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RUSH: Here\u2019s Jerry in my adopted hometown of Sacramento, California. Hi, Jerry. I\u2019m glad you waited. Welcome to the program.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Good morning. Glad to talk to you again.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Thank you, sir.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Say, you know the left really has no credibility when it comes to this issue of offensive speech. You know, I was parked at a stoplight a while back beside a cop car. A teenager walked across the street with a T-shirt that says, “Jesus is a,” it\u2019s a four-letter C-word talking about a woman\u2019s body part. I asked the cop, “Can you do something about that?” The cop says, “No, it\u2019s protected speech.” Well, that\u2019s protected because the Supreme Court ruled that offensive speech needed to be protected. And when Larry Flynt said all those lousy things about that pastor and the left and the media celebrated that. So they either gotta complain about all of it or none of it. No credibility.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, again, you\u2019re illustrating here that it\u2019s simply a political calculation, a strategy, the whole racist, or racialist is the more accurate way to describe this one. The racialist attitudes that they profess to criticize in people. It\u2019s just a strategy. And they wait in eager anticipation for the next Donald Sterling to show up. They\u2019re not really trying to solve any of this is the point, folks. They\u2019re not trying to get rid of any of this. They play off of it. They live off of it. They thrive on this stuff. They will manufacture it, if they have to. <\/p>\n

I try not to mention myself in these things, but there have been two noted occurrences today, and I\u2019m not gonna play the sound bites of \u2019em. Both of them have been on ESPN and both of them have linked me to Donald Sterling. They\u2019re both: “Just like the NFL banded together to deny the racist Limbaugh the right to own the Rams, so should the NBA get rid of Sterling.” You know what all that\u2019s based on? Fake, made-up quotes started by a lazy reporter in St. Louis who believed a bunch of crock that Media Matters had put out. <\/line><\/p>\n

There was a fake quote, something I never said. If I had said it I would not be on the air today. It was supposedly I had said something about blacks and slavery and they\u2019d been better off back then than they are today. There were three or four totally made-up quotes that I never said that had appeared in a book that had been published by Media Matters. This guy looked it up, didn\u2019t call me, didn\u2019t check, just ran with it. So these loco weeds that are on ESPN now, these half-baked commentators, they think all that was said, they think it was all true, and this is how it works. This is why they live for these moments. <\/p>\n

All of these people on TV are supposedly outraged over what Sterling said, from Jesse Jackson to Sharpton to your average African-American comic. They\u2019re not mad about this. They thrive on it. It gives them an opportunity to advance their political agenda. The last thing they want is for this stuff to ever stop. They\u2019d be put out of business. I gotta find this Jesse Jackson quote where he compared picking cotton to playing basketball. Let me find it, folks. Hang on just second. Reverend Jackson. Number 11. Grab this. This is Saturday afternoon, ESPN, where else? Really. <\/p>\n

They\u2019ve got these guys, and there probably have been more than two, there have just been two that I\u2019ve been told about. I\u2019m not gonna play the sound bite \u2019cause I\u2019m not gonna give these guys any further amplification than they already have. But it was ESPN Sports Center with the anchor Zubin Mehenti speaking to the Reverend Jackson of the Monochrome Coalition about Donald Sterling and his racist remarks to his girlfriend V. Stiviano. The anchor Zubin Mehenti, said, “Doc Rivers, the coach of the Clippers, is African-American. Their biggest free agent acquisition, Chris Paul, is African-American. Reverend Jackson, how do you reconcile Sterling making these comments considering so many people that he is around are African-American and all these players have signed free agent contracts to play for his team?”<\/p>\n

JACKSON: Well, if he objectifies them and sees them as persons, it\u2019s about winning, it\u2019s about money and not about their dignity, which is also important. If we\u2019re just going from picking cotton balls to picking basketballs without the dignity of a relationship between worker and owner, then we\u2019re not making progress.<\/line><\/p>\n

RUSH: No, we\u2019re not making progress. No, no, no. The guys playing for Donald Sterling and the Clippers making $20 million a year haven\u2019t moved an inch forward from their predecessors picking cotton. You see? The Reverend Jackson actually wants us to believe this! See, so here again, Sterling doesn\u2019t really care. “Yeah, he\u2019s paying these guys but he doesn\u2019t mean it. <\/p>\n

“He\u2019s paying these guys but he really doesn\u2019t want to. Yeah, he\u2019s paying these guys, but he really doesn\u2019t like \u2019em. Yeah, he\u2019s paying these guys, but he really doesn\u2019t offer \u2019em any dignity! Yeah, he\u2019s paying these guys, but he really secretly hates \u2019em.” It makes a lot of sense, doesn\u2019t it? A guy that\u2019s owned this team since 1981 is doing all this stuff he hates, paying all these people all of this money, and he really hates \u2019em. <\/p>\n

He\u2019s just nothing but an old cotton farmer who\u2019s got these players picking basketballs instead of picking cotton. There you have the Reverend Jackson moving the nation forward off of this issue. (interruption) What do you mean, “How do you offer somebody dignity?” I don\u2019t think they care. They\u2019re playing basketball. They want the opportunity to play basketball. <\/p>\n

He shows up at all the games; he goes to the locker room now and then. They have made… This is my point: Nobody has made any effort to keep him at arm\u2019s distance. He shows up at the games and it doesn\u2019t affect the way they play. They haven\u2019t walked out. They haven\u2019t. They haven\u2019t protested anything. “If he objectifies \u2019em and sees \u2019em as persons, it\u2019s about winning…” <\/p>\n

So Sterling, “Yeah, he cares about winning but he just uses them, see? He doesn\u2019t care about \u2019em as people.” <\/p>\n

This is how the whole left wing operates. They grant themselves the purest of intentions and then question everybody else\u2019s, deny everybody else\u2019s. But how do you…? (chuckling) “If we\u2019re just gonna go from picking cotton balls to picking basketballs without the dignity of a relationship then we\u2019re not making progress”? See, this is where it all breaks down, because we have made I don\u2019t know how much progress. <\/p>\n

You\u2019ve got a black president. You\u2019ve got a black attorney general. You\u2019ve got the wealthiest TV performer in American history is a African-American woman. That would be The Oprah. Some of the wealthiest Americans are African-American now. “Yeah, Rush, but they\u2019re just athletes.” What difference does that make? We\u2019re gonna start qualifying it now? Some of the wealthiest white people are athletes, too. <\/p>\n

Doesn\u2019t the Reverend Jackson have a record of attacking Jewish people? What was it he said about New York City? He called it what? Yeah, “Hymietown.” That\u2019s right. He called it Hymietown. But, see, the Reverend Jackson went and prayed with who? Bill Clinton? No, it was Clinton who prayed with Jackson over Monica and the stain on the dress. Who did Jackson go pray to for forgiveness over calling New York “Hymietown”? <\/p>\n

It wouldn\u2019t have been a rabbi. <\/p>\n

Maybe it was. I don\u2019t know. <\/p>\n

But, see, this is how they all can get away with it, and they\u2019re still able to run their shakedowns with the Monochrome Coalition and the National Action Network. How many millions in back taxes does the Reverend Sharpton still owe? He\u2019s getting an award, a lifetime achievement award from the NAALCP LA branch. Yeah, Reverend Jackson\u2019s “Hymietown” scandal was when he said he was sick and tired of hearing about the Holocaust. <\/p>\n

That\u2019s what it was. <\/p>\n

That\u2019s what he said.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: This is all the Democrats have for this reelection, folks, is race — and if you haven\u2019t noticed, Democrat projected turnout way down, particularly among single women and minorities. So that\u2019s what this is. It\u2019s fallen into their lap, but this is all they\u2019ve got. You take a look all the time spent on what Donald Sterling said and compare it, say, to the number, and you will see. What is that “game” that people run around…? (interruption)<\/p>\n

Knockout. How about all of the shootings in Chicago where young black kids have been shot dead? How much time has any of that gotten versus what Sterling said on tape? We all know what\u2019s going on here. We all know. It\u2019s the low-information voter. What\u2019s going on here is voter turnout for the midterm election in November among minorities. That\u2019s what the media and all these guests on TV are ginning up via Sterling \u2019cause they\u2019ve all known it. I\u2019m telling you, this is not news to anybody in the sports community or real estate community in Los Angeles. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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