It's great to have you, Rush Limbaugh and the nation's most listened-to radio talk show, where we every day have an excursion into broadcast excellence and have more fun than a human being should be allowed to have.
Always a pleasure to have you here.
You know, speaking of name changes, I have something I'll bet you didn't know.
Well, some of you seasoned citizens out there may remember this.
After the Russian Revolution, they were known as the Reds.
Just like the Red Chinese before the term CHICOM was coined.
When the term Reds became associated with the communists, pressure was brought to bear on the ownership of the Cincinnati Reds of the National League to change their name because nobody wanted to be associated with communists.
And the owner of the Cincinnati Reds said, we had the name before the Ruskies.
Let them change their name.
Did you know that?
I know you didn't know that.
That's why I was telling you.
It's a fascinating little bit of little trivia.
By the way, if the Associated Press has a story, Kerry rejects Assad's proposed timeline for submitting chemical weapons data.
Assad said he wanted to start the process in 30 days, and Kerry says that's not soon enough.
Now, it's reported that the Syrians have over 1,000 tons of conventional weapons in over 50 different places.
And they're in the middle of a civil war.
And Kerry's demanding, see, I think, you know, you always, you have to think a step or two ahead.
Okay, we got the news that Putin's running the show, Putin op-ed in the New York Times.
Putin accepted Kerry's gaffe to remove the chemical weapons from Syria, leave Assad in power, Assad then free to resume bombing the rebels, which is all happening.
I think I don't want to sound like I'm smiling or laughing here, but I think John Kerry making demands right now is laughable.
And it's indicative of the fact that Kerry doesn't have the slightest idea what's happened here.
What he wants or what Obama wants is now irrelevant.
Putin is running this show, and the White House has even said so.
The White House has now said Putin owns this.
They're happy to have ostensibly handed this off to Putin.
So here's Kerry rejecting Assad's proposed timeline, and Putin is going to determine what Putin determined whether or not there was a congressional vote on the authorization of use of force resolution when you got right down to it.
Putin did.
So Kerry rejects Assad's proposed timeline, but Putin is going to determine this.
Putin's going to determine when those weapons are removed, if they're removed.
And Putin's going to determine where those weapons go.
And there's John Kerry.
He's doing his Tarzan impersonation, beating his chest.
It's swinging on some vines in the jungle.
Not knowing that there's Mozzola all over the vine.
And he's about to slip into alligator-infested swamps.
And it's the arrogance and conceit of these people that makes us vulnerable because they don't have the slightest idea.
They sit there and they tell themselves they're outsmarting Putin and they know, and it's the other way around.
They don't have the humility to understand what's happening.
Anyway, you'll see.
Putin's already a couple steps ahead of us.
We just don't know what they are yet, but we will.
And then you remember me saying this.
So you just keep it sharp.
In the meantime, I have come across something.
You talk about something happening underneath the radar.
I've come across something I want to tell you about that could be the most ambitious and disturbing social engineering project ever undertaken by the federal government, excluding Obamacare.
But everybody knows about that.
And let me begin by asking you if you remember busing from the 1970s.
You don't?
You don't remember.
Okay, you're a baby, but I mean, you've heard about it.
You know what it is?
This is very helpful.
It's very helpful.
Somebody 60 years old does not know about busing.
I'm just kidding.
I'm just kidding.
Forced busing in the 1970s was a liberal attempt to integrate the races.
And the upshot of it was that white kids were bused in some cases in Boston.
And it really erupted in Boston, by the way.
White kids were erupted, busted in some cases 45 minutes to an hour to all black schools to integrate them because the liberals thought this was only fair and just.
And they thought the civil rights movement wanted integration.
Now, Martin Luther King did, but his heirs do not want integration.
They want to segregate again after they achieve integration.
But again, I'm getting exact.
That's a whole other thing.
In the 1970s, schools were ordered to bust children into neighborhoods far away in order to achieve racial balance in the scruels.
Children were roused out of bed an hour before they needed to be in order to ship them off to schools.
Now, at the time, it was no different than it is now.
Parents moved into neighborhoods because of the schools.
Parents wanted to live relatively close to the screws so the kid could walk or whatever, but just be close.
The screw was the center of the kids' universe nine months out of a year.
And so when the forced busing erupted, there was outrage all over the, including liberal Boston.
But the social architects of the left didn't listen and they kept at it because they knew best and they were doing what they thought was necessary to achieve racial balance because they were forcing people to do what people weren't doing of their own volition.
People were choosing neighborhoods where they wanted to live and leftists didn't like the choices they were making.
And so they basically used the power of the government to force them.
If they didn't want to move, they were going to take their kids to those neighborhood schools.
Well, what was happening was that liberals were denying parents the right to determine where their kids attended school, even after they had chosen the neighborhood to live in because of the school.
It was dictated.
And it ended up being a miserable failure.
Okay, let's fast forward to today.
Social engineering is on the verge of being imposed on entire neighborhoods.
Adults and children alike.
I want to read a little paragraph here from a document from the Department of Housing and Urban Development, HUD.
The agency wants the power to dismantle local zoning so communities have what it considers the right mix of economic, racial, and ethnic diversity.
A finding of discriminatory behavior or allegations of discrimination would no longer be necessary.
HUD will supply nationally uniform data of what it thinks 1,200 communities should look like.
Again, HUD wants the power to dismantle local zoning so communities have what it considers the right mix of, they want to be able to force HUD wants to be able to force people to move into certain neighborhoods so that there is racial, economic, and ethnic diversity in the neighborhood, not just bus kids to schools.
This is that times 10.
What this is, is nationalizing neighborhoods.
What this is, is central planners imposing their will on where you live, not just where your kids go to school.
And it's all being done, of course, for our own good.
We do not choose to live in the right places, and therefore we're not properly integrating.
And we do not have the right diversity, neighborhood by neighborhood by neighborhood.
The elites will not be touched by it.
Exactly right.
The elites will not be touched by this.
And this is all part of their ongoing effort to achieve utopia.
Here again, more from HUD.
Local governments will have to, quote, take meaningful actions to further the goals identified.
If they fail to comply, HUD can cut federal funding.
Westchester County, north of New York City, has first-hand experience of what the rest of the nation can expect.
HUD has told Westchester County, New York, that any limits on the size, type, height, and density of buildings are restrictive practices.
It demands that the county sue its localities over such common zoning regulations, which are not exclusionary by any stretch of the imagination.
If HUD can define what constitutes exclusionary practices, then local zoning as it is known today disappears.
Apartments, high-rises of whatever else the federal government or developer wants can be built on any block in America.
And they're going to seek this diversity again by obliterating zoning regulations.
Zoning regulations, as you know, are one of the many ways that communities define themselves and achieve what they want and don't want.
What was the question?
It is, it's neighborhood by government quoted.
I'll tell you something else is not mentioned in the story, but you ever wondered why the regime and the left is so fascinated with mass transit?
It's because mass transit limits your mobility.
You can only go where mass transit takes you.
And who controls the routes?
The government controls the routes of mass transit.
Buses, subways, trains, you name it.
They control it.
Those are all government authorities, state, local, or federal, whatever.
This is why there's been a push.
That's why when I see stories like we had last week about these supposedly really forward-thinking, advanced millennials who don't want a car.
Yeah, they've hit 16, 20, 22.
I don't want a car.
It doesn't mean anything to me.
That is exactly what these central planners want.
And both these things, zoning and mass transit, are also a way to destroy the suburbs, which is another thing that is really high on Obama's list.
And there's a guy named Stanley Kurtz at Wrights or National Review who has written extensively about this.
Folks, this is who they are, and you know it.
You in this audience know this is who they are.
They're not contained.
You will not live in the right place.
You will not work in the right place.
You will not meet with the right people.
You will not be diverse.
You will not take action of your own volition that will challenge the Constitution.
They're going to force that on you.
And all the while, they will be exempt.
HUD's power grab, and this is real.
You just haven't heard about it.
HUD's power grab is based on the mistaken belief that zoning and discrimination are the same thing.
HUD, and all of this is Obama, the Democrats, they run these agencies, they look at zoning as disguised discrimination.
If you have a zoning regulation on building characteristic quality or whatever, they think that you're trying to keep poor people out.
If you have a zoning regulation against high-rises in your community, you don't want poor people.
If you have a zoning regulation on the kind of restaurants that can and cannot be open in your community, you are trying to keep certain people out.
And this is what they want to obliterate.
Do you live in a place that has that kind of zoning?
Do you live in a place where they really, the government, the local government, can determine whether or not, say, a franchisee can open a restaurant?
Well, HUD is looking at that as the local government discriminating against minorities.
And so they are going to take steps.
They're going to try.
This has been written about recently in editorials in the IBD, Investors Business Daily.
It used to be known as Investors.com.
And there was an op-ed last Friday in the Wall Street Journal that offered some disturbing details on how this assault by HUD on local zoning codes has already affected Westchester County.
That's where we got the details for that.
And it illustrates what the rest of the country can expect.
Thomas Sowell, a highly regarded, well-respected, nationally syndicated columnist, brilliant economist.
He's at the Hoover Institute in Palo Alto at Stanford, has even weighed on this.
I mean, you can check what he's had to say.
It is being commented on, and it is being written about because it is advancing.
Seoul wrote in part, only ideologues could devote themselves to crusading against people's efforts to live and associate with other people who share their values and habits.
Undaunted by a long history of disasters, when third parties try to mix and match people, blah, blah.
Only ideologues.
This is why I so I so wish people could learn ideology.
And just wouldn't it be great if everybody, if you just say he's a liberal, that they would know what that meant.
Because it's the solution.
Because it means something.
A liberal.
This is what liberal ideologues do: crusade against people's efforts to live and associate with others who share their values and habits.
I got to take a break.
We'll be back and continue after this.
Back to the phones.
And this is Ann in Littleton, Colorado.
Glad you called.
Great to have you on the EIB network.
Hi.
Hey, thanks for having me on.
We thank God for you that you're on the air and talk about our God-given rights every day.
Thank you very much.
I really appreciate that.
And my husband has often wondered rhetorically what happens at the Rio Grande River.
The north side, there's prosperity, and on the south side, there isn't.
You ever been to El Paso?
Yep.
Got the bridge.
You got Juarez on the other side and El Paso, where Marty Robbins met a girl once.
It's a stark, you ought to see it.
It's a stark difference.
And you do.
You ask yourself, what's the difference?
I remember Phil Donahue once complaining that if he had just been born 50 miles south, he'd have been poor and destitute.
I said, yeah, Phil, why is that?
What do you think that is?
He just thought it was the accident of geography.
Get no concept of why it mattered.
If you were to answer that question rhetorically, but what would you say?
Well, because of our freedoms, because of everything you've been, American exceptionalism, everything you've been talking about today.
And there is.
It's a stark difference right there at the border.
Yeah, but the left would say, see, see, why do you want to put down the Mexicans?
They try hard.
They work hard.
I mean, there's no difference in us and them.
They're poor.
And on the other side of the Rio Grande, they're rich, and that's a difference.
And the richer, the Mexicans are poor because the rich in Texas are keeping it from them.
That's what the left would say.
That's what a Democrat would tell you.
But it's just not true.
Another example or another place that was similar, how government makes a difference, is Hong Kong before it was handed back to the Chinese.
And maybe it hasn't gone downhill as much, but there was a stark difference between Hong Kong and the rest of China.
Well, it may not have changed much, but it's on its way.
Otherwise, Snowden would have gone there.
Wouldn't have gone there.
Hong Kong is its own.
Hong Kong, before they gave it back to the Chikons, Hong Kong was the most amazing.
I mean, it was sheer, unbridled capitalism on display every day, right in the street, in the stores.
It was.
And then at night, Hong Kong, at least the Kowloon section, the Simsat Chewies, it becomes an entirely different town, area.
The neighborhoods, daytime, nighttime, it's just sheer, undiluted capitalism.
And it worked.
Here's Kathy in Freeland, Michigan.
Great to have you on the EIB network.
Hi, Rush.
This is a complete honor that I'm speaking with you.
Thank you so much for taking my call.
You bet it's my pleasure.
Oh, I'm a 24-7 member for four years now, and I listen to you every day.
You're just brilliant.
Thank you for educating me.
I can't ask for more than that.
Thank you so much.
It's awesome.
I can now talk to people and actually explain conservatism, so thank you for that.
But I'm calling because I recently tried to make an appointment with my family physician whom I've been going to for 27 years.
She took over a practice that my father started in 1957 or 58 in Saginaw, Michigan.
Actually, a doctor that you saw when you came to Saginaw Valley to speak.
And I'll never forget the day he came home so excited that he got to treat me.
You know, I was just thinking when you said Saginaw, I did, I was the same day.
Jay Leno had a performance the same day I was in Saginaw.
That's right.
I got there and I was in the middle of what I thought was a horrible case of bronchitis.
That's right.
I couldn't stop coughing, and the cough scared people when they heard the cough.
And somebody there suggested that I see a doctor.
You know the person?
That's my father.
You saw my father.
Saw your father.
What was that?
Dr. Averill.
You saw my father.
Oh, maybe I shouldn't have said his name.
I don't know.
Well, no, no, that's cool.
That's fine.
Well, he was a fan of yours, and he's a huge conservative and very active politically in Saginaw all his life, also.
But anyway, he was honored that he was able to treat you.
But my point today is: this is a practice that's been going on for many years.
And mind you, back in the day, you got in on a whim, didn't you?
Nowadays, with Obamacare implementing, these offices are going to this live computer system.
And I called to get an appointment, and I was told that it would be at least two weeks to get in to see the doctor for something that's going on with my stomach.
And I said, two weeks.
And mind you, I have an in.
You know, they know me.
Two weeks, and it's your father's practice.
Well, he's retired, but yeah, she took over for him.
I understand that.
I have an in.
Still, nope, can't get you in for two weeks.
Well, why?
Well, they cut her patient load in half because of going live on the computer system because there's so much data that has to be entered into this new mandate by the government that they can't keep up.
So they have to reduce their patient load by 50%.
So what are you going to do?
What did you do?
What did you do?
Well, I'm waiting.
I could have seen the nurse practitioner in a week, but that's not my gig.
So I'm waiting to see her.
I mean, I'm not in a dire situation yet, but still two weeks is a little long to get in to see the doctor.
It's never been that way.
That is.
That'd be a shocker.
Two weeks.
America is in for a rude awakening.
Well, you know something interesting.
Here's something that you don't.
You probably know this.
I keep learning things about Obamacare every day that I didn't know.
Do you know that when they get this thing up and running, everybody that goes to the doctor is going to have, they're going to be asked for their citizenship documents?
Yes, there's a new form.
I just saw it at the ophthalmologist where I was at.
There's a new form, and you have to also, they were telling me about it.
I didn't see, I saw the form, but I'm not implementing it in an office myself.
But you have to answer what your race is, what your ethnicity is.
And they told me people are getting upset.
They're like, I don't want to answer this.
And they think the office is asking for it.
And my point to them was: I hope you're letting them know every patient that complains that they can thank the Democrat Party for this debacle.
Well, isn't it amazing that the state of Arizona can demand citizenship proof, say, when they stop somebody, commits a motor vehicle violation.
And Obama will sue them for that.
But Obama's own health care requires that patients produce their citizenship documents.
And an ID.
Don't forget that.
They have to have an ID.
An ID, right.
No.
But what ID.
But wait, but wait, but wait.
Wait a minute.
Something doesn't work here because we know that illegals are going to be covered under Obamacare.
That's pretty sad.
All right.
So how?
They're not going to have citizenship documents.
So how are they going to get covered?
Well, that's right.
I guess they can just, I don't know, then make it up and get a fake ID, I suppose.
The ones that cheat the system always find a way to get around.
I'll tell you what, this is outrageous.
You need a photo ID to get medical treatment.
Where is the social justice?
What are they trying to do?
Kill all the minorities?
You know what they're trying to do?
They're trying to keep minorities from going to the doctor.
This is doctor suppression by requiring a photo ID to go to the ⁇ well, if that's what they say about elections, if you need a photo ID to go vote, Jesse Jackson says that's voter suppression.
Well, this is doctor suppression.
They're trying to keep minorities from getting treated.
Photo ID, Hispanics too.
Where's the social justice?
I'm not kidding, folks.
You're going to need citizenship proof.
But yet, illegals are covered under Obamacare.
So what do you think?
How's this going to work?
Obviously, the illegals are not going to be able to fill out that citizenship form or prove it, yet they're going to get covered.
How's that going to work?
They said, who said they weren't going to cover illegals?
Who said it?
Okay, I know they said that, but I've read the opposite, and so have you.
Here's the way it's going to work.
It's going to be just like voting.
When this thing gets fully implemented, Chuck Schumer is going to run to the nearest camera.
He's going to say, it's just not American.
This is not who we are.
We have just granted these people a pathway to citizenship, and yet we're going to start collecting their taxes and they can't vote.
That's unacceptable.
And there will be an immediate addendum to allow them to vote.
And then there will be the same thing about Obamacare.
We've just granted them a pathway to citizenship, and they're going to be covered by Obamacare.
What kind of country are we?
There's another AP story I've got.
That's an AP story I just quoted to Kathy in Freeland, Michigan.
There's another AP story about people who feel they're being left out because of politics in Republican states that didn't go for Obama exchanges.
Look, I don't doubt this for a minute.
And I really hate even having to think this way, but I guarantee you that by the time you get into a look at who's running these exchanges.
You've got environmentalist wackos getting the money, Planned Parenthood getting the money, unions getting the money.
I mean, you've got these local true believer ideologues.
You walk in there, sign up at an exchange, and you tell them you're a Republican.
What do you think is going to happen to you?
Back of the line, denial of coverage.
That's who these people are.
It's a recipe for lots of problems.
I got to take a break.
Kathy, it's great to hear from you.
Thank you very much.
I appreciate everything.
Back in a moment.
Lawrenceville, Georgia.
This is Ed.
And Ed, it's great to have you here.
Hi.
It's a pleasure, Rush.
I bring you Mega Dittos from me and from Beyond the Grave from my father, who was a super uber.
Thank you.
Go ahead.
I wanted to ask a fairly simple question.
Do you believe that there has been a long-standing ideological agenda on the left?
I mean, is this a plan of what they're doing?
Yes.
Are they organized?
Oh, God, yes.
They've been organized to do what they're doing now for predating Woodrow Wilson.
Yes, it's been almost a century.
Yes.
And do they, and do you think that our current political environment in this country and certainly in the world is friendly or conducive to that resurgence?
I think that the left of today doesn't any more think of communists as an enemy than we're a greater enemy to them than communists are.
Other statists, socialists, we conservatives are a greater enemy to them than other socialists around the world.
I mean, these people openly profess their love and admiration for Fidel Castro for crying out loud.
It's not a big mystery.
This is not to say that they are fellow traveler communists.
That's not going to persuade anybody.
But they clearly, even back during the 60s and 70s, Cold War, they weren't worried about the Soviet Union.
Just enough time to say thanks so much, as always, for being with us today.