Dennis Prager Show - Remembering Rush Limbaugh
Aired: 2021-02-17
Duration: 07:20


=== Conservative Values Triumph (06:56) ===

[00:00:00]  Conservative values as an alternate to the left-wing media.
[00:00:07]  This is largely attributable to him.
[00:00:11]  And it was an incredibly great invention in America.
[00:00:18]  I have said to guests that I've had on the show from Europe regularly that I think the biggest difference between Their country and ours is that we have talk radio and they do not.
[00:00:33]  And they all agreed.
[00:00:35]  You can't just start stations to do what you want as you could in America.
[00:00:40]  I think the left is going to try to suppress that with more and more rules.
[00:00:48]  Americans have accepted, apparently, the idea that the government can control more of their life.
[00:00:53]  This is the world's widespread idea.
[00:00:56]  Former British Prime Minister Tony Blair advocated that there be vaccination passports that you can't go around the EU if you don't have a vaccination passport.
[00:01:12]  Had this been said even five years ago, people would have thought it's totalitarian.
[00:01:21]  So, he died at the age of 70. Which in today's days is not an old age.
[00:01:30]  And he didn't die of old age.
[00:01:33]  He died of cancer.
[00:01:36]  Which he stoically endured to the end.
[00:01:46]  You should read Charles Krauthammer's last, another giant of conservatism.
[00:01:53]  Very different approach in speech and so on, but another giant.
[00:01:59]  Two giants in about three years.
[00:02:02]  How long ago did Charles Krauthammer die?
[00:02:05]  About three years ago?
[00:02:07]  He wrote his last column knowing he was dying, and he wrote, I'm sad I'm leaving, but I let a full...
[00:02:23]  Life for which I am so grateful.
[00:02:25]  I suspect that that's what Rush Limbaugh would have said if he wrote the last column.
[00:02:34]  But he didn't write columns.
[00:02:36]  Romy rarely did.
[00:02:41]  So, may indeed he rest in peace.
[00:02:46]  I thought that the Presidential Medal of Freedom was appropriate.
[00:02:53]  It certainly isn't appropriate for any New York Times writer.
[00:02:59]  If the world that Rush Limbaugh envisioned existed, we would have a lot more freedom than if the world the New York Times envisioned existed.
[00:03:10]  Everybody knows that that's true.
[00:03:14]  Everyone listening knows it's true.
[00:03:17]  There are some who will say it, and there are those who won't say it.
[00:03:21]  But it is true.
[00:03:24]  That's what people should ask.
[00:03:26]  Oh, well, did you know Limbaugh said?
[00:03:28]  Rush said?
[00:03:31]  Okay, so let's imagine the New York Times editorial board gets America the way it wants, and Rush Limbaugh got America the way he wanted.
[00:03:42]  In which America would people be freer?
[00:03:47]  That, my friends, is what is known as a rhetorical question.
[00:03:56]  Well, it's hard to believe, especially when somebody plays a role in people's lives, it's hard to believe.
[00:04:05]  I was telling my wife the other day that I was, what was I, 12 years old?
[00:04:14]  I was 12 years old.
[00:04:17]  No, no, no.
[00:04:17]  He was 63. No, no, I was 14 years old.
[00:04:20]  15 years old.
[00:04:21]  I was 15 years old when John Kennedy was assassinated.
[00:04:26]  And I remember there was a subway.
[00:04:30]  I was in New York, Brooklyn.
[00:04:31]  There was an L, an elevated subway stopped.
[00:04:35]  That's the one near my house.
[00:04:37]  It's about, let's see, half a mile away.
[00:04:42]  And I remember on Sunday, he was murdered on Friday.
[00:04:46]  I remember Sunday was quite quiet.
[00:04:49]  I was walking by the L, the elevated subway line, and the train came by.
[00:04:55]  And I remember thinking, wow, President of the United States is shot, killed, and the trains just keep going on.
[00:05:07]  It was such a wake-up call about things go on.
[00:05:18]  And yet, there is a loss.
[00:05:22]  It's true things go on, but things go on with a loss.
[00:05:28]  Just about all of you have experienced with the loss of a loved one in your life.
[00:05:35]  One of the great lessons is appreciate what you have and whom you have while you have it and while you have that person.
[00:05:47]  That is a biggie.
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[00:06:03]  Congressional Democrats plan to bail out China.
[00:06:06]  Wall Street Journal.
[00:06:11]  IMF special drawing rights with no strings.
[00:06:14]  Well, the wrong way to help developing countries.
[00:06:17]  A blank check would surrender accountability for how the money is used, inviting waste and corruption.
[00:06:24]  This is talking here about special drawing rights.
[00:06:30]  It's an amazing thing.
[00:06:31]  Congressional Democrats have pushed repeatedly for time-sensitive must-pass legislation to require the International Monetary Fund to issue at least 2 trillion special drawing rights, or SDRs, to its 190 member countries, which governments or SDRs, to its 190 member countries, which governments could then exchange for nearly $3 trillion in hard currency to defend against the pandemic.

=== Most Damaging Unreported (00:21) ===

[00:06:58]  See, I know reading this to you, a lot of your ears glaze over and I don't blame you.
[00:07:05]  There's a problem here.
[00:07:07]  And that is some of the most damaging things happening are not exciting and not widely reported.
[00:07:15]  But President Trump made us aware of China's threat.