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March 29, 2013 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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March 29, 2013, Friday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 podcast.
Well, I guess it's official now.
If there was any doubt, there isn't any any longer.
My New Year's resolution to go low profile and not get noticed officially now out the window.
I mean, are you aware, Snergly, of what I'm talking about?
I simply proclaim the inevitability of, and you would think that God has spoken on this.
Honestly, on the left, you would think God has spoken on this.
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There's an element, however, that everybody, at least that I've seen or heard, and we got soundbites galore on this, that everybody's leaving out in reporting my claim yesterday that gay marriage in America is inevitable.
And what they're leaving out is rather crucial in terms of why I made the statement.
If you recall, I made the statement after sharing with you the details of a politico story in which two Republican consultants combined with 75 Republicans who signed on to the Amicus brief supporting gay marriage at the Supreme Court, overturned Proposition 8.
The political story said that the belief in the elite leadership levels of the Republican Party is to not fight it, to let the Supreme Court, in fact, the desire is that the Supreme Court issue a sweeping ruling and make gay marriage legal in every state.
When I saw that, what I interpreted is the Republican Party wants the issue to go away.
And that's what the consultants in the political story said.
And one of them was from Florida.
I forget where the other one was from.
But it wasn't just those two.
Remember, there are 75 Republicans of various ideological persuasion who signed an amicus brief before the court.
And the consultants said that what they want, they don't want the issue alive.
They can't win in 2014 or 2016 if this issue is still being debated because they're going to be called bigots and sexists and homophobes.
And so just like every other budget deal, they want to let the Democrats have it and move on to the next thing.
And the point I made was, why don't we just stop fighting everything?
Why don't we just say, you know what, Democrats, you're going to win every election and we're not going to argue with you because we don't want people to hate us.
My conclusion that it was inevitable was based on two things.
A, the left isn't going to let go of it ever.
They never do once these things happen.
Let go of global warming.
You want me to go through the list here?
Have they let go of amnesty?
Have they let go of legalizing drugs?
Have they let go of banning nuclear weapons?
Have they let go of gun control?
They don't ever let anything go.
And right now, folks, there's no pushback from the Republican Party on any of these things.
There's pushback by you.
There's pushback by the Tea Party.
There's pushback by evangelicals, but there's no pushback from the Republican Party.
The Republican Party is doing everything it can to send the signal to be okay with some form of amnesty, be okay with some form of gay marriage.
In fact, the more the better to get the issue off the table.
The Republican Party is not really fighting much of anything budget-wise.
So my conclusion that gay marriage is inevitable was simply in recognition of what the political story said, that the Republican Party wishes it would go away.
And by that, they mean the Supreme Court issue a sweeping ruling legalizing it all 50 states.
If the primary source of pushback isn't going to push back, I'm sorry, it's inevitable.
That element of what I said was left out of every report on this.
And instead, what's fascinating, folks, is that every report treats my proclamation as though it comes from on high.
Rush Limbaugh said gay marriage is inevitable.
That means it's inevitable.
Just because I said it.
You want to hear some sound bites?
Here we go.
What we have first here is CNN.
Starting point.
This is a montage.
Soledad O'Brien and John Berman reporting on my gay marriage announcement.
Wasn't an announcement.
It was political analysis.
It wasn't, by the way, an expression of desire.
It was a political analysis.
Anyway, here's that soundbite.
It's over.
Rush Limbaugh telling his listeners that the battle over same-sex marriage is over.
This issue is lost.
I don't care what the Supreme Court does.
This is now inevitable.
Once we started talking about gay marriage, traditional marriage, opposite-sex marriage, same-sex marriage, heteromarriage, we lost.
It was over.
It was just a matter of time.
So the issue now goes behind closed doors.
Of course, justices will spend the next three months drafting their legal opinions outside the public eye until their decision is ready, probably at the end of June.
And it won't matter what it is if there's not going to be any pushback on it.
And don't forget now, and the political story yesterday, I'm going to keep drumming this out until people get it.
Political story featuring two Republican consultants who made it clear they hope the court, the best thing for the party would be the court massively make this stuff legal.
So it'd be another element of criticism the Republicans think would be removed from the table.
Oh, and there was also the fundraising angle.
They actually think it would eliminate some fundraising opportunities for Democrats if the issue were to go away.
And I hopefully made mince meeted that argument yesterday as well.
Anyway, here's the next soundbite.
And by the way, one element here that the soundbite they play to me, I want to build on this a little bit today, because I talked about the language here being lost.
Once we conceded that the definition of marriage isn't marriage, that was just in terms of the time, folks.
It is what it is.
And once marriage isn't marriage, once it's heteromarriage, once it's opposite-sex marriage, once you concede that marriage doesn't mean what it means, you have effectively lost the argument.
And I'm speaking there within the context of debate technique.
And it goes back to pushback again.
There isn't any Republican pushback.
There is either nothing or one degree or another of acquiescence on all these things the left wants, which they never give up.
They never stop advancing their agenda.
And they don't care about any causal effects of this.
They don't care if the country's never going to be the same.
They don't care if the country's never going to be unified.
It doesn't matter to them.
We have at least, if not more, two, really two factions in this country and many more, but two, and where there is no commonality, there isn't any ground for compromise.
Anyway, here's Piers Morgan live last night, CNN.
He's talking with just himself, which he does a lot.
I want to play you an astonishing piece of tape, really.
Yesterday we had Bill O'Reilly almost converting to gay marriage.
Today, Rush Limbaugh joined in.
Listen to this.
This issue is lost.
I don't care what the Supreme Court does.
This is now inevitable.
And it's inevitable because we lost the language on this.
We lost the issue when we started allowing the word marriage to be bastardized and redefined by simply adding words to it.
In terms of debate, that's not even arguable, folks.
We allowed the definition of the word to change so that we could end up being called bigots.
And all religions can be called bigoted.
Christianity can be called bigoted.
Do you realize as this keeps going, one of the conclusions the left is going to make is that 1900, what a 2,000 years of Christianity has just been a lie, has just been bigoted.
You realize what's at stake here and what is under assault.
And there's no pushback.
Piers Morgan Live, he did have a guest, Piers Morgan.
He had former White House green jobs czar Van Jones in there.
They played the tape that you just heard of me.
And Piers Morgan said, sort of reminds me, I imagine, of conversations in America in the 50s and 60s, which would go along the lines of I don't mind having thought about this quite carefully, black people using the same bus as me, but I'm not really ready for them to come to the same school.
Is it that kind of reposition?
I have no clue what this lightweight means with the question.
I have no clue what he's talking about.
He just clearly doesn't understand even what's happening here.
But here's what the reason we're playing this anyway, here's what Van Jones said.
It's sad.
First of all, we are on the verge of one of the great breakthroughs and achievements in human freedom, human equality.
I can't tell you how proud I am to be in a country where people, where the freedom to marry is going to be available to everybody very soon.
Rush Limbaugh is right.
Yeah, but so from on high, El Rushbaugh has proclaimed it, and therefore it must be.
Well, I don't know.
I don't care about Piers Morgan, but the answer that Van Jones gave is quite, quite eye-opening, folks.
Having marriage redefined to include anybody now equals one of the great breakthroughs and achievements in human freedom.
Meaning, gay people have been living in bondage when it comes to marriage.
But now they're about to escape the shackles.
Anyway, I got to take a brief time out.
We got more.
As always, sit tight.
We'll be back and continue in just a minute.
You know, I'm looking at this little pot-bellied dictator over North Korea, Kim Jong-un, Kim Unsung, Kim, Kim, whatever.
This guy's threatening to bomb us.
The Norcs are bullying us.
Now, why do the Norcs think they can bully us?
Why did they think they can get away with it?
Did you?
Well, I've got a list of reasons why that I'll get into in a minute.
I really hadn't even meant to broach this.
I just saw the little pot-bellied guy's picture on TV.
People can't figure out.
He's promised to bomb L.A. and Washington and Austin, Texas, and nobody can figure out why Austin, Texas is.
And it's not that he's an Oklahoma fan.
The reason he named Austin, Texas is that Samsung has a huge factory there.
And Samsung is one of the biggest South Korean corporations around, if not the, certainly in the top five.
And they make computer chips and displays, all kinds of things, everybody.
And it stands to reason that this little Kim Ung, whatever guy would hate Samsung.
And Samsung's got a big presence in Austin.
That's why Austin.
Now, back to this gay marriage and language business.
I don't mind having to re-explain this.
I have learned over 25 years that it takes oftentimes 10 different ways to explain something in order for some people to understand it.
Now, yesterday, when I said that gay marriage is inevitable, as I said, there are two elements to this.
One of them, the Republican Party signaled there going to be pushback against it.
But secondly, we lost language.
And that's just as important.
The institution of marriage has been targeted for destruction, essentially, and the road to destroying it is being paved.
And the way that this has been started is to change the definition.
I'll tell you what's coming next.
After this civil right, they'll move on to liberating illegal aliens and then taking away our civil right to bear arms.
And then they will continue to push a carbon tax on the basis of climate change and whatever else.
They'll continue to corrupt the public school system, however they manage to do that.
And I've looked at it in all instances.
One of the things that is fundamental In the attack on all of these institutions and traditions which have defined America's greatness is an attack on the language.
Here's another one that's under assault, and that is borders.
Immigration is being used to destroy the meaning of borders.
Now we've got open borders.
Without borders, there would never have been the United States of America in order to create the economy that is drawing people here in the first place.
Food stamps and disability, another couple of words who have lost their purpose and meaning.
Food stamps and disability now simply mean unearned money.
Food stamps and disability have a totally different meaning than their original intent.
Deficit.
Deficit is now something that simply triggers the printing of money.
That's all a deficit means.
An excuse to print money.
Unions.
Unions are used to destroy companies, entire industries on behalf of the Democrat Party.
Unions are formed to acquire unfunded benefits.
And the pretense of educating children is the vehicle for that scam.
Environmentalism is an excuse to acquire government grants to increase taxes and regulations, to grow government, and to limit freedom.
Environmentalism is another word for attacking the very fuel of the engine of freedom, and that would be fossil fuels.
And let there be no mistake, fossil fuels are under assault.
Fossil fuels have become a great enemy.
Oil, natural gas have become enemies.
Evil things that the left must wipe out.
And they hide behind environmentalism, trying to clean up the environment.
And all oil has done is further the spread of freedom all over the country, the insurance of our own freedom, and it has been fundamentally responsible for the vast increase in prosperity in this country and all over the world.
Crisis, as you know, that's an excuse for government action.
Crisis here, crisis there, everything's a crisis.
This is now a word used to justify the expansion of and the intrusion by government in every walk of life.
Every faction of the Democrat Party is now a battering ram.
Destroy the institution of marriage, destroy borders, destroy education, destroy private sector health care, destroy private property, destroy the Constitution, free markets.
The Democrat Party is nothing more than a battering ram.
And they're using the language to disguise what they're doing.
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Now, I'm going to make an assumption.
And I'm sure that it is applicable to some of you in the audience.
Some of you are probably sitting out there scratching your heads, asking yourself, how did this happen?
I mean, you've heard about gay marriage all your life.
Well, not all your life, but for a long time.
And you've heard about homosexuality, and you're aware of militant homosexuality, and you remember the days where they would file into back in the early AIDS days, they'd file into St. Patrick's and throw condoms at Cardinal O'Connor, and you remember all that.
And one day you wake up and it finally hits you that gay marriage is all of a sudden out of nowhere in the top five most important issues to everybody under 30 or 35.
And you're wondering, how does this happen?
What is going on?
Some of you might instinctively say it's got to be the education system.
It's got to be the media.
It's got to be Hollywood television shows, you name it.
I have here a story in the Washington Times.
And I really thought when I saw this, I said, you know, I better not mention this story.
This is going to do nothing but get me into trouble because it really is incredible.
But I figured, in light of how I have now been made the Pope on gay marriage in the media and on Twitter and on Facebook, I mean, even C-SPAN, the next soundbite, C-SPAN is now, I am an official, not just a political analyst, but I've also crossed over now.
I am an official celebrity because I influence the celebrity crowd now.
All because of yesterday's program.
Now, this Washington Times story, this is if anybody went on the radio, if anybody went on the TV and said this as though it was their own thoughts, they would be vilified and run out of the country.
But it was published in the Washington Times.
I'm going to read portions of it to you.
It's by a writer named Paul Rondo, R-O-N-D-E-A-U.
Headline: Hooking kids on sex, start the saturation process in kindergarten.
Here are a couple of pull quotes.
So, if you ever wonder why more and more young people accept homosexual behavior and same-sex marriage as ho-hum, look no further.
Young children are encouraged to masturbate and explore their bodies with mirrors to introduce them to sexuality.
Hitchbourne says of the graphic pictures used to educate pre-pubescent children: quote, if a dirty old man showed these things to a 10-year-old in a park, he'd be arrested.
But when Planned Parenthood shows them to kids in a classroom, it gets government money.
And that's the point of the story: that Planned Parenthood has a program that's promoting anything goes sex to five-year-olds.
While the White House says that sequestration has eliminated funds for children touring the White House, President Obama has no problem spending $350 million federal tax dollars for sexual indoctrination programs starting in kindergarten for those same children.
This is not your grandmother's sex education about how things work and what can go wrong.
In fact, the exact opposite is the essence of the personal responsibility education program.
It is an actual program called PREP, P-R-E-P.
Obamacare, the healthcare overhaul, funnels $75 million annually into the personal responsibility education program.
The money must be used exclusively for Planned Parenthood-style comprehensive sex ed programs where no type of sex is wrong and the only sexual behavior Planned Parenthood considers unsafe is becoming pregnant.
More than one-fourth of the money, $20 million, has been awarded to a coalition of six Planned Parenthood affiliates operating under the name Northwest Coalition for Adolescent Health.
And the program is being implemented in Montana, Oregon, Idaho, Washington, Alaska, at 50 different sites.
In Oregon schools, Planned Parenthood is paying children cash to participate.
Planned Parenthood funded with tax dollars, our tax dollars, to market sex to children in schools under the guise of sex education, under the guise of anti-bullying, under the guise of diversity and tolerance.
And once sexualized, these children then become Planned Parenthood sex customers for contraceptives, STD testing, and abortion.
A glance at the teacher outline for lesson 1A shows exactly how abstinence plays out in the sex encouraging scheme at Planned Parenthood.
Here's what it says.
Abstinence means choosing not to do any sexual activity that carries a risk for pregnancy or STDHIV.
In other words, abstinence has nothing to do with abstaining from sex.
So long as the student avoids STDs in pregnancy and is comfortable with what he or she's doing, it's anything goes.
And it is at this point in the story that even those who thought they knew Planned Parenthood will be shocked.
There is a video.
The American Life League released a video titled Hooking Kids on Sex, graphically detailing just what Planned Parenthood sex education is.
It went viral.
It was viewed almost a quarter million times the first week before a Planned Parenthood activist got YouTube to suspend it.
It all came back with hooking kids on sex.
Even those who thought they knew Planned Parenthood were shocked.
And the video's moderator, Michael Hitchbourne, argues that Planned Parenthood follows the same business model as a drug dealer.
Young children are encouraged in this program, the PrEP program, personal responsibility education program, Planned Parenthood.
The video that was made to expose the program, this is not a Planned Parenthood video.
This is a video that people alarmed about this made.
Well, yeah, and then Planned Parenthood got the video pulled off of YouTube.
It's a video that critics made to illustrate what Planned Parenthood is doing as part of Obamacare.
And the moderator of the video is a guy named Michael Hitchborne.
He argues that Planned Parenthood follows the same business model as a drug dealer.
Young children are encouraged to masturbate and explore their bodies with mirrors to introduce them to sexuality.
Hitchbourne says of the graphic pictures used to educate pre-pubescent children that if a dirty old man showed these things to a 10-year-old in a park, he'd be arrested.
When Planned Parenthood shows them to kids in a classroom, it's being done with government money.
I saw that story.
So I can't tell people this is over the top.
I don't even know if this is true.
And I looked into it, and that video was on YouTube, and it did get pulled down.
It's not, again, a Planned Parenthood video.
It was a video made by people who found out what's going on in the program to alert people.
And Planned Parenthood succeeded in getting YouTube to pull the video down.
And so the Washington Times has the story.
If you're wondering what their story, if you're wondering why so many young people seem to have no problem, gay marriage, this or that, it's because unbeknownst to you, kids have been exposed to this for years.
So that's part of the reason, but it's not the entire reason.
There's also peer pressure, a number of other reasons for it.
And it's just the natural evolution of things.
When you're able to blur and not even blur, when you are successful in making fun of and laughing at something as old-fashioned and quaint as morality, well, then you are that much ahead.
And then when you play games with the language, and are able at young ages to convince people that words don't mean what they mean and that people that want to hold fast to definitions are bigots, then you can make serious inroads.
And so there's another story in the UK Daily Mail.
This one is, if this story showed up in the U.S. media somewhere, whoever did it would be drummed out of the media.
Some reporter here for the UK Daily Mail went and found a guy who'd been adopted by two gay parents and was abused for 10 years, but the social workers ignored the complaints because the parents were gay.
Now, that's just one example.
And you can't extrapolate from one example and say this fits the bill for everybody.
But this is the, if you look hard enough, this is the kind of stuff that is out there in the media.
That's the UK Daily Mail.
So it's a, to me, folks, with no pushback on any of it.
And in fact, Washington Times yesterday, Politico, I'm sorry, saying yesterday, quoting his two Republican guys, that, yeah, the best thing for the party would be for the court to just make it legal all over the country and take the issue away, and that way we can't be called bigots.
It's just, it boils down to natural evolution of one half of the culture in this country, combined with the fact there's no pushback on where it's headed.
So it's inevitable, combined with the fact that they're not going to let it go.
Quick time out.
We'll get to your phone calls when we come back.
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Okay to the phones, and it's Claire in Wilmington, Delaware.
I'm glad you called.
Great to have you here.
Hi.
Hi.
I want to make a debate with you.
I don't think we have lost the language.
What I think we have lost in this culture is both our religion and an honest media.
And I'll tell you why.
If you appeal to the gay marriage thing on a man's level, as a human, you can make the arguments that make sense.
But if you take it to a biblical perspective, that Christians, Jewish people, the Islam faith, we all unite.
We've lost our God.
We all unite that marriage is between a man and a woman.
But no one seems to want to tie that.
Everyone's afraid to mention God.
And I think the media is the other culprit.
Never do you see the media play the people that are against gay marriage, the people that are against abortion.
It's always they play the people that are for it, and that's the only position you hear.
Now, California is the most liberal state, in my opinion, that's out there, maybe Massachusetts too.
But even as liberals they are, they united and say, we don't want this.
But they're being overturned so that I think it's trying to discourage people that, oh, I guess everyone really wants it.
No, I don't want it.
There's a lot of people that don't want this.
And it's not because I have anything against gay people.
I know gay people, and I think some of them are wonderful.
But I do believe, and I don't care how funny I sound, from a biblical perspective, a marriage is between a man and a woman, the two that can create a family.
And the way you have just set it up now in the common, because the language does matter, and I'll argue this way at the end of the program, you are now bigot by citing religion.
You are bigoted because you are wanting to deny happiness and freedom to human beings who only want what you have in a country that promises them the pursuit of happiness.
Rush, you know what?
This is how I feel.
And I had a speak at a meeting the other night where I know when I walked out, I was probably getting snickered at behind my back.
People have got to get a backbone in this country.
We have allowed God.
We've allowed the education to be dumbed down.
We have taught our children acceptance rather than other people that come into our country assimilation.
Is it any wonder we're losing our culture?
You know what the Jesuits said?
I'm paraphrasing, but the Jesuits used to say, give us a child to the age of 12 and they are ours for life.
Well, the left knows that too.
Well, that's true.
But, you know, there used to be a day in this country where there were stay-at-home mothers, and I don't care, this is another point.
No one's raising a lot of the children today.
There used to be a time, some of the things they're teaching our children, you'd have had a group of stay-at-home mothers that knew what was going on with their children in the schools in one meeting at the school.
Well, you're just confirming what I'm saying.
Wherever it's coming from, there isn't any pushback.
Well, that's it.
I don't think the Republican Party and people in general, no one wants to be shot down or made to look one way.
But if you really believe this things, and I found the strength in it myself the other night, if you truly believe it, you can say it, and you don't care if you're laughed at.
You have to go in and just say it.
And trust me, there are plenty of people that believe this, and I believe it's still probably 50-50 in the country or close to these margins, that you might be able to convince that the extra 2% to 3% you need.
Well, wait a minute now.
Let's talk about that for a second.
What good does that do?
Let's say that the country is divided 53-47, but that division is stark and that there is no commonality between the two divisions.
Where are we as a country anyway?
In terms of what you're talking about, you're saying we've lost the moral code.
We've lost the moral backbone.
We've lost the moral foundation.
So where are we as a country?
Even if the morality side could muster a 3% majority victory, where are we as a country anyway with that great a division?
Well, that, I don't know.
I don't know how to answer that question.
I guess what I, if I can make my point in a roundabout way, I'll try to come around to it.
Feel free.
No, I'm not trying to argue with you.
I'm just hitting red buttons here for me that are expanding my fertile brain.
I am a conservative.
I'm no longer a Republican.
There was a time when I believed I was foolish that Republicans were always right.
I was a fool.
And I don't side with the majority of them.
I do with a few of them today.
I like Ted Cruz.
I like some of the people that are fighting for the freedoms.
Rehon Paul, sometimes I disagree on things, but you have to be able to speak because there comes a time, yes, you look like a fool, but there comes a time when the opposition that you're speaking against, that has the majority, especially when what they're trying to promote is so false, it will break down.
And when it breaks down, people will go back and say, hey, I remember this one saying that.
When I like what that was.
When's it like?
Well, I've got to take a break.
I don't have time to ask you.
I've been waiting for it to break down for 35 years.
And it's going down.
Nothing's breaking down.
That's the whole point.
We'll be back after this.
Hey, Claire, in Wilmington, I didn't have a chance to tell you, but don't change and keep it up.
It's going to be people like you who will engage in the pushback.
You described you have no fear at being laughed at.
Unfortunately, many people who push back get much more than laughed at.
They're targeted for destruction.
They're businesses, boycotts.
I mean, you name it.
So it ends up being much more than that.
And it becomes increasingly more difficult to do the more prominent you become.
But don't change.
Hang in, and we'll be back.
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