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June 26, 2012 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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June 26, 2012, Tuesday, Hour #2
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The views expressed me to host on this program make more sense than anything anybody else out there happens to be saying, and that's because I'm saying it.
And if anybody makes any more sense.
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I wonder if Jay Nixon, the governor of Missouri, who on Monday said he doesn't support Obamacare.
He doesn't agree with the individual mandate, neither do the people of Missouri.
By the way, you know, Obama in 2008 lost Missouri by 4,000 votes.
Missouri's always been a bellwether state.
They've written Missouri off.
Obama's not going to spend any money.
They've written off Missouri, written off Arizona, uh Texas.
And they're not true.
They've written off white working class voters.
I I'm mystified how they think they're going to win this.
But they do.
They think they've got it in a bag.
Do you know they think they've got this in the bag, at least they act like it.
I think secretly they're in a state of shock.
But that's for another day, another time.
I've already explained my opinion on it.
I'm just wondering if if if Jay Nixon now, the governor of Missouri Democrat, will be celebrated for being broad-minded for crossing the aisle, for embracing compromise.
You know darn well that when a Republican breaks with his president, when a Republican sides with the libs, oh, that's growth.
That is maturity.
And that is a sign of broad-minded compromise.
I wonder if they'll say that about the Democrat governor of Missouri Jay Nixon.
Somehow I doubt it.
Yesterday I asked Snerdley if he had seen the newsroom on HBO.
He said he hadn't.
And furthermore, he hadn't even heard of it.
Which I totally understand.
It's an HBO show.
It started Sunday night, airs at 10 o'clock.
It's one hour.
It's Aaron Sorkin, latest foray into series TV.
Aaron Sorkin wrote The West Wing.
And important to remember is that many liberals who live in fantasy land really ended up believing that the West Wing was the real presidency.
They were so disheartened, so unhappy with Clinton that Martin Sheen actually became the president.
So I decided I was going to watch this thing because I'd read all the previews.
And what's fascinating about the previews, the mainstream media hates the show.
Well, I wouldn't say they hate it.
But they don't like it.
They've been panning it.
They've been ripping it to shreds.
So it kind of intrigued me.
I want to find out what is it about it they don't like.
So I watched it last night.
And I don't want to try to summarize the entire one-hour show.
It's basically about an anchor played by Jeff Daniels, who's from the old school, who will not tell a soul what his political opinions on anything are.
His objectivity and the fact that the audience has no idea what he thinks is his coin of the realm.
In a world where all of journalism is becoming opinionated.
So he's participating in a forum on journalism at Northwestern University.
And they've got a liberal woman, a conservative guy, moderator, and Jeff Daniels as a representative of the news media.
And they ask him questions and he gives silly answers like, what do you think of health care?
I don't know how the Jets gonna do this year, is his answer.
So they struggle.
They try to get this guy.
give us your opinion on something.
Would you please show us your human side?
So this little college co-ed sheepishly walks to the microphone.
Mr. McAllby, what is Will Will McAvoy, what is whatever character now?
Mr. Whatever, we we you tell me, will you explain to me why America is the greatest country in the world?
And he gives a couple of off-handed non-answers and is staring at somebody in the audience he thinks is an old girlfriend who's flashing him signs, telling him what to say.
One sign says it isn't.
Anyway, he finally launches into this diatribe about how America is not a great country.
It's not the greatest, it's not great at all.
And he cites a bunch of statistics that are wrong, like for example, that we are 187th in the world in infant mortality.
That's just bogus, but liberals believe it.
So he gives Rhyme and verse why this country sucks, why it's not the greatest country on earth, and it shocks everybody at his network.
They can't believe it is cable news network.
He goes on vacation after this appearance, comes back, the news director has fired his staff, they've hired a new executive producer for his show, which is all girlfriend.
None of this is known to him.
He comes back, he's got a brand new show based on him being opinionated.
So that's basically the show.
With the relationship stuff with the ex-girlfriend who's now the executive producer tossed in.
And what they're doing with this show is going back.
They're taking issues that have happened and covering them as the liberals wish they had.
Last night's episode was about the BP oil spill.
And last and Aaron Sorkin is a squirrely liberal.
And he's written a show here that's essentially have you ever been in an argument with somebody when it's over, you think about all the things you should have said, all the things you could have said, but didn't think of at the time.
That's what this show is.
Go back, take the BP oil spill, and do a newscast of what you should have done as a liberal when it happened instead of what did happen as a means of rewriting history for your delusional liberal audience.
And that's what I found when I'm watching this thing last night.
This is amazing.
They're going back, they're doing the BP oil spill, they're creaming Halliburton in this show last night.
For bad concrete, they're creaming BP, which they did anyway.
They're creaming everybody.
They just did and they're throwing every liberal cliche you can imagine into this global warming economic destruction, global climate destruction.
But not as it actually happened, but as it would have happened if Sorkin had been running a news network at the time.
If liberals had been true to themselves.
So I get up today, and I'm in the midst of doing show prep, and I come across a review of the program by somebody I've never heard of at a website I've never heard of.
Which doesn't mean anything.
It's called Sultan Kenish.
Blogspot.com.
And the guy who wrote the review is Daniel Greenfield.
And the headline of his review is Why the Newsroom is good news for Republicans.
And let me share with you some excerpts.
The last time Aaron Storkin had a high profile political TV show, liberals used it to cope with the decline and fall of the Clinton presidency and the long winter of the Bush years.
The West Wing was a coping mechanism for the death of a liberal dream.
And so is the newsroom.
The newsroom is an escape into fantasy to avoid dealing with the harsh reality that liberals are imploding.
On an episode of Seinfeld, for example, George is stung by an insult, but is unable to think of a retort, so he spends days trying to come up with the perfect comeback until he finally thinks of it and travels around the country to get The chance to deliver it.
The newsroom set in the past and jumping in right before the political balance tilted toward the Republicans in the midterm elections is the same thing.
The midterm election 2010 really shocked them.
It really sent them for a loop.
Remember that movie that George Clooney was in the ID March, and I told you that the first 30 minutes of that movie is a now having a middle block.
Help me out sturdy.
Some phrase I came up with or some way I describe something that to me it was flippant.
Now you see it, now you don't comment.
It really bugged them.
They spent 30 minutes on this in this Clooney show.
It's a political show about a candidate, a mayor in Ohio running for re-election or governor.
Damn it, I can't.
Do you remember what it is?
Somebody will.
Somebody will remind me.
I just think.
Anyway, I was stunned.
I'm watching this TV show.
I had no idea the left was so irritated by that comment of mine.
Well, the same thing here, the 2010 midterm operation chaos.
That's what they were the operation chaos.
It wasn't a flippant comment.
It was my attempt to get Hillary votes during the Democrat primary.
And they spend the first 30 minutes of this Clooney movie on Operation Chaos, which told me, man, this really bugged them.
That I was out there encouraging Republicans to re-register as Democrats and vote for Hillary in the primaries, just keep that primary going, keep it interesting for us.
2010 midterms had the same effect on them.
So Thorkin's gone back and done this show prior to the midterms because it is trying to recreate reality here, so it's not as devastating to them.
The newsroom is set in the past and it jumps in right before the political balance tilted toward the Republicans in the midterms.
It's the same thing.
The newsroom is Aaron Sorkins' sad attempt.
Now wait, folks, now stick with me.
This is not about where this is going is not about a TV show.
This is this is a teachable moment about liberals and liberalism and where they are and how messed up they are.
That's that's what this is about.
So stick with me on this.
I'm not trying to get you to watch this show.
That's not the point.
The newsroom is Sorkin's.
The point of this is to tell you in what really horrible shape liberalism is in in this country.
And they are the ones who are telling us that.
Not that we have to figure it out.
This show is evidence that they are imploding, is the point here.
So this is stick with me.
The newsroom is Aaron Sorkin's sad attempt to win an argument by rewriting history, coming up with all the comebacks his side couldn't think of two years ago.
It's the sad and pathetic spectacle of an ideology creating its own fantasy version of its own reality in which it won the argument.
And then lives in the fantasy.
Lives in the middle of the lie.
Now, unlike the West Wing, the newsroom is not set in an alternate world in which the universe innately favors liberals.
Instead, the newsroom is set in an alternate version of the past in which liberals were smarter than they really were, and won all the arguments that they actually ended up losing.
The existence of the newsroom is the greatest possible concession that the liberals lost the argument and are continuing to lose it.
There's no reason for Republicans to look down on this show.
It's a safer outlet for liberal anger than Occupy Wall Street.
It's a miniature universe in which they're smarter, they are nobler, and they are better than everybody else.
Children have fantasy worlds like that.
There's no reason that liberals shouldn't too.
Not only does it give them the security of believing that they really were superior, but it prevents them from learning any useful lessons from their defeat.
Because if they're going to sit there and lie to themselves and tell them they actually won and they actually were smarter.
It's never a bad thing when your enemies escape into a delusional state to a world of their making in which they are in complete control of everything.
It makes it more likely that they will cede at least some control over the real world.
And it's not only an admission of defeat, but of emotional and mental fragility.
Adults don't need to build fantasy worlds to escape the effects of their failures or their precious self-esteem.
That's for overgrown children who are used to getting trophies for just showing up.
Now, using my empathy, I know some of you say, what do you mean they're losing?
Isn't Obama president?
Didn't the Supreme Court going their way?
Every election since Obama won and was inaugurated.
They've lost every meaningful national election.
They lost Wisconsin, the union's lost big, where the Republicans stand up and fight the liberals lose.
They lost the 2010 midterms.
They're going to lose in November.
They are losing with the American people.
That is why Obama has to rule the way he is.
The American people don't support spitting on the Constitution.
The American people do not support rampant open border, no controls whatsoever immigration into Arizona.
Not a majority.
The newsroom is the kid that everyone hated Losing his race for class president and creating a fantasy world in which he won the election and everybody cheered his obnoxious tantrums.
May not be good for him, but it's good for us because it means he hasn't learned to win.
All that he's learned to do is manage the emotional experience of defeat through delusional tantrums of superiority.
Yep, yep.
Exactly who they are.
Propaganda that tells you that you won when you actually lost is corrosive.
It inhibits any serious self-evaluation.
Without some soul searching and error checking, the same mistakes are bound to be repeated over and over again.
Look, folks, have you seen the CNN audience?
54,000 people.
54,000 people, 2554, 10 o'clock at night.
54,000.
It's a test pattern.
We've got that many at the corner fifth and 57th in New York.
Have you seen MSNBC?
It's an absolute joke.
Everybody in the news media is laughing.
MSNBC is a joke and they don't have any audience.
Have you seen what's happening in New York Times ad revenue?
They're losing readership.
They're losing money big time.
Just can their president for because little Pinch's girlfriend doesn't like her.
Have you seen what's happening to American newspaper?
They're losing is the point.
I gotta take a break.
I'm only halfway through this.
Sit tight.
Okay.
So there's newsroom.
Last night they relive the BP oil spill.
And they tell that story the way they wish they would have told it back when it happened.
And why?
Because they're losing global warming.
An example.
Nobody believes it anymore.
The jig is up.
Everybody knows it's a hoax.
And they're ticked off.
They thought the BP oil spill would convince everybody that fossil fuels are bad.
They don't understand people wanting the Keystone Pipeline.
A majority of the American people wanting the Keystone Pipeline is a lose, lose.
It's a loss for the web.
So here comes this show.
Gosh, if we'd only done it this way, we'd have won it.
And after the show airs, they think they have won it.
They're delusional.
That's the point of this review.
Now, rather than remembering the actual Obama years, they're going to remember the newsroom's fictional version of them.
And they'll make the same mistakes all over again.
HBO, which has invested big in liberal propaganda knows exactly what it's doing.
At a time when customers are dropping cable, particularly the high price packages, it's insulating itself with a built-in audience.
Forget MSNBC or Comedy Central with their tantrums against real life Republicans.
On HBO, liberal audiences can go on safe safaris to see experienced liberal great hunters taking pot shots at imaginary Republicans and winning every time.
On HBO liberal audiences, think of Bill Maher here.
Liberal audiences can go on safe safaris to see experienced liberal great hunters taking pot shots at imaginary Republicans and bringing home the game every day.
When the real life Republicans are just too scary, the good liberal viewer flees to HBO, where the Republicans are just waiting to be deflated with a smarmy line about school prayer science, terrorism, global warming, what have you.
Hi, welcome back, Rush Limbaugh, the EIB network.
If you're on the phone, hang in there and be tough.
We're coming to you momentarily.
I just want to finish this.
And look, I knew before I went into this that a lot of you are going to be scratching their heads thinking, what do you mean Lib's losing?
Just had the Supreme Court win.
Obama just told Arizona go to hell.
I understand all of that.
What I'm telling folks, they don't have popular support for this.
There's no popular support for what they're doing.
They're not doing what they're doing because they're winning.
Stopping it is a whole different thing now.
Don't get confused.
I mean, anybody can win if you're willing to just rip up the Constitution when you have power, do whatever you want to do if nobody's willing to stop you.
They don't have popular support for what they're doing.
They're losing popular support.
We're in real trouble if Obama cancels elections.
I'm not in denial about anything here.
Quite the contrary.
Back to this review.
And again, the guy that wrote this named Daniel Greenfield at Sultan Kanish Blogspot.com.
If liberals acted in public life the way they do on this show, the newsroom, they'd be signing their own political death warrant.
The newsroom's message to the media is to be more openly biased.
The newsroom's message is that the news media today is not biased enough.
They're too objective.
No, who believes that?
CNN 56,000 viewers, the most politically biased cable news network is MSNBC and they are a joke.
And NBC, their parent, is slowly becoming one with doctored 9-11 tapes and other tapes that are doctored.
The media's last shreds of credibility come from its pretense that it's neutral.
The day that news anchors routinely take to the air and announce their political affiliation and begin to rant about Republicans as the day that the last piece of their empire comes crumbling down.
This guy's opinion is if Brian Williams or Scott Pelley, if they ever went on television and actually admitted who they are, it'd be over.
That they only exist because there are enough idiots in this country who think that they're unbiased, down the middle, and objective.
And if they destroy that belief among the remaining idiots who don't know the truth about them, and it's over for them.
And I would submit to you that in practical business terms, it's not looking good for them.
They're losing advertisers, they're losing readers, they're losing revenue, the magazines.
I mean, they're it's it's a disaster in the media world.
Business wise.
The liberal media is already following that path, and their newspapers, magazines, news shows are turning into ghettos because of it.
The newsroom berates them for not following it quickly enough.
And the faster they go down that road, the less influence they're going to retain.
If I wanted to destroy the liberal media, I would encourage them to follow the newsroom's model.
And while They don't listen to me, they will listen to Aaron Sorkin.
And if Aaron Sorkin tells them they need to be more opinionated, if Aaron Sorkin tells them they're not biased enough, if Aaron Sorkin tells them that the key to their recovery, did I not tell you?
It was a guy in the New York Times by David Carr.
That's what I couldn't think of yesterday.
Is a guy in the New York Times who wrote that this show is CNN's answer.
This reviewer is right on the money.
They will believe Eric's Aaron Sorkin.
Like if I were to tell them to do it, they'd laugh and snitch.
But if Aaron Sorkin tells them, and it's already worked, this guy at the New York Times thinks that CNN's answer is to do what this show is.
When what everybody's missing is they already are.
CNN is as left-leaning liberal as HBO.
It's the same parent company.
Time Warner.
It's the same company.
Somebody show me a leading liberal radio talk show.
Show me one.
The newsroom reeks of its own smugness.
It's entirely self-reflective.
It's politics are a matter of identity.
And that identity creates its own universe.
There are universes like that already in cloistered urban centers in ideologically gated communities, college, academia.
And when their inhabitants mistake the larger world outside as being no different than their universe, the contest between the ideology and the world begins.
That's what they're always stunned to learn the rest of the world doesn't agree with them.
Honestly, cock and like banning trans fats and all that garbage.
Anyway.
To the sociopath.
And you know what a sociopath, the primary identifier, sociopath is nothing is ever his fault.
And not only is it not his fault, it's yours.
The sociopath never does anything wrong.
Sociopath never makes a mistake.
The sociopath, greatest person on earth.
Everybody else is making the mistakes.
So too the modern liberal.
Sees the world as a place on which to force his own sense of identity.
He reacts to the otherness of others who don't share his identity by trying to stamp them out.
And if he can't physically destroy them, then he retreats to physical and mental enclaves where he destroys them intellectually in his mind over and over again, fighting battles against legions of ghosts and shadows, mocking and ridiculing them out of existence in his own mind until he's forced to face them in real life and attempts to treat real people the way he treated the imaginary obstacles to his ego.
With the newsroom, the cycle continues.
As anticipating defeat, liberals retreat to a safe place in an imaginary version of the past in which they can line up all their enemies, knock them down like rows of toy soldiers, in which everything seems clear and certain and their side always wins.
This review is right on the money.
This business about reacting to the otherness of those who don't share his political identity by trying to stamp him out, is that not what they do?
you A militant left wing vegetarian's not content to be a vegetarian.
You have to be too.
And if you refuse to do it, it's going to be forced on you.
As is everything else, the perverted liberal believes.
If you don't accept it, you are a challenge to his little cocooned reality.
Your otherness is a threat, and so you either have to be gotten rid of or forced to live the way he does.
And the review point is that's what this show is doing.
Going back, all the mistakes that liberals made, they're really smarter, and let's prove it.
This is how we should have done the BP.
Now I don't know what next week's episode is.
But it's going to be some event in the past, and this fictional newsroom is going to cover it the way Aaron Sorkin thinks they should have in the first place.
And in doing so, they're going to end up thinking it's how it really happened.
And then they'll tell themselves they're won.
While next week CNN will be down to 50,000 viewers.
And MSNP MSNBC will be laughed at twice as much as it already is.
Okay, I'm going to take a break.
And it's seeing profit time, and then we're going to come back.
I mean, this show, folks.
This newsroom, the whole theory, this review, it's a lot like Obama's autobiography.
Revisionism.
Make it up, create characters that didn't exist, situations that didn't exist, all to make yourself look mountainously big and tall and majestic.
But it's all lies.
That's why I've always, gosh, if people could just understand ideology and live and learn to spot the ideology.
Okay.
Phone calls are next, is my point, and it'll come quick.
Don't go away.
I should tell you, Dan Rather has compared the newsroom to Citizen Kane.
To him, it's the greatest TV show ever.
Like Citizen Kane was the greatest movie ever.
Now, this business about I just want to go back, folks, and relive some history here.
BP oil spill.
This show, just close the loop on this, goes back and relives this as the Gulf of Mexico is going to be destroyed.
All those millions of barrels of oil being released by the minute.
The shores of Louisiana and Alabama destroyed tourism gone.
They go back and they they basically relive this as they wish it had happened.
We all know, if you'll recall, and I was here to tell you.
I gave you the exact number of gallons in the Gulf of Mexico of water, and I said this oil that's being spilled is the equivalent of a thimble, and the Gulf is going to take care of it.
It's going to eat it alive.
There is not going to be any destruction or disaster from this, because oil is as natural as the water that it's in, and it's gonna it it it and that's exactly what happened.
Three weeks after this thing, after they camped, they couldn't find the oil.
It was no more than you know, a thunderstorm out over the ocean, you think taking the salt out of the ocean.
It's it's ridiculous.
But they thought, they thought the BP, remember, what was the BP oil spill?
It was a chance to advance global warming.
It was a chance to get you hating oil.
It was a chance to have everybody go out and buy a vote.
It was the opportunity they'd been looking for for everybody to swear off oil, hate oil, believe in global warm.
Where are we today?
Nowhere near where they wanted to.
It was an utter failure the way they covered it.
So they're going back and they're redoing it in hopes they can win it.
It's fantasy land.
Utterly delusional.
And my point is that's what we're up against every day with these people.
And this and the and the threat that we face is that way too many Americans do not understand that it's fantasy land delusional.
They think it's real genuine compassion and uh fairness and uh equality and all that rotten, everything they try to fix, they ruin.
All right.
And now, where are we starting?
Omar, Riverside, California.
I'm glad you waited.
It's your turn, sir.
Have at it.
All right, nice to talk to you, Rush.
Um I'm Owen.
I'm in Riverside, California, and southern year a cost screener.
Um I immigrated from Mexico when I was three years old, and my parents classed me over illegally, and uh my dad was smart enough to get his papers during the Amnesty of 87, so he put in for all of us.
So we went through the entire process, and now I'm uh lawful citizen and I'm registered for the registered Republican.
And uh I'm uh I'm 25 years old.
I'm a typical person that should be an Obama supporter, but I'm not.
I don't support any of his immigration policy.
I I like the fact that the United States is a country of laws and all this.
That's that is excellent.
Can I ask you a question, Omar?
Yes.
Do you get the sense when you listen to President Obama speak?
Do you get the sense that he thinks you're no different than every other illegal Immigrant that you all think the same, that you all do the same.
You all vote the but in essence you're all illegal, and as such, he's gonna look out for you and he's gonna make it okay for you.
And by the way, it's okay if you break the law.
He doesn't care, he's gonna protect you.
Do you resent that?
Oh, yeah, absolutely.
Um, I believe in in working hard for what one gets and being rewarded for your hard work.
I don't I don't like uh handouts, especially not from the So how do you how do you feel when you watch the president of the United States talking about you trying to make everybody think that because you're Hispanic, you're somehow illegal or related to an illegal or inept or incompetent, and you need Obama to clear the decks for you so that you can get up every day.
How does that make you feel?
It's absolutely frustrating.
Um I'm uh consider myself a fairly competent person.
Uh I have a stable job, and I've been working ever since I got out of high school.
Um I've never asked anybody for anything, and then to uh Obama to paint everybody in the same picture as just a liberal supporter for Obama because he says he's gonna help us, it's outrageous.
Omar, you're singing my song out there, pal.
You're on my page, because I'll tell you, I you you you you nailed it.
You support the rule of law.
That's what I heard you say.
Yeah, that's that's absolutely correct.
You think it's a country of laws.
Yeah.
How many how many of your friends are are of the same opinion that you are?
Uh well, very few.
I because I have uh some buddies that went to Berkeley and uh recently graduated college, so they they're uh complete opposite.
But um So most of your friends are commie bastards, is that right?
Yeah.
Yeah.
I have a friend who was in the same boat as I was, but he didn't get his papers.
Um he went through graduated high school and stuff, and he ended up marrying uh a girl from here in the United States and ended up getting his papers that way.
So I mean, the people that think that there's no way that the government is not helping them is is a lie.
There's procedures in place that can help everybody be here legally and be a contributor to the community in the country.
Right.
I understand.
Omar, thanks for the call.
And look, I re I really appreciate your waiting on hold as um as long as you did it.
No, I'm I'm serious.
Obama looks, he paints a picture of every Hispanic as a lawbreaker.
It would offend me.
Well, hell, it already does.
Because to me, they're Americans.
I just I don't know.
The whole thing just just is is irritating as this identity politics, this assumption that people can't take care of themselves, that they don't want to take care of themselves, and that they because of skin color or the way their names are pronounced or whatever, there's automatic bigotry or discrimination, just all these assumptions about the worst nature of the people this country just offends the heck out of me.
The way Obama looks at all of us.
And only he and his czars and his administration, the people understand big hearts and all that.
It's a bunch of rot gut.
Here's Steve in Los Angeles.
Hello, Steve, welcome to program.
Thank you, Rush.
I got an issue with the concept of illegal immigration.
Yeah.
I understand that you live in real.
And I understand that to you words mean things.
And I'm right there with you.
So here's my argument.
There is no such thing as illegal immigration.
Immigration by definition has to be legal.
If it is illegal, it is invasion.
If it is invasion and not immigration, there is no federal question or federal jurisdiction.
So I would submit to you that Governor Brewer and all of her people misframed the argument, took the wrong argument to the court, invoked federal jurisdiction, and now they're unhappy because Obama's running roughshot over them.
What should they have done?
Well, if in fact Arizona is a sovereign state, as I believe it to be, then she unquestionably has the right to defend her borders.
She has the right to repel borders and she has the right to expel undesirables.
The issue is not one of immigration unless you misframe the issue.
No, it's a good point.
I understand that.
How in the world you're having illegal immigrants.
Um, I am it makes perfect sense to us in Realville.
They're not immigrants if they're illegal.
They're something else.
So I get the point.
Anyway, Steve, thanks very much.
I love getting calls from other citizens of Realville.
It makes me feel like I'm at home.
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