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Dec. 10, 2013 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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December 10, 2013, Tuesday, Hour #3
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I'll tell you, I don't know if it sounds like it, folks, but we have been chugging along here at what feels like to your host anyway, a breakneck pace.
And just I haven't had time to breathe here.
That's okay.
I'm not I'm not complaining.
It's good, actually.
And we have another hour left of it.
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Mr. Snerdley just said something very interesting to me.
He said that uh he he's been spending time since Mandela died giving people the five-minute short version history of Africa, the continent of Africa.
One of the things that stands out, not just about Africa, if I can expand upon something he said.
He said, You look at the British and their colonialism.
He said that, you know, in Rhodesia, which is now Zimbabwe.
He said that colonialism was a distasteful thing, but the sad reality is that every place that the British colonized was better off under colonialism than they are today after it, after the British were kicked out.
Rhodesia is an example.
India, some might even say.
Conrad Black, who uh latest book, Flight of the Eagle, I recommended uh strenuously on this program, wrote a piece, National Review Online on this very phenomenon that while British colonialism has its detractors, and it's not something that you want to promote Obama hated it, for example, still does.
Uh the fact remains that in every country where the British colonized, there's some exceptions, but not many.
These countries are far worse off today than they were under British rule.
And Rhodesia is one example.
And Rhodesia was a jewel, it was a crown jewel of Southern Africa.
Today it's just it's led by a communist, Robert Mugabe, and the place is practically dead.
And so then the question, I get this a lot, by the way, when I start telling people about my definition of American exceptionalism, particularly young people will ask me, well, why hasn't what happened in America happened anywhere else in the world?
And you know it's really a great question.
It's a great question when you understand that young people today are not taught that what happened in America was anything special.
In fact, they're taught just the opposite.
They're taught today that America's founding was nothing spectacular.
It might even be immoral.
It might even be unjust, slavery and discrimination against women and all these things that kids today are taught about the founding of the country.
So they don't think it's anything special.
At least they're not taught that.
But then when you do explain, take the time to explain what American exceptionalism is, and try to explain the uniqueness and the greatness of this this country, then the question invariably is asked.
Well, why hasn't it happened anywhere else?
Why why, for example, during Polt's reign in Cambodia, didn't somebody rise up and say enough of this and establish freedom and a growing economy for the people that live there.
Why didn't it happen in Vietnam?
Uh why why why hasn't it happened in China?
Why doesn't it happen in uh any number of places, anywhere, why hasn't it happened anywhere but here?
And it's such a great question, because it hasn't happened anywhere else but here.
There never has been a country like this.
That's the point.
There never has been a country founded in goodness.
Blessed by God, I happen to believe, that became a force for good the world over.
It became a superpower within its own borders And furthermore, stood for and defended liberty and freedom everywhere else in the world.
Wherever disasters, the United States is the first country there to help clean up, pick up, restore.
World War II Marshall Plan United States.
United States has built the world, fed the world, clothed the world.
How?
But more important, why hasn't it happened anywhere else?
And there really is an answer to it.
And it's not that complicated.
It may be hard to believe.
But for young people, the answer is, well, there just hasn't been a George Washington in Cambodia yet.
And there hasn't been a Thomas Jefferson in Zimbabwe.
And there hasn't been a Benjamin Franklin in Burma.
And there hasn't been a James Madison in Columbia.
They were special people.
They were special people alive for the most part at the same time.
You talk about a confluence of events and people alive in the same place at the same moment in history.
That is the simplest way to explain, particularly to young people, what is really special about this country.
And the founding fathers are not just some people that happened to get mad a long time ago and want their freedom.
They were special people in addition to what their natural yearnings were.
There hasn't been anybody else write a constitution like Madison.
There just hasn't been.
*shriek*
Because that person hasn't existed anywhere but here.
Now the person may exist, but for whatever reason hasn't surfaced or been able to achieve, but regardless, for all practical purposes, there isn't another James Madison anywhere or George Washington or John Adams, take your pick of any of the founders.
They were here.
It's what's so special about our founding and what is so special about our Constitution, and it is why so many Americans are beside themselves over what is happening now.
It's being this.
I said earlier in the program that there was a there's a day in the not recent past of this country where whoever the president was would not gain to share.
A stage with the collection of human debris that's over in South Africa today.
As Brian Williams said, you've got criminals, you've got thieves, you've got all kinds of reprobates.
So if you get the Star Wars bar scene over there.
And not that long ago, the American president would have found a way to stand alone.
Or with allies at a memorial such as this for Mandela, but would not have shared a stage and would not have legitimized those others.
The handshake for Raul Castro, again, I'm telling you, the truth of that is if you want to be offended by it, don't be.
Obama would have bowed if he knew who Castro was.
I think he's you've got to understand Obama's mindset.
When he arrives at this thing, you know that he's taking selfies.
He's thinking to himself, what must these people think to be in my presence?
He's not running on that state.
Oh, there's Raul Castro.
I think I'll I'll go shake his hand and I'll really irritate some people.
Or there's Raul Castro, I really admire that.
He's not, he doesn't think that way.
He is on stage, and it's all about him.
And what happened was that Raul Castro shook his hand.
Not the other way around.
It's like Christian Aminpore said in describing this scene, this, the memorial for Nelson Mandela, is the opening act for Barack Obama.
Opening act for what?
Not just the speech that he made.
He's going to be there if you didn't.
The opening act for Obama to assume stately control over the world is what the opening act means.
And people like Christiana Manpoor love this because she thinks it's a thumb in our eye.
And I'll tell you, the American left is as motivated and inspired to offend and irritate and defeat us as they are by anything else.
So seeing Obama universally loved and adored and accepted around the world, they just eat that up.
And it will touch flavor and influence their reporting.
So she'll call it the opening act for Obama, knowing full well, A, she really believes it.
But she also is very much aware it's going to offend people back here.
And that's cool too.
That's uh like icing on the cake.
But I digress.
There's a day not long ago where this today would not have happened.
An American president would not deign to legitimize some of the bad actors that were among the so-called dignitaries at this memorial.
But we live in a different era now where the left celebrates this country being chopped down to size.
The left celebrates this country being criticized and thought of as nothing special, and in fact thought of as to blame for a lot of the world's problems.
I mean, the president has apologized for our country numerous times.
He clearly is of a mindset that the U.S. is guilty of things, far more than it is deserving of praise for things.
This Mugabe guy is such a bad act, not even Mandela wanted anything to do with it.
In fact, there was I remember this like it was yesterday.
There was even among those who were offering Mandela a chance to get out of prison if he would simply renounce terrorism, there were some that are deathly afraid of it, because they were afraid that he would embrace Mugabe, and Mugabe had embraced a communist that was in the process of just tearing Rhodesia apart.
He was basically nationalizing as much property as he is, taking private property away from farmers, nationalizing it, putting it in control of people who had no idea how to how to run it.
It just took that country to hell.
And there was fear that Mandela would embrace somebody like Mugabe.
Turned out that Mandela wanted nothing to do with Mugabe.
He was smart enough to know that he wanted nothing to do by any means.
They didn't want to be seen with him, didn't want to be seen to be a supporter of Mugabe's.
But it's a shame because the uh people of the world, like I say, most people are born to tyranny, born to poverty.
And it would have been our fate as well had it not been the confluence of events and people that really was a miracle.
The founding of this country, particularly measured against world history, was a genuine miracle.
In fact, there was a book written about the constitutional convention in Philadelphia, I think it was Catherine Tinker, thinker, Minker, whatever.
And it was she the title of the book was The Miracle in Philadelphia.
It really was.
Whole country's a miracle.
It's special, it's exceptional, it's exceptional because it's such a difference from what most of the people since the beginning of human history have known.
The idea of improving one's standard of living, that most people, In even today in the history of the world have been preoccupied with one thing, and that's staying alive that day, which means finding food and warding off predators and attackers and what have you.
The idea of improving your standard of living, that's a luxury that nobody contemplated.
That didn't become something that became expected until the United States of America.
That's why, folks, it's uh it is really painful for me to see this country so denigrated by people who don't appreciate our history and don't want to appreciate it, and for some silly ideological reasons disagree with it.
It's just I don't know how else to describe it other than a shame.
And that may be a little naive because the people who are actively engaged trying to transform this country and and and destroy it are really mean.
They're really evil.
Their designs are evil.
They're not just misguided.
They know what they're doing.
Miracle in Philadelphia, the story of the Constitutional Convention, Catherine Drinker Bowen, that's who it was.
Anyway, I gotta take a brief time out.
We'll come back.
I want to go back to the sound bites from South Africa, and the opening act for President Obama, as Christiana Munpo called the memorial service for Nelson Mandela, the opening act for Obama.
Believe that.
Hi, welcome back.
How are you?
Rush Limbaugh.
Merry Christmas to all of us.
Here at the EIB Network, Lakeside, California.
Hi, Chris.
Great to have you on the program.
Hello.
Good morning, Megatidos Rush.
Thank you.
Thanks very much.
Hey, um, I just I'm extremely concerned about what's going on, and I just think people are still in major denial here about what's going on.
Um, with Obamacare, and what really is the purpose of it.
We we went up to the Reagan Library, which I'd never been up before, and I actually got rejuvenated by reading all of his wonderful quotes and his positive and his love for his country and all that kind of stuff.
Did you see the pictures of me speaking there?
Yes.
No, I'm joking.
That's the kind of thing Obama would ask.
Did you see me when you went to the Reagan library?
I was just kidding.
Did you see did you you you saw Air Force One hanging from the rafters?
We did.
Is that not amazing?
It is amazing.
It's an amazing place, and we touched the piece of the Berlin Wall, and um you know, he was such a great guy, and I feel bad that Romney, I think he Romney was a real sincere American, but I don't think he he was honest enough with the people and pushed hard enough like Reagan would have done.
I've been a Republican since I was 18 years old and I'm fifty-eight, and I just recently left, and I use Reagan's quote.
I didn't leave them, they left me.
Yeah.
Well, Romney, you take your pick of them.
There's not there aren't there just aren't very many Republicans are willing to be honest with the American people about who the Democrats are, what we're up against.
No, and and we're we're dying for it out here.
I'm I would beg somebody to do it.
It's just it's it's infuriating.
And I look at Obamacare and I think this is what I think it is.
I talked to a member of Congress last night.
Yeah.
You know what?
They're scared.
They're they're they're gonna do a budget.
They're gonna do a budget because they just they're scared to death of another shutdown and losing PR.
So they're gonna do they're they're they're they're gonna they're gonna give away some sequester stuff.
They're good because they just they they claim look if we if there's another shutdown and we get blamed for it, it takes Obamacare off the front page.
So they are just in total uh uh defensive mode.
Uh they're just scared to death that there's gonna be a shutdown and they're gonna be blamed for it, and they won't recover from it.
So there's no pushback.
There, and there isn't gonna be.
Uh, well, that's the scary part.
And you and you look at Obamacare, and and I think, you know, the death panels, I mean, we know they're in there, and what's the purpose of that?
I think it's to lower all the people that are on social security.
They're gonna send them all home with a pill and say, here, go home and die.
You're not worth saving.
And then, why would they do that?
Why do you think they would why why why do you want to?
Get them off Social Security.
And and and and because in a communist country, in my opinion, you don't want people alive who knows freedom.
You really think that one of the objectives is to withhold medical care and treatment from seasoned citizens to so as to basically thin the herd.
Yes.
To get rid of the elderly population to save some money because we simply don't have the money to provide social security and health care for everybody.
And so the people who have lived most of their lives by now, let's just send them home with a pain pill.
Yeah.
You really do.
Well I absolutely bottom line believe that.
And that's what you think people are in denial about?
Yes.
They think it's oh, it's free.
Oh boy, you know, all this fun stuff.
And it's going to be like, yeah, just wait.
Well, you need to go to the doctor.
And then and then Rush, I saw 2016, and then what I think is next is the middle class.
Because did you ever see Dr. Shivago?
Yeah, I think, but I might have been drunk.
Well, okay.
Well, you ought to watch it again because it's the Russian Revolution, and all there was was the two classes.
There was the rich, which is going to be Obama and Hollywood and all those, the rich class, and then the middle class is gone.
Gone.
And then it's just poor people living on the street, don't have heat, don't have food.
I believe 2016, I saw the movie, and I'm like, yep, that's where we're headed.
It'll be the poor people and people at work for Google.
Well, yeah, okay.
I'll buy that.
Well, they'll be rich.
That's what I mean.
Yeah.
Yeah.
The haves and have nots.
Well, anyway, it's it's it's very important.
Well, look at I I think there's a growing awareness.
I don't think that many people think it's just this gigantic freebie anymore.
I think a lot of people, and more so each day, are becoming aware of what this really is.
Thank you.
Okay, back to the audio sound bites and the opening act.
Trying to think.
Do I need to replay?
Let's see.
That's uh grab number three.
I just want to play the opening little bit here of Soundbite No.
Three, because it's been since the first hour that I aired it, and I just want to prove to you that Christian Amon Poor did refer to all of this.
This Mandela Memorial is the opening act for Obama, CNN today on their early morning show called New Day, where Chris Cuomo talking to Christian Aminpo.
And President Obama couldn't be getting a better warm up.
I know.
Look at this.
The whole crowd, American gospel singer, Kurt Franklin, who just brought this stadium to its face.
That's it.
You heard her say it.
And President Obama couldn't be getting a better warm-up act.
And now we pick up where we left off.
George Stephanopoulos.
Everything's about Obama.
This is Stephanopoulos on Good Morning America talking to the chief foreign correspondent.
Complete with uh trench coat.
Terry Moran.
It's the Peter Jennings memorial trench coat.
Every foreign correspondent ABC wears one.
And they're having a discussion about Obama's remarks at the opening act.
The crowd really embracing President Obama when they saw him come up on the screen.
No question.
His picture, and then when he stepped forward to the podium, the crowd just lit up.
And as he spoke, I looked around.
This crowd was in wrapped attention to the President's words.
You see, it's about Obama.
The death of Mandela about Obama.
The Mandela Memorial Service about Obama.
The crowd is not even there to memorialize Mandela.
It's all about Obama.
And Stephanopoulos, wow, crowd really embracing President Obama.
Up next.
CBS This Morning, managing Egder at Time Magazine, former Richard Stengel, now a he just changed places.
A Democrat hack used to be at Time, now at CBS.
He's talking with Charlie Rose and Nora O'Donnell, who says the President used his speech in the warm-up act to say we must all ask how well have I applied Mandela's lessons to my own life?
And how well have you applied the lessons to my own life?
That That that matter of reflection about Mandela's life to our own differences and circumstances.
What do you make of that?
I the question makes no sense.
Not the point.
Here's what the panelists said.
He's talking about the inner Mandela in all of us.
I mean, if you can somehow imbue yourself with these values, I mean it will make us a better person.
And um but he also is very smart, I think, to notice that look, there's still political prisoners in the world now.
This, you know, Mandela's long walk is not over yet.
Exactly.
The struggle continues.
The struggle continues.
That's right.
I'm sorry, but Mandela's long walk is over.
Well, this is the kind of symbolism these people engage in.
Do you think that's an outrageous thing to say?
Is that a disrespectful thing to say?
Here these pieces, Richard Stingle.
Well, you know, Mandela's long walk is not yet over.
Gail King, yes!
Charlie Rose, exactly.
The struggle continues.
Let no man say that Charlie Rose is not down for the struggle.
I guess Charlie clearly is.
And then Stengel comes back, yeah, the Gail Gail Kill says what?
Stingles.
The struggle, yeah, that's yeah, right, the struggle, yeah.
Bill Keller, the former editor at the New York Times, was also at CBS this morning, talking about Mandela's memorial service, the opening act for Obama, and he and Nora O'Donnell have this little chit-chat.
As they mentioned President Zuma, there was booing in that stadium as the current state of South Africa, while much better because of Mandela, there is still extreme poverty, has one of the worst income inequality rates in the world.
What?
What what?
Uh what?
Wait.
What?
Uh play play that again.
I'm not sure I heard this.
Right.
Uh.
Yeah, uh play confused here.
Pla play that again.
As they mentioned President Zuma, there was booing in that stadium as the current state of South Africa, while much better because of Mandela, there is still extreme poverty, has one of the worst income inequality rates in the world.
40% of South Africans and they're mostly black live on less than $2 a day.
Wait.
What?
How how?
But I uh go to I thought that was all fixed.
I thought there wasn't any income inequality, and since the I Oh gee.
It wasn't made that much better when they got rid of apartheid.
It wasn't in Zuma, he's the crime rate exploded.
Crime rate exploded?
Really?
Oh man, I don't know if I can go on.
Seriously?
This is all true?
To had 40% of South Africans, mostly black, live on less than $2 a day after.
Uh income inequality, extreme well, they just must not.
That's that's got to be what it is.
They just haven't got communism up and running yet, then I guess.
No, no, what do you mean the right people haven't run it?
Mandela is their chief Zuma?
What do you mean that right people haven't run it?
They just haven't, you know what it is?
They just haven't gotten enough funding yet.
That has to be what it is.
Ladies and gentlemen, what you just heard Bill Keller.
What in the world are we celebrating?
We got a country where 40% of the people live on less than $2 a day.
40% mostly black.
What are we celebrating here?
Obviously, Mandela didn't know about income inequality, or he would have fixed it.
What really?
What are we celebrating here?
I mean, for crying out loud, the U.S. minimum wage is seven bucks an hour.
Forty percent of the people live on less than two dollars a day.
I really don't know what there is to be celebrating here.
Well, I know Mandela, don't misunderstand, but I mean, for crying out, this is just you know, once again, the left has hijacked the death of somebody who in many people's minds was a great man, and they're running.
They're just going to town with it.
Funeral crashers, wedding crashers, whatever they got.
Well stone memorial, you name it.
John McCain has weighed in on Obama's Castro handshake.
You know what he said?
Like shaking hands with Hitler.
Public radio international correspondent Todd Zwilllich caught up with McCain in Washington and asked him about the unplanned meeting in the handshake.
And McCain said, well, it gives Raul some propaganda to continue to prop up dictatorial brutal regime.
That's all it is.
Why should you shake hands with somebody who's keeping Americans in prison?
I mean, what's the point?
Neville Chamberlain shook hands with Hitler.
Look, and he's right.
This is my exactly my point.
There's a time not long ago where no American president would get anywhere near a Raul Castro.
Or any of the other people.
Most of the other people on that platform.
I got a couple more soundbites here.
I gotta go quickly.
This is Bono.
Well known uh peace activist, AIDS activist, uh humanitarian, uh rock and roll supercrooner, uh dubious hairstyles now and then, but but uh universally respected guy really cares.
And uh more than anybody else about a lot of things.
And he was on Anderson Cooper, who just hit an all-time ratings low this week.
So I read that.
I just that's what I read.
And Cooper said, Mandela talked a lot about poverty, which is obviously an issue very close to your heart.
I think he said uh without the eradication of poverty, there can't be any true freedom, right?
Yeah, you know, overcoming poverty is not the gesture of charity.
It's an act of justice.
Like slavery like apartheid, he said, poverty is not natural.
It is man-made, and so can be overcome by the actions of human beings.
And he said, to some generations folds the chance to be great.
You can be that great generation.
Okay, 40% of the population living on two dollars a day.
This is this is the kind of stuff, folks, that these guys never get called on this stuff.
You know, overcoming poverty is not the gesture of charity, it's an act of justice.
Now, oh uh Bono has admitted, by the way, that capitalism's the cure.
He has said that before.
Uh, but overcoming poverty is not the gesture of it's an act of justice.
Poverty is not natural, but it is.
Poverty is the default condition for most people, and it is brought about by tyrannical regimes.
Uh here's Bono.
Let's, in fact, this is November 12th, 2012 in Washington at Georgetown University.
Rockstar preaches capitalism.
Wow.
Sometimes I hear myself and I just can't believe it.
But commerce is real.
That's what you're about here.
It's real.
Aid is just a stopgap.
Commerce, entrepreneurial capitalism takes more people out of poverty than aid, of course, we know that.
We need Africa to become an economic powerhouse.
Yeah.
Mono is right on the money, but you're not going to do it with current leadership in most of that continent.
Just isn't gonna happen.
Sad to say.
I tell you, Bono may have a point.
South Africa needs a Walmart.
heart.
Okay, folks, uh, we're out of here.
And if I survive what's next, we'll be back tomorrow.
And I should.
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