al Sharptons of the world would sit idly by and applaud it? So here\u2019s the question. We know that it wouldn\u2019t be acceptable. We know that it would be immediately attacked. Why is it universally proper and okay and justified to attack a white actor portraying a black guy, but when a black actor portrays an obvious white character, we\u2019re supposed to say, “Hey, yeah, that\u2019s fine and cool,” and anybody that says, “No, we shouldn\u2019t do that,” is immediately branded a racist. <\/line><\/p>\n

This is the kind of thing, folks, that most people won\u2019t dare say \u2019cause they don\u2019t want to have to deal with idiots like these TV people making comments about \u2019em. I frankly — and it may be to my detriment — don\u2019t care. A lot of people, “You know, you ought to care, Rush, you ought to go after these people. I mean, they\u2019re out there.” I don\u2019t care. It never has — well, the first two years I didn\u2019t know how to deal with it, it bothered me, but after that, I don\u2019t care. Especially when you consider the source. <\/p>\n

The idea that there is racism behind this is, frankly, absurd. This is how they shut people up. This is why, I contend to you, that with the right candidate, conservative candidate, you would find overwhelming bust-out support for that conservative candidate throughout and across a cross spectrum of this country. Now, here\u2019s the next sound bite, and this is WPIX-TV eyeball 11 morning news in New York. The fill in coanchor Craig Treadway and the fill-in anchorette Lisa Mateo decided to discuss this.<\/p>\n

TREADWAY: He also said that it\u2019s racist to probably point this out. You think?<\/p>\n

MATEO: Yeah, I think so. Idris, I think, would be a great Bond. I would go run and see that. I\u2019m a big fan.<\/p>\n

TREADWAY: You could punch Limbaugh in the face.<\/p>\n

MATEO: There you go!<\/p>\n

RUSH: So let\u2019s now inflict a little violence on your host. It\u2019d be perfectly fine to go punch Limbaugh in the face. And when I said it\u2019s probably racist to point this out, I was being facetious but I said it with full knowledge of how these clowns were gonna accept it because they\u2019re mind-numbed robots. They are programmed, however it\u2019s happened in their lives, to automatically react this way, to the point that you cannot have any kind of a conversation about this. <\/p>\n

It\u2019s like I told you earlier, a friend of mine sent me an e-mail over the weekend. I think it was during the Bengals-Indianapolis Colts game, or as Phil Simms says, the Colts. Yeah. It was the Bengals and the Colts, as Phil Simms says. And this guy sends me a note, says, “You know, Rush, is it racist to say I don\u2019t like female sideline reporters like this?” And I said probably. He said sexist. I said in this day and age you\u2019re not allowed to say that. If you say that you don\u2019t like female sideline reporters, then no question, depending who you are if you say it, it\u2019s definitely sexist and anti-women if you say that. He said, “But I don\u2019t dislike women. I love women, probably too much.” Well, if you love women probably too much, then you gotta have no problem with wherever you find \u2019em, sir.<\/p>\n

He said, “I don\u2019t know. I can\u2019t help but think I\u2019m looking at groupies.” Well, you said it, sir, not I. But it\u2019s the same thing. He was afraid to even talk about it. That\u2019s the point, because of the labels. <\/p>\n

I\u2019ve just been handed something. What is this? Oh, yeah. By the way, this is nothing new. This is back in 1990. It\u2019s the New York Times<\/a>: “Actors\u2019 Equity denied permission yesterday for the English actor Jonathan Pryce,” who, by the way, played a Bond villain. He also played Henry Kravis in Barbarians at the Gate on HBO with James Garner. “Actors\u2019 Equity denied permission yesterday for the English actor Jonathan Pryce to appear on Broadway next spring in the role of the Eurasian pimp that he created in the hit London musical ‘Miss Saigon.”\u2019<\/p>\n

In the London production, he did portray a Eurasian pimp, but the Actors\u2019 Equity denied permission for him to play that role on Broadway in New York because he\u2019s not Asian. They had to go out and find a real Asian to play the pimp because he wasn\u2019t. But when it comes to the other way around, “No problem. I\u2019d love to see it. Why, yeah, it\u2019d be cool,” whatever. <\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: How about Matt Damon as Shaft? Quick. What was Shaft\u2019s first name? John Shaft. That\u2019s right. Way to go, Mr. Snerdley. He was a bad… Isaac Hayes characterized it. I will go no further. You rest easy in there, Dawn. How about Matt Affleck, that will cover both those guys. Matt Affleck as Shaft. (laughing) <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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