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Aug. 5, 2014 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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August 5, 2014, Tuesday, Hour #3
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You know, at first, just to give you another example.
A lot of people did not think Obamacare was political at all.
No, no, no, no.
It was just Obama wanting everybody to have health insurance.
It was just Obama wanting everybody to have affordable health care.
And it was the Republicans who were politicizing it just to deny the first black president a success story.
And then it came to light that Obama had voted lying to everybody about it.
And then the waivers started.
And finally, the truth of Obamacare could no longer be denied.
Now, in the case of Obamacare, it never did have majority support.
At best, it was 50-50.
But even the low information crowd, at first, and the people that claim they hate politics.
Next time, by the way, you encounter a young person, I don't care whether 15 or a millennial that's 30 years old.
The next time you encounter a person that overhears you in a conversation, I don't want to everything had to be politics.
I don't care about politics.
I wish people stopped arguing.
Look them in the eye and say you had better wake up and learn that everything that is happening in this country is political.
Just tell them.
Just face them and tell them you can't run away from it.
You might think you can, but you can't.
It's like my dad used to tell me and my friends on Friday night, you boys think you're having fun, but you're not.
Well, you think you're escaping politics, you young twerps, but you're not.
It's everywhere, and it's affecting you in ways that you don't even see because you're closed off to it in your own mind.
Anyway, greetings and welcome back, folks, Rush Limbaugh, the EIB network and the Limbaugh Institute for Advanced Conservative Studies, telephone numbers 800-282-2882, if you want to be on the uh program.
Also, by the way, uh one of the explanations, in fact, it is an explanation.
The reason Obama did not do amnesty, immigration amnesty.
The first two years when he had a Democrat Congress.
It's the limbaugh.
The limbaugh theorem is what?
the explanation for how Obama escapes accountability for things.
Limbaugh theorem states that Obama is never seen governing humanity.
He's always seen campaigning.
Obama is always seen opposed to what is going on.
Even the things that he has made happen.
He campaigns apparently against his own policies.
He relies on people not knowing what he's done.
The limbaugh theorem explains how Obama escapes any blame.
And so, when it comes to amnesty, nobody wanted it.
He wasn't going to do it, he wasn't going to do anything for which he could end up being held accountable.
Just wasn't going to do it.
The only way they're going to do amnesty is if they can make the Republicans do it and have everybody see that the Republicans are to blame for it.
Because there's so much opposition to it in the country.
Nobody wants it.
The poor Republicans, they're they're just believing all of this gobbledygook.
By the way, who's telling them this?
The Democrats and the media.
You know, you guys are never ever going to win again if you don't do something about the Hispanic vote.
You're losing them, bud.
You're losing the Hispanic vote.
You better change your attitude on this immigration business, and you better come out for amnesty right now.
Yeah, well, why didn't Obama do it when he had the chance and accept all these accolades?
Why didn't he do it after promising?
Why did he do it and get all this credit?
Why didn't Obama do it and end forever the Republican Party's chances at winning the White House?
Because he wouldn't have gotten the credit, he would have gotten the blame.
And the limbaugh theorem says Obama never gets the blame.
At least to the extent that he's able to control it.
Now, what are the ways that might help the people who claim to not like politics, who claim that they're apolitical, don't want anything to do with it, and that's why they hate the Republicans, by the way.
What is the number one enemy of the American left as formalized, to call it the Democrat Party or the Liberals, the Socialists, whatever you want to, what is their number one enemy in the country right now?
Well, it really isn't conservatives and the Tea Party.
That is where the manifestation of their opposition appears and reveals itself.
Their real enemy is the Constitution.
The Constitution is that single little dangling thread that's the only thing right now that's keeping us a representative republic.
The Constitution is something that the vast majority of professional leftists, now I'm not talking about these, you know, average yokels posting comments on websites.
These to me are just the robots on the left that don't they're not, they're not thinkers, they're just reactionary liberals and support whatever their heroes believe.
But the people on the left, the college professors, the teachers, the opinion makers, the elected uh Democrats, so forth, their number one enemy, the obstacle, the biggest obstacle in their way right now is the Constitution.
And it has been for many of them since the Constitution was ratified.
It certainly has been their number one obstacle since in my life.
And you can see evidence of it everywhere.
What is Roe versus Wade?
Roe versus Wade is basically the left getting judges in positions of power to interpret the Constitution as they want.
They would prefer there not be one.
As it's because it's very simple.
I mean, the Constitution expressly limits the power of government.
Well, that right there is a huge obstacle.
Because what they want is as much government, as big a government, and as powerful a government as they can secure.
And the Constitution, the very essence of this country, says that cannot happen.
So why do they oppose the government?
Well, what is it about the Constitution to hate aside from that?
That is the biggie, the fact that it's expressly limits government.
But it's deeper than that.
For people like Obama and Eric Holder, I believe, and there will never be any way to prove this because they would never admit this, but I believe that there is a genuine long-held, deeply felt contempt for the Constitution.
And it's all about slavery.
The Constitution, this great document of individual liberty and freedom and all that was ratified during the days of legal slavery.
What has happened since does not lessen or reduce the amount of anger they feel over that?
All of the things that have happened in this country from the Civil War to the 14th Amendment, everything, equal opportunity laws, equal opportunity commitment, whatever has been done to address that problem is not count.
It does not ameliorate, it does not soften them, it does not lessen their anger.
They can't get over the fact that it was ratified when slaves were legal.
Slavery was legal.
And it animates them to this day.
I think in the case of Obama and Holder and quite a few others, it is what provides the fuel of their rage.
Their contempt for this country.
How can anybody sing the praises of that damn document in their view?
How can anybody sing the praises of a damn country that would separate itself from tyranny and come up with a constitution that spells out human rights and freedom and liberty while black people could be owned.
And they can't get past it.
They don't want to get past it.
No matter what we've done in this country to get past it, it doesn't count.
Because they don't want to let go of the rage.
Just like someone told me about Sonio Sotomayor.
She got where she is because of rage and anger at the system.
It's productive to be rageful and angry at the system.
They don't want to give that up.
That rage and that anger is animating.
It's what fuels them.
They'll never express it.
That would be too risky.
But it's it's in there.
And as such, this country is not anywhere near what everybody believes the textbooks of history say.
That's just a crock as far as they're concerned.
And this country, therefore, became big, powerful, superpower, all rich and so forth.
Unjustified.
Undeserved.
Stacked dick.
This country needs to pay a price for doing that.
The founders and their descendants who maintained power and wealth as a result of the founding of this country, they are the targets of people like this that I'm referring to.
It is a I think if you're able to get people to be honest, if you could drill down deep enough, you would find.
I mean, the Constitution, in and of itself, just even without the fact it was ratified during slavery, the Constitution in and of itself is enough for these people to oppose it because they don't believe in liberty and individual freedom because they think that's a stacked deck, they think that's unequal and unfair and things aren't evenly distributed and it's just, it's just, it's not good.
Any of you, fair government distributing everything equally and fairly so nobody's better than All this crap.
But you throw in the fact it was ratified during slavery, and I I think this is one of the things that that fuels people like Obama and Holder today, who are hell-bent on transforming this country and getting even with it, whatever.
That's that's the chip on their shoulder.
Now I've got a piece here by Juan Williams, writing at the Hill.com.
And the comments I would have about this piece are almost an expansion of the point that I just made.
It's headline, Holder exclusive, proud to be an activist.
Juan Williams.
Holder spoke with me in Philadelphia after getting a warm reception for a speech to the nation's criminal defense lawyers.
Despite his bridge building with Republicans, the first black attorney general serving the first black president remains critical of how conservatives manage the Justice Department during the Bush administration.
In the years I think before I came to the AG's office, the department lost its way, Holder said.
I. Well, folks, what does that mean?
It means exactly what I just said to you.
You're going to use the justice.
The whole point of this piece is how the attorney general is proud to be an activist.
Sorry, that's not what attorneys general are, folks.
They are not supposed to be activists.
They are law enforcement officers, and justice and all is colorblind.
Sorry.
No, no, no.
Not with us finally in power.
Not when it's our turn.
There is no colorblind here.
There is no colorblind justice.
There is no colorblind.
All there is a chance to make this country finally be what it should have been, is what Holder is telling Juan Williams.
And Juan Williams is going, yeah, right on, bro.
You say it, bud, and writes it.
Eric Holder sees the entire world through race-colored glasses.
Here's Juan Williams.
Holder remains indifferent to conservative protests that he is an activist, looking for trouble by digging into what he calls policies with disproportionate impact on communities of color.
If you want to call me an activist attorney general, I will proudly accept that label, Holder said.
Any attorney general who is not an activist is not doing his or her job.
Responsibility of the attorney general is to change things and bring us closer to the ideals expressed in our founding documents.
It's just the opposite, folks.
That is said so that people don't catch on to what's really happening.
There is no fealty to the founding document.
The founding documents are the big enemy.
The founding documents are the obstacle.
The founding documents are the only thing standing in their way.
That's why they want judges everywhere to be able to change the Constitution by rewriting it as federal statutory law.
By the way.
Some cases constitutional law.
Later, Holder defiantly added that critics who say his department includes an activist civil rights division, and this is an activist attorney general, I'd say I agree with you a thousand percent, and I'm proud of it, Holder says.
So I think Holder here is just as confused about his job description as Obama is.
The Constitution says the president and his top law enforcement officer are supposed to enforce the law, not ignore the ones that they think are unjust or immoral.
And they're not supposed to make up new ones.
But these two guys are children of the 60s, no matter their actual ages.
And they're practicing civil disobedience from inside.
That's what's happening.
I gotta go.
Be right back.
Okay, back to the phones, and we go to Bethel, Connecticut.
This is uh Lori, great to have you on the program.
Hi.
Megadidos Rush, longtime listener, and I have been a responsible citizen by raising both my now adult children on your show, so they vote responsibly and they are well informed.
Rush babies.
Yes, they definitely are.
Well, thank you very much.
I really appreciate it.
A comment.
As a retired math teacher, I always look at permutations and combinations, and I was thinking about how this Ebola uh uh cure scenario could have been played out.
And I was just wondering what your thoughts would be.
Let's say this untested supposed cure were that the two doses were given to African citizens after having just been tested on monkeys, whether there would have been a racial slur associated with that, saying, well, Africans, are they just the next step up for monkeys as opposed to the white Americans?
That's one scenario.
Another one, let's say instead of these two Americans being white Americans, what if they had been uh Afro-American or black Americans, and let's say they were not Christians.
Let's say they were Muslim instead.
So you wonder how those different scenarios would have uh played out.
What are your thoughts on that?
Well, you see, here's here's a great example.
Ladies and this is a woman, our caller here, Lori, is looking at the politics of this exactly as I teach, exactly as I hope people would.
Those are excellent thoughts.
And she is only able to conceive of those thoughts because she knows how the left operates.
For example, I hadn't even stopped to think about what the case would be if the news got out that we tested a virus or a uh uh uh a serum only on monkeys, and then we give it to Africans suffering the disease, and even if it had been successful, you you're you're exactly right.
There'd have been people on the left who, when they heard that would have charged racism at the NIH or something, and how dare they.
Um so you your basic point is that they needed some public trials of this, but they had to be white Americans because political correctness would not permit any other such trial.
Is that basically your point?
That's one of the points, and the other thing, aside from the insult that they were white Americans, let's say they had been black Americans, and let's say they hadn't been Christians, let's say they were part of a Muslim outreach organization.
Would there still have been the same hue and cry?
Well, uh well, wait a minute.
There isn't any hue and cry over this.
The the hue that I've heard, well I look, I've got two seconds to let me take a break and have more time on the other side.
As far as I know, there is no hue and cry over who got the vaccine.
And it's not a vaccine.
I'm just using that simplify our discussion here.
I don't think there's any anger over who got it.
Not yet, anyway.
But I tell you the thinking that went in, there's no way the NIH was going to use Africans as guinea pigs.
Remember, this has not been tried on human beings.
There's no way.
I they had no idea what the result was going to be.
Well, maybe they did.
I don't I don't know.
I mean, if you if you've been studying it on monkeys and it's okay on monkeys, do you make the assumption that it's going to work on humans the first time?
I I don't have any experience with this, so it's it's tough.
I have to assume that as much as they exercise caution in this stuff, uh I I would think that they would probably think of the worst-case scenario in determining who gets it, and the last thing that was going to happen.
Knowing this much, the last thing that was going to happen is they're going to give something to a couple of Africans and have it not work.
So you give it to a couple Americans and roll the dice and see what happens.
Uh which has happened.
And for now, we're being told that the serum is working and is reversing symptoms.
But nobody's talking cure yet.
We don't know if the Ebola virus is going to rebound and figure out this serum and overwhelm it later this week.
Nobody knows this.
So everybody's still cautiously analyzing this.
Uh I just uh the the the reason that we even think this way, though, folks.
The real point to Lori's question is is exactly the politics of the left is what forces us to think this way.
If there were no politics to this, you know, all this would be, oh my God, there's a serum, and they gave it to a couple people and it worked.
Hallelujah.
End of story.
My gosh, maybe we've made some inroads.
Oh, what it's all it would be.
Nobody would care about who got it, nobody would care about the race of who got it.
Nobody would be raising questions about where it was administered or any of that.
But because of political correctness and identity politics and the way the left determines things, and because the left has already politicized this by the only human cry I have seen is directed at people who think it's a little It's a little weird to bring the disease within the borders.
There's never done that before.
We've never had Ebola in our in our country.
And we've we've brought two patients with it.
And they're in Atlanta.
They're at Emory Hospital.
You ought to see.
There were motorcades.
The news media had helicopters flying over the ambulances and the accompanying SUV uh army guarding these ambulances as they were on the way from the airport into the hospital.
And then and then when they have the patient, the patient at a Nancy Redball when she got out of the ambulance, she was on a stretcher.
People in full hazmat gear carrying the stretcher, or rolling the stretcher, wheeling it.
She's uh laying down on the stretcher, also totally covered, and the camera from the chopper is covering this.
Like a visiting dignitary had arrived or something.
But the f the the we're we're forced to look at it like this because we're just waiting.
We're just waiting for some angry leftists to start bitching and moaning about this.
And look, like yesterday, I said it would it didn't take hours for it to happen.
Why did only Americans get?
Why do we only take enough for Americans?
That was asked on CNN last night.
That was an easy prediction.
It's easy for somebody who knows the left, and I know the left.
We'll just have to wait and see what else causes them anger over this.
Give it time.
Something about it will.
Why besides that, besides that, well, why give it to a couple of white Americans?
Why not take enough to give to the Africa?
There was no way we're gonna give a serum that has not been tried on human beings to Africans first.
No way, in case it didn't work.
way was not going to happen.
Back to the phones we go, and it's another female that we have on the phones.
This is Jill in St. Louis.
Great to have you on the program.
Hi, Jill.
Oh, hi, Rush.
I'm a rush babe.
Well, it's great to have you here.
I'm also a rush baby.
Um I uh uh you've really made my day uh with your discussion about uh uh politics being in uh everything because I've never understood uh people's views of politics.
It's really one of my pet peeves.
And full disclosure, I have I I'm 39 and I started watching your TV show back in the nineties.
Oh and um I credit you to helping me get through that uh college period where I attended attended an Uber liberal arts, fine arts school.
So uh I uh got all of the uh socialist professors and all that.
So but I came out on the other side, thanks to you and my husband, and uh so what what bothers me is people have this incorrect review of politics and they they say things like, you know, let's get the politics out of Washington, which obviously doesn't make any sense, and they you know they always talk about politics being mean and dirty, and I get so irritated because I I always tell my husband politics politics is politics.
It you know, it is what it is, and it always has been.
Um people have killed each other of our politics when the you know when they had the duel, you know, duels.
And I've always looked at it as um, you know, it's like a chess game where you just expose uh the other person's weaknesses, and it's not always pretty, but I think it's just you know kind of part of the cissification of America.
Well, I think you're on to something.
I it politics is its own business.
And saying we gotta get the politics out of something, i the Democrats have convinced a lot of people that they are not political.
This is the thing that I realize this I don't know how long ago, but it's a very long time ago.
Well, when I hear young people uh or anybody, you know, I wish they stopped arguing.
I don't want to hear about politics, have no idea how much of their world is politicized.
They have no idea how much political influence is being used on them.
And but yet they believe that they aren't involved in politics, that they're apolitical, and that the only people who are political are the Republicans.
The Democrats' motives are pure, they're just trying to help people, but it's the Republicans are always trying to stop.
It's always arguing.
The Republicans never cooperating, never getting along.
And for example, they don't see global warming as a political thing.
They see it as science and just trying to save the planet.
And since they hate politics, they hate anybody who stands in the way of doing good things in the era of science.
And it's a it's been a frustrating thing to me to encounter it so much, because the the key to having everybody understand who the Democrats are is to get them to be able to see just how political they are and what their politics is.
Yeah, I I just uh I don't understand when people complain about c politics.
I mean, I just wish that they would just take it and see it for what it is.
Um, you know, medicine tastes bad, you know, but it is what it is.
It's medicine.
So you know, we there's some of us who would like to get into political arena, but my goodness, if you were to ever mention that, you'd be looked upon like a pariah.
Um, your motives would be you'd be immediately suspected of something among the people we're talking about.
If you told them you wanted to get into politics, they would they would suspect you of something because to them it's dirty, it's dishonest.
It's it's it's it's it's just extreme, and it's arguing all the time.
It's never compromising and never getting along with anybody, constantly bickering, we hate it.
And what they don't understand, politics is really not about the art of compromise.
Politics is about winning and losing, like everything else in life.
You know, you compromise with a family member.
Maybe you have to compromise with the boss or whatever, but politics, it's about defeating.
It's about it's about the things that you stand for in politics are core principled beliefs.
And you don't compromise those.
You try to beat back the things trying to destroy what you believe in.
Politics is not about and that's see, that's another thing.
The left has really succeeded in convincing all these low information people that all politics is is compromise.
And that's the Democrats.
Obama just wants to compromise, but damn it, these Republicans, I mean, they just gotta stop the hating.
They just gotta stop the hating.
They're the architects of it.
Jill, I appreciate the call.
I really do.
Very, very insightful.
And I'm uh happy to have you in the audience.
I didn't forget, I just didn't have time.
It just didn't work today.
But the feminazis and the transgenders and the woman caught shaving her privates and getting a parking or drive, whatever.
That's coming up tomorrow.
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