Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 podcast.
Do the Obamas know how to party or do they know how to party?
Oh man, you get called off to ski slopes and ask me to come back for a blues concert.
Mick Jagger sang a couple songs.
You know what I wish?
I wish he would have sung Sympathy for the Devil.
What with all this talk of Satan out there?
But he didn't sing sympathy for the devil.
I also would have loved for him to sing brown sugar just to irritate Muchel because she doesn't like sugar.
Greetings, folks.
How are you, Rush Limbaugh?
And already, already, wait a minute.
Wait a minute.
You know, there I am up there on MSNBC.
One little tiny comment about Santorum and Satan.
And the media win nuts.
And we got the audio soundbites to prove it.
The media win nuts over this.
And by the way, we found a speech by Ronaldus Magnus in 1983, also to an evangelical group, that sounds eerily similar to the speech given by Santorum at Ave Maria University, which is Tom Monaghan's university, founder of Domino's Pizza.
And that was the famous evil empire speech.
That was the speech that Reagan called the Soviet Union the evil empire.
And the media went just as nuts back in 1983 as they are going over Santorum and his speech at Ave Maria back in 2008.
Interestingly, nobody cared about Santorum's speech in 2008 because he wasn't doing anything.
Now he's running for president.
And there's a reason why there's a reason why the press and the White House and everybody going nuts over this.
And it has to do with the fact that Santorum isn't backing down from it, which means essentially that he's fighting back.
And the media and the left, not used to this.
The media and the left, they're used to cowering Republicans.
Republicans do something and media rear.
How dare you say, oh, sorry, sorry.
Won't say it again.
And they slink away in a corner and go away.
And media and the Democrats chalk another one up, but Santorum's not giving them that.
So here we are, middle of the week.
It's hump day already.
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Let's just review some of the stuff out there as we set the table for what's coming on the program today.
The United Nations nuclear talks with Iran have failed.
Big surprise.
The Muslims, some Muslims, are rioting in Afghanistan over the alleged desecration of Qurans there.
Obama, contrary, yesterday Mitt leaks something to Larry Kudlow.
And Kudlow says, I just found out, because Mitt likes me and he doesn't like you.
I just found out that Mitt's going to have a new economic plan.
Mitt doesn't like anybody but me, trust me, so he told me, Kudlow, he's going to have a new economic plan, going to have a lot of supply-side stuff in it.
Voila, Obama announces what he wants you to think is a massive corporate tax cut, but it's not.
Obama's tax cut will cost American businesses an additional $250 billion.
This is not going to help when it comes to unemployment or economic growth.
All the details of this I will explain to you as the program unfolds.
The media trying to tell us it's a tax cut.
But Obama's corporate tax proposal is not a tax cut.
The news media, and this is part and parcel with Santorum and news media.
The rest of the Democrat Party are telling us that the Republican Party's gotten too extreme.
Of course, that's really nothing new.
That's something that happens every day.
Now, yesterday, as I mentioned, Matt Drudge posted excerpts from a speech Santorum gave at Ave Maria College back in 2008.
And in that speech, Santorum said Satan had set his sights on America.
You know, I've talked about Satan on this program.
Well, I didn't do it on this program.
I discovered satanic messages in Slim Whitman music back in Sacramento.
I have my own experiences with the devil.
I almost resigned when I found out about this.
I mean, I was doing a peace update.
And at the time, the global peace march was going on for nuclear disarmament.
And Slim Whitman had a song called Una Paloma Blanca, in which he yodeled a lot, what Slim Whitman does in his songs, Una Paloma Blanca, one white dove, symbol of peace.
Remember at the Olympics, a couple of them got fried by the Olympic flame.
It was Una Paloma Baco.
So anyway, Ohio minister back then, this is 19, what, 86 or 87, Ohio minister said that he had discovered when he played the Mr. Ed TV show theme song backwards, a satanic message in it.
It was a genuine news story.
And it didn't get a whole lot of play, but it got some.
I mean, I'm in Sacramento, California, and I heard about it.
So it certainly leapt beyond the bounds of Ohio.
Of course, back then, nobody ever asked, well, how does this guy get the mechanism to play a TV show theme song backwards?
What the Ohio minister claimed was that in the Mr. Ed song, one of the refrains or a chorus goes, a horse is a horse, of course, of course.
If you play that backwards at the right speed, the Ohio minister said, what you hear is, this is Satan.
So I said, well, what am I going to do with this?
I mean, I could just report this as it is and move on.
I thought, well, I have some fun with it.
So I pretended to have discovered a satanic message in Una Paloma Blanca when you play that backwards.
Oh, you've got that?
Oh, we do have it.
Okay, can I show you what I'm talking about here in just a second?
So what I did, and I'd been on the air for two years, and the program was very popular.
And I had established, first time in my broadcast career, a success track, a connection with the audience.
And I began the program that day with, I sounded very depressed, and told them that I was probably going to have to resign because I unwittingly had been co-opted by evil and unwittingly had exposed this evil to the audience.
I was thinking very hard about it, but I saw no other proper thing to do other than to resign.
But I wouldn't tell anybody what had happened.
Of course, by design, it created all kinds of curiosity.
People started calling the radio station demanding, you know, preachers started calling, flocks were calling them, what the heck had happened?
What was the devil on KFBK?
What's happening?
So I pretended to, under duress, explain what happened.
I warned people here, I'm a God-fearing guy, and the devil had co-opted my program unknowns to me.
I mean, if it could happen to me once, it could happen again.
I don't know that I could ever protect another audience if I went to another station.
And I continue to refuse to play the example of what I was taught.
We just increased people's demands to hear it, which was the purpose in the design.
And all the while I'm thinking that this is setting me, this is going to establish me.
Johnny Carson's going to be calling.
They want me as a guest once I finish with this.
I figured I was going to get a week out of this.
And second or third day, I pretended to buckle the pressure from the management of the radio station.
I said, I've been forced, ladies and gentlemen, to share with you this evil.
I am told under no uncertain terms that if I don't do this, I will be fired.
But I warn you, I wouldn't listen to this.
It's frightening.
It's shocking how easy this has happened.
And who knows where else such examples exist.
And what I had done, I went in the production room of the radio station, and we got the Slim Whitman song, and we put it on a tape recorder and we recorded it backwards, which is what you have to do.
There's no turntable, play songs backwards.
The Ohio minister had no way of playing the Mr. Ed theme song backwards, for example, but he said he found it there.
So I had the production director, a guy named Don Wright, record a satanic message through a device called a harmonizer.
You know what a harmonizer is, Brian?
He said, broadcast engineer, you ought to know, harmonizer, you can make your voice sound like anything you want it.
You can make it sound like a chipmunk.
You can make it sound godlike.
You can make it whatever you want your voice to sound like.
So he recorded the satanic message.
And then under duress, I explained to my audience what had happened here and how we had discovered it.
And that I didn't think that I could be their host anymore because of this.
And I played it.
I said, this is very, very, very bad, folks.
It's dangerous.
I'm reluctant as I can be to play this for you, but I'm being forced to.
So please exercise great caution.
This is what they heard.
Yes, it's me, the old devil himself.
You found me out, you little rascal lurking right here in the Slim Whitman record grooves.
By the way, where did you find the turntable that plays backwards like this?
I've been trying to find these for all my disciples so they can go around corrupting the youth of America.
And we can't find these backward turntables anywhere except in ministers' houses.
And of course, we don't like to go there very often.
Maybe you could drop me a note and let me know where to get one of these.
And I promise I would never forget ya.
Well, I gotta be quiet on down the line.
Way down the line, if you know what I mean.
Y'all.
See you later.
Okay, so we played it, and I let it go for three minutes, a whole length of the song, and that message popped up a couple more times.
And while it's playing, I am splitting my gut laughing.
It's been three days now.
People have been demanding to hear this.
Church ministers have been calling the radio station.
The manager of this, how long are you going to go with us?
I said, I gained a week out of it.
You got to end it fast.
We can't handle this anymore.
While it's playing, and I'm laughing myself, so I look across the glass to Kitty O'Neill, who's the call screener, and she's got a look of panic on her face.
And she buzzes me on the intercom, says, they believe it.
The people calling wanted to go on the air and ask me if there were any more satanic messages in other Slim Whitman songs that they had other Slim Whitman albums.
So I had to make an adjustment on the fly.
I thought I was going to be getting phone calls from people.
Wow, this was really funny.
Why you pulled a book?
Good one.
99% of calls believe this.
I had to talk to people.
I took some calls, and the guy said, I have every Slim Whitman record.
What should I?
I said, burn them.
There was only one doubting Thomas Call who got through anyway.
He said, yeah, look, I've got that album.
I've got that record, and I got a turntable.
That doesn't play backwards, but I've been spinning it backwards, and there's no satanic message in this.
You can't fool.
You think we're a bunch of idiots now.
There was no satanic message in there.
So I asked him, I said, what year was your turntable mate?
He said, I don't know, 1979.
Well, that's the problem.
It doesn't have disgronificator circuitry.
If you need disgruntificator circuitry to hear satanic messages, he said, you mean if I go out and buy a newer turntable, I'll have to say, yes, sir, you can.
I said, over to Philco, and they were a sponsor.
I said, go buy a new turntable.
People believed it.
And that was an educational thing for me, too, in a lot of ways.
But I'm just telling you, I have experience with devil things.
So when I speak about it, too, not just Santorum, when I speak about it, the media is all over this.
And I said yesterday, Drudge posted excerpts from a speech that Santorum gave at this college.
Santorum said that Satan had set his sights on America.
And the media went predictably apoplectic.
And I also said yesterday, Santorum is going to have to answer the media on this.
I think the subject of good and evil is not a new one in this country.
I thought his comments were pretty innocuous given who he is.
He's a devout Catholic.
This is what they believe.
And we're told in this country that we have religious freedom.
That's right, Mr. Limbaugh.
But people do not run for the office of president of the United States thinking this kind of stuff.
It just isn't done, Mr. Limbaugh.
It scares people.
Maybe so.
But I thought the comments are rather innocuous.
He was speaking to a Catholic audience of a Maria University.
But for some reason, my offhand comment about Santorum having the answer was picked up by any number of media outlets and pundits, which I guess I should now realize, come to expect from the big voice on the right.
This is going to happen.
I will have to answer for it.
And Santorum, by the way, did explain his comments.
And he's not backed down.
He told CNN, I'm a person of faith.
I believe a good and evil.
I think somehow or another, because you're a person of faith, you believe a good and evil is a disqualifier for president.
We're going to have a very small pool of candidates who can run for president, which I think is a pretty good answer.
I do, I have to be honest, I have to laugh about the idea of candidates believing in good and evil when I think about some of the recent Democrats for office, John Edwards, the Clintons, the Kennedys.
But I digress.
Isn't Rick Santorum really being attacked for having and expressing Catholic beliefs?
I mean, who is the better Catholic example, Ted Kennedy or Rick Santorum?
And who has been lionized by our media than who is being castigated, laughed at, made fun of, and destroyed?
Or the attempt to destroy is being made.
It'd be Santorum.
Aren't we constantly told that we must always respect people for their religious beliefs?
Or does that only apply to Democrats and Muslims?
And nobody else's religious beliefs, Christian beliefs, you're going to come down hard on you if you express yours.
And nobody ever attacks Obama for his religious beliefs when he trots them out for political purposes, like saying Jesus would agree with my tax increases on the rich.
Folks, our buddies at the five, that's the five people on a TV show called The Five, because there are five people on the show on Fox at five in the afternoon, decided to discuss a point made by me, your host yesterday on this program.
We were talking about the whispers going on started by an unnamed senator.
Santorum wins Michigan.
Better stated if Romney loses Michigan, then all hell breaks loose.
The devil is released and everything falls apart on the Republican side.
Utter panic sets in.
Oh my God, we can't have this.
And we've got to choose somebody else at the convention.
And what I said was that the Republican establishment is just beside themselves and decided to talk about that on the five yesterday.
Who do we have?
Eric Bowling and Dana Perino.
We had Andrea Tarantula.
We had Kimberly Guilfoyle and Beckle.
And here's the first of our soundbites to show you.
Our top story tonight, the Santorum surge.
Is the Republican establishment afraid of a Rick Santorum candidy?
Rush Limbaugh says they just might be.
The thing I would ask about to Rush Limbaugh would be, I could be wrong, I don't think he's endorsed anybody yet.
He talks all about it.
What a Santorum or anybody needs to do and nobody has done yet is persuade us why we should be for them.
We mean Republicans as a whole.
Because even though I know Rush has a good point about independence and how stop running for the independence, the establishment, whoever they are, however you define them, you actually do need them to vote for you.
It's that was Dana Perino and the independents.
This is that the establishment really care more about the independent vote than they do the base.
At this point in time, may not have always been the case, but right now is the case.
They're more worried about losing independence than they are securing the support of the conservative base.
And Dana Perino was simply essentially agreeing with the establishment on this part that you do need them.
The question is, how do you get them?
And this notion that you force them to run away from you by fighting back, it's always been absurd to me.
They try to tell us these independents, they don't like confrontation.
They don't like all these arguments.
They don't like partisanship.
These independents, they want people to get along.
They want compromise.
They want us to walk across the aisle.
Okay, fine.
So we back off and we don't hit hard.
Meanwhile, Harry Reid's out there saying the Republicans want to poison the water and they want to poison the air and they want to kill you.
And that doesn't bother the independents.
The independents somehow stay loyal to Democrats when the Democrats never cross the aisle, when the Democrats never compromise, when the Democrats never cave, never give in, never do one thing to stop partisanship.
The Democrats can be as mean-spirited and extremist as they want, and they never lose independence.
But the Republicans, so goes the theory, always will.
So it's a trick to get us to shut up and not fight for our beliefs and not defend ourselves.
Folks, on this Santorum and Satan thing, let me just put it out there.
Of the two men, Rick Santorum and Barack Obama, there's only one that is a threat to religious liberty.
Who do you think that is?
You think it's Santorum?
You think Santorum is a threat to your religious liberty?
If you do, you're wrong.
Barack Obama has already shown that he is a threat to religious liberty.
He has already indicated he doesn't believe in it by mandating that Catholic institutions give away things related to abortion, things they morally abhor and disagree with.
Or better stated, after they've raised objections, okay, okay, here, I hear you.
We'll make the insurance companies do it.
It doesn't matter in the end, religious liberty dies when Barack Obama rules.
Now, you can sit there and you get all agitated over Santorum talking about Satan, which is essentially a discussion of good versus evil.
And we all know that there is evil.
But in terms of somebody that's going to actually encroach upon your religious liberty, it isn't Rick Santorum.
It's Barack Obama.
And it's not just Barack Obama.
It is the left.
There's no question they do it each and every day.
And they are willing to impugn those religions that either frighten them or with whom they disagree.
All while claiming allegiance and loyalty to the First Amendment, it doesn't matter to them.
Just to put this in perspective, when talking about religious liberty, we already have a president of the United States who doesn't care about yours.
Rick Santorum would no more do what Barack Obama has done already than you would do it if you were president.
Now back to the five at five on Fox.
Up next, Eric Bowling describing, and you'll hear Andrea Tarantula in here too.
Eric Bowling was describing, he listens to this show a lot.
I listen to a lot of Rush, and I think that's where he's coming.
It's not so much he loves this candidate, he just doesn't like the establishment Republican, right?
Yeah, and he makes a good point.
I mean, the establishment is trying to jam a certain candidate down the throat of the base, but the base is regurgitating this candidate at every turn.
Every opportunity that's, she's right, Andrea is dead right.
The base is refusing to have a candidate they don't like forced upon them.
And what is the establishment reaction?
Okay, well, we'll find somebody else then.
If you don't like this guy, we'll go to the convention and we'll pick somebody else that's not one of your people and see how you like that.
Kimberly Guilfoyle was next.
This whole myth of inevitability, you know, it's just not going to hold true.
The idea that Romney's the only one that can beat Barack Obama.
Well, so far he's got the best numbers on a head-to-head.
But then how do you explain?
Just kind of this, everybody seems just thirsty.
You know, their desire, their thirst hasn't been quenched.
They're looking at Santorum.
Limbaugh saying maybe Newt's going to make a comeback.
Oh, oh, and that one, too.
The media jumped all over that comment.
And I said that if Santorum prevails in Michigan, don't be shocked because there's a debate tonight.
There is a debate tonight, the debates, and it hadn't been one in a while.
Depending on how people do in the debate tonight, if Newt does well in the debate tonight, and depending on what happens next week with Michigan, Newt could reignite.
Not out of the realm of possibility.
Finally, Bob Beckle.
I'm sometimes not in agreement with Rush Limbaugh, but I got to tell you, in this case, he's exactly right.
There is the establishment of the Republican Party, to be defined, I think, loosely as the Washington power structure Republicans are scared to death of having Santorum and certainly Newt Gingrich, who they don't want.
I think Limbaugh's right.
They're scared to death, but they're not going to jam somebody down their throat.
Well, okay.
Technically, Andrea Tarantula was right.
They are, in the minds of the base, they are jamming somebody down their throat by virtue of this talk of going to convention and picking somebody totally brand new.
Chris Christie's out there saying, he's saying a lot.
Chris Christie is out there, hey, Buffett, write a check, pal.
Leave the rest of us alone.
You want to pay more taxes?
Write a check.
Christie also says people are begging him to get back in the race, but he's not going to do it.
He's totally a Romney guy.
Here's an example of the Newt comment coming to life in the media this morning on Good Morning America on ABC, John Berman, the correspondent.
Don't forget Newt Gingrich.
He's been strong in past debates, and some Republicans from Rush Limbaugh to Sarah Palin are saying there could be another resurgence.
I know these people.
I just, folks, I know how to do this.
Some days it's just too easy.
Here is Santorum.
And we're going to start now.
We've got two Santorums, and then we're going to play or take a break after the two Santorums.
And then I'm going to come back, and we're going to visit Ronaldus Magnus, his speech to an evangelical group March 8th, 1983.
This was the speech where Reagan called out the Soviet Union as an evil empire, call them the focus of evil in the world.
And the media back then had the same conniption fit that it's having today over Santorum.
Last night in Phoenix, after a speech at a campaign event, Santorum spoke with reporters, and the political correspondent, one of them from CNN, Jim Acosta, said to Santorum, is there any chance you can respond to this headline that was splashed across the Drudge Report today about the speech you made in Florida?
It's absurd.
You know, if a person, I'm a person of faith.
I believe in good and evil.
I think if somehow or another, because you're a person of faith, you believe that good and evil is a disqualifier for president.
We're going to have a very small pool of candidates who can run for president.
Ronald Reagan talked very much in terms of good and evil.
And I'm not going to.
The fact of the matter is good and evil exists.
Ronald Reagan recognizes it.
I think, again, the vast, vast majority of Americans recognize it.
I is exactly right.
If you're going to, if in a political sense, if you're the Democrats of the regime, you're going to try to make an issue out of this good and evil business, you're going to be in the minority.
This is a classic example of the good old silent majority Richard Nixon talked about.
Vast majority of Americans believe in the concept of good and evil.
There's no question about it.
And if the regime wants to act like that's something odd, if the media and the Democrats want to act like that's some kook premise, let them go ahead.
They're going to find themselves once again thinking they live in a foreign country.
They'll be so out of touch with the vast majority of Americans.
Santorum wasn't finished.
He continued with his answer.
Guys, these are questions that are not relevant to what's being discussed in America today.
What we're talking about America today is trying to get America growing.
That's what my speeches are about.
That's what we're going to talk about in this campaign.
And if they want to dig up old speeches of talking to a religious group, they can go right ahead and do so.
But I'm going to stay on message and I'm going to talk about things that Americans want to talk about.
And his point was, look, I made this speech in 2008.
It's four years ago.
I'll be glad to talk to you about it, but I'm not going to be taken off message either.
We'll come back and we'll revisit Ronaldus Magnus in his great speech in 1983, in which he identified the Soviet Union as the evil empire.
Okay, Ronald Reagan, March 8th, 1983, Orlando.
This was at the National Association of Evangelicals annual convention.
And by the way, just so there's no confusion, the reason I'm playing these bites for you is so that you understand, especially those of you who were too young or not interested back in 1983, that this is nothing new.
That a president who won election in two landslides spoke the same way as Santorum.
I'm not saying that Santorum is Reagan.
I'm saying that what is happening with Santorum, the fact that he believes what he believes, is not unique.
Many presidents have believed, in fact, far more than not, have believed what Santorum believes and have said so.
And the media reaction to Santorum is also not unique.
It's identical.
And many of us who were alive and kicking in 1983 and understand all the great, wonderful things that took place then with the Reagan years, the economic rebound and so forth, we sometimes are frustrated.
What happened?
Why do people who lived through that prosperity, which continued into the 90s, how do they so easily forget it?
How are they so easily co-opted into thinking?
And we know the media with a constant history revisionism that goes on daily and has been since Reagan was in office and the co-opting of the public school system, not teaching about Reagan, or if they do, lying about Reagan.
But just to not saying, please, can we have another Reagan?
It's not the point of this.
Point of this is to show it's not new.
It's not weird.
It's not unique that people think this way, as Rick Santorum does.
Here's Reagan.
We have four or five bites of his speech in 1983.
This bite, interestingly, refers to Alexis de Tocqueville.
That shrewdest of all observers of American democracy, Alexis de Tocqueville, put it eloquently after he had gone on a search for the secret of America's greatness and genius.
And he said, not until I went into the churches of America and heard her pulpits aflame with righteousness, did I understand the greatness and the genius of America.
America is good.
And if America ever ceases to be good, America will cease to be great.
I want you to know that this administration is motivated by a political philosophy that sees the greatness of America in you, her people, and in your families, churches, neighborhoods, communities, the institutions that foster and nourish values like concern for others and respect for the rule of law under God.
He was president when he made this speech.
He was not a candidate.
He'd been in office into his second year.
He was inaugurated in 1981.
This is basically two years later.
And we don't have the reaction, but the media went nuts, particularly when they heard him call the Soviet Union the evil empire.
Now, listen to him describe opposition then and think about it today.
I don't have to tell you that this puts us in opposition to, or at least out of step with, a prevailing attitude of many who have turned to a modern-day secularism, discarding the tried and time-tested values upon which our very civilization is based.
No matter how well-intentioned, their value system is radically different from that of most Americans.
And while they proclaim that they're freeing us from superstitions of the past, they've taken upon themselves the job of superintending us by government rule and regulation.
Sometimes their voices are louder than ours, but they are not yet a majority.
We edited the applause, but it went on and on and on.
In this speech, Reagan used the word evil nine times.
He used the word good eight times, God 18 times.
He never mentioned Satan in the speech, but it's what he meant by evil.
So that little sunbite there, we have the secularists today.
We have people who want to superintend us by government rule and regulation.
And their voices are louder, and we think we're in the minority, but we're not.
Remember, he had won in a landslide just two years earlier.
Things haven't changed in terms of who the opposition is.
What's changed is how the Republican Party has seemingly forgotten how to defeat them, as Reagan did.
In the next bite, Reagan acknowledges there is sin in the world and that we must oppose it with everything we have.
More than a decade ago, a Supreme Court decision literally wiped off the books of 50 states' statutes protecting the rights of unborn children.
Abortion on demand now takes the lives of up to one and a half million unborn children a year.
Human life legislation ending this tragedy will someday pass the Congress, and you and I must never rest until it does.
Unless and until it can be proven that the unborn child is not a living entity, then its right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness must be protected.
There is sin and evil in the world, and we're enjoined by Scripture and the Lord Jesus to oppose it with all our might.
President of the United States saying this in 1983, sin and evil.
You know what I learned yesterday?
I didn't get to it.
Speaking of abortion, you know, the action, Roe versus Wade, the law says that only doctors can perform the procedure in the first trimester.
I'm pretty sure I read that correctly, which of course now makes Roe versus Wade so outdated because you can go to a pharmacist and buy RU486.
You can do your own abortion without a doctor.
You don't need a doctor.
So technically, you're in violation of Roe versus Wade when you don't go to a doctor, if I read it right.
Anyway, it's just an illustration of how outdated and what rotten law the Roe v. Wade bill is.
We have, let's see, two more here.
Do I have two more?
Yep, just two more.
And these two feature the lines we all remember.
I urge you to speak out against those who would place the United States in a position of military and moral inferiority.
You know, I've always believed that old Screwtape reserved his best efforts for those of you in the church.
So in your discussions of the nuclear freeze proposals, I urge you to beware the temptation of pride, the temptation of blithely declaring yourselves above it all and label both sides equally at fault, to ignore the facts of history and the aggressive impulses of an evil empire, to simply call the arms race a giant misunderstanding and thereby remove yourself from the struggle between right and wrong and good and evil.
He was urging, don't give up on this.
Don't think both parties are the same.
The evil empire is evil, and here is his identification of it.
Let us pray for the salvation of all of those who live in that totalitarian darkness.
Pray they will discover the joy of knowing God.
But until they do, let us be aware that while they preach the supremacy of the state, declare its omnipotence over individual man, and predict its eventual domination of all peoples on the earth, they are the focus of evil in the modern world.
That was Ronald Reagan.
That's March 8th, 1983, talking about the Soviet Union.
They are the focus of evil.
And with that line, the media, Sam Donaldson, went literally insane.
Thought that was going to, okay, the Russians are going to launch now.
We've really made them mad, just like we shouldn't make the independence of today mad.
So there you have it.
And just to show you how similar things are from 1983 to today.
Now, Reagan did not mention Satan in his 1983 speech, but you heard that he did mention screw tape.
Screwtape, not quite Satan, but nevertheless a demon, holds an administrative post in the bureaucracy of hell.