A Teachable Moment: The NBA Sucks Up to the ChiComs

RUSH: We’re gonna get to the NBA stuff today too. I’m glad that I actually didn’t get to that yesterday because there’s a bunch that’s happened since then. And I’ll tell you what this Chinese stuff, folks, let me tell you, this Chinese stuff is a teachable moment for a lot of reasons.

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
We're gonna get to the NBA stuff today too. I'm

(00:02):
glad that I actually didn't get to that yesterday because
there's a bunch that's happened since then. And I'll tell
you what This Chinese stuff, folks. Let me tell you
this Chinese stuff is a teachable moment for a lot
of reasons. You know, millennials today are big into socialism.
They think it's wonderful and great. Well, here it is

(00:25):
on display, not only socialism, but raw communism on display
by the Chi coms. You cannot dissent. You have no
civil liberties, you have no opinion, you're not allowed. The
same NBA that told North Carolina to go to Hell

(00:47):
because they wouldn't have same sex bathrooms to accommodate transgenders
wants to cozy up and make friends with the Chi
coms because there's one point two billion people as a
market in China and how many people in North Carolina
does the NBA really care about. I mean, there's so
many teachable momentary We're gonna get to this as the

(01:08):
program unfolds. This is such a teachable moment. What is
happening here, and it's gotten so obfuscated. Let's start at
the beginning on this No, let's not. I want to
make an observation before starting at the beginning. The beginning
is the tweet that the general manager of Houston Rockets

(01:29):
sent out, which was totally harmless tweet showing support for
freedom loving people in Hong Kong pursuing freedom and democracy,
and for that he was show lacked by the chi coms.
The chi coms then threaten the NBA, and the NBA
originally buckled to it until they got the impression they

(01:57):
were doing this all wrong, and now they're trying to
have it both ways. But take a look at what's
happening here, and I want to draw an analogy for you.
We have the general manager to Houston Rockets, Daryl Morey,
on Friday, sending out a tweet that in the normal

(02:21):
Evan flow, nobody should have ever noticed. It was just
supporting the freedom loving, democracy loving seekers in Hong Kong
who are being beaten up and threatened and imprisoned by
the China cooms. So he sends out this tweet and

(02:42):
all hell breaks loose. Half the NBA players come down
on this guy. How dare you criticize the Chinese? How
dare you the NBA executive bunch. Their initial reaction was
to come down on Daryl Morey, who is the general

(03:02):
manager of the Houston Rockets. How what happened the chi
coms blew up and why? Because the chi coms do
not permit dissent. The chi coms are I don't care
what anybody else thinks they are. They are first and

(03:22):
foremost command and control communists. There is no freedom in communism.
There is no dissent in communism. There is no individuality
or sovereignty in communism. You are nothing but a slave
in communism. And if you stray, you will pay a

(03:45):
price that may include costing you your life. So here
we have on the big scheme, in the big scheme
of things, a small and mild little tweet about of
Hong Kong, and it has been turned into a gigantic

(04:06):
and polarizing international issue. And you know who. It reminds
me of. It reminds me of the left in this country.
It reminds me of the way they're enforcing speech codes
with the threats of violence, the same level of intolerance

(04:28):
as the Chaikom government. Doesn't matter what university you go
to in New York City, you can't say things like
illegal alien or illegal immigrant without being chased down. Now,
what we have in Hong Kong are people fighting a

(04:49):
war against communism. And they've known this was coming since
when the Brits the Queens sent Prince Charles over there.
This gigantic ceremony turning control of Hong Kong back to
the mainland. Chi Cobs Hong Kong prior to that was
maybe one of the greatest examples of raw capitalism you

(05:14):
could find on the planet. I went to Hong Kong
in the late nineteen eighties and I came away stunned
that it works. It is massively populated, overpopulated based on
the square mileage, living space and so forth. It's two

(05:35):
different cities daytime and nighttime. Across the harbor in Kowloon,
when you're looking at Hong Kong, it's it's a it's
a different existence. But tourism by night, business by day,
whole cities completely changed once the sun goes down. I'm

(05:58):
not talking about from capitalism to communism, just about what
the what the purpose of life is. It's it's it.
Everybody got fed. Everybody eats whatever they wanted to eat.
There was plenty of food. There was nobody wanted for anything.
I mean, it was poverty. There's there's always that no
matter where you go on the planet. But it worked,
and it was based on complete economic freedom. When you

(06:23):
went into a store to buy at that time, you
want to buy an MP three player, every purchase was
a negotiation. Yeah, they had a sticker on it, but
every purchase was negotiating. You can negotiate these people down.
Everything was in Hong Kong dollars, and so the salespeople
were accustomed to talking to you to trench in Hong Kong,

(06:44):
to treaty. So you have to get your coaco. What's
two twenty Hong Kong. After a while you learn it,
but no matter what it is, you're negotiating with them.
Everything was a deal. And then the Brits announced are
going to turn it over, and I new and everybody
knew this day. It's only a matter of time. The
chi coms cannot let Hong Kong exist as it was.

(07:06):
It's in direct conflict with mainland China. They can't permit it.
There's no way the Chinese leaders are going to permit
Hong Kong to remain what it was. So the day
has come where they're not. The day has come where
Hong Kong is going to become subsumed, subsumed by the mainland.
The difference is the people on Hong Kong are not

(07:28):
like the people on the mainland. They're just not gonna say,
oh okay, coowar in the corners and fear and let
it happen. They're pushing back. They're pushing back against communism.
This is what ought to be happening in this country,
pushing back against liberalism, pushing back against some of the
crazy radical liberalism that's infecting every institution in this country.

(07:49):
The same kind of lack of tolerance, of descent, intolerance
of even speech, I mean, corruption of so many institutions
is occurring in this country because of the American left.
It all happens in the guise of political correctness, and
it's all based on the fact that minorities are oppressed,

(08:10):
and so we've got to let these changes happen because
otherwise minorities will we continue to be impressed. It's nothing
about any of that. It's an attack on capitalism, it's
an attack on freedom, it's an attack on individualism that's
being sponsored by international communists around the world who are
funding and paying for this stuff and issues like climate
change or vehicles whereby they make it happen says a

(08:32):
great lesson for people to see here, and another great
lesson look at how quickly the National Basketball Association instinctively
decided to come down on the side of the communist
Chinese government and not the general manager of the Houston Rockets,

(08:56):
who simply tweeted a little message of support for the
freedom fighters in Hong Kong. That's all it took to
create this massive controversy. Well, the NBA preseasons underways. A
bunch of teams over there playing exhibition games at Chi

(09:16):
Coms are threatening not to let the games go on.
Lebron j and get the Lebron James has been told
it's up to him to fix this. It's up to
Lebron James is somehow bridge this controversy. The Chinese love basketball.
You know why this is. They're short compared to NBA

(09:36):
players they admired, but they well that it is cool.
They'll all be able to dunk, what have you. I mean,
there's other reasons to its intriguing sport for some people,
but uh, the people of Hong Kong are fighting a
war against communism. There are some people in this country
think that we're fighting the same battle here, But our

(09:57):
battle is not so much with the government yet, but
with individual leftists that run and have taken over institutions.
But the chi cons have shown everybody what they really are.
They are dictatorial. They will shut down all dissent and
they will do it with violence if they have to,
And that is what they really are. Despite comments Biden

(10:20):
and Bloomberg, these guys out there saying there's not dictators.
Remember what Bloomberg said in the sound by we had
last week at the President of China has to serve
his constituents or he won't survive. Some of the most
outrageous ignorance I've ever heard. And Biden's out this Chinese

(10:42):
are not a problem. I've been there, I've made deals
with them and my son. Oh wait, well they're not
They're not a threat. They're not our enemy. Come on, man,
the Chinese are not our enemy. So now the NBA,
the Commissioner, Adam Silver, they're they're kind of backtrack now
and trying to show support for Adam Murray, general manager

(11:03):
to Houston Rockets while trying not to tick off the
chi COM's because and here come the usual complaints the
NBA buckle to money. They care more but money in
a big market than they do stable and human rights. Yeah. Well,
this is the same NBA that threatened North Carolina and

(11:25):
some other states with a boycott if they didn't open
up bathrooms to anybody who wanted to use them. So
the NBA had no trouble standing up to the government
of North Carolina. The NBA was perfectly fine issuing boycott threats.
Let the chi coom speak up, and it's bend over

(11:47):
in grabty ankles time until people got offended by that.
And now they're trying to have it both ways, but
they don't want to give up the chi coom market
one two billion people who have increasing buying power. Okay,
so let's see the chi coms brought off to Clinton's,

(12:07):
the China comes brought off the Bidens, chi Coms brought
off Bloomberg, and now they're in the process of buying
off the NBA and all of the woke leftists out there.
And you know why, because the lure of chi com
money is just too much for some people. Meanwhile, there's

(12:30):
one guy waging a war with the chi coms, trying
to straighten out this imbalance, and that's Donald J. Trump.
Once again, we have someone on the right side of
all of this. I just saw some guy on TV

(12:52):
say that we got to realize doing business with China
is an exchange program. If we're gonna export freedom like
supporting Hong Kong, that we got to be willing to
import some censorship. And then the guy on the end.
You are really filled with wisdom today, Sir