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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 uh this kid at college who wrote about what's wrong with him because of his whiteness.
And I've had this thing uh, 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 uh website called a Daily Haymaker, which I think is the school newspaper at Chapel Hill or something like that.
But it's obscure.
It's not it's not a mainstream website, but it's out there, and because our show prep knows no bounds.
We'll 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 what he is name is Greg Meyer.
I'll just show you there's the there's the guy, and there's there's this for what it looks like.
Um 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 was one.
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 uh 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 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 uh father or husband is where they got uh the money.
So I have that set aside.
Um this story, this this we're gonna be using this story, I think, in 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.
It is 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 is a bit 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 ISA might be Issa, might be Esau.
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's uh 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 uh keeping a sharp eye on.
And here's uh yet another in what either is the third or fourth story of this nature.
This is from uh 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 rel, 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, 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 relationship.
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 uh 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's the aggressor?
Well, you 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 camp eye 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 uh I don't know, everything's gonna become clinical, robotic.
And if you think he shed C said, 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 Croft threw a series of softballs last night.
Um, and even he didn't buy the answer that he got here.
He said, you've uh you've got midterm elections coming up.
You're gonna get shellacked, Mr. President.
Are you optimistic?
What are the issues?
What are you gonna 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 do you think people feel to make sure they don't feel it?
And the reason they don't feel 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?
What we've been talking about.
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's in the tank.
People know that their economic circumstances are not improving, and yet Obama's gonna tell Oh, yes, they are, you just don't feel it.
Oh, yes, the economy much better out there.
You just don't know it.
Uh 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 as 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 hand, it's 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 a stimulus uh infrastructure.
I thought we did that.
Uh 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, but the former host of of uh 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 in back in June, even Clinton knew that it was a it was a losing case as a Democrat to seek re-election on the basis that Obamax 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 going up.
It's it's and 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 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 he 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 we the all 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.
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.
That's uh it had to be the weekend review.
That's why you couldn't get through, because it was a um it was a rerun show.
But you know, you you have this this you 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 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.
Yes.
Essentially.
Now, got me to think there's there's a there are a lot of generational differences, obviously, in every generation.
Uh, you know, I'm a baby boomer, and we're far different than what came next Gen X and then millennials.
But uh you know, you you you um you've kind of you've kind of struck a nerve there because I remember, you know, when I was 18 and 19, getting ready to leave home.
Uh there there wasn't the whole notion of of help was and that's what your education was.
Uh or if you had a job you were 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 your your desires.
You just did it.
Uh 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 uh it is different today with the 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, I and I'm just it's like they want people to help them rather than them taking out it it's risky to take a student loan out.
They don't want I I've heard that from many people I have I know people personally this way that they they don't want to go to school because they don't want to take out the student loan because it's so expensive that if my husband had a 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 um for himself.
Well, the student loan program today has become an albatross.
The the the word has spread like wildfire that you're gonna be saddled with 150 to 200,000 worth of debt, and after you've got your education, there are any jobs out there for you uh to do there's a uh 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, there's what what what's the point in going 200,000 in debt in order to get an education when you're not even certain you're gonna get a job that's gonna come anywhere near helping you ever retire that debt.
So I that 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 is uh here's Adam in Lakeview, Washington.
Great to have you on the program.
Hello, sir.
Hi, Russ.
Uh, I'm actually in Lacey, Washington.
I was just calling about your uh that 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.
Right.
I'm just calling to say that that's what I wanted to.
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 um let me attack the concept of help before we get too far gone here, because I I don't I don't want to be misunderstood and 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 that I think most people are referring to is uh uh an in or uh somebody rigging the system for them because of contacts.
That you know, everybody would love to have that kind of content, but every no 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 it can happen without help is uh is a I don't want to people 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 growing.
If you've taken the time, you you want to find out whatever you can do on your own, you're in 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.
Um, 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 it's it's absurd and it's insane.
Well, what do you think needs to change?
Well, if you could if you could wave a magic wand, I mean, what would what would you change to have made all this preparation pay off for you?
Uh there's so many regulations and rules that increase the cost of labor, that increase the cost of doing business that you know an employer is not going to pay a ton of money for for an employee that's not going to be, you know, insanely productive for them.
Because they 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 the formula is still there.
And it it still is uh applicable.
But I tell you, it's 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 uh 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.
Um it's just it's it's really it's really challenging, and it's all because, or not, maybe not all largely because the government has interceded in um in so much uh of the private sector.
What kind of law do you practice?
Because the one thing that that the Democrat Party has made sure of is that trial lawyers are making 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 um I worked as a temporary employee working on a large settlement um for three years, and now I'm working in the home building industry as uh like 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 and things like that.
Well, look, it's it's um I like to say in these in these kinds of uh circumstances that it is tough, but there's never been a time where the the 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 to maintain uh w 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 than there used to be.
And it's uh it's a challenge to be optimistic.
So 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 uh stewardship.
But as you look around Adam, I'm sure uh 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 uh 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 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 it's it just it's a it's a matter in some cases, used to be of how badly you want it.
Uh but even today, that's there's there's even more pressure on that simply because the economy is shrinking, as we've been discussing all day and a large time on Friday.
But you, Adam, just keep plugging away at it and remain dedicated.
You're young.
Remain dedicated to your desire.
That if you do that, if you stay dedicated to your desire, and if it 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.
It's I mean, you won't be able to predict when.
You'll have to, 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 go, 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 a little money educating yourself on if something presents itself to you that you really want to do.
That's another self-imposed limitation that people I spent all this time educating myself.
I can't go do X because I've got to 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 gonna have time to get to this uh loony tune in North Carolina.
This guy, his name is Greg Meyer, the guy who's running around obsessing about his whiteness and uh and and the problems it's causing him and everybody else.
And Daily Haymaker is a conservative blog in North Carolina, and he's his interview's part of a book about all this.
And we've actually had some calls coming about this guy that we're not gonna have time to get to today, but I'll hold it here by 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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