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RUSH: I\u2019m gonna make a prediction to you. Brendan Eich, Mozilla<\/a>, gay marriage, we got the Sterling thing. This is all the Democrats have to get vote turnout in November. Every policy initiative, every idea of theirs is crashing, including their president. The New York Times, Maureen Dowd has even now written a piece about the lack of manliness of Barack Obama. Maureen, you\u2019re six years too late. This is the kind of stuff you should have ferreted out in 2007 and 2008. It\u2019s no big deal for you to figure this out six years into this mess. <\/p>\n

Everything that the Democrat Party has touched is falling apart. The only thing they\u2019ve got that can give them any hope of winning an election is War on Women, racism, gay rights, gay marriage. So you wait. Every two, three weeks there\u2019s gonna be a story like this. And guess what? The New York Times finally has a story<\/a>, why, let me get the headline here for you. “After 33 Years of Sterling, a Boiling Point — Why did it take a tape recording aired on a gossip website to ignite nationwide ire against Donald Sterling?<\/p>\n

This is the point I made on Monday<\/a>. While everybody else was in a race, everybody in the media was in a race to see who could be the most sensitive, the most hurt, the most outraged, the most angry, who could be the most eloquent in expressing all of that, I came to the Golden EIB Microphone and said, “Did anybody not know that this guy has been who he is for 30-plus years?” And if you\u2019ll recall, I recounted stories, visits to LA, subject came up every time I went out there. And one of the reasons why it was overlooked — when I first heard about it was on the golf course in Los Angeles. Somehow the guy\u2019s name came up, the Clippers came up, and I said, “Who owns this team, the Clippers?”<\/p>\n

<\/a>I don\u2019t know the NBA much, and they said, “Donald Sterling.” I said, “Never heard of him,” and that\u2019s when I started hearing about the reprobate the guy is. I said, “How in the world does this guy survive?” I mean, I heard song and verse. I heard all of the racist stuff, the slumlord stuff. When I first heard about it, had to be 1997, maybe a little bit earlier than that. And everybody I asked in LA, “How does the guy survive?” “Well, you know, the Lakers own this town. The Clippers are an also-ran, they never win anything. The guy\u2019s a joke, Rush. Nobody takes his seriously. He\u2019s an A-list wanna be hopeful who\u2019s never gonna get there. He\u2019s just a joke.” <\/p>\n

Well, you know what that tells me. A lot of this outrage that we have witnessed since Saturday has gotta be fake. It has to be because the same people have known about this for 30 years. (interruption) I was just asked a pointed question, an interruptive question in the IFB. “Is it okay to be a racist if you\u2019re not successful?” I guess you mean since his team was never taken seriously, since his team was an also-ran, does that mean it\u2019s okay to be a racist? He was successful in what he did. The guy\u2019s a billionaire. He\u2019s one of these guys that wanted to be in the “in” crowd. He wanted to be Mr. Cool, Mr. Hip. He\u2019s never gonna be. He was always joke. <\/p>\n

But yesterday Adam Silver, and I gotta tell you, I was a little chilled, I must admit. Not over what he did, but the reaction. This guy drops the hammer and the media, folks, do you realize the happiness over one guy dropping the hammer and sending this guy packing? Oh, man. I\u2019ve got a montage of it to play for you. Adam Silver said yesterday (paraphrasing), “This has nothing to do with anything in the past. This has only to do with what we learned on that tape starting Saturday.” Well, that let a lot of people off the hook. All the other owners, the former commissioners. There were a lot of people that knew this. And a lot of people who knew it were ginning up their outrage and anger over the weekend, as though they\u2019re just learning of it for the first time. <\/p>\n

Anyway, by the, Rush Limbaugh, great to have you here, folks. I forgot to intro the show, but you know who I am when you hear my voice. Telephone number, if you want to be on the program is 800-282-2882. And the e-mail address, ElRushbo@eibnet.com<\/a>. <\/p>\n

V. Stiviano. Grab sound bite number four. Did you see…? I\u2019m wondering if I should repeat the story that I told you, Snerdley. (interruption) Well, it might have been told to me in private. I don\u2019t know. I\u2019ll have to think about it. Anyway, did you see this babe walk out of whatever she walked out of with this hood, this reflector helmet on her face to hide her face? (interruption) <\/line><\/p>\n

You didn\u2019t see that? (interruption) It wasn\u2019t TMZ; it was everywhere. This V Dot Stiviano walks out of somewhere and there\u2019s a media horde waiting for her and she\u2019s got this contraption on her head that goes all the way down to her neck, covers her neck, and it\u2019s a reflector. (interruption) A welder\u2019s helmet. It looks like a welder\u2019s helmet.<\/p>\n

That was the strangest thing. She was trying to hide her face, and when they caught up with her, she took time to talk to them. It was outside a restaurant. She\u2019s wearing this sun visor thing, but it\u2019s more than a sun visor. It does look like a welder\u2019s helmet. And she stopped to take questions from the media. This is nine seconds, but here she is.<\/p>\n

STIVIANO: One day, I will become president of the United States of America, and I will change the legislation and laws, modern-day history, civil rights movement.<\/p>\n

RUSH: So she said that one day she\u2019s gonna become president and “will change the legislation and laws, modern-day history, and the civil rights movement.” She\u2019s gonna change it all. That… (interruption) Yeah. I tell you what, if I were a political candidate and had eyes on the White House, I would be scared right now. This babe could win! <\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: By the way, Rachel Nichols, formerly of ESPN and now of CNN, has told us who the next target is, the next NBA owner who is the target. It\u2019s the owner of the Orlando Magic, Rich DeVos. And you know why he\u2019s a target? Because he doesn\u2019t agree with gay marriage. He\u2019s the next target of whoever it is that\u2019s going to clean up the NBA. <\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: I got a fascinating e-mail here from someone. I\u2019m not gonna mention the name or the person that sent this because I\u2019m not gonna get this person into trouble. This is not the first time I have heard this opinion. Everybody\u2019s talking about this NBA thing and the Sterling situation and the fallout from it, and everybody\u2019s got an opinion on it, and there\u2019s a lot of outrage about this that\u2019s silent. <\/p>\n

People are afraid to speak up about it. I mean, when you see the glee and the happiness with which the media is reacting to what\u2019s happened here, it\u2019ll silence you. But this e-mail I have here, this is a great object lesson. “Dear Rush: Such selective indignation. Do what I did. Go online. You know what you can find, Rush? Doesn\u2019t take very long at all.<\/p>\n

“You can find eight NBA players and one coach, a total of nine men who have hooked up with 55 women and produced 72 children over the past few years with no marriages involved. This is also the NBA. The NBA is so concerned about one longtime racist idiot in a private conversation with his 50-year younger girlfriend. I\u2019m sure glad they, the media and the NBA, are so happy to have cleaned up the league.” <\/p>\n

Now, you let somebody actually go on the air on a television show tonight (or somebody on the radio today) and actually make that point, and do you know what\u2019s gonna happen? Whoever says that is going to be set up as the next target once the “right” quote\/unquote people hear about it. And you know what the explanation for this is going to be? You know what the reaction to this would be, if you make this point? <\/p>\n

It\u2019ll be blamed on “the white-dominant culture in this country.” It will be blamed on “socioeconomic forces.” The same reasons we are told why rap music\u2019s lyrics are what they are. “It\u2019s just our culture. It\u2019s what you\u2019ve been forcing us into.” This is one of those places you do not dare go. There just certain, I don\u2019t know, call \u2019em truths or facts or whatever that you just don\u2019t go there.<\/p>\n

Particularly in the heat of the moment, where we are right now, that\u2019s not at all what people want to hear. That\u2019s not at all where we\u2019re intending to go here. A lot of people are pointing things like this out, but silently and quietly, and they\u2019re speaking to themselves hoping they\u2019re not overheard, \u2019cause they don\u2019t want to be ratted out. They don\u2019t want to be tattled on. <\/p>\n