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Aug. 22, 2013 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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August 22, 2013, Thursday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 247 Podcast.
And greetings to you, music lovers, thrill seekers, conversationalists all across, the fruited plane, Il Rushmore and the EIB Network and the Limbaugh Institute for Advanced Conservative Studies.
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Well, folks, despite the best efforts of many, racial strife continues in this country, and sad to say that it is being sponsored.
It is being caused because there is the prospect of agenda advancement by the left when they engage in it.
Basically, just a summary of things here to start with.
We have the president of the United States just getting back from Martha's Vineyard's vacation.
What is he doing among many other things?
He's still trying to close the sale on Obamacare.
It passed years ago.
But the majority of the American people do not want it.
Pole after poll after polls, and I've got another Obamacare stack, and it's got some really fine good stuff in it today.
I don't know when I'm going to get to it, but I'm going to get to it before the program ends.
Don't miss it.
You still got the president out trying to sell Obamacare.
The vast majority of the American people do not want it.
Now there is a miraculous new poll out there of Republicans.
Not elected Republicans, Republican voters.
And it says in this poll that a majority of Republican voters do not want a government shutdown.
So whatever ammo the establishment Republicans need, they're able to provide for themselves.
And to send the message, see you Tea Party people, you're just a bunch of extremists.
We could be committing suicide if we if we do what you want us to do.
So meanwhile, Obama is still out trying to close the sale on a piece of legislation that has been the law of the land for two years.
It has never been popular.
The American people have never, by virtue of a majority supported it.
Out of the blue yesterday, former Vice President Al Gore pops up.
He is still trying to close the sale on man-made global warming.
His pitches, his sales pitch, rely on the perpetuation and the continuation of a hoax that has come to light and been exposed at numerous scientific outlets, such as the University of East Anglia in London, and Penn State and Michael Mann.
I mean, everywhere you look in the man-made global warming front, the evidence is abundant that they've that they've they've jimmied the data.
They have lied.
They have made things up to fit their premise.
And so Al Gore is out saying we're at I don't know how many times he said it.
He said it again, this is it.
We don't have another chance.
This is it, folks.
Imminent demise.
Imminent death.
It's over.
We've only got one more chance.
For 25 years I've been hosting this program, and every year I have heard Al Gore or others in the pro man-made global warming political camp say we've only got one more chance.
I have heard everything.
Here's my point.
Obamacare has been the law for two years and they're still selling it.
Obama is still running TV ads for it, still trying to close the sale.
The American people don't want it.
Al Gore still trying to close the sale on man-made global warming.
The majority of the American people now realize that if there is warming and there isn't, if there is, it isn't man-made.
They understand now.
Majority, it's getting close, realize this is a hoax.
We've had some of the most ridiculous explanations for the reason now why there has been no warming in the last 15 years.
They just figured it out.
Volcanoes.
Volcano burps.
Volcano belches, puts that filthy pollution stuff up there into the air, and it creates this mist, this haze, this cloud.
This may be the fog of depression that I've been talking about, but it keeps the searing rays of the sun from getting down to us.
They get reflected back into the atmosphere.
Volcano pollution.
Not car pollution.
No, car pollu car pollution and barbecue pollution cause global warming.
The volcano pollution is preventing warming.
Well, no, but it's not good pollution because it's accidental and we can't cause it and it's happenstance and it's going to end up going away.
At some point, we're going to clean up the volcano pollution, and all of a sudden, then we're going to start roasting again.
That's why we've only got one chance.
It used to be sand, remember, Sahara dust sand was the explanation for why there were no major hurricanes that hit the U.S. Now it's volcano dust.
The American people do not want these products.
These are products.
Obamacare man-made global warming.
These are elements of the Democrat Party agenda, folks.
Particularly health care, but so's Obamacare.
It's uh I mean, so so the whole global warming thing is nothing but a political movement.
It's not rooted in science.
It is said to be rooted in science in order to fool people.
It is said to have roots in science and to have its foundation and uh and proofs in in science, but there aren't any proofs.
There is no proof.
That's why it's an open question, but it is a political item.
It's a political agenda.
No different than any other item in the left's political agenda.
Here's what's frustrating to me, and I'll bet it is to you too.
Just using these two things as an example.
We are winning the policy debate.
We're winning the policy debate on amnesty.
The American people do not want amnesty.
In fact, you go down every item on Obama's agenda.
And practically everyone, if not every one of them, the American people oppose it.
And no, this is not another route for me to discuss the limbaugh theorem.
This is something else.
Every agenda item is opposed by the American people.
Obamacare.
Al Gore, man-made, global warming.
One last chance to save ourselves by going all socialist all the time.
We're winning the policy debates.
We're winning the debate on amnesty.
You know what our problem is?
We have nobody representing us.
The Republican Party is a wall.
The American people don't have a political party representing them anywhere.
The Republican Party right now is, for some reason, animated by its desire to become more like the Democrats.
The Democrats say you're not going to win unless you get the Hispanics liking you to the public and say, okay, fine, we'll soften on amnesty.
And we'll soften on whatever it is.
We'll tone down whatever it is you say they don't like about us.
Obama has not sold his agenda, folks, is my point.
Al Gore has not sold global warming.
The left has not created a functioning majority for any of their issues.
Now you you might be saying, well, wait a minute, Rush, Obama keeps getting elected.
Yet we've discussed that for all different reasons.
My point is because there is no opposition party that is opposing what's happening and representing a majority of the American people, people are losing faith in their country, not in Obama.
Why is if if Obama policies are so popular, if I'm wrong about this, why is there no robust happiness out there?
Among the American people, even Obama's supporters are part of the forever angry crowd.
There isn't anybody robustly happy out there.
Everybody's on edge.
Everybody's unhappy.
They're broke.
They can't get a job.
The only thing is, is that they're not blaming Obama.
They're losing faith in the country.
It's again, seems to me an ideal opportunity for a genuine alternative opposition movement or party to make a connection with millions of Americans who happen to, by virtue of majorities, disagree with the status quo, meaning the Obama and Democrat Party establishment.
The American people have spoken and are speaking.
And they're looking for representation in Washington.
They're looking for pushback.
The American people who oppose the Obama agenda can't find anybody or any representation in Washington that speaks for them.
It's not for a lack of looking.
And meanwhile, while all this is going on, the Republican Party sending out fundraising notes and requests and this kind of thing.
But people said, for what?
And I don't mean this as a as a typical rant against the Republican Party.
I'm just giving it a lay of the land here.
I find it amazing that the president still has to sell Obamacare.
Most most Americans don't want it.
I don't know why.
There isn't a political movement or party willing to connect to that opposition and go to town with it.
Same thing on global warming, same thing on amnesty.
Most amazing.
Now, of course, we know the reason it's Washington.
It's not Republicans and Democrats.
It's Washington versus the rest of the country.
Ruling class, country class.
I'm just giving you another illustration and way of thinking about it.
But it is very frustrating.
Now we've got a lot of other things in the news.
The president's spokesperson, this uh this guy sitting in for the spokes kid, Jake Carney's name is Josh Ernest.
He didn't even know about the shooting in Duncan, Oklahoma.
He didn't even know about it.
He said that Obama didn't know about it.
And there was a most amazing headline in a drive-by media website today.
Rush Limbaugh inserts race into story in Oklahoma.
I kid you not, Rush Limbaugh inserts race.
Who the hell inserted race in the Trayvon Martin George Zimmerman's when there wasn't any?
That was not a racial incident.
Who made it a racial?
This effort to divide this country however they can is well underway by the voters and the forces supporting Obama who led everybody to believe what they're really about is unity.
Let's take a timeout.
We'll come back.
Ladies and gentlemen, as you are well aware, by the way, welcome back.
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Now, over the course of the 25 years of this program, and particularly in the recent five years, most recent five Years.
You have heard me discuss the people who believe America was founded in an unjust and immoral way, and as such believe that America is illegitimate.
America is not a superpower.
And many of these people happen to be teaching your kids.
Many of these people happen to be professors in the academy, academe.
Many of them happen to be teachers.
In middle school and high school, many of them happen to work and live in Hollywood.
There are plenty of avi capitalist people laden with guilt who believe, and Obama, by the way, is one.
I'm I'm convinced that Obama and all of the fringe leftist extremists who support him really think this country's rotten to the core, that it's a myth almost, that the Constitution itself is a mistake, because it does not empower government enough.
Well, I have here, I'm holding in my formerly nicotine stained fingers a really long piece in the July 21st issue of New York magazine.
Here is the headline, and I'm not this thing prints out in microscopic font size to ten pages, and I am not going to read you all.
I don't even have to.
I'm just going to get you the nub it.
Now, this is New York magazine.
This is widely read in the influential centers of the Capitol of New York.
It's read in the upper west side of Manhattan, that this is going to be read in every newsroom.
Every editor, every producer will see this.
Everybody who thinks they're hip and cool in New York will read this.
And I dare say a vast majority of them will sign on to it and agree with it.
What if everything we have come to think of as American is predicated on a freak coincidence of economic history?
And what if that coincidence has run its course?
In other words, there is no real substance to the American foundation.
It's just happened because of the quirk of fate.
Certain elements in the world aligned at the right time, and it just happened.
Here is the thesis of this piece.
Everything positive about American success has been coincidence, and it's now over.
This is it.
Robert Gordon is the is the chief thinker in this piece.
He is a professor of economics at Northwestern University in Chicago.
He is a declinist.
He is one who believes in the decline of America.
He believes that it's needed, necessary, justified, and good.
Professor Gordon, according to New York magazine, very influential in intellectual circles, which is, of course, makes sense because American intellectuals love anyone or any theory that sneers at the foundational greatness of this country.
Anyone who sneers at the Founding Fathers, the founding, the Constitution Declaration is to be favored by the American intellectual elite.
Now Professor Gordon's theory that it was just an accident.
It was just free coincidence that things happened.
The right people were born at the right time, and the economic circumstances of the world, the king was behaving in a way that made it impossible for people to stay there.
They had to go somewhere else for freedom.
It just didn't happen because of any supremacy of ideas.
America is not the result of anything exceptional Or special, it's an accident.
It's a coincidence, and it has run its course.
It's over.
Now, this theory that Professor Gordon holds allows the ruling class, the intellectual class, the Democrat Party, if you will, to support the Limbaugh theorem, because one, America's success was just a blip.
This decline was inevitable.
It had to happen, and therefore, the biggie had nothing to do with Obama.
Nothing to do with Obama's policies.
Nothing to do with the failure of liberal policies.
This was ordained, just as the founding of this country was an accident.
Ten pages of supposed scholarship to back this up.
In New York magazine.
It's just getting worse.
You're guiding light through times of trouble, confusion, murkiness, tumult, confusion, absolute sickness.
And insanity, Rush Limbaugh here at the EIB network.
No, I'm I'm look, I'm not trying to depress anybody with this, but we are here in the arena of ideas.
I I want you to know what's going on out there.
And I doubt that many of you are going to come across New York magazine.
It's a pretty much local publication, does have some readership outside New York, obviously because of their website.
But this is nothing new, this anti-Americanism that exists in the academy.
It's nothing new.
Blame America crowd.
It isn't anything new that there are people hate America.
What is new is more and more average people outside the intellectual elite academs beginning to consider that it may be true.
Because everything's off the rails.
Nothing's going the way it should be going.
And it's so simple.
It's it it all of this is happening because of a particular party and its beliefs.
It's all happening because the Democrat Party and liberalism.
But for whatever psychological reasons, people are not the low information crowd, the people that voted for Obama who are unhappy.
I'm talking about them, not you.
The people that voted for Obama who just miserable are beginning to lose faith in the country.
And when those people then become vulnerable.
And they become ripe for seduction.
So here you have in the New York magazine a multiple-page essay from a Northwestern professor of economics, essentially saying, and then citing what he considers to be evidence that all this is just an accident.
Now they can't say act of God because they don't believe in God.
And I think, by the way, folks, the fact that they don't believe in God means that they're always searching for some meaning.
We've had the story earlier this week about the millennials.
They're looking for meaning, something solid they can grasp onto, put their arms around something that gives a reason for being alive, something gives a reason for following the rules, something that gives a reason for doing the right thing.
Why are we doing this?
Everybody's looking for meaning.
And if you don't have faith in things larger than you, if you don't have a religious faith, you're gonna grasp on to earthly things to believe in, and you're gonna become susceptible to people like this who I who are also are disdainful of religion.
And if you doubt me, just look at the way they make fun of Christians.
Making fun of Christianity and Christians is high sport in America today, and has been for a while.
So you have a number of circumstances in existence that in the old days this piece would remain in Cookville.
It would remain the exclusive province of the faculty lounge, and it would be talked about by people who brag about how much smarter they are than everybody else, but aside from them, nobody would ever run across it.
Well, I want to take you to the end of this long piece, because one of the things that's happening here.
Gordon's thinking that America's just an accident.
There's nothing special about.
In fact, it's not that there's nothing special about it.
In fact, it's it's it's it hasn't been good.
This confluence of events, this economic freak coincidence was really mean because it gave people ideas of what was possible.
It really aren't.
See, we're now declining back into what is reality.
Reality is misery, reality is paucity.
Reality is scarcity.
The abundance that has been the hallmark of America for the past 230 years, it's an exception, and it never was intended.
It can't ever be that way forever.
And it was just an accident.
So it all the good things, even the things that were good, are bad because they gave people false hope.
I'm giving you a brief summary of this perverted piece.
Robert Gordon, by the way, he's a graduate of Harvard.
He went to Oxford, he has a PhD in economics from MIT, and he's on the board of the National Bureau of Economic Research Group.
They are the people that tell us when recessions start and end.
The whole thing is a treatise of doom, gloom, apocalypse, negativism, as though that's what's normal.
The past 220 years, a freak accident of the universe.
And it's been really bad because it gave people a false impression of the possibilities of wealth, the possibilities of material acquisition, whatever.
He is a declinist.
We're now declining into a state of scarcity and misery, and that's what's normal.
And here at the end of the piece, Gordon has been getting, by the way, this piece, I should tell you, is the most emailed piece on the New York Mag website.
So as I mentioned, it's being distributed far and wide.
Every news producer and editor in New York is going to read this.
Every cable network, every newspaper is going to read this, and they're going to confirm what they believe.
And it's just going to solidify the notion in their minds this country sucks.
And it never has really been any good.
And it it whatever good did not happen because superior ideas are thinking it was all just accidental quirk of fate.
And I want you to know this, you've got to be prepared for this.
Here toward the end of the piece, Gordon has been getting emails from regular people who have learned something about his theory and who have been trying to make sense of the consequences.
He has a separate email box where they have accumulated, and he tries to reply to every email he gets.
The messages are more muted than you might think, more introspective from a Cincinnati investment manager.
There is no way productivity growth in the future will achieve the rate of the 60s, right?
from an attorney.
I have reached comparably pessimistic conclusions from a less rigorous analysis than yours.
From an activist in Rhode Island.
I strongly believe if we understand the end of growth and the end of prosperity, we can make provisions for the economy we actually have.
So he's getting email from ordinary people who are signing on to this and praising his brilliance and celebrating their own brilliance by virtue of the fact they agree with him.
And they're all making plans now for nothingness.
Scarcity.
Of the good times that were never real in the first place.
Gordon's recent work has been suffused with a sense of loss of the end of things.
In certain ways, these have also become the themes of his life.
He lives in Evanston, Illinois, in a grand house built in 1889, the second one in from Lake Michigan.
Gordon and his wife, a film scholar, bought the place 15 years ago and restored it, including the stables.
They don't have any horses.
And the extra rooms, though they have no children.
Gordon comes from a famous family of economists, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
Gordon's own father had grown up not well off in Baltimore, but once he started teaching at Berkeley, the family experienced its uh growing prominence and prosperity as a subset of the country's own.
One recent afternoon I met Gordon at his house.
We drove to lunch through Northwestern's main campus.
Around Gordon and me, bicycling across the quad, wandering half drunk into the streets, were the members of the first American generation who would be no more educated than their parents.
They're just saying here that students at Northwestern aren't gonna learn any more than their parents did.
That's good, by the way.
That's good.
We have to stop these unreasonably high expectations.
We've just got to get rid of.
He goes on to point out how many psychological problems in this country exist because too many people are trying to be things they'll never be.
And so there's nothing but rampant depression and disappointment when people realize how insignificant and unaccomplished they are, and they ought not feel that way because that's normal.
Most people aren't any good on anything.
Most people fail at everything, and these lofty expectations are nothing but poison.
It's the most emailed pie.
Now, it's apocalyptic, and those kinds of things are like magnets to people.
It's a it's a it's really infuriating piece.
It's infuri because it's it's it's entirely disproven by fact.
It's entirely disproven by history.
But you see, here's a guy, I don't know if he believes in God or not, but uh what happened in the founding days of this country is illegitimate.
The hatred that exists for this country is profound in these highly educated, elite intellectual circles.
And it's always been contained there.
But as I say, now it's now it's starting to spread out to uh average people.
And the reason why, the reason why is because after all of these years of liberalism, we're all becoming like Detroit.
I mean, what hope is there?
And so people want an explanation for things, especially if it's an explanation that enables them to not have to blame themselves.
Oh, really?
I'm a failure?
Well, guess what?
That's what we're all supposed to be.
I'm actually pretty good.
Because these I can you I can just hear it in the next five or six years getting calls from leftists on this program.
Nither Lembaugh, this this country that's always been this accident.
It was a quirk of fa you're gonna have acolytes pick this up, they're gonna become disciples of it.
And it's all gonna be believed in their heart, not in their minds.
Anyway, let's take a brief time out, my friends.
You sit tight.
We'll be back and continue after this.
Don't go away.
So when I was explaining and exerting parts of that recent story in New York magazine, I'm looking in there on the other side of the glass, and Snerdley just it just looks really depressed.
Normally he's angry and throwing stuff in there and gesticulating wildly bringing it.
So, what is the matter with you?
That's really depressing.
And I said, Well, I understand how it's depressing.
I could have rolled a dice.
I could have ignored this.
I could have not mentioned it, brought it up.
It does dovetail with what we've been discussing.
I'm intent here is not to depress anybody.
I want everybody prepared for what's out there and what's happening, what you're gonna be up against.
Um you're gonna go crazy trying to understand why they think this.
Like I I myself.
I know it's silly to say this, but I don't care.
I'm f I'm I'm entirely willing to be silly.
In my heart, I don't understand anybody born in this country hating it.
I just don't.
But if I step back and take my heart out of it and start thinking about it, then I can understand why say African Americans, depending on how they've been raised, might think there's nothing really great here about this country given slavery, but then my head my head would get back into it.
You even told me that once that you don't celebrate Fourth of July, because it's no big deal to you.
Doesn't matter.
Point is that this country is the first to go to war with itself to end it, and 500,000 people died.
We don't live in those days anymore, but yet the Democrat Party is trying to convince everybody we do.
And every incident that happens that can advance the agenda.
This is still a slave racist state, they will take and advance.
And that frustrates and disappoints people.
But, you know, in my heart, I don't know how anybody can hate this country intellectually.
You start thinking about it.
For example, this guy Gordon, I don't know him, this professor.
But I know how some of these elitist intellectuals think.
And you're going to laugh at this.
But don't.
You might ask, how could this guy look at the success that he's had?
Look at these degrees, look at his education, look at this big house that this story describes he lives in.
Look at his great wife that he's got.
He's got rooms that he doesn't use.
He's got stables but no horses.
What in the world is going wrong for this guy?
Why in the world is he down on the country that made all this possible?
One possible explanation is the founding cannot be just or good because he wasn't present.
He didn't have anything to do with it.
You folks, you think you know egomaniacs.
You don't know what an ego freak is until you run into a genuine intellectual superiorist and supremacist on a major college campus.
The founding couldn't have been any good.
Constitution, I didn't write it.
It couldn't be any good.
The declaration, I didn't say anything.
It's not worth anything.
Some of them actually think this way.
Others of them genuinely believe that this country's unjust and immoral because they hate capitalism.
They've got this silly.
We're trying to analyze things, impossible to analyze and explain because we're dealing with a sickness.
I think liberalism and the constant devotion to to time and time again, failure after failure after failure, is psychotic.
It's never worked.
Socialism, the drive to make everybody equal, this utopian quest has never happened.
It can't happen.
And yet, millions still seek it.
That's psychotic.
It's irrational.
And as such, there's no rational explanation for it.
This is why I've always said I don't care to understand these people, they are to be defeated.
And that's why I say, where is the Republican Party?
This stuff has to be defeated.
Don't get depressed, defeat it.
It has to be pushed back against.
Not accommodated.
We don't need to be polite in dealing with this kind of literal insanity.
To come up with a 10-page magazine story, claiming that all of that prosperity that everybody's known for 220 years was bogus.
All for one reason, to exempt the failure of Barack Obama and mask it.
All of this is to cover for the absolute incompetence of Barack Obama and the disaster that has been his presidency.
It's all for that.
Plus, they intellectually believe this crap to a certain degree.
Anti-Americanism is rife in the academy and the upper echelons, The intellectual elite.
But remember, these people on the left, they'll circle the wagon, and they will they'll they'll promote Dan Rather to the number one journalist in the world after he commits a fraud just to save the movement.
Well, here Obama is destroying.
I mean, his policies are wreaking havoc.
And so we gotta come up with an explanation that exempts him from any responsibility.
And that's what this essentially is, this New York Magpie.
No, I was installing the latest beta on my laptop last night, and it bricked it.
And I spent about four hours trying to fix it, and I gotta try something else when I get home.
It is nothing more depressing, and I had such high hopes.
And the thing is just bricked.
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