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Sept. 16, 2014 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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September 16, 2014, Tuesday, Hour #3
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Ladies and gentlemen, there are at least four Republicans now advocating over-the-counter birth control.
Mike McFadden in Minnesota, McFadden is running against Al Franken.
Remember the name Mike McFadden is a great candidate, and he's up against Al Franken.
Corey Gardner from Colorado, Tom Tillis, North Carolina, Ed Gillespie, Virginia, there are four, at least these four, who are advocating over-the-counter birth control as a means of taking an issue away from the Democrats and helping to illustrate to women that this whole war on women thing is silly.
But look, you know, if if you're a woman, and you don't have much, and the only hope you've got is if you accidentally get pregnant or whatever, and you want to have an abortion, you think the Republicans are not going to let you.
And if you think the Republicans are not going to let you have birth control, and if you think the Republicans really don't want you having sex, are you going to take the time to examine it intellectually, or are you not going to take the risk?
The uh this is this this is the strategy of the of the Democrats.
And the Republicans are worried to death about it.
And that's one of the reasons why the policy.
Now you might say it's a brilliant tactical move.
It is, but at the same time, it advances.
What Democrats.
Now, even at Planned Parenthood came out against it because they don't want Republicans getting credit for this.
Planned Fears, hey, wait a minute, it's part of Obamacare.
You guys can't do that.
You can't you, you, you, you can't do that.
They don't want the Republicans getting credit for this.
But at the same time, over-the-counter birth control.
Uh and any number of other things, the way to beat the Democrats in the eyes of many Republicans, is beat Democrats to the punch in implementing the Democrat agenda.
I'm sure that's what the Republican thinking on amnesty is.
All right, well, let's show them.
Let's just get there first.
Let's let's be loud, let's be supportive, let's claim we love Hispanics, and that's how we'll take the issue away from the Democrats.
But it isn't beating them on it.
It's actually accepting the Democrat premise and trying to get out in front of it.
Problematic thing.
Look, there's all kinds of stuff here in the news.
Let me let me get started on the stack of stuff.
Um I'm I've I have I've felt so guilty these entire two hours.
I can't tell you, I've got to admit it to you.
That those first two stories that I've I uh I did today, the uh Ed Rogers Washington Post piece, I totally misread that.
Uh it it made it not even important enough to mention it.
I spent the first 20 minutes on it not knowing that the guy was a Republican.
I thought it was a Democrat turning on Obama, and I got it wrong.
And I've I've just I've been out of sorts ever since I made that error.
And I've been distracted by it, and in the same thing I I misread a very confusing story on the Democrat activist hired by the NFL, and I told you the name of the reporter instead of the name of the woman hired.
And when I make mistakes like that, I just, you know, I have trouble forgetting them and moving on.
So I've spent these last two hours and my God, what a waste of time I did the first two hours, the first half hour of the program.
So I've been trying to get it back ever since all kinds of stuff here.
I was not joking.
A sorority at California State University Fullerton is in serious trouble because it hosted Taco Tuesday, where students wore culturally insensitive attire, such as sombreros.
The squirrel's chapter of Alpha Delta Pi, not to be confused with Alpha Cow Omuga.
This is Alpha Delta Pi, hosted the event on August 19th as part of recruitment.
Ninety percent of attendees wore costumes, which also included uh serapes and in some cases gang costumes.
What is a gang costume?
Well, it says here they showed up in gang costumes.
It's according to an article in the Daily Titan, which is the official scruble newspaper.
The sorority claims it never asked people to wear costumes.
Some people had chosen on their own to do so.
But Cal State Fullerton isn't buying it, has decided to take serious sanctions against every single member of the sorority, whether she attended the thing or not.
The school's dean of students told a newspaper, we in the end have concluded that the women were responsible for the event, that it's definitely grossly inappropriate, and we have awarded a list of sanctions that they have to compete.
You want to talk about a war on women?
Well, here you go.
And another big win for political correctness.
Okay, so you have Taco Night, and people show up in sombreros.
And all of a sudden, that's culturally insensitive to who?
The illegal immigrants crossing the border.
Can't make it up.
Do you remember, ladies and gentlemen?
Many of you will who've been here for the duration.
Even when I was in Sacramento, I made this point.
But on this program, I I really pounded the point after the Berlin Wall fell down and the collapse of Soviet communism.
I then shouted at the top of my voice, Snerdley, you'll remember this.
I tried to warn everybody and tell them that militant environmentalism was the new home of displaced communists.
You remember that?
And it has informed every bit of thinking I have evolved on the whole global warming and climate change issue.
That once the communists were displayed, what the Soviet Union dissipated and was no longer the rallying point or the home base for communists worldwide.
Militant environmentalism filled that vacuum.
And now there's a book out admitting it.
It is a book by Naomi Klein.
It's a book.
It's called This Changes Everything.
I found out about this at Power Line, Stephen Hayward with a blog post.
And he writes there's an old line that environmentalists are watermelons, green on the outside, red on the inside.
You know when I first heard that?
I heard it from lumber companies back during the spotted owl days, shortly after I moved to New York to begin this show.
I would go back to California, visits to the old hometown, and I was asked by some timber companies up in Humboldt County to come out and listen to their claims against Earth First and so on.
The first time I heard their watermelons, they're green on the outside, red on the end, meaning they're communists.
And so Hayward is referencing it.
The old line that environmentalists are watermelons, green on the outside, red on the inside.
A lot of environmentalists will take great offense if you say it.
And they will say, no, no, no, no.
We like economic growth in capitalism just fine.
We just want it to be sustainable, whatever that means.
And don't ask for specificity about what sustainability means in detail, unless you have a lot of time and a full bottle of hooch handy.
Before long you'll figure out that sustainable is just a code word for green things we like, and that it has no rigor whatsoever aside from old-fashioned factor efficiency, which economists figured out over a century ago at least.
But anyway, environmentalists resist being called socialists, and they don't like being called communists.
But next week, Naomi Klein's coming out with a book called This Changes Everything.
Naomi Klein is the author of the shock doctrine.
And that was a book, popular with the far left, that really veers way off into absurd conspiracy theories and so forth, but the left loved it.
Now the argument in this new book coming out, this changes everything by Naomi Klein.
The argument of The book in one sentence is this.
Only overthrowing capitalism can solve climate change.
Forget everything you think you know about global warming.
The really inconvenient truth is that it's not about carbon, it's about capitalism.
And that line comes from a progressive liberal website called Common Dreams, describing Naomi Klein's new book.
Forget everything you think you know about global warming.
Because this new book by Naomi Klein will show you that the really inconvenient truth is that it's not about carbon, it's about capital.
It always has been.
Militant environmentalism has always been a home for displaced socialists and communists.
It has always been a vehicle existing for the express purpose of destroying capitalism.
That's all it's ever been.
And look how seductive it has been in attracting young people.
They can't tell you what they're really all about.
Militant environmentalists will never tell you this.
That's what's remarkable about this book.
No, instead, they'll tell you they're trying to save the polar bears and the tit mouse, and whatever the hell else is threatened, and they're trying to save people and corporations are it's a that's a full-fledged, unabashed attack on capitalism, which is what much of liberalism is.
It's what pretty much all of liberalism is opposition to capitalism, and for the predictable reasons.
It's unfair, it's unjust, it doesn't produce equal outcomes.
But the bottom line is this book makes it clear.
By the way, not intentionally, from what I'm told people have read it, Naomi Klein does not really know what she's done here.
unwittingly reveals that none of this crusading and posturing about climate change and global warming is about the environment at all.
It is about destroying capitalism.
And here's a little bit more evidence to throw on the pile.
You all know who Leonardo DiCaprio is.
Well, Leonardo DiCaprio is going to be releasing a series of films about the climate crisis at the September 23rd UN Climate Summit in New York.
He has also just been named a United Nations Ambassador for Peace.
Leonardo DiCaprio is a full-fledged, 100% idiot.
When it comes to this.
There's no other way to describe it.
He's a full-fledged, unabashed, undisguised, unrepentant fool.
When it comes to global warming, I don't know if he's in on the game that it's anti-capitalist or if he really, really believes that human beings are destroying the planet.
I don't know which one.
and But I remember watching the Academy Awards when Al Gore won the uh the Oscar for that propaganda movie, and Leonardo DiCaprio is practically crying on stage.
And being so excited, being so close to Al Gore.
And he was just, you're so great!
You're so great, oh my God, I can't believe I'm here with you.
Oh my god, you're so great!
You know, Gore is standing up there, realizing what a giant fleece he has just accomplished.
And DiCaprio was slobbering on it.
I don't like saying this about folks, I really don't, I don't know how else to describe it.
I guess I could say he's sadly misguided, and that he's got wonderfully good intentions, and it's a it's a it's a really sad thing the way these people are hijacked and used by the real activists like Al Gore and so forth.
But I mean, I wouldn't do that, I guess, except DiCaprio then mobilizes and starts participating in plans that would affect the way people live.
And he starts supporting ludicrous ideas that would impact uh people's pursuit of happiness.
I just I don't know.
I don't have much patience for it after all these.
So maybe I'm a little brusque in my in my criticism.
Let me grab a couple calls before we go to the break here because people have been waiting patiently, and I have oh, Robert Rector is, by the way.
Our old buddy at the Heritage Foundation, Robert Rector's back with yet another great paper on what a total, total uh uh abomination the war on poverty has been.
I mean the numbers he cites in his piece are just mind-bogging.
For example, the U.S. has spent 22 trillion dollars in its war on poverty, three times the amount we have spent on all wars combined.
And still the percentage of people in poverty is the same as it was before the war on poverty began.
And rectors, how is this possible?
How in the world can we spend 22 trillion dollars and not even change the circumstances of people?
And he gets into the original purposes of LBJ, and of course, just like FDR, it was to create a permanent Democrat majority with all these things.
Anyway, let me grab this is Bill in Alexandria, Virginia.
I'm glad you waited, Bill.
Welcome to the program.
Great to have you here.
Hello.
Good afternoon, Rush.
20 plus year listener, first time calling her as an honor.
Great to have you here.
Listen, um that sports analysis that you had mentioned before that talked about spanking.
He's absolutely right.
Uh there's been more damage, I believe, in the society of America from not spanking children than there is from spanking children.
Grab sound by the 18.
Let's play.
Well, he's you're talking about Michael Wilbon, and he was on a radio yesterday talking about uh the the arrest of Adrian Peterson for child abuse.
Let's listen to the sound so people know what you're talking about.
I think the decline in behavior in America is directly traceable to the lack of whippings with switches.
Your grandparents or your parents, as soon as you have to pick your own switch, you go out, you snatch it off the tree, you cut it down, whatever you do, depending on where you are.
It's such a common thing.
It's like baking a pie.
So you agree with it.
You think the lack of corporal punishment discipline is directly traceable to the aberrant cultural rot and behavior of today.
Yes, sir.
You you can't here's what's happened, Rush.
You you you take a child who's been raised for 20 years, never to be corrected, never to be spanked, never to be told he can do anything he wants, and then put him out in society and saying, now you can continue doing what you want.
Then society says no, there's rules to be reckoned with, and that's how come we have so many young people in jails today and in prisons for that one reason.
They don't know how to act.
They've done what they've wanted for 20 years.
Well, you may have a point.
I gotta uh let me take a break here because I'm up against it on time.
But I knew this was gonna be, I know a lot of people were gonna think uh that that Wilbon uh had a point.
Uh let me take a break.
We'll continue with this after we get back, so don't go away, folks.
I don't know how long it's been, but corporal punishment is a no-no.
Anybody finds out you spank your kid, leave me.
You're in a grocery store with your kid, your kid misbehaves, turns over the whole aisle of corn, and you lose it, and you discipline the kid, you give a couple swats on the butt, put him back in the car.
Somebody sees you, they're gonna call child protective services.
Somebody sees you, they're gonna call a cop.
And somebody's gonna come to your house.
We understand then you physically abused your child in the corn roll of the uh local public.
And we may have to take your child away from you while you undergo sensitivity training and rehabilitation.
So people have been intimidated out of it.
And instead, so when when that happened, by the way, you know what we began to replace, and not just corporal punishment, but we don't any kind of discipline is now said to negatively impact the child's self-esteem.
Right?
We're never supposed to say no to a child.
No, no, no, no, because that kills the child's dreams and aspirations.
So what do we do?
We drug them.
That's how we discipline them now.
We give them all kinds of drugs and claim they've got some kind of disorder.
A D D, AD, H D, A, B, C, D, D H D, whatever it is, and we drug them up to make them docile.
To make them behave.
And then at some point they're no longer children, and they go off the drugs, and who knows what the hell happens then.
But it is, it is uh it is clear that it's been this way for many, many moons.
That genuine discipline for misbehavior is a far cry, doesn't it?
And it it, liberals, the people that no, I don't think they're not time to answer that because I've got a break here.
I'll tell you what he asked me when we get back.
Now let me make a point here about something.
On the one hand, we have Adrian Peterson, number 28 of the Minnesota Vikings, who was suspended last Sunday from playing in the National Football League because he is under indictment for child abuse.
He grabbed a switch and he whooped his kid, and there was blood and there were bruises, and he was charged with child abuse and negligence.
Okay.
He's suspended, and the world is outraged.
The nation is fit to be tied.
How dare this man continue to be allowed to play in the NFL?
That same day and the next day, Michael Wilbon goes on TV and says, hey, no problem.
The reason all of this aberrant behavior's taking place is because we stopped doing what Adrian Peterson did, and not a peep.
We've played the sound bite twice.
Nobody, I'm not aware.
Now, I may be in the dark on this, and admittedly he didn't say it on ESPN, he said it on his buddy's radio show.
But he went out and basically supported, at least in premise, what Adrian Peterson's accused of.
Adrian Peterson has the wrath of the nation come down on him, forced out of the league for a game.
Wilbon comes along and basically says, yep, we need more of this, and the reason that we got so many problems is because we stop disciplining kids this way, and people are twiddling their thumbs.
Now, what if I had said it, Mr. Snerdley?
What if any conservative had gone on Fox and said, you know what?
What Adrian Peterson did ought to be a lesson.
The fact that we're no longer allowed to discipline our kids the way he did it is the reason why we've got all this aberrant behavior.
Do you think that conservative would still be on the air?
No freaking way.
Michael Wilbon is a well-known, acknowledged, celebrated liberal in the world of sports.
So he can say whatever he wants.
And nobody even has a reaction.
In fact, we had a call saying he's exactly right.
I just, I think it's a I I'm not disagreeing, don't misunderstand.
I'm not kind of I just think it's an incredible double standard about who can say what.
According to the arbiters, and who are the arbiters in this?
Who is who is it that says it's okay for Wilbon to say that, and even be praised for it, and says, but you know, a guy like uh Newt Gingrich couldn't say it.
Who is that arbiter?
Be the drive-by media, wouldn't it?
And a lot of Democrat politicians, right?
Liberal women in the liberal media, maybe.
Well, I uh frankly, I don't know that liberal women are leading the outrage against Adrian Peterson.
I think everybody is.
You think it's predominantly women?
Well, maybe so.
Uh I just think it's it's an amazing double standard.
who can say what?
And it's clear that if you are an accredited minority liberal, you can pretty much say whatever you want.
And be praised for it.
And everybody be told, you better listen to what that man just said.
There's some serious intelligence there.
And let your average conservative say it exact same way.
And that man is finished.
Career gone.
Reputation ruined.
And if there are any sponsors associated with it, gave any by the door.
Here's here's Barry in Salt Lake City.
Great to have you on the EIB network.
Hello.
Hello.
Thank you for having me on your program.
You bet, sir.
Um I just wanted to make a comment.
I've been watching with uh a lot of interest uh the Michael Brown case as well as the Ray Rice case.
And and in both cases, you know, I I I've been wondering, you know, in the case of Michael Brown, you know, the treatment of that clerk or the owner of that uh of the of the store, and then you know, uh with Ray Rice being able to, you know, physically harm his fiancee and knock her to the ground.
I I I just was appalled as as many were.
Um but recently I flew out to Atlanta and uh jumped in my rent a car, turned on the car, and uh on the C D that somebody left previously uh that had rented it, uh, was uh I guess what you would refer to as as black rapper or black gangsta music.
I went through that and was absolutely shocked and appalled by what I heard.
Uh on the sixteen tracks, I I think half of them referred to their listening audiences as effing Anners, and they called their women uh hoes and and bitches.
And I I guess my question to you is, you know, do you believe that there's an impact on the black society, uh especially men that listen to this stuff from you know the time they're in their their tweener years, uh, you know, all the way through, you know their adulthood.
Uh uh it's gotta have an impact.
I I like I said I was appalled.
Was this your first encounter with such lyrics?
Uh yeah.
I I have I mean, I've I've heard little bits and pieces, but to sit and listen to a CD full of it, I was absolutely appalled.
Yes, that was my first encounter.
Well, I have asked um a lot of people about this.
I've I've asked uh black people I know, African Americans I know, you'd be amazed at the diversity of reaction there is to it.
Um there are those say, come on, it's music.
It's just like people say movies impact people and they don't.
Nah, nah, nah.
It's just it's just in it.
Other people say, oh, yeah, it's intended to.
This stuff is part of I've I've had it explained to me in great detail.
And they've said that you'll never understand it because you've never grown up where these people grew up.
And all that rap music is a reaction to the circumstances and the oppression from the cops and everybody they face in these neighborhoods, and it's how they are expressing their anger and outrage over it.
And I said, Well, what about you now brace yourself for this, Barry?
I said, what about the the the bitches and hoes business?
I almost can't tell you this one.
He said, Well, did you ever stop to ask yourself why?
Those lyrics are written and sung.
And I said, Well, I always thought it was just sign of disrespect.
Now, do you ever think maybe there are some?
And I'm listening to this and said, Oh, we be see.
He said, 'Do you you have any idea what black men go through?' I said, 'This is all news to me.
This is all this is Greek.
Are you?
So my my point is that depending on who you ask, you'll hear hear it justified, you'll hear it explained, and you'll also hear it ripped and critic.
You'll hear it blamed as you as you have implied my you you think, my God, you can't hear this stuff growing up and not be influenced and impacted by it in any number of uh of ways.
I don't think there's a universal answer to does it because clearly a bunch of people listen to it and they're not impacted that way by it.
Not everybody listens to that stuff.
However, you know, you look at the the birth rates of of of the children in the black community, it has risen uh by probably twenty percent in the last ten years.
Uh it's it's astounding.
You mean the uh single parent birth?
Single parents, yeah, without fathers.
And and and I think that's a good thing.
I have respect to a black man or a black woman that has risen above that is a professional, Uh colleague or what have you, my boss, I I absolutely respect those people.
Um, but it has to have an impact.
I I just can't believe it does not.
Well, common sense would would uh lead you to believe that.
But then again, on the other hand it it doesn't affect everybody listening to it.
Obviously, by definition, there are plenty of people who grow up listening to it who are not impacted.
It that stuff has a huge white audience, too.
Are you aware of that?
Well, uh that's probably true.
Uh, but you could say the same for pornography and look what it's done to society.
Uh you know, it's uh no impact, but uh that's not true.
Uh we just know it's not true.
Uh logic dictates it's not true.
So, you know, that's my opinion.
Well, what I was told in the Bitches and Ho references, this but what this guy was basically telling me, you've got to think chicken and egg here.
You know, d did did bitches and hoes start with these men just writing these disrespectful lyrics, or did the lyrics result from the way they've been treated?
And I said, Man, I never thought of it that way.
Yeah, well, where are their mothers?
Uh you know, if I as a parent, I would never ever allow my children to listen to garbage and tripe like that.
I I just wouldn't.
Well, it's not new.
Uh this stuff actually first surfaced as a discussion item.
What was the group in WA?
And it was Kill the Cops.
Kill the police.
F the F the police, F the police.
But it was i it was uh it it was in WA.
Yeah.
Um Charlton Hess, let me let me Barry, Charlton Heston, uh back when he was alive, of course he couldn't have done this dead.
He actually went to a Time Warner's shareholders meeting and stood up and read some of the lyrics in the music that they were producing and publishing and releasing and asked the executives, are you people aware of the filth that you are selling?
Would you let this be listened to by your kids?
And of course, nothing ever came of it.
Uh but it's been you know, this and uh the effect of like uh the Columbine shooting was originally blamed on the Matrix movie on the Matrix.
A lot of people a lot of people agree with it.
There can't this this this stuff cannot be listened to in a in a in a vacuum.
It has to have some kind of uh impact on some people somehow.
But there are all kinds of different answers.
I just I uh remember what I cited earlier today that every one of these people accused in the NFL right now comes out of college.
I mean that they the NFL does not turn them into this.
This is this is one of the things I think everybody has to understand.
They show up this way.
Whatever it is that is shaping their personality and and informing it, creating it.
They arrive at the NFL in their early twenties with these attitudes already intact, and they come out of college.
Not blaming the colleges for it, but college is supposed to take those rough edges away.
College is supposed to teach civilized socialization, all kinds of other things in addition to book learning, as they say.
Anyway, Barry, I appreciate the call, and I've got to take a brief time out.
Sit tight, my friends.
Much more when we get back.
Get this number.
This is from Robert Rector's piece, Heritage Foundation on the war on poverty, twenty-two trillion dollars spent since nineteen sixty five, I think it is.
Get this number.
When the war on poverty began, seven percent of children in America were born outside marriage.
Today, forty two percent of all kids born in this country are born out of wedlock.
And in the African American community, it's 73%.
War on poverty.
That's it.
That's the beginning point for these numbers.
7% uh birth rate outside marriage in 1965, now 42% nationwide, 73% in the uh in the black community.
Snerdley, are you aware how many people were livid that Apple gave them the new U2 album?
Are you not aware of this?
This is one of the most irrational reactions to a gift I have ever seen.
And now I'm out of time to explain myself.
And it it's not that people didn't like U2.
It's this is an amazing.
It's an amazing sociological study.
We'll have to do it tomorrow.
Tens of thousands of Americans are likely to lose their health insurance at the end of this month because of Obamacare.
And if I don't tell you why, you probably won't hear it in the drive-by media.
That and you two and iTunes tomorrow.
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