Cancelation Blackmail

First in a series of retrospective articles reminding us of the wisdom of Rush's first two books

Have you ever noticed that some people or groups in public life are just unacceptable, even radioactive (to certain other groups or people)? If their name appears on a list of sponsors of an event, or they appear as a guest on a radio or tv show, or perhaps even a podcast, or if they appear on a list of donors to a politician, whoever they are, the sponsoring event  must immediately be censored or canceled? Politicians must return donations, or donate them to charity, podcasts must be censored, tv hosts taken off the air, events must be shut down or protested, in the name of “tolerance”.  If you had been listening to Rush as far back as the early 1990s, you would have known just how deep this rot stretched.

“So there was good money and bad money in the fight against AIDS. This established that there were some things more important than a cure; that ideology mattered as well! If you were a conservative you had no place in the fight against AIDS. What was especially maddening was this: thirty seconds of Ronald Reagan broadcast to the nation would have raised far more money and understanding than all the gay rights marches you can muster. Yet his involvement was unacceptable.”[1]

Rush makes this point in his first book, The Way Things Ought To Be, in context of the Pediatric AIDS Foundation reaching out to President Reagan to ask for his help. Of course one of the leftist activist groups masquerading as an AIDS advocacy group lost its mind over the issue. Rush goes on to point out that Rush himself offered the Pediatric AIDS Foundation his support, but was declined because he was too politically incorrect.  Let me repeat that: the Pediatric AIDS foundation would rather refuse money that could lead to a cure for AIDS, than be associated with Rush Limbaugh.