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RUSH: There is some lighthearted stuff out there today, too. There is that. For example, I\u2019ll just give you one little example. Brian, you\u2019ll love this. You\u2019re a big fan of Jameis Winston<\/a>, right? You\u2019d get his autograph, you\u2019d take it, right? Quarterback at Florida State University. This is the guy a couple of months ago, six weeks ago at the student quad up at Florida State started shouting at the student union outside a bunch of obscenities and they had to come get him and take him away. He\u2019s the QB. He\u2019s had some charges, what, of sexual abuse? Oh, rape, yes. Rape. Sorry. And shoplifting? He stole some lobsters or something. Okay. <\/p>\n

Well, he had a hearing. Florida State\u2019s playing in the Rose Bowl on January 1st, and they\u2019ve gotta have the guy play if they\u2019re gonna have a chance. So they had a hearing. The Florida State student code of conduct hearing earlier this month. We just now got the transcript, and he was asked three questions. Just had to answer three questions. And according to the testimony and the transcript just released, it resulted in the quarterback, Jameis Winston, “being cleared of sexual assault allegations by the university. Winston also avoided criminal prosecution stemming from the accusation he raped a female student at his off-campus apartment in December 2012.”<\/line><\/p>\n

Then he won the Heisman Trophy in 2013. But he said that the sexual encounter was consensual. And the way he said he knew that it was consensual is because the woman was moaning. So the review board said (paraphrasing), “Well, wait a minute, now. Was she moaning during the sexual encounter?” <\/p>\n

“Yes.” <\/p>\n

“Was she moaning before the sexual encounter?” <\/p>\n

“Yes, your Honor.” <\/p>\n

“What did she say and what did she do?”<\/p>\n

“Moaning is mostly physically. Well, moaning is physically. And verbally at that time, Your Honor.”<\/p>\n

And moaning means consent. Moaning means she was digging it. Now, I wonder, has the Democrat Congressional Campaign Committee heard about this? And the NAGs, moaning? I mean, thank God this guy didn\u2019t have to fill out a form and a questionnaire like they have to do in California now. At every stage you moan, does that mean yes or no? You moan, you moan, what does it mean? In Florida he still gets to interpret that. But what if moan meant “no”? I mean, that\u2019s lighthearted, right?<\/p>\n

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RUSH: Now, the guy in Florida State that was doing the hearing, conducting the hearing, was a former Supreme Court justice in the state of Florida, Major Harding. He\u2019s retired, he\u2019s a former judge of the Florida Supreme Court. And it was Jameis Winston\u2019s accuser who wanted this hearing. The hearing took place at the urging of Winston\u2019s accuser. So here\u2019s how it went. This is the transcript, and it is not recent. This is like a month ago, or earlier this month. <\/p>\n

Judge Harding: “I think it would be helpful, and I understand you have exercised your right, and you may continue to do so; but, from the purpose of helping the decision maker to understand, the Complainant,” i.e., the woman, for those of you in Rio Linda “has indicated that she continually resisted by saying no to your sexual overtures, and you have indicated that she gave consent. And I would like to know in what manner, verbally or physically, that she gave consent. And I ask that with the understanding that you have previously given.”<\/p>\n

<\/a>Winston said: “Both, Your Honor, verbally and physically.”<\/p>\n

Harding said: “And what did she say and what did she do?”<\/p>\n

Winston: “Moaning is mostly physically. Well, moaning is physically. And verbally at that time, Your Honor.”<\/p>\n

The judge, trying to translate this, said, “Well, that was during the sexual encounter?”<\/p>\n

Winston: “Yes, Your Honor.”<\/p>\n

“Baine Kerr, an attorney for the accuser, called the university\u00c2\u2019s hearing unfair.<\/p>\n

‘I don\u00c2\u2019t want to impugn the proceeding as corrupt, but I think it was biased and the fix was in. … It\u00c2\u2019s all about a football game 10 days from today. It turned out to be just a predetermined whitewash to keep a guy playing football.”<\/p>\n

Quite a charge leveled against an esteemed institution of higher learning, Florida State, and a retired Supreme Court judge from the state of Florida, Major Harding. So moaning was consent. (interruption) It wasn\u2019t? You don\u2019t think moaning is consent? It\u2019s not? Oh. So there\u2019s a controversy on this. Well, he clearly thought that it was blissful. She clearly was enjoying it. That\u2019s what the moaning meant. Maybe she was saying “no” and moaning at the same time and the moaning just dominated.<\/p>\n

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RUSH: So some people say, “Hey, Rush, I don\u2019t think this Jameis Winston story qualifies as lighthearted.” You think? That\u2019s exactly my point here, folks. We can\u2019t find any lighthearted news. Let me try this. I\u2019ll just pull another one here from the lighthearted Stack today. The Daily Caller <\/a>has the story, but the outfit here has produced a television PSA. And the PSA the public service announcement is encouraging kids to steal their parents\u2019 guns and take them to school and turn \u2019em in to teachers.<\/p>\n

“A provocative public service announcement released by a San Francisco-based production company encourages children to put themselves at risk and commit a slew of crimes by stealing their parents\u00c2\u2019 guns from home and turning them in at school. In the anti-gun ad, published Dec. 13 by Sleeper 13 Productions, a boy who appears to be in his early teens is shown walking up the stairs of his home and wandering into his mother\u00c2\u2019s bedroom.<\/line><\/p>\n

“The boy is shown opening the drawer to his mother\u00c2\u2019s dresser, where a handgun is hidden. The boy takes the gun from the dresser and leaves the room. The ad then flashes to his school. Sitting in a classroom, the boy ventures up to his teacher\u00c2\u2019s desk after the rest of his classmates have left. The tension building in the scene breaks, and the boy produces the gun from his backpack –” See, they make you think the kid might be going to shoot the teacher. That\u2019s how they build you up for this. This is from the lighthearted Stack. (interruption) You don\u2019t think this is lighthearted either, huh? No, I don\u2019t have the stacks mixed. I\u2019m telling you, this is the lightest hearted stuff I\u2019ve got. Well, a couple more coming. You can be the judge. <\/p>\n

So they tried to make people think in this TV PSA that another deranged kid is gonna steal his parent\u2019s gun and go shoot it at school. And tension is building and building and building, and the kid, after all the classmates have left — that\u2019s the first sign maybe it isn\u2019t gonna come out the way you think — he then ventures up to his teacher\u2019s desk, produces the gun from his backpack, slams it down on the desk of the teacher, who is startled, and the boy says, “Can you take this away? I don\u00c2\u2019t feel safe with a gun in my house.”<\/p>\n

Now, what the ad makers are encouraging here is dangerous and highly illegal. “The boy would be guilty of weapons theft, illegal concealed carry and carrying a weapon on school property. The ad\u00c2\u2019s director … took to Twitter to taunt those she says are ‘afraid to share\u2019 her ad.”<\/p>\n

Now, this is an example of new journalism. This is just some outfit calling itself a production company. It produces this professional, quasi-looking professional video PSA. It\u2019s on Twitter. A lot of people get their news feed on Facebook and Twitter. And they make everybody think that this is deranged kid stealing his parents\u2019 gun to go shoot up other kids at school, and instead he slams it on teacher\u2019s desk and asks her to take it \u2019cause he doesn\u2019t feel safe at home because his parents have a gun. <\/p>\n

Okay. Another one from the lighthearted Stack. “What is ‘Manspreading\u2019 and Why are People Angry about It?” (interruption) The MTA? Metro Transit Authority? Why in the world would you think this is a subway story? Manspreading. That\u2019s the headline. “What is ‘Manspreading\u2019 and Why are People Angry about It?” <\/p>\n

I\u2019ll give you a hint. Here\u2019s the pull quote. “The manspreading complaint is couched as a response to ‘rudeness\u2019 by men, but it is no such thing: it is pathetic feminist pipsqueakery, the last dying gasp of a movement with nothing to win and nothing to say, determined to abuse and antagonize the male sex at all costs and for whatever perceived or outright imaginary infraction it can conjure from the vicissitudes of everyday life. It is offensively trivial, and those associated with it ought to be ashamed.”<\/line><\/p>\n

This is from Breitbart<\/a>. “Witness the absurd, offensive, ludicrous spectacle of inanity and stupidity currently surrounding the New York subway: a campaign to stop men sitting comfortably on public transport. We ‘manspread,\u2019 apparently, which observers have interpreted as ‘sit in such a way as not to painfully crush the testicles or penis\u2019 but which feminists insist is an expression of patriarchal authority.”<\/p>\n

The feminists are complaining that men are sitting with their legs spread on the subway and that that expression is one of authority and power and is meant to intimidate women. And the women want it stopped. They want men to have to cross their legs like the women do on subways and other public venues. And the feminists are genuinely angry. <\/p>\n

This is an example of what the story refers to as trivial, the daily vicissitudes of life that now they have to make controversial because they\u2019ve lost every other major battle, although they haven\u2019t. I mean, that\u2019s the thing. This is a Breitbart story, and the conclusion the feminists have lost everything is what\u2019s wrong with this. The feminists are as much responsible as any other derivative of the left for the absolute mess this country is in. You talk about lies that young women are being told in school. Stop and think about it.<\/p>\n

Parents are spending 20, $25,000 a year to send their kids to these institutions, and the lies that they are being taught? Anyway, that\u2019s manspreading. You ever heard the term before today? (interruption) Is that lighthearted for you? (interruption) Yeah, see, that\u2019s lighthearted, because that involves men being a problem in their natural existence, so, yeah, we\u2019ll laugh at that one.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: Okay. One more lighthearted story from the lighthearted Stack and then we\u2019ll head to the phones. Remember when Columbia law school let black students postpone their final exams because they might be traumatized over the grand jury decisions in Ferguson, Missouri, and Staten Island. Remember that? They asked to be exempted from finals, just too traumatized over the recent protests and the fact that the grand jury screwed \u2019em once again. <\/p>\n

Well, now students at Oberlin College, this is where, by the way, Lena Dunham made up a story of rape, or accused some guy that doesn\u2019t exist of raping her, let\u2019s put it that way. <\/p>\n

“Students at Oberlin College, one of the most liberal college in the country are demanding African-American students be completely exempt from failing this semester because they\u00c2\u2019re so deeply affected in ‘times like this.\u2019<\/p>\n

“So far, the Ohio college has said they will allow professors to exercise ‘flexibility\u2019 in \u2019emergency incomplete requests,\u2019 but has not given a flat out ‘pass\u2019 to all Black students.<\/p>\n

This is making students really whiny. In a poorly written petition to Oberlin President Marvin Krislov — that has more than 1,300 signatures — the students lay out their ‘demands:'”<\/p>\n

Here is the petition for the university president, Marvin Krislov, to suspend the standard grading system. I\u2019m gonna read this is the petition, verbatim quote: “I would really like to see the normal grading system suspended for this semester and replaced with a no-fail mercy period. Administrators should require professors to exercise complete flexibility in what students are saying they can produce academically.<\/p>\n

“Require that every professor listen to what their students are saying and if that means rather than writing a paper students instead meet with their professor to simply discuss in groups their paper topics or if tests are taken collectively with professors there are ways to make sure we are learning what we are supposed to be learning in ways that are not so taxing in times like this. Students in this moment should have complete access to alternative modes of learning while we process what\u00c2\u2019s happening.<\/line><\/p>\n

“Basically, no student especially black students and students of color should be failing a class this semester. A ‘C\u2019 should be the lowest grade students can receive this semester. Professors should be required to work with students, who would otherwise be at risk of failing, to create alternate means of accessing knowledge. This is a — Petition for Marvin Krislov to Suspend Standard Grading System — sign if you agree!”<\/p>\n

So a request has been made via petition to pass black students while requiring the standard academic rigor for everyone else, because the times are so traumatic. Times like these are so tough. So alternate ways of learning and determining whether or not learning has taken place — in other words, get rid of the test. We don\u2019t want to have to take a test. We don\u2019t want a grade based on a test. We want to get a minimum C just for showing up because we don\u2019t want to have to take the test because we\u2019re too traumatized, too much pressure. Oberlin College. <\/p>\n

So you see, the left proposes a solution to something. At Columbia law it was, let\u2019s postpone finals for a while just until the stress dissolves. And then we\u2019ll be back and we\u2019ll take the tests. And Columbia said, “Okay, cool, that\u2019s a reasonable request.” Okay, we think problem solved. No. New problem just created. Now postponing finals has become no grades this semester for African-American students at Oberlin College \u2019cause it\u2019s just too stressful out there right now. <\/p>\n

It reminds me of the caller we had yesterday<\/a>. Remember this guy called, he was watching a Philadelphia Eagles game with his friend and their sons. And they were ripping the Eagles. The Eagles were playing horribly and these two fathers were just really ripping the Eagles at play calling, the play, performance, and their sons said, “Come on, Dad, tone it down. We don\u2019t have to be this judgmental. My God, we couldn\u2019t do what they do. It just doesn\u2019t help, Dad, to be critical. Could you stop the criticism, Dad? Just being too judgmental.” And the guy was calling and telling me he didn\u2019t know how to deal with this. He thought the schools had turned his own kid into a wuss, is basically what he was saying, right? <\/p>\n

It apparently is happening all over the place. And you know where the roots are. The roots are, we\u2019re not gonna keep score because the losing team would be humiliated. No, no, no, no, no. We\u2019re not gonna keep score. And the really good teams we\u2019re gonna penalize \u2019em minus 35 points to start. <\/p>\n

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RUSH: Back to the lighthearted Stack. One of the e-mails that leaked in the hack of Sony, Amy Pascal, the cochairman of Sony Pictures, in an e-mail thread back and forth, I forget who it was, she suggested that when Daniel Craig\u2019s run as James Bond is over — and this is it, this is contractually his last film — she suggested a new James Bond. I\u2019m not sure how you pronounce the guy\u2019s name. Idris Elba is what it looks like. Idris Elba, which is — I can\u2019t say African-American, \u2019cause he\u2019s British. African English. African Brit. He\u2019s black. He\u2019s from Great Britain. He was on The Wire, and he was in a British cop drama, procedural called Luther<\/a>. <\/p>\n

Do you watch Luther? Luther on Netflix? I have it, I just didn\u2019t watch it. Here\u2019s the thing, though. James Bond is a fictional character, obviously. James Bond was invented, created by Ian Fleming, a former spy, MI6, and James Bond is a total concept put together by Ian Fleming. He was white and Scottish, period. That is who James Bond is. But now Sony is suggesting that the next James Bond should be Idris Elba, a black Briton rather than a white from Scotland. But that\u2019s not who James Bond is, and I know it\u2019s racist to probably even point this out. <\/p>\n

<\/a>But the franchise needs to get with it, right? The franchise needs to get hip. The franchise needs to get with the 21st century. That\u2019s right. We had 50 years of white Bonds because Bond is white. Bond was never black. Ian Fleming never created a black Brit to play James Bond. The character was always white. He was always Scottish. He always drank vodka shaken not stirred and all that. <\/p>\n

Okay, so we\u2019re not supposed to have a problem with this. I mean, it\u2019s the movies. Come on, we\u2019ve had 50 years of white James Bonds. We need to spread it out. We need to be equal. We need to be fair about this. Okay, fine, let\u2019s play a little game. (interruption) Jay-Z\u2019s favorite drink? How would I know what Jay-Z\u2019s favorite drink is? Ah, what would that be, Cristal? Yeah. <\/p>\n

How about in the movie about the Obamas, \u2019cause there\u2019s gonna be one, how about George Clooney play Obama and Kate Hudson play Michelle (My Belle) Obama? How would that do? I mean, if we\u2019re gonna do this, let\u2019s imagine it. Nelson Mandela movie, Idris Elba played Nelson Mandela and Nelson Mandela was black. The movies can do whatever. Kelsey Grammer as Nelson Mandela. How about that? We\u2019re just playing here, ladies and gentlemen. <\/p>\n

Al Sharpton. There will be a movie, The Al Sharpton Story. Who do we get to play Al Sharpton? ‘Cause they need two or three of \u2019em at various — how about Rob Reiner to play the early Al Sharpton with the bullhorn and megaphone and all that. General Colin Powell, Colonel Colin Powell. You know there\u2019s gonna be a series of TV documentaries or movies. Who will it be? How about George C. Scott. He played Patton. I know he\u2019s dead, but what does that matter? We could reproduce him cinemagraphically. <\/p>\n

How about, let\u2019s see, let\u2019s see, Condoleezza Rice? We do a movie on Condoleezza Rice. You might be thinking that we would have Halle Berry. No, no, no. Scarlett Johansson. Scarlett Johansson, all she\u2019s have to do is take some piano lessons, she\u2019s got it. Scarlett Johansson is Condoleezza Rice. Michael Sam. You know there\u2019s gonna a movie on Michael Sam. And if Idris Elba is going to play James Bond and if that\u2019s a natural hit and that\u2019s the only way we can go and then let\u2019s see, how about Hugh Grant as Michael Sam? <\/p>\n

Now, what is your reaction to — (interruption) Oh, no. I can see on Snerdley\u2019s face he\u2019s laughing, he gets it, but, no, no, no, this would never fly. Of course not, it wouldn\u2019t fly. Now, admittedly, all these characters I\u2019ve mentioned are real-life characters, and James Bond has never lived, per se, he\u2019s a fictional character. But he was white and Scottish. Oh, I know they\u2019re doing it with comic books. There\u2019s now the African-American version of Annie, of Captain America coming up. <\/p>\n

They did it with Whitney Houston. There was a movie in 1947 called The Bishop\u2019s wife, and it was remade for Whitney Houston called The Preacher\u2019s Wife. Sometimes a story is just a story, but we can always make it better. We can always be more fair. We can always be more equal about it. So, fine and dandy. George Clooney and Kate Hudson as Barack and Michelle Obama, and you can have Idris Elba as James Bond.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: Seriously, in one of those hacked e-mails, somebody responded to Amy Pascal when she suggested Idris Elba to play James Bond, somebody said, “No, we couldn\u2019t do that. We can\u2019t have black stars in a lead in the James Bond because foreign markets would not exhibit the movie.” The Sony exec said that Bond has to be white for international distribution. They simply will not accept an African-American or a black guy as James Bond, a Sony exec responding to Amy Pascal. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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