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Aug. 16, 2013 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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August 16, 2013, Friday, Hour #2
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Our last caller from Sacramento, California, Robbie.
Robbie was right on the money.
A big part of the American dream has always been upward mobility.
But upward mobility is being mocked.
Because it's unfair.
Because not everybody does it.
It's not tolerated.
It's not permitted because not everybody can.
It's Friday.
Let's keep rolling here, folks.
Live from the Southern Command in sunny South Florida.
It's open line Friday.
Open line Friday.
Talk about pretty much whatever you want.
Telephone number 800-282-2882, the email address, L Rushbow at EIB net.com.
I'll tell you what.
She was so right on the money that I'm jealous.
It is rare that a caller.
It's rare that anybody comes up with something that I haven't thought of myself.
But boy did she.
Her generation, she was she's heard me explain and talk about the this massive pessimism that has swept over millennials and uh well people in general, but young people particularly.
And this the depression, this this fog bank of pessimism that seems to be blanketing everybody.
And her point was, we're being told we got no choice.
If if my parents are alcoholics, I'm gonna be one.
I mean, if my parents are bipolar, I'm gonna be one.
Uh we have no free will.
We can't make anything of ourselves.
We're just we've got no choice.
There isn't any possibility to succeed.
We're hearing how rotten the country is.
We're hearing how unjust and unfair the country is.
There's no chance for us.
We keep hearing that the days of each generation doing better than its parents are over.
And she's right.
People are inundated with with a never-ending stream of pessimism and negativity from the Democrat Party, from the American media, and let's face it, probably quite a few people in general, because as we all know, pessimism is easy.
Negativism is easy.
Upward mobility is made fun of.
It's mocked.
Um now it's not even made possible.
Upward mobility is not even deemed possible.
And when it happens, it's unfair and unjust, and it's got to be something done about it.
Smartest kids in the class lower them so as not to humiliate the kids that aren't doing as well.
The left never seeks to elevate people to the highest level.
They take people who reach heights greater than the average and bring them down.
There's a reason for this.
As we have said before on this program, unlike Europe and the rest of the world, the U.S., if left to its own devices, if left alone, the American free market and capitalism are left alone, there would not be a permanent underclass in this country.
Permanent.
There are always going to be poor people because people are going to make the wrong choices.
You're always going to have people drop out of school.
You're always going to have people get pregnant at 15.
You're always going to have people get drugged up.
You're going to all kinds, but it isn't permanent or hasn't been.
But the Democrat Party needs a permanent underclass, folks.
There's always been an underclass, don't misunderstand, but it's never been permanent.
You can get out of it.
Make the right choices, you can get out of it.
Do the right things, you could get out of it.
Today's Democrat Party needs a permanent underclass.
And if they have to, they'll create one.
That's what amnesty is all about.
That's what immigration is all about.
A permanent underclass, low skilled, uneducated, low expectation people, happy to just be here and be taken care of.
And vote Democrat in gratitude.
Gratitude.
That's the name of the game today.
And if this sounds cynical, I'm sorry, it's your problem, because I've just telling you the truth.
Because they need the Democrat Party, because they want a permanent underclass, they have done everything they can to make sure people that are in the underclass stay there.
They want to make sure that if you're in the underclass, you're stuck there.
And of course, this carries over to everybody else.
Everybody in the underclass must stay there.
You don't get out of it.
And that has slopped over to everybody else, even people in the lower middle class and the middle class.
Everybody's told you're stuck right where you are.
You cannot improve yourselves.
Those days are over.
And it's not fair, by the way, that some people should improve themselves while you don't, because the left thinks fairness equals equality of outcome.
And so they convince people that they should turn their lives over to them.
They'll make it fair for them.
They'll make the outcomes equal, and nobody will have any more than anybody else, and everybody will be humiliated, and you'll never you won't be envious or jealous because nobody will have any more, except celebrities.
They will.
And athletes, but that's okay because you'll never be one of those.
And you know it.
All of this is relatively new.
Relatively new.
The United States never was a country that even talked about class.
Because there was mobility throughout our culture.
People were moving into and out of various economic classes all the time.
Rich people would lose everything.
People who had nothing would hit it big.
There was all kinds of flux and mobility and people moving in and out of various levels of economic accomplishment or achievement.
Class was never taught in schools.
But now you cannot have a class that doesn't teach class warfare.
Now you can't have an election that doesn't feature class warfare.
Now we have an entire political party and political movement which is devoted to class warfare and creating resentment, pessimism, defeatism, and hatred among the lower classes.
People in the lower class are told that they're there because what they used to have has been stolen from them.
And the people who are whatever you call the rich, the achieved, or whatever, they're thieves.
They're cheats, they're liars.
And money used to be yours.
Has prosperity used to be yours, you're told, but they took it.
How?
They got tax cuts from Reagan.
Reagan gave them tax cuts, and that's how they got your money.
Bunch of mean, selfish, greedy rich people.
Your money, they have it because of tax cuts.
And the people who hear this, eager for somebody other than themselves to blame, eat it all up.
That's right, Mabel.
The rich stole everything I had.
Reagan did it with tax cuts.
That's why we got to always oppose tax cuts for the rich.
That's how they keep the money that they took from us.
I ain't lying, folks.
Robbie in Sacramento was exactly right in school before the multiculturalists got hold of the curriculum.
Christopher Columbus used to be remembered for actually not just for discovering America, but because he refused to become a saddle maker like his father and his father before him.
One of the things that I was taught about Columbus, it wasn't just that he bravely set out for what everybody thought was the end of the world, the flat world.
He was brave and courageous and all that, but he could have been a saddle maker.
Today, Christopher Columbus is portrayed as a racist, sexist bigot who introduced racism, sexism, environmental destruction, bigotry, anti-gay attitudes, and all that disease by conquering and polluting what was a pristine paradise where the Indians lived.
Columbus came and took everything they've got, took everything they had.
Now look at what he's remembered for.
Abraham Lincoln was held up on a pedestal.
Lincoln showed that a person could literally come from nothing and become president of the United States.
These lessons are not taught today.
Young people are taught just the opposite.
The hopes and dreams and aspirations of young people today are being stomped on order to perpetuate the myth that the American dream is dead, that you cannot improve your lot in life.
Evil rich people, more than likely Republicans, have taken everything.
And so what we're doing now, we're getting it back from them.
We're going to take it from them.
We're going to take what you used to have, even though you don't remember ever having it, because you never did really have it, but you're told that you did.
Right on.
You stick it to them.
You let them find out what it's like.
This is the kind of hatred, class warfare, and envy that is taught today.
The hopes, the dreams, the aspirations of people are suppressed, stomped on, denied, laughed at, made fun of.
Can't have young people thinking they could move upward.
So we have to mock yuppies.
We have to mock the successful.
We have to make fun of people who take life seriously.
They have to be nerds or something.
We have to make sure that they are viewed in derision, not respect.
We have to make sure that the successful are maligned and impugned as thieves.
Uncaring, selfish brutes.
You don't want to be one of those kind of people anyway.
Celebrities and athletes are treated so special.
Because that's how you're supposed you live your silly dreams vicariously through them.
Go on Facebook and pretend you're on the red carpet.
Tweet and follow a celebrity and pretend that you live in that world.
Turn on eentertainment TMZ and pretend that that could be you someday.
But it never will be.
Because you can't be that.
Newt Gingrich the other day said, the Republicans don't have an alternative to health care.
They're not a one of them.
Nobody.
They shouldn't be talking about defunding it.
There's no alternative.
Would somebody, you know, I want to get back to basics.
Would somebody tell me where in the Constitution it says we're entitled to that?
My Constitution doesn't say anything about me being entitled to health care.
And certainly it doesn't say that you have to pay for it.
My understanding when I grew up was that if you didn't go to school, if you dropped out, if you didn't try, if you had babies, if you became an alcoholic, if you basically lived your life like a piece of debris, that your life was going to be pretty bad.
Because those were choices that you made that were not the best ones you could make.
In fact, not they're not the best choices, they were poor.
And not just me, most everybody my age growing up was told that.
You make those kind of choices, and your life is going to be really bad.
Your life is going to be really sad.
You're going to be very disappointed.
You're not going to amount to anything if you make those choices.
So don't do it.
Those simple words don't do it.
They're made fun of.
They're mocked.
Easy for you to say, Limbo.
But if you make certain choices, your life is gonna suck.
By the same token, make the right choices, you've got a chance.
But now the choices don't even exist.
Kids are being told they don't even have the choice.
So go ahead and have the babies and go ahead and do the drugs and go ahead and have the booze and go ahead and drop out of school.
Because over here is SSI and food stamps and unemployment for 99 weeks, and over there's a cell phone, and over there is a flat screen.
And you can watch TV all day long if you want, and pretend that you're Arod or whoever you want to be.
But now the choices don't even exist in people's minds.
The sad thing is they do.
The sad thing is these millennials have just as much choice as you and I did.
They have a shrinking economy they have to deal with.
But if they could get their minds right, if they were educated, informed properly, they could do things for themselves that would reverse the direction this country is going.
They could start voting for the right people.
Or they could at least start not voting for the wrong people.
But I would submit that kids today are virtually encouraged to make bad choices because they're going to end up in that permanent underclass the Democrat Party needs.
Remember, the word is permanent.
Europe has always had one.
We never have until the modern era of the Democrat Party.
We've always had an underclass.
But it's never been permanent until now.
But it doesn't have to be over.
Quick timeout, it's open line Friday, Rush Limbaugh back and to your calls again after this.
Let me ask you another question.
Related to all this.
Why do we give kids condoms?
Why have we spent all of these years teaching them how to use them with cucumbers and bananas or whatever?
Why have we been obsessed with giving kids condoms?
Why, in other words, have we been obsessed with encouraging a behavior that equals a bad choice?
Why?
And then when people object to it, the left said, but it's sex, Rush, and it's kids, and you can't stop them.
They're going to do it.
So we need to make it as safe as we can.
Who says you can't stop it?
We never used to have this kind of illegitimacy in this country.
We never used to have 73% of the babies born without a father Around it never happened before.
Not until you people came along.
What do you mean we can't stop it?
What do you mean we can't teach kids who don't know anything because they haven't been alive long enough right from wrong?
And the answer always was, you don't have the right to determine what's right and wrong, Rush.
Well, what about good old-fashioned morality that served us for centuries?
It's your morality, Rush.
You can't impose yours on other people.
So there became no wrong.
And there became no right to proclaim wrong.
There was only whatever choice the kid wanted to make, we were going to facilitate it.
So the left has actually participated in young people destroying their lives.
Why are we talking about legalizing drugs, by the way?
Looky here.
Here is Fox News now playing Ashton Kutcher's comments when he was receiving the uh the Teen Choice Award Sunday night.
Now I want to let me go back to that because it fits right in here.
Here's Anderson Cooper, who said a number of things in his acceptance for his award on Sunday Night Teen Choice Awards.
And among the things he said was that uh there was never a job he had that was that he was better than I spent an hour analyzing and and really uh hyping and supporting the comments that he made.
Now it's all over the place.
Fox is doing it with guest analysts and so forth.
The Hollywood reporter did a story on it.
A number of people are trying to figure out why I did.
They think I would hate Ashton Kutcher.
They can't believe that I said good things about it.
Can't believe it's just it's it's amazing.
But Ashton Kutcher, and he's not a millennial, but he's close to it.
Apparently he never believed that he didn't have any choices.
And there's a there's a fascinating story, uh, ladies and gentlemen, in the Wall Street Journal today that dovetails with precisely what I'm uh talking about.
Troubled teens make more successful entrepreneurs.
And let me just give you this in a nutshell.
It's a study from the National Bureau of Economic Research.
These are the people who decide when we're in a recession or not.
That's who they are.
The National Bureau of Economic Research, and they have found, through exhaustive research and study, that kids who engage in risky behavior, even if it's illegal, go on to become entrepreneurs even more often than kids who play by the rules.
Now this story is ripe for being misunderstood.
The story is not urging destructive behavior.
This story is talking about kids who do not accept that they have no choices.
This story's talking about kids who do not accept that their lot in life is predetermined.
These are kids that get in trouble because they behave outside the norms of the formulas of today that have been set up.
And this story goes on to show that those teenagers end up more often than not becoming successful entrepreneurs.
Here's an excerpt from the piece.
Of course you have to be smart, says one of the authors of the study, but it's a unique combination of breaking rules and being smart that helps you become an entrepreneur.
That's precisely what Steve Jobs was talking about, and I am convinced that portraying jobs in this movie, jobs that opens today, had a profound impact on Ashton Kutcher.
I I don't think there's any question that it did, because that describes jobs.
This movie, by the way, they they they sent me a uh a closed caption copy of it.
And Catherine is not around, she's out of town.
She's waiting, I want to watch that with you.
I want to so I I just watched enough of it to be able to tell you that in my estimation it it it covers not the full life of Steve Jobs.
It starts from the the founding days of Apple up through being fired by John Scully, who's brought jobs brought in from Pepsi to uh run the place.
I think it does a pretty good job in the way it tries of depict jobs.
It's it's uh if you don't know anything about jobs, or if you're confused about him, this might be a good movie for you to watch and and and start getting a basic understanding of it.
Clearly Ashton Kutcher was affected by it by playing jobs, by learning about the guy, uh in order to play him in this in this in this movie, which opens today.
And uh if not if you are a student of jobs, I think this movie has an impossible task uh with certain members of the audience.
Steve Jobs is a hero to so many people, and there are people that know more about Steve Jobs than he knew about himself.
There are people that are so devoted to jobs that they know more than he's forgotten things, or he forgot about things.
And I don't think any movie could satisfy these people, because you can't cram into two hours or whatever this is.
The Steve Jobs story.
So there are going to be some people who just have devoted every waking moment to learning everything they can about Steve Jobs, who are gonna think that the movie doesn't tell what they want people to know about him.
But if you if you have a peripheral knowledge and a curiosity, this would be great flick for you to get a flavor of the of the guy.
Um critics of people who know say that you could read all kinds of opinions, but basically that Kutcher did a good job in capturing a number of the mannerisms and speech patterns and personality of uh of Steve Jobs.
But I find it fascinating now.
We spent a couple of days ago an hour on this, and Snerdley just told, oh, yeah, it's viral now.
Everybody is analyzing Ashton Kutcher's remarks.
Yeah, the audio of what?
I'm just the oh I'm sorry, the audio of what do we have.
Oh, oh, well, we've already played the audio of Kushner.
I thought there was new audio.
Thanks very much.
But uh we played the audio earlier.
I just see this is what I mean, folks, when I tell you cutting edge of societal evolution.
The Hollywood Reporter piece is viral too now.
But see, they're one of the read the Hollywood Reporter piece.
They were they were having trouble.
They they they think I hate everybody in Hollywood.
They they couldn't believe I was praising Ashton Kutcher.
You can just read that.
You d they were they were flummoxed.
That's why it's amazing.
The people who do not listen to this program who think they know who I am, what I am, and what happens here.
I know I know how it happens.
I mean, I I know the power of the media to influence.
I understand all of that.
It still, though, amazes me.
You can still get a radio anywhere and listen.
It's not as though you need a password and a decoder ring to listen to the program.
It's not as though only certain liberal critics can listen and tell people what they heard here.
But it also tells me that there's a whole audience of people doesn't know how the left operates today, that they do not understand that the left has as a purpose the discrediting, the impugning, the destruction of people that disagree with them.
They think they're getting objective analysis of what happens on this program when they're not.
So these people are writing these stories about my reaction to Kutcher literally are confused because it goes so against what they think happens on this program.
And I know you people run into this.
You listen to it frequently every day, you encounter people who don't, and you can't you you can't believe what they do not understand and what they misunderstand.
And the reason is it's so easy to listen to this program and figure out what happens here.
And yet people think they know all about it without having to do that.
At any rate, um I that's it.
Pretty much said what I wanted to say about about all of this.
Um because it it's it's it's criminal what's being done to young people today.
The mindset that's being created for them.
They don't have a chance.
They don't have a choice, they don't have a future.
So many things predestine a life of misery for them.
And it's all because of liberalism.
It's all because a political party needs a permanent underclass of dependents voting for them.
And actually, I tell you, I uh in an extreme manner, it's a crime against humanity what the left is doing to people.
They're destroying their lives, they're taking their future away from them.
They're perpetually depressing them.
They're just overwhelming them with hopelessness and misery.
All for their own benefit.
Just the the the human potential that these people are killing.
Very serious problem.
Okay, your phone calls on the other side when we get back.
Open line Friday, Rush Limbaugh Raleigh, North Carolina.
This is Paul.
It's great to have you, sir.
Hi.
Well, it's an auto rush.
I gotta ask you a question.
On the 25th anniversary show, you replayed the interview with the 100-year-old grandfather pops.
Yes.
Was that replay also a way to let your critics know that there's longevity in your family and you'll be around a lot longer than the two to three years they said you'd be gone?
You know, I like the way you think out there, Paul.
They um this this program's been a fad for 25 years.
Just uh two weeks ago, the politico and others were speculating that this program would be finished.
Uh New York Times speculating this program would be over in two to three years.
That that's about all that I had left.
Today, by the way, they're very disappointed.
Actually, starting last night, the couple of news stories leaked, and I'm not going to comment on yet, but they're out there, and they are really in the drive-by media very sad and disappointed today, and hoping that the leaks that they ran into last night are wrong.
But they're really uh I mean, politico, just on July 28th, it was over for me.
And then they had to run a story today saying, up, up.
Um was there a subtle subliminal type message that I'm not going anywhere?
Could be, I'll never tell.
I've always said I guess the first year I was doing this program when being asked by people, both in the media and out, how long you want to do it.
As in my first year, they're already calculating when I'm gonna quit.
I said, I'll know.
It'll be real easy to know.
They said, what's that?
What's that?
How will you know?
How would you know?
When I wake up and don't care what I'm seeing in the news.
If that happens for a consistent period of time, like a month or two, then I'll know.
And then I'll make a decision.
Do I want to chuck it or fake it?
And come in and act like I care when I don't.
And that'll be the decision I have to make.
But I'll know.
It's real simple.
If I don't care, if I get up and look at the news and I go, I don't care, I really don't care.
I don't want to talk about it, I don't care, I don't care what anybody thinks about it, I don't care, then I'll know.
And then I'll calculate how many years could I fake caring and get away with it.
If went out snerdly saying I had one of those days Monday.
I didn't say that what was that was it this is a fine point difference.
I didn't say that I don't care.
I said there's not there was nothing worth talking about that day, but I had I you know nothing interested me but never that didn't foreclose Tuesday so Snerdly is shouting at me that I did a good show on Monday even though nothing interested me.
So his point is you don't have to care.
You can still do it and be good.
Yeah but then would I want to have you ever had to act like you care about something when you don't if you're married all if you're in a relationship it doesn't have to be married.
Oh, Why do I put myself in these situations anyway I'm just kidding.
Appreciate the call very much here Joe in Memphis great to have you on open line Friday.
Hello hey Rosh this is a great treat.
I've been listening to you since 1994.
Thank you very much.
Appreciate that that's a long time I mean that's in the very beginning.
Yeah right at the uh uh re Republican revolution yeah yeah this is great I uh you had a caller last week uh seven I believe he's about seventeen that uh called and asked your uh asked what life was like in the eighties for you and it really struck a chord with me because I work with a lot of teenagers and uh I was a teenager in the eighties and I had some observations that uh I wanted to uh share with you.
Sure, fire away.
I remember because there was a young guy that called and he he wasn't alive and we hear he hears all of us who were alive talking about the eighties and how great Reagan was and he wanted evidence.
You know what was it like?
So I I you know gave him a couple things off the top of my head and that's what you want to add to right?
That's right.
Yeah, I know exactly what you mean about this fog.
I do sense that.
And in the 80s, I had this exact opposite feeling.
I've been working since I was 15, and a pattern started to emerge.
When I went to a job, I would think, okay, what does this business owner want, and how can I facilitate that?
And usually within three or four months of any job I had, I was being promoted, and I was being given more responsibility.
And at some point, There was a movie that came out called The Dead Poets of that really profoundly influenced me.
That was Robin Williams, right?
The guy with all the hair on his arms.
Robin Williams?
Robin Williams, but it was a really excellent movie.
It was all about carpe diem, seize the day, don't waste your life.
And so I began to think, well, I feel like I don't necessarily need to work for anybody.
I want to work for myself.
And really, since I was about 20 years old, I've always worked for myself.
And there was just a real, I'm not going to pretend I was real political in the 80s, but when I looked at Ronald Reagan, every time he appeared, I felt...
good, and I just assumed this is what presidents were like.
I thought, well, a president motivates, a president inspires.
It wasn't until years later that I realized how truly unique he was, but there was just a real sense of possibility, and I was just greatly affected by that.
I even think it was a real conservative era, and I think culturally, conservatism and prosperity really promote unity.
I mean, I remember the Cosby show was one of my favorite shows.
It was one of the biggest shows on TV, and
there you had um you know an African American show you know what the Cosby show today you let the civil rights coalition get hold of the Cosby show today and they'd call everybody in at a sellout yeah I Reagan had this ability just made people feel good about the country and about themselves and the uh and the future and that doesn't that that doesn't exist today.
I mean even Obama's Fans are depressed.
Even Obama's supporters are part of this malaise.
I mean, even the people that love Barack Obama are not happy.
Which is a phenomenal thing to me, but I know that it's true.
Okay, folks, that's it.
Another exciting hour.
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