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Aug. 26, 2013 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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August 26, 2013, Monday, Hour #3
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Just as promised, here we are back at it.
Rush Limbo serving humanity behind a golden EIB microphone.
Happy to have you here.
Telephone numbers 800 282-2882 and the email address L Rushmore at EIB net.com.
And I've had several staff members jump into my chili, disagreeing with me rather frantically when I said that there has been very little improvement in race relations.
Since Martin Luther King's speech pointing out that I okay, if I'm wrong, then I guess we'll hear all the progress detailed uh on Wednesday when they speak.
That's right, they need it miserable, and they're going to continue to say it's miserable, but it but I what do you cite?
School choice as an approvement is being defeated practically everywhere it succeeds.
In fact, the president canceled it in Washington.
It's it's not popular with the black community.
It's popular with a few percentage points of the black community.
School Choice is.
When they get it, they love it.
Okay, well, my point is that the fact that we even need a program like School Choice is evidence of the decline in racial harmony.
You go back to talk to Thomas Sowell, who can tell you what it was like living in a black family in Harlem in the 50s.
Go back, you know, the recent advent of the single mother, 73% of black babies born into a single parent household.
That has been since Dr. King.
It wasn't that way when he made his speech.
Nuclear family was relatively intact.
Uh it was it was relatively church going and so forth.
I mean, I I I don't see it.
We've got the election of the first black president.
Some people thought that heralded great progress.
In in African American, well, no, but I'm talking forget his policies.
I'm talking about the attitudes in the country.
Even there I've got stories today about how the country's more racially divided today than it was when he was elected, and everybody half the people that voted for the guy voted to end racial strife.
The exact opposite happened.
So I Snerdley is telling me that the civil rights movement was a success because they have their civil rights and they can vote and they can live where they want to live.
They can't think what they want to think.
And I'm looking, I'm not.
I know that the Democrats were the segregationists, and I know that the civil rights that were denied, I know they still are, that the civil rights that were denied were denied by Democrats.
I understand all of that.
And uh but I'm just in day-to-day, everyday life.
I I don't I don't I don't see the vast improvement that Dr. King stood for.
Just well, maybe I'm not saying it's completely bleak, but I'm just you, you want to talk about success.
You're gonna you're talking about spots uh here and in Okay.
All right.
The point has been advanced here that if one leaves a blue city, then one sees less racial strife.
So if you end up uh well, uh pick a red state, any red state, you're going to see less racial strife than there was 50 years ago, and certainly less than there currently is in a blue state.
And so the point is being made here.
I get it.
Whatever racial strife I don't disagree with this.
Whatever racial strife exists is due almost exclusively to liberal Democrats who profit from it.
Did Dr. King profit from it?
Was that his objective?
That was not his long-term object.
I didn't think so.
His long-term objective was not to profit from racial strife.
He was he was serious when he made that speech.
And he was his dream speech, content of character, that's right.
He was not a race hustler.
He was not a race hustler.
But his uh, what do you call them?
Uh his heirs.
Well, not his.
The people who have presumed to take over the movement.
I'm sorry, they're not him.
And they're they're not even close.
Anyway, you'll see it on Wednesday.
You watch, you watch.
This this whole thing on Wednesday is going to end up being about Obama's presidency, not Martin Luther King.
The Martin Luther King anniversary is the reason for Obama to be there.
But it isn't.
You wait till Obama describes it.
I guarantee you're you're going to get a litany of well, I don't.
I've said enough.
We'll know whether or not my prediction comes from.
I don't want to get in debating specifics, but you just you wait and see what he does with that opportunity.
It's what he does with every opportunity.
Make it about him and uh in his presidency.
And there'll be a lot in that speech about the 2014 midterms.
And voting rights, there'll be all these stories of struggle and travail and denial of rights.
Oh, you're gonna you're gonna drown in it.
And if you think that there has been any progress in race relations in this country, by the time Obama finishes on Wednesday, you won't think so.
And by the time Clinton finishes, I mean, what you'll realize is after Clinton finished that when he was president, there was a lot of progress in it maybe but since then it has been enough.
And it's all been rolled back.
Then you have Jimmy Carter up there.
I mean, these are genuine icons of the Jim Crow era, or at least they're mentors.
So I I think you'll have the number one name, make a note on this.
Here's the number one name that will be mentioned from the steps of the Lincoln Memorial on Wednesday.
Trayvon Martin Luther King.
That will be the number one name.
Trayvon Martin Luther King.
Just like this past Sunday was on the Sunday shows.
The topic, Trayvon Martin Luther King.
And of course, me.
Let me jump off of this.
We've got some of your phone calls, and I've got I've got uh I think ten.
Maybe see eight, nine remaining sound bites of the seventeen that mentioned me today.
The story that is a actually a post here from the University of Notre Dame.
And my guess is that a number of you are gonna find this fascinating.
It's about parenting.
Modern parenting may hinder brain development, according to research.
Let me explain.
Says here that social practices and cultural beliefs of modern life are preventing healthy brain and emotional development in our children, according to an interdisciplinary body of research presented recently at a symposium at Notre Dame.
Darcia Narvez, the Notre Dame professor of psychology, who specializes in moral development in children and how early life experiences can influence brain development, said life outcomes for American youth are worsening, especially in comparison to 50 years ago.
Now, I love the lingo that psychiatrists use.
Life outcomes for American youth are worsening.
What she means here is that life for kids today, the kids are not amount, the kids are not amounting to much.
And she professes to have reasons here.
And here they are.
Ill-advised practices and beliefs have become commonplace in our culture.
Ill-advised practices and beliefs.
What are some of these ill-advised practices?
Well, one of them is the use of infant formula.
Another one is the isolation of infants in their own rooms, and the belief that responding too quickly to a crying baby will spoil it.
Those things are all having negative impacts on our children.
This new research links certain early nurturing practices to specific healthy emotional outcomes in adulthood.
And it has many experts rethinking some of our modern cultural child rearing norms.
For example, breastfeeding infants, responsiveness to crying, almost constant touch, and having multiple adult caregivers are some of the nurturing ancestral parenting practices that are shown to positively impact the developing brain, which not only shapes personality, but also helps physical health and moral development.
The new movement away from breastfeeding, she's got a number here, only 12% of mothers' breastfeed.
I think I read that here somewhere.
Anyway, a lack of breastfeeding and the fact that there's not much touch.
Babies are in strollers rather than being carried.
They're in car seats rather than being held.
They're in playpins.
There's less and less human contact, human touch.
That is part of child rearing today.
Now, some of that I would posit to you is the result of feminism.
And the idea that husbands are predators, men are predators in Bruce, and you really can't trust them with their little kids.
Never know what might happen.
So they're in strollers, they're in car seats, uh, play pens.
There are not multiple caregivers actually touching, holding, caring for babies.
There's not nearly enough breastfeeding, again, no contact.
And there are not enough multiple caregivers.
Studies show that responding to a baby's needs, i.e., not letting a baby cry itself out.
Apparently there's a movement out there that when a baby starts crying, let it go, just let the baby cry it out, get used to it, get over it on its own.
Don't pick it up, don't nurture it because that is said to be spoiling it.
This psychiatrist says, no, do not let a baby cry it out.
Pick the kid up.
Transfer concern, try to comfort the baby.
That's not happening nearly enough anymore.
She says doing that has been shown to influence the development of conscience.
Not doing it leads to no conscience.
Positive touch affects stress reactivity and impulse control and empathy.
Free play in nature influences social capacities and aggression, and a set of supportive caregivers beyond the mother alone can predict IQ and ego resilience as well as empathy.
Meaning that a child who is comforted and touched and held and has multiple human contact is going to have a higher IQ and much better resilience to attacks on their uh self esteem.
Much better if rather than kids is left alone, not touched, always in the stroller, always in the playpen, always in some kind of carrier, but rather than being actually carried.
And she says the United States has been on a downward trajectory on all of these care characteristics.
Instead of being held, infants spend much more time in carriers, car seats, and strollers than they did in the past.
Here it is, only 15% of mothers are breastfeeding at all by 12 months.
Extended families are broken up, and free play allowed by parents has decreased dramatically since 1970.
And that's probably true.
I mean, people are so afraid of what the kids are going to encounter in free play.
Play dates have replaced free play, for example.
And that's true.
I never heard of a play date until I got to New York.
A woman I knew was a arranged a play date with Leslie Stahl's kid somewhere in Central Park.
So, what the hell is a play date?
Well, call them up and you arrange a period of time for the kids to get together and play.
Oh, I'd never heard of that.
We just went out of the house and played.
I just thought it was modern play evolution.
Now, this is a female psychiatrist at the University of Notre Dame who is uh making this case.
I'm I'm unaware of all this.
I'm not around infants and people who raise them.
Is there a movement now to let the babies just cry it out before you uh offer condolence or assistance or comfort?
Okay.
Nobody in here wants to profess to know any of this stuff.
And I clearly don't.
But I just I nevertheless I found this fascinating because the whole thing here is about how brain development is hindered.
And remember, too, folks, one of the relative aspects of this is that conservatism is whether this is good or bad, is something that requires a little thinking to get.
Liberalism is easy.
Liberalism is just it's one of the most gutless choices you can make.
And and because you don't have to do anything about anything.
You just have to feel bad about things, and you are qualified.
You are an accredited liberal if you can make everybody think you really feel bad about bad things.
You don't have to fix them, and you don't have to do anything.
You don't have all you have to do is demand that somebody else fix it, or act like it needs to be fixed, or act like you're greatly pained by it and you're a great liberal.
But you don't have to do diddly squat.
But on the other hand, conservatism proposes real solutions that require being thought about.
The sad reality is that most out to me.
Let me put it this way.
Friend pointed out to me.
If people in the in in sales responded to intellectual appeals instead of emotional, do you think they'd sell the same amount of stuff?
No way, is the simple answer.
And conservatism is an intellectual approach.
So this study is done under the well, I'm a attaching here the guys that if we don't raise babies able to think, we don't have a chance.
Bottom line.
I don't know.
I don't know if I'm gonna get these uh eight remaining sound bites in.
I'm gonna try, but we've only got a half hour.
I mean, I just I couldn't do all 17 in a wham-bam, thank you, ma'am style.
I just couldn't do it because I wouldn't be able to just not comment on them as they went by.
And I need to put them in context, so we'll we'll try.
But need to take some telephone calls as well.
We go to Lafayette and Deanna.
This is Barry.
And I'm glad you waited, sir.
It's great to have you here.
Hi.
Well, I swear to what an honor to have an opportunity to speak with you, but I've got to tell you, I behemotely disagree with your contention that you don't have power.
The power you have is based on the ideas that you talk about every day on your radio show.
And it's the power of those ideas in the arena of ideas that makes those in the liberal media so frightened of you.
It makes those in the liberal government of Obama so concerned about what you say.
It's because Obama and those in the liberal class cannot find a way to refute the conservative ideas that you talk about every day on the radio.
And after all, I mean, our nation is founded on an idea set of ideas.
And that's what's made the nation so powerful.
It's unlike any other country in the world.
And it's those very ideas that are at their core conservative, that have made it possible for the nation to rise to the level where it is today.
And it's the basis of those ideas that so many people from around the world want to come here and live here because of.
And so I I really disagree with you.
I don't do this very often, Russian.
I've been listening to you since 1990.
Yeah.
And I can tell you that it's it's your ideas that make me keep coming back, and it's your ideas that when liberals actually tune in and listen and think that they more often than not realize that they really at heart are at heart conservatives.
Okay.
Now, I thank you very much for that, and I appreciate it.
And in the context in which you express it, I agree.
Um I should have uh I I know that ideas are powerful things.
That's why I believe in them.
That's why I want to I actually do want to triumph in the arena of ideas.
I don't want to have to buy people.
I don't want to have to give them things in order for them to support me.
That maybe I didn't make that clear.
I I wasn't asking for that.
I was trying to be a l illustrative.
I was talking about in terms of the kind of power Obama has.
I don't have any of that, really.
I mean, I can't Obama has supporters that simply exist because he's bought them.
He has he's Santa Claus to so many people.
And all I was saying was I don't have the kind of power to implement my ideas as he has the power to implement his.
I don't have the power to cut people's taxes.
I don't have the power to raise taxes.
I don't have the power to commit your kid or anybody else's to Afghanistan or Iraq or anywhere else.
I don't have that kind of power.
And yet, in these sound bites, I am analyzed as though I am in that arena with that kind of power, and I'm losing, or I'm the reason that Obama is stymied.
I'm not when I say I don't have any power, I'm I know that's insulting to all of you if you if you take it the way you analyzed it, but I simply meant the power to implement my ideas with the wave of a wand or the snap of my fingers, the intimidation of a couple members of Congress.
I can't do that.
Well, I take that well.
Uh that maybe the case could be made that has happened in the past, but still I'm nowhere near the kind of power that any president has, particularly one willing to buy his support.
Well, that's probably true, Rush, but the difference and the reason all of these liberal media outlets are citing you as being the problem is because the power of your ideas are really what they fear.
And that's that's realistically the cause that Obama has used as a basis for bringing you up.
It's because I really truly believe that at the end of the day, uh the ideas that you so clearly uh bring forward in your three hours on the air every day are the things that the liberals fear others hearing.
Well, I don't disagree with that at all.
I think that's I think that's exactly I think it's why I've been demonized.
No, no, you're you're absolutely EIB is is ideas without borders.
That's right.
That's absolutely correct.
And it's ideas that don't classify people, and they're ideas that don't put people into uh different categories or or make them feel inferior.
I mean conservative ideas are the ideas that really outlift people at the end of the day.
That's exactly right.
And that's what this is all about.
And I look at I really uh really appreciate your clarification of this and your analysis.
I don't I don't disagree.
I was I was not putting myself down, nor was I saying I'm irrelevant.
I was simply trying to maybe I was maybe my perspective a little bit too personal.
But here's how I'm looking at this.
I'm a guy on the radio from noon to three Eastern three hours a day, and I am commented on by the media as though I am in the same ballpark in the same business as elected officials, including the president.
My power is placed next to his.
He says I'm the reason he can't move his agenda.
The media accepts that, takes it forward, and proceeds to rip me and so forth, never mentioning his policies, never mentioning the destruction on the economy, on health care, on jobs, on home values that his policies have caused.
So I just find it amazing.
And the reason that that happens is exactly what you said, the power of the ideas expressed here.
That's the threat.
Because they know that if millions of people would end up being exposed to the ideas as expressed here, they'd have a problem.
Tony in Atlanta, great to have you.
You're next in the Rush Limbaugh program.
Hi.
Hey, Rush, how are you doing today?
Good, sir.
Thank you.
I was commenting about what you said about the Martin Luther King thing, and I agree with what you said.
And I just feel that the dream has turned into a nightmare.
I mean, the African-American community, I don't think we've ever been this bad.
I mean, it's not looking good.
I mean, the murder rate, the teenage pregnancy, the high school dropout.
I mean, it's just, you know, the prison rate.
It's a tragedy.
It is a real tragedy for people.
And I just, you know, I mean, I gotta admit, I I, you know, I voted for Obama the first time.
And then I started listening to you shortly after that, and I I mean all the stuff he started to say seemed like it was it was it was right on.
I mean, uh it's it was just so I mean I didn't vote for him a second time.
I mean, it's it's yeah, but you know, it would it makes total sense that you did the first time.
I mean, you and you were nowhere near a it makes total sense that you did.
That was a big thing.
That was and that that held huge possibilities, I'm sure, in your mind.
Yeah, it did, it did.
And then like I said, once I started listening to you about what you know, you've what you're saying about a health care and all these different things that were and it and it turned out it was true.
And it's just all these margins and stuff they have for Mar Luther King stuff, and I I if Mar Luther King was can look in the future when he was doing that, you know, the civil life movement, he might as well have quit because it this is just it's not right, and that the taking what he has done and then making it as though it's like a business.
It's like, you know, let's just get rid from it, but let's not do anything about anything.
And it's it's it hasn't, you know, I mean, to me, that's my personal opinion.
I don't know what everybody else thinks but it to me seemed like it has turned into a nightmare.
And right now, he probably turning his grave right now if you see what's going on right now.
This this and it's because of what we're doing to ourselves.
This this is that's what I'm talking about.
It has nothing to do with anybody taking off civil rights.
We we can vote, we can go to college, we can get jobs, we can do all of this.
But we're worse off than we was in the sixties.
And it's because of us.
I mean, and no how it is, it is, but y uh speak of it.
I'll speak of the you generically.
You have relied on fifty years of promises that have sounded very seductive that have never been kept.
And I'm talking about the way the Democrat Party campaigns.
They they they tell you that the Republicans are your arch enemy, and you the worst possible can happen if you vote for them.
So the Democrats have been telling you to rely on them.
They're gonna protect you, and they're gonna bring you prosperity and make sure you're not discriminated against, and if you are, they're gonna fix that, and so forth.
And these are their empty promises.
Yeah, I agree.
And it's just it's just, you know.
I'm not even excited about this thing, what they're doing with his speech and events.
I I'm just I mean, it just I'm looking at the big picture here, and it's just not looking good.
I have kids, and I'm trying to raise my kids the right way and peace and values and stuff, and then they're going to school with kids that just have no values, learning just it's just ridiculous.
And nobody saying anything about it.
It's just it's hush hush.
It's ridiculous.
So it's the dream is turned to a nightmare.
Well, you're being told what everybody's being told is whatever you do, make sure that it doesn't hurt Obama.
Make sure that Obama looks good when this is all over.
Make sure that his agenda is advanced.
You know, don't embarrass Obama or what have you.
I know I everybody raising kids is scared to death right now.
About the economy and about crime, and about all of the pitfalls they're waiting out there for young kids, all those things that are uh really, really seductive to uh everybody.
Tony, I'm glad you called.
I'm glad you're out there too.
And I uh hope to hear from you again.
We gotta take another time out, obscene profit break.
We will be back and continue after this.
Okay, I'm not gonna get these sound bites there.
We're gonna have to re- we have to save the uh well, some of them until until uh tomorrow.
Let's see, Grab Grab number 12, we'll just pick one at Randy, Charles Blow.
He's always good for.
Uh New York Times columnist, Charles Blow, he was on reliable sources on Sunday.
Let's see you in.
And the host said, You wrote a great column on Friday, talked about a weariness and an outright hostility about the continued focus on racial equality that we're seeing in society today.
What people are suffering from is some sort of selective amnesia on the Trayvon Martin case, because unlike that case, this particular case with the Australian baseball player that has been all over the news.
That was not the case in the Trayvon Martin case.
It was a very local thing.
It stayed that way forever.
And when people started to write about it, from Lee and the Huffington Post, Tani Hassi Coates on his blog, and when I wrote my column about it, none of us were saying, where is Rush Limbaugh?
Where is Glenn Beck?
Why aren't they demanding justice here?
The mainstream media is kind of taking the bait here, as if these guys are the paragons of equal justice and equal treatment.
They're not, and they're demanding that of us.
You know, the the lengths to which these people are going to say there's no race in the attack on the on the baseball player.
And it was totally racial, Trayvon Martin, George Zimmerman, when it wasn't racial in that case.
And that's the reason it didn't have a lot of attention.
Although it got more attention sooner than what he wants you to believe.
You know, once the national race hustlers found out about that story, they were down there as fast as they got the Duke on a lacrosse case.
And there wasn't a racial component there.
I mean, the d Zimmerman had to create this white Zimmerman category in order to even have a racial component to it.
And then they You know, you you look at the nine they had to doctor the 9-11 tape at NBC to make it look like it was racial.
These people are intellectually dishonest on this.
You have a real racial hit.
And what do you mean it wasn't right?
Well, you're not gonna allow Rush Limbaugh to inject race in this.
I'm not.
I'm simply commenting on what it was.
You guys had to make up the racial component in Zemmerman Trayvon Martin.
But that's gonna be the number one name you hear on Wednesday.
Trayvon Martin Luther King.
You wait.
Be the number one name mentioned from the steps of the Lincoln Memorial.
Outside of Obama.
Obama will be the biggest name.
And it'll be a contest when him and Clinton.
Which one will use the personal pronoun I the most?
Clinton or Obama?
I'll bet there are bets on that in Vegas.
Thanks so much for being with us today, folks.
I love it.
It's always a pleasure, and I can't tell you how much I appreciate the fact that you are there.
And we'll be back tomorrow, 21 short hours from now, revved up, ready to go once more.
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