Nov. 20, 2006 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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| Welcome to today's edition of The Rush 24-7 Podcast. | |
| Man, oh man, a cold front has moved through here. | |
| Sixty-five degrees here right now, on the way up to about 70. | |
| Everybody's all bundled up like you can't believe it walking around out there. | |
| Wusses. | |
| Well, I'm I got a mock turtleneck on today. | |
| I mean, I'm it's my recognition. | |
| It's a little chilly out there. | |
| Greetings. | |
| People right now where it's 20 degrees. | |
| Woods is 70 degrees as a high temperature, and they're complaining about it. | |
| Anyway, great to have you folks. | |
| Here we are. | |
| A uh a short week uh on the EIB network this week for me. | |
| I'll be here today and tomorrow, then off the balance of the week. | |
| I uh I'm having around 50 members of the extended family in for the Thanksgiving weekend. | |
| They start arriving tomorrow night and then on Wednesday. | |
| And uh it's gonna be interesting. | |
| Yes, there's gonna be a lot of love, ladies and gentlemen. | |
| Got to be a lot of love. | |
| Who sang that snurdy? | |
| Remember that? | |
| Nicolette Larson back in the uh in the 1970s. | |
| Who we got who we got on Wednesday. | |
| I know we'll do a best of them on Thursday, maybe uh Mullah Hedgecock will be here on Wednesday, uh, guest hosting once again. | |
| Anyway, here's the telephone number. | |
| If you want to be on the program, 800-282-2882, and the email address is rush at eIB net.com. | |
| I have been swamped over the weekend with email from subscribers at rushlimbaugh.com. | |
| When are you gonna make your Warner Theater appearance in Washington last week, a podcast and downloadable MP3 file so that I can take it with me and listen on the go. | |
| I don't have time to sit in front of the computer for two hours. | |
| Boy, if you can't do that, you couldn't do this job. | |
| Uh two hours in front of the computer per day would be a vacation to me. | |
| It nevertheless, it has happened, ladies and gentlemen, because of popular demand. | |
| We're gonna make the audio of the um the Rush to Excellence appearance last Thursday in Washington, an MP3 file downloadable from the website. | |
| Also, it'll be a podcast automatically fed if you s if you've signed up for this as a subscriber. | |
| Uh so uh what you need to look for is um uh you're in your automatic delivery today, look for two extra files, and that will be the podcast. | |
| Now people also wonder, well, when are you gonna put the video? | |
| I haven't seen the video. | |
| Uh, ladies and frankly, I've I've seen some of the still pictures, and I don't like them much. | |
| I picked the best of what we had, but I'm not that crazy about them, and they're all the same shot, basically. | |
| Uh well from the same angle and so forth. | |
| Uh there aren't any crowd shots in it. | |
| I don't know what the video looks like. | |
| And until I see the video uh or talk to some people who have, uh I don't know what we're gonna do. | |
| We've got it. | |
| And uh when we went to New York and did this, uh we we put it uh on a DVD. | |
| Uh I don't know yet what we're gonna do with this. | |
| Uh we're not scheduled to get it anyway until early this week, so it's not running behind. | |
| But it uh well, wait, we may have it. | |
| I don't. | |
| I think the objective is to at least put the video as uh as a streaming video file on the website as to what else we do with it, I don't know. | |
| And I won't know until um until I see it. | |
| All right, lots of exciting stuff going. | |
| This is just hilarious. | |
| Headline today in the uh in the Washington Times. | |
| Hoyer seeks protection for his supporters. | |
| It made me wonder have we elected the mafia to run the uh to run the House of Representatives? | |
| Are there gonna be horseheads all over the place? | |
| Not in people's beds, but in their offices. | |
| Incoming House Majority Leader Stanny Hoyer acknowledged yesterday that he was seeking assurances from presumptive speaker Nancy Pelosi that she would not retaliate against his supporters after he won the number two House leadership post. | |
| Uh Hoyer said there's no bad blood between him and Pelosi. | |
| Uh we're gonna talk about in fact they had a uh meeting today, and i i it's just funny. | |
| You know when the president has people to the White House foreign leaders or what have you or anything else. | |
| Uh the video is released and the cable networks play it video just in, and it's the president talking to whoever. | |
| We got the same thing today when Hoyer and Pelosi had their meeting. | |
| Uh this just in latest video as though it was earth shaking. | |
| And earth sh and it is to the people in the drive-by media. | |
| Uh this is the biggest thing that's happened to them in twelve years. | |
| I Think, including Clinton's election. | |
| I uh maybe the first couple of days of Clinton's election, they were all giddy and hot to trot. | |
| Uh, but this this is this is just over the top the way they are treating the leadership in the House of Representatives in the Senate here. | |
| Uh there almost may as well not even be a presidency. | |
| Even now. | |
| We've just constitutionally dispatched it. | |
| Uh Bush is irrelevant. | |
| The whole office is irrelevant. | |
| We may as well close and lock the White House. | |
| Uh nothing going to be coming out of there of any significance in the next two years. | |
| It's all happening in Speaker Pelosi's office. | |
| But what this means, uh, ladies and gentlemen, is that um everybody up there is worried that she's going to run this place on the basis of personal vendetta. | |
| She's still hot to trot to put Alcy Hastings up there in charge of the Intelligence Committee and uh got a story today of all the people that voted against him, or voted for his impeachment uh when it came up when he was a uh federal judge. | |
| Now, I've also always said, ladies and gentlemen, in the course of the many years of this Sterling broadcast, that uh the liberals are more fun when they lose, uh, because that's uh when they're out of power, that's when they get kooky. | |
| And I don't know, I may have to revise that. | |
| I think as they have as they have uh what what uh uh uh uh their juggernaut, the Democrat jug, well, since they took over the House, isn't that what they always said about the Republicans? | |
| They took it over. | |
| They never won it. | |
| They just took over. | |
| Since the Democrats have won the House, uh some of the craziest kooky things have happened. | |
| And they they're uh the the all of these uh like wrangle in the draft about which we will talk more in a moment. | |
| I'm still not sure he really wants to do it. | |
| I well, I know he says so, but this is like the third time he's brought this up. | |
| And uh I know he's bringing it up now because he thinks with the majority they can they can perhaps make it happen. | |
| I think it's as much an anti-war statement as it is an effort to get the draft. | |
| I think he's trying to discourage. | |
| So I think what the Democrats would love is if they can make permanent the idea they think they've created now, that there's nothing worth defending as far as this country is concerned. | |
| There's no reason to go to war. | |
| There isn't any reason whatsoever. | |
| And he is convinced that a and he says some crazy things about it, which can be refuted factually and statistically, uh, but the the idea that uh when he talks about the people that are in the armed forces now, he continues to use the word force. | |
| Um people are forced to go there. | |
| The the the it's in disproportionately poor in black, and and this is not true, particularly on the poor side. | |
| Uh and and uh there's nobody being forced to go now. | |
| It's all volunteer. | |
| With a draft is when you'd have people to be forced, and that's when the people wouldn't like it. | |
| That's and and that's what I think he's after. | |
| But we'll discuss this in uh in greater detail as the program unfolds along with uh your program. | |
| But ladies and gentlemen, I remember when I was in Sacramento in 1984, 85, minding my own business out there, carving my future against long odds, and all of a sudden a gift was handed to me one day in the news. | |
| I read about the global peace march for nuclear disarmament. | |
| I think it was a global peace market. | |
| Yeah, whatever it is. | |
| A bunch of peacnicks were gonna gather at various parts on a left coast, and they were gonna march to Washington. | |
| Actually drove, but they called it a march. | |
| And they stopped in the smallest towns they could find to conduct uh peaceful and civil disobedience and so forth. | |
| And the objective was to get to Washington in mass, go to the steps of the energy department of all places and have a die-in. | |
| And at the time of the die-in, they would they would imitate uh what would happen at the very moment of a nuclear detonation in Washington. | |
| And they brought along red food coloring or whatever to uh replicate pay uh blood, and they all just collapsed on the steps of the energy department. | |
| That was the objective. | |
| They didn't have too many, but it was still interesting to follow this. | |
| It gave birth to our peace update with uh Slim Whitman. | |
| Uh, ladies and gentlemen, now that they've won power back, they are back. | |
| New organization called uh uh what uh what is this group called? | |
| Uh the and they well, the let's talk about the couple, the two people that started this. | |
| They live on a house boat off the Marin County coast. | |
| Names are Donna Sheehan, anti-war activist, Donna Sheehan and her partner, Paul Reffel uh concocted a way for the world to communally create a peaceful uh situation, a lot of peaceful vibes. | |
| They want everybody to have an orgasm on the same day. | |
| On December 22nd, they're asking the world to contribute to the global orgasm for peace. | |
| Sheehan said not to worry if you don't have a partner. | |
| Now, what is the acronym for global organism for orgasm for peace? | |
| It's GOP. | |
| So on December 22nd, we're all supposed to have an orgasm and not worry uh if we have a partner. | |
| Here is the ad that they're running on their website. | |
| Okay, Planet Earth. | |
| Here we are. | |
| Nice enough place until you look closer and realize that we're almost constantly at war. | |
| Stop too. | |
| Not good. | |
| I think he's sober. | |
| There's these scientists. | |
| No, these guys look way too hot to be scientists. | |
| Okay, this guy looks like he hasn't seen much daylight. | |
| So there's these scientists at Princeton University who've been working on this project to measure the general randomness present on the earth at any given time. | |
| And they have these devices called eggs positioned all around the earth to measure it. | |
| Now, the same folks who brought you bearing witness, you know, the thing where the people laid down naked in the grass for peace. | |
| Yeah, those people. | |
| They had this idea. | |
| What if everybody agreed to have an orgasm at the same time on the same day, all while thinking of peace? | |
| Maybe these eggs would measure the change in global human consciousness. | |
| And so on December 22nd, everybody who wants to can uh do whatever it is that gets them off, and we'll check in with those scientists and see what happened. | |
| Guys dead serious, folks. | |
| This could get ugly. | |
| I mean, this could get ugly when you figure the kind of people will actually do this. | |
| You gotta wonder if Clinton will uh will show up and and uh be part of it or even be the uh the leader. | |
| So what have we had here? | |
| We've had the uh the harmonic convergence, this same bunch of nitwits gathered at the top of Mount Shasta back in the eighties, and uh one they wanted to just recite the uh a mantra, I forget what the mantra was, the joke mantra is um, and all this was supposed to send good vibes of peace all around the world to uh Gorbachev and uh and Reagan. | |
| Now, these these are the people who are now empowered because of your votes on uh on election day. | |
| Anyway, a little long, quick timeout. | |
| We'll be back. | |
| Uh we'll have we'll have comments, and I just wanted to set the table here, but there's a lot more we got to do on the program today, but uh I've got to take a break right now so we stay within the guides of the uh the programming format. | |
| Stay with us, folks. | |
| We're all just talking among ourselves here, ladies and gentlemen, about while I'm doing most of the talking. | |
| Employees tend to clam up this kind of subject with the boss. | |
| But I don't I don't know about you, but I during orgasms, I don't think about peace. | |
| We've been discussing what we do think about. | |
| This is not a discussion we are going to have on the program. | |
| I'm just sharing with you what uh what happened here during the break. | |
| You have to understand something. | |
| These people are serious. | |
| You know, you we we sit and we laugh at this. | |
| This they are serious. | |
| They think this kind of stuff matters. | |
| This is how they are one of the ways they're gonna bring tranquility to the uh to the world. | |
| December 27, a big O. Everybody gets involved here, and vibes for peace are sent all over the place. | |
| Uh in fact, the combination of high energy orgasmic energy combined with mindful intention may have a uh much greater effect than previous mass meditations and prayers. | |
| Well, who knows? | |
| None of them ever have had any effect. | |
| None of that ever has led to peace at all. | |
| Meditation, uh harmonic convergences, mass, anything, prayers doesn't lead to peace. | |
| In fact, these people don't even know what they're talking about when they talk about peace. | |
| One of the organizers, this uh this Sheehan babe, Donna Sheehan, we uh we wanted to make it uh during the cocktail hour, but since everybody's on a different time, then it would be harder for everybody to participate. | |
| Come on, where's the effort here? | |
| Where's the I mean, if you really want to do this and you want massive O's at the same time of day, how hard can it be for people to do it in the cocktail hour or whatever time zone it happens to be in their in their part of the world? | |
| I mean, if it's cocktail hour in San Francisco when you do this, what's that? | |
| Five to seven, all right, that's gonna be eight to um uh eight to uh ten on the East Coast. | |
| I mean, is there a bad time to do an orgasm? | |
| So, I mean, where's the commitment here? | |
| That I mean, they they start out with this big O idea, and then they're already making allowances for people who don't want to participate when it has to happen. | |
| And I think the only thing that's gonna make it work is if everybody who does this does it at the precise same time. | |
| How else is this massive creation of uh cosmic high energy energy going to uh uh manifest itself or even uh even occur? | |
| Uh well I was just asked a question, ladies and gentlemen, if this could make the earth fall off its axis. | |
| Um I doubt if Perot did that. | |
| I don't think anything else could. | |
| Uh but you but you never know. | |
| We're gonna search the Slim Whitman music library to see if we have an update theme for this. | |
| Uh was that a song? | |
| Was there a song that went along with that? | |
| And I know that that was a you know when they try to get all these that's a that's a good one to remember too. | |
| People remember Hands Across America, folks were s were speculating if that might be an appropriate song here for uh the big O uh day on December 22nd. | |
| All these people threatened to stand coast to coast, linking hands for peace. | |
| And uh the these these are the people who uh who elected Democrats. | |
| Here's Aaron in Long Island. | |
| Aaron, I'm glad you called. | |
| Welcome to the EIB network, sir. | |
| How are you doing, Rush? | |
| Just fine, turn ever better. | |
| Good to be glad you called. | |
| Yes. | |
| My question is if you are attempting to participate in the global orgasm for peace, and you are having difficulty achieving orgasm by thinking of peace, should you feel guilty? | |
| Um, you it's it's you don't you no no the objective is not to be thinking peace, it's that having an orgasm that will cause peace. | |
| You still don't understand this. | |
| Even though I have properly communicated this, you still don't get it. | |
| It doesn't matter what you're thinking of. | |
| They they they think that people will automatically think peace. | |
| I who knows uh what how it affects these people, but uh I I think uh remember there are no limits. | |
| I mean, even if you don't have a partner, you should do this. | |
| Well, then of course you have to think. | |
| By the way, Aaron, you're breathing awfully uh heavy. | |
| I might have a teleport in my car. | |
| Well, I mean, I'm listening to you. | |
| Well, I'm trying to understand what you're saying. | |
| It's a good thing I've got a court reporter here transcribing you because I can't I um uh that's the only reason I know what you're saying. | |
| So what's going on out there with you? | |
| Uh a little windy. | |
| Apologies. | |
| I uh say didn't understand that. | |
| Little Wendy? | |
| Oh, you're right, Russ. | |
| By the by the by the way, that we have to check one thing, uh, ladies and gentlemen, uh, and we'll do this with the organizers. | |
| Uh many people, as you know, fake orgasms. | |
| Uh, and and others do not know that it's happened. | |
| Uh so uh Oh, that's it. | |
| That's the tune. | |
| That's the tune Come Together by the Beatles. | |
| That's the theme song for the global whatever the I've already put it at the bottom of the global orgasm for peace. | |
| Yes. | |
| Anyway, um uh remember, we're gonna check this too. | |
| I don't know if faked orgasms count. | |
| So uh because there's all kinds of them. | |
| Here is uh Tom in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. | |
| Hi, Tom, welcome to the EIB network. | |
| Hi, Rush. | |
| Hey. | |
| As uh as one of the uh I shouldn't say one of as as the big brain in uh talk radio, I I think I've got a question about talk radio. | |
| Yeah, what's this thing? | |
| What's the significance of the clear channel sale for talk radio? | |
| And who are the people behind the buyout? | |
| I don't know the people uh Tom uh I don't even remember the name of the people, the two equity fund partners uh uh. | |
| All that's happened here is that Clear Channel has been taken private. | |
| Uh uh the operational uh setup of the company isn't gonna change. | |
| The Mays family uh will continue to run Clear Channel as they have since its inception. | |
| They're gonna sell some smaller market radio stations, but uh I I don't think it's gonna have any noticeable effect on uh on on talk radio at all. | |
| I mean, radio it's it's it's no different than any other business. | |
| They'll continue to do what makes money and to serve uh various niche markets and a number of things. | |
| It's just the sale itself uh uh uh these kind of things in the business that as it's it's common, they promote uh nervousness and uncertainty among uh employees, certain uh management types too, then I don't know what the future holds, but formatically, uh, as far as uh talk radio is concerned, I don't think it you're asking specifically about me, correct? | |
| Well, I'm asking I well, I'm asking very generally, because I I don't know who the people are who led the buyout, and I just wonder whether this is George Soros and this PAL or somebody who's actually a capitalist. | |
| No, no, in fact, one of the companies was founded by Mitt Romney. | |
| Um of the two, and I don't think he's involved in it anymore, but uh look, anything's possible. | |
| Only time will tell. | |
| Uh I appreciate the question, but I wouldn't expect major changes. | |
| What works works. | |
| Yeah, baby. | |
| Having more fun than a human being should be allowed to have real anchor man of this country, Rush Limbaugh. | |
| And the highly respected and uh sometimes feared excellence in broadcasting network. | |
| All right. | |
| To the audio sound bites, the Friday morning, this past Friday morning on C SPAN's Washington Journal. | |
| Brian Lamb, the host, had this exchange with Ruth Marcus of the Washington Post. | |
| How do you like the uh Rush Limbaugh term drive by media? | |
| Um I'm not really sure what it what does he mean by that? | |
| Mainstream media. | |
| Oh, drive by media. | |
| Oh, you know, everybody hates the mainstream media. | |
| What would you guys do without us to, you know, have news that you could then use to make your own points. | |
| We would love it, uh, Ruth. | |
| But you see, this is this is classic. | |
| How many times have I defined drive-by media on this program? | |
| How often do we use the term? | |
| How many people know exactly what it is? | |
| But yet uh outside the universe of this program, it's almost as though this program doesn't exist. | |
| You don't need a password, you don't need a super secret receiver. | |
| It's just a standard issue radio in any car, in any home. | |
| Uh if you have a clock there, there's probably a radio attached to it. | |
| You turn it on, uh, hit the seek button, and you'll find the show four or five times in one scan. | |
| Uh but that I think is too difficult to do. | |
| Here is, for those of you who are new and are not sure what the drive-by media is defined as. | |
| The mainstream media are just like drive-by shooters. | |
| They pull up to a congested area, they spray a hail of bullets into the crowd, causes mass hysteria, confusion, mistakes, misinterpretation. | |
| Sometimes people or their careers actually die. | |
| I mean, the examples of this are too numerous to mention. | |
| Uh, the Hurricane Katrina aftermath is uh is a great one that comes to mind, but Mark Foley, drive-by media hit. | |
| You come in, everything's going along fine, people upset them, you spray a bunch of uh misreports, misstated reports, uh factually erroneous news, spread it out all over the place, just cause general tizzy, and then drive off. | |
| You laugh, the drive-by media smirks, they ride away unnoticed in all the excitement. | |
| They're never blamed or held accountable for what they get wrong, or for the things that they stir up. | |
| I mean, drive the whole Iraq war and the way it has been covered is a clear illustration of how the drive-by media operates. | |
| In fact, these people in the drive-by media are lauded and held up as heroes mostly by themselves. | |
| Dan Rather and the forged documents trying to force Bush out of office, effective presidential race in 2004. | |
| Perfect example, drive-by media hit with forged documents to this day. | |
| Rather still says the documents were not forged. | |
| They were real. | |
| Story was accurate that nobody has proved his story is false. | |
| And then after they hit and miss and fire and away and then pull on down the highway, everybody else is engaged in mopping up the mess that they caused, like us, trying to get facts out, report their errors and mistakes, and in the meantime, they're flying on down the highway in a convertible with the top down, laughing and looking for their next set of drive-by victims. | |
| And this is repeated over and over and over. | |
| And there doesn't seem to be any way of stopping them or their marauding ways. | |
| Drive-by media is not just another term for the uh mainstream media. | |
| It is uh a term designed to describe behavior, motivation, and impact on the world that they cover. | |
| Scott and Ithaca, uh, Michigan. | |
| Welcome to the EIB network. | |
| Hello, sir. | |
| Hi, Rush, how are you? | |
| A long time listener, second time caller. | |
| Thank you. | |
| Um reason I'm calling is uh listening to uh you talk about uh this prayer for peace uh uh and so forth, the meditation, whatever you would like to call it. | |
| I I think you're being too dismissive of the fact that that people will be focusing on the idea of peace, which I think all of us would like to see, and I think you're a perfect example of why you might be dismissing that too quickly. | |
| Well, okay. | |
| I'll bite. | |
| Why am I the perfect example of why my I might be dismissing now? | |
| Wait a minute. | |
| You understand what this is about. | |
| This is this is global orgasms for peace. | |
| You you want to call defend this. | |
| Well, I I'm not gonna defend that term and the idea, but I think focusing on peace and and uh and having things come to a hopeful. | |
| What wait a minute, though. | |
| We wouldn't even be talking about this today were it not for this group that won their their way of doing this, they've tried all the other things, they admit that they failed. | |
| They want something more powerful, orgasms for peace. | |
| So you hear this. | |
| Well, I don't really want to talk about that, but I do want to talk about the other aspects of it. | |
| I mean you can meditation and and uh prayer for peace, like you said, whatever you want to call it, I think it's it's something good because it's focusing on the outcome that I think all of us would like to see happen. | |
| Yeah. | |
| And and you're a very good example of that because I've heard you say numerous times on this show that you have always focused on what you want the end result to be. | |
| You knew you were going to be successful, that's what you focused and you thought about. | |
| Right. | |
| And I and I think that that has profound uh uh results for people if that's exactly what they do. | |
| If they're thinking about sickness, if they're thinking about uh war, if they're thinking about things that they don't want to have happen in their lives, that's what their focus is on. | |
| Um you focused on success and in uh in radio and other aspects of your life and and what's happened. | |
| You you've had those successes and and uh wealth and everything along with it. | |
| You're missing a key ingredient here. | |
| Uh I have been focusing on my life. | |
| Uh I would never think let's let's take the Iraq war. | |
| I would never think that I and a number of others sitting at home meditating about it and hoping that it ends will bring it about. | |
| We will have no effect on it at all. | |
| We'll have no impact whatsoever on it. | |
| It's nothing more than a feel-good exercise. | |
| Well, I think that you can have an impact on it from the standpoint of uh changing the direction of of the focus and well you can think that all you want, but I mean you d just because you think it doesn't mean it's right. | |
| I mean, w uh I'm I'm the I guess the liberals uh uh I I don't I I I have it I have a tough time relating to this. | |
| I I because I'm such uh I'm I guess I'm too much a realist. | |
| Uh th this this just doesn't this just doesn't compute to me. | |
| Well, like I said, you're the perfect example. | |
| You you can mind on this on the things that you want to have happen in your life, and and that's what happens. | |
| And they have it all happened, but but many of them have, but it took effort, not just sitting around hoping, not just sitting around praying, not sitting around doing. | |
| It took it it took it there or hoping it took doing, it took a lot of action. | |
| But everything begins with that thought, correct? | |
| Uh in an individual's case, perhaps, yes, but when you're talking about ending a war or ending all war and bringing about peace, uh the people you have to reach when you do this are the evil people of the world, the murderers, the thugs, and I just don't think this works against them. | |
| I think they look at people who do that as easy marks. | |
| Those people are um uh uh this is a world governed with the aggressive use of force, not peace conferences in this kind. | |
| It always has been the case and always will be, by the way. | |
| Well, I don't think you should make any mistake about it. | |
| I've had experience with uh with these people, uh gone to school with several of them in a large group, and and make no mistake. | |
| They they don't want to coexist with us. | |
| They do want us dead. | |
| Or to conform to their way of life. | |
| It's as simple as that. | |
| Precisely. | |
| Here, but here's let me throw another wrench into this. | |
| I think one of the you know, I had a conversation on Friday night with some people, and I was explaining to them the current uh uh well, we were talking about the current makeup of the Democrats, and a lot of people just can't understand why anybody wants us to lose a war in Iraq, or why anybody wants to grant terrorists constitutional rights, why anybody wants to weaken this country's ability to defend itself. | |
| People just can't, Americans cannot understand the motivation behind that when uh when they see other Americans that seem interested in the defeat of this country. | |
| And I'm gonna try to explain it to you the best I can. | |
| Because it's these people are gonna have a global orgasm for peace. | |
| What they're actually seeking is the defeat of the United States. | |
| In their minds, it is us causing all these problems around the world. | |
| They want us to lose. | |
| We are too powerful. | |
| They are overwhelmed with guilt. | |
| They consider themselves enlightened citizens of the world. | |
| That's why they all love the United Nations. | |
| It's why they all love the Western European model of uh of socialist democracy. | |
| They think we're lagging behind. | |
| We're neanderthal, we are archaic. | |
| The true enlightened among us live otherwhile other places on the uh on the on the planet. | |
| And they want us to join that global network. | |
| They want us to have the uh the uh same lifestyles and the same governmental structures as uh as as these elites who are about to lose their countries, by the way, uh for one of a number of different reasons, and any one of a number of different reasons. | |
| Uh it's it's it's uh it's it's hard to understand, it's hard to convey, but they are true globalists in the sense that they think their country is the major problem in the world. | |
| And so they want to gather the the all these peace marches for nuclear disarmament, we have a lot of fun laughing about them and all these harmonic convergence things, and all of all these these uh these marches that we had this past year for illegal immigration, all this is is comprised of people who don't like this country, who want this country to lose, who want this country cut down a size or a peg or two. | |
| And that's if you if you understand that, it helps you to more easily put into some sort of context these silly things like a global orgasm for peace. | |
| It's simply ridiculous. | |
| All it is is uh is a bunch of people who want us to stop being the marauders and the destroyers and the evil of the world. | |
| You never hear these people talking about the atrocities committed by our enemies. | |
| You never hear it. | |
| They don't consider those atrocities to be atrocities because those people are the victims. | |
| They're just innocent. | |
| They were minding their own business in Mecca one day, and all of a sudden bombs started raining down from United States B-52s and what have you. | |
| We are the problem. | |
| And people, it's tough to get people to understand this because it's A, it's a it's inexplicable. | |
| Uh most people don't understand how any American could actively work and seek for his own country's demise or defeat. | |
| And the second thing, and don't want to hear it even if it is true, makes you too uncomfortable. | |
| Why would you want to hear that they're Americans like I'll go about my business? | |
| Another thing that uh people just ignore. | |
| So when you talk about, you know, praying for peace and having meditation for peace and having all of this, I understand it as a feel-good exercise. | |
| It's uh what much of liberalism is all about. | |
| Liberalism exists for many reasons. | |
| One reason is to make the people who are liberal feel good about themselves, while they solve nothing. | |
| They feel good because they are more enlightened than the rest of us to notice these problems. | |
| I talked on this Thursday night at uh at Washington. | |
| Uh in because I think in all candor, folks, I think we conservatives need to get back to basics. | |
| Uh I look back on this campaign and the last two years of Republican leadership, and there hasn't been any conservatism in terms of philosophy accompanying any action that went on. | |
| Uh and it it it works every time it's tried. | |
| That's that's how you Get independence. | |
| Conservatism discussed philosophically and then attached to policy is educational and informative. | |
| Most people live their lives that way anyway. | |
| That's how you get them back. | |
| But you have to keep teaching it once you win with it. | |
| You never stop teaching it because there are always new people coming, and even the new people that have come and have learned it will forget it. | |
| Unless it is continually pounded into them and they are reminded of it. | |
| Scott, we'll be back in mere moments. | |
| Stay with us. | |
| Okay. | |
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| It's L. Rushbose, serving humanity with talent on loan from God. | |
| People struggle to define conservatism and liberalism, and you can you can make it as complicated as you want. | |
| And you can take it to the nth degree if you want. | |
| It's actually a little simpler than it appears. | |
| At its root, what is life all about? | |
| Life is about people. | |
| And life is about relationships. | |
| Nostalgia generally reminds you of uh your your pleasant memories. | |
| Very few people go back and have horrible thoughts about nostalgia. | |
| You have those in your nightmares or your dreams, unless you're got some kind of problem and dwell on them. | |
| But um when your life is done and you look back at it, the things that you will remember that will have defined you and will have contributed to your happiness are the relationships you've had with people you've loved. | |
| From family to friends to spouses to children to whoever. | |
| That's that's what uh everybody will reflect on at the near the end of their lives. | |
| Not what they acquired when, uh not when they scored their first touchdown, not that those things matter at the time and they're important at the time, but when you reflect on things and that's generally what happens. | |
| So people and and working with and and playing with and dealing with people and interacting with them is is the fundamental uh behavioral aspect of humanity. | |
| And everything descends from that. | |
| Now, conservatism, people who are conservative will look at a culture and look at a society such as ours, and we will have the utmost faith in the individual. | |
| We believe that the individual, when properly educated and informed, and by the way, unshackled. | |
| We believe the individual has the ability to triumph over whatever odds that individual faces. | |
| We believe that extraordinary people are simply ordinary people doing extraordinary things. | |
| The great among us never set out to be great. | |
| They became great by virtue of accolades as a result of their achievements. | |
| Liberals, on the other hand, look at the average American with condescension. | |
| Uh don't think the average American has what it takes. | |
| The average American is stupider than the liberal. | |
| The average American doesn't have the ambition or the wherewithal to overcome these odds. | |
| And besides, they make a victim out of everybody, and they they do this by saying, well, that black doesn't have a chance because of racism and white people. | |
| The illegal doesn't have a chance because of the nativist and protectionist among us. | |
| Women don't have a chance because of sexism and so forth. | |
| And so the liberal mindset and construct of people is entirely negative, it's condescending, it is arrogant, and it is almost uh hold people in contempt. | |
| Conservatism is just the opposite. | |
| Now, everything descends from that. | |
| When liberals get power politically and start putting together policy, what's the policy going to be? | |
| Empower government because those schlubs out there cannot live their lives properly, uh happily without us. | |
| Senior citizens won't eat, the poor won't get off the soup lines, uh, the only people that make it big are the rich, and we got to find a way to take away from them what they've worked for. | |
| Conservatism, when it gets power and starts defining policy, you get things like welfare reform, which is rooted in the belief that people who work, which is where many people derive their identity, will experience achievement and pride, will be motivated to go even further. | |
| And you can take this simple definition of conservatism versus liberalism and apply it to virtually any aspect of the political spectrum, and you'll see that it applies. | |
| So it's not complicated At all to explain the difference. | |
| This is what has been missing in Republican Party politics, philosophically, for way too many years and needs to return. | |
| Back after this, my friends, stay with us. | |
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