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Jan. 17, 2013 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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January 17, 2013, Thursday, Hour #3
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There are Americans being held hostage in Algeria.
You might have thought I was teasing about that in the first hour.
TMZ and eentertainment television not reporting it that hasn't made it yet there, but it is happening.
And we have drones flying over.
It's Al Qaeda.
Which I'd the last I heard from the president around the time that Benghazi guy was going nuts in Libya was that Al Qaeda was on the run.
But I think it was it, seven Americans being held hostage.
So far, no video has been found to explain it.
And the president hasn't yet announced a fundraiser in Las Vegas.
But ah, there's that poor mantai Teo guy on TV.
Yep, Notre Dame's is the perfect mark.
I mean, he was the perfect sucker.
The guy was Mr. Clean, the nicest guy in the world, the most gullible, believe, trust anybody guy in the world.
And somebody ran a hoax on this poor guy for a year.
He ended up having a girlfriend he never met for a year.
No, no, folks, in America today, I I in all candor, I think that's entirely possible.
With as much social networking as there is and online connectivity.
I mean, we read stories and have over people who are concerned and worried that people are you are losing the ability to relate interpersonally with people because their only interaction with them is electronic, digitally.
Facebook, Twitter, Myspace, what have you.
And uh I I think for those of you who think it's odd that a guy could have a girlfriend for a year and never meet her.
It's not that surprising to me, given where the culture is.
And now we've this this poor guy is under all kinds of allegations.
Ah, he couldn't have been that duped, Rush.
Don't fall for it.
He couldn't have been that stupid.
He had to be part of it, Rush.
It's trying to be something he was part of.
He's creating this massive story, overcoming great odds.
All these people he loves close to him die on the eve of big games, and he goes out and has the best game of his life.
He saw what Brett Favre did when his dad died.
He wanted a piece of that action.
Or the other theory is Rush, don't fall for this.
The guy's gay.
This is an elaborate scheme to cover that up.
Year-long girlfriend online, never has to meet her, but's got a girlfriend.
Oh yeah.
Don't fall for it, Rush.
Meanwhile, the athletic director at Notre Dame feels very bad for the guy.
He's never gonna trust anybody ever again.
After having this kind of hoax from Fox News.
A screw district in Wisconsin said that they will review a hascruel diversity class that exposed students to radical leftist thinkers and promoted a critical race theory that alleges white people are oppressors.
Uh this actually this story is from a couple of days ago.
It got lost in a gun control news.
But and I'm a little confused by all the outrage here, because I thought this was a major theme in the Obama re-election campaign and maybe his first term, and that is all of the oppression by the majority.
I I think it's a fundamental element of who Obama is.
I think it's the way he was raised.
This is not news.
I've shared this with you before.
I think Obama was raised and educated, believing that this country was not founded morally and and in a just way, and it was founded by the one percent for the one percent.
The one percent arranged the system so they could take away whatever they wanted from everybody else, get rich and stay rich, and then pass it on to their families and their friends and their connections, and then deny wealth and prosperity and success to everybody else.
And this resulted in a class system and minorities got stepped on and taken advantage of and used and worse by their oppressors.
I think that's how Obama looks at colonialism.
I don't think there's any, just in my mind, any question about it.
So this story, I when I when I say, I don't know what the surprise is, because I think this is a major theme in both the Obama campaign and the regime.
The American diversity class was taught to students at Delavan Darien High School in Wisconsin.
And one of the parents reported to Fox News that it was a white privilege class.
And what they were doing was teaching white guilt.
One parent told Fox.
They divide the students, and they say to the non-whites, you have been oppressed, and you're still being oppressed.
Isn't that part of the liberal message today?
Isn't that I mean Jamie Fox and what's his face?
Samuel L. Jackson as they go out on their promo tour for the movie Django Unchained, isn't the notion that there still is slavery?
There still is oppression.
Various black athletes have said so in recent years.
The parent who asked not to be identified as an 18-year-old son who was enrolled in the class and became alarmed after she looked at some of the handouts provided to the students.
The parent said, I felt it was indoctrination.
This is a radical left agenda and ideology that's now embedded in our school, and it is and has been for a while.
It's called the multicultural curriculum.
And the multicultural curriculum teaches this.
The multicultural curriculum is 25 or 30 years old, if not older than that.
And it teaches anti-Western Civ.
It teaches that white European settlers came here and started causing all the trouble.
White Europeans brought with them racism, sexism, environmental destruction, homophobia, all of that.
That is taught.
What's happened here is a parent just caught on to it.
And I think what happened is the reason the parent caught on to it is because they brought it out from behind the curtain.
This has been taught this way for a long time.
Now they're just being upfront and honest.
The teacher is about what is being taught rather than subtly indoctrinating the kids.
They're just being upfront and honest about what they're teaching and what it is.
And they're calling it white privilege, and they're calling it oppression, and they're saying it still exists, and that there's segregation, and they divide the class up that way.
The parents said the students were taught if you're white, you're oppressing.
If you're not white, you're a victim.
Yeah.
Isn't that liberalism today?
I don't mean to sound no at all.
That's I'm not, that's not my, I'm just, it's not a surprise to me.
Fact, I'm a little bit encouraged that a parent finally sees what's going on, called attention to it.
According to handouts in this class obtained by Fox News, white privilege was defined as a set of advantages that are believed to be enjoyed by white people beyond those commonly experienced by non-white people in the same social, political, economic spaces, nation, community, workplace, income, et cetera.
Students were also given a handout from a professor at the University of Texas, arguing that people do not have complete control over their fate.
There is not space here to list all the ways in which white privilege plays out in our lives, but it's clear that I will carry this privilege with me until the day white supremacy is erased from society.
That was part of the class as submitted by the professor from the University of Texas's name is Robert Jensen.
He's a journalism professor, by the way.
Robert Jensen is a journalism professor, University of Texas.
That follows, does it not?
He's the author of The Heart of Whiteness, confronting race, racism, and white privilege.
Professor Jensen insists that we abandon Thanksgiving as a national holiday and instead observe a national day of atonement.
Now, when we have reported stories like this over the past 25 years on this program, I will admit that we've always passed them on as though look at what this kook is teaching, and look at what that oddball wacko leftist is teaching, and we laugh at them.
And I'll be honest that what I missed is that these Jensen guys are all over the place and that their students believe it.
Whereas I was sitting here, nobody National Day of Atonement, Thanksgiving, a day of oppression.
People ended up believing it in far greater numbers than I was prepared for.
I don't know about you.
Mr. Jensen, in fact, has written again the journalism professor, University of Texas.
Mr. Jensen has written that, quote, one indication of moral progress in the United States would be the replacement of Thanksgiving Day and its self-indulgent family feasting with a National Day of Atonement, accompanied by a self-reflective collective fasting.
Not only is the thought of such a change in this white supremacist holiday impossible to imagine, the very mention of the idea sends most Americans into apoplectic fits, which speaks volumes about our historical hypocrisy and its relation to the contemporary politics of empire in the United States.
This is what the guy wrote.
Thanksgiving is a white supremacist holiday.
Well, he thinks he knows what a white supremacist is, and he thinks Thanksgiving is part of white supremacy.
As far as this guy's concerned, everybody's non-white was oppressed by the white majority.
The white majority was a bunch of tyranny, and it doesn't matter whether Indians, Native Americans, Hispanics, Latinos, women's gays, you name it.
They were all victims of the white majority, the white oppressors.
And this is being taught.
Anyway, parents don't like it, they've called attention to it.
Marco Rubio.
United States Senate said the president doesn't have the guts to admit that he doesn't believe in the Second Amendment.
Marco Rubio says that this dog and pony show, my word, not his.
This dog, my term, dog and pony show, is not about ending gun violence.
It's exactly what our caller from North Carolina said that Bob Schiefer was doing.
When they go out and compare the NRA to Hitler and say, my gosh, if this country defeated Hitler, certainly we can defeat the NRA.
What really is going on is a battle to defeat the Constitution, in this case, the Second Amendment.
Rubio says the president doesn't have the guts to admit that he doesn't believe in the Second Amendment.
And by the way, there's something to this.
One of the things that we never get from the left.
One of the things, this is very important, folks.
I want you to hear this and believe it.
On all this talk about bipartisanship and getting along, the one thing we never get with the left is an honest debate.
Right.
Because they will never tell us what their real objective is.
They always mask it or camouflage it or hide behind it with children, in the case of yesterday, and in many other times.
But you can't have an honest debate with they will not Tell you that they want to eliminate the Second Amendment.
They will not tell you that if they could, they'd find a way to confiscate guns.
They won't be honest about.
And so when you sit when you accuse them of that, when you say that that's what their real objective is, then they go nuts accusing if whoever says it, like me, of being extreme and dangerous and reckless.
Because what people are going to think after hearing this, when in fact, I'm not the one being dishonest.
It's the left that will never honestly state its objectives.
They will never honestly state their position.
When they do, on those rare times they do, such as in this school in Wisconsin, people rise up against it.
That's why they stay subtle and camouflage.
Let's go to the audio sound bites with Senator Rubio.
He was on uh the O'Reilly factor last night.
And O'Reilly said, Where's the president going wrong, Senator, on all of this?
Let's remember what the impetus for all this was.
It was this horrible tragedy in Connecticut, which by the way, all of us were outraged by, all of us are sad about, and all of us would want to see never happen again.
And by the own admission of the White House, what they've proposed today would do nothing to have prevented what happened in Connecticut or Colorado before that or any of these other places where this has occurred.
The issue America faces is not guns, it's violence.
I think the fundamental question is what is happening in our culture and in our society that's leading to people committing these atrocities, whether it's mental illness or some other violent propensities that have come into our culture and into our society.
It is, again, as always exactly right.
We're not even aiming at the right thing.
And yes, I intended to use that phrase, aiming at the right thing.
I actually heard Jim Gray was on Fox this morning talking about man tao.
And he used a common phrase that people used, and he ended up apologizing for.
I think the phrase was he's got a gun to his head, or or what a polyg- I oh poor choice of words right now, I really apologize.
I did not mean to say that.
That's how sensitive people are to all this.
But Rubio is exactly right.
The problem isn't guns, it's violence, and why are people committing these acts?
And if it's mental illness, what can't we do to stop it?
What obstacles are in our way of dealing with the mentally ill?
And they are many and varied and they're large, and there's not much we can do because the mentally ill have had rights proclaimed to exist for them where you can't protect them and us from them.
Can't protect them from themselves.
So why is this happening?
So what Obama and the boys are doing is going after the guns, that's the band-aid, but that's not really what they're doing.
They're attacking the Constitution.
Freedom, liberty.
I gotta take a break, but I got more Rubio sound coming after this.
So up next, Bill O'Reilly said to Marco Rubio, is President Obama demagoguing this gun issue?
Is he demagoguing it because he sees public opinion going in his direction?
I'm gonna let you in on a secret.
I mean, the president is a liberal.
He sees this as an opportunity to get some of these things done.
This is what he's wanted to do with his entire political career.
He sees an opportunity to do it, and he's gonna utilize every rhetorical device to get to that point.
I actually think the president, he just doesn't have the guts to admit it, not a believer in the second amendment, although he states that he is.
If he wants to reform the second amendment, then have the guts to admit that.
Exactly.
That folks is uh that is so on point.
It can't be said enough in the midst of all of these claims and all of these requests for bipartisanship, and can't we all get along?
And I just want to tell those of you in the low information voter community the problem in getting along with the Democrats is the user Marco Rubio say it.
They will not be honest about what they want.
That's why you don't even know.
You who support them don't even really know what they're all about because they don't really ever tell you.
You have a profound misunderstanding of who you're voting for.
You think it's all about compassion and fairness and uh equality, be nice to people and making sure the rich pay their fair share of you don't know the half of it in terms of what you're actually voting for and supporting.
Uh Rubio is right on it.
Hey, look If you want to if you if you want to reform the second amendment, then tell us that.
And let's have a debate on it.
But the reason they won't have a debate on it is they would lose it.
And the issue would be gone.
And that's why there won't be a debate on it.
Where are we going?
Diana in Olney, Illinois.
I'm glad you waited.
Great to have you on the program.
Hi.
Hi, Rash.
It's an honor.
Thank you.
Uh I just wanted to make a point.
I'm a sixty-three year old grandmother, and I'm afraid for our country, and I'm worried that the government is trying to confiscate the guns, but I'm also worried about the mental health issue.
Because a few years back, didn't Homeland Security say that some of the dangerous people were the ones or born again Christians right wingers, yep.
Yep, exactly.
So then wouldn't that be another avenue they could go down to try to get your guns?
Well, um they had to retract that report.
That report was a uh report on terrorism, domestic terrorism, and the Obama administration put out a report that basically said um uh right wing uh gun NRA members, uh conservative Christians, prolifers, uh represent the greatest domestic terror threat, and there was uh uh an outcry and they had to withdraw it.
Uh I I don't think you will know.
Uh this is a tough I uh coming for your guns.
Um and now I've got three look I'm gonna answer this after the break.
I don't want to have to rush through this and be any more misunderstood than usual.
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This business about coming for your guns.
I know the previous caller openly admitted that she worries that that's going to happen.
And what I was gonna say to her very quickly is uh you won't know it when it's happening.
It's this if if that ever happens, it's gonna come at you in a way you don't recognize.
Maybe not, though, as vigilant as people are.
Uh I don't I don't want to tell anybody I I don't want anybody thinking that I am predicting that.
But she is right.
Janet Napoliton, no, was it Napa yeah, Health and uh uh uh homo homeland security was a big cis, put a report out, um first or second year of the regime, that the greatest threat of domestic terrorism was the American right wing.
Pro-life Christians uh the the bitter clinger crowd.
And it was greeted with tremendous opposition, and they withdrew it, but that doesn't mean they don't still believe it.
They just withdrew it.
That was one of those times where they made the mistake of telling us who they really are, and people had a fit, so they apologized, they took it back and blamed it on a couple people and a lack of proofreading and some such.
What is happening, Marco Rubio is exactly right.
The American left, President Democrats, this is not a mystery.
They do wish they could change the Second Amendment.
And if they could, while nobody was looking or while everybody was looking, they would.
But they will never tell you that.
They'll deny it, in fact.
They will never tell you what they really are for.
You can't have an honest debate with these people.
Now, Let's talk about a day in the future, should it happen, where polling data is, as far as the experts are concerned, irrefutable, that a majority of the American people agree with them.
If that day comes, if they ever think that a majority of the American people, serious majority of the American people agree with them and would re-elect them, then all bets are off.
And they would couch it as following the will of the people.
Bob Schiefer and his comments equating the NRA to Nazis and the Hitler.
Look, it should not be a mystery to you.
I think what people have a tough time rationalizing, and I'm talking now about non-wonks, people who are not involved day to day, people who seriously do know more about the Kardashians than they know about Obama or the second amendment of Constitution.
Those people you will never be able to persuade one thing.
The Democrats would want to take guns away from people.
You'll never be able to persuade them why.
If you tell them, for example, well, these people are opposed to individual liberty and freedom.
You realize what a hard sell that is.
Freedom itself is a hard sell.
Who was it?
It was Ron Paul in his farewell address to Congress, who made the comment on the floor of the House of Representatives that he is shocked how difficult it is to sell freedom to the American people.
That it's an obstacle to many people.
They don't want the responsibilities that come with it.
They don't want the consequences that come with it.
They're willing to trade security, economic, and what have you for freedom.
But it's a tough sell.
By the same token, if you run talk to people that pay scant attention to all this, and you tell them that the people that they are voting for are interested in eliminating some of the freedom granted by the Constitution, you realize what they're going to think?
What do you mean these are the people for gay rights?
You're the ones that don't want gay marriage.
What do you mean they take freedom away?
They're trying to expand it to everybody.
They're not, and they might even think that people don't need to have any guns.
If you can convince those people that American X has too much money, how hard is it to convince them that we have too many guns?
If those people readily agree that nobody needs more than a hundred grand a year, nobody needs more than one gun.
That just means that we're up against a number of obstacles, the media being a uh a chief one.
Well, where is the polling date on this?
And Snerdley brought that up.
This is uh this is an interesting little piece here from CNN.
It's a CNN Time magazine poll.
Headline, slight dip, slight dip in support for gun control measures in the last month.
There is strong support from Americans for many of the proposals to curb gun violence that Obama announced Wednesday, but according to a new national poll, public support has gone down a bit when compared to surveys taken immediately after last month's shooting in Connecticut.
And it will slip even more by next month as the public tires of the news media's fear-mongering hysteria, which is why these things have to be rushed through while the iron is hot.
That's why they are hustling as fast as they can.
The emotional reservoir starts to empty.
In the immediate days after something like Newtown, that's when they move mountains to try to get what they want done.
And as time goes by, support for it dwindles as emotion is replaced by rationality.
And that's why they've got to act fast.
And we're in the we're now the emotion is fading.
Rationality is ratcheting back up.
And so the talk of gun control has been replaced by gun violence.
And the executive actions are not executive orders.
And they're not oriented toward taking guns away.
It's a sensible common sense approach to whatever.
CNN Time magazine poll indicates that Americans generally favor stricter gun control, think that it's too easy to buy guns, but they don't believe stricter gun laws would reduce violence all by itself.
Now the polls findings buried at the bottom of this article do not advance the gun control agenda.
Most people in this Time magazine CNN poll, most people agree with the NRA, for example, about putting armed guards in schools.
Despite that recent ad they ran, which was clearly a crime against humanity and all that is holy.
That NRA ad.
Why, that was outrageous.
Why that NRA ad, why that was reprehensible.
Why, who do they think they are?
Why that ad I am I'm embarrassed by that.
Despite that ad.
More Americans support armed guards in schools.
That's not what the regime wants to hear.
The regime wants to hear that more of you are in favor of gun free zones.
So the polling data is not going in their direction, even now.
Because the emotion is waning and rationality is uh is ratcheting back up.
So now it's it's it's it's uh it's on to the next event.
The next event.
Whenever that happens, and there will be one, then they'll get the whole process started again.
And Obama will convene again, and and the lingo will be the last time this happened.
I said enough.
We've simply got to do something enough.
Well, I think we all see now that I was right.
We still haven't done enough.
We've got to do more, and they'll start the process all over again.
And they'll take as and they'll get as much as they can while that emotion is boiling over.
And it keeps going and keeps going, keeps repeating until they get closer and closer to what they want.
They never, however, ever get all they want because they're never satisfied.
Never enough.
Okay.
Look at the clock.
Busy broadcast timeout.
An EIB obscene profit break back after this.
You know this man tie Teo story.
It ends up here that the drive-by media ended up being scooped by the low information media.
In this case, Deadspin.com.
Let's go to the Today Show today.
The co-host Matt Wower interviewing the assignment editor for Deadspin.com, Timothy Burke about breaking the man tie Teo hoax story.
See, the mainstream media ate it up.
This is the mainstream media ate up the story.
Girlfriend he never met, died, great performance.
The dead spin guys and some of the others said, wait just a second, something about this.
And they started looking into it.
The drive-bys did not.
Here's what Timothy Burke at Deadspin said.
And Deadspin.com today, my co-writer Jack Dickey and I are going to publish a full listing of some of the glaring discrepancies and contradictions in the reporting of the story of Mantiteo and Lynette Kekua, his alleged girlfriend, uh, that should have been an immediate red flag to anybody paying attention to college football news that something wasn't right here.
And we have five separate dates that she allegedly died in major media sources.
Somebody should have noticed this.
Right.
Five separate times she died in major media sources, and none of the major media sources dared or cared to look into it.
Because they liked the narrative.
They liked this the hoax story was it wasn't a hoax.
They loved the story.
What a great guy.
It was love for a full year they never met, and she got leukemia and she died, and oh my god, oh my god.
There were contradictions.
There were signs all over the place.
The drive-by's didn't look into it.
Here himself now.
Man Tateo, October 2nd, ESPN's College Game Day.
This a Notre Dame linebacker talking about his girlfriend who he thought had passed away.
And as you listen to this, realize she never existed.
She was just that person that I turned to.
And even though she was fighting leukemia and you know, fighting various things, she always found time to serve someone else.
When you have somebody that you talk to every single day that you sleep with on the phone because she's she's going through a lot of things, and the only way that she can sleep is if she knows that you're on the other side of the phone.
All of a sudden it's silence.
That silence really eats at you.
And it's it's eating it's eaten at me, and it continues to eat at me, but you know, that's where faith comes in.
That you sleep with on the phone.
The person he turns to for everything.
She's fighting leukemia and she's not there anymore.
She never was there.
That's why people say, wait a minute.
Wait a did this guy really get this punked, or did he know that this was in other words, was he part of it, creating this narrative and thus creating a great brand.
It's all about branding in American celebrity villa today.
It's all about branding.
How many how many women do you sleep with on the phone, Brian, before you got married?
How many women have you slept with on the phone?
Even after you got married, be honest.
The uh the guy that apparently is at the root of the hoax is Ronaia Tuyasasopo.
And apparently this guy designed the whole thing and perpetuated it.
And even served as a representative of the family of the fake woman.
And TMZ has the proof.
Matt Lauer never got the proof, but TMZ had it.
That's there.
So there.
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