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March 6, 2014 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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March 6, 2014, Thursday, Hour #2
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No.
No, no, no, no.
The point is the left really is anti American tradition.
The left really does not believe in the old American dream.
It's not that they don't even believe it.
They advocate against it.
That's what this Cadillac.
Hullabaloo illustrates.
And is all about.
You know, we we think we're all in this together.
We might have our disagreements, Democrats and Republicans, but we all want the same things that we don't anymore.
There is not a singular American culture that's oriented around growth and prosperity and individual achievement and success.
That's not what the Democrat Party's about anymore.
Their power base is not rooted in people like that.
Their power base is rooted in the failures and victims of our society.
And they are trying to create even more of them.
The enemy, as far as the Democrat Party, American Left are concerned, the enemy are the successful.
The enemy is those who are achieved.
The enemy is the philosophy that undergirds the American dream.
It's called consumerism and capitalism, and it's uh supposedly void of any real meaning and you know values.
It's just about who has more stuff and who has more money and who's richer and all that, and they are full-fledged resentful of that.
Now, this has been building for 50 years.
It didn't just happen overnight, but to some people who are casual observers, it has happened overnight.
We had we went from George Bush, who was a Republican for all intents and purposes, far as low information voters are concerned, a conservative, and he won two elections.
He loses, and within two years, everything the country stood for is gone and finished.
How did this happen?
That's a lot of people are asking.
How in the world did this happen overnight?
And the answer is it hasn't been happening overnight.
It didn't.
It has been building for years, starting in first grade, kindergarten, all the way up through the university level.
The anti-America dream speech philosophy, the uh uh the pro-Western socialist view of things, the all-powerful state, the idea that people aren't smart enough to take care of themselves.
That people aren't capable of taking care of themselves, that people aren't aren't on their own able to make the right decisions.
They're not gonna spend their money right.
They need people do that for them.
Liberals, uh, preferably in government, determining how people live and what decisions are made.
And if they make the wrong ones, then we'll penalize them.
Uh it's it's a it's an amazing thing that a commercial has come along and shown this for what it is.
So let me replay.
And this is not the whole whole thing's a 60.
Uh, we cut it down to 45 seconds just for the essence.
You know, brevity is the soul of wit.
And this commercial literally has the left in a tizzy.
I read it, folks.
It's my gig here.
Show prep, I know no bounds.
And I'm telling you that all over leftist blogs, there is genuine rage over this.
Here it is again.
Why do we work so hard?
For what?
This stuff.
Other countries they work, they stroll home, they stop by the cafe, they take August off.
Off.
Why are you like that?
Why aren't we like that?
Because we're crazy-driven hard-working believers.
Those other countries think we're nuts.
Whatever.
Were the Wright brothers insane?
Bill Gates, Les Paul, Ali.
Were we nuts when we pointed to the moon?
That's right.
We went up there, you know what we got.
Bored.
So we left.
That's pretty simple.
You work hard, you create your own luck, and you gotta believe anything is possible.
As for all the stuff, that's the upside of only taking two weeks off in August.
Oh man, I'll tell you, they look at this as an assault on Europe.
They look at it as an assault on sidewalk cafes, Starbucks, and this kind of thing.
They look at it as an assault on their lifestyle.
Remember, these are the people telling us that you are liberated when you get fired.
You're liberated when you lose your job because now you don't have to do some stupid job to have help care because the government will give it to you.
You don't have to work anymore.
That's where they come from.
Yeah, you can you can finally go discover the inner artist in you.
And you now can join the legion of great human beings who have painted.
And you can be one of them.
Not tied to some silly job.
You don't need stuff.
You need to be the inner artiste.
And while you piddle around and produce absolutely nothing, we will take care of you.
And we will give you your health care while you explore your inner uselessness.
And only dream about what you could be while looking at other people who are successful and instantly hating them.
Let me read to you even more from this piece at the Huffing and Puffington Post.
There are plenty of things to celebrate about being American, but being possessed by a blind mania for working yourself into the ground and buying more stuff and mocking people in other countries just isn't one of them.
And that's how they view this commercial.
This commercial is advocating for working yourself to death, buying a bunch of useless stuff, and making fun of other people.
That's the great sin.
It's a toss-up between working hard and making fun of other people that offends them the most.
They don't know which bothers them the most.
So we wish we could say that Cadillac's commercial for its new electric car, which debuted during the Olympics was a joke.
But no, it seems to be dead serious.
A completely shameless celebration of our work hard by more culture with a blanket dismissal of other countries and their laziness tossed in for good measure.
Just love this is so predictable, too.
It's it's so right on the money.
People are just doing us the biggest favor by telling us exactly who they are and what they resent and what they don't like.
And why what is it about hard work that bothers them?
Bill Gates, I guarantee you, when he was building Microsoft, it wasn't work.
It was love.
Let me use myself.
I don't look at what I do as work.
I absolutely love it.
I've always worked hard, and I absolutely love it, and I am thankful as I can be that I found what I love.
I'm ecstatic, I found my passion.
I describe it as doing what I was born to do.
I'm one of the I'm one of the lucky few, apparently, who found what that is.
And by the way, not insignificant part, a way to get paid for doing it.
It's not hard work.
Well, it is, but I don't look at it that way.
It's not arduous.
I don't get up regretting it.
I don't spend my days wringing my hands ticked off at people for what I have to do.
I look at I think most people every day's an opportunity to these people, every day's drudgery.
Every day is more punishment.
Every day is more of an excrement sandwich.
And uh just this work hard, who needs that.
There's a reason why the United States has been the lone superpower.
And by the way, we now have a president who agrees with this take on this commercial.
This is this The American dream's always been phony.
You know why?
The American dreams have been a trick.
The American dream's a trick fostered on people to get them to work hard for evil corporate bosses who won't pay them anything with this impossible result that they're going to make it big someday.
That's a lie.
This is what the left thinks.
It's a lie put forth by corporate America, rich America, to get you to bust your butt for them while they pay you nothing.
And you will die dreaming of what you never had, and my God, you will have wasted your life in the process.
And that is their outlook.
You are nothing but a victim being exploited by the evil rich who are mostly white, by the way, and that's important in this too.
The article continues.
The opening shot shows a middle-aged man played by the actor Neil McDonough looking out over his backyard pool.
That bugs them too.
The guy has a big house.
It's in a nice neighborhood, and he's got a pool.
And it's a built-in pool.
It's not one of these cheap balloons that you put water in.
It's a real cement pond.
Really ticks the left off.
And he's looking over his domain.
He says, Why do we work so hard, Nepal?
For this, for the stuff.
As the ad continues, it becomes clear that the answer to this rhetorical question is actually a big fat yes.
All we do is work hard for stuff.
And it gets worse, she says here.
Other countries, they work, he says.
They stroll home.
They stop by the cafe.
They take August off.
Off.
Which they do.
They take August off.
They do stroll home.
And when they're not strolling, they're driving little lawnmowers.
They call cars.
Then he reveals just what it is that makes Americans better than all those lazy espresso sipping foreigners.
You just feel the hate dripping from every word here.
Then he reveals just what it is that makes Americans better than all those lazy espresso sipping foreigners.
Which, by the way, Carolyn still are one of, I'm sure would love to be one of those lazy espresso.
And she may be, who knows?
Sipping foreigners.
But that's the lifestyle.
That's sophistication, see.
Sophistication is uh work.
I'll do what I have to, and I'm gonna really devote myself to what's important.
I'm gonna go paint.
Or I'm gonna go visit a museum.
And after I visit the museum, then I'm gonna go to the art gallery.
And after I finish the art gallery, then I'm gonna head over back to the espresso cafe.
When I finish there, I'm gonna head to the real bar and I'm gonna have a couple shots.
Maybe some white wine, maybe some camom beer.
When I finish there, I'm then gonna go to the craft show at the local community center, where I'm gonna learn how to knit and sew and knit and peel and whatever, and then I'm gonna go home and I'm gonna water my garden.
And right before I go to bed, I'm gonna add to the poem I've been writing for the past month.
Yes, I'll work on my poetry.
And when I finish my poetry, I will then retire and go to bed.
And when I awaken, I will get up.
And I will hate the fact that the first part of my day is a job where I'm going to be exploited by some evil capitalist, but I'll go do it anyway, so that when it's over I can stroll back to the espresso bar.
And maybe while I'm at the espresso bar, I'll dream of inventing the flying car.
Yeah.
And I'll write it and scribb it out there on my Microsoft surface because I don't want the best.
The iPad.
No.
And then I just repeat the cycle.
I'll get a different museum and I'll go see different displays, exhibits, and so forth.
That's sophistication.
That is what we should expect.
All this this hard work stuff, what a crock.
If you do work, by the way, if you do get sucked in, make sure you work for a nonprofit.
And in fact, the best thing you make sure you run a nonprofit.
That way you can really get paid for not doing anything.
That way, you're not working for some enterprise devoted to the evil of profit.
No, you're working for a nonprofit.
You will live off what other people give you.
And you will claim that you are better people because you have not been soiled by the poisons of capitalism.
There isn't any profit or loss in what you do.
You're interested in public service.
Then when you finish that, it's to the soup kitchen of the homeless shelter.
Just to look in, just to see that people are there.
And you'll feel great about yourself because you care.
And then you'll demand the rich pay higher taxes so that the soup kitchen doesn't close.
Oh yes.
Why aren't you like that?
Back to the story.
Why aren't you like that?
The actor says.
Why aren't we like that?
Because we're crazy.
We're driven.
We're hardworking believers, that's why.
Well, by this point, the ad has already become little more than a parody of itself, but we had to ask believers in what?
The pursuit of stuff.
The other reason for America's superiority, according to Cadillac, our unrivaled space exploration program.
Yeah, we're the only ones going back up there, the ad boasts.
Never mind the fact that U.S. government is now paying Russia 70 million dollars a pop to shuttle NASA astronauts to the International Space Station.
Hey, Ms. Gregory, never mind that Barack Obama made NASA into a Muslim outreach department, and it's Barack Obama, your idol and hero that makes it necessary to pay the Russians $70 million for every astronaut to the space station.
By the way, with this thing in the Ukraine with the KGB versus Obama, i.e.
acorn, what happens if Putin says, you know what?
You're really ticked me off, and I'm not taking you back to your space station.
How are we gonna get there, Ms. Gregory?
Because Obama shut it down.
NASA's a museum for Muslim outreach now.
Cadillacs have long been a quintessentially American symbol of wealth and status, but as the commercial proves, no amount of wealth or status is a guarantee of good taste.
Now the luxury car company is selling a vision of the American dream at its worst.
Work yourself into the ground.
Take as little time off as possible and buy expensive crap.
Specifically a 2014 Cadillac.
That's what she says.
Doesn't talk about working yourself into the ground.
It's not talking about working yourself to death to punishment.
The ad is about working yourself to prosperity and achievement and success.
And they just can't stand it, folks.
Here's the thing about hard work.
Hard work is hard.
And by the way, folks, not everybody loves their work.
This commercial is an indication of what can happen if you work hard, even though you may not like it.
But you know what this commercial really is?
By the way, they this commercial was originally not for an electric car.
They threw they made this ad about an electric car to try to soften the blow.
So that would offend these leftist wackos less.
And the fact that Cadillac is this is a commercial about An electric car doesn't make a difference.
But let me tell you what Cadillac sees.
The ad tells us that people with money do not want little bivvy hybrids and lawnmowers with seats on them.
This ad tells us that people with money want comfortable, sexy, luxury cars.
And I'll tell you what else this ad tells us.
Cadillac sees the enthusiasm for the Tesla.
In California, the number one selling car of all cars is the Model S. I think it's the Model S. What's some model of Tesla?
They're expensive as hell.
This Cadillac is 75 grand in this ad.
So Teslas are going, I mean the six figures.
One of my buddies, I came back from LA.
One of my buddies told me bought one and was afraid I was going to get mad at him.
He said, I'm not buying it because I'm a wacko rush.
I love the car.
I can call your website up on the in a dashboard in your car.
I love the car.
And I can, you know, Russia, I get 175 miles of charge on it.
And I said, wow.
But Cadillac sees that people with money, and that's who they sell their cars to, people with money, they can see the enthusiasm for the Tesla.
The Tesla is the com competition for this ELV car of theirs.
And it's clear who the market is.
The market that this car is made for is high achievers.
And Cadillac's trying to talk to them in their native language.
High achievers.
And the left just hates it.
So I say I hear that Acorn is going to be making a uh speech uh on on Ukraine here in five minutes.
Did I hear that right?
Obama is gonna, or is it Kerry doing it for him?
Obama did just get oh, okay.
I got a note saying he's going to be doing it in five minutes.
So okay, so we had the latest from Acorn, so now we'll wait from the uh KGB uh to react.
Because that that's what that's what this Ukraine situation is.
So it's just a KGB versus Acorn, community organizers versus the KGB.
Well, that's true.
Obama is the one reacting.
But Putin gets his shots in.
I mean, easily.
Okay, to the phones we go, and we're gonna start in Dayton, Ohio.
Julie, I'm glad you called.
It's great to have you on the program.
Hello.
Thanks.
I'm so happy to talk to you again.
Thank you.
Um, Home of the Wright Brothers, which was mentioned in the commercial.
That's right.
Yes, Dayton, Ohio.
I love this commercial.
I don't typically watch commercials because I DBR a lot of stuff, but I happen to be watching something live, so I was kind of ignoring the commercial while it was on until I heard the gentleman talk about taking a month off in August versus we take two weeks.
Right.
And that just totally struck a chord with me.
I jumped up, I backed the commercial up.
I had to I listened to that commercial over and over again, and I was just like, oh my gosh, I want to go out and buy a Cadillac now.
What did you like about it?
You gotta get specific for me here.
Avi, you had an overall favorable impression.
You felt great.
Watch it, but what hit you?
What did you like about it?
Well, I I work for a pharmaceutical company and a foreign pharmaceutical company.
And I know that for a any drug to be successful, it has to be successful in the United States.
And so otherwise that country, that company is not going to do well.
And Americans are the hardest, hardest working Americans.
And we push and we push, and we work 40, 50, 60, 70 hours a week.
We work one job, two jobs, three jobs.
I mean, we work hard and we work hard for, you know.
And it doesn't leave any time to paint or write poetry or go to the museum.
none at all.
And and one of my best friends, um, well, I have a best friend Marcus, who I love dearly, but then my best friend Georgia, she um is Greek, and when she would go over to Greece, she says it is so laid back.
She says that they take they take two hour naps at at lunchtime, and they close down work at like three, four o'clock, and they just don't work as hard as Americans doing it.
That's not the right no, no, they are more sophisticated.
They are more balanced.
They have their lives in much more perspective.
The Greeks never mind that they're broke and in debt and totally dependent on others to keep them living.
The Greeks and the Spaniards and the British and the French and the Swiss.
We love the Swiss and the Danes.
We really love the Danes.
They're sophisticated, they've got it all figured out.
They don't work hard at all.
They know that that's not necessary.
They uh they they just there's no intense pressure attached to their lives, they're able to move sl.
Don't even have to defend themselves.
The United States will do that if they are ever attacked, like by the KGB.
So we just we don't see the world in the right way.
John Kerry is one of these guys that thinks Western Europeans are doing it right.
They've got the answer with their 14% unemployment.
Speaking of which, you know, I there's a sort of a funny story.
What what is this uh uh Carla Brunei, the uh wife of Sarkozy, former president of France.
Is it Bruni or Brunei?
Bruni, all right.
Well, she was a model and an actress.
And then she married the guy, and she couldn't work anymore because conflicts of interest is government presence so forth.
She's actually quoted in a newspaper story today as thinking she got shafted.
She thought she was marrying a guy with money.
And he only makes 300 grand a year equivalent.
And she feels like she got screwed.
Why no 300 grand for the elites, see?
Not for the 300 grands, and that's embarrassing for the wife of the president of a country.
Julie, I appreciate the call.
Thank you.
Donald in Carpenteria, California.
You're next on an EIB network.
Hello.
Hello, Rush.
Nice to talk to you.
It's an honor, sir.
Thank you very much, sir.
Great to have you here.
Thank you.
Um, Rush, in in reference to that great ad, that great Cadillac ad.
Um I was thinking that there's a couple of points with that.
And uh one being that um Obama took public funds and bailed out GEM.
We all recall that.
And then they come up and they make an ad like this that targets hardworking Americans.
And um, it's kind of like it's a slap in the face to the left, and that's probably my take is is that they can't stand that.
They think that that GM should toe the line now because they were bailed out with public funds.
They're probably uh there probably is some of that uh in in the left's reaction to this, that this is a government-owned company.
What the hell are they doing selling something like this anyway?
Right, and Kudan is the advertising agency there that uh that would actually make an ad like this and uh make a pro-American pro-work ad.
And uh even though they took those funds, it's kind of like uh, well, look, here's the thing that uh this is the way it's gonna be.
Here's the thing about this.
I I At the risk of sounding naive.
And I am naive about a lot of things.
And I don't I don't mind people knowing that.
Did you ever think for any of you that an ad like that would be something divisive in the country?
That ad is what used to be the philosophy everybody was raised by.
That ad was in fact how everybody who wanted to be a success, who wanted their kids to be a success, was raised.
That ad typifies distinctly, as we know, distinctly American values.
And I'll tell you, they are held in other parts of the country.
That ad is gonna ring home and true with Asians, and a couple of other cultures who are also from the hard work school of going through life and conquering it.
But the the idea that that an ad that is as innocuous as this, this isn't hard work.
How do we do we get stuff?
And yeah, there's some people around the world that don't.
This is this is why this is what American exceptionalism is.
This is this is how we're different.
This is why people come here.
That is exactly right.
That ad is why people break the law to come here.
And yet that ad has become something divisive in our culture now.
That ad is something that is really controversial now to the left, but divisive as well.
That to me, this is why I say this is a teachable moment.
Look, some of you may be wondering why I'm spending so much time on it.
I'll tell you why.
And it's same old thing.
I really do, and they're, by the way, I've got friends who tell me I ought to change my approach.
I'll explain here in a minute.
I really believe that the more people who could be taught, who would learn, be educated, what liberalism is, is the way to eventually see to it that they don't win any.
They're not a majority now.
They have to lie about what they believe and what they're gonna do in order to win elections.
They are not anywhere near a majority to people.
We're being governed by a minority, and it's simply because they have mastered the emotional, compassionate, feel-good uh approach to things.
And they've they've made great hay out of the misconception, as they put it forth, of equality to them, it's sameness, and anything that's not the same is something uh inherently wrong with the country.
And it's I just think this is educational.
I think this is one of these great teachable moments for it for low information people.
Now, my I have a friend who um who says, you know, you're you're you ideological thing, it's all good, but it's not gonna reach everybody, Rush.
People don't want to look at things that way.
Liberalism, conservative, they're not nearly as oriented like you are in that direction, and they're not nearly as passionate about that.
So if you got to talk about it in terms of stupid versus smart, instead of talking about what a big liberal Obama is, this is stupid what these people are doing, just plain damn dumb.
And I understand the people who um think that ideology is not the best way to go about educating, but it's worked for me.
I am never wrong when I predict what a liberal is gonna do.
Never wrong.
I would never vote for one.
I don't care who, I would never vote for one.
Why would anybody is my attitude after this?
But then when you realize what they do, they're Santa Claus.
People voting for them are not voting for them on ideology.
They're voting for them on the basis of stuff.
It's just some people are happier if it's given to them than having to work for it.
Hard work is always gonna be a tougher sell than getting gifts.
But it makes for a better culture and country and society overall.
That's what's always been the truth, the truism in the case.
And uh you know what the average lifespan of any republic or democracy is?
It's about 200 years, so we've gone past ours.
We've gone past life expectancy.
And what does every democracy in is when the public learns that they can vote themselves money from the treasury?
That is the beginning of the end.
And we're in that phase.
So the question we have is can we arrest that and stop it before we are swallowed and destroyed by this ever expanding mountain of debt?
Because that is what will do it.
Don't listen to people who tell you the debt doesn't matter, including the people in the Republican establishment.
Oh, the debt's the debt's no different now than it was then, maybe a little bit bigger, but hell, it's the United States government.
It's always good for what it owes.
At some point it all collapses and can't sustain itself.
And we have reached that that uh that point.
I gotta take a break.
I'm way longer.
Sit tight, folks.
Do not go away.
I'll tell you what, I got I I've got the weather rate, weather radar on here, and I we we're not safe.
We had we are gonna have to, we better run for our lives.
You should see this.
This is a big blob of yellow and green, and it's headed right for us.
And it's it it's thunderstorms and rain.
It's dangerous.
It's really dangerous.
Is there anybody to help you get back to the hotel?
Are you?
Well, I'm not going to the hotel.
If this I mean, I may be going to the airport and flying out.
I'll take off to the east so that I get it.
Oh, wait.
The plane isn't here.
Oh no.
Oh no.
I may have to charter.
Just kidding.
Yep, I still have it.
I got it right here.
The teenager suing her parents for tuition.
I teased that all day yesterday and didn't get to it.
So I'm going to get to it in our final hour.
The political, very, very sad, ladies and gentlemen.
Um they claim that the KGB has put Obama's vacation plans on hold.
They honestly have a story here.
Obama's vacation plans in jeopardy because of Putin.
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