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Aug. 8, 2014 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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August 8, 2014, Friday, Hour #2
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Here, try this, folks.
I this guaranteed to tick off low information voters and probably some on the left.
But I would go so far as to say, in addition to saying that politics is not how we solve our problems, victory in politics is.
I would go further.
Our problem is not that there is too much conflict in Washington.
Our problem is there isn't enough.
Live from the Southern Command in sunny South Florida.
It's open line Friday.
Now what did I mean by that?
Because if you're really sharpening the ball, you can say, wait a minute, Rush, you're being a little hypocritical here.
And for those of you who remember that I have extolled the virtues of gridlock, you might have a point.
However, what is gridlock?
Conflict.
Gridlock is when they can't agree on anything.
And what happens when that happens?
The media and Democrats go nuts.
Why?
Because the Republicans aren't letting them have what they want.
That's what gridlock is, when the Democrats are losing.
Gridlock is not when the parties can't get along.
Gridlock is when the Democrats are unable to advance their agenda.
They just call it gridlock.
So they can gin up public support against gridlock.
What is the solution to gridlock always?
The Republicans have to cave, right?
Isn't it always the case that whenever there's gridlock, things aren't getting done?
Who's the problem?
The Republicans are the problem.
Why?
Because they just they just won't agree.
They're just standing in the way of our poor young president who only wants the best for everybody.
But the problem really is when there is gridlock that the Democrats' agenda has been shut down.
That's why I love it.
When there is gridlock going on, there aren't any new laws passed.
We got plenty of laws, folks.
There are already plenty of immigration laws, for example.
We just need to start enforcing them again.
We don't need any more restrictions on movement or liberty or freedom.
We have plenty of that.
Have you noticed this in the daily measure of Congress is how many laws they're passing?
How much legislation is being passed.
Screw that.
The measure of success is how much isn't.
We have enough.
But just as politics is not how we solve our problems, victory in politics is, our system was designed for conflict.
Our system of government was set up for it, knowing full well it would exist.
That's why there are three branches with checks and balances to make sure that one can't run roughshod and end up dictatorial.
That's exactly how it was set up.
That's the design.
It was assumed that all three branches would stand up for themselves.
It was assumed that all three branches would vigorously defend their power.
And it was also assumed that all three branches would try to take as much power from the other branches as they could.
All of this was assumed.
All this conflict was built in.
All of this competition, built in, understood.
Founding fathers were not idiots.
They were...
They were citizens of the world.
They knew.
They'd studied every form of government.
And they found, as any reasonable person would, that wherever in the world you find the least opposition and theoretically the most peace, you've got a dictatorship.
Where the people have no power to oppose what's happening to them.
They didn't want that.
Now I imagine that this prototypical 25-year-old woman that we've heard about that's scared to death of hearing me talk politics because I might raise my voice now and then, and they just don't like that.
Can you tone it down?
And also can we just put aside our differences and find our common ground and can't we agree?
It's it's it's it's human nature.
So what everything to be copacetic?
Human nature for whatever they get along.
And families, yeah, politics, a whole different thing.
At work, yeah, but even there.
Turf wars are happening all the time.
Politics is occurring in businesses everywhere as underlings plot takeovers, climb the corporate ladder, try to undermine the people above them.
It's the way of the world.
Victory and defeat are the way of the world.
Competition's the way of the world.
You can't weed it out of the human body.
You cannot breed it out of the human mind.
You can beat it and suppress it and overpower it with thuggish statism and so forth, but the actual spirit.
It takes a lot of effort to quash that.
So I imagine young people, millennials, my tech blocker buddies, if they listen, driving around and hearing me say all this, they're probably just going batty because they've taken what?
Conflict resolution 101?
And they think the solution to everything is possible, and that it can be peaceful, and that it can result in compromise if somebody just comes up with a brilliant point.
It's all it takes if somebody will just find it with that one brilliant point that will dazzle everybody.
So that they agree, but that's naivety.
That's not how it works.
Maybe now and then, if you're dealing with a superintellect who has the ability to dazzle with charisma and other things, but for the most part, things happen in the world because there are winners and losers.
And in that sense, who happen to be the enemy right now in this country?
The winners.
The winners are stigmatized, the winners are treated as suspects, the winners are treated as cheaters.
There's nothing legitimate about winning in the view of the left.
And because there are winners, there are losers, and that is what problem troubles them.
There shouldn't be any losers.
Everybody should be a winner.
It's not possible.
So the left is made up of people with their head in the sand, their idealist utopians that live in a dream world of impossibility.
Meanwhile, people who have their feet and their souls grounded in reality and they got their sleeves rolled up every day trying to make the country work understand exactly what the task is every day, both personally, professionally, politically, what have you.
Now, while all these leftists are out there wringing their hands over all the winners and losers and all the unfair competition and all the arguing and all the conflict, the people that make the world go round are out winning or trying to.
And for the most part, the losers are trying to win too.
Because people do both, you see.
Winners lose all the time.
Losers win some of the time too.
It's an ongoing process.
But our system was set up for conflict.
In mind, it was designed for conflict and disagreement.
That's why there's a press.
It's why there's a freedom of the press clause of the First Amendment.
Supposed to be a referee of sorts.
Maybe it's not referee.
They're supposed to be an agency that keeps everybody else honest by seeking out culprits who exceed the bounds of propriety in the law in the quest for their power.
That's what the press's original charge was in the eyes of the founders.
You've heard it expressed as speaking truth to power.
What it means is basically ferreting out corruption.
Unfortunately, the press has become corrupt, and instead of ferreting out corruption, the press has decided to throw in with the Democrat Party and do whatever it takes to advance that agenda.
And so therefore there is no referee, for there is no fourth estate that's that's that's looking for corruption.
There is only a bunch of frauds and pretenders, Democrat Party activists and hacks who are described as journalists.
We had a story, I didn't get to it yesterday.
Did I put it in the stack today?
Let me see.
I know that I if if I didn't, I recalled it off the top of my head.
There's a you remember the journalist that Ezra Klein of the Washington Post started, a secret society of left-wing journalists.
And I don't know what the number was.
It was uh it was in the hundreds.
And they had a special website, private website, email addresses, and so forth, and they communicated on a daily basis, and what they essentially did was strategize and plan the daily soap opera.
They shared with each other liberal ideas, liberal opinions, liberal strategy, how to promote the Democrats, how to undermine the Republicans.
That's exactly what the journalist was.
Well, it went away after it was discovered, it was disbanded, and the people that were involved in it kind of downplayed it.
No, there's nothing to hear, just a bunch of friends getting together and chatting like you do with your buddies.
Well, now it's back, and there are a thousand journalists in this one, and it is every bit as intense as the journal list was.
Now it turns out I did not print that out again today.
So it must be in the yesterday stack over there that I always save items I didn't get to yesterday or any day that I intend to get to the next day.
So it's not here.
I'll find it, but I basically give you the upshot of it.
Uh it's being called Journal List 2.0, 1,000 members, secretive progressive journalist group has been uncovered, a prominent CNN commentator, the top two political reporters for the Huffing and Puffington Post,
a Reuters reporter, the editor of the Nation magazine, a producer for Al Jazeera America Television, a U.S. News and World Report columnist, and approximately two dozen Huffing and Puffington Post contributors are among the more than 1,000 members of Game Changer Salon, is what it's called.
Founded by left-wing activist Billy Wimsat, W-I-M-S-A-T-T.
The group is a secretive group, digital gathering, writers, opinion leaders, activists, and political hands who share information, ideas, and strategy via a closed Google group.
Their existence was discovered by media trackers through an open records request filed with the University of Wisconsin professor who happened to be a member of the network.
So they and they they were not happy when journalist was uncovered.
But they deny doing what they do all the time.
Journalist was discovered, and it was learned that they're exactly.
They're conspiring every day to write the news.
They're conspiring every day to assist Obama to hurt Romney, whatever it was.
They were conspiring.
Off hours, on hours, day in, day out.
It was discovered.
They said nothing to see here, and they dismant their back.
And it's called Game Changer Salon.
So shouldn't come as a surprise.
I mean, I've long said and thought that things like this aren't even necessary.
They don't need to talk to each other to know what they think.
Because liberalism is very easily defined and explained, and being a liberal is very easy.
I mean, I could do it.
Hell, if I want to start being a liberal right now, I could.
And I I could probably convince them that I had had an honest change of heart.
I would never convince you.
You would never believe it.
But I'll bet you I could I could make some of them think I'd really seen the light.
That's how well I know who they are, what they do, what they think, how they go about it, and all that.
But the point is, they aren't what they say.
They never have been what they say, and there is no independent arbiter in our system of conflict any longer.
They've chosen sides.
But the overall point here, and I I frankly, I must be honest, I love Envisioning.
You know, empathy is a key element to success for any broadcaster.
The empathy being my ability or the broadcaster's ability to be in the audience hearing the program as the audience does while hosting it.
That's empathy.
And I love to envision these 24, 25-year-old sororette, sorority type women who think they're really hot stuff but hate politics.
And I just don't want to hear it.
I just don't want to hear when I say that politics is not a solution, that victory in politics is.
And when I say that a problem with our system is not that there's too much conflict, the problem is there's too little.
I love envisioning their reaction the moment they hear that.
And not just them.
I mean, all of the, pick one, millennials, the leftists, whoever.
But I really believe it.
That's the way the country was founded.
There are winners and losers every day.
The winners lose all the time.
They win a lot as well.
Losers sometimes win.
People exist in many different groups.
Nobody is usually poor all their life.
Many people, most people are not wealthy all of their lives other than the inheritors.
And even they sometimes aren't because they blow it all.
Life is a constantly moving giant blob.
People are in and out of various groups all the time.
Success, failure, winning, losing, arguing, agreeing, disagreeing, pacifying.
It's a giant cauldron out there.
And it was designed with this conflict in mind.
And in any compromise, if you still believe that compromise is the order of the day, in any compromise, there is a loser.
And I think that's what people either are mistakenly or erroneously taught or just instinctively believe it's incorrect.
That when there's compromise, that when there's compromise, everybody wins.
And it's not the case.
Compromise is just a different kind of warfare.
With a different definition of winning and losing.
But it's all about winning and losing.
And it's all about if you lose, you keep fighting until you win.
Nothing's permanent.
That's why the battle's never over.
But this mythical idea that got Obama elected, that there's some magical day out there where we're all going to agree and all this partisanship's going to end.
Fat chance.
Ain't gonna happen until there aren't any of us left.
To the phones we go, open line Friday.
This is Nette, Cedar Park, Texas.
I'm glad you waited.
Great to have you with us.
Are you if I'm a little bit tongue-tied, it's just because I'm so thrilled to talk to you.
Well, I appreciate that.
And you you don't seem ton tongue-tied at all yet.
Just wait.
Oh, how are you today?
Uh uh, I'm uh um a little tongue-tied.
Doing well, thank you.
Good, good.
Well, I wanted to tell you about a conversation I had with a former student.
I teach high school, and um uh the former student that I had lunch with this week is now uh uh junior and a polypsi major.
And just to give you a little bit uh uh of her character, uh she didn't want to be known as a Democrat or Republican, and so she joined the Alexander Hamilton um uh uh uh club.
Right.
Um and um is part of Amnesty International.
Oh, jeez.
Ah, jeez.
Okay.
All right.
Go ahead.
Go ahead.
And and um so we're talking about the Obama administration and the country and and um and one of the things that she said that I found really interesting was that um she wished that people who are black, she and she happens to be uh black American uh originally from Nigeria, um, she wished that they could vote the way they wanted to, as opposed to how they're they're being forced to vote.
That the pressure on certain communities to vote a specific way is just unimaginable.
And you know, I kind of suspected that might be the case, but it it just threw me for a loop.
And um, that's it really is the question.
She's referring to the 93% of the black vote that every Democrat gets every presidential race.
And she's assuming that there is innate pressure on all of them to vote Democrat, and that there has been, but that really is the question.
Are they being forced to?
Is it uh or is it really just what they instinctively are raised to do?
How much pressure or force, peer pressure otherwise, is present in that in that decision.
I assume that she has more to say.
I'd like to hear it, so don't hang up.
We'll continue this here just a second.
Okay, we welcome back, and Ned here, Cedar Park, Texas.
Uh during the break, and uh, you're still there, right?
Yes.
Okay, now I looked up the Alexander Hamilton Society.
Uh-huh.
Here's what I found.
It's an independent, non-partisan, not-for-profit organization dedicated to promoting constructive debate on basic principles and contemporary issues in foreign economic and national security policy.
Uh-huh.
And they they say they're not a think tank, and they're not a partisan advocacy group.
They sponsored debates at colleges and universities.
And they get a little bit here from their mission statement.
They take a quote, measured pride in the success of the American experiment and understanding that America's greatness is the result of its commitment to individual liberty, limited government, economic freedom.
Now, why not take a side and defend that?
That's a de that I'm not asking you that.
That's just my first reaction.
Anyway, so this former student of yours is a member of that society.
Right.
And she told you that she's really upset about about people who vote in blocks, like like the African American vote for Democrats.
Right.
And and the and the pressure to do that, because it she said that, you know, when you talk to a group of of black Americans or white Americans or Hispanic, you get the same conversation that they are they tend to be more conservative, they tend to um not carry the liberal agenda, and yet when it comes to voting, all bets are off.
They throw what they believe out and vote by pressure.
And it drives her nuts.
Well, as as it should, but but was she able to identify is it peer pressure?
Is it people think that they have to vote a certain way so that these uh groups will accept them?
Well, a lot of it is pr peer pressure from either from um churches or um leaders in the community.
I mean, and and you kind of get the the sense of that when you look at what's happened with Bill Cosby.
He came out and said, you know, we uh the black community needs to stop shooting itself, and he was ostracized for it for what his message of, you know, we need to take things back and become educated again and focus on education, focus on getting ahead.
And um, but uh he's been getting you know kind of kicked to the curb because of that positive message, and and it's the kind of the same thing that that we were talking about at lunch, you know, um, where um people don't have the right, even though you know this is the United States, everybody should have the the right to a private vote, but the pressure to vote a certain way is so strong, and um and people aren't the block of of anything.
You know, you women there's no block of women vote.
Everybody votes differently.
Let me tell you, sir, there is no block that votes in unity as black Americans do.
There isn't the women, I mean uh the female vote in this country is always a 50-50 proposition, depending on the candidacy and and the year, but but there's the the the male vote, the female vote, it's always up for grabs.
The black vote never is.
The Hispanic vote is is is more up for grabs than people know.
Right.
Um but the black vote is it is ninety percent for the Democrat candidate every year, no matter what.
Now th you're you you bring up you bring up Cosby.
I rem remember when Cosby did that.
There's been a couple of occasions.
And he's not the only one.
Thomas Sowell has done it on occasion.
And every time somebody stands up, let's use Cosby since you did.
Cosby stands up and urges blacks to be independently successful, to learn to read, study to get good grades, and is slapped down.
People misunderstand why he gets slapped down.
There is a huge business.
I call it the race industry, and it's popularized and run by people like Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton.
And it's how they make their living.
And therefore it's never gonna it's never gonna you talk about solution?
There's never gonna be a solution to this.
They can't afford it.
They cannot afford for racial strife to end.
There's too much profit in it.
And Cosby threatens that.
Cosby's very influential.
Cosby's a guy that a lot of people look up to.
Not just because of the TV characters he's portrayed, but because he is successful, and he's very popular, and he's well liked, and he is independent.
And so when he stands up and says these things, it's a threat.
It's a threat to people who make money and maintain power by maintaining the status quo.
Anything that's going to upset that is going to be dispatched, and there won't be any loyalty of race or ideology or anything else.
When somebody's dollars are threatened, and in this case it's a large amount, they're going to be slapped down.
And I that's I don't know if if people stop to think that, realize that, or even care that that's a factor, but it's the major factor when a guy like Cosby gets slapped down.
But look, I appreciate the call.
I know I really do.
Thank you very much.
Great open line Friday uh contribution.
I'd say that.
This is Carolyn in uh Bluffton, South Carolina.
You're next.
Great to have you.
Hi.
Hi.
It's great to talk to you.
And I just wanted to tell you that you bring Stanish into my life since my husband passed away.
And when all these things are happening in the world, I look forward at 12 listening to you because it really helps.
But when you were talking about the tick, I have a friend whose daughter suffered from Lyme disease.
And just as you were talking about it, I looked on my email and I had a thing on Facebook that uh ticks in New York can trigger allergy to red meat.
And it says one allergist on Long Island says she already has seen 200 cases.
You're kidding me.
No.
You've already got an email that's trying to pressure you or otherwise uh scare you into avoiding meat.
Well, it looks like it because i I don't I didn't check out where the email came from, but you know how you have the thing down there where you can click on it says it came from four dot capital N, capital B, capital.
It doesn't matter where it came from, it's a leftist group.
Yeah.
I'm uh I wouldn't be surprised.
Well, it has to be by default.
The militant vegetarians, the militant anything are always leftists.
That's true.
Well, so Snerdley's right.
No wonder your call made it on the air, because you're you're making his point.
If you're just tuning in, and we had a little fun today.
There's a there's a new uh tick that has been discovered in Texas of all places, ladies and gentlemen.
It is uh the Lone Star Tick has been named for Texas.
And it is infecting cattle.
And anybody that eats beef infected by this tick has a severe allergic reaction.
And Snerdley Predicted that the militant vegans and vegetarians would grasp onto this and start sending emails or otherwise try to get hold of people to influence them not to eat beef.
And I kind of laugh, said, Come on, that's and lo and behold, you got one already.
So proof again.
Proof is something as as innocuous as a tick that causes an allergy in beef.
And here's a group already glommed on trying to scare people to stay away from beef, and they happen to be promoting vegetarianism.
Politics, it is.
Carolyn, thanks much.
I appreciate it.
Another brief timeout.
We got to get into this Ebola stuff before time gets away from me here.
And uh and also more on a rock.
And plus your calls.
It's open line Friday.
All of that coming up when we get back.
Your guiding light, Rush Limbaugh, talent.
So much talent.
On loan from God.
I'm sure you all would be the first to admit that you don't have the amount of talent that I do.
Just like Obama said yesterday, he's sure that he's a country's enough.
They'd be the first to tell you that they really don't want the serum.
Right.
That they're so backward that they wouldn't know what to do with it anyway, justifying his decision not to let them have it.
Well, yeah.
They'd be the first to tell you that they didn't know what to do with it in the first place.
That can't tell you how that ticked me off.
So that's why I said I'm sure you'd be the first to agree that I have all this talent, much more than you'll ever have.
Illustrating absurdity by being absurd.
Get this.
Uh folks, you're not gonna believe this.
Except that you will.
There are people.
It's not just the Redskins now.
There are people livid at the nickname of the University of Mississippi.
Ole Miss.
And we we have got to get rid of it.
Well, you ought to be able to tell us, but Mr. Mr. No, no, no, no, no, no, hang on a minute.
Hang on a minute.
The story makes it clear that Ole Miss is a profound insult to anybody with slave ancestry.
Now you have 100% certified slave blood.
That's why you're qualified to be a Obama criticizer here.
Okay.
Therefore you ought to know what it is about Ole Miss that makes it intolerable now, and such that we have got to get rid of it.
And you don't know.
Well, Ole Miss.
The university's historical nickname can be traced back to slaves using the term to refer to planters' wives and daughters, according to the Associated Press.
The University of Mississippi, affectionately called Ole Miss, is considering finding appropriate ways to use that nickname because of concerns over racism in the university's history, according to a report sent to students by the chancellor, Dan Jones.
They are going to be changing several aspects on campus to promote diversity, and one of which is finding more appropriate ways to use the well-known nickname Ole Miss.
The report said that some faculty are especially uncomfortable with the university's nickname, which can be traced back to slaves using the term to refer to wives and daughters.
If I could do one thing, the place would never be called Ole Miss again, said Charles Eagles, a history professor at the university.
He told us New York Times back in February after a statue of the Scruwel's first African American student was vandalized.
So Ole Miss is a term that was used by slaves to refer to the wives and daughters of the plantation owners.
Oh, miss!
Oh, miss.
That they re See, they were apparently, you see, they were required to address the matriarch of the plantation as old miss.
And the daughters were oh miss.
Oh, missy, and and since it was required that the slaves refer to them as that, you don't dare.
And it's an insult.
You don't dare black people offended all over this country because of this.
We're now learning today.
So you see, it's not just the redskins.
And you see, folks, all of this is political.
This has nothing to do with people offended or anything.
This is all political.
Mississippi is still a str I'm I'm telling you.
Well, this is their they may be struggling in economically, Mississippi, but this isn't this has nothing to do with that.
This is the left on the march.
This is the left attempting to say that everything institutionally, traditionally in this country is racist in its roots and has to be uprooted and done away with.
That's what this is.
Of course, they're seriously insane.
But remember now, this is the chancellor at the university.
Sent this to the students.
This is not the students demanding something.
This is this is administration down.
Now where do you think this started?
We have this professor, Charles Eagles, history professor at Ole Miss, who told the New York Times back in February, if I could do one thing, the place would never be called Ole Miss again.
So some professor may be the origin of this.
Now, if this if this goes to place to pattern, you're gonna see a slow consciousness on the part of the students.
We didn't know.
Oh my God, we've got to change it.
We didn't know it was so offensive to black Americans.
Oh my God, Ole Miss is what the slaves had to call a plantation.
Oh my God, I'm never gonna use it again.
And we should never use this is if it if it if it happens like everything else has happened, that's how it'll happen.
It'll start slow.
The students will be outraged and embarrassed that this happened.
They didn't know.
And they can't in good conscience continue to refer to this.
One of the things that they're gonna do is try the first elimination is to get rid of it in the email domain.
The email domain, official email domain is old miss.edu.
And they want to change that to UMIS, University of Mississippi, instead of Ole Miss.
Uh...
What did the slaves called stupid people?
I I I can I can tell you that, but that's not for me to answer.
Uh but but I'm just telling you, folks, I love stories like this.
This is cutting edge societal evolution stuff.
You are going to eventually remember how you thought I was nutcakes when I told you they were going to go after your SUV back in 1997.
Now we got this onslaught against the redskins, and now this.
Now, Ole Miss, and it's just the never-ending assault on the traditions and institutions in this country, especially those that can be tied to slavery and racism.
And it's all part of the effort to chip away at the greatness of this country by people who hate it.
That's what's driving this.
And I just want to remind all of you rose-colored glass types.
This wasn't supposed to happen, was it?
Barack Obama was gonna heal all of this.
That's right, the election of B. Hussein, oh, was gonna end all of this kind of strife, and we were not going to care about any of this.
And we were all just gonna start getting along, and it would be the end of partisanship and racism, and it was gonna be wonderful.
And now look.
Now we gotta get rid of the name Ole Miss.
And we have to take a brief time out.
Don't go away.
You know, the mascot, football, basketball teams and old Miss, the mascots and the rebels.
Uniforms are gray and red.
That's not gonna last either.
Now that they're on the name Ole Miss, they're gonna have to get rid of rebels.
Maybe I can change the name to Redskins.
University of Mississippi Redskins.
Just kidding.
Just kidding.
Just trying to irritate people.
I seem to actually be able to do that without trying.
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