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Aug. 21, 2014 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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August 21, 2014, Thursday, Hour #2
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And we are back.
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CBS News, this is from uh Dyer County, Tennessee, actually from the Charlotte CBS, I guess, TV station or bureau.
A Hascruel student was allegedly suspended after breaking a class rule of saying bless you after a classmate sneezed.
Kendrit Turner, a senior at Dyer County Hasgruel, said bless you to her classmate who sneezed, and the teacher told her that that term is for church.
You're not going to have godly stuff like that in my classroom.
Kendra Turner told the uh CBS TV station, look, she said that we're not going to have godly speaking in her class, and that's when I said we have a constitutional right.
When she defended her actions, a teacher told Turner to see an administrator.
The student said she had to finish the class period in scrubal suspension.
The uh the girl's parents were told by scroll leaders that their daughter shouted bless you across the room, and it was a classroom distraction.
School officials told the parents Tuesday that the teacher claimed their daughter was aggressive and disruptive.
But Becky Weingardner, Turner's Ute pastor disagrees with the scrub's actions of in-class suspension.
Believe it.
I mean, it happened.
And they're backing it up.
Bless you, isn't it?
I wonder these people don't even know what the root of it is.
They don't even know why.
You know why you say bless you to somebody who sneezes?
Do you know why, Snertley?
Well, then your heart actually stops during a sneeze, and it you're being blessed that it kicks back up and goes ba boom, ba-boom, ba-boom again.
It doesn't really stop.
It's just the not in the medical sense.
Uh but it is it is rooted in in that.
It's just it is this is the left with their control of the curriculum and political correctness and all that.
You know what I thought we would do, and it would be instructive.
You remember Obama's speech in Berlin in July 2008.
Given that one of the things we're talking about today is people's frustration.
People on the left.
They'd vote for him again, make no mistake.
But the drive-by is that a lot of people, they're really wringing their hands over the fact that Obama gave a lukewarm passionless, didn't look like he really cared, set of remarks about the beheading of James Foley, and then ten minutes later, is on the golf course.
You ought to see the US or the UK Daily Mail story on this.
I mean, it is brutal.
Let me just read you the sub-headlines in this story.
The primary headline is this fist bump, furious reactions to Obama's joyful five-hour golf game, overshadow his five-minute ISIS speech, as he teed off immediately after condemning American photojournalist James Foley's executioners.
You know, I'm thinking about Obama's presidential library for social justice and all that.
Maybe they should set it up on a golf course somewhere.
Or maybe set it up as a golf course, like my official library is going to be the Limbaugh Broadcast Museum, and you've like we've already created a virtual version of the Limbaugh Broadcast Museum at Rush Limbaugh.com.
And I have urged you to go visit it many times.
And if you haven't, you really should, because it's really, really well done.
But I'm thinking for Obama, the official library for social justice or whatever the hell else needs to be in a golf course.
Viewers, visitors, uh could could walk around or be driven around as if going from T to T. The front nine would be his first term, the back nine would be the second term.
Every hole would be something Obama screwed up.
And you lay it out in chronological order.
And at the end of the tour, uh is this a bar restaurant where you can go make speeches and pretend to be Obama, caring or whatever.
But if you go back and listen to this world speech that he made in Berlin and listen to this now in hindsight.
I mean, this was red flag city for me.
And it really worried, I gotta tell you, it really worried me that so much of this was not seen for what it was by so many people.
That's always bothered me.
The ease, the gullibility, and I know it's there.
I just keep praying and hoping it's gonna change, of the low information crowd.
I have three sound bites from this speech.
Here is the first one.
He is declaring himself a citizen of the world in this bite.
I come to Berlin as so many of my countrymen have come before.
Although tonight I speak to you not as a candidate for president, but as a citizen.
A proud citizen of the United States, and a fellow citizen of the world.
I know that I don't look like the Americans who've previously spoken in this great city.
I mean like Jesse Owens.
So see, right off the bat, citizen of the world.
Proud citizen of the United States, but even more important, a citizen of the world.
And hey, look at me!
I'm black!
I don't look like the Americans you know.
There's a meaning being conveyed there.
In the next bite, he points out the world's dangers and implies that they were the fault of Western culture.
The fall of the Berlin Wall brought new hope.
But that very closeness has given rise to new dangers.
Dangers that cannot be contained within the borders of a country or by the distance of an ocean.
Think about it.
The terrorists of September 11th plotted in Hamburg and trained in Kandahar and Karachi before killing thousands from all over the globe on American soil.
As we speak, cars in Boston and factories in Beijing are melting the ice caps in the Arctic, shrinking coastlines in the Atlantic, and bringing drought to farms from Kansas to Kenya.
So you see this, folks?
Does any ring of bell you remember this speech?
The godlike echo.
Now here's just a couple of things.
The fall of the Berlin Wall.
Is why the wall was there.
And who put it there?
Oh yeah, he'll gladly talk about the fall of the Berlin Wall.
But talking about why it was there and who put it there, he will never talk about.
Ever.
That very closeness, the fall of the wall of people being united, given rise to new dangers.
See, the wall coming down.
That was not freedom for no, no, no, no.
That's danger.
That is a new set of dangers that cannot be contained within the borders of a country or by the distance of an ocean.
So the fall of the Berlin Wall.
He then starts talking about the 9-11 hijackers.
connects that to the fall of the Berlin Wall, an example of how the fall of the Berlin Wall made it easy, I guess, for the 9-11 hijackers to commit their dirty deed on 9-11.
And then did you catch this?
I missed this the first time.
I must admit, I apologize.
There's something really important here that I missed.
And I'll bet you did too.
Obama said the terrorists of September 11th plotted in Hamburg and trained in Kandahar and Karachi before killing thousands from all over the globe on American soil.
You note that he didn't say before killing thousands of Americans.
He specifically said killing thousands from all over the globe on American soil.
I don't think that's insignificant.
I don't think that's that is purposeful, that wording.
Because you see, what's underlying this, don't forget Obama's belief.
And something he thinks everybody else thinks, and that is the U.S. is the problem.
America is the problem in the world.
America is the reason for so much of the unrest and the hunger and the thirst in the world.
And so by saying thousands from all over the globe were killed on American soil.
Yeah.
And then as we speak, cars in Boston, factories in Beijing, melting the ice caps.
Yes, global warming.
You know, I remember that aspect of this.
I was just frustrated as I could be.
And by the way, uh you let me imagine so some of you might be saying, Rush, well, what's the big that was that was like six years ago.
Why why are you talking about this now?
I mean, it's done, it's over with, he's president, all that stuff.
I know, but never forget, folks, the never-ending quest.
The hope that we don't make this mistake again by electing somebody like this again.
And so my never-ending quest, folly though it may be, in some people's minds, to try to educate or inform as many as I can.
We're in the midst of an absolute national worldwide disaster because of the election of 2008, in large part.
Some much of what this country is going through need not have happened, and probably would not have happened.
And so my ongoing effort here to help people understand why things are the way they are, and so that they don't elect like this again.
That's why.
This is not some exercise in bashing Obama.
No, don't ever do that.
It's bash to bash.
Never ever is that a reason for doing anything here.
And now, remember this is the summer of 2008, and remember by this time, or by that time, Obama and the Democrat Party had succeeded in convincing the world that America was nothing but the land of torture.
Yeah, it was Abu Ghrab, and it was Guantanamo Bay Club Gitmo.
It was waterboarding.
It was making prisoners wear underwear on their heads and then making them do pyramids.
Yeah, you know, like hazing and sororities and stuff.
It was torture.
We were torturing people.
That's how evil we were.
And so here's Obama apologizing for it, reminding everybody of it.
Well, we acknowledge that there is no more powerful example than the one each of our nations projects to the world.
Will we reject torture and stand for the rule of law?
Will we will we welcome immigrants from different lands and shun discrimination against those who don't look like us or worship like we do and keep the promise of equality and opportunity for all of our people.
People of Berlin.
People of the world.
This is our moment.
This is our time.
Right.
So you have it.
So ring any bells, folks.
Does it uh jog your memory?
Can it give you any added insight to explain how we ended up here?
Back to the phones we go.
This is uh Donna in Worcester, Massachusetts.
Great to have you on the EIB network.
Hi.
Hi, Rush.
Listen, I'm calling in support, a hundred percent in support of your previous um comment about the indoctrination of the kids in the public schools.
I have a quick story for you, and it's just happened this morning.
Um first of all, I've been a part-time adjunct professor for 24 years in the in uh a college level.
I am an advocate advocate of educational reform, and I'm also I served on the school committee.
So my daughter's taking an AP class um coming up in this fall, and she has three books to read for AP English.
Now I'm emphasizing English.
She has one classic Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait.
Are you saying an AP class or EP class?
A P class.
Advanced placement class.
Advanced placement.
Okay, okay.
For the brightest of the bright, supposedly.
Um so she has to read three books this summer.
Now we're talking English, and I just want to keep emphasizing English.
One book is a Hemingway book, which is a classic English book.
The other one is an economics book, The World is Flat.
And the third book is another economics book, which is called Capital in the Twenty First Century.
Oh no, don't tell me they're making her read that.
Just listen.
Rush, I am very, very now listening.
Hold on a second.
Wait, wait, are you telling me that she's required to read that?
Yes, and no previous knowledge of economics.
Now, people that read that book on a college level, because I teach college.
That book has been exposed as the author has even released his own review.
In fact, the author, Thomas Picottee.
Right.
So this is this French socialist that the left loved.
He's had to reissue so many corrections.
He's gonna have to write a whole new book because of all the errors have been found.
The book is a it's an absolute it's it's it's just totally wrong about it.
It's pro-socialism, it's totally anti-capitalism.
It's it's just Rush, rush, rush.
I know this, but just listen to what I have to say.
So I asked her last night about the beheading.
I was afraid to ask her because I, you know, it's to me it's very traumatic.
How old is your daughter?
She's um 16.
16.
So I said, honey, did you hear about the beheading that happened um, you know, in the Middle East?
And she said, Yeah, Mom, I I did.
I read about it in my economics books.
And I said, Well, what did you think?
I rush, she said to me, America is the problem.
There you go.
There you go.
I mean, how can we I mean it's do not doubt me.
I don't rush.
Listen, I am working my butt off in in Massachusetts, trying to expose these things.
We are out there at we're we're all over the place helping out the people to to learn the truth in Massachusetts.
It's just an uphill battle.
Okay, now wait uh hold it just a second.
Slow down just because I've got I want to understand these three books, one of them by Thomas Piketty, spelled p spell Piketty, folks.
The other one is a Thomas Friedman book about global warming and and the world just it's it's it's well he's a journalist.
The world is flat.
He's a journalist and he's writing about economics.
But but that's my point.
What class is this?
This is for English, and it's gonna be taught by an English teacher.
It's not gonna be taught by an economic.
Okay, so that's the point.
An English class is assigning three economics books.
No, two economics books.
Two economics books and one.
Oh, yeah, the Hemingway, the Hemingway.
Yeah.
Anyway, yeah.
That's so overrated.
I can't even but I shouldn't go there.
That's that's the wrong place.
But anyways, nevertheless.
It proves your point this morning.
That's I just called because it was exactly what you were saying.
Well, it is.
Look, I I am not making this stuff up.
There's no point making it up.
But you don't even have to read those three books to understand that liberals are educated and believe America's the problem.
It's the the military is the focus of evil.
America is not the solution.
That's that's how you get people like a former Secretary of State, Madeline Albright, suggesting that it's not good for the U.S. to be the sole superpower, because there needs to be somebody to keep us in check.
See, we're not the good guys.
I know.
We are not the good guys.
And and the Soviets weren't either the good guys, but they were better than we are.
But the Soviets and us, as competing superpowers, kept all of the bad parts of us in check.
I mean, it is convoluted, perverted even, but they do believe it.
But I needed parents to know you have to watch out what your kids are reading.
And you have to understand what they're reading.
Let me just tell you again.
I mean, this this is this is exactly exactly why I decided I got so excited to do these children's books on American history.
To tell the truth at an early age, in a fun way, so that young kids learn historical truth and get a foundation for love and respect for this country.
Despite our flaws, and there are some, no question, nobody's perfect, no thing is perfect.
This is exactly why they're the Rush Revere Time Travel Adventure Series with exceptional Americans.
This is exactly why.
And I'm I'm I'm glad you got through.
Donna, thank you so much.
Good luck with your daughter.
That second book, The World is Flat, A Brief History of the Twenty First Century.
That's a that's a book by Thomas Lupe Friedman of the of the New York Times and Capital in the 21st century, Thomas Picati, or Picadee, Piketty, that's how it's pronounced.
Well, Angliciz, it's P-I-K-E-T-T-Y.
But that book, the UK Financial Times, a number of other people have just ripped that book to shreds.
Here, back on May 23rd, there was a story by Chris Giles.
Some issues concern sourcing, definitional problems, some numbers appear simply to be made up.
But according to a Financial Times investigation, the rock star French economist appears to have got his sums wrong, meaning he added up and got wrong answers.
The data underpinning Professor Picati's 577-page book, which has dominated bestseller lists in Boston, New York, and San Francisco in recent weeks, contain a series of errors that skew his findings.
UK Daily Mail, the left rock star economist Thomas Picati is a woman beater, says former lover.
War on woman guy, Thomas Picattie.
Anyway, the book is so distorted.
Picati has had to issue corrections on a website, and they're thinking maybe they've got to redo the book.
But the le but I'll tell you something else.
Most of the people who've bought the book haven't even read it.
It's one of these books you buy and put on your coffee table to show how smart you are.
To show how worldly you are.
Liberals do this routinely.
Symbolism over substance.
They don't even read it, but they know everything in it.
And because all they think it says is that capitalism and wealth is inherently evil and unfair because it's nothing more than institutionalized theft.
It's the one percent continuing to steal everything from everybody else and getting away with it.
And they think that Picate has exposed all of these people for the world, discredited them forever.
So this woman was calling, saying that her advanced placement daughter, 16, in an English class, has been assigned this in Freedman's book to read because it's a that's it's it's not education, it's propagandizing.
And it's the way it happens, and that's why his her her daughter, when asked about the beheading of James Foley, it's America's fault.
America's the problem.
But her daughter believes us, what her daughter's hearing in the screws.
Yes, Mr. Snertley, a quick question.
No, I didn't, I no, I just I think Hemingway's over Hemingway's a let's just put it this way.
I myself have had moments of Erudite literary intellectual application.
I have.
You know, I never read this stuff formally.
When I was assigned to read it, I didn't do it because I hated having to be there.
You know, after they told me that Beowulf, you know, was classic.
This is nobody can understand this.
This is absolute dribble and B.S. Beowulf?
That's one of the earliest known literary efforts.
Well, nobody knows what it stands for.
Nobody knows what it could possibly mean, except the teacher who thought she did, trying to tell us.
Yeah, I had a literary or English, what was the high school class.
I don't remember what it.
It was it was something of an English.
Literature or something.
This, just to show you, the teacher got her doctoral thesis on the 535 minor characters of Shakespeare.
So that's what we were dealing with.
I mean, that's five hundred minor characters of Shakespeare.
So that's that's how deep we uh, and I just I was already in my rejection mode.
Uh not rebellion, just rejection mode, but I I hear I hear people to assign lofty status to people in all fields of endeavor.
And I have just I I found that it's all a game.
It's it's all part of the I don't know, not trick, it's just it's all part of the uh I'm trying to say this in as least in uh explosive ways.
I guess it doesn't matter.
But I always thought it was part of the rigged game that force fed what certain people wanted everybody else to think was the best and uh elite and so forth.
Believe me, I have found a whole bunch of great writers.
I have found a whole bunch of great economists that are never taught precisely because they're conservative.
Burke, Hayek, and any number of them, and they're laughed at and and well, not laughed at, but but they they're sneezed at, bless you.
Um certain circles.
But Hemingway, I don't know, I just don't get it.
I just don't get it.
It's like I one day, I shouldn't admit this, but I will tell you just for the fun of it, because I'm a I'm a I'm a practical joker, and I've always had fun poking holds at pretense, at at pretense sophistication, at pretense erudition, at pretense elitism.
So I'm with some uh some people from the early days of the founding of this program in New York City at a fashionable, had to have a coat and tie restaurant.
And on exhibit, at this point in time in New York, at the museum, is an exhibit by Matisse.
And the host and hostate are regaling us at the table with all of the wonderful aspects of Matisse and so forth.
And I said, Who is Matisse?
Very loudly.
Who's Matisse?
I've never heard of Matisse.
And they looked around and got embarrassed.
Oh my God.
You know, yes, you loud enough for others to you know who Matisse is.
You know.
They were so embarrassed to be with somebody else, but didn't know who Matisse was and was proud to say he didn't know who Matisse was.
Because they were just, it was just it was syrup after syrup after syrup.
But it was like it was like drinking log cabin instead of my cocktail, listening to this and go on and on about Matisse, this, Matisse, that.
So I just that's kind of the way I've reacted to people with Shakespeare.
They start talking about Shakespeare.
Shakespeare?
Really?
Come on, the guy was a drunk communist.
What are you talking about?
Dad just sends him into orbit.
All right, now back to the to the vote.
Sean in in Plymouth, Minnesota.
Welcome to the EIB network.
Hello.
Hey, sir, how are you doing?
It's a pleasure talking to you.
Thank you very much.
I'm glad you got through.
Thank you.
I my point that I wanted to make to you was that I think that this is the beginning of the mainstream media distancing themselves from the president.
I believe that uh their uh criticalness of his um his personal flaws are things that are going to start happening more and more because it's the only thing that they can really attack and not hurt the democratic platform.
In other words, they won't touch his foreign policy, they won't touch the economy, but they will touch personal flaws to try to distance themselves to get ready for 2016.
I myself am inclined to agree with you because I myself uh a couple of weeks ago actually uh postulated that this might be necessary in order for them to legitimize Hillary and to insulate her from Obama.
Look, she's in in their minds, the the media, she's the next Democrat president, but before that, she's got to get the Democrat nomination.
Well, she was really close to Obama, Secretary of State.
I mean, she was right in there, and all of these foreign policy scandals do touch her.
So the drive-bys have an objective and a and a challenge.
They have got to separate Hillary from Obama.
They have to.
They they they cannot allow Hillary to be tied to this incompetence indecision, whatever.
This this uh ableist foreign policy.
And one of the ways they're gonna do that is to start dissing Obama a little bit.
But don't be fooled by it, Sean.
I don't think they're ever gonna in in what you would think of uh throwing Obama overboard.
I don't think they're ever going to abandon the guy.
They may abandon him, but they won't abandon his principles, and they're gonna hold fast to those uh forever.
Well, exactly.
Exactly.
They'll they'll they'll cast him aside as he's not the right guy to represent us anymore.
He's six years in, he's not running again.
We've done our best to prop him off, but if he's not gonna help us, if he's gonna go out and do stupid things like play golf, ten minutes after a an aimless speech on an American citizen being beheaded, well, there's only so much we can do.
And they'll have some pretense of their own credibility that they're concerned about as well.
So you may, you may have a point.
We'll be back.
No, go away.
I just been informed I had verbal dyslexia again and said that Shakespeare was a drunk communist.
He wasn't a communist.
I was talking about Hemingway.
I think uh if you've ever plotted, well, never.
One of the attractions to Hemingway.
Never mind.
You know what?
There's there's nothing to be gained going there.
I just go back to what our last caller said, Sean, and he's exactly right.
What has to be protected above all else is the agenda.
The liberal agenda.
Obama will not ever be Permitted to destroy that as far as the media is concerned.
So if they have to appear to be jettisoning support for Obama, it will only be to make sure he doesn't take the agenda down with him with him, or to protect Hillary.
It's much like the media in New York after Dan Rather's career ending.
Fraudulent story, totally made up on the Bush National Guard business.
Tom broke on Jennings immediately arranged a massive, huge dinner with every journalist in the city invited, where Rather got an award.
Because the purpose was to make sure Rather didn't destroy the news.
The media.
Rather's fall from grace didn't...
Did not taint all the others who practice the art of media propaganda.
They had to protect that at all times.
And they decided that in order to do that, they had to circle the wagons and prop up Dan Radder.
Democrat Party and Jimmy Carter saying they give you the worst acknowledged president ever.
And the Democrats elevate him to emeritus stature in order to save the party.
They just can't allow their abject failures to do damage to the movement.
And so don't ever think that the media is going to throw Obama overboard.
Don't ever think that throwing Obama overboard means that they're changing their minds on liberalism.
Not at all.
In fact, I think this is a good time to once again remind you of something that happened on this program.
What is it today?
One week ago today, I asked a question on this program because a week ago, one of the items up for discussion was Mrs. Clinton and her public criticism of Obama.
She was very public in criticizing Obama's foreign policy, which led people to go ask Obama about it.
And he answered by saying it was horse manure.
And that then led to the big party on Martha's Vineyard late last week or early this, whenever it was at Vernon Jordan's palatial mansion, where uh there was going to be a hug-in.
Yes, Hillary and Bill were going to show up and uh Barack and Michelle, and they were gonna hug, and they were gonna make up, and it was all gonna be so beautiful, and it didn't happen.
Well, all of that was because Hillary started publicly criticizing Obama.
And now in the interim, since then we've had this horrible beheading of an American journalist by ISIS.
And I a week ago today, I asked, is the reason Hillary is separating now because she knows how bad it is.
She was up close.
She knows much more than you and I about foreign policy and whatever errors and mistakes have been made that she doesn't want to be anywhere near when they blow up.
I do not doubt that for a minute.
So I think now in the aftermath of the death of James Foley, you know, the question, does Hillary know how bad things are going to get?
I wonder if she knew how bad this ISIS business was.
I wonder if she knew that we had mounted a failed rescue effort.
And I wonder what else she knows that we don't that dictates her separation, because I guarantee you there's more.
Here's Victoria in Riverton, Illinois, head back to the phones.
Great to have you, Victoria.
Hi.
Hi, Rush.
Hi.
Can you hear me?
Yeah, do you hear me?
Yes, yes.
Yes.
Um, I'm a first-time caller, but I just got this question.
I mean, um, I know Eric Hodan was in Ferguson, Missouri yesterday, and I know he meant with uh Michael Brown's family, the protesters and in the FBI law enforcement.
What I want to know is, is Officer Wilson and his family, were they given equal treatment with the visit also?
A reassurance of uh, you know, innocent until proven guilty?
I don't believe so.
I don't think the attorney general I just don't think he could squeeze it in his busy schedule.
But I don't think he met with the family of officer officer uh Derek Wilson.
No, don't believe he did.
I knew I hadn't heard anything like that.
If he if he did, they're keeping it under wrap so as not to incite the mob.
Right.
Well, I didn't know whether the media was slighting, you know, Eric's visit.
Maybe he did meet with the officer and their family.
Oh whether he actually Oh no, no, no, no.
In fact, one of the most popular uh video audio excerpts of Holder's trip is he's walking through the crowd and a woman almost faints, shouting at him how sexy he is.
We have that.
I might play that in the next hour.
We still have an hour to go.
So yeah, he was a rock star in town with with the mob.
The crowd, sorry, crowd.
We haven't talked about St. Louis today of Ferguson, because we've been so intense on it past couple days, but we do have some stuff, so we should get into that when we get back.
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