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Oct. 18, 2013 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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October 18, 2013, Friday, Hour #2
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And welcome back, ladies and gentlemen.
Great to have you here, Rush Limbaugh, the one and only Excellence in Broadcasting Network on Friday.
Live from the left post at our satellite studios in Los Angeles.
It's open line Friday.
Yes, sir, Rebob, one down, two to go.
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More details.
Coming up today, open line Friday, we go to the phones.
Whatever you want to talk about's fine.
800-282-288-2.
And the email address, L Rushbow at EIBNet.com.
As promised, we uh we go right back now to Annie.
She's 14, she's in Sutton, Michigan.
She's been homeschooled and is going to high school.
This is this your first year in public education, your first year in high school?
Yes.
Okay.
You've got and just so I understand, as you set the table, you have uh uh a liberal teacher who is uh using current event.
What what she she's she's very liberal.
What is she teaching about was she teaching about current events, did you say?
Well, um every day we have to watch the news, and then we go into class and we have discussions.
Okay.
So whatever's going on, she talks about.
Okay, let me let me uh uh tell you what I think that you you need to know before you determine how you want to deal with this.
I I wi uh I I wish I had known at 14 what kind of of well, not I wish I had known how liberals are and how they think when I was your age.
I didn't learn this until much later.
And I think it's crucial for you to know this before you decide how you want to deal with it.
In the first place, if your teacher is a common liberal, there is no other point of view than hers.
And no matter what she says, she isn't interested in it.
Now she may use an opposing point of view as a teaching exercise to further establish her own by mocking or making fun of or impugning an opposing point of view.
But most liberals I know do not consider themselves to even be liberals, Annie.
They just think of you and me as conservatives, and that means therefore we're odd.
And and we're cooks and maybe extreme and and maybe mean and and all that.
They think that they are utterly totally normal, that there's nothing biased about them, nothing ideological about them at all.
And they are they they talk about tolerance, they talk about being open to opposing points of views, but they aren't.
They don't want to hear it, particularly if you do it well and you challenge her worldview in a way that shakes it up.
She's going to be mad, not happy.
She already thinks she has all the answers to every is it a she?
Your teacher?
Yeah.
Okay.
She thinks that she's got all the answers.
And what I I'm I wish this weren't the case.
I really wish it weren't the case.
My experience is that this teacher is going to use this assignment.
You've got to watch the news and come in and talk about it every day.
This is her opportunity to not teach you, but to indoctrinate you into what she believes.
Most of what she will teach you is how wrong conservatives are.
Most of what she'll teach you is how mean and extreme or bad they are.
She will also spend time talking about how many even use the word liberal in describing herself, but uh the people she supports are always the nicest and the most and the fairest and and and all of this.
But I've I've just found them to be exclusionary and intolerant, and I've also found them to be almost dead wrong about everything.
But you are in a subordinate position to her because in that classroom, she's the authority figure.
And she holds she holds sway over you with her grade, your grade.
And you're interested in getting as good a grade as you can.
And I'm sure you want the teacher to respect you and like you at the same time, correct?
Yes.
Right.
Well, um that that's another thing.
I'm just going to go ahead and tell you some people might get mad at me because you're 14.
I wish also that I had learned at your age that behaving in such a way as to make people like me made me behave in ways that really weren't myself.
I mean, if when when that became the objective, because when Annie, when you when you want to be liked, and not just with everybody, but when you teach her, you want to be liked, it you will you're you're automatically making yourself subservient or subordinate.
You're already granting that she's already right.
She's already better, and that you've got to do something to please her.
And instead, what you should do is stay really focused on what it is you believe, and don't be intimidated off of it or out of it, and don't be talked out of it unless it really changes your mind.
But other than don't be intimidated, don't be don't don't let fear take over in in this relationship.
It's tough, too, because she is the teacher.
She does have a lot of power over you with the with the issuance of the grade.
And I know you want to get along with everybody in class, and that's fine.
That's cool.
But at the same time, don't let any of that make you think that what you think is wrong, or maybe uh inferior, or abnormal.
Don't don't let anybody make you think that what you think is the minority way of thinking about something because it isn't.
There are more people like you than there are not in the country.
I don't know about in your classroom, but in the country there are more people like you than they're not.
And you you've got a great solid foundation here, probably from your parents and your grandparents, and liberal teachers see that as a problem.
And they her objective is going to be to make sure everybody in that class sees the news her way.
That will that's what she's going to do is try to teach you that her analysis of the news is the only analysis that there is.
Now, since I've said all that, I am certain you have questions.
You might think I'm wrong, or maybe I don't understand the species specifics of your circumstance.
So your turn now.
Tell me what you want to ask me, or if you think I'm wrong about something, have at it.
Well, no, I think you're perfectly correct.
I actually agree.
And it's frustrating to me when in class, like it's just she always has it always has to be her opinion, and then it makes me feel stupid because I feel like my opinion's always wrong if I say the wrong thing or if I don't have enough information.
So it's I need to ask you.
Does she behave in a way that makes you feel stupid?
Does she say something to you or to the rest of the class about what you've said that makes you feel stupid?
Well, her facial expressions, or she'll she'll always like shake her head and be like, no, I I'd never heard that.
And it just makes like in front of the whole class.
So it just makes me feel stupid.
Annie, she may never have heard what you think.
Liberals are the most I I'm telling you that they're very close-minded and they're arrogant, and they don't think that there is any other way than theirs.
And you may well have a point of view on whatever it is that she hasn't heard before.
I guarantee you, she doesn't hang around with a lot of people like you.
She she hangs around fellow liberals and they sit around and they and and they talk about how dumb, short-sighted, uh or buffaloed or stupid conservatives are, and who makes them that way.
You probably many times will offer an analysis of something you saw in the news that she hasn't thought of before.
You are probably going to be far more uh well-rounded in your knowledge about current events than she is.
And that is that's that's that when she realizes that she's gonna feel threatened, and then she'll strike out even more.
Remember, you're a 14 in her mind, she's got a golden opportunity to turn you into a mind-numbed liberal robot that will forever vote Democrat and forever dislike and oppose conservatives.
One of the men that I read frequently when I was your age, or that's a little bit older than you, was William F. Buckley Jr.
And he said something that I've I've always kept with me.
He said, liberals claim, and you tell me if this describes your teacher.
Liberals claim to want to give a hearing to other views.
In other words, liberals claim that they're open to all points of view, but then they are shocked and offended to discover that there are other views.
So while your teacher may tell you she's open to other views and wants to hear what you tell her what you think and she makes a face.
You tell her what you think, and she how could you think that?
Who told you that?
So there she's not really open to other things.
She may think she is.
I'm not, and I'm not saying she's a bad person.
I'm just describing to you here the political characteristics of a liberal.
And believe me, if she has set this course up this way, she's looking at this course as a political or in a political framework, not an educational framework.
And it's an opportunity.
And by the way, Annie, she has been taught at where she went to school how to do this.
The liberals have have taken over and monopolized the education system.
They learn how to indoctrinate and propagandize students whose minds are young and fluid, not made up on things and very impressionable.
And it's going to be it's going to be hard on you to remain true to what you believe, because you're not going to get any support from the one person in the classroom you'd like to get it from, the teacher.
I mean, every student wants to impress the teacher.
And that's going to be very hard for you here.
It's sad.
And I could be she she may not be exactly as I'm describing.
It's she might be a little bit different.
So but time will tell.
You'll know as this plays out.
The school just started not long ago, so you've got a long way to go here.
But it doesn't sound good if she's already mocking you and making you feel small because of what you believe.
Um how have you been reacting to it so far?
Well, I kind of just like I just I don't I don't agree with her, but I just like don't say anything, and I just stay in my seat and I just I'm just like to myself, okay.
Like I heard it, so that's all that matters.
Well, there's a number of ways you can do this.
You can do that, and that that's the safe way.
Just just make sure you've pretend you're wearing a suit of armor and whatever she's saying doesn't get through.
You know, you you're gonna that class is over, you're still gonna be Annie when you walk out of there.
You're not gonna be Annie having been converted by the teachers.
You can do it that way.
Another thing you can do is try to have fun with it.
Go out and find a point of view or a reaction to something in the news that you think is gonna freak her out.
And tell her you think now make it be honest, don't make something up.
Um, but you you just just have see see how much fun you can have causing her to have reactions of disbelief and and what have you.
And again, uh you may come up with a point of view she's not heard before.
She's not she's not experienced uh somebody like you or somebody with your uh uh whatever opinion you might utter.
Uh it's it's the the thing that you don't want it, because you said you want to remain respectful, and that's always particularly in your s in your situation, the the great a great objective.
This woman, this teeth does not have to be ever your enemy.
You can look at this as a great learning opportunity yourself.
Because I'll tell you what's gonna happen here, in addition to everything you've described, you're going to learn in this class exactly, and and you probably know a lot already based on just what you've said.
You're gonna learn a lot about who liberals are.
So it's a great, you know, be open to that.
Okay, what do they think?
How do they think?
That will always help you as you go through life, knowing what you're dealing with, who you're dealing with.
Whatever, don't let her make you feel small because of what you think.
Don't let her intimidate you because of what you think.
And if you feel like it now and then ask her to prove what she's saying if she makes some outrageous outlandish claim that you either disagree with or that you think is just mean spirited.
You say, well, can you give me some evidence of that, Miss So and so?
Can you tell well why how do you know that?
You know, a ask her say, how do you know that what you know is right?
Throw that one at her, see what happens.
Um, a lot of a lot of students will just sit there and try to get through this and get the grade and move on because and take the path of least resistance, because you're gonna have many other teachers and you're gonna have many other schools and many other classes, and your objective is to get to those.
So whatever you do, you you're your your grand your did your grand grandparents' grandmother told you just to be respectful at all times.
That's right.
Always, always do that.
Do not uh it it it that's just that's just good manners and and do that no matter what.
Um always remain above the taunting.
Always remain above the insults.
It'll it it that's that's how you'll learn to be confident.
Never lose the confidence of what you believe.
Never because if it's in your heart and if it's in your soul, it's who you are.
Don't let somebody talk you out of being you.
You know, be hold on to your confidence and you know, understand that your your parents, your family have given you uh a foundation here, they love you.
Don't don't let the teacher chip away at that.
Uh don't let them insult your parents.
I don't know that any of this will happen, but I know liberals.
I know how they attempt that they're not interested, Annie, in winning arguments or winning debates.
They don't do that.
They try to intimidate people into not believing what they believe.
And it's uh it's just a it's a challenging thing.
Anything else?
I I've I've I I'm uh I want you to make sure that you run some of these things I've said by your parents.
Because I I don't want I don't want you to do anything that they wouldn't want you to do.
Okay, well.
Because they're they're um like our family, like we're all super like well, not super, we're like moderate conservative.
Um but we're all like my parents are Republicans, so and my grandma is um very conservative as well.
So it's just like hard coming from like that environment into a whole new one.
Well, I know, I know, and uh tell you, Annie, in in many places, you're gonna be considered the enemy.
I've got to take hang on, Annie, I gotta take commercial break, but but don't go away.
I want to I want to uh elaborate on that point.
We'll be right back.
We're back with Annie in Sutton, Michigan.
Annie, I just want to say one more thing to you.
Actually, two things.
I want to send you a signed copy of my upcoming book, Rush Revere and the Great Pilgrims, right up your alley.
I mean, the ideal for the situation that you're in.
And I want uh if you will hold on through when we finish here, um the kind Mr. Snerdley will get an address where we can send this to you.
Um and I've I'm very excited to do this.
Second thing.
When you finish school every day, if something happens that has bothered you, tell your parents, go home and tell your parents and your grandparents about it.
If for no other reason then you're not holding it in.
Go home and tell talk about it.
Um it's it's that's fine to do that, but always your your heart will never lie to you, Annie.
If you're in touch, you're always f when asking when wondering how to react to things like this in class.
You've got a great set of manners that you've been inculcated with.
I'm sure you've got your parents have taught you well in that regard.
Just follow your heart because it'll never lie to you.
And I'm I'm really glad that you got through today.
This has been this is a great chance for me, and I'm so happy to have met you.
Now don't hang up the phone.
We'll be right back.
Be courageous, Annie.
Just be courageous, stick to your guns, and be nice about it.
Probably the best advice that be that can be given.
I uh I find it's it's amazing how often we get this question.
It we get calls like this, uh, usually from from college students, sometimes high school.
But this, I'm thinking maybe the youngest call we've ever had from a student wondering how to act in class with a liberal teacher.
I I wonder if um I wonder if liberal kids call liberal talk shows and ask how to get along in a conservative.
No.
No.
It doesn't, there's no because there's no thought of getting along.
There's no.
Plus, there aren't that many conservative institutions where this kind of thing would happen.
Anyway, folks, uh great to have you here on Open Line Friday.
Uh welcome back, El Rush.
But I want to play an audio sound for you.
I've got the audio of a television ad that ran for a while.
I think it ran, it did for a while.
In the Virginia governor's race, the ad was put together for Ken Cucinelli.
It was put together by an independent group of people who are fed up with with liberalism.
They're fed up with the Democrat Party.
They're actually fed up with the fact that Republicans don't run these kinds of ads.
I don't remember the name of the group, it's five guys that did this.
And I think they're New Yorkers, and they're just fed up, and they're upset.
Now they're not upset with Cuccinelli is a great pugilist.
He does fight back.
And that's that's why this group put the ad together.
But I I I think the ad hasn't run in a while, and it may be a question of money.
But I I got the audio of the ad.
I well, I watched it on television, watch the video.
And I'd say, you know, even though the graphics aren't here, the that support the audio, I wanted you to hear it anyway.
Because they've researched this at a focused group, this ad among voters in Virginia, and it causes a massive change of intention to vote from McAuliffe to Cuccinelli.
Massive.
In some cases, eight-point swings.
McCaulaff ends up minus four after this ad, and Cucinelli ends up plus four.
In some cases, it's a it's a bigger swing than that.
So here's the ad.
There's no moderation here.
There's no bipartisanship, there's no appeal to getting along.
This ad basically says to Terry McAuliffe and the Democrat Party, we're not gonna let you Detroit us.
We're not gonna let you turn Virginia into every place else you've run into the ground.
Here is the audio of the ad.
Democratic candidate Terry McCaula is a stand-in for a national power grab by the gang of five.
Just as the Obama administration uses federal agencies to suppress dissent and violate the civil rights of their political opponents.
These extreme liberals are smearing Republicans because they have a hidden far-left agenda.
The gang of five is bringing divisive Chicago style politics to Virginia.
The call up is an embarrassment.
Yet he gets a free ride from the elite media because he's being propped up by the Clintons, Obama, and the gang of five.
They will continue political smearing, spending millions to impose a New Yorker and left wing embed on Virginia.
Tell these McAuliffe Puppeteers this is Virginia.
And we won't let you Detroit us with taxes and debt.
You will not California, Virginia, with regulations that kill jobs.
Or Hollywood, our families and schools.
You will not bring District of Columbia tax and spend to our state.
Tell them you can't have Virginia.
Fight for Tomorrow is responsible for the content of this advertising.
Now I'm sorry I didn't make a note of who the gang of five is, but they're media people.
Chris Matthews is one.
That's one face I remember.
But the Gang of Five is basically liberal media types, and maybe a couple of politicians in there who are constantly propping up people like McCullough.
McCaula is a is a bad man now running for governor.
We used to call him the punk here when he was the chairman of DNC running the operation for the Clintons.
And this ad it ran for a while, and it's it's not on the air now, and there's some people are making a push to try to get it back on the air because it does cause a massive swing.
I want I want you to listen to this again because isn't this the kind of thing you think the Republican Party ought to be?
The Republican Party did not do this.
I don't believe that the Republican Party did this.
My I'm I'm my memory on this is a something I read uh about this ad two or three weeks ago.
And I I don't think the Republican Party of Virginia is doing this.
It's an out-of-state people who are uh doing it.
But here's here's the swing on this vote.
Ballot movement after people view this ad one time.
Republican voters increase for Cuccinelli by plus eight.
Democrat voters increase for Cuccinelli plus four.
It is a it creates a massive swing for Cuccinelli.
Independence, plus two.
Women plus four.
That means McCauliff loses four points among women with this when this ad is seen by people in the focus group.
Men, a plus five swing.
People over 40 plus six swing, and a overall ballot is a plus five swing.
The ad was done by a group called Fight for Tomorrow.
And it's it's a group independent of Cuccinelli.
Now listen to it again and tell me if this isn't what you think the Republican Party ought to be doing about every Democrat candidate.
Democratic candidate Terry McAuliffe is a stand-in for a national power grab by the gang of five.
Just as the Obama administration uses federal agencies to suppress dissent and violate the civil rights of their political opponents.
These extreme liberals are smearing Republicans because they have a hidden far-left agenda.
The gang of five is bringing divisive Chicago-style politics to Virginia.
McCauff is an embarrassment.
Yet he gets a free ride from the elite media because he's being propped up by the Clintons, Obama, and the Gang of Five.
They will continue political smearing, spending millions to impose a New Yorker and left-wing embed on Virginia.
Tell these McAuliffe puppeteers, this is Virginia.
And we won't let you Detroit us with taxes and debt.
You will not California, Virginia, with regulations that kill jobs.
Or Hollywood, our families and schools.
You will not bring District of Columbia tax and spend to our state.
Tell them you can't have Virginia.
Fight for Tomorrow is responsible for the content of this advertising.
Fight for tomorrow is the is the group.
And again, it causes massive swing overall plus five to Ken Cucinelli, who is a conservative, good conservative Republican candidate in Virginia.
Okay, back to the phones.
Open line Friday.
Well it says up here, I'm just gonna say Palatan, Virginia.
Is that right?
You've got it.
Oh, cool.
Well, it's great to have you.
Thank you.
That was perfect.
Well, I'm used to that.
I just cannot believe I did this.
So uh but you you're on my caller like list.
I just keep pushing 10 10 10.
But um That's what you have to do because at one of those times that you're gonna reach the that moment in time where a previous caller is dispatched, we we disconnect, and you connect at just the right time.
Well, let me tell you, I've I've traveled through two states holding for you.
So it was well worth it.
And um I it's just such an honor.
I just a few weeks ago you had uh come on your Friday show and you had he had said something similar to uh apologizing for sometimes being boring.
And I've never tried to call your show before, and I've been trying ever since.
You are not boring.
You are amazing.
Um I I I I just I love listening to you.
Just the whole time here I've been listening to you, and what you said to Annie was absolutely awesome.
Um I have children, and i uh and you've put stuff into my children's heads just by them listening to you because they they hear me say, oh, listen to them, listen to them, it's well worth it.
And um, but one thing you should have told Annie is that she needs to remember that she's an American and she has every right to believe in what she believes.
That's a good point.
That's a good because I I've I really it might not sound like it.
I held back, she's 14.
I I kind of held back in describing for her what I really think of liberals, but you've nailed it.
I mean, these are people that will do anything they can to deny other Americans constitutional rights if liberals think they can get away with it.
Take away their guns, for example, or what have you.
And I it's it's these people, they are especially teachers.
They have been taught how to indoctrinate and and propagandize and so forth.
But you are really a good a good word for them is they're thick headed.
Um because you know, I have five brothers and two sisters, and you know, I I've we were always very close.
And that first election for Obama, I had a brother who was so Obama.
And um, and I've always been one to speak my mind, and we spent some time with him, and you know, ever since that time with him, we are not close anymore.
And that hurts.
I know.
Isn't it amazing how that I've had we had a story here last we had a caller describe what Thanksgiving is like at at his house.
Oh my gosh, I wish I could remember this off top of my head.
It was it was uh it was amazing what has happened to this family, the games they play uh and the contests they have, or or the things that the liberal members of the family don't put up with and don't tolerate.
It's it was flat out amazing.
It'll come to me as I as I as I think about it, because you've you have jogged that memory.
Well, look, I I appreciate your call.
You've made my day, Susan.
You're very kind, you flatter me beyond belief.
And I thank you sincerely for it.
And you know what, Susan, I want to send you a signed copy of my book too.
So if you will hang on to the case, can I say one thing though?
Yeah.
It's very important because you brought up the commercial from McAuliffe and Cucinelli, and I got a phone call this week at my home office from the Democratic Party.
And it was one of those recorded calls for McCullough.
And I called back and I asked them to take my number off their list.
Well, at the same time, I'm thinking that I'm thinking, wait, I have an unlisted number, I have block calls, I no one has my number.
And I called to play out, and they kept hanging up on me.
The Clintons have everybody's number, and the Clintons had a lot of people's FBI files.
So it's not surprising that McCaula could get your number or his campaign.
Anyway, uh I I really I I thank you again.
And I uh this is a great example.
These last two great examples of open line Friday calls.
Now uh Susan, hang on because Mr. Snurdy's gonna get your address so I can sign a copy of my new book upcoming on October 29th, And uh and and get it out to you.
Uh thanks much.
The gang of five, here's who the gang of five is in that ad.
The gang of five is uh the feminist leadership, the elitist media, and then their I saw Chris Matthews' picture as one of the examples of elite media in the ad.
Anti-American front groups, left-wing liberals and Hollywood partisans.
That yeah, those are the gang of five, as represented in the ad that we played for you.
So just so you'll know, I figured that out and wanted to pass it on.
Another brief timeout.
We'll continue with much more after this.
So don't go away.
I was reminded what it was.
It was the guy who called us and said that at Thanksgiving, half of his family or whatever percentages, a bunch of liberals, a bunch of comedy SOBs, and he decided to have a game with them.
He and his family love two if by tea.
So they decided to have a blind tea tasting test.
They took the labels off the tea, and they asked people of different kinds of tea, including two if by tea, and they did tasting.
And the liberals in his family all said two if by tea was the best.
Then he told them that it was two if by tea, that it was my tea, and they freaked out.
They got genuinely mad.
They accused him of tricking them.
It was it caused great acrimony.
There had to be negotiations over the rest of the Thanksgiving day, holiday, for the family to get along, because it caused all kinds of acrimony.
And it was it was hilarious.
That listen to this, we ought to drag that call out of the archives.
It went on a long time, but I mean it was it was classic.
And it's a great illustration of who these people are.
Here they found they were tasting the tea, best tea they've ever had.
They loved it, found out it was mine, and no way.
They thought they had just committed a sacrilegious sin, that there was the worst thing that could have happened.
They felt dirty and all this stuff.
It was just it's it's it's irrational.
I mean, why get mad over something like that?
Even if they thought they were being tricked, but they did.
Acrimony in a family over that.
Here's Therese in Detroit.
Therese, glad you called.
Great to have you open line Friday.
Hi.
Hi, how are you?
Superb.
Thank you.
Well, we wanted our accountant came in today for a visit, and we always talk about Obamacare, and he told us he got his letter from Blue Cross, Blue Shield.
Um he lives in North Carolina, but he does business in both states.
And for him and his wife and two kids, the premium went from $800 a month up to $1,700 a month.
And his deductible went from $3,000, and it jumped up to $24,000 for the Whoa!
Whoa!
Well, because of Obamacare?
Yep.
Deductible went to $24.
He lives in North Carolina?
Yes.
So we said we need to call Rush and tell him.
Well, my guy, you know, I knew it was bad.
In fact, I've got a whole Obamacare stack here with examples, but nothing that outrageous.
Yeah, and when he said that, I said $24,000, and he said yes.
And then he said, I did you ever think that anything like this would ever happen in America, that any of us would feel the way we are feeling.
Here's the thing.
Yes.
The moment Obama was elected, I did, and that's what this whole program's been about ever since.
Exactly.
Be honest with you, I did.
I sure did.
Be back after this.
Don't go away.
Okay, here are the details of that that the uh the family Thanksgiving at tea call.
Guy was Bill from Scranton.
There were 50 people at his Thanksgiving table, and they did a blind tasting, no label on the bottle, the cups were totally uh blank, bland.
Twenty-eight people participated in the test, twenty-seven out of twenty eight identified two if by tea as their favorite.
And the caller Bill told us that when this was discovered, when the box was revealed to show that they had all chosen two if by tea, with my picture Rush Revere on the label, there was anger, there was rage, there was yelling, there was cursing.
Bill had a beer dumped on his head, there were watermelon rinds that were tossed at them, and his wife had a piece of key lime pie smashed in her face.
By family members, 27 out of 28 chose two if by tea, and that's how mad they got, thinking they had been tricked.
We'll be back.
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