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July 21, 2014 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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July 21, 2014, Monday, Hour #3
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So I checked the email.
I always do.
And you never know, you find some gems in there.
And you've got another call reacting to Robbie.
This guy, Robbie, must have fired people up out there.
I can't believe I actually had a caller say, hey, Robbie, grab your 12-gauge, shoot your TV.
That was so mean.
I would never say that to a call.
Anyway, a couple of snarky emails.
So, when are the gay activists going to demand that Tony Dungy be fired at NBC?
When do you think that'll happen, Rush?
Because if you're just joining us, and it has now been confirmed, Tony Dungy did tell, and he's the moral authority of the NFL.
Tony Dungy is, I mean, when there is a moral dilemma or conundrum, they turn to Tony Dungy.
The league does.
Other players do.
They seek Dungy's counsel on things.
He's achieved that status.
It's a man of God.
He's considered to be uncorruptible, incorruptible.
And he told a Tampa Bay Times that he would not have drafted Michael Sam if he were head coach in the league precisely because Michael Sam was gay.
He would not want to deal with the mess, meaning the media circus.
And he said, it's not that I'm opposed to Michael Sam having an opportunity to play.
I just wouldn't have picked him.
Which there is you people emailing me wondering about snark comments.
There are.
I have seen, I have found a couple of mini snark comments in drive-by sports media.
And the first half of the story is dungy unassailable, dungy moral authority, dungy understandable, dungy this.
But then at the end of the story, but this is where Coach Dungy runs into trouble because if it's okay to discriminate against minorities because of too much trouble, then where would he be in the league?
So I don't know what's going to happen here.
You would think that Dungy would, I don't know, be immune.
But even in some of the drive-by sports media, they're going to have problems with this.
You want to ask me an NFL marketing question?
By all means, ask me the NFL marketing question.
What is it?
Mm-hmm.
Well, perhaps.
Snurdly wants to know, could it be that drafting the first openly gay player is a marketing ploy by the Rams because you know it's going to sell tickets?
It might attract, it might expand the NFL audience to include gay people who may not be football fans, who might not be converted to football.
Is that what you mean?
Or who just want to be supportive?
Okay, so the Rams might sell more tickets than they otherwise would have because people just want to be supportive of the decision that they made.
Anything's possible.
I mean, if you can have the whole month of October as pink month in the NFL, You could have a rainbow day, you know, one Sunday, rainbow Sunday, rainbow, you can do a rainbow month as a marketing opportunity.
Yeah, I suppose it's entirely possible.
I don't see why not.
If they thought that it if they thought it was a marketing opportunity, what do you mean if Dungy blames Republicans?
Who said he blames Republicans?
What is it?
Oh, well, but he didn't say that.
Let's not start putting words in his mouth.
Look at any words I put in Dungey's mouth, the media is going to write that I said.
I'm not going to do that.
Everybody's asking me, well, Rush, what about this?
What about this?
You guys go get your own shows, and then you raise those questions.
What do you mean?
What if Dungy had said, well, the Republicans aren't going to stay fans anymore?
He didn't say that.
Why bring the Republicans into this?
Oh, you mean, like, blame the Tea Party.
The Tea Party must have gotten to Dungy or something.
I don't think.
Well, anything is possible.
But anyway, it is the news.
Dungy did say it.
It has been confirmed.
And there is some discomfort and unease out there in the sports drive-bys.
I've already detected some.
It's very, very carefully worded right now as they're tiptoeing into the water of this, waiting for media brethren to sign on and support any sentiment that might be opposed to Tony Dungy on this.
It is.
The sports media is dumber than the regular news media, and it's more liberal.
Hey, I am not the only one who thinks that.
I know.
I'm the only one who said it.
That's true.
I mentioned, well, I am courageous in that way.
I can't tell you.
I was at a, I told you there was a golf tournament over the weekend.
I can't take a record number of people on the golf course and the associated related social functions.
People didn't even introduce themselves.
They came, don't stop what you're doing.
I haven't heard that in I don't know how many years.
Don't stop what you're doing.
Most people, hey, great to meet you.
Appreciate it.
Love listening to your show.
Don't stop what you're doing.
Well, the staff has always told me that, yes.
But I'm talking about members of the audience as a specific thing to say.
I mean, there was a sense of urgency and fear behind it all and appreciation.
I got it.
I did.
I mentioned Kyle Smith in the New York Post, July 19th, a couple days ago.
It was posted on their website late Saturday night, ran a Sunday paper.
Could the next generation of Republicans already be here?
And his column is bouncing off the latest results of a, looks like it's a pew survey for the people in the press.
And it was published in The Economist magazine on July 12th.
Here's how he opens the piece.
Again, could the next generation of Republicans already be here?
In fact, you're going to find this fascinating because we have discussed this very thing for years on this program, the generational shift of one generation, A, finally, single generation maturing and saying, screw the world as it is.
Screw the country.
We're simply not going to live your way, dad and mom.
We're just not going to.
This column purports to assert that we may have reached that generation.
There's probably never been a time when humanity was not collectively in a torment and an uproar about what its young folk were up to.
And that's true.
My parents thought the length of the Beatles' hair was one of the most counterculture things they'd ever seen.
Just the long mop-head hair.
I said, hey, it looks no different than Mo on the Three Stooges.
Well, they're funny.
They didn't get the music, they didn't get, and finally my mother, I said, Mother, I want to play you some Beatles songs recorded by the Holy Ridge Strings.
And when she heard the lyrics, it's some of the most beautiful stuff she'd ever heard.
And the last thing it was was counter-revolutionary.
Anyway, it's true that every generation thinks its young people are going to the dogs.
But in contrast with our image of decadent, self-centered, pleasure-craving youth, in many ways, today's young people are throwbacks.
They're spurning drugs, spurning crime, disorder.
They're being sexually responsible.
They're making sound choices about education.
They might be the least disaffected, least rebellious kids since the Kennedy years.
And that might have a surprising political implication down the road.
A July 12th Economist piece reviewed some surprising data, finding that contrary to popular belief, teenage drinking and binge drinking have fallen sharply in recent years.
The percentage of high school seniors who have ever taken alcohol, for instance, fell from 80% to 71% from 2000 to 2010.
In 1980, the figure was 93%.
Asked whether they'd had a drink in the last 30 days, only 41% said yes in 2010.
In 2000, it was 50%.
In 1980, 72%.
And similarly, the teen pregnancy rate, slightly more than half what it was in the mid-90s, and teenagers are waiting longer to have sex than they did then.
Violent crime arrests for people from age 10 to 24 are half what they were in 1995 for men, down 40% for women.
Juvenile incarceration is at its lowest rate since 1975.
Teenage smoking peaked around 1997 and is now at an all-time low of 17%, less than half what it was in 1997.
Now, the use of marijuana is the exception to the trend.
23% of haskruel students regularly get high.
But the evil weed is still less widely used today than it was in the 70s or even in 1999.
Now, what is behind all of these surprising numbers?
Mr. Kyle Smith, the author of this piece, says, I can't say, but it's hard not to notice that a decline in destructive behavior associated with peer pressure has happened at the same time the U.S. became a fully wired nation.
Now, here's the point.
His point is that peer pressure has reduced considerably, that it's peer pressure that causes young kids to go drink or engage in risky behavior because everybody's doing it.
You do it to be cool.
And you want to be a part of big click.
The big click's doing X, so you go do X to be accepted by the big click, peer pressure.
But peer pressure is rapidly diminishing as broadband internet access is expanding, which means that restless young people do not have to go along with whatever the local ne'er-do-wells are up to because they have their own little world with their own peers online.
Now, it's not all positive, of course, but they can find their community of voice.
A lot of people lament that young people are withdrawing from life, that they're sitting around in their basements in their underwear and they're doing nothing but texting and instant messaging and emailing and so forth.
They're not getting out and they're meeting people.
They're not meeting people.
They're not getting social skills.
They're hiding behind their phones and their pads and their TV screens and they're not doing anything.
At the same time, they're not getting into any trouble.
There isn't any peer pressure.
They're not out engaging in destructive behavior.
What they're doing is watching YouTube videos or playing video games.
They're staying in and getting fat.
A frustrated pub owner in England, where pubs have been closing in huge numbers, said to the economist, kids these days just want to live in their own little worlds in their bedrooms watching Netflix and becoming fat.
Sounds right, but at least no one ever got pregnant from eating Cheetos watching YouTube.
So anyway, the point is that the decline in all of this destructive behavior, and it's been demonstrated by the polling data, is explained precisely by the solitary nature kids are living now with their wired status.
No peer pressure, no engaging in all this behavior outside the home.
There are other problems obviously associated with this, but nevertheless, according to a Pew survey, when trying to find out how these people are politically, well, here's the news that's going to require some further explanation.
All of these kids withdrawing, my word, not in the story.
Again, it's demonstrable here that engaging in this kind of destructive behavior is down in certain age groups is because there's less peer pressure, because there's less activity outside the home amongst people who promote destructive behavior.
So the question then became, well, how are they politically?
And according to Pew, they are liberal Democrats who sound an awful lot like conservative Republicans.
Let me take a break there, and I'll come back and continue with this after this.
Now, back to this survey here on the UTS.
According to a Pew survey, the next generation left, meaning liberals, has a huge generational disagreement with older traditional liberals.
Among the older liberals, 83% identify circumstances as the cause of poverty.
But the next generation liberal, the young liberals today, are split.
47% blame circumstances.
42% blame lack of effort.
56% of the older Democrats think that Wall Street does more harm than good.
56% of the younger ones think it's just the exact opposite.
Wall Street does more good than harm.
There is a transformation taking place here.
There's still more to this, however.
Plus, your phone calls on the other side of another brief obscene profit timeout.
Ah, yes, having more fun than a human being should be allowed to have.
I think in this survey that I have run across here, voting Democrat is probably the most destructive behavior these young people engage in.
But the point here is that they're voting, or they claim they're going to vote Liberal Democrat.
They actually are conservative Republicans.
And there are two reasons why they don't vote conservative Republican.
That's where all this is leading.
Next generation liberals tilt hugely left on social issues, and this is the reason they vote Democrat, they say.
And in many cases, because of the social issues, they admit voting against their stated economic beliefs.
A commenter on a New York Times piece in the Pew survey ticked off a list of economic beliefs that placed him to the right of center.
And then he said, the Democrats hold on to us only because of the Republican obsession with religion, sexual repression, and environmental denial.
So these young nexties, the next generation, these young people that we've all predicted would finally grow up and say, enough, we don't see the world this way, mom and dad.
They're rejecting old-fashioned liberalism slowly but surely.
But they're continuing to vote liberal Democrat because of what they say is the Republican obsession with religion, sexual repression, and environmental denial.
Now, is there really Republican obsession with religion?
Is there really Republican sexual repression?
And is there really Republican environmental denial?
Or is it that the media has made them think that?
So I think the media has successfully tainted Republicans as obsessed with these things when they are not.
Let's take them one by one.
The Republican obsession with religion, all right?
Whenever the media, the Christian right, the religious right, they create the impression that Republicans are these Victorians and that they're anti-fun and all that.
The sexual repression, I'm telling you, that is the war on women.
Do you remember it was either last week or the week before when I shared with you a conversation I had with a guy who said, you know, Rush, you're missing the boat on this contraception business.
You're sounding here against sex.
We don't care who pays birth control pills.
We just want women to have them because we want the sex.
And when you start running around talking about it's a personal responsibility issue, that you can't get pregnant without taking some kind of action.
It sounds like you're ripping sex and we like sex and we don't want to vote for people to be associated with people who don't like sex.
And we think you're trying to deny us having sex when you start talking about how women ought to have to buy their own birth control pills.
You remember when I told you that?
And remember how depressed you were that these people were totally missing the boat?
Why, when birth control pills are nine bucks a month, it's the whole idea that government should be providing all this stuff.
If you want to have a birth control pill, it's not denied to you.
Go get it.
Go pay the access is not being denied.
There's not one Republican policy against contraception.
There's not one Republican policy against, well, there really isn't birth control pills or any of that.
But these people think there is.
So the Democrats' successful war on women has made people think.
And the other thing here is environmental denial, global warming.
Now, gay marriage used to be in this mix, but this story says that that issue has run its course now.
Let me read it to you.
The gay marriage debate is winding down and may be over by 2016.
Some Republicans are outflanking the hobby lobby decision and making a huge step in a libertarian direction by calling for over-the-counter birth control.
This don't make it available to me to prescription.
Just make it, you know, like aspirin.
Republicans are supporting this in order to counter this idea that they hate sex.
It's a silly idea, but these kids believe it because of the media.
It all goes back.
Folks, I've got a story, I haven't gotten to it.
MTV is going to have a new series popularizing incest.
I'm not kidding you.
It's being produced by, it's being produced by a couple of famous gay producers, and it's popularizing incest among young people.
Now, see, if you come out and oppose this, what are you?
You're going to be portrayed as old fuddy-duddy, and you're not with it, you're not hip and you're not cool.
But it's the media doing this stuff, is my point.
The media is without the media, half the stuff people believe they wouldn't believe.
We dealt with that in great detail last week.
Environmental denial is simply on the incest thing.
I'm dead serious.
Let me find the story.
You don't believe me on this?
Why do you not believe me?
Do you think I could make this up?
Certainly, it's coming up here this second.
Well, MTV does.
Here it is.
It ran on newsbusters.
Step right up to MTV's incest plot.
This is how the culture gets debased and denigrated.
It's not by big things or these little kind of little things the media tacitly approves of.
For those who predict the coming collapse of Western civilization, it's always MTV for proof.
At this year's Television Critics Association Summer Tour in Hollywood, MTV put on a panel discussion for the press with the cast and creators of a forthcoming series called Happy Land.
The female star of the show announced the new MTV motto: Incest is hot and we're going to have fun.
Lisa DeMores at Deadline Hollywood website reported the pilot episode.
This is a show for teenagers.
This show exploring the underbelly of a popular theme park includes a clip of Santos making out with the amusement parks.
New hottie, only to discover he's her brother.
The assembled TV critics and reporters ask the obvious questions, so why the twist?
Why the brother and sister making out thing?
How does that relate to the other things in the show?
And without getting too heavily into spoilers, where does this go after she realizes it's her brother?
Well, we all know the answer to number one, the incest twist is MTV digging ever deeper for their precious edge until they dulled the shock of every perversion.
The show's creator, Ben Epstein, boosted the notion this was like a fairy tale.
Handsome prince sweeping a maiden off her feet.
He just adds MTV edge to it and makes it all weird and crazy about incest.
Incest is hot.
We're going to have fun.
Hey, you think I would come here and make this up?
It's the same thing with young people have this attachment.
I've told you about how my little young tech bloggers are just totally convinced we're destroying the planet.
Totally, and I know why they glom on to it.
They can give their life meaning by trying to stop it.
Their parents have come along and killed the polar bears.
Their parents came along and drove all these filthy pollution-spewing big cars and SUVs.
Their parents came along and did all this rock type stuff, but they are going to save the planet.
It's a chance to give their life meaning, a social cause, and so forth.
And you can join this effort while on YouTube, and you can join this effort while sequestered in your basement.
If you're a big environmentalist, you care and so forth.
And they do not hear, they never hear that global warming is a hoax.
They're never exposed to any of the media that they access.
They do not know about East Anglia University.
They do not know of the email hoaxes.
They don't know the fake hockey stick.
They don't know anything.
All they know is the cause, and it'll give their life meaning.
The incest thing, that's just designed to dull the senses.
Once again, that's just the fee.
The female star, the female star of the show said, incest is hot and we're going to have fun.
To the TV critics when they were, you're really going to do this?
You're going to, you're going to, you're going to, oh yeah, incest is hot and we're going to have fun.
I got to take a break.
We'll be back after this.
Don't go away.
Back to the phones.
This is Corey Eaglewiver, River, Eagle River, Wisconsin.
Great to have you.
Thank you so much for waiting.
Hi.
Oh, no problem.
Thank you.
I'm really nervous to talk to you, but I got to tell you, first of all, it's an honor to talk to you.
And from 11 to 2 is my favorite time of the day because I get to spend it with you.
Well, thank you.
Thank you very much.
I have a question for you.
This weekend, I read a short story on Drudge, and it talked about Apple considering moving Jay Carney as their face of PR.
And I just wanted to know what you thought about that.
Well, I don't know if it's true.
It's somewhat confusing.
The story first broke, and then a guy who once again happens to be an infallible Bible on goings-on at Apple.
He's a blogger by the name of Jim Dalrymple.
His blog is called The Loop.
He said, nope, not true.
Tim Cook has never even met Jay Carney.
So the story went away.
And then two or three days later, it surfaced again that Kearney is still talking to Apple or vice versa.
And the latest story I saw means it's up to Carney to decide as though the job has been offered.
Now, normally, Dalrymple is wired on this stuff.
I don't know what the truth of this is.
I don't know if Jake Carney's putting the rumor out himself.
I don't know.
I have no idea about it.
Well, I think you should be the spokesperson for Apple because you do a great job pointing their product and making me thinking that I need to buy an iPad this summer.
So I would be discouraged if Carney got the job because I might have to turn in my Apple product.
Well, I know how you feel.
You know, I had a bunch of people.
I can't, well, gee, why Jay Carney, the guy that told the truth since he started working for Obama?
Who's going to believe it?
Oh, I've had, I can't say the number of people.
I don't think it matters.
He's just going to be BSing the media, and they're used to it.
Yeah, he's good at that.
But I understand if you're depressed.
I know.
I am.
I am.
So you made my day.
Honestly, you're taking my phone call.
It's an honor to talk to you.
You have no idea.
You've changed my life.
My way of thinking.
My daughter's life.
She's sitting right next to me in the car while we're pulled over talking to you.
Well, I'm really flattered.
I thank you so much.
I love you.
You make a world of difference.
Thank you so much.
Well, you're more than I love making people's day.
I wish everybody knew what that felt like.
Happens to me all the time.
No, it doesn't.
It's really, that's a unique compliment, and I really appreciate that, Corey.
But I wouldn't worry about this Jay Carney thing.
PR at Apple has always been an invisible thing.
I think they do want to change it a bit.
The gal they had at PR was, you know, the mirror image of Steve Jobs, and they're trying to make it a little bit friendlier and all that.
But Carney, I know.
I understand people who cringe.
My friends, that's it.
Sadly, we have run out of busy broadcast time for the first day back here of the busy broadcast week.
But fear not, we just got started.
We've got tomorrow right around the corner, 21 hours.
I love being with you all every day.
You make my day by being out there.
I can't thank you all enough.
I appreciate it.
And I'll see you back here tomorrow.
Thank you so much.
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