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Aug. 12, 2014 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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August 12, 2014, Tuesday, Hour #3
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So the police department or the coroner's office, sheriff's department, somebody, medical examiner, is giving a press conference now in San Rafael, California with more details on the death of Robin Williams, and they've made it officially hanged himself as his mode of suicide.
And I don't know what else there is to say.
I've never been one who thought that suicide was heroic nor something to be glorified.
And the reason is simple.
We all only get one life, and I just, I don't think there's anything more precious.
And of course, I think that's something everybody alive takes for granted.
Well, not all the time.
Some people don't, obviously, but most people just take it for granted.
I also believe that, well, I don't want to go there.
No, no, no.
I was just going to say that people have such, I think there's so many people believe in heaven that it makes somehow, sometimes life on earth just not worth it because there's something better there.
And that may be true, but it's still a life wasted, and it's the only one any of us ever get.
And I just have always thought suicide was one of the most depressing tragedies.
And certainly not something that should be reported on in a way that might make others want to do it.
But that's just me.
Now, what I want to do in this hour, ladies and gentlemen, let's continue the political analysis that we started in the, I think I finally got to it in the second hour, about the media deciding now that Hillary's the candidate and it's time to make that official.
And if that means throwing Obama overboard in order to distance Hillary from him because his presidency, they now acknowledge is disastrous.
I'm not going to say that, but their actions are going to indicate that they know it.
And the action that they're going to engage in is doing everything they can to distance Mrs. Clinton from this administration so that it doesn't taint her run.
And I have some audio soundbites here that are coming up that I think are going to demonstrate this.
In addition to the previous analysis, verbal, that I offered in analyzing NBC's coverage of Obama on Meet the Press on Sunday.
But before I get back to that, do you remember this?
This is in regards to the looting in Ferguson, Missouri, or the looting in any circumstance like this, and the politics of it.
You remember Occupy Wall Street?
Occupy Wall Street was a contrived, made-up, artificially created protest group to counter the Tea Party.
The Tea Party came into existence as far as anybody knows in 2010.
The Tea Party is just average Americans fed up with fear and anger over what they saw happening to their country.
The Tea Party originally was animated by the rapidly accruing debt and the oncoming Obamacare.
The Tea Party was made up of people who were afraid of their kids' and grandkids' future, that the country was going to go into such debt and that federal spending was going to consume so much that their tax rates would be so high that they would never have a chance to have a better life than their parents had had, which has always been part of the American dream.
So the Tea Party was just a group of citizens.
There was never any leader.
There was never any particular candidate.
It was people that had never been formally involved in politics before showing up at town hall meetings.
And because there was no leader and because there was no Washington tie, the official Washington establishment became petrified and paranoid, scared to death of the Tea Party.
The left, which is totally consumed with PR and image and buzz, because they have to avoid the substance of what their beliefs are.
They cannot dare be honest about what they really believe.
So they rely on substance and image lies about their beliefs and their philosophies.
Occupy Wall Street was an artificially created, made to look like another grassroots movement that had sprung up to defend Obama and Obamacare and the spending.
And Occupy Wall Street was specifically created by wealthy Democrats behind the scenes, make it look like it was genuine and spontaneous, as an answer to the Tea Party.
Now, one of the animating features of Occupy Wall Street, and it's still around, by the way, it's dormant, but it is, there's still people in it, still living in shanty towns and so forth.
But it's, you know, Occupy Wall Street's where Elizabeth Warren came from, essentially.
Elizabeth Warren with the, you didn't build that.
You don't own that.
You didn't make that happen.
You factory owner, you business owner, you didn't make that happen.
Why, if we hadn't all banded together to build the roads and put in your sewage system for you, you could have never become rich.
So you didn't do it yourself.
You didn't do it on your own.
You didn't build that.
And Obama picked it up.
Well, that became the rallying cry of Occupy Wall Street.
And if there was a seminal or a central foundational belief in Occupy Wall Street is that work is not how you got things, because even that deck was stacked.
Occupy Wall Street was originally aimed at the 1% on Wall Street, rich bankers, investment bankers, investment people on Wall Street, all these various financial houses.
And the Occupy Wall Street people basically attempted to convey that things, the stuff that you get in life does not come from work.
That that's a fool's errand.
And people who buy into the notion that you have to work to get your stuff are victims of a big con game.
The 1% never worked.
They have all the money and they share it only with themselves.
And it's all a giant trick to get everybody toiling away for meager wages to benefit the already rich 1%.
It was built on resentment of capitalism, anger at the unfairness of the distribution of resources and all of that crap.
And therefore, any act of civil disobedience was justified because they were fighting injustice and unfairness and unequal distribution of resources in a rigged game.
This was made to buttress Obama.
And this is, I guess I say where Elizabeth Warren sprang up because the, you didn't build that, you didn't make that hip, directly traceable to the same kind of convoluted, perverted thinking in Occupy Wall Street.
Well, I think, using the snerdly doctrine, when it comes to explaining looters, I think looters have much the same kind of thought process.
That stuff, things, houses, cars, what have you, that work is not going to give you those things because it's stacked deck.
If you engage in work, you're just working for the man.
You're working for the 1%.
You're toiling away to make him richer, but you ain't getting any of it.
You aren't seeing any of it.
And indeed, social justice pretty much teaches this exact thing.
And therefore, social justice tells people who don't have things that they are entitled to take whatever the hell they want when they can and when they want it because they are entitled to it because it's being purposely denied them.
So when an opportunity springs up, such as the unfortunate shooting in St. Louis, or when your sports team wins, whatever it is, you make a B-line because it's all about justice.
It's all about getting even.
It's all about finally being able to grab some of what people are not letting you have.
This is the beliefs that this is, and by the way, this is not just Occupy Wall Street.
This is pretty much the left in general and the reason for their anti-capitalist stance.
It's rigged, it's unfair, and all this labor, i.e. their jobs, doesn't get them anything.
Doesn't get them health care.
It doesn't get them a TV set.
It doesn't get whatever.
He gets all that for the boss, the boss and the owner.
That's the guy who gets rich.
And he's out playing golf every day or having three martini lunches or what he's not working.
And he didn't build his business on his own either.
That's the latest scam to be revealed.
No, no, no, he didn't build that.
The same duped laborers who toil away for embarrassingly low wages made the business owners' business.
They built it.
They made it possible.
And then, yeah, and some of these Occupy people actually believe, what do you mean, go to college?
I go to college, I go into debt, and my first job is at McDonald's.
What a rigged game.
You mean I'm not going to get 80 grand out of college?
You mean I'm not going to be living in Shaker Heights right out of college?
I'm not going to be living in Pacific Heights right out of college.
I can't move to the Upper East Side right out of college.
I'm not going to have a house in the Hamptons right out of college.
Oh, what a rigged game.
And so it's this entitlement to stuff that is purposely being denied.
And right there is the soft bigotry of low expectations and how successful it has been.
They look around and they see all the evidence that they're wrong.
There's success stories all over this country.
People started with nothing and have, however they define success.
It's all around them.
But yet, they don't want to get rid of that victim status.
It's just too comforting.
And it explains their failure as being somebody else's fault, not their own.
That's the politics of all this.
And now, ladies and gentlemen, a brief time out while you consider all of that.
And we'll resume and return shortly.
Don't go away.
This poor guy out in San Rafael, California, who's having to deal with questions in the media, he said last question about five times, but he keeps getting such stupid questions he feels duty-bound to answer them.
The last question I heard before I had to return here to the busy broadcast was: was his death accidental?
No, sir.
Suicide is an intentional, intentful act.
It isn't an accident.
Last question.
Well, where was his wife at 10:30 last night?
I don't know where Mrs. Williams was, and I wouldn't tell you if I did.
Whoa, oh, is it possible he could come back to life and, sir, he committed suicide by hanging.
That's the preliminary information we have.
What do you mean, preliminary?
Well, when we finish the investigation, we'll have a final determinant.
You mean, you mean, sir, it just means that this is everything is normal here.
The only thing different is you're here.
Everything we're doing is what we do in every circumstance when this happens with any citizen in our county.
The only difference is you are here, meaning the media.
Well, whoa, was he naked?
Or was, sir, he was clothed.
This was not an auto-erotical sexual act, sir.
Oh, damn.
Okay.
Man, oh, man, oh, man.
The media just, you know, anybody can be.
You got, What do you percentage of media people are actual low information, incompetent people themselves?
Which reminds me, I have this psych report on who the low information people are.
And as I knew, they do not know that they are.
Having more fun than a human being should be allowed to have rush limbo.
The Dunning-Kruger effect.
Why low-information people do not know that they are low-information.
Or another way to say it, why the incompetent don't know that they're incompetent.
The Dunning-Kruger effect.
I have a story here.
Dr. Jeremy Dean is a psychologist and the author of something called the Psyblog, P-S-Y Blog.
He says, One of the painful things about our time right now is that those who feel certainty are stupid, and those with any imagination and understanding are filled with doubt and indecision.
The quote above, that quote comes from the philosopher Bertrand Russell.
Psychological research has now shown that he was right.
Let me run through that again.
One of the painful things about our time is that those who feel certainty are stupid.
And what that means, don't you?
I mean, somebody thinks they're dead right all the time, is closed-minded and not open to other ideas and therefore is an idiot.
Whereas those with any imagination and understanding who ought to feel like they're the smartest people around are actually filled with doubt and indecision.
And he says everything's reversed here.
The stupid think they're the smart ones, and the smart ones don't know they're smart.
That's what Bertrand Russell said.
Now, there are exceptions to this.
I, for example, am one who feels certainty, and I ain't dumb.
But Bertrand Russell thinks that people who feel certainty are stupid.
Well, I feel certainty, but I'm not dumb.
Snerdley feels certainty, and he's not dumb.
So this doesn't work all the time.
But the gist of this is that everybody thinks they've got all the answers is really the idiot and doesn't know it.
And the people who are more capable of acquiring the truth don't have any confidence.
They don't think they can.
Now, the Dunning-Kruger effect is the finding that the poorest performers are the least aware of their incompetence.
The effect has been this: replicated among undergraduates completing a classroom exam, medical students assessing their interviewing skills, clerks evaluating their performance, and medical lab technicians evaluating their on-job expertise.
That's what was studied.
Now, the reason seems to be the reason why the incompetent don't know that they're incompetent is because they do not learn from their mistakes.
Therefore, it would follow the low-information don't know that they're low information because they don't know they're low information.
People that don't know anything don't know anything, and they don't know that they don't know anything because they don't know.
Unlike the ugly, who definitely know who they are.
But that is a different discussion, usually held in concert with feminism.
So if we take this, why the incompetent don't know they're incompetent and transpose it to the low information, we get to the proposed solution.
What is the solution for being incompetent or the solution for being low information?
Well, the psyches say that the solution is the incompetent should be directly told that they're incompetent.
And low information people should be told that they're low information.
Well, the people who know that they're wrong.
Unfortunately, the problem is incompetent, low-information people have been getting that kind of feedback for years and they didn't listen to it.
Now, here's an example, or they didn't notice it.
How about people who fail exams, they mess up at work, they irritate other people, and they still don't know that they're incompetent.
The guy never gets a promotion.
The guy who is always irritated, it's always somebody else's fault.
It's never the fault of the incompetent in the incompetent's mind.
Socrates even once said, the only true wisdom is to know that you know nothing.
Well, that's not the low information voter because the low information voter doesn't know he doesn't know anything.
That's why I know when I'm talking about low information voters on this show, not one of them thinks I'm talking about him or her.
But even this can go too far.
Turns out that people with real talent, this is the real rub of it here.
It turns out that people with real talent tend to underestimate just how good they are.
And the roots of this bias is that clever people, smart people, talented people, tend to assume that other people find things just as easy.
Talented people think everybody else is.
Accomplished people think everybody else is.
Talented people think, hey, I can do it.
Everybody else can do it.
Talented people think it isn't that big a deal to be talented.
Talented, competent people, intelligent people, knowledgeable people, don't think it's anything special because everybody can do it, they think.
Therefore, they don't allow themselves to think positively about themselves because they don't think what they can do is special.
And so these guys think that we are suffering from a major, major inversion.
Low information people tend to overestimate their level of information.
They fail to recognize how other people know much more than they do.
They fail to recognize just how little they know, even when they're confronted with it.
And on the other hand, the real talented people, the real accomplished people, oftentimes don't think it's any big deal because they think everybody can do or is as good as they are.
Does anybody come to mind describing any of this?
Anybody spring them immediately when describing somebody who is constantly wrong but will never believe it, doesn't know it, and thinks so high of themselves that they could never ever deal with the truth.
Very good, very good.
Snerdly, exactly, it sounds like our president.
It can't tell him anything.
He doesn't know how little he knows because he doesn't know he doesn't know anything.
He doesn't know that what he knows is wrong.
Joe Biden hasn't been right in 40 years in Washington, D.C.
And doesn't know it.
And by the way, Obama, who thinks he's very talented, he has a knack for it, he told Harry Reed.
It's a gift, Harry.
Obama's one of these guys who thinks he's greater than anybody else, and nobody can do what he does.
Just an interesting little bit of analysis here, folks, because the low-information voter, in many people's minds, is key to turning the country around.
And they may be, but it may be a lost cause to try to turn them into high information.
The key, it may be getting around them somehow.
Anyway, I have to take another obscene profit timeout.
Just got these soundbites coming up.
Yep, yep, yep.
We're going to get to them.
Grab a quick phone call here, and then some supporting soundbites.
James P. Pack, New Jersey.
Welcome to the program, sir.
Hello.
Hi.
Yes, no, you know, I tried a lot to get through.
I'm glad I got through.
I do want to mention how much I love the 2FIT before we get to my point about Hillary and very much, sir.
Appreciate that very much.
You know, one thing I thought was that it needs one more thing, and what it needs, since there's one is by land and two if by sea, it needs eliminated.
One is by lemon, two by tea.
So I have to have that trademark.
And if you want to get in touch with me, that'd be great.
Always selling something.
Always selling something.
That's the American way.
Stick to the topic, sir.
Stick to the topic.
Here's what I had to say about Hillary.
You know, Obama doesn't like it when people say he's wrong.
And especially when Hillary and the other people said that, and they brought it up, he got kind of angry.
He said it was horse, horse, well, I can't say all that, horse hockey.
Horse manure, horse excrement.
Horse manure.
Right.
And it seems like when other people have cursed, you know, when Bush and Chaney cursed, they got a lot of hard time for them that got picked up cursing.
But he seems to be a little bit more.
Look at that, right?
Yeah, yeah, he called him a climber.
Look, here's his point.
James's point is that Obama's not going along with this.
I mean, NBC and the Washington Post might be trying to throw him overboard and distance Hillary from him to set her up for a more easy campaign or an easier campaign.
His point is Obama's not going along with it.
And that's a crucial point.
Obama's not just going to sit idly by and watch him build Hillary up.
It's going to be fun.
They're still, but they can't afford for her to be tied to him, folks.
They just can't.
I don't, I don't, they just can't.
Yeah, that's that's why she's thrown him overboard on his Syria policy, and that's why he called what she said horse manure.
So let's go to the audio soundbites here.
Just to illustrate, here's Beltway conventional wisdom, and it's forming, and it is that Hillary Clinton, you're not going to believe this.
This is a positive.
They're distancing Hillary from Obama, and they're setting her up, and they've got to distance her from his foreign policy.
Specifically, she was Secretary of State.
And they can't have her tied to that, nor can she be tied to it.
So we have a montage here of media people.
Wait till you hear what the conventional wisdom is.
Hillary Clinton.
Now sounds like Dick Cheney.
She's much more hawkish.
Hillary Clinton.
Always been much more of a hawk.
Hillary Clinton is more of a neocon.
She seems to see it more as a long-term existential threat, closer to, in some ways, the way the previous president, his administration did Hillary Clinton is sounding like Dick Cheney.
Holy smokes, all of a sudden, Bush and Cheney are worthy of emulating.
All of a sudden, Hillary Clinton being hawkish like Cheney is a positive.
All of a sudden, and I'm telling you, this is all part of the media-conscious campaign to start promoting her candidacy and distancing herself from Obama or distancing her.
And now, out of the blue, the Bush-Cheney foreign policy is golden.
Who would have thought that's, folks, what that means, that's the size task they've got in order to distance her.
Now, here is Daniel Halper.
He is an author, Clinton Inc.
He's on Fox this morning.
He was asked, is this about 2016?
Or is she being honest about how she was squelched under Obama?
Who's behind this, Daniel?
It's totally all about politics.
This is Hillary Clinton.
She is completely political.
This is completely transactional.
The truth of the matter is, as I outlined in my book, Hillary Clinton was put in a bubble in the State Department.
Foreign policy was essentially run from the White House by President Obama and his minions.
Hillary Clinton didn't have much say in foreign policy, so she traveled the world.
She visited different places.
She made new friends, but she didn't really have much say in foreign policy.
See, she was just there traveling the world.
It wasn't her idea to do what Obama did or didn't do in Syria.
It wasn't her idea to do or do what Obama didn't do in Iraq.
She had nothing to do with Benghazi.
She had nothing to do with Gaddafi.
She had nothing to do with the Muslim Brotherhood.
It wasn't her, wasn't her, wasn't her.
She was just there.
She was a placeholder, and she had to do what Obama told her to do, but she really didn't.
She just flew all over and she met a lot of people and she made a lot of friends and she set herself up for her own foreign policy.
But she had nothing to do with Obama.
See how this is working out, folks?
You see what's happening here?
And it turns out it's not just NBC News, and it's not just the Washington Post.
Here's Dana Milbank, Obama Vacations as the World Burns.
President Obama must be really teed off.
Hillary Clinton, his once loyal Secretary of State, has gone rogue, criticizing his foreign policy as too timid.
Obama responded with two rounds of golf.
Obama vacations as the world burns.
Do not doubt me on this.
Now, don't misunderstand.
I'm not frightened by any of this.
I'm the last guy to get frightened by any of this.
I'm just telling you what's happening here.
I want you to be able to understand it when you watch the news elsewhere.
What it means, why it is being done.
Benghazi was her and Obama.
This effort to say that she had nothing to do with Obama foreign policy is BS.
Once more, they're trying to make up a bunch of stuff in order to inoculate her from the poison that is the Obama foreign policy.
Make no mistake about it, but she was right in there.
That is the cliché, the dirty little secret.
Just enough time to say thank you all very much for being with us here today and every day.
We all look forward to it, and certainly that's the case for tomorrow.
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