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Sept. 29, 2014 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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September 29, 2014, Monday, Hour #3
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All right, here it is, folks.
I have it.
I've got this thing, the story I talked about, this kid at college who wrote about what's wrong with him because of his whiteness.
And I've had this thing, I don't know, for a couple of weeks now.
And I've just, I've always sat it aside, because A, I wasn't sure how genuine it is.
It comes from some website called The Daily Haymaker, which I think is the school newspaper at Chapel Hill or something like that.
But it's obscure.
It's not a mainstream website, but it's out there.
And because our show prep knows no bounds.
We go everywhere.
Wherever there's news, wherever there's real stuff happening out there, we find it.
And the headline of this piece, just when you thought Chapel Hill couldn't get any cooker cookier, along comes this guy.
And he puts his name to one of his, his name is Greg Meyer.
I'll just show you, there's the guy.
There's what it looks like.
Here's a pull quote from the story.
I'm not making this up.
My own capacity for leadership perpetuates the whiteness within me, beckoning a return trip to look in the mirror.
Perhaps I can't fully suppress all the whiteness within me, and maybe that's for the better.
The process is the task.
The journey has no end, and I will always be white.
And this guy is a student at University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, which is a liberal citadel, if there ever was one.
A place where John Edwards is still a hero and climbing the charts.
I mean, it's just odd.
When I first saw this, this is the kookiest, weirdest thing.
And then I get the call today from Pam in Homer, Alaska, who says, basically, what's happening with millennials is they're being taught that by the virtue of their birth, if they're white, they're oppressors.
They may have oppressed nobody, but they are oppressors, either that or their victims.
This guy clearly fits the bill.
So I may get into it.
I'm not teasing you.
I'm still, it's just so weird that, I mean, it's something that could appear on a satire site like The Onion.
You know, and I don't want to be made fun of for falling prey to something, but it looks legit.
From Forbes magazine.
This is not going to go over well.
The richest women in America 2014.
You know, Forbes always has these richest this, the richest that, the wealthiest this, and this latest, the richest women in America in 2014.
Top 20.
And of the top 20, I'm not smiling when I say this, folks.
Do not think I'm smiling when I say this.
Of the top 20 richest women announced by Forbes today, only one did not inherit her money from a man.
In other words, of 19 of the richest, 20 richest women inherited their money from a man.
Well, the rest, father or husband is where they got the money.
So I have that set aside.
This story, we're going to be using this story, I think, in ways that you don't know down the road.
Liberal candidate for Tennessee governor is hiring people to infiltrate social media, pose as average users to push her agenda.
This woman, her name is Isa Infante.
She's the liberal Green Party candidate running for governor in Tennessee.
She is hiring people to create profiles on social media like Reddit, pretending to be average users who love her and pushing her.
In other words, totally made up, totally artificial.
She's asking people to lie.
She's asking people to assume fraudulent identities and to become people they are not.
She's asking these people to make themselves look like there are far many more of them than there really are.
The whole thing is fraud.
The woman is advocating for fraud.
She's asking for fraud.
She's creating fraud.
She hopes to triumph from fraud.
And there is so much of this on Twitter, on Facebook, all over the internet.
At least this woman is being honest about it up front.
She is announcing she's going to defraud things.
She is announcing that her support will be artificial.
She is asking people to contribute to it.
Because what this woman knows is that most people will never find out that it's all artificial, made up, fake, and trumped up if she's able to pull it off.
I have my doubts whether she's going to succeed, but you never know.
Her name, again, Isa might be Issa, might be Issa.
I don't know how she pronounces, and I frankly don't care except that I want to be right.
I don't want to be disrespectful by mispronouncing the babe woman's name.
But she's a self-labeled progressive.
Part of her platform is ecological wisdom, social justice, feminism, and like nonviolence.
Her campaign is posting ads looking for people to pretend to be average social media users.
And then she wants them to pretend to have found her, a wonderful liberal candidate.
Most people that do this do all of this behind the scenes, under the cover of darkness.
They do not advertise their fraud up front.
This tactic that she's using, we will be keeping a sharp eye on.
And here is yet another in what either is the third or fourth story of this nature.
This is from Sacramento, my adopted hometown.
California Governor Jerry Brown signed a bill yesterday that makes California the first in the nation to define when yes means yes in male-female relations.
Well sorry, in relationships.
California the first state in the country to define when yes means yes and to adopt requirements for colleges to follow when investigating sexual assault Reports.
Rather than using the refrain, no means no, the definition of consent under this bill requires an affirmative, conscious, and voluntary agreement to engage in sexual activity.
Now, at Ohio State, they're light years ahead of this.
At Ohio State, they've already done this, but then you have to agree with your partner at every stage of the relation.
Every kiss, there has to be a mutual agreement and an agreement as to why.
Then the second kiss, ditto.
The third kiss, ditto.
If a button gets unbuttoned, it has to be mutual agreement.
And both have to explain they know why it's happening.
If the second button, I mean, at every stage, this is on the books at Ohio State.
Jerry Brown thinks he's a trendsetter here.
They're pikers in California compared to the truly enlightened at Ohio State.
The legislation says silence or lack of resistance does not constitute consent.
Under the bill, someone who is drunk, drugged, unconscious, or asleep cannot grant consent.
What happens if that person is the aggressor?
Well, you know that happens.
What happens if the person who is drunk, drugged, well, not unconscious, sleep?
But lawmakers said that consent can be nonverbal, the AP reported.
And universities with similar policies have outlined examples as a nod of the head or moving in closer to the person.
So you don't have to say, yes, I agree, it's okay.
You can nod your head.
You can move in closer.
You can wink, as long as the wink is mutually agreed to beforehand what it means.
Advocates, excuse me, advocates for victims of sexual assault supported the change as one that will provide consistency across campaign and challenge the notion that victims must have resisted assault in order to have valid complaints.
The California legislation requires training for faculty reviewing complaints so that victims are not asked inappropriate questions when filing complaints.
The bill also requires access to counseling, health care services, and other resources.
Critics said the legislation overreaches and sends universities into murky legal waters.
States and universities across the country are under pressure to change how they handle rape allegations, which plays a large part in the new sexual consent rules in California.
Well, I would think so.
So, I don't know, everything is going to become clinical, robotic.
And if you think he should, she said he said is a fertile ground for disagreement.
Now, wait until this thing gets going full speed.
Barack Obama, last night on 60 Minutes.
I want you to hear this.
I've already reported it, but I want you to hear it.
Steve Crofts threw a series of softballs last night.
And even he didn't buy the answer that he got here.
He said, you've got midterm elections coming up.
Are you going to get shellacked, Mr. President?
Are you optimistic?
What are the issues?
What are you going to tell the American people coming up here?
Ronald Reagan used to ask the question, are you better off than you were four years ago?
In this case, are you better off than you were in six?
And the answer is the country is definitely better off than we were when I came into office.
But they don't feel it.
And the reason they don't feel it is because incomes and wages are not going up.
There's solutions to that.
If we raise the minimum wage, if we make sure women are getting paid the same as men for doing the same work, if we are rebuilding our infrastructure.
You think you can sell this?
Well, we've been talking about it.
You think you can convince people that they're doing fine economically?
Hopefully they get a chance to hear the argument because all I'm doing is presenting the facts.
Is this not amazing?
People know the economy is in the tank.
People know that their economic circumstances are not improving.
And yet Obama is going to say, oh, yes, they are.
You just don't feel it.
Oh, yes, the economy is much better out there.
You just don't know it.
Fascinating to me.
No, they don't feel it.
And the reason they don't feel it, because incomes and wages are not going up.
Well, if incomes and wages are not going up, then what is growing about the economy?
That's what matters to people.
That's what they know.
That's what they sense.
That's what they feel.
And by the way, if we raise the minimum wage at standard inclusion, if we make sure women are getting paid the same, they do.
That 77 cents on a dollar thing is old.
It's out of half.
It's no longer true.
If we're rebuilding our infrastructure, what has that got to do with anything?
And yes, by the way, that was part of the original stimulus bill back in 2009.
How's that working out?
Rebuild the stimulus, the infrastructure.
I thought we did that.
Shovel-ready jobs, roads and bridges, school repair.
I thought we already did that.
You know, back on June 30th, Bill Clinton told David Gregory, the late host of, well, he's still alive, the former host of Meet the Depressed.
Back on June 30th, Bill Clinton told Meet the Press that no Democrat candidate should run on Obama's record.
And Gregory asked Clinton to specify the difficulties facing any liberal Democrat candidate running on the Obama economy for the presidency in 2016.
And Clinton said, nobody should do that.
You should run on making the economy better.
There's not a Democrat alive who ought to run on the premise the economy's doing well.
There isn't a Democrat alive ought to seek any office, including the presidency in 2016, by claiming the economy's good.
Democrats that run for office need to start talking about how they're going to be making it better.
The problem with that is you are necessarily throwing Obama under the bus.
But back in June, even Clinton knew that it was a losing case as a Democrat to seek reelection on the basis that Obamaomics was succeeding.
And yet, here's Obama telling everybody the real challenge is, oh, the economy's going great guns.
We just got to convince people that it's true.
When they get a chance to hear the argument, they'll believe me because all I've got is facts.
So he's got facts.
The economy's growing.
Yet he admits that wages aren't growing up.
And against all this, I still say, where's the Republican message?
Where is the contrast?
Where is the simple message?
We know how to grow this economy.
We know how to turn you loose.
We know how to get the government out of your way.
We know what to do.
We've done it before to get this economy grow.
Where is that message?
It isn't anywhere.
They're frightened to say anything in opposition to Obama in any way, shape, manner, or form.
Brief time out.
We'll come back.
More telephone calls when we get back.
So sit tight, folks.
Don't go away.
Executing assigned host duties flawlessly.
Zero mistakes.
And here is Debbie in Colorado Springs.
Great to have you on the program.
I'm really glad you waited.
Hi.
Hi.
I just had a quick story.
It's not a question, but I was listening to your program yesterday, and I tried to call and couldn't get through.
But somebody was complaining about how they can't get ahead because, I don't know, they feel like if there's not anybody there to help them, that they can't help themselves.
And I've been married to my husband almost 27 years, and he graduated to begin with as a teacher.
And his last year he taught, he made $28,000.
And he just wanted to make more money.
And we already had our first two children, and he went back to school.
And we took out student loans.
That was the only way we could do it.
And we were fine with that.
And five years later, his first job, he made over $138,000.
And he's only made more every year after that.
And this is 15 years later.
And during that five years, we did live with my parents for two of those years.
And that was the help that we got through that.
I'm curious, what were you, you know, yesterday was Sunday.
You said you were listening to yesterday's program.
It must have been a rerun.
Yeah, that's what I figured.
It had to be the weekend review.
That's why you couldn't get through because it was a rerun show.
But you know, you have this, you mentioned something really intriguing to me at the beginning of your call.
You say you heard people say they can't get ahead because they need help.
And then you went on to describe how well you and your husband did it, and you took it upon yourselves to do it to sent to it.
Now, there are a lot of generational differences, obviously, in every generation.
You know, I'm a baby boomer, and we're far different than what came next, Gen X and then millennials.
But, you know, you've kind of struck a nerve there because I remember when I was 18 and 19, getting ready to leave home, there wasn't, the whole notion of help was, and that's what your education was.
Or if you had a job you worked at trying to get better, that was your preparation.
When it came time to strike out and seek your fortune, seek your way to pursue your desires.
You just did it.
And you knew it was hard.
You knew there was a lot of competition.
And that's why you went to school in some cases to be prepared for that.
But it is different today with a lot of young people.
They do think they can't do it on their own for some reason.
That they need some.
Go ahead.
Oh, and I just, it's like they want people to help them rather than them taking out if it's risky to take a student loan out.
They don't want, I've heard this from many people.
I have, I know people personally this way, that they don't want to go to school because they don't want to take out the student loans because it's so expensive.
But if my husband had thought that same way, he would still be making, you know, he'd be in the same position that he was in, which is not bad.
He was a teacher and he liked that, but he just had more aspirations for himself.
Well, the student loan program today has become an albatross.
The word has spread like wildfire that you're going to be saddled with $150,000 to $200,000 worth of debt.
And after you've got your education, there are any jobs out there for you to do.
Some of this business about student loans, I actually don't have a problem with.
I think it's a racket, especially since the government took them over.
I mean, what's the point in going $200,000 in debt in order to get an education when you're not even certain you're going to get a job that's going to come anywhere near helping you ever retire that debt?
So that's, I think, the student loan fear that some people have is a legitimate fear.
But there's still beyond that, there is this notion out there among young people.
They can't do it themselves.
Here's Adam in Lakeview, Washington.
Great to have you on the program.
Hello, sir.
Hi, Ross.
I'm actually in Lacey, Washington.
I was just calling about your previous caller who said that her husband went back to school and took out student loans and didn't expect any help from anybody.
I'm just calling to say that that's what I wanted too.
I went to law school.
I graduated in 2010.
I don't want any help from anybody.
I just want this economy to work for people like me who want to do it the way that people before did it.
Well, let me attack the concept of help before we get too far gone here.
Because I don't want to be misunderstood.
I don't want people thinking that there are people who make it without help.
Everybody has some kind of help.
Now, the kind of help that I think most people are referring to is an in or somebody rigging the system for them because of contacts.
Everybody would love to have that kind of contact, but not everybody does, but everybody gets help somewhere along the line.
Your parents bail you out if you need a couple of bucks here and there or any number of ways that people get.
Nobody is entirely, independently self-made.
The concept that it can happen without help is a, I don't want people to misunderstand the concept, but what we're talking about, what you're talking about, Adam, you want to be able, you want to have an economy where you go out and prepare yourself and you can excel at that preparation.
And because of that alone, you have a chance to succeed.
You don't want other obstacles in your way.
You don't want an economy that's half-assed.
You don't want an economy that's stagnant and not grow.
If you've taken the time, you want to find out whatever you can do on your own, using your own initiative and your own desire to make something of yourself, right?
Absolutely.
That's exactly what you want.
That's what I tried to do.
And we lived with my in-laws for three and a half years, and I appreciate it immensely.
But to live in this economy where I'm told, you know, get your education, you know, and I've done everything right by, you know, everything I've ever been told and still am scraping by, you know, four and a half years after law school.
It's absurd and it's insane.
Well, what do you think needs to change?
If you could wave a magic wand, I mean, what would you change to have made all this preparation pay off for you?
There's so many regulations and rules that increase the cost of labor, that increase the cost of doing business, that an employer is not going to pay a ton of money For an employee that's not going to be insanely productive for them because they have to pay that money out in other avenues for regulations, for things like that.
No, that's exactly right.
Employers have work that needs to be done, and they will pay to get it done.
And if it's specialized work, they'll pay even more to get it done.
And if somebody is willing to show they can do it and is willing to work hard, the formula is still there and it still is applicable.
But I'll tell you, you're right, there's so much pressure on, for lack of a better term, the private sector.
I think that term turns people off, but I'll stick with it just for the sake of this call.
I think there's so much pressure in the private sector with all the regulations, now Obamacare, and the vast unknown that it is in terms of the cost of doing business.
It's just, it's really, it's really challenging, and it's all because, or maybe not all, largely because the government has interceded in so much of the private sector.
What kind of law do you practice?
Because the one thing that the Democrat Party has made sure of is that trial lawyers are making it out like bandits.
Well, I haven't been able to practice law because the legal market was one of the markets to take the biggest hit during the downturn in the economy.
And I worked as a temporary employee working on a large settlement for three years, and now I'm working in the homebuilding industry as a government affairs guy.
And I've never been able to practice law because I can't get hired to do it.
It's a very tight market now.
Well, have you ever thought about the old hang-a-shingle route?
Yeah, I have.
And there are costs associated with that, and there are trade-offs, you know, with family time and things like that.
Well, look, I like to say in these kinds of circumstances that it is tough, but there's never been a time where the skids were greased.
It's always been hard.
Real, lasting career success has always been hard work.
It's always been hard to accomplish, and it's even harder to maintain once you get there.
And it's still possible today.
It's just that there are so many more obstacles in people's way than there used to be.
And it's a challenge to be optimistic.
I still think that pays off.
It's a challenge to be optimistic in times like this with people because the natural tendency is to be pessimistic, and it makes sense to be pessimistic in an Obama-type economy and what's happening to the economy under his stewardship.
But as you look around at him, I'm sure that you see successful people.
I'm sure you see people making it, which forget the details because you don't know their entire story.
The fact of the matter is, it shows it is still possible.
It still is happening.
People have to be adaptive.
I have found, not saying this about you, I have found in my own life that most, and I don't think this is as true today as it used to be because of Obama economics, but it once was true that most of the limitations that people face in life are self-imposed.
Most of the obstacles in people's way are put there by themselves.
And one of the biggest ones is moving.
Say you want to do something, but the opportunity for it where you live just isn't all that great.
But your family's there.
And a lot of other things about the town you live in, you like.
You grew up there and it's comfortable and so forth.
Okay, so maybe staying there is something you want to do, but by the same token, you're only going to go so far in what your chosen profession is because the town doesn't offer it.
That is a self-imposed limitation.
And there are more of those that people realize.
It's a matter in some cases.
It used to be of how badly you want it.
But even today, there's even more pressure on that simply because the economy is shrinking, as we've been discussing all day in a large time on Friday.
But, Adam, just keep plugging away at it and remain dedicated.
You're young.
Remain dedicated to your desire.
If you do that, if you stay dedicated to your desire, and if you love it, if that's really what you want to do, at some point, plugging away at it is going to pay off.
You won't be able to predict when.
You'll have to know when the knock on the door is opportunity, but it will happen if that's what you want to do.
And if you stay dedicated to those desires.
And who knows, something may come up during all this that changes your attitude about what you want to do and you find it and you go there.
At which point you're going to say, okay, I spent all this time educating myself to be a lawyer, but I don't need it now.
And you've got to make a decision to not use what you spend money educating yourself on if something presents itself to you that you really want to do.
That's another self-imposed limitation that people say, well, I spent all this time educating myself.
I can't go do X because I've got to make sure this pays off.
Just stay dedicated to your desires and plug away.
And the odds are that your situation will improve.
We'll be right back.
Now, I don't have time.
I'm not going to have time to get to this loony tune in North Carolina.
This guy, his name is Greg Meyer, the guy who's running around obsessing about his whiteness and the problems it's causing him and everybody else.
And Daily Haymaker is a conservative blog in North Carolina, and his interview is part of a book about all this.
And we've actually had some calls coming about this guy that we're not going to have time to get to today, but I'll hold it here.
My secret location so it doesn't vanish overnight.
Thank you so much for being with us today, folks.
Sadly, we are out of busy broadcast time, but there's always tomorrow, as there always is.
And we will be back, as always, revved and ready to go.
Thank you so much.
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