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Ladies and gentlemen, the assault on the traditional standard American way of life continues unabated, and it is being conducted by a minority of people in this country.
There's an amazing poll out there today from the Investors Business Daily, Investors.com, which illustrates just what an extreme minority today's Democrat Party and the American left really is.
In terms of minority, terms of thinking, the body of thought in this country represented by them.
It's stunning, and at the same time, it's optimistic in a sense to learn just how insignificant in numbers they are.
Now, that doesn't tell the whole story, obviously.
However, the interesting thing about it is also that it is they who obviously, when you look at the questions and when you look at the answers in the poll, it's obviously that it's today's Democrats, today's leftists who are the genuine extremists.
It ain't us, folks.
And just to give you an example, here we have the New York Times.
This is just, I don't know if you ever thought you would see something like this.
I did.
New York Times is bidding farewell to the traditional family, the nuclear family, mom and dad and 2.8 kids, not possible except for the wealthy, the white, and the elite.
Sayonara, adios, out of there.
If you have that kind of a family, you are A, a problem.
B, you are a minority.
And C, you are out of there.
And I just want to tell you that this is bogus.
This is not the case.
This is not what is happening.
The traditional American family, yeah, we've got a different family makeup in places, and the definition of family is changing by design with the left instituting it.
But the idea that the traditional nuclear family is now an oddity and something that was never really natural and needs to be replaced is just absurd.
The entire Science Times section of the New York Times, way back on November 26th, again, this is something that I missed because I chilled out and I took a break from all this.
I'm catching up on all this stuff from the past that I was ignoring while I was out.
And on the November 26th Science Times section of the New York Times, they were devoted to the redefined American family.
And it was written by the noted journalist Natalie Angere.
And she identified the traditional family as a thing of the past.
The old-fashioned family plan, stably married parents residing with their children, remains a source of considerable power in America.
Unstated, but not for long after we get through attacking and destroying it.
But one that is increasingly seen as out of reach to all but the educated elite.
Now, there might be a sad grain of truth in that in the sense that might explain what is happening to the traditional American family, and i.e. the uneducated, the low information crowd, as distinguished from the misinformation crowd, the low information crowd, the people who are the recipients of wealth transfers, the redistribution of income.
I mean, the Democrat Party has succeeded in breaking up those families.
I mean, no question about that.
The Democrat Party and the welfare state has succeeded in busting up the black American family.
There is no question about that.
What this story tries to say is that's normal.
That's natural.
That's the way it was always intended to be.
And that's where we're headed.
And the oddity, the exception here is the white people with mom and dad in a nice house with a family dog and a couple of cats, maybe, and 2.8 kids and a picket fence and a couple of cars and a flat screen.
That is what's odd.
That's what's got to go because that's only attainable to the wealthy white elite.
I'm not making this up.
This is in the New York Times, and they're celebrating it.
They're trying to make it happen.
And it's why this poll in the Investors Business Daily or investors.com is interesting.
There's also devastating news out there for Obama on millennials.
He's losing them.
He's losing them big time.
And I'll give you all the rest of the details of the New York Times story, but it's just an unbridled assault.
That's all this is.
This is not news.
This is not the New York Times surveying the country and simply dispassionately reporting.
This is advocacy.
This is a desire to destroy the traditional American family.
It's not fair.
It may be a good way to raise kids, but it isn't fair that not everybody can do it.
And since not everybody can do it, nobody can do it.
And so we're going to side with the people who have no prayer in doing this.
Why?
Well, they're uneducated.
Why are they uneducated?
Who has made that happen?
Who's been in charge of education?
Democrat Party.
The American left.
Why are people uneducated?
Why are they poor?
Democrat Party.
Who is it that's told people, sit around, wait for us to take care of you.
Don't rely on yourself.
You don't have what it takes.
Democrat Party.
Democrat Party's made all this happen.
It's a route to power for them.
It's insidious.
It's the way they want to control people.
It's the way they ensconce themselves in power, making themselves irreplaceable, making these other people dependent.
And now they have created this schism, if you will, the haves and have-nots.
They have created that.
They claim capitalism has created it.
They created it.
It's taken them 50 years of the welfare state since the great old FDR and the New Deal, but they've done it.
And they are relentless as they continue to do it because for them, it's about changing the way this country was founded.
It's about getting rid of the inequities, the unfairness, the immorality, the injustice of the founding of this country.
And this is the way it ought to be.
If you've got two mommies and two daddies and a dog and they represent a family, who's to say that's wrong?
Who's to say that's wrong?
Who are you people, you nuclear family people?
What are you getting your guides from?
The Bible?
Hell with that.
We don't believe in the Bible.
The Bible, let's just make believe.
This is where all this stuff is rooted.
And I just, you know, I want to try to tell you, even though this onslaught against the traditions, and I'm the traditions and institutions that make this country great, there's an attack on them.
There has been for a while.
And I want to try to impress upon you, while they're having success.
I mean, they are busting up families.
Don't make any mistake about that.
I'm not Pollyannish here.
They have not destroyed it yet.
They have not remade or transformed this country.
They have not.
People are not happy with the direction of this country.
And now a vast majority, including the millennials, they are not happy with the way this country is going, the direction it's headed.
They don't like it.
They may not yet know how to properly affix blame for it.
I think one of the sad things that's happening, as I have cleverly noted in the past, particularly when it comes to millennials, is that they are losing faith in the country rather than losing faith in Obama and the Democrat Party.
That's what they must realize that they have got to give up their trust in.
The Democrat Party is responsible for that.
And that's not broad brushing here.
Democrat Party represents this.
Democrat Party stands for this.
Democrat Party promotes this.
The Democrat Party is where you find real out-of-the-mainstream extremism today.
Make no mistake about that.
And don't be afraid to say so, folks.
And here's a companion piece to the New York Times story about the nuclear family.
It's just so uncool now.
And you ought to see the picture that accompanies this.
I'm going to show you this in it now.
Wait a minute.
I had email addresses.
Hang on just a second here, folks, as I fold this real quickly so you can't find out how to get hold of me.
All right.
See that picture showing you this on the ditto cam?
That is what is not possible in America.
That's what's wrong with America.
Can you see it?
Should I not be holding this up?
It's okay.
That's what's wrong with America.
I'm showing this picture in the New York Times on the Ditto Cam.
If you don't have a Ditto Cam, get it.
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Just do it.
That way you can see all this.
You know, people say to me, Rush, why don't you get back on TV?
I'm on TV every day, three hours a day, right here.
My way.
I don't have to go on TV to be on TV.
We televise the program.
There it is again.
That picture accompanies the story in the New York Times about how that is what is no longer attainable for people in this country.
Does that picture look to you like it's threatening anybody?
The people in this picture, is that a problem?
Well, you have to understand to the American left it is.
To the Democrat Party, it is.
And the New York Times, it is.
And what the picture is, you've got a guy, what would you say, 35, 40 years old here, and his wife and their three kids, and they're smiling.
They're happy.
How dare they?
They're smiling, they're happy, but what they don't know is it's over for them.
They're dinosaurs.
They're living in Jurassic Park, and the left is coming for them in their neighborhoods, and they're going to turn it all upside down.
And they're starting all this in the scrools.
The companion story, this is from ABC News.
Give me the headline.
Sites, as in websites, sites match potential co-parents skip love and marriage.
This is about people that want to be parents, but don't want to get married and don't want to have, they just want to hook up and have babies and then have a family, but never see the other spouse.
Kind of like a match.com for kids.
Nooffensematch.com.
Listen to this.
Rachel Hope of Los Angeles.
Rachel Hope of Los Angeles says that she's ready to be a mother again and she'd like to get pregnant next month.
The thing is, she has no idea who the father's going to be.
Rachel Hope is one of a growing number of Americans interested in exploding the old 1950s notion of the nuclear family.
Isn't this fascinating?
New York Times on November 26th, here we are yesterday, December 3rd.
They're already, people are relentless.
They just never stop coming at us.
And it's now this, we can find some woman in L.A. who doesn't like the nuclear family.
Growing number of Americans interested in exploding the old 50s notion of the nuclear family.
The nuclear family goes back to the Bible, which is its problem with the lift.
Didn't they go to the 50s?
You know, to these people, the nuclear family is Ozzie and Harriet, and that just is impossible.
And Beaver and Cleaver and whoever, it just isn't possible.
That was fantasy land.
That was make-believe.
That was never real.
And that's not possible today.
You can't have mom and dad, three kids with all that wealth and just not, and to be happy, it's not right.
It isn't fair.
It's not possible.
And so now we're being treated to news stories about apparently, do you think Rachel Hope, whoever she is, is actually running around L.A., you know what?
I want to blow up the nuclear family.
You know, I'm sick of it.
I hate the nuclear family.
I want to be part of a movement that blows it up.
Rachel Hope doesn't have the slightest clue.
Let's get the rest of the details.
You figure out what she is on your own.
Rachel Hope, it says here, ABC News, one of a growing number of Americans interested in exploding the old 1950s notion of the nuclear family.
She's not looking for love.
Oh, no.
No.
She is looking for a co-parent.
I'm telling you, folks, the idea of the nuclear family dates back to the 50s.
Only in a low-information world could you make people believe that the nuclear family was invented in the 50s.
And why would you do that?
But if you're the American left, why would you say that the nuclear family was invented in the 50s?
You could make it unhip to make it uncool.
Oh, my God, that's ancient.
And you run around to these young kids and the millennials, you want to live like they did in the 50s?
You can't go back to the 50s.
Look at all the square things we're back in the 50s.
There were letter jackets.
I mean, look at that.
Did you see the movie?
Who wants to go back to that?
That's why they're trying to peg the nuclear family of the 50s to make it unhip.
The nuclear family traces back to God.
And just saying that is like showing Dracula the cross.
By the way, folks, Obama is out.
You know what he's out doing today?
He's out ripping trickle-down economics.
Pope Obama.
The Pope paving the way for Obama to once now join.
Well, Obama's not joining.
He's done it before.
Ripping in to free market capitalism by calling it trickle-down.
He's not quoting the Pope.
He just knows the Pope.
So Pope's giving Obama cover.
Yeah, I got the sound bites.
It's all coming up.
I'm still not through with this co-parent story.
Rachel Hope running around Los Angeles, part of a growing movement, wants to blow up the nuclear family.
And she's not interested in love.
She's not looking for love.
She's looking to co-parent.
If you're blessed, she's a 42-year-old mother, so she's been there, done that, but she wants it again.
Here's a quote, if you're blessed to meet a soulmate and you just gel and it works and you have children, that's ideal.
Nobody's disputing that.
But what about the rest of us?
Who didn't meet that person?
Or we didn't meet that person in time.
You see, everybody's a victim.
And now poor Rachel's a victim of relationships.
It just never happened for her.
And that makes it our problem.
We have to fix it for her.
Because we devised a system where people run around and they date and they may meet each other.
And some people find their soulmates and some don't.
And the people that don't, it isn't fair.
And the people that do and have happy relations, they're going to pay the price.
Not fair if people like Rachel were denied it.
Look at this.
Nobody's disputing it's great, but what about the rest of us who didn't meet that person?
Or not in time?
Rachel Hope already has two kids from two different fathers.
One son, 22, whose father was her childhood best friend, and their daughter, 4, whose father is her current housemate.
The housemate loves his daughter, but he's 67.
He doesn't want any more kids.
I have to take a break.
I'm sorry to break up the story, but I got no choice.
I'll get right back to it when we get back.
Don't sweat it, folks.
Great to have you with us, my friends.
It's Rush Limbaugh.
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Is it a coincidence, ladies and gentlemen, that the New York Times would be focusing on the end of, the destruction of, the dissolving of the nuclear family while they have been championing the gay agenda, especially same-sex marriage, for more than any other newspaper on the planet.
I'm telling you, this is an agenda.
They're not strictly reporting what is happening.
They want, it's like the same way they use polling data.
They want to bring about the end of the nuclear family.
Now, in areas where they control people's income, and I'm talking about the Democrat Party and the welfare state, they are destroying the American family, but it's not because that's what those people want to happen.
People whose families are being destroyed are not voting Democrat for that to happen.
They think the exact opposite.
Think the Democrats are going to take care of them.
And the Democrats end up becoming the husband and the father.
And the family gets blown to smithereens.
And that's what's happened to the black community.
And it's not me saying it.
It's countless African Americans who say this.
And it were the first ones, in fact, to bring it to my attention, the way some of them look at it.
Now, this Rachel Hope baby, it turns out there's a website out there called Partnered Parent.
And she is trying to make a partnered parent.
And she's trying to make a career out of this.
She has her own magazine and a website.
Rachel Hope has a 22-year-old son, a four-year-old daughter, both from thriving parenting partnerships.
While she seeks a third parenting partner for herself, her overall mission is to include more and more parenting partners and their children in a growing family tribe and world community.
As large numbers of people begin to realize their dream of kids in loving and sustainable families, partnered parenting will be recognized and celebrated among people of every gender, lifestyle, creed, and race.
She says, I'm focusing on the practical issues that people need to address.
Great joy for me is teaching others how to screen people on the internet, how to arrange meetings with the best co-parent candidates, and how to negotiate an effective partnered parenting contract that will be in everyone's best interest.
Now, we used to call that marriage.
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Great to have you, Rush Limbaugh here, the Excellence in Broadcasting Network.
And as usual, half my brain tied behind my back just to make it fair.
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One more thing here on this website here that's promoting co-parenting.
As the people that believe in this are said to be eager to blow up the notion of the 1950s nuclear family.
And I just want to assure all of you: the nuclear family goes back to the Bible.
The 50s had no claim on it, nothing to do with it.
They're just telling you that it is a 50s creation because they want you to think it's uncool and on the hip.
And make no mistake, this is not just a little human interest story.
There is an agenda to this, like there is to everything the left and the Democrat Party and the media do.
There is no news, there is no reporting.
There is simply advancing the agenda.
That is all it is.
The news today is simply a soap opera with the requisite amount of suspense, drama, heroes, villains, and it is also just like a soap opera in the sense that they never deal with the reality of anything.
Obamacare is just some fascinating thing that has them interested in whether or not the great hero who might be on the verge of becoming a villain can save the day.
The effect that it's having on people is of no consequence, is of no interest to the people reporting it.
They couldn't care less what the real impact on people is of this thing.
It's just the latest thing to keep them interested.
It's the latest thing to keep them from getting bored.
It's all it is in terms of the media.
Now, on this website here, trying to match potential co-parents, there's an organization from Los Angeles called Modamily, M-O-D-A-A, or Modamoly.
It's a modern family.
I guess what it is, Modamily.
Modern Family.
And the CEO and the founder of Modamily is a guy named Ivan Fetovic.
Ivan, what did you want to be when you grow up?
Well, you know what I wanted to do, Mr. Wimbaugh?
I wanted to run a website that blew up the nuclear family.
I'm always fascinated by what people grow up to be, what they wanted to be, if they could ever imagine themselves doing what they're doing.
Anyway, Ivan might be Yvonne, don't know how he pronounces it.
Fetovic said that his website steers co-parents to the resources they will need after they connect with the right match.
You see a lawyer, he says, and then you get a co-parenting agreement, and then you do background checks to make sure that everything is okay.
That's how you find your co-parent, and then that's what you do afterwards.
So they're taking the prenup, and they're turning it into a whatever.
Finance, costs, and custody are all issues to sort out.
So is how couples plan to become pregnant.
Hey, just because you come up with a co-parent, it doesn't mean that one of them is going to agree to sleep with you.
That's a whole nother thing.
That's not part of the deal.
You've got to negotiate that too.
Will it be natural?
Will it be artificial insemination?
Most likely, it's going to be the latter.
They say here that most likely you find a co-parenting partner, it's going to be in vitro.
There isn't going to be maybe I don't look.
Legal experts told ABC News that making babies this way could be fraught with potential pitfalls.
No kidding.
You think so?
My folks, I'm telling you, these people are being portrayed as the coming thing, the latest trend that's going to overtake everything, and they're not.
They are, as most of these kind of crazy kooky things are, they are a minority being promoted and amplified by a medium made to look bigger than they are.
You, if you are in a nuclear family, you are now supposed to start feeling guilty and responsible for other people's unhappiness.
And you are to feel guilty just like you're responsible for global warming.
You are to feel guilty because somehow you have the means to have a nuclear family, and it just isn't fair.
And other people that don't are victims of you, and you have to make it right.
And how do you make it right?
Well, you look the other way while all this is happening, and maybe you pay additional taxes to support it or whatever.
But you are being guilt-tripped.
I know the cycle here.
I know how this all happens.
And it's just, let's get to the.
Oh, have you seen some Dingy Harry staffers are going to be exempt from Obamacare?
You know, the only place you want to be with this healthcare jazz, you want to work for government.
That's where you don't have to play ball.
That's where you get subsidized.
That's where you're exempted.
That's where you don't have to participate in it.
CNN Democrat Senate Majority Leader Dingy Harry Reed, one of Obamacare's architects, staunchest supporters, is also the only top congressional leader to exempt some of his staff from having to buy insurance through these new exchanges.
Dingy Harry is the exception among the other top congressional leaders.
Mainer, Nancy Pelosi, Mitch McConnell have all directed their staffs to join the exchanges.
But Dingy Harry says, I'm not putting my people in there.
I want them to stay working for me.
I can't have them go to exchanges and get ticked off and leave.
I can't pay them enough for them to go through.
Now, he doesn't say that, but that's obviously what he means.
I got a soundbite when we got to the roster.
Another Obama supporter, another woman who thought Obamacare was a miracle.
And now she can't afford it.
And she's flummoxed.
She doesn't.
Look, I know it is.
I'm trying to stay away from that.
Look, folks, this co-parenting thing, it started in the gay community, and I know that.
But I don't want to focus.
That doesn't, I don't need that element of the story because that'll just provide a target for people to start going after Reddit and the focus of what this thing.
I don't care where it started.
I know full well what's going on behind this co-parenting me.
I know full well what's going on, and you do too, behind this effort to bust up a nuclear family.
You know damn well it's just like every other tradition or institution that has defined this country since the founding.
They're all under assault, every damn one of them, every day.
Primarily by people who, for just whatever reason, just don't think they fit in with it.
And nobody wants to feel abnormal, kooky, or weird, so they try to redefine what's normal.
That's what's going on, and it's been going on for my whole life, and it's not going to stop.
The difference now is that you've got a whole political party that sponsors and promotes that, raises money from people, and then pays them back with politics.
Yeah, dingy Harry is trying to undo the law of the land.
There's no question.
By the way, you know, when George W. Bush spoke, just spoke, we don't care what he said.
The media immediately cast him as a dunce, as an idiot.
You recall this.
Bush was an idiot.
Reagan was an amiable dunce.
He was an idiot.
Bill Clinton, brilliant.
Hillary Clinton, smartest woman in the world.
Obama, so smart.
I mean, we have no prayer of keeping up.
Remember the Valerie Jarrett quotes that we found from, I guess it was last week.
He's just bored by all of this.
There isn't.
Valerie Jarrett says there hasn't been one time since she's known him that he's been intellectually challenged.
He's just so far ahead of us.
He's just light years beyond us.
We wilt in the glow of the radiation of his brilliance.
We can barely even look at it because we would blind ourselves, some such thing.
And I frankly think it's a crock.
I think it's all manufactured PR, and it's based on something that we've all known for a long time.
If you learn how to speak and have a decent vocabulary, you can fool all kinds of people into thinking that you are refined, elegant, educated, urbane, all of these upper crust elite descriptions.
And they tell us this about a guy who says, corpseman, Secretary of State, Attorney Generals, 57 states when he's campaigning.
And there's another one here, ladies and gentlemen.
Obama's not talking about his health care plan and how people want him to fail or want it to fail.
Does he have I am living rent-free, I think, in his head.
Anyway, Obama said that seems to be the only alternative that Obamacare's critics have.
That we'll just go back to the status quo because they sure haven't presented an alternative.
If you ask many of the opponents of this law what exactly they do differently, their answer seems to be, well, we'll just go back to the way things used to be.
Yeah, you keep your plan.
Now, my point is, just like somebody really refined, educated, doesn't say corpsmen, unless you're trying to insult them.
And it's secretaries of state and attorneys general.
But you cannot go back to the status quo.
The status quo is what is.
And here's Obama.
Well, that seems to be the only alternative that they have.
We'll just go back to the status quo.
You can't go back to the status quo is what's happening now.
Now, somebody whose intelligence would radiate with such intensity that we would be blinded looking at it would not make these kinds of errors.
I think we've been sold such a bill of goods on the guy from day one.
Okay, I'll take another brief time out here, folks.
An obscene profit timeout, but we'll be back before you know it.
Do not go away.
Right on.
Here we are back at it.
El Rushball doing what I was born to do.
To the phones we go.
And yeah, I'm going to get to the Investor's Business Daily poll, folks, on who the minority and the extremists are.
It dovetails with all this, but I want to try to combine all the elements here, and phone calls are one of them.
So we'll start at Newport Beach, California.
Hi, Steve.
Great to have you here.
Hello.
Hey, Rush.
Really enjoyed your show over the last couple decades.
Just wanted to comment about your analysis on the New York Times and their liberal bias.
I'm a lifelong Republican.
I believe there's a liberal bias to the media, but don't forget that just like your show is tailored to your audience, the New York Times tailors their stories to their audience.
And the biggest gay and lesbian community in the country is in New York.
So it shouldn't surprise anybody that their articles are tailored to that particular audience.
I don't.
I don't dispute that at all.
But I'm going to be honest with you.
I've got an agenda here.
I'm trying to save America.
The New York Times has an agenda.
There's no question about that.
Of course, they're serving their audience.
You're exactly right.
But they also, the New York Times sets the table for news coverage in newsrooms everywhere across the country.
What's in the New York Times is where news directors, smaller outlets, and the networks get their guidance on what's important, what's news, and so forth.
They've played that role for the longest time, longer than I've been alive, and it's alive and well today.
But there's no question that they care more about just serving an audience.
They are trying to affect outcomes.
There's no question about it.
Well, if we're really concerned about the situation, and I am, complaining about the media is really the car is, you know, the horse is out of the barn.
We really need to focus on education and get in front of the problem instead of worrying about what's said after the fact is people are adults and out of the system.
No question.
I mean, that's, you're singing my song here.
You're singing my song here because I think having lost education is one of the reasons we're where we are.
However, I'm not going to just give up.
Okay, well, we've lost the media and the media is who they are.
I'm not complaining about that.
I'm not one of those.
Those people do that bug me too.
Not complaining about them.
And if I sound like I'm complaining, let me just correct you.
I'm not complaining.
I'm informing.
I'm going to tell you something, Steve.
There's a whole bunch of low-information people in this country who have no clue that the media is biased.
They just believe everything in it.
Whether it's TMZ or CNN or Yahoo, they just believe it.
And one of the things, one of the many things that I'm trying to do here is offer education to people and help them creatively, thinkingly analyze what they are told and by whom, so that they can perhaps learn to be discriminating.
in whether or not what they're hearing and seeing and reading is truthful.
It's no different.
The education is taking place outside the classroom.
It's happening here on the radio and it's occurring among people who have already come out of the education system and now they're adults leading their lives.
And it's working, by the way.
I'm getting more and more email, phone calls, and people.
You know, I used to think X, but I finally stumbled across you, and now I know what I was doing wrong or what I believed wasn't true.
The difference is I will admit my agenda proudly.
I'm proud of my agenda.
I'm proud of what I believe in.
I am proud of what I'm trying to achieve.
New York Times, the rest of the media, will not even admit they have an agenda.
And that's the big difference.
Quick timeout.
Great call, Steve.
Thanks much.
We'll be back.
Don't go away.
Nope, I was not kidding.
The president's out there quoting, well, he's not quoting the Pope.
He's following the Pope's lead.
And the Pope is out there ripping into trickle-down economics, ripping into capitalism.
I mean, I'm still stunned by that.
But Obama's on there following the lead.
I've got soundbites.
Right here.
I have so much left to try to cram into the program today.
We'll do our best, folks.
That's why I'm talking fast here.
Yeah, listen fast if you're going to hear everything today.