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Oct. 24, 2014 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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October 24, 2014, Friday, Hour #2
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It's Friday, folks, so let's hit it.
Live from the Southern Command in Sunny South Florida.
It's open line Friday.
Open line Friday, where callers get to choose whatever it is they want to talk about when we go to the phones.
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Okay, just a couple of things here to close the loop on on Zail Thompson, the hatchet man, attacker, the Islamist, the militant Islamist in New York City.
He has been radicalized by somebody or somebody's.
He's been radicalized by who knows what in this country.
My guess is the education system.
And it's uh I think that's tragic.
I think what's happened, the multiculturalists have uh have gained control of the education system.
And the multiculturalists basically are a bunch of people, I think, psychologically a bunch of people who just in their own minds don't fit in, and so they're gonna blame everybody else for it.
And they want to blame America, which is part and parcel of a leftist ideology.
And so these students, they are subjected, depending on the education system, I mean, depending on the state and the school system, they are subjected to a drumbeat of how rotten this country is, how unfair, how immoral, how unjust, how racist, how sexist, how bigoted.
And if you hear it enough and you're just slightly off kilter, it can drive you crazy.
And I folks, I really, you know, I I've said this over and over, and I really do think there's something to it.
The five years of pummeling of George W. Bush and the military in this country during the years of Iraq 2003 to 2008 drove a portion of the Democrat voter base literally insane with rage and hatred.
And they weren't, it didn't confine itself.
The hatred didn't just to George W. Bush.
It expanded into just hatred for the country as founded.
And this is the kind of chaos and disquietedness and discomfort that the Democrat Party feeds on.
And it isn't healthy.
And of course, the true story of America is so glorious.
The true story of this country and the true definition of American exceptionalism are miraculous.
They're wonderful.
There's there's no intellectual reason to be consumed with hatred or rage for this country, particularly over things that you had no hand in.
Yeah, we had slavery until we fixed it.
And yeah, we did do some things wrong.
Nobody's perfect, but this is the one country in the world that went to war with itself over a number of these things to wipe them out.
And yet that doesn't seem to count.
That's not a positive.
Oh no, we erase that from anybody's historical record, and we simply focus on the evil's, the original sins of our past, and we make these young kids believe that it's still going on.
And that's why this this hatchet guy, remember, he was a graduate of the teachers' college at Columbia.
And I'm not talking about Missouri, Columbia University, New York.
Now let me read these are two posts that he put on Facebook.
The first one, it's well, no, it's just one post.
It's okay.
It's okay for white people to draw pictures of a white Jesus and then colonize Africa and enslave the Negro in America, wipe out the Native American and invade the Middle East.
As though it's still going on, as though it happens to this day.
It's not something in the past that we have wiped out and dealt with.
No, no, no, it's still going on.
It defines us.
It shapes who we are.
They call black people racist for rejecting the oppression they suffered from whites.
Listen, when black people have colonized the entire continent of Europe, enslaved its people and sold them into bondage to foreign lands, then you can call them racist, but not before.
Now, Mr. Snerdley brought me something today in his uh stack.
And he said, You're gonna have to answer this for me, because I can't figure it out.
So what is it?
It's a story about teenagers and how mean they are.
So I said, okay, if anybody can answer it, I, Il Rushbo can.
Here's the story.
From violence to verbal taunts.
Abusive dating behavior is pervasive among America's adolescents, according to a new federally funded survey.
It says that a majority of boys and girls who date describe themselves as both victims and perpetrators, sponsored by the National Institute of Justice, the National Survey on Teen Relationships and Intimate Violence.
Intimate violence.
Okay, the National Survey on Teen Relationships and Intimate Violence was conducted by NORC at the University of Chicago, a prominent research center, which provided preliminary results to the associated press.
Input came from a nationwide sample of 667 youths between 12 and 18 who had been dating within the past year and who completed a self-administered online questionnaire.
Nearly 20% of both boys and girls reported themselves as victims of physical and sexual abuse in dating relationships.
But the researchers reported what they called a startling finding when they asked about psychological abuse, broadly defined as actions ranging from name calling to excessive tracking of a victim, I guess, is in stalking.
More than 60% of each gender reported being victims and perpetrators of such behavior.
The survey found no substantive differences in measures by ethnicity, family income, or geographic location.
None of that mattered.
Elizabeth Mumford, one of the two lead researchers, acknowledged that some of the behaviors defined as psychological abuse are commonplace, but said they shouldn't be viewed as harmless.
Said none of these things are healthy, she said.
It's almost more of a concern that our great gut reaction to accept this as natural.
Teens often think some behaviors like teasing and name-calling are a normal part of a relationship, says a CDC fact sheet.
However, these behaviors can become abusive and develop into more serious forms of violence.
Now, I'm I've gotten this far reading this thing, and I'm starting to get really confused.
I'm not figuring out how this can happen.
How can all of this be?
How can these young adolescents between 12 and 18 who are dating be so rotten to each other?
I thought we fixed this.
I thought we had programs in place that dealt with all of this.
But Bruce Taylor, the other lead researcher of the Nork survey, said the overall abuse figures were higher than previous national studies of dating abuse, which reveals the startling widespread nature of this problem and the P8 de resistance.
Quote, we found that girls perpetrate serious threats or physical violence more Than boys at ages 12, 13, and 14.
But that boys become the more common perps by age 15 to 18.
How can this be?
What happened?
Let's review.
They all get conflict resolution 101.
Starting in kindergarten.
They are they're taught conflict resolution and how to solve problems, not getting along with their neighbor.
They get sex education.
Some of them cucumbers, some of them balloons, uh, some of them with videos, some of them actual hands-on, depending on the teacher that you have.
But they all get sex.
Well, we just had another story in the snack here of another female teacher that's abused another student.
Would you have called it abuse if it happened to you when you were in school?
Yeah.
Yes.
Snurdley said, what happened?
It didn't happen to us.
He would have called it lucky, not abuse.
It's an awful double standard it is, and we're not mocking it.
We're not making fun of it.
And we're not, well, actually, we are.
Snertley, we're yes, uh, the normal red-blooded American.
Young boy might not consider it abuse, but some of them do.
But anyway, none of this is supposed to happen.
The good people have been in charge of our education system.
The caring people, the compassionate people, the understanding people.
I remember, ladies and gentlemen, back in the, well, I still lived in New York in the early 90s.
Roger Ailes, who is now the uh CEO of Fox News, he was the executive producer of my TV show.
Every Saturday afternoon in the summer would have water volleyball games at his palatial home on the Hudson River.
And there were all kinds, I mean, Rudy Giuliani and his family showed up.
There's all kinds of people there.
And every week somebody brought somebody new that nobody knew.
One week there was this 24, 25-year-old female teacher that showed up.
And after the volleyball games and the pool, there were always a barbecue, and everybody sat around talking, and inevitably the conversation drifted to politics and current affairs.
And I never forget this 24-year-old teacher began wringing her hands and worrying that we were pushing our children too hard too fast, that we were giving them too much homework and they were making them work too hard and get up too early and spend too many hours at school, and we needed to love them more.
And we needed to dial back the demanding tests and curriculum and homework.
We just these kids were pushing them to that, of course, sent me through the roof.
And I didn't have any problem holding back.
I said, What do you mean?
It's just the opposite.
You start coddling them like this, and you're not going to prepare them for what they are going to face when they leave the confines of your classroom and they grow up and they find out what kind of place the world can be.
You've got this is when they've got the energy.
This is when they have the mental capacity.
This is when they soak it all up.
This is when you've got to push them.
I said, this is when you've got to show these kids what they're capable of.
You have to push them.
You have to show them that they're better than they think they are, that they can learn more than they think they can learn.
They can do things that they don't think they can do.
This is this is the only shot you've got at it.
I disagree.
I think that it's too mean-spirited, and you can't paint with the debug breast.
You have to take a temperature of each individual.
I'm I'm pulling my hair out here.
And I'm trying to be polite, I'm a guest, I'm not trying to cause any trouble.
But it was that's early 90s, and I'm telling you, that was an early symptom of the kind of thing that I think has now taken over much of, not all, of course, but much of the public education system.
Coddling.
You never wrong.
Self-esteem!
Hey, by the way, they've all been treated as self-esteem courses.
You're wonderful.
There's nothing wrong with you, little Johnny.
Why did you dip little Heather's hair in the ink well?
That's okay.
That's that's Johnny, you're fine.
Actually, that might not have happened.
It would have in the early stages today, they'd put the kid in jail for sexual abuse.
Regardless, this coddling, this babying, they got conflict resolution, they got sex ed riddling.
Can we not forget that when it comes to the little boys, we've drugged them into basically being vegetables.
And then we gave it a new name, hyper kineticism.
You know what that is?
That's a normal young kid with a lot of energy.
Now I realize I'm on the wrong side of this.
I know that some of you in the audience are starting to scream, shout, you don't that I don't know what I'm talking about.
But I think a bunch of people, a bunch of adults, didn't know how to deal with a normal, hyperactive group of boys who it's just not in their nature to sit still.
They have to be moving, there have to be recesses, there have to be allowances and and and rather than deal with that, it was just easier to create a disease and then a drug for it.
Regardless whether you think I'm right or wrong, you can't deny we drugged them.
We gave them riddling.
Now, what is the effect of Ritalin?
Well, no, we don't want to make them zombies as they're not walking dead, but it dials you down, right?
It kind of smooths out the rub, yeah, calms you down, smooths out the rough edges, right?
And you just you sit there and absorb and gaze upon nature and think it's wonderful.
Whatever it does, but it's supposed to fix all of this.
And we don't spank them.
No way.
We do not abuse our children.
No, no, we don't spank them.
Uh and and we don't make them cut twigs from trees that they're going to be spanked with.
We don't, we do not strike them.
Uh we've sent sensitivity training.
We've sent their teachers to sensitivity training.
Um we we've we've subjected them to various gender laws.
I mean, we've done everything.
We've done every liberal idea we have come up with to deny this certain reality.
We've instituted, implemented all of these programs, conflict resolution, sex education, riddling, sensitivity training, all of these, and yet violence in the 12 to 18 age group, according to this survey, is at an all-time high.
What happened?
And girls age 12 to 14 are worse than boys, meaner and all.
What happened?
How can this be?
We're not pushing them.
If they think two plus two is five, it is, so that we don't humiliate them.
We've we've tried to eliminate all forms of humiliation, including kids that learn faster than the others, we either slow them down or we give the people at the low end better grades so that nobody's humiliated.
We've I thought fixed all of this.
And welcome back, El Rushbow.
America's real anchor man, America's truth detector, the doctor of democracy.
Okay, so I just summed up what we're doing, and Snurley wanted to know why isn't it working?
Riddling, conflict resolution, self-esteem classes, sex ed classes, even occasionally a teacher that'll hit on a kid, uh, gender laws, and yet they're more violent than ever.
I think the answer here, the summation, is what we aren't doing.
None of this, conflict resolution, sex ed, riddling, sensitivity training, gender law, none of this even comes close to teaching children how to adapt to society,
how to critically think, how to adapt to fluid circumstances, constantly in flow and changing on a dime.
And the reason for that is one thing that's really absent in all these things that we're doing to try to make sure no harm comes, we're not Teaching discipline.
We're not handing any out, other than if they, you know, make a gun with their index finger.
Then we will take them to the principal's office and read them the riot act if a six-year-old pretends to shoot a gun with his hand.
But outside of that, no discipline whatsoever.
At the same time, we excuse and permit and even justify and explain all kinds of bad behavior.
And try to find find reasons to explain it and justify it that have nothing to do with the child's behavior.
We tell them how wicked and evil our society is, how unjust, how racist, how discriminatory it is, how it's oppressed everyone for centuries.
Basically, we're not doing anything that in any way gets close to creating happy environments.
Time now to get back to the phones.
And this is Matt, Fairfax, Virginia.
I really appreciate your patience and welcome to the program.
Rush, uh, appreciate you um answering.
Um I've got a point to make.
Um this physician followed all the strict isolation rules in trying to prevent him getting the disease.
I mean, I'm sure he followed every guideline in every direction.
You would think you would.
I mean, he's 33 years old, he's a doctor, he was in he was in Guinea, I think, right?
And that's you would think he would take every precaution.
That brings me to two points.
One, um I really do think there should be restrictions.
I mean, even the Department of Defense has a smallpox response plan for smallpox written in 2002, even after the smallpox was quoted eradicated in 1980, and it goes into isolation and quarantine guidelines, travel restrictions.
You're not supposed to travel 20 minutes from your house, you're not supposed to go to any large areas, buses, airplanes, crowded facilities, etc., etc.
Um, you we we're we're doing our country a disservice by not having such a guideline for Ebola.
I mean, really should be a lot more organized.
We should be a lot more uh prepared for this.
I mean, even the CDC says that the Ebola virus was found to be spread through airborne particles in the rest implant, and they also they are quick to note that it has not been documented amongst humans, but that doesn't mean it's not going to happen.
And we're we're playing Russian roulette by allowing people to travel.
Well, it's clear it's clear the United States, whether by accident or by design has become a laboratory for this.
Yeah.
Because we don't know.
There's a lot we don't know that we now are going to find out one way or another.
Now, you mentioned smallpox.
Um a lot of people, I don't I'm gonna take a stab here and say that a lot of people do not remember or maybe know uh the real dangers of smallpox, because it has been eradicated.
There is a vaccine for it.
But if there were ever a smallpox uh outbreak that was immune to this vaccine, we're talking a disaster that you don't even want to contemplate.
And smallpox is uh it's more communicable, I think, than even what they're saying Ebola is.
And the only reason there's a there's a I mentioned this uh couple weeks ago.
I'm reading one of the best books I've ever read, is called I Am Pilgrim, and it's the first novel by an Australian named Terry Hayes, and it's about an educated Islamist from Saudi Arabia who has been radicalized by the Saudi royal family.
He was a Muslim to begin with, but his father was beheaded.
This is in the novel.
Father was beheaded by the uh Saudi government for simply speaking out against the king.
And that can get you beheaded in the Saudi in Saudi Arabia.
And His son becomes the radical Islamist who trains to be a doctor, does not look anything like a terrorist, as uh people think terrorists appear.
He's refined, he's sophisticated, he's educated, but he takes it upon he wants to wipe out America because he he blames America for supporting and propping up the royal family in Saudi Arabia.
So the short version of this book, and I it's great to read, I don't want to give it all away from you, and I haven't finished it yet, so I I don't know the uh the end, but what happens is that this radical Saudi Arabian doctor finds a genetic way to alter the vaccine and make it useless.
He tests it on three people in the Hindu Kush.
And in the novel, it's very apparent that it's not hard to get this disease at all, particularly in in in uh in a closed uh circumstance where you want the disease to spread, and he ends up having a whole bunch of the uh uh the smallpox virus ends up being shipped to the United States where there is supposed to be an outbreak.
I mean, I haven't finished this, and uh we've got all this vaccine.
You're right, the callers we have vaccin out the Wazoo here.
The story in this book is that it's been genetically altered.
The the smallpox virus itself has been genetically altered to resist the vaccine, and it's it would cause utter disaster.
And that's the fear with with with Ebola.
You can look at Africa, we've got now up to 8,000 cases, and a little more than 50 percent of the people have died.
And yet there is no concerted effort to prevent travel from those nations to America, and a lot of people just don't understand it.
It doesn't make any sense.
And this has led to me, your beloved host, being misquoted all over CNN and in fact they've now spread this misquote to their website, and I know why they did it.
Nobody watches.
I happen to call them on it, and that caused new eyeballs to tune in.
So they're they're happy to run a total lie about something I said on their air and on their website because it might generate audience.
So I haven't talked about it since that first time.
But it was something that happened on CNN that caused my reaction.
Some author, some Ebola expert, in explaining why we cannot prevent flights from Africa from landing in America, is because it's kind of our fault.
He said Liberia, which is one of the nations in Africa where the outbreak has been intense.
Liberia exists because of American slavery, and this author said we can't turn our backs.
We cannot turn our backs.
What well, what does that mean?
I mean we have to leave airports open?
What does it mean we can't turn our backs?
We're not turning our backs.
We're sending medical personnel over there to help.
We have sent that that serum that's made from the Kentucky tobacco plant.
We're not turning our backs.
Does it mean we've got to keep our airports open?
Does it does it mean that that well it's unfair they have Ebola and we don't?
Since they are there because of us in the first time.
That's this convoluted thinking, politically correct and otherwise, that that is famous.
The left is famous for.
So you're sitting there and you think, well, if you're looking out for America, which is what the president's supposed to do, then you would take steps to make sure that what happened in New York didn't happen.
A doctor is not supposed to come back here with this disease.
And we're told we got protocols in place, except we learn today that the New York City CDC protocols don't go into effect until Monday.
The doctor came back before they've been implemented.
It's right there in the memo, Monday, October 27th.
Now they're up there talking about the officials are, we've done everything we could do.
we've done everything according to the book.
We've done everything right.
And they may have.
But their own protocols for eliminating or preventing this are not even in effect yet.
And that's how the doctor got in.
Now, I'm not dumping on the doctor.
He He may not have known.
Same thing of Thomas Duncan, although he did know the uh patient zero from Liberia.
He got on the plane knowing He was infected.
The doctor, he thought he took every step, every precaution, but he still got it.
And now he's in New York, isolated, and now it's a laboratory to see what happens, because he has come in contact with people on subways and a bowling alley in Williamsburg.
So we just have to, we just have to wait and see.
Meanwhile, people like like Matt here say, well, wait a minute.
Why why why is this even happening?
We ought to not be permitting anybody from these countries to get back in, even people from the health community working on them until they have passed a quarantine or a protocol or something that says they're safe.
Because we do not want to bring the disease into the country.
Too late for that, sort of here.
This is why.
In the political stack of stuff today, there's all kinds of news about how on edge the Democrats are.
It's looking so bad in the election.
The polling women are abandoning them, the blacks are not interested in showing up and voting, and if they don't, it's really curtains for the Democrats and so forth.
And the media is ringing there and trying to figure out why.
They got the first African American president, he's Barack Obama.
Why is he so unpopular?
It's it's it's like two different worlds.
They don't see 92 million Americans not working.
They don't see a record number of Americans on food stamps.
And by the way, I refuse to believe that this represents the desires of the majority of people in this country.
I do not think the majority of people in this country have given up and want to turn it over to a welfare state.
I think they want to work.
I think they want to have careers.
I think they want to behave and believe in this country, and they want it to be a place of the land of free home and the opportunity brave, all that stuff.
They don't think that because of the leadership in this country.
Both parties, no matter where you go, there's nothing inspiring.
There's nothing uplifting.
Every day, the USA Today just had a story about the ongoing crisis that is America.
It's every day, every day there's an emergency.
Every day there's a disaster.
Every day there's a crisis.
Every day something is going to kill us.
Every day something's going to wipe us out.
It's either terrorism, it's Ebola, or nobody gets a chance to breathe.
Everybody's on edge all the time.
Well, it only stands to reason.
Majority of Americans don't want to live this way.
They don't want the country to be this way, and quite naturally, they are going to blame the powers that be of the moment for all of these problems.
And the first chance they have to express it is going to be in November.
And they're going to throw out the people that they think are in power now because they're the ones going to get blamed.
In this case, they'll be right.
That leads to a whole other discussion about who they're going to vote for and what that's going to mean, and what a glorious opportunity that could be and may well yet be, but it still doesn't erase the fact that there is a huge amount of angst, melees, distrust, and this Ebola business is just adding to it.
And we hear yesterday that there might be nine to 34 million brand new green cards over the next couple of three years.
Borders are going to be wide open.
Anybody wants to come in can come in because that's what Obama wants.
That's what the Democrat Party wants.
Oh, I think he's way beyond Jimmy Carter.
I in terms of being the worst I think in a lot of people's minds, yeah, he's what well, we had something yesterday that some well-known Democrat made a point that Jimmy Carter is looking really good to everybody now.
I tell you, I just got something in the, you know, I am surreptitiously secretly on a bunch of Democrat Party fundraising sites.
You know I just got an email from?
You know what they've trotted out.
Gloria Steinem is their latest giant secret move to raise money and get out the vote.
Now, what?
Yeah, she's still alive.
What does that tell you?
This is the party a hip?
This is the party of cool.
This is the party of new young relative millennial.
Yeah, man, the Democrat Party's worth, and they and and they have to they have to go to the Feminazi graveyard to try to find the last best hope for the party in this election.
By the way, I mean, I mean, just to keep you totally up to speed, the CDC posted a couple of tweets last night claiming that the doctor passed through the protocols at the airport.
He got through with flying colours.
And then CDC was bragging about it before they knew the guy came down with the disease, I think.
They describe him as having successfully passed through the CDC's enhanced screening for travelers from Ebola's hot zones.
The gateway pundit has the has the details.
Here's uh Charmin in Portland, Oregon.
Hey Charmin, great to have you on the EIB Network and Open Line Friday.
Hi.
Hi, Rush.
I'm a longtime listener, first time caller.
Forgive me if I'm a little nervous.
Um I called uh because I I have a question for you.
Sure.
Um, the last couple days you've been talking about how some of the uh le more liberal pundits are uh and poll watchers are starting to talk are starting to uh talk about uh uh a coming Republican wave in November.
And uh your comment was that you know they're they're really trying to uh be sure that they have something to fall back on.
Come next election, they can say, well, we called it.
But I wonder, maybe I've gotten too cynical over the years, but I wonder if there isn't also something else at play there.
Um, you know, in the last election, three million of us sat home.
And I don't know if it is.
Are you worried that these results that they're touting are gonna cause people to be complacent, sit home and not vote because they think the election's in the bag?
That is absolutely right, Raj.
That is a fear that I have.
Well, I tell you, um I you are being a little cynical.
It's understandable, however, because you understand how polling data can be manipulated.
Uh however, I think this is too widespread for it to be untrue.
Now, people can always, but what caused people to sit home in 2012, I hate to say it, they weren't happy with the nominee.
There isn't anybody that the Republicans have put forth that people might not be happy with in this.
This is going to be a total anti-Democrat Party, anti Obama turnout and uh and election.
I think people are chomping at the bit to get their show up and vote.
Okay, we get back.
Let's talk about the Democrats, the election, the polling data, and what could really be going on there.
Sit tight, my friends.
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