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RUSH: I guess, folks, we just can\u2019t call \u2019em Muslims anymore because you can\u2019t say anything about Muslims. I mean if Juan Williams gets canned from NPR for being truthfully honest, open about — well, we\u2019re going to have to start calling \u2019em Middle Eastern liberals. Yeah, a friend of mine sent me that suggestion. No longer call \u2019em Muslim. The Middle Eastern liberals today stoned a woman in Iran. The Middle Eastern liberals today plotted a plan to blow up buildings in Karachi. <\/p>\n

Let me remind you of something that our president, Imam Obama, said once. ‘The point I was making was not that my grandmother harbors any racial animosity. She doesn\u2019t. But she is a typical white person who, uh, if she sees somebody on the street she doesn\u2019t know, there\u2019s a reaction that\u2019s been bred into her, our experiences, that don\u2019t go away, sometimes come out in the wrong way and that\u2019s just the nature of race in our society. We have to break through it.\u2019 So it was okay for Obama to say she was a typical white person, his grandmother, \u2019cause she gets afraid of black guys on the street. It\u2019s okay for Obama to say that \u2019cause he wasn\u2019t saying it on NPR. Well, he probably said it on NPR but he was not employed by NPR. Here\u2019s what Juan said, by the way. This is Monday night on Ted Baxter\u2019s show.<\/p>\n

WILLIAMS: Political correctness can lead to some kind of paralyses where you don\u2019t address reality. I\u2019m not a bigot. You know the books I have written about the civil rights movement in this country, but when I get on a plane, I gotta tell you, if I see people who are in Muslim garb and I think they\u2019re identifying themselves first and foremost as Muslims, I get worried, I get nervous. Now, I remember also that when the Times Square bomber was in court, I think this was just last week, he said the war with Muslims, America\u2019s war with Muslims, is just beginning, the first drop of blood. I don\u2019t think there\u2019s any way to get away from these facts.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Okay, so Juan Williams is now history the day after George Soros announces the funding of 100 journalist jobs at NPR, and people are wondering if these things are not related. Now, NPR almost has no black editorial personnel. They got one program for blacks hosted by Michel Martin, but nobody hears it \u2019cause it runs from two to three in the afternoon, the same time this program\u2019s on. The other 23 hours a day are dedicated to white content for white people. It is what it is. You look at the NewsHour with Jim Lehrer. You know, our old buddies, Fairness &amp; Accuracy in Reporting have done a study on PBS, and they found out that the vast majority of guests on The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer are white and not Hispanic. That doesn\u2019t bother \u2019em so much. What bothers \u2019em is the majority of the guests are Republicans. (laughing) And they get nervous. NPR viewers get nervous when they see Republicans on NPR or public television. So Juan Williams, a black voice on National Public Radio (interruption) was, sorry, right, was, past tense, silenced for explaining how he feels when he sees Muslims who are acting as Muslims first on airplanes, while on Fox. NPR says that violated its standards. Whose standards? Are they now George Soros\u2019 standards? <\/p>\n

You know, George Soros just admitted to giving a million dollars to Media Matters, and NPR just accepted a million dollars from Soros\u2019 Open Society Institute, and the purpose of this grant is to hire new enterprise reporters. What is an enterprise reporter as opposed to a reporter? I honestly don\u2019t know. I don\u2019t know what an enterprise reporter is as opposed to a reporter. Now, ladies and gentlemen, I wonder if I offered a million dollars for NPR to hire some other reporter, say, supplied by people that work at the Heritage Foundation or here at the Limbaugh Institute for Advanced Conservative Studies. I wonder if NPR\u2019s standards would allow them to accept my million bucks to hire reporters. I mean you think Soros doesn\u2019t have a hand in who NPR is hiring? Could it well be that Soros had a hand here. I mean it\u2019s awfully coincidental. Soros gives them a million bucks to hire reporters and the next day Juan Williams is gone for something he said on Fox. <\/p>\n

Look, everybody knows that Juan Williams is a liberal. He\u2019s a nice guy liberal. I mean Juan Williams is the kind of guy who will admit that when somebody says something like global warming is a hoax, he\u2019ll admit it\u2019s the first time he\u2019s ever heard that and that it interests him. He\u2019s at least open to it. To go on Baxter\u2019s show here and talk about being afraid, this is gutsy because political correctness is ruling the day. Facebook has just said no longer will they allow criticism of gays on Facebook, and now this from NPR. Juan Williams is a known quantity and now he\u2019s essentially been Clarence Thomased, in a sense, for voicing an opinion that is contrary to the doctrine. It will be interesting to see if the Reverend Jackson and Reverend Sharpton will let this go by in silence. What do you think, Snerdley? You think they let it go? I don\u2019t care. I don\u2019t care if Jackson\u2019s busy, doesn\u2019t matter. A black guy at NPR just got canned for something he said on Fox. Didn\u2019t Jesse Jackson once say that he gets scared walking down the street when he sees a black guy approaching him? Jesse Jackson did say that once. And Obama has said his grandmother\u2019s a typical white woman in the sense that she gets scared walking down the street when she sees a black guy. <\/p>\n

So you can\u2019t be critical of Muslims anymore. So this is a great idea from a friend of mine: ‘They\u2019re no longer Muslims. They are now Middle Eastern liberals.\u2019 Don\u2019t you just love this diversity and tolerance? All this stuff on the left, all the openness, all the diversity, all the tolerance. Here is the quote from the Reverend Jackson. It is a meeting of Operation PUSH, November of 1993. ‘There is nothing more painful to me at this stage in my life than to walk down the street and hear footsteps and start thinking about robbery and then look around and see somebody white and feel relieved.\u2019 Well, he didn\u2019t say it on Fox. He said it in an Operation PUSH meeting. On Fox he said he wanted to cut Obama\u2019s jewels. He wanted to open Obama\u2019s package and drain the contents, that\u2019s what he wanted to do. He said that on Fox. (laughing) We laugh. But imagine poor Juan, his head\u2019s gotta be spinning here. <\/p>\n

He\u2019s brought on Fox to talk about this kind of thing happening to other people. He\u2019s asked for his opinion on this happening to other people. This kind of thing is not supposed to happen to Juan Williams. And what\u2019s fascinating is you look around the right-wing media circles and you\u2019ll find all kinds of love and support for Juan Williams today because everybody likes the guy. He\u2019s a liberal and he\u2019s wrong, but he\u2019s a nice guy. He\u2019s not one of these flame throwing, in-your-face, doesn\u2019t lie about people, doesn\u2019t make things up about them, he\u2019s not into character assassination or any of that. He\u2019s not a shock jock. <\/p>\n

I would like for you to think about something. I want you to step back and look at the big picture for a moment. Look at what was in the news just a few weeks ago, and look at what is in the news now with less than two weeks before the elections. Have you noticed how the media has steered clear of any mention of Arizona or immigration or the gun battles across the US border? We haven\u2019t had any news about the Ground Zero mosque. We haven\u2019t had any Middle Eastern liberal terrorism stories, even though there have been numerous threats made by Middle Eastern liberals, and there are several trials of Middle Eastern liberals underway. But this isn\u2019t being reported. The media are playing down the very disturbing developments in the war in Afghanistan. In fact, there\u2019s actually some movement in the positive in the surge in Afghanistan taking place, and there is a scant mention of it in the media. There is hardly any news about the riots in Europe, particularly in France, over something as innocuous as raising the retirement age from 60 to 62. We\u2019re not to be reminded about any of these stories with real implications for us and our lives. <\/p>\n

Instead, the Drive-Bys are doing everything they can to focus on crazy conservative candidates, Rand Paul and his religion, Christine O\u2019Donnell and her witchcraft and her not knowing the First Amendment, supposedly. All of these nutcase conservatives of the Tea Party, the unsophisticated, don\u2019t-know-what-they\u2019re-doing Tea Party people. That has become the focus of the media, and they know if they bring up any real-world subjects, things that people are most concerned about, it\u2019s only gonna hurt their masters, the Democrats in the polls. I mean even the unemployment news, if they wanted to they could try to spin this as good, but it\u2019s so obviously not good, even though there\u2019s a minimal uptick, they\u2019re not even harping on that because they know that anybody focusing real attention on the employment stories going to have to focus on how rotten it is and how much it has not improved. <\/p>\n

Now, look back four years. Look at what we did to ourselves in the House of Representatives just four years ago. We made Nancy Pelosi the speaker. We put John Dingell in charge of the Energy and Commerce Committee. We put Barney Frank in charge of financial services and we put Henry ‘Nostrilitis\u2019 Waxman in charge of the House reform committee. We put John Conyers at the head of the House Judiciary Committee. There\u2019s a lot we have to undo, but the people who will be going into these positions, whoever they are, cannot be any — oh, yeah, Charlie Rangel over as Ways and Means. Just four years ago. Look at the utter destruction that has taken place in four years, and then if you look at the 20 months or so of the Obama regime, add to it what the Democrats in Congress have done, look at how little time it has taken, and what\u2019s in the news today? None of that. None of the destruction of the country. None of the genuine policy reasons why this country is spinning down the drain. Instead, you\u2019re getting stories on wacko conservative candidates. Are they sophisticated enough? Do they actually know what they\u2019re doing? The Sharron Angles, the Christine O\u2019Donnells, so forth and so on. So there you have it. <\/p>\n

We gotta take a brief time-out here, an EIB obscene profit time-out. Your phone calls are coming up in the program as well today. <\/p>\n

Google<\/a> is in the news. All of these taxes they are avoiding paying by doing business overseas. Google is paying taxes to the US Treasury at an effective rate of 2.4%. The US government is not collecting $60 billion in taxes from Google due to loopholes that are in the law. Google is simply taking advantage of doing business overseas, as is Apple. Here you have these two giant leaders in the high-tech business, and they are run by doctrinaire liberals. <\/p>\n

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RUSH: Isn\u2019t it interesting that the dastardly and devilish Fox News can employ Juan Williams, who also worked at NPR, but NPR will can Juan Williams for something he said on Fox? And have you noticed? Who is it that\u2019s coming to Juan Williams\u2019 defense? Is it the American left? Is it the civil rights coalitions of America, the feminazis? The global warmists? Any of the leftist coalition? No. Brent Bozell of the Media Research Center is sending letters to the appropriate congressional committees asking for investigations and hearings because NPR is publicly funded. They\u2019re taking money now from George Soros; the day after doing that they can Juan Williams for a noncontroversial statement. And the Media Research Center — the dreaded, despised, and hated Brent Bozell\u2019s bunch — is calling for congressional investigations in order to defend Juan Williams. <\/p>\n

Again: Who the Fox News Channel has absolutely no problem hiring and putting on their air while NPR won\u2019t have anything to do with Juan Williams (increasingly, it appears, because of who\u2019s paying their freight). From the Los Angeles Times today, here\u2019s a statistical finding that may confirm what many of us had been thinking in recent years without really realizing it. ‘A majority of Americans who are globally famous for candidly saying what they think now say they believe that their country has become too politically correct.\u2019 A majority of the Americans. (whispering) You gotta sort of whisper this. You can\u2019t say this too loud. ‘Psst? Uh, a majority Americans see too much political correctness. Even more say it is a problem.\u2019 How can this be? If a majority of Americans sees too much political correctness, how come political correctness is undefeated? <\/p>\n

I mean, in the big scheme of things, political correctness is undefeated. On Facebook, you can\u2019t be critical of gays now. Juan Williams can\u2019t say the equivalent of what Obama can say about his white grandmother on Fox. Political correctness? No question it\u2019s a problem. You know what PC is? We are governed by a ruling minority of elites. Political correctness is nothing more than a tool of cowards. Political correctness is nothing more than censorship sponsored by the left. If they don\u2019t want to hear it, if they\u2019re offended by it, if they don\u2019t want to talk about it, you can\u2019t say it — and if you do say it, you\u2019re going to pay stiff consequences. According to this poll, a Rasmussen poll, a minority of Americans are undefeated when it comes to political correctness — and you know it\u2019s true. Look how many people are afraid to say anything in public. It\u2019s like the old Soviet Union. People are only honest with each other in their bathrooms in their homes. They\u2019re afraid of who might say what. Look what\u2019s happening to the NFL, for crying out loud! The chickification, political correctness is destroying the National Football League.<\/p>\n

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RUSH: Now, the art and privilege of being allowed to redefine the language is one of the most treasured tools of the liar and the tyrant. The art and privilege of being allowed to redefine the language. We are in the midst of this and have been for quite a while. Now, the Juan Williams firing proves many things. One thing is proves is this: You can still be a bigot if you are black, if you are liberal-black. As long as you don\u2019t openly consort with liberals you can say whatever you want but if you are a liberal black who consorts with conservatives on their dreaded network, you will ultimately pay the price. Just being seen around conservatives, being treated well by conservatives (and reacting in kind, treating conservative kindly) is such a crime to the left, it trumps skin color and political allegiance, because to the left, the biggest enemy in the world is conservatism. <\/p>\n

It\u2019s their number-one enemy. You consort with them on their network, and you have them as your friends and then they come out and defend you? That proves that your dismissal from NPR was justified. Thank goodness McCarthyism is dead. (pause) I\u2019m being facetious. Of course it\u2019s not. Now, I thought I (and I did, I checked it here during the break) that we have been advised by Big Sis, Janet Napolitano, the Director of Homeland Security, and they\u2019ve got it right here on a website: It\u2019s www.security.state.ny.us\/preparedness\/index.html. We are to be ‘aware of our surroundings.\u2019 This is something our government is advising us, ordinary Americans, how we can protect ourselves. <\/p>\n

Four steps. One: ‘Develop a family emergency plan.\u2019 Number two: ‘Stock up on emergency supplies,\u2019 and of course we know what that is. Canned goods, beans and stuff; hopefully fat-free refried beans with no sugar added, but stock up on it. Three: ‘Be aware of your surroundings,\u2019 and, four: ‘Get involved.\u2019 Well, Juan Williams was aware of his surroundings and he got involved and now he got fired. And now Juan Williams will really need a family emergency plan and to stock up on supplies, because half of his income or a portion of it is now gone. He lost his job for being aware of his surroundings! It\u2019s been pounded into our heads, ‘Be aware! Be aware! Be aware! Be aware!\u2019 They meant to say ‘beware,\u2019 I guess, instead of ‘be aware.\u2019 Beware of getting involved, beware of being honest, beware of the left. <\/p>\n

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RUSH: Kim in Jacksonville, Florida. You\u2019re first. It\u2019s great to have you on the EIB Network.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Hi, Rush. I love you. Okay, look, I\u2019m really mad. Um, that\u2019s why I had to specify that I love you first. I can\u2019t believe that you\u2019re defending Juan Williams, first of all. He is a total progressive, and now he is being forced to suffer the consequences of his progressive agenda. It\u2019s the agenda that he has been pushing since… I can remember being five years old and watching this guy on TV. I mean this guy has been around for years, pushing and pushing and pushing these agendas, and now he\u2019s suffering the consequences for it. And — and — and another thing. Let\u2019s not forget that that suit he wears? That suit is funded by the taxpayers. You and I paid for that suit, Rush! He gets to go on TV every night and Fox News gives him an audience to sit there and spout his hatred and his disgust with the American people. I don\u2019t know how many times I\u2019ve heard him call members of the Tea Party ‘terrorists,\u2019 ‘tea baggers.\u2019 Did he get fired for that? No. U nh-uh. But, you know, we ‘tea baggers\u2019 and we ‘terrorists\u2019 are the ones that fund his salary. But NPR didn\u2019t stand up about that. PBS didn\u2019t stand up about that. But he says something about how he feels about Muslims and, ‘Ohhhh, now you\u2019ve offended the wrong people and now you get fired.\u2019 So people need to stop a minute and save their pity for real Americans. That would be the soldiers that stand on the line and fight for us every day. They\u2019re the ones who fight for real freedom speech, who fight for people like you and I to be able to stand up against tyranny and say the truth on a daily basis. Those are the people that we need to reserve ourselves for and stand up for and fight for, and it is certainly not the likes of Juan Williams. This is a conservative victory. This is one guy, another guy — and there are many more — that needs to be thrown out on their butts, and this guy firmly does not need to receive one more dollar of the taxpayer\u2019s dime. I am sick of it, sick of it, sick of it. Now I feel better. That\u2019s all.<\/p>\n

RUSH: You\u2019re right! Juan Williams is a commie SOB!<\/p>\n

CALLER: He is! I mean he has been trashing us for freakin\u2019… Oh, my God! I am — I am 36 years old, okay? And I remember sitting on my grandpa\u2019s knee and watching this guy, you know, talk with Liz Cheney. Remember when she was on that show Crossfire? I mean, we\u2019re talking 30 years ago this guy was on TV, and he\u2019s been bashing Americans for as long as I can remember.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yeah, but, Kim? All this is a teachable moment. It\u2019s kind of, I would think for you, sorta sweet justice.<\/p>\n

CALLER: It is! I\u2019ve been trying to get this guy fired for ten years.<\/p>\n

RUSH: He\u2019s hoisted on his own petard here. I\u2019m not showing any pity for Juan Williams, don\u2019t misunderstand here. I\u2019m using him to illustrate a very teachable moment. Also, you know, Juan Williams did, on Fox, come to my defense on this ‘Magic Negro\u2019 stuff at one time. I actually think that is the moment where the target first began to be painted on his back.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/line> <\/line>RUSH: I\u2019ve just been handed the official e-mail from Vivian Schiller, the president, CEO, of NPR on what NPR people are supposed to say when asked — (interruption) yeah, the internal e-mail to the staff explaining what happened to Juan Williams here and what to say when they\u2019re asked about it. By the way, Juan\u2019s trying to get his job back. He\u2019s calling the Tea Party racist today on Fox. (laughing) I didn\u2019t hear it. A friend tells me that he called the Tea Party racists on Fox News this morning trying to get his job back. We have two Juan Williams sound bites here. And, by the way, our caller on Juan was one of the best callers we\u2019ve ever had here, ‘Let\u2019s get out of the way.\u2019 She didn\u2019t stutter, she didn\u2019t stumble, not one time. Here is Juan, this is October 15th, 2009. This is on The O\u2019Reilly Factor, bold, fresh piece of humanity. He\u2019s got Warren Ballentine on there, and bold, fresh piece of humanity says, ‘The reason Limbaugh\u2019s not going to be able to buy into the NFL is \u2019cause a bunch of made-up stuff became legend, and he got hammered.\u2019<\/line><\/p>\n

BALLENTINE: Okay, we won\u2019t look at the made-up stuff. Let\u2019s look at him playing ‘Barack the ‘Magic Negro” on his show. That\u2019s not racial either. It is racial to real black —<\/p>\n

WILLIAMS: Hey, Warren. Hey, Warren. You were saying that I was — my argument was a red herring. Maybe you should do some research, go back and find out that it was an article written by a black person headlined about ‘Barack the ‘Magic Negro” —<\/p>\n

BALLENTINE: But he made it out of a song and played — he made it out of a song and played it on his show.<\/p>\n

WILLIAMS: So what? He\u2019s making fun of it.<\/p>\n

BALLENTINE: Juan, it\u2019s okay, you can go back to the porch.<\/p>\n

RUSH: All right, Juan, go back to the porch. He called him an Uncle Tom. So Warren Ballentine called Juan Williams an Uncle Tom for truthfully explaining the ‘Barack the ‘Magic Negro” and its origins. But he also said this on August 22nd, Fox News Sunday, Chris Wallace said, ‘Why would it be growing? I mean he\u2019s been in office a year and a half. Would you think people would have more of a sense of who he is?\u2019 This is about the poll on Obama being a Muslim.<\/p>\n

WILLIAMS: I don\u2019t know if you noticed but his approval ratings have been sinking, and, as his approval ratings have been sinking, I think more people feel, you know, absolutely unleashed in terms of their criticism, and I think the stuff that\u2019s coming from the right wing, from Rush Limbaugh and the like, you know, Imam Obama —<\/p>\n

RUSH: So he\u2019s on both sides here and NPR still got rid of him. He\u2019s trying to get his job back today, calling the Tea Party people racists. <\/p>\n

Elizabeth in Wilmington, Delaware, you\u2019re next on the Rush Limbaugh program. Hi.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Hi, Rush. Dittos from northern Wilmington. How are you?<\/p>\n

RUSH: Fine. Thank you.<\/p>\n

CALLER: I wanted to expand on what you said earlier about political correctness.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yeah.<\/p>\n

CALLER: And I think you almost got it, but it goes beyond what you said. It\u2019s not just that the liberals don\u2019t want to hear any opposition; they don\u2019t want anyone else to hear it, either. And contrary to what we\u2019re told, being politically correct is not a way to be sensitive to other people. We already have that and that\u2019s called good manners. But being politically correct is just a tool to silence anybody who disagrees with the left. It\u2019s to silence free speech.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yeah, exactly.<\/p>\n

CALLER: And I\u2019d like to illustrate some points if I have time.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yeah.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Suppose you say so out loud, that you think middle schools giving condoms to students is a bad idea. They label you a religious nut trying to enforce your morals on society. And suppose you say out loud you think marriage should be between a man and a woman, you\u2019re labeled a homophobe. And how about if you say I agree with the Arizona law, you\u2019re a bigot. Well, nobody likes to be called these names, but these names can and they have cost people their jobs. So what do we do? We shut up. We try to show, we try to prove how tolerant we are by our silence. And when you can get your opposition to censor themselves your victory is half won.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Exactly right.<\/p>\n

CALLER: But I think people are starting to wise up now.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Oh, yeah, this is what\u2019s amazing about it. A majority of the people oppose it and yet political correctness is like women, they\u2019re undefeated.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Well, I think people are starting — I know where I am people are starting to say so out loud, and you can say so out loud without being nasty about it. You don\u2019t have to be nasty to voice your opinion —<\/p>\n

RUSH: I know.<\/p>\n

CALLER: — but I think it\u2019s important people say, you know, I disagree with that and this is why.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Elizabeth, you\u2019re right on the money. Two superb calls in a row here today. <\/p>\n

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RUSH: Yeah, the bottom line, the reason why political correctness wins is they sue. It is the threat of lawsuit and bankruptcy that shuts people up. The federal government has fired Juan Williams. NPR\u2019s the federal government. Where\u2019s Chris Coons? Where\u2019s the ACLU? Where are all of these love-government people attacking this?<\/p>\n

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RUSH: Ah, this is good. The esteemed Media Matters for America, according to the Daily Caller, the Daily Caller is Chatsworth Osborne Jr.\u2019s website. Media Matters for America is suggesting that NPR now needs to fire Mara Liasson. He-he-he-he-he. Yes. ”NPR\u2019s Mara Liasson and her long-running association with Fox News has often raised questions. This might be the proper time for NPR to finally address that thorny issue,\u2019 wrote Media Matters columnist Eric Boehlert Thursday in a post entitled ‘What about Mara Liasson?” (laughing) ”[I]f you look at NPR\u2019s code of ethics, there\u2019s simply no way Liasson should be making appearances on Fox.” Now, Media Matters and NPR are both funded by George Soros. This would seem to be an in-house decision. Now, this is just fun. We have the internal memo from the CEO of NPR explaining to the staffers over there why this happened to Juan Williams. <\/p>\n

‘Dear AREPS,\u2019 whatever that means, in-house acronym. ‘Thank you for all of your varying feedback on the Juan Williams situation. Let me offer some further clarification about why we terminated his contract early. First, a critical distinction has been lost in this debate. NPR News analysts have a distinctive role and set of responsibilities. This is a very different role than that of a commentator or columnist. News analysts may not take personal public positions on controversial issues; doing so undermines their credibility as analysts, and that\u2019s what\u2019s happened in this situation. As you all well know, we offer views of all kinds on the air every day, but those views are expressed by those we interview — not our reporters and analysts.\u2019 (laughing) And we\u2019re supposed to believe this crock. <\/p>\n

‘Second, this isn\u2019t the first time we have had serious concerns about some of Juan\u2019s public comments.\u2019 Now, what could Juan have said previously to have caused them concern at NPR? Could it be that defense of me, the ‘Magic Negro,\u2019 while also on Fox when Juan was called an Uncle Tom? ‘This isn\u2019t the first time we have had serious concerns about some of Juan\u2019s public comments. Despite many conversations and warnings over the years, Juan has continued to violate this principal (sic).\u2019 May I take a brief departure? I love to talk about things that have happened in my past. I got fired eight times. One of the times I got fired was for using the word ‘therefore\u2019 too much. Well, the reason I was fired for using the word ‘therefore\u2019 too much was that they had no cause. You know, you couldn\u2019t kick me out of the radio station. I was doing commentary, and they had a problem with my conservatism at this particular radio station, but they didn\u2019t want it known they were firing me for content, so they had to build a case for cause, insubordination. <\/p>\n

They sent me a memo: ‘You cannot use the word ‘therefore.\u2019 ‘Therefore\u2019 clutters the mind of the listener and confuses and causes the listener terrible difficulty in comprehending the clarity of the news that we are broadcasting each day here at K- blah, blah, blah. So I endeavored, folks, and I had coaching sessions after every show. I was on the air for three hours in the afternoon, coaching sessions for an hour and a half after every three-hour show. I was a co-host and they would bring me in and I\u2019d have to review tape and I\u2019d listen to the program director tell me everything I was doing wrong, and they issued me warnings. And I knew what was going on. They wanted me to blow up, they wanted me to curse \u2019em out and threaten \u2019em and make it easy for them to fire me. I just agreed with everything they said. I thanked them for working so hard with me, to teach me how to do it better. I went outta my way to tell \u2019em, ‘I\u2019m working hard. I\u2019m practicing at home. I\u2019m practicing at home at night not using the word ‘therefore.” They also said — I was calling my co-host, a female, ‘dear\u2019 — that was too sexist, it wasn\u2019t respectful. I couldn\u2019t do that anymore. It didn\u2019t bother her. She kinda liked it because very few other people were calling her ‘dear.\u2019 <\/p>\n

But anyway, this went on for about three weeks, and finally one day they called me in, and there were three lawyers and a stenographer, and they were taking notes and they were nervous as hell and reading the reason I was being fired, and they gave me a pretty hefty severance package, the anti-lawsuit vaccination as it were. This was 20 years ago, early eighties when this happened. So I read this internal memo here: ‘This isn\u2019t the first time we have had serious concerns about some of Juan\u2019s public comments. Despite many conversations and warnings over the years, Juan has continued to violate this principal.\u2019 (imitating NPR CEO) ‘He\u2019s just uppity, he\u2019s not taking direction, he\u2019s not listening to his superiors.\u2019 <\/p>\n

‘Third, these specific comments (and others made in the past), are inconsistent with NPR\u2019s ethics code, which applies to all journalists (including contracted analysts): ‘In appearing on TV or other media … NPR journalists should not express views they would not air in their role as an NPR journalist. They should not participate in shows … that encourage punditry and speculation rather than fact-based analysis.” Well, now how the hell long has he been doing this? Now they\u2019re going after Mara Liasson for the same reason, for the same thing. ‘Unfortunately, Juan\u2019s comments on Fox violated our standards as well as our values and offended many in doing so.\u2019 And then this. This, folks, is the piece de resistance. Maybe I should preface this by ‘therefore.\u2019 ‘We\u2019re profoundly sorry that this happened during fundraising week.\u2019 (laughing) It happened during fundraising week! These are people that couldn\u2019t support themselves if they had to. This happened during our annual beg-athon. ‘We\u2019re profoundly sorry that this happened during fundraising week. Juan\u2019s comments were made Monday night and we did not feel it would be responsible to delay this action. This was a tough decision and we appreciate your support. Thanks, Vivian Schiller<\/line>President &amp; CEO, NPR.\u2019<\/line><\/p>\n

Maybe they should hire Rick Sanchez to replace Juan Williams. They obviously have an opening over there. My question, how could it not have happened during fundraising week? Aren\u2019t they raising money everyday at NPR? Aren\u2019t they giving away some cheap little bag or coffee mug asking for some pledge? ‘Without your pledge we cannot exist at NPR.\u2019 Schiller, is that not the perfect name for somebody that runs an organization called NPR, Schiller, as in ‘you shill\u2019? And now they\u2019re going after Mara Liasson. Mara Liasson, I\u2019m sure she thinks she is in a protected class, and now the left is going after its own. It\u2019s all because they\u2019re on Fox. It\u2019s not because of this Muslim stuff. I\u2019m sorry, Middle Eastern liberals. That\u2019s what we\u2019re calling \u2019em now here on the EIB Network. So NPR, they\u2019re just a bunch of shills for the ruling class, and Juan embarrassed \u2019em out there during pledge week. <\/p>\n

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RUSH: You know, some people might say that Juan Williams was canned during fundraising week because it\u2019s fundraising week. Their donors are all liberals and it\u2019s a great, great promotion out there to fire Juan Williams. Where are they going to find another African-American with an Hispanic name? That\u2019s the real question. They gotta fill two different minority categories here with one guy. I mean, it\u2019s possible they could do it. Maybe Whoopi Goldberg. I don\u2019t know if she would deign to work at NPR. There\u2019s another Juan Williams quote that upset NPR. He said this about Michelle Obama and this comes to me from the editrix of our newsletter, the Limbaugh Letter, Diana Allocco. You know she\u2019s got the Stokely Carmichael the designer dress thing going. I can\u2019t tell you the number of women who send me notes begging me to comment on the way Michelle Obama dresses, and I\u2019m not going there. I wouldn\u2019t touch any of this. (interruption) <\/p>\n

Because, there\u2019s no winning! There just no way. You could come up with some of the most fabulous lines in the world, and you get Juan Williamsed. You would get Williamsed. It would be ‘Williamsnacht.\u2019 I mean, I read that the fashion designers say that she\u2019s setting new fashion standards (laughing) you know, I think McNabb. I just can\u2019t deal with it. So you wouldn\u2019t believe the number of women who want me to repeat the things they say about Michelle. (interruption) No, they don\u2019t like it at all. They don\u2019t. No. No. They don\u2019t like it, and they don\u2019t like that the libs say she\u2019s setting new standard fashions in a positive way. They really don\u2019t like that. One of them said… You know, I shouldn\u2019t. Okay, I won\u2019t do it. (sigh) You know, to talk about Michelle Obama\u2019s wardrobe is a ‘no Juan\u2019 situation. That one of them when she met the king and queen of Spain? (chuckles) Here\u2019s Juan trying to get his job back. Audio sound bite 27, Juan Williams trying to get his job back on Fox &amp; Friends this morning. Brian Kilmeade says, ‘This NAACP report, is this just a political scare tactic aimed at rallying African-American voters for the midterm elections?\u2019 This is the NAALCP report claiming they have finally concluded regretfully that the Tea Party is a bunch of racists.<\/p>\n

WILLIAMS: I tell you what. Right from the start I have been very clear and I have written that I didn\u2019t see racism in the Tea Party at its start, that this was about big government and animosity towards big government; people who were upset about high taxes, and a lot of people concerned about health care reform. But I must tell you guys that when I go to a Tea Party rally and I see the signs, there are some signs there that just look to me like racism. And when you hear some of the sentiments expressed… This guy Mark Williams who was a spokesman for the Tea Party and went online and he did this racist — I think he mighta thought it was funny — mocking of black people, this crosses a line and makes me as a black person uncomfortable. So the report may be weak, but it\u2019s not that there is nothing to be concerned about.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, what a great NPR-type thing to say! The report may be full of it, but it\u2019s really good to be concerned about it. So it didn\u2019t work. It didn\u2019t work. (interruption) Well, no, you can\u2019t report on the racism of the NAACP because there isn\u2019t any. Because they don\u2019t have ‘the power\u2019 to implement their racism. This is what the Reverend Jackson has always said. It looks to me like with this sound bite that Juan has ‘pivoted,\u2019 and he\u2019s moving back in the direction of the NPR. They showed him the whip-hand and he responded. That\u2019s what happened here. So he\u2019s moving back, and he\u2019s trying to get in their good graces. He did it on Fox today. Tina, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, welcome to the EIB Network. Great to have you here.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Oh, my dear Rush. Congratulations on your recent upgrade.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Thank you. (laughing)<\/p>\n

CALLER: I remember when our beloved, oh-so-esteemed now-Vice President Bite Me said that you couldn\u2019t walk into a 7-Eleven without seeing an Indian or hearing an Indian accent.<\/p>\n

RUSH: That\u2019s right.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Nobody commented on that.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, they did. ‘That\u2019s just Bite Me being Bite Me.\u2019<\/p>\n

CALLER: Well, yeah, they\u2019ve always used that excuse.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yeah, they just excused it, ‘Oh, that\u2019s just Joe. You know, that\u2019s just Joe being Joe.\u2019<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yeah. Well, nobody comments and no one asks for his head on a spike.<\/p>\n

RUSH: That\u2019s what I mean. We\u2019re supposed to look the other way because these are such good people. They\u2019re so compassionate.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yeah, right.<\/p>\n

RUSH: They\u2019re such nice people.<\/p>\n

CALLER: It\u2019s bull. (chuckles)<\/p>\n

RUSH: I love that characterization of my marriage as an ‘upgrade.\u2019<\/p>\n

CALLER: (chuckles) It\u2019s a hell of an upgrade!<\/p>\n

RUSH: Oh! (laughing) Okay. (laughing) Ooooookay. <\/p>\n

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RUSH: Snerdley, did ABC News really report this? Get this, folks, ABC News: ‘NPR CEO Vivian Schiller: Whatever feelings Williams has about Muslims should be between him and ‘his psychiatrist or his publicist.” Isn\u2019t that her personal opinion? That\u2019s what she said, so now Juan Williams needs a shrink in addition to they had to can Juan Williams during pledge week, now he\u2019s a lunatic. Ho-ho-ho-ho-ho-ho-ho-ho. Why am I laughing at this? (laughing) I don\u2019t know why I\u2019m laughing. Yeah, Juan needs to get his mind right. They are vicious. They really are. I mean, I\u2019m sure NPR is being just lit up today over how bad a decision this is. Yeah, I\u2019m sure they pulled their comments, because they had talking points, what the people are supposed to say when anybody questioned them about why Juan Williams was summarily canned, and just like when you disagree with a liberal decision, you\u2019re the idiot. So now they\u2019ve gotten their backs up and they\u2019re really ticked off. ‘Oh, yeah? Well, look, you tell him to go talk about that with his psychiatrist.\u2019 You don\u2019t tell a liberal how to run their business, folks, especially in the news business. <\/p>\n

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RUSH: A quick question here born of compassion. Will Juan Williams be able to use his NPR health care plan to go see his psychiatrist that the CEO, Schiller, suggested he should do? Now, if he has a mental illness, aren\u2019t they firing somebody who\u2019s disabled and therefore he can sue? Americans with Disability Act. I mean there are all kinds of avenues. You know I would what do — (laughing) — can you name three conservatives on NPR? Can you name two conservatives on NPR? You need a week? (interruption) No, regular. Not guest. Can you name one conservative on NPR? Is there anybody at Fox we could put on NPR, keep Juan on Fox and send them over to NPR, is there anybody at Fox that we could send NPR to level the playing field? I\u2019m just asking. Send Shepard Smith over there?<\/p>\n

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RUSH: This might explain Vivian Schiller. Prior to joining NPR, she served at the New York Times company, senior vice president, general manager of NewYorkTimes.com. She led the day-to-day operations of NewYorkTimes.com, the largest newspaper website on the Internet, overseeing product, technology, marketing, classifieds, strategic planning, and business development, which is bizarre since there\u2019s no political correctness on display at the New York Times. He-he-he. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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