Rush Limbaugh May 24, 2021

A harmless advertisement in San Francisco, has been blown into a controversy because it gave some people waiting to be offended a reason to clam they were offended.

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Well, a growing number of people just live to be offended.
Most of them are liberals, which is why political correctness
has run a muck in our society. A harmless advertisement
in San Francisco has been blown into a controversy because
it gave some people waiting to be offended a reason
to claim they were offended. Now. The ad appears on
billboards and bus stops, sponsored by a money lending company.

(00:21):
It reads ten percent down because you're too smart to rent.
That's it. Obviously, it appeals to people interested in buying
a house, and that's the problem. The offended say the
ad is smug and insulting. It's even called mean spirited
because supposedly it's blaming people who cannot afford houses for
their own financial situation. It oozes self congratulatory privilege, wrote

(00:46):
one of the offended. Now, San Francisco is a very
expensive place to own property. That's the reality. The median
price for a one bedroom condo is about eight hundred
fifty thousand dollars, which means you would need eighty five
large for a ten percent down payment. Since it's such
a pricey place to live, most San Francisco residents don't
own property they rent or live on the street, at

(01:09):
the risk of offending the offended even more, here's another
economic reality. People can move to less expensive places where
they too can maybe afford to own. But if you
live in high priced areas, you pay high prices. It's
just the way things work, unless you want to sign
back up for a subprime loan.