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Feb. 22, 2012 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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February 22, 2012, Wednesday, Hour #1
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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 asked 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 Muchell, because she doesn't like sugar.
Greetings, folks.
How are you, Rush Limboy?
And already, already, wait a minute.
Wait a minute.
You know, there I am up there on MSNBC.
I one little tiny comment about Santorum and Satan and the media win nuts.
And we got the audio sound bites to prove it.
The media went 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 and Ave Maria University, which is Tom Monahan's university, founder of uh of Domino's Pizza.
And it was that that was the famous evil empire speech.
That was the speech that Reagan called a 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, as 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 it, which means essentially that he's fighting back.
And the the media and the left not used to this.
The media, the left, they're used to cowering Republicans.
Republicans do something, and media rear, how dare you say oh, oh, sorry, sorry, won't say it again.
And they slink away in a corner and go away, and uh 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.
Telephone number if you want to be on the program is 800-282-2882, the email address, Ilrushball at EIBNet.com.
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, you know, yesterday Mitt leaks something to Larry Cudlow.
And Cudlow says, I just found out, because Mitt likes me and he doesn't like you.
I just found out that Mitt's gonna have a new economic plan.
Mitt doesn't like anybody but me, trust me, so he told me, this is Cudlow, it's gonna have a new economic plan, gonna 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 dollars.
This is not gonna help when it comes to unemployment or economic growth.
All the details of this I will explain to you as the program unfolds.
Media trying to tell us it's a tax cut.
But Obama's corporate tax proposal is not a tax cut.
The uh news media, and and I this is uh 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 uh 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 yodled 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, uh 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 it it didn't get a whole lot of play, but it got some.
And I'm I'm in Sacramento, California, and I heard about it, so it certainly uh leapt beyond the bounds of Ohio.
Of course, back then nobody ever asked, well, uh, 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, the um one of the 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, uh the Ohio minister said what you hear is this is a Satan.
So I said, Well, what am I gonna 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 uh uh have discovered uh satanic message in Una Paloma Blanca when you play that backwards.
Oh, you've got that.
Oh, we do have okay, can I show you what I'm talking about here in just a second?
So what I did, uh, and then I'd been on the air for two years, and uh program was very popular, and I had established first time in my broadcast career a uh success track, a connection with the audience.
And I began the program that day with uh I sounded very depressed and told him that I was probably gonna have to resign because I unwittingly had been co-opted by evil, uh, and unwittingly had exposed this evil to the audience.
I was thinking very hard about it, but I saw no other uh 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, the flocks were calling them, you know, what the heck had happened, what was the devil on KFBK, what's happening.
So I pretended to uh under duress uh explain what happened.
I warned people uh here I'm a God-fearing guy and a 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 and the design.
And all the while I'm thinking this is setting me, this is going to establish me uh I mean Johnny Carson's gonna be calling to want me as a guest once I finish with this.
I figured I was gonna get a week out of this.
And uh second or third day, I pretended to uh 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.
Uh it's frightening, it's shocking how easy this has happened, and and and and who knows where else such examples exist.
Now, what I had done, I went to 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 it's 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's a 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 sound 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 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 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.
Music He has no bomb.
Yes, it's me, the old devil himself.
You found me out, you little rascal lurking right here in the Slim Whitman record goes.
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 you.
Oh, I've got my blues now, it's a year, it's a year, it's a year.
Well, I gotta be going on down the line.
Way down the line, if you know what I mean.
Yeah.
See you later.
Yeah, we're money from this.
We're money from this.
We're money from this.
Okay, so we played it, and uh I let it go for three minutes, a whole length of the song, and that message popped up a couple more times.
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 the how long are you gonna go with?
I said, I can't get a week out of it.
You gotta end it fast.
We can't handle this anymore.
So while it's playing, and I'm laughing myself, so I look across the uh 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 uh if there were any more satanic messages in other Slim Whitman songs that they had other Slim Whitman albums.
So I had to I had to make an adjustment on the fly.
I thought I was gonna be getting phone calls from people.
Well, this was really funny.
Why you pulled a bull, good one.
99% of calls believe this.
I had to talk took some calls, and the guy said, I have every Slim Whitman record.
Well, what should I said burn them?
There was only one doubting Thomas Call who got through anyway.
He said, Yeah, look at I I got the I've got that album, I've got that record, and I got a turn 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 out there was no satanic message in there.
So I asked him, I said, what year was your turntable made?
He said, I don't know, 1979.
Well, that's the problem.
It doesn't have disgruntator circuitry.
If you need the scronificator circuitry to hear satanic messages, he says, You mean if I go out and buy a newer turntable, I'll have a yes, sir, you can.
I said, Hold over to Philco, and they were a sponsor and go buy a new turntable.
Um people believed it.
And that was an educational thing for me, too.
Um, in a lot of ways.
But I'm just telling you, I have experience With devil uh things.
I I've uh so when I speak about it too, not just Santorum, when I speak about the media's all over this.
And as I I said yesterday, Drudge posted excerpts from a speech that Santorum gave at this college.
Santorum said that the Satan had said his sights on America, and the media went predictably uh uh epiplectic.
And I I also said yesterday Santorum is gonna 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 are were pretty innocuous given who he is.
He's a devout Catholic.
This is what they believe, and we're told uh in this country that we have religious freedom.
That's right, Mr. Limbaugh.
We would but people do not run for the office of presidents of the United States thinking this kind of stuff it just isn't done, Mr. Limbaugh.
That 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 the big voice on the right, this is going to happen.
We'll have to answer for it.
And Santorum, by the way, did explain his comments, and he's not back down.
He told CNN, I'm a person of faith.
I believe a good and evil, I think is somehow or another because you're a person of faith, you believe a good and evil is a disqualifier for president.
We're gonna have a very small pool of candidates who can run for president, which I think is a pretty good answer.
I do I'm 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 gonna 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, and 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 uh a point made by me, your host yesterday on this program.
We were talking about the uh the whispers going on uh 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 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.
Um, who do we have?
With Eric Bowling and Dana Perino, we had uh uh Andrea Tarantula had uh Kimberly Gilfoy and Beckle.
And here's the first of our soundbice to show.
Our top story tonight, the Santorum surge is the Republican establishment afraid of a Rick Santorum candidacy.
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 uh Santorum or anybody needs to do, and nobody has done yet is persuade us why we should be for them.
We meaning Republicans as a whole, because even though I know uh 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 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 it right now is the case.
They're more worried about losing independence than they are securing the support of the conservative base.
And that's and and Dana Perino was simply essentially agreeing with the with the with the establishment on this part that you do need them.
The question is, how do you get them?
And this notion that you you you 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 uh 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 Reed'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 by part or 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 stell 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?
They get 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 uh 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 uh allegiance and loyalty to the First Amendment 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 that he listens to this show a lot.
I listened 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's dead right.
The base is is refusing to have a candidate they don't like forced upon them.
And what's the ba what 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 Gilfoyle was next.
This whole myth of inevitability, you know, it's just not gonna 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 gonna make a comeback.
Oh, oh, and that one too.
The media jumped all over that comment.
When 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, I and then depending on what happens uh uh next week with uh 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 gotta 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 gonna jam somebody down their throat.
Well, okay, I mean technically uh Andrea Tarantula was right, they are in the 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 gonna 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 I I just folks, I know how to do this.
Oh, some days it's just too easy.
Here is Santorum.
I and we've uh we're gonna start now.
We've got two Santorums, and then we're gonna play or take a break after the two Santorums, and then I'm gonna come back and we're gonna 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 uh 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?
I mean, it's a it's absurd.
You know, if a person I'm I'm a person of faith, I I believe in good and evil.
I think If somehow or another, because you're a person of faith and you believe in good and evil is a disqualifier for president, we're gonna 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 and I'm not gonna fact of the matter is good and evil exists.
Ronald Reagan recognize it.
I think, again, the vast, vast majority of Americans recognize it.
I is exactly right.
If you're gonna if if in a political sense, if you're the Democrats of the uh the regime, you're gonna try to make an issue out of this good and evil business, you're gonna 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 gonna 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 that are not relevant to what's 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 gonna talk about in this campaign.
And if they want to dig up old speeches of, you know, talking to a religious group, they can go right ahead and do so.
But I'm gonna stay on message, and I'm gonna 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 Rinaldus 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, uh 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 live 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 then 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 uh not not saying just 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 uh four or five bites of his speech in 1983.
This bite he interestingly uh refers to Alexis de Toqueville.
That shrewdest of all observers of American democracy, Alexis DePockville 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 pop that's 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.
Now we edited the applause, but it went on and on and on.
In this speech, uh Reagan used the word evil nine times.
He used the word good eight times, God eighteen times.
He never mentioned Satan in the speech, but it's what he meant by evil.
So that little sound bite there, that we 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.
What I learned yesterday, I didn't get to it.
Speaking of abortion, you know the uh actually Roe v.
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 v.
Wade so outdated because you can go to a pharmacist and buy RU 486, 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 what rotten law the Roe v.
Wade um bill is.
Uh we have, let's see, they have two more here.
Do I have two more?
Yep, just two more.
And this, 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 8, 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 gonna okay.
The Russians are gonna launch now.
They're gonna, we've really made a mad, just like we shouldn't make the independence of today mad.
So there you have it.
And uh 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.
Screw tape, not quite Satan, but uh nevertheless a demon holds an administrative post uh in the bureaucracy of hell.
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