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March 6, 2014 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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March 6, 2014, Thursday, Hour #3
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Well, look at this.
Look at this.
The Congressional Black Caucasians want Daryl Isis stripped from his committee chairmanship because he was mean to little Elijah yesterday.
You see how this works.
The whole point of that hearing was to get to the bottom of what Lois Lerner did in using the IRS to sabotage the Tea Party.
And what has it become?
Darrell Isa is a big meanie, typical Republican, racist sexist bigot, and he was mean, he wouldn't let little Elijah talk.
And so now the congressional black Caucasians are demanding that Darrell Isaac kicked off the committee, or at least his chairmanship be taken away from him.
And so the mission is complete.
It's no longer about Lois Lerner or the IRS.
It's about what a mean man, Daryl Isa is.
That's how it works.
See, folks, at some point, at some point, we're gonna have to be able to get more and more people to be able to see through this on their own as it is happening.
And that's why I keep harping on instructing people about liberalism, ideology.
800 28282 is a number if you want to be on the program.
I just came across something here that is really going to dovetail nicely with the story on that teenage girl suing her parents for tuition.
Victor Davis Hansen has just posted a piece on the Corner, National Review Online, the corner blog there.
And it's about Ronan Farrow.
It's a really smart piece.
As you know, I have been in a maybe a bit too inside based, but I don't know how many of you actually really care about this stuff, but I do, and I talk about what I care about.
And I try to make it interesting if I think you're gonna be bored by it.
But what is what is this is classic and dovetails also, I might say, with the left's outrage over this Cadillac commercial.
So let's start at the beginning.
Ronan Farrow.
I had never heard of Ronan Farrow until maybe eight weeks ago or less.
I never heard of him.
And then all of a sudden, he's everywhere.
Because Woody Allen was in the news, and he is either Woody Allen's kid or Frank Sinatra's kid.
His mother is Mia Farrow.
This circumstance with this, and this is not really about him, it's about the world he's been raised in and the expectations that leftist elites have of him.
And it's it's classy.
It also, I think, explains Obama.
But remember now, it all is related to the divisiveness of the Cadillac commercial and hard work versus uh the sophistication of laziness.
That's sponsored by the American left.
So out of the blue comes Ronan Farrell.
Now you may have heard of him.
I I I hadn't.
He's 26.
And all of a sudden, he was a wonder kid.
All of a sudden, the the if as far as the leftist media was concerned, this kid had everything.
He had it.
He was the next Savior, the next big answer, the next big thing.
Except for one thing.
He never done anything.
Rhodes Scholar, uh Yale degree in something or other, but they never really worked in anything.
He had never done anything.
He'd never gotten good at anything.
He didn't even know about television.
And all of a sudden, a guy named Phil Griffin, who is the president of NBC, decides this is the guy we're going to build the future of our network on.
So Victor Davis Hanson picks it up.
Young, charismatic, good looking, hip, glib.
They're all superficial traits that supposedly cerebral liberal elites have a bad habit of believing Trump experience knowledge, humility, and learning through requisite pain.
In other words, if you're young, if you're charismatic, if you're good looking, if you're hip, if you're cool, if you're glib, if you have all the superficial traits that we can say you have, then that will trump experience, knowledge, humility, and hard work and learning about life through pain and failure and so forth.
Once someone is acclaimed as a liberal prodigy by liberal elites, stamped with the right Ivy League brand and aristocratic contacts that resonate through networking and cocktail parties along the Boston to Washington corridor, all the normal cross examin crossing examination seems to end.
This young man, Ronan Farrell, who hasn't done anything yet.
He's too young to have done anything.
But he is good looking.
He's charismatic, they say.
He's hip.
He's glib.
He might be Frank Sinatra's kid.
He's me of Pharaoh's son.
Oh, he's got it all.
He is then an anointed genius.
Just like Obama was.
He is anointed as a genius, and then Nemesis strikes.
In the fashion that the once just about to be appointed New York Senator Caroline Kennedy could not find a polling place or finish a sentence without a you know 14 times in an interview, or Barack Obama became the latest greatest thing.
Harvard law can teach one everything one needs to know except how to pronounce corpsman, establish a deadline, red line, or step over line, and why not to be post election flexible with Vladimir Putin, who really was America's chief conventional worry all along.
So too, Mr. Farrow, who is suddenly supposed to be a seasoned celebrity pundit with good ratings.
He may prove just that in time, but for now, take away his degrees, take away his parentage, and his contacts, and he is a twenty-something earnest young man who knows almost nothing about the real world outside his social economic political embryo, and he knows nothing about the world of TV.
He would have profited enormously from a different sort of ten-year apprenticeship, bouncing around local Midwest TV stations, earning the requisite beat experience, safely distant from his mother's insider friends.
The irony is that all this used to be called privilege, perhaps in this particular case even white privilege.
But here's the thing, and I want to be very careful here.
I at no time have I been mocking or laughing at Ronan Farrow.
My point has always been the uh expectations the left has attached to him, the hopes they've attached to him.
It's just like when they started Air America, they didn't know what they were doing.
They had nobody who had been in broadcasting.
They thought that it was a fundraising operation.
They thought that that's how they survived, with funding and donations, and uh underwriters.
They had no idea about the free market.
They had no idea about radio.
They knew nothing about broadcasting.
They didn't know what it took to succeed in that business, and neither does this guy.
And he's been thrown into a situation where he alone is exposed is supposed to redefine and rocket to success, this dismal failure of a network.
All because of what?
His liberalism, his pedigree, his looks, his hipness, his mom, maybe his dad.
Uh his education, but he hasn't done did least what three days on the air, and they give him the Cronkite award.
It's perfect.
See, this to the left, this is how you get places.
This is what should happen in America.
You have the right elitist parents.
You get the proper education.
You don't work hard.
You just get exposed to the right things.
You get exposed to the right people.
Hopefully with their clothes on.
You get exposed to the right situations.
You are simply exposed and surrounded by all that you are to become and all that is expected of you.
And simply by being exposed, simply by being in that presence, you are a success.
That's why they hate the Cadillac ad.
It disproves their little dream world.
So this young man's been thrown into a circumstance, an anointed success before he's enjoyed any, an anointed genius before he's proved it.
He's been thrown into a war.
He does not understand television.
He's never done it before, doesn't understand media, other than make sure it says the right thing in page six.
That's the extent.
And so now the bottom is dropping out, the bottom's falling out because broadcasting is like any other business.
There are traits.
Successful people in it have.
And they're learned.
It's like anything else.
Takes experience, hard work.
You've got to fail.
Hard work.
You've got to fail.
You've got to learn.
You've got to deal with certain different kinds of people.
You've got to learn how to relate to an audience, connect to an audience.
You know, none of that.
Everything has been given in this case.
Simply by virtue of genealogy.
And that alone, just like the Kennedys, anointed geniuses.
Anointed brilliance.
Anoint simply because of the sperm cells.
And the same things happened to this guy.
And Victor Davis Hanson's point, he talks about Caroline Kennedy.
She was the next great Kennedy, and she couldn't speak in public.
And she didn't know how to eat in public.
She couldn't even find her own polling place.
But she's smarter than anybody else around.
Barack Obama, not done diddly squat, community organizer, smartest politician ever.
Because of what?
Well, in this case, black two pedigree.
Three Chicago system.
Four, the Democrats really didn't want Hillary if we get down to brass tax.
They really didn't want Hillary in 2008.
Dare I say it, which also facilitated the upward mobility of Barack Obama.
But in no case, in in no circumstance in either example, will you find any hard work?
You won't find a success track.
You won't find a trail of experience.
In fact, in the Obama administration, they don't have anybody that's ever worked in the private sector.
They're all public sector appointees or professors.
People have lived off grants.
They don't have any people that have ever met a payroll, run a small business, but yet they know more than anybody else.
They know more about the healthcare system than any hospital.
They know more about the healthcare system than any doctor.
They know more about the healthcare system than any pharmaceutical pharmaceutical company.
They know more about the insurance business than anybody who's ever worked in it.
They never have, but they know this is who they are.
Anointed geniuses.
And what is it that anoints them?
Where they went to school, in some cases, who their parents are.
In other cases, it's their expectations.
Some cases it's their sexual orientation.
Some cases it's their race.
But whatever the last ingredient to any of this is actual experience.
No evidence of success is ever needed.
No evidence of hard work or failure is ever required.
Andrew Claven wrote something.
I didn't print it out.
I'm not even going to try to paraphrase it.
It's something we've all thought of.
It's about the irony of the uh of the left and the way they look at private sector elements as total dismal failures and can't accomplish anything.
And yet government, which can't do anything right to them is infallible.
But he words it more effectively than that.
I shall find it.
In the meantime, uh I think this is another one of these teachable moments in the quest to get people to understand just who people on the left are.
And of course, you know, all this lack of achievement, laugh at lack of experience, lack of success.
What is it that trumps all that?
Well, of course, the genealogy, but there is the requisite you've got to make people think you care about all the victims.
And you've got to learn who to blame for all the victims.
And you've got to be devoted to the concept of equality.
Except you will never stand for somebody being as good as you.
You'll pound all of your competitors into the ground, but everybody else is going to be forced into being the same.
Gotta take a break.
We'll sit tight, be back, and continue here after this.
Here's what Andrew Clavin wrote.
He was writing about the um the Netflix series House of Cards, and he claims if you watch this, and if you if you if you have any understanding at all of what you're watching, that House of Cards is devastating to liberalism.
It just destroys it.
Because the central flaw of liberalism, the central flaw of leftism is not its endless cynicism about business, individualism, religion, common man, hard work.
No.
The central flaw of liberalism is its cynicism evaporates when it comes to government.
Insurance companies are too greedy to handle health care, but not the government.
Individuals are too reckless to own guns, but the government can have all the guns and ammo it wants.
Religion is too corrupt to preach morality, but not the government.
The government is infallible.
The people are too foolish to know their own good, but not Uncle Sugar.
Uncle Sugar knows what's best for everybody.
It's no wonder some conservatives think leftists are all evil tyrants.
It's easier than believing they could really be so stupid.
We've interviewed Clavin, I think, for Limbaugh Letter before.
He edits uh well, he's a contributing writer for the City Journal.
He's a novelist.
I think he's done some screenplays for Hollywood.
But this he's he's writing specifically, he said this is what you can learn.
But what is House of Cards demo?
These are all leftists, by the way.
Some people think.
Do you watch House of Cards?
Have you watched it?
Oh, gee, you haven't.
There are there are some.
You don't have Netflix?
Oh.
Well, how can we work around that?
Uh there is way.
Anyway, there are some.
I'm not sure I subscribe to this Theorem.
But there are some who believe that the lead characters are modeled after Bill and Hillary.
Frank and Claire Underwood.
Kevin Spacey and Robin Wright.
They are in basically a loveless marriage, but it's really close.
They're close companions.
They're oriented politically perfectly, and they are they are they're mean, they're vicious.
And that the point is that the government is the most corrupt.
The last place that you would want to put any trust at all as portrayed by this program.
And yet liberals and leftists consider it capable of doing no wrong.
Okay, I gotta get uh another obscene profit break in here, but we'll come back and get into your phone calls after that.
I get back to them, so don't go away.
Back to the phones where we go, yeah, you know what?
I've got these things, I've got we ought to do it because I played cruise, I've got these Christie sound bites.
I haven't played those yet, have I?
We haven't played Christie's.
I got we should do that, but but and I've got the teenager suing her parents.
I'm gonna do that.
We're going to get there.
But first, Stephen in Chickopee, Massachusetts.
Great to have you on the program.
Hello.
Hey, Rush.
Uh it's nice to speak to you.
Um you're my number one role model.
Um you've got me to uh figure out myself and uh figure out who I am.
So I appreciate what you do and what you do every day.
Thank you very much.
Really appreciate that.
Um you haven't robbed any banks or anything, have you?
What?
You haven't robbed any banks or anything like that.
No, no.
Um Rush, I have a qu I well, actually it's not a question, it's more of uh uh observation.
Um I have watched a documentary late or I watched a documentary, and um after watching that and seeing poo uh what Putin is doing and uh knowing what our president is doing,
um I was wondering if you saw this connection that uh between Putin and Obama and uh that basically there is no difference between them, and that although one of them is a KGB officer, and the other is, as you mentioned earlier, from Acorn, um fundamentally they're no different from each other.
They're basically the same exact people, and that brings me to something that I've been trying to or I figured out is that the reason most likely the or in my opinion, the reason why Obama hasn't been doing anything is because he does want Putin to expand the Soviet Union, and he does want um socialism in our country because again, he's been doing nothing.
He said in 2008 that he wanted to fundamentally transform our nation.
So um that sort of would make sense why he's basically just sitting there constantly uh drawing red lines and basically saying if you cross those red lines, then you're gonna there's gonna be consequences and ultimately.
Right.
There never are.
Well, let me you may have a point.
Um it would be hard for I think people accept the premise that they're the same, because Putin is looked at as a brute bully, take whatever he wants, whatever he wants it, uh take no prisoners kind of guy.
Obama's image is not that.
Obama's image is scholarly, brilliant, smarter than everybody else that's ever lived.
So far ahead of us we can't hope to understand what he's thinking.
We would be we would be silly to even try.
But you're speaking in terms of world view.
Now you You may have a point in this sense.
When you say that Obama isn't really troubled by what Putin is doing, because he's spreading socialism, communism, and Obama's all for that.
I think what may in fact be more true is that Obama doesn't think that the United States is any different than any other nation.
And if Putin wants Ukraine, then it's not for us to stop him.
But he knows that he's president, and he knows that some Americans believe that the U.S. should have and should play the role of outpost for freedom and defender of liberty.
So he'll go through the motions of writing, drawing the red line and trying to, you know, intimidate these other well, you better not do that or else you've got to deal with me.
Of course, then nobody ever has to deal with him.
I mean, the story in political today is the worst thing that's that's that's happened here is that his vacations in jeopardy now.
Right here.
Obama's vacation plans in jeopardy.
Vladimir Putin has put Obama's vacation plans.
Not Vladimir Putin is attempting to commandeer a country and enslave its citizen.
No, no, no.
Vladimir Putin has put Obama's vacation plans on hold.
That's serious stuff.
Vacation plans are big deals for people that don't work very hard.
And I think you've when you've heard Obama, he's been asked about American exceptionalism, and his answer is, well, you know what?
I think if you ask the Russians, they'll tell you they think they're exceptional, and the British, they'll tell you that they think they're exceptional.
And what he means by that is who are we to say we're better than those people, not better than anybody.
In fact, Obama believes the United States and its imperialist military has always been the uh problem in the world.
Obama may believe that Putin's doing what he's doing because we, George Bush, and by the way, folks, you know, you might laugh about this.
There are a bunch of liberal media people that are blaming Bush for this.
I kid you not.
There are a couple of them on MSNBs, I don't want to mention any names over there, but a couple of those people, um, like a couple of prominent newspaper leftist columnists have blamed it on Bush.
I kid you not.
So I don't I don't think you'll ever persuade people that uh Obama is like Putin in the sense that he will deploy his military to conquer other countries and put them under the United States flag.
But he won't stand in the way of anybody else going wherever they want in the world because he is of the liberal who are we to tell him no.
That's in fact, that's almost out of the liberal national anthem.
Who are we to tell them no?
It the way that works is the real belief in this regime about the Iranian pursuit of a nuclear weapon is well, who are we to tell them they can't?
We've got one, and nobody told us we can't.
Who are we?
What right do we have to tell the Iranians they can't build a nuclear bomb?
And that's the way they look at it.
So with Putin on the march, uh, I think Obama's view is it doesn't matter, but he's got to act like it does.
Even if it means delaying a vacation.
Syria, it doesn't matter.
But he has to act like he does.
So here's the red line.
You better not cross it.
Or you cross it.
Now I'm really mad.
Well, I'm gonna draw it.
You better not cross it.
I'll get really, really mad if you never does anything about it.
And of course, that's the bottom line.
Look at what he does.
Zip zero nada.
A lot of talk, a lot of trying to sound tough, but I think it's all rooted, Stephen, in the fact that Obama doesn't think it's any of our business to stand up for the freedom of people in Ukraine, even though we promised them that we would.
In two agreements, though Clinton and Obama reaffirmed it in 2009, we promised them that if they would gut their army, gut their military, get rid of their nukes, that we would protect their borders.
I know what country is ever going to believe us again.
And that has been operative for quite a few years now, not just now.
But even though we promised them that we would, we're not going to.
Does anybody really think Obama would use any kind of force whatsoever?
He's going to send Kerry over there, whatever, and they're going to talk sanctions and this kind of stuff that is never going to matter and happen.
And that's all for show to make some in the stock market think that Obama is traditional in the sense that uh America is the defender of liberty and freedom in the world.
But that's so passe now that that's not even operative.
Okay, let's do the Chris Christie sound bites.
I gotta do this uh in the interests of equality.
Yes.
Because we played some Ted Cruz sound bites earlier today.
Chris Christie showed up.
Uh actually grab Dana Bash first because she's the CNN infobabe.
I just want you to hear how she introduced.
She was speaking while Christie was speaking.
They carried about maybe two minutes or three minutes, and they turn it over to their their reporter to tell us what we can see, but not here, Christy saying.
It's how they do it.
The Republican stands up to speak, and the media puts a son of an anchor up there, a reporter to tell us what he's saying.
We just like them to shut up so we can hear it, but we're not smart enough.
So they have to tell us what he's saying, and that's what this is.
The most interesting thing is the way he was greeted, which was pretty enthusiastically.
I was here earlier for Ted Cruz's speech for a Paul Ryan's speech.
Uh not much difference.
And in fact, maybe you could even argue that he's getting even uh more of a rousing response from the crowd.
Uh particularly on the idea that you heard him say, which is that Republicans can't just be against things, they have to be for things.
Well, the media loves that.
Oh, yeah.
You just can't be against things because the way they hear that, you just can't criticize liberals.
You can't, you gotta be for something.
You can just criticize us.
So Christie said that.
Oh, well, that's brilliant.
That is sheer genius.
Here are a couple of bites, and this is in fact uh uh yeah, this way he says it.
The fact is we've got to start talking about what we're for and not what we're against.
And the reason for that is very, very simple.
And it's exactly what I said to CPAC in Chicago in 2012.
The reason we have to start talking about what we're for and not continuing to rail against what we're against, is because of one simple reason.
Our ideas are better than their ideas, and that's what we have to stand up for.
Well, I full on agree with that.
Uh, but the establishment is afraid of our ideas.
Let's be honest.
The Republican establishment sometimes doesn't even share our ideas.
But by the way, I I actually speak for myself.
Do we not talk about many things we're for here on this program?
I yeah, people can list them.
I I know he's not talking about me.
He's talking about political candidates, but I've still you you we've we've got to tell people who they are.
The media isn't gonna vet liberals.
We've got to do it.
And that's not saying that's not just listing what you're against, although we are, but you have to tell people.
The Republicans have not once endeavored to really tell people who Obama is politically, ideologically, issue-wise.
They're afraid to.
And they don't say what they're for.
Uh they certainly don't utter conservatism.
He's right about that, but there are many varied reasons.
Here's the next soundbite, Chris.
Let us come out here resolved not only to stand for our principles, but let's come out of this conference resolve to win elections again.
That's what I intend to do for the next year, and I hope you'll join me.
Thank you very much.
Okay, there you go.
Uh So it must be the case that somewhere there are Republicans that don't want to win elections.
And I know what he means by that.
I know exactly what he means with this.
Some people they don't care if we would they just want candidates to say what they believe.
They want people to rip those Democrats, whether it helps us win or not.
Well can't do that if we're not gonna win.
I I know what all that stuff means.
I'm folks, look, I'm gonna do it again.
I'd rather get some phone calls here than do this teenager suing her parents.
It's gonna be there tomorrow.
And it may be old news tomorrow, but it isn't old news until I have weighed in on it.
And I haven't yet.
So I'm gonna put it aside, go back to Jonathan in Dallas.
Welcome, sir.
We'll do the teenage suing her parents tomorrow, promise first hour.
Welcome, Jonathan.
Hi.
Hey, Rush, man, it's uh it's been hard trying to get it get on these lines.
But uh more to my point, uh when you're talking about Darrell Isla this uh at the beginning of the show, um I just thought it was funny because they were criticizing him and condemning him, but if he was if he was a Democrat, they would have applauded him and praised him as uh as being heroic.
Oh, that's an excellent if if if I saw if it had been the other way around, if little Elijah had refused to let ISIS speak, he would be a hero.
In the media, not just on the fringe leftist blogs, he'd be a hero uh in the media.
And if they're a Republican witness up there that they wanted to get the the the lowdown on, if the uh Lois Lerner were a Republican, they would not allow the focus of this to be taken away from that.
That's uh good point.
Kathy in Connecticut, welcome to EIV Network.
Hi.
Hi, Russ, thanks for having me.
You bet.
I'm just calling about your comment earlier saying that Obama's uh vacation plans may be disrupted because of the Ukraine situation.
That's what says here in the politico, yeah.
But I can tell you that that's not happening.
He is planning on going to a very exclusive community in Florida this weekend.
Uh the members have been notified that the private air strip is going to be shut down, that one of the golf courses is going to be shut down, they're renting five houses in this community, all for Obama to be able to enjoy a nice fun weekend uh at the one percent um sandbox, if you will.
Where is this?
Well, I don't know if I should say the name of the place.
Well, just give us the city, the the the nearby city.
It's uh it's in the Florida Keys.
It's in the Keys.
It's in the Florida Keys.
Obama's going to the Keys.
Yes.
They've shut down five houses in a well yes, they're renting five houses on this uh in this community.
They are going to um shut down, of course, a private airstrip um in this community, and they're also shutting down the golf course one day.
And it's just so ironic that you know he's always excoriating the one percent, and they don't give enough, but he enjoys their toys and he enjoys their things that they have worked so hard to achieve and to buy, like a Cadillac and a Tesla or a yacht.
Yeah, I'm just looking at the weather forecast, darn it.
Uh seventy-seven and sunny on Sunday, seventy-five and sunny on Saturday, eighty degrees sunny on Monday.
I had no idea it was coming here.
Uh, we're not in the keys, but I still had no idea it was coming here.
But that doesn't matter.
So he gets to still do his vacation.
Politico said vacation plans are in jeopardy.
I understand what you're saying about people being displaced, uh and all that.
But doesn't care about that either, really.
Come on.
Folks, it has been fun.
We hope that we are here tomorrow.
It's open line Friday tomorrow, but there is rain coming.
And we we hope we survive.
You'll know at noon tomorrow.
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