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RUSH: I want to start with the Duke lacrosse stuff today. We'll eventually get to the race baiting of the Reverend Jackson and Reverend Sharpton regarding MSNBC, the hypocrisy over there at NBC of getting rid of the Imus simulcast. All that will come in mere moments. Lots of stuff here today in the stacks of stuff. I gotta tell you, on the program yesterday, as you know, we JIP'ed (joined in progress) the press conference by the attorney general of North Carolina, and when it was over -- as I said yesterday, and if you watched any TV last night I'm sure that you heard things that I mentioned yesterday echoed -- it was profound to hear this attorney general, the number one law enforcement officer in the state of North Carolina, actually proclaim "innocence." As I said, these guys normally circle the wagons, protect each other. He could have said, "Yeah, there wasn't enough evidence, insufficient evidence to charge, da-da-da-da."
 They could have left a cloud hanging here, but they didn't do that. Innocence was proclaimed, and the press conference that followed that by the three Duke lacrosse players and the lawyers, I watched it on the airplane flying up to New York, and I was riveted. I could not pull myself away from it. These young men and what they've been through... They all spoke without notes, from their hearts. It was just brilliant. You know, there's an old saying that challenge does not build character, challenge reveals it -- and yesterday, we saw the character of many people revealed. We saw the good, solid character of the young men who were accused, falsely so, and their families. We saw the character of these lawyers who fought so hard to have the truth known. We saw the character of the attorney general of North Carolina to break long-standing tradition and lambaste a fellow lawyer.
Also what happened, the character of the city of Durham, the character of the DA, Michael Nifong, the character of the police in Durham, the character of Duke University, and the newspapers in Durham and Raleigh, as well as the newspapers like the New York Times. The Drive-By Media in total, their character was also revealed. Today, all the words that they all hid behind were thrown away, and we see them for what they are. The New York Times, the local media in North Carolina, the Duke University faculty and the administration there, are a bunch of racists, a bunch of liberal racists who simply saw a template that their little closed-world belief system has adopted, and when they had all the elements in that template plugged in, man, they just jumped on it and embarrassed themselves to no end.
I see also, by the way, ladies and gentlemen, that Oprah Winfrey, the Oprah, is having the Rutgers ladies basketball team on her show as guests. So I went to the Oprah.com website. I wanted to see when she was having the Duke lacrosse team on her show. There must be a scheduling problem there, because I don't see it there yet. I don't see the Duke lacrosse team scheduled on the Oprah show, but we'll keep a sharp eye on that website and when we find out that the Oprah has scheduled the Duke lacrosse team, we will let you know. By the way, the Reverend Sharpton is here. We heard the horns here. The EIB building in midtown Manhattan is just down the street from Black Rock, the CBS headquarters on Sixth Avenue, and about, oh, 40 minutes ago, even I in my enclosed cave here, soundproofed, I thought I heard something. |
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It was something unusual. I really can't see what it was or peg what it was. I'm in here, and I got a quick note from Cookie, "Do you hear all those horns honking out there?" I said, "Is that what that is?" She said, "Yeah. Sharpton's protest at Black Rock is underway." Al Sharpton is now demanding that CBS follow in the footsteps of PMSNBCB and cancel the Imus show. It didn't go well because it is pouring here. It is wet, and it is cold. "Sharpton organized a rally outside of CBS corporate headquarters, West 52nd and 6th Avenue this morning, but due to the heavy rains plaguing the city, Sharpton spoke briefly and said an actual protest would be rescheduled for Saturday at noon." I heard the horns. Well, I heard a noise, but (interruption). "Who's around Saturday at noon?" is the question. Nobody will be around Saturday at noon, but you wait. The National Action Network will get into gear and they'll find plenty of people to be around here Saturday at noon.
I'll tell you who else will be around here Saturday at noon: every media camera in this city that hasn't been assigned to Shea Stadium for the Mets game, will be at Black Rock at noon on Saturday. You can bet your bippy on that. (Oh, no. Suppressing a sneeze. I think I got it.) Oh, by the way, we have a brand-new Justice Brothers commercial. They're new sponsors. In fact, let's start with the spot from yesterday, Mike. If you weren't with us yesterday, the Justice Brothers are a new advertiser. We always welcome new advertisers with a big bunch of hullabaloo outside commercial time. We do it within the program content, and the Justice Brothers received amazing results from just one spot yesterday (I actually played it twice) and they've already sent in a new spot. Here is a spot that ran yesterday.
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RUSH: Oh, Koreans. By the way, I have a really impassioned monologue slated for when we get to the whole MSNBC and Imus thing down the road, but I've got some sound bites from the Duke lacrosse circumstance that I want to share with you. Oh, we have a great sound bite coming -- Laurie David was on CNBC talking about global warming -- that is just a hoot. I can't describe it. I'm not even going to try to. You just have to wait for it. It's all coming up. Here's the second spot. It just arrived this morning from the Justice Brothers.
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RUSH: Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah! It's the Isley Brothers. It's one of my favorite tunes in the EIB bumper rotation. Gotta Fight the Power, folks. Fight the Power! By the way, as a little tease (and I'll admit this is what this is), I am going to agree today with both the Reverend Jackson and Reverend Sharpton in comments they made about MSNBC last night. |
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RUSH: I want to point this out. If you look at the differences in the behavior and the character of two American universities, what happened when these baseless charges were filed by Mike Nifong down at Duke and then the whole faculty picked up on the mantra and they fired the coach, Duke immediately condemned the entire lacrosse team, canceled the season, fired the coach on an accusation of wrongdoing. Rutgers? What did Rutgers do? Rutgers immediately held a press conference to support the basketball players who are not what they were called. If you are a parent and you're thinking of sending your kid away to school, where would you rather send your kid, to Duke University or to Rutgers, after what you have seen here today? All of these comparisons that are out there are stark.
Let's go to the audio sound bites. When the program ended yesterday, I had to cut an audio bit for the season premiere of The Family Guy on Fox. I think they told me that this is the season premiere for networks season, whenever that next season starts, and while I was waiting for the phone connection to do this, I was watching PMSNBC after the press conference from the attorney general of North Carolina. Right after this press conference, a lawyer shows up and says she still thinks something happened that night. We're back here to the libs and "the seriousness of the charge, not the nature of the evidence," as all that matters. The anchorette, the info babe, Contessa Brewer, was talking to former prosecutor Georgia Goslee, and she said to her, "Are you surprised at this reprimand?"
GOSLEE: Something in the back of my mind still tells me that something occurred in that house on that night that the -- that the victim [sic] said that she was raped. If the legal authorities in North Carolina have so ruled, then I as a lawyer, we don't have a choice but to accept it. But I just still believe that something happened that wasn't quite right in that house that night. I still will always believe -- and it's just my opinion, as an attorney who's tried many cases, investigated many cases, I just still believe -- that something happened more than a false accusation.
RUSH: Unbelievable! So even after a special investigation -- and let me point out that the attorney general of North Carolina is a Democrat investigating another Democrat, Mike Nifong. Imagine that. Even after all of this, this attorney says this charge is too serious. The nature of the evidence doesn't matter to liberals. It's the seriousness of the charge. In the back of my mind, something happened. There is no evidence that anything happened. If there were the slightest bit of evidence, the word "innocent" would not have been used, and this lawyer, again her name is Georgia Goslee, that was the point she started out with in her sound bite. I'm surprised. I couldn't believe it. I heard the word "innocent," and that's what launched her into this diatribe, and again, I have to tell you -- and I know all of you saw this, or most of you did -- Reade Seligmann, Evans, Colin Finnerty, when they got up, these three lacrosse players, America saw them probably for the first time.
They were allowed to speak in a forum like this, and I'll tell you, you were looking at quality individuals, mature beyond their years. They have had life experiences that most people will not have, at a young age. They have dealt with it. You know, character is not built by this kind of thing; character is revealed by this kind of adversity, and it was on display for one and all to see. I was just amazed. I thought I was watching seasoned media veterans of at least 35 or 40 years old, speaking off the cuff at the podium about this case. I was watching young men in their early twenties go through this and make these remarks -- and it was inescapable, the quality and the great family, support that they've had. They've obviously all been raised very well. They shot the myth, one of the parts of the template. I wonder if the Duke faculty, the faculty of 88 that signed that letter and then backed up that letter with the condemnation, if there's the slightest bit of embarrassment. |
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I wonder if there's the slightest bit of embarrassment on the part of the Duke University president who got rid of the lacrosse coach. I doubt it! I don't think there is. I think they're probably harboring in their minds thoughts expressed here by Georgia Goslee, "Well, something happened in there, we know something happened in there because we're smarter than everybody else, and we know." In fact, they're just a bunch of elitists who are not smarter than anybody else. They're not as smart as most people! They don't come close, but they live in this tight little enclosed world where they tell each other that they are the brains of society, and unfortunately they have all this unfettered access to young skulls full of mush in order to indoctrinate them and inculcate them with a bunch of drivel and so forth. But these three lacrosse players yesterday hit grand-slam home runs. Last night on CNN, Anderson Cooper 360 talked to the Reverend Jackson, and Cooper said, "In looking back about how you spoke about the Duke lacrosse players, do you have any regrets?"
JACKSON: No. There were past misdemeanor charges. There was a case of these athletes obviously feel entitled, paying money to watch women dance nekkid before them. Now, did they go as far as molesting her? Apparently not.
RUSH: "Apparently not," but he's not going to apologize, and neither is Sharpton. Sharpton's not gotten apologize. Nobody can remember what he said, so he's not going to apologize. Of course, these are the arbiters now of who can say what, ladies and gentlemen! This is where you have to go. In fact... I may even do this later on in the program, so I'm not going to give it away. What if we all have to go through the Justice Brothers, Sharpton and Jackson, in order to get the content of our programs approved every day? That's what they're trying to set up. This is their end-around the Fairness Doctrine, folks, and they've both said it. Sharpton as much as said it. We're not stopping here. We're moving on -- and you'll hear the sound bite coming up in just a second. Anderson Cooper says, "Wait a second. If that's a crime," watching nekkid (It's naked, by the way, Reverend Jackson.) "If that's a crime, watching naked women dance, then most of the men in America should be arrested. There's a strip joint a couple blocks from my home," Anderson Cooper said.
JACKSON: Most men in America don't do that, shouldn't do that, and when they do it, it is never right. It is -- in fact when you reduce women to dance before you nekkid, it's the first step towards domestic violence.
RUSH: Oh, my golly gosh! Listen to that! As though these women are members of a slave troupe; they are in bondage, and they are dragged out before the polls at the Bada Bing. They are dragged out at all these strip clubs, and they are forced to dance nekkid! "It's the first step toward domestic violence." The dirty little secret here is some of these women dance nekkid -- and I'm not talking about this babe (well, it might be) -- a lot of them are single mothers. They're divorced, and they can earn a hundred grand a year at a good club doing this sort of stuff, and they're protected. This is the hypocrisy. The Reverend Jackson will climb over anybody who violates his boundaries and his rules but he has no boundaries. He has no rules. He never has to apologize like I told you. Minorities never do anything for which they have to apologize.
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RUSH: Andrea Peyser today in the New York Post asks, "Will the [New York] Times Apologize?" Will the Raleigh News and Observer apologize? Everybody is demanding that everybody apologize in this country for simply breathing. It's getting to the point some people are not allowed to breathe or exhale or make syllables, and some people who make syllables are being told they better apologize in advance and after they make those syllables. But the media seems to get a free ride here. The Reverend Jackson wants a free ride. The Reverend Jackson and Reverend Sharpton both want a free ride. They never have to apologize because they can't be racists, folks, they're members of a minority group. Don't ever forget that this is the case. Minorities, victims, members of groups, are allowed to do anything to address their grievances and to get noticed because they're just so oppressed.
They "have no power," so they cannot act on whatever -ism they have, racism. They can't be bigots. They can't be sexists. They don't have the power to be. Racism, bigotry, sexism, homophobia, those things are reserved for the majority because they're the only ones that have the power. Now, here's the Reverend Jackson talking about how nekkid women, being forced to dance in front of men is "the first step toward domestic violence" and no, it's wrong and nobody should be doing it. Has anybody remembered this? Have you forgotten this? Reverend Jackson himself has fathered a "love child." This is from World Net Daily in 2001: "According to the Rev. Jesse Peterson, head of the Los Angeles-based civil rights group BOND, or Brotherhood Organization of a New Destiny -- 'it is not a big surprise that Jesse Jackson has committed adultery,' and that his actions are unfortunately 'all too typical' of 'black ministers and politicians in the black community.'
"'The black community will accept and defend Jackson's sexual escapade as they did with Bill Clinton. This is the reason black Americans are suffering today -- not due to racism, but rather because of the lack of character,' Peterson said in a blistering statement released by his organization yesterday. Last week, the national press was filled with details," again, this was January 2001, "of Jackson's long-term extramarital affair with a top aide working for his [Monochrome] Coalition, which resulted in the birth of a daughter in 1998. Jackson, 59, has reportedly been paying the mother -- ... who headed Rainbow's Washington, D.C., office -- $10,000 a month after DNA tests determined he was the father of her child."
Now, we're supposed to forgive. I mean, this happens to a lot of people. A lot of people engage in infidelity, a lot of people have love children. But it's wrong. All these people escape the same moral judgment that they mete out against everyone else. They seem to be immune from it. You know what's funny about all this, though? I have to tell you, and I think it's ironic as hell. Just a simple question. Of all the people in this country, why is it that two of them, the Reverend Jackson and the Reverend Sharpton, have become the final arbiters of what's okay and not okay to say on the, quote, unquote, public airwaves? By the way, the Imus situation, MSNBC is not public airwaves. It's cable. None of it's on the air. They're not subject to FCC regulations and all this kind of thing. The whole argument here that we've got to clean up and detoxify the airwaves, well, cable is not the public airwaves! It doesn't apply. |
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It doesn't apply. That's why all the raunch and rotgut in culture is on cable. You can get away with it there. The FCC has no purview. At any rate, why is it those are the two guys who are set up here as final arbiters? Who created them? The left! The liberals! The Democrat Party! Jackson and Sharpton have seats at the Democrat Party table of power, because they deliver votes. They're the ones that have legitimized them. What's ironic and funny about this is now they gotta deal with them. Guess who it is that Sharpton and Jackson are trying to shake down? NBC and CBS. Those two organizations (and ABC as well, and the New York Times), they've all created this monster. They've set them up. Now these guys are turning on them, for now. They'll go elsewhere after they get their love donations or whatever they want. It's hilarious to see this. The left's created its own monster, its own Frankenstein, and Frankenstein is attacking the doctor. The monster is attacking the doctor. It's just amazing to see. Anyway, I'm getting ahead of myself here, getting into this MSNBC case. A Drive-By Media reporter in New York today asked Reverend Al about the nasty things he said about the Duke case, but Al shouts him down -- there's no bullhorn in this case -- and changes the subject. This is while Reverend Sharpton was over there trying to protest at Black Rock in the rain. An unidentified reporter asks, "Reverend, the three gentlemen at Duke University, you said the same things about them. How do you feel now?"
SHARPTON: I did not attack them or did I --
REPORTER: You said some very nasty things about them.
SHARPTON: What did I say?
REPORTER: I don't know exactly.
SHARPTON: Well, then don't ask the question.
VOICE: That's right. Not here.
REPORTER: Reverend, I'm saying you haven't spoken out about that.
SHARPTON: First of all, you told one distortion. You said I said some nasty things. When I challenge you -- this is the kind of stuff we're talking about. You guys go unaddressed. That's got to stop. What did I say? I said, "We need to investigate and we need to see what..." That's nasty?
REPORTER: But you haven't spoken out.
SHARPTON: You said that about Michael Jackson. Did you speak nasty things about Michael? Did you speak nasty things about O.J. Simpson? This is the kind of distortion you guys have to stop.
REPORTER: How do you feel about what happened yesterday?
SHARPTON: Next question.
RUSH: He won't talk about what happened at Duke, whether he had said anything about it or not. "Next question." This guy is riding the crest of the wave. This guy is feeling his power. He is more powerful than Barack now. He's more powerful than a potential presidential nominee, Barack Obama. He's more powerful than the Reverend Jackson. I gotta tell you a little story. When I landed we had a little traffic delay coming into Teterboro yesterday. We're about 45 minutes out, one of the pilots came back and said, "Ah, they put us in a little delay. It's only going to be 15 or 20 minutes."
I said, "No problem. I have lots to do back here."
So we landed, and as I'm walking through the terminal at Teterboro and I got outside, somebody said, "You're 30 minutes too late."
I said, "What? What happened?"
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I said, "I'll bet I know what this is about. I'll bet he made a beeline for MSNBC to be on TV last night," and damned if I wasn't right. I turn on the TV about an hour and a half later, there he is -- 'cause you can talk about Sharpton and Jackson being unified and all this, but there's an internal struggle there over who's running this show. Sharpton, right now, he's commandeered the lead in this circumstance, but they're out there echoing each other in some of their sentiments, that we have to detoxify the airwaves and it's not going to stop here, we're going to move on to CBS, and we're going to move on to MSNBC. It's not going to stop with this one guy and with these places. Let me grab some phone calls. People have been patiently waiting. We'll start in Winston, Salem, North Carolina. This is Sean. Nice to have you here.
CALLER: Hey, Rush, how you doing, buddy?
RUSH: Never better, sir. It's great to have you on the program.
CALLER: It's great to talk to you. Well, what I wanted to say was I've been living in North Carolina my entire life, and I feel that the real problem here goes back to what you've been telling us the whole time about Shelby Steele and white guilt, and I feel that North Carolina is always just going crazy far trying to prove that we're not racists and we're not rednecks, and that's the reason why this thing went as far as it did.
RUSH: Well, there's no question that there's some white guilt involved here, but are you talking about average citizens?
CALLER: Everybody. The citizens, government. Take the professors, for example. Eighty-eight of them signed that letter.
RUSH: No, no. I'm going to tell you something. That has nothing to do with white guilt. They have some white guilt, obviously.
CALLER: Yeah.
RUSH: These are people that believe minorities have been screwed. They feel guilty about it, but they don't want to make any changes in order to accommodate minority progress. They want everybody else to make them. They're too smart. They're too elite. They can't give up their positions of power. Those 88 faculty members were liberals first and second before they suffered any white guilt. White guilt is in the mix, but those people were liberals, and there is a template, and this story fit the template, and the template is that minorities are always victimized. When you get to a minority woman and a weird, elitist sport like lacrosse where the players come from the Northeast, why, you've got the template!
Rich white guys, poor, struggling single mother doing the pole dances here while nekkid, according to the Reverend Jackson, it fit the template. This is how they view America, whether they've got guilt or not. It may be that their guilt drove them to it, but this is how they view America. I'll tell you, I think most people in North Carolina thought that was bogus from the get-go. Now, Nifong, it's going to be difficult to peg this. Nifong, first and foremost, you gotta think, just saw an opportunity. I think a caller to this program yesterday had it right. Nifong thought it would be contained as some local little story. "Who cares about lacrosse players?" he said. "I've got the perfect story here to launch my primary campaign." He never thought it'd go national.
CALLER: You're absolutely right about that. I mean, with Nifong it was complete politics from the beginning. I mean, this is politics from a hundred years ago.
RUSH: Exactly.
CALLER: All the way.
RUSH: Exactly. This is George Wallace politics. It's Lester Maddox politics.
CALLER: You know, I wanted to say something to you real quick. One of the biggest things that I noticed about the whole thing was what -- I don't know if you noticed but what -- Reade Seligmann said, "The crazy thing about this is how we got railroaded, and I can't imagine how people that don't have the resources we did could deal with something like this," and that's a huge problem with law enforcement today.
RUSH: He said that.
CALLER: Yes.
RUSH: He said a couple other things, too. We have that sound bite. So here. Play that bite.
SELIGMANN: If police officers and a district attorney can systematically railroad us with absolutely no evidence whatsoever, I can't imagine what they'd do to people who do not have the resources to defend themselves. |
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RUSH: One of these young men -- and I forget which one; you might be able to remind me, Sean -- said he has an entirely different view of the legal system now. He had no clue this kind of thing could happen. He literally has an entirely different perspective now, as I knew he would have by the way, as I knew they all will have, over being railroaded with false charges and the media dumping on them. By the way, these guys dumped on the media. They dumped on the local media. They dumped on everybody, but they did it with class and they did it with a lot of dignity.
CALLER: Yeah.
RUSH: But this sound bite that you refer to about people who don't have the resources to defend themselves, that's of course an excellent point. But I think, you know, to me anyway the more profound observation was when he said, "I never knew the legal system could be like this." It proves it. I hate to keep saying I was right and so and so, but it is what it is. Most people, when they hear law enforcement say something, they automatically believe it. This is not political bias. It's just that institution always has credibility. People don't like criminals. They don't like bad guys, and if somebody in law enforcement comes out and says, "Perp A did it," everybody believes it because people think, "Why would law enforcement waste their time with false charges?" Ha! That's what these guys learned. Of course, the Drive-By Media, they are slavish to law enforcement. "Law enforcement sources close to the investigation..."
Next time you see that in a story, "sources close to the investigation," understand that somebody in the prosecutor's office is leaking -- and the Drive-Bys, they're not curious! They all have templates and pre-established mind-sets. So the next time something like this happens, everybody, I think, is going to be a little bit more doubtful, a little bit more suspicious. Because when Nifong... You know how many DAs and prosecutors around the country are cursing this guy? Because he carries with him the reputation of the whole legal system to an extent, because he has shown it can happen -- and these were not atypical defendants. It has been demonstrated now that there is corruption in the legal system as well. Most people think, just as a matter of course, that it's pretty fair and the institutions pretty solid.
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RUSH: Here is Beth in Acton, Massachusetts. Beth, I'm glad you called and welcome to the program.
CALLER: Hi. Good to talk to you. I think that that caller from North Carolina had it right only in that Nifong did do that for political reason, but I really think that the Duke professors would never go back on what they said because the whole reason why those boys are guilty to them is because they hate white men who are successful anyway, which is really the way the liberals operate. If you look at it, any white man who's manly, masculine and successful like George Bush or yourself, is constantly under attack, whereas --
RUSH: Yeah, but it can be that because a lot of white liberals are successful.
CALLER: Yeah, but there are white men who are successful. Look at Bill Clinton. He's a playboy. He doesn't have any integrity. He's a joker and his wife wears the pants. You know, white men who are successful --
RUSH: But -- No, no, now wait a minute. I think I know what you're trying to say here, but you can't leave out the ideological component, and you can't leave out the characteristics of a liberal. A liberal is an arrogant, condescending elitist, a superiorist, and I think in the case of professors "hating successful white men," that's just too broad. There's no question that there's resentment or that there's bias against them and so forth. I don't think these guys were hated before these charges were mounted. It was when the charges were leveled that the professoriate got into gear at Duke University. In fact, there's a great piece at BlackandRight.MensNewsDaily.com by Bob Parks, who is black, and he talks about the circumstances involving the faculty. He said, "[R]emember the college faculty members who indicted an entire gender just to pacify the shrill squealings of campus feminists." They're cowed by women. These are the kind of guys that feminists consider real men, men that you can keep under your thumb, that you can cow, and that will do anything to keep women happy in this regard, feminists in terms of ideologically happy. "So the next time any liberal tells you Republicans play the race card and bring up Willie Horton, please remind them of a Democrat district attorney named Mike Nifong who was willing to send innocent college students to jail for decades, just so he could use his Black constituents get re-elected," and then you have the college faculty members, and they're just ignorant and they're naïve and they run around as the smartest people in the world; but first and foremost, my friends, there's something very simple to learn from this.
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