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RUSH: We\u2019ve been here 18-and-a-half years. It\u2019ll be 19 on August 1st, and there have been many episodes of sheer brilliance and prescience on this program, and I remember it was the mid-nineties I first coined the term ‘The Concerned\u2019 and then ‘The Offended.\u2019 I pointed out that we have (had at that time) an ever-growing group of people that simply exist to be offended. They\u2019re just waiting and looking for any reason to be offended, and the reason they are is because they learned that if they say something offends them, they can genuinely — if they\u2019re minorities of any kind; I\u2019m not talking about race here; if they\u2019re minorities of any kind, they can genuinely — via political correctness or other sort of thing, get sympathy, get the words that offend them squelched or the behavior that offends them stopped or what have you. It\u2019s the root of the anti-smoking craze, the secondhand smoke myth that\u2019s out there. There are countless examples of it, and we\u2019re in the midst of one now.<\/p>\n

Everybody is just righteously indignant, righteously offended. ‘Why, how can anybody say something like that! Where does that come from?\u2019 but, The Offended are very selective in what it is that offends them. They\u2019re only offended when certain people do or say things that offend them. If others that are not members of the so-called majority engage in the similar behavior or utter similar words, you never hear that they\u2019re offended. That\u2019s what\u2019s sort of delectable and juicy about this. This is all libs. This is all libs, and they\u2019re tying themselves into knots here, \u2019cause you\u2019ve got the charge of racism and bigotry on the table, and that charge is usually leveled at conservatives. But the person in question here can in no way be considered a conservative. So they\u2019re tying themselves into knots over trying to do what would be consistently correct and make sense for them to do, but they don\u2019t like doing it. They\u2019re having all kinds of problems. I just want to reiterate one point. When I say that the media is largely responsible for this, ‘responsible\u2019 may be the wrong word, but to say that the media is simply watching this from afar and being objective on it is a joke. It is laughable.<\/p>\n

The Today Show\u2019s Matt Lauer really lit into Don Imus today, but guess what? NBC owns the network that simulcasts the radio show. As if they didn\u2019t know! Did they just learn this last week? Every reporter for that network of any stature has been on the Imus show or wanted to be on that show, including Matthews and David Gregory. The list is long and far and wide, and they\u2019ve all known what is going on. Now they\u2019ve gotta pretend that they\u2019re objective in covering this event even though they\u2019ve sat there while guests on this show and heard similar things for all of these recent years and never said a thing about it. But now all of a sudden they can be objective. Now the network that put this show on television, NBC, has decided, ‘Well, we can\u2019t put up with this. We\u2019ll suspend this show for a couple of weeks.\u2019 They\u2019re gonna pretend objectivity, and that\u2019s exactly what is going on. This is pretend objectivity, as if they didn\u2019t know about what was happening on this show for all of these years — and in the process of this, guess who\u2019s getting a total pass? NBC\u2019s getting a pass. MSNBC\u2019s getting a pass. Their reporters are getting a pass. The reporters from Newsweek and TIME that go on this show, they\u2019re getting a pass.<\/p>\n

But they were all enablers. They were going on the program for their own selfish reasons. They were there for selfish reasons of the host. It\u2019s a mutual usable society, if you will, or mutual user society. They all sat there and enabled this. Look, if it hadn\u2019t been for all of these liberal media types going on this program, the truth of its smallness would have been known long ago. I\u2019ve said many times in describing buzz and PR, there are a lot of things — movies, television shows, radio shows — that have a lot of ‘buzz\u2019 about them, but no audience. This is one of them, and the buzz comes from the guests who appear on the program. These reporters who are now doing their damnedest to appear objective about it, and shocked, and outraged. ‘Why, this can\u2019t go on any longer! Why, he took a pledge! Why, he promised this wouldn\u2019t happen any more,\u2019 blah, blah, blah. But they don\u2019t like doing it. It\u2019s a very uncomfortable position because this is normally what they do to conservatives. The media are so cowed in this. They won\u2019t say diddly about Al Sharpton or the Reverend Jackson\u2019s past. They\u2019ve both made racist and anti-Semitic comments, and Sharpton in his case, sickening actions — the Tawana Brawley episode, and the Democrat Party\u2019s embracing these two guys.<\/p>\n

Meredith Vieira had Jesse Jackson on today and said, ‘I\u2019m sorry, Reverend Jackson, but I must bring up the Hymietown. I\u2019m sorry to do that.\u2019 Well, there\u2019s fear there, a little fear. You gotta apologize for bringing up the Hymietown remark. ‘I have to mention that this happened,\u2019 and so forth. So the bottom line is that we\u2019ve got an Offended industry. We\u2019ve got an industry of the Offended and the Concerned, and they spring into action. I don\u2019t know. It\u2019s almost like a plan. You know exactly what\u2019s going to trigger it and when it happens you know it\u2019s going to get triggered; it\u2019s just going to be a matter of time, and of course the question that I have is, ‘How long is it going to be before the American people simply get tired of all this?\u2019 Every day you wake up, you turn on the news, and you find out somebody\u2019s outraged about something. They\u2019re outraged about secondhand smoke. They\u2019re outraged. Look at the Drive-By Media! For crying out loud, folks, all it does is try to keep us in chaos and tumult every day. ‘This is going to kill us. This is going to destroy us. This is going to make us sick. This is going to shorten our life span.\u2019<\/p>\n

From global warming to whatever, the business of the media today is chaos and fear, and to keep you constantly in tumult, and then the Offended chime in and say, ‘Well, we can\u2019t permit this to be a civilized society and so forth.\u2019 I just wonder where the tipping point\u2019s going to be where a majority of people say, ‘I don\u2019t want to grow up and be offended every day. I don\u2019t want to wake up and be offended. I\u2019m sick and tired of it. People are just overly sensitive and so forth.\u2019 Remember the old saw, ‘Hey, look, lighten up. This is nothing.\u2019 This really boils down to this, to the Offended. I\u2019ve mentioned this before on many previous occasions on this program. I very seldom get offended. It\u2019s a waste of time. It\u2019s a waste of energy, and it\u2019s a waste of intellect. But more than that, it is a surrendering of self, a surrendering of power. Why in the world would you want to grant people, people you don\u2019t even know, the ability and power to offend you? See, the dirty little secret is that half or more of these people who are offended are not. They are in the midst of a political agenda.<\/p>\n

Liberalism runs clear through this whole controversy, and being offended is simply a liberal tactic in order to squelch behavior and speech that you don\u2019t like, and when you say your feelings are hurt and you\u2019ve been offended by this and you don\u2019t understand why, essentially, if you strip it all away, people are admitting that they\u2019re just a bunch of linguini-spined, limp-wristed individuals who have no guts and no courage. Why in the world would anybody want to run around and make their whole life being offended? Who wants to grant somebody that kind of power, that kind of authority over them? People say things, let \u2019em bounce off! It\u2019s no big deal. Now, in certain instances of it, it\u2019s difficult to do. I will admit that. If people close to you, people that you know do things that offend you, take advantage of you, misunderstand generosity in some cases, but I think that\u2019s more disappointment than it is wasting time being offended. We have a whole ‘being offended\u2019 culture out there and never, ever forget this, that the vast majority of these people who are trying to create as many of you in that group of Offended are simply executing a political agenda, as all of liberalism is.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: To Orlando, Florida. This is Roger. I appreciate your patience in waiting out there, Roger. Nice to have you with us.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Oh, thanks. It\u2019s great to be here. I just need my Rush prayer rug so I can lead the jihad against liberalism.<\/p>\n

RUSH: (Laughing.)<\/p>\n

CALLER: Hey, Rush, we talked about… That one lady that was on was beautiful. I always say, ‘You always have to ask yourself, ‘How does this affect anybody\u2019s life? How did Imus\u2019 words affect anybody\u2019s life?” Not at all. Not a single way.<\/p>\n

RUSH: John McWhorter, who is black and who is a scholar, was on John Gibson\u2019s Fox News show yesterday, and Gibson said, ‘What do you think about this?\u2019 and John McWhorter said, ‘I\u2019m too busy to worry about the comments of some little man.\u2019<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yeah. Absolutely.<\/p>\n

RUSH: That\u2019s exactly right. That is exactly right! If you allow this kind of stuff to upset you, it\u2019s just distracting. It\u2019s distracting, and it\u2019s wasting energy.<\/p>\n

CALLER: And think back real quick to recent history. Some people that did say something that did affect people\u2019s lives. It cost a team its championship. It cost a team three players. It cost a member of the team his job in New York. It cost the coach\u2019s job, when nothing happened. The things that were said affected the entire Duke Lacrosse team\u2019s life. Yet we have not heard a single apology, nothing.<\/p>\n

RUSH: No, in fact the charges still haven\u2019t been dropped against them.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Wait a second. I\u2019m sorry. They were rich white guys. Sorry, Rush. I forgot.<\/p>\n

RUSH: That ties into what I was saying earlier about when you\u2019re a minority, you\u2019re going to get the benefit of the doubt in everything. It\u2019s like Anita Hill and Clarence Thomas. You might say, ‘Well, where\u2019s the minority there?\u2019 Anita Hill. Clarence Thomas is not a black guy. Clarence Thomas is too white; he\u2019s conservative. So she comes along at the last minute with this charge, and the libs even said, ‘Look it\u2019s not so much the nature of the evidence that matters here. It\u2019s the seriousness of the charge. That\u2019s why we\u2019ve gotta look into this.\u2019<\/p>\n

CALLER: Absolutely.<\/p>\n

RUSH: The Duke Lacrosse case is a good example of the double standard that exists, but that\u2019s not just the outgrowth of black-white relations in the country. There\u2019s also a lot of feminism in that one that was driving people to draw conclusions before any evidence was ever in or presented. It turns out there isn\u2019t any, but it fit the template that liberals have constructed of the various groups — not individuals, but groups — that were involved, and that\u2019s another problem with groupthink. People don\u2019t become individuals anymore. If you\u2019re a member of a group, if you\u2019re a minority, you could be typecast, and if you\u2019re a member of a so-called protected majority, you could be typecast without anybody ever knowing you personally, or knowing anything about you. For all this talk, folks, about racism and so forth, let me say this again. The people in this society who first look at individuals and tie them to groups are liberals. They see skin color first. They see gender first. They see sexual orientation first. They see economic and socioeconomic circumstances first.<\/p>\n

They don\u2019t see individuals. They\u2019re the ones that do all this. The people that were jumping on the Duke lacrosse players were all liberals. The professors, the first 88 signed that letter, the coach got canned, with no evidence whatsoever. Where was the university defending its customers, its students? It was nowhere. Everybody folded the tent the minute the allegation was made, precisely because nobody wanted to be accused of racism. The North Carolina Senate just passed an apology for slavery bill, and it\u2019s going to go to the House, and what do you bet before it\u2019s all said and done, that a bunch of Republicans in the House in North Carolina go ahead and say, ‘Okay, we apologize for slavery,\u2019 which will lead then to reparations, and the reason they\u2019ll do so is simple. If they vote against it, they\u2019ll be afraid that in the next campaign, the opponent will do a TV commercial calling them a racist, and that\u2019s how you paralyze independent thought and that\u2019s actually how you intimidate. A classic illustration is what\u2019s happening here. Linda in Orange County, California. Is that right? Yeah. Nice to have you, Linda.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Hi. Thank you. We love you, Rush, but this morning I am just outraged. I am very upset about these Don Imus comments. Let me tell you, I happen to be white, but when I heard what Imus did, I was outraged for these young ladies, and all those young ladies became my daughters. What I see are a group of very intelligent women. Rush, these young ladies are at a major university. They are athletes. My son is in college and an athlete. I know what it takes, Rush, for them to have joined and been on a team of this stature. They have accomplished more in their young life than Imus ever has. They are the future of our country. How dare he take nonpolitical people and try to tarnish their joy or their success.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Now, is an interesting point. The coach, C. Vivian Stringer, made the point. She was responding to, well, some of the people defending the perp here, the suspect. Some of the people defending the perp have gone out and said, ‘Hey, look, it\u2019s a satire show. It\u2019s politics! It\u2019s a satire of popular culture and all this,\u2019 and C. Vivian Stringer said, ‘Wait a minute, my team are not public figures. They\u2019re not politicians.\u2019 (Well, it\u2019s arguable whether public figures. They just played for the national championship in basketball.) At any rate, I thought she had a good point in that regard, which is one of the things that you are echoing here, but I\u2019m struck by how much this bothers you. These women are not your daughters, yet they\u2019ve become your daughters.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Oh, absolutely, Rush! I feel exactly the same way about these young women as I did that morning with John Kerry and his comments about Mary Cheney. To take nonpolitical people, young people who are living their lives who have quasi-public lives. Maybe, all right, they\u2019re on TV.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yeah, but wait a minute, now. John Kerry was running for president. If he won, you have a guy that\u2019s going to have real power. We\u2019re talking about an insignificant radio guy here!<\/p>\n

CALLER: He is insignificant, Rush, and I hope the American people vote with their remote controls and never watch him again.<\/p>\n

RUSH: There are only 300,000 watching it anyway — and that\u2019s with numbers up like 30%. You realize nationwide that\u2019s not one-tenth of one percent? It\u2019s insignificant.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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