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Nov. 25, 2014 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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November 25, 2014, Tuesday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 247 podcast.
Greetings, my friends, and great to have you here.
It's the rebob, Thanksgiving week, here on the Excellence and Broadcasting Network.
And your host, Rush Limbaugh for three hours of broadcast excellence.
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This is the moment where millions stop what they're doing and turn on their radios to find out really what's what.
And I realize the pressure and the expectations attached to that and arrive here each and every busy broadcast day prepared to satisfy and maybe even surpass those expectations.
And I have to tell you something here.
If I were African American today, if I were an African American who had voted for the Democrat Party for 50 years straight, I would be seriously asking myself, what the hell?
What in the world is going on?
If I were an African American, I would be so confused that I would not know where to turn.
You see, for 50 plus years, the Democrat Party.
And by the way, as a subset of this, you know, the during the discussions of the uh prior to the election.
One of the observations I made was that I really think that the Democrat Party liberalism makes its core supporters insane.
And I think they drove them insane during the Iraq War, and all the protests about the Iraq War and all of the war is over, the war is lost, uh, all the atrocities the media was committing, all the focus on torture.
Do you know even today?
I don't know how much television you all watch, but even today, I'm watching three or four series TV shows.
One of them is is uh Madam Secretary.
I wish I could think of the others.
But but even now we're we're getting in series television episodes about how rotten America is.
Not was, how rotten America is because we tortured it is the most amazing thing.
The so-called torture at Club Gitmo and elsewhere during the Iraq War is years and years ago.
It has been dealt with, but the left was driven so insane they are still obsessed with it.
And they're obsessed with it to the point that to them it means this country is really bad.
This country has so many things it's done that we have to pay for.
It's uncanny.
I really do think liberalism and the Democrat Party drive their supporters insane.
They create constant rage, constant outrage, constant hatred.
Every day is chaos, every day is confrontation, every day is crisis, every day is somebody in power is coming along to destroy you.
Every day the country sucks.
Every day the country is decrepit.
Every day.
And after not too long a time, I guarantee you to people who follow this stuff closely, and I'm talking about leftist politico types.
I think they are so filled with rage and hatred that it bubbles over into could be clinical insanity.
Because there is total irrationality all over the place.
It's almost as though.
I'll give you an example, by the way, here of what I'm talking about in advance.
On CNN this morning, a little after 5 a.m., there was a reporter at wringing her hands in utter and total confusion over why the the district attorney in St. Louis couldn't just tell the grand jury to go to hell and file charges anyway.
Because she felt that was the thing that should have been done.
Never mind the law.
Never mind her ignorance of the law.
It all that mattered was how she felt about it.
And I think one of the things that's happening is we try to analyze the slow deterioration of our culture, which includes a deterioration of knowledge and understanding of the Constitution of the rule of law.
What has what has happened, what's replacing that education, that understanding is this belief that feelings equal common sense.
So that if I feel like the DA could have just ignored the grand jury, then that makes perfect sense.
It's common says, why didn't he do it?
I feel like that should have happened.
I would feel better if he would have done that.
I would feel better if I got my way.
And feelings.
Pay attention, folks, as you watch television and watch, I don't care what it is.
It's uh aftermath of a of a football game or baseball game.
What are you feeling right?
What are your emotion?
What what how does this feel after they've just won the world series?
How do you think it's going to feel?
Nobody, but even even in newsprint, nobody's asked what they think anymore.
Everybody's asked what they feel, and nobody tells you what they think.
They always tell you what you feel or what they feel, and their feelings have become common sense, and the left has toyed with people's feelings.
The Democrat Party has ratcheted up those feelings and created a constant anger, disproportionate to reality.
There's an irrationality about it all.
You can't talk sense to some of these people.
They're simply outraged all the time, angry, want to be, they want to be mad.
That's the mode of operation.
That's the mode of existence, which then transfers itself to everybody's a victim of something.
And then the victim of a faceless mean spirited extremist majority and or country that has them constantly in battle, constantly pitched in battle against, in some cases, imaginary forces.
And I don't it's unhealthy as it can be.
And we see how it manifests itself so often, not just last night in Ferguson, we see it all the time.
How this leftist political scheming, the daily script writing of the soap opera, we see how it manifests itself.
And it manifests itself in criminality in some cases.
And justifiable criminality, we're told we must understand the rage.
And it manifests itself in other ways which are destructive.
And it builds up false hopes and expectations, which is my point.
If I were African American today and I had been loyally voting for the Democrat Party, and and by the way, the reason why I've been doing that is key too, because I've been told, if I'm African American, I've been told for 50 years that the reason I'm mad, that the reason life is the way it is, is because racist whites in the Republican Party are holding me back.
And I've been voting loyally, Democrat, for 50 years, because I'm going to support the guys who are going to fix that.
The Democrats.
I'm going to vote for the guys that understand my plight.
I'm going to vote for the guys that understand what the Republicans have done to me.
I'm going to vote for the guys that are going to fix it.
For 50 years, I've been voting for the guys that are going to fix it.
For 50 years, I've been believing everything they say.
I for 50 years I've been believing they've got the answer.
For 50 plus years, I have voted because I believe that the Democrat Party has the solution, and they're really looking out for me, and that they're going to make sure all of this kind of stuff that's been going on since let's just take the modern era since 1957 is going to End.
And yet, if I'm an African American in this country and I look after what happened last night, and then I remember Rodney King, and I remember watch riots, and you name it, I have to start asking myself um what's going on.
And then the cherry on top of the silken swirl is this.
Along came the one.
Barack Hussein, oh.
In 2008, finally, all of my loyalty to the Democrat Party has paid off.
In 2008, all of my loyalty to the Democrat Party and then my helping them win and fight those mean spirited Republicans who want to hold me back.
Finally we have triumphed and we have reached the pinnacle.
And the first African American president has been elected, and all of my problems are soon to be solved.
Because finally, everything we have strived for, striven, if you're in real way, has paid off.
And that's why I'm really confused today.
Because the election of the first African American president doesn't seem to have fixed anything.
In fact, it may have even made it worse.
All I know is that I've been supporting the Democrat Party for 50 years on the basis that they're not going to allow this kind of stuff to keep happening.
They're going to fix this.
They're going to deal with these powerful people that keep giving me the raw into the stick.
They're going to fix this stuff that makes sure I get the raw into the deal all the time.
They're going to make sure there isn't any more racism against me and my family.
And they're going to make sure that these people that want to be racist don't get away with it anymore.
And they're going to make sure that I'm going to get, well, whatever I think I'm going to get.
But now, almost six years after this historical election of the first African American president, where I believe finally it's all going to change now.
We got our guy, one of our own, one of us, understands our plight, and it's payback time.
And then I wake up and I look at the streets of Ferguson, and it's businesses owned by my people being destroyed.
African American business is being destroyed, right?
Most businesses destroyed in Ferguson, minority owned.
Camo V TV reporting a majority of stores that were damaged or completely destroyed during Monday night's violent riots in Ferguson were minority owned.
So after 50 years of loyalty supporting a Democrat Party, and that resulting in the election of first brother, Barack Hussein, oh, all my problems solved, all my loyalty paid off, finally payback time, whatever.
It's going to end, and whatever I've been mad about for all these years is going to be over.
We're going to fix it.
And then six years into it, and it's worse, and I'm confused.
And I don't know who to blame because all of a sudden, as an African American, I'm having to face the truth.
When for 50 years I never had to.
Maybe if I'm an African American today, I begin to believe, begin to think maybe just a tiny little light that I've been played.
Maybe I'm being taken for granted.
Maybe all these promises were empty because they certainly haven't paid off.
So I got I got Barack Hussein on a loyal Democrat, African American, 50 years.
I mean, show up, I do whatever they want, I do it.
Whatever they want protested, I protested.
Whatever they want me to say and think about the other guys, I say and think it.
We got our guy in there, Barack Hussein Obama, we got six years, and nothing changes.
And now I, as an African American loyal Democrat for 50 years, and begin to wonder, well, maybe well, what is keeping me back?
Well, we got first black president, we got black mayors all over the place, we got congressional black caucus, we got Al Sharpton, I got Jesse Jackson, and got the new Black Panthers.
We get everything.
We got power after all kinds of stuff.
And yet, no better for me.
Nothing seems to have changed here.
Whoever's keeping me back still doing it, but I don't know who it is now anymore.
But it doesn't seem to be the guys I've been told it was.
Okay.
Tough to take.
So it some people that you know, you can almost understand the outrage.
If you're an African American, and you've lived long enough to have been paying attention for 50 years, and you believe all these promises.
You believe all the talk about the Republicans being the bad guys, conservatives being the bad guys, and you believe all this talk that the Democrats are the fixers and the Democrats have the compassion, the Democrats are not the racist, the Republicans are, and then you get the election of Barack Hussein Obama, and it's gonna change, baby.
This is it, this nirvana.
And nothing changes.
I think I might be a little mad.
I think I might be outraged just at that.
I might not even need a grand jury doing something I don't understand to be mad.
The grand jury thing, that's just an icing on the cake, because I'm mad to begin with because I've been lied to for 50 years.
I've been promised, I've been told, and I've been I've had people pointing fingers at the ones that are really of blame, and they've made me believe they're to blame, and I believe that they're to blame, and I haven't liked them at all, and I think they're all racist pigs, and yet nothing's changing.
After 50 years, I've been voting for these guys, and it's the same thing over and over.
In fact, it may even be getting worse.
I'm not gonna blame myself, I can't do that.
That's that's not part of being a Democrat.
You never blame yourself.
You're always gonna find somebody to blame, but maybe it isn't the Republicans, whatever, I would be mad.
I would be confused.
I'd be over the top outraged.
And plus, in these last six years, I've had the guys I've been voting for telling me every day how mad I should be.
And for the last six years, every day I've been I've I've been listening to people telling me what a rotten country it is, and I've been agreeing with them, and they've been telling me how rotten these people are, and those people are, and I've been signing on, I've been signing up, I've been agreeing with them, and yet I'm still where I was six years ago.
Maybe worse.
So I can understand the anger because 50 years of false promises, 50 years of all that hope, and a little bit of change, and nothing materialized.
And then when others like me start getting mad, they take it out on ourselves.
The show of support for the gentle giant manifested itself in criminality, and I didn't see a Republican anywhere near.
If I'm an African American, I'm looking at the manifestation of support for the gentle giant as looting and destroying African American-owned businesses, and I look around, I don't even see a Republican within five miles.
I'd be a little mad too.
Oh yeah, oh yeah, I'm gonna get to Obama last night.
Oh man, am I gonna get to Obama last night?
Everybody thinks Obama called for calm last night.
That's what everybody thinks.
I know there'll be riots tonight.
I don't know.
I but all I know is that if I were African American, and I for 50 years have been drinking the Kool-Aid, and I've been loyal, and I've been voting for the guys because they care about me, and they understand me, they understand the other guys that are racist pigs and want to hold me back and so forth.
And yeah, then, you know, nothing changes.
I'd be mad too.
And then when I see the first African American president seemingly in love with Hispanic illegals, it doesn't care about me anymore.
I would be mad.
I might even feel a little betrayed.
I might, I don't know.
But it's clear that the first African American President really, really, really cares about Hispanic illegal immigrants.
Really does.
He really does.
And remember, as an African American voting loyal Democrat for 50 years, imagine what my expectations were when we finally got our guy in office.
I thought a lot of magic was going to happen.
We had a lot of ills.
If we're going to get fixed, they're going to get erased.
A lot of people that had done us wrong over 50 years, Obama was going to fix that.
We're going to get rid and we're going to get even.
We're going to level the playing field.
And none of that's happened.
And I'd be a little mad too.
Now, CNN is reporting that the stepfather of the gentle giant went out and spoke to some protesters in Ferguson and exhorted them to burn this bitch down.
That's what CNN is reporting.
I'd be mad too, folks.
It's Thanksgiving week here on the Rush Limbaugh program and the Excellence at Broadcasting Network.
And as always, we come to you from the Limbaugh Institute for Advanced Conservative Studies.
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So the uh the President of the United States, Mr. Hopenchange, appeared somewhere in the White House.
Look at the briefing room last night, shortly after 10 o'clock, after the DA in St. Louis had finished his announcement and explanation, taken a few questions.
Obama came out, and well, he called for calm.
But he then went on and spoke for 20 minutes about all the things he thinks are wrong in America.
All the things he thinks are bad in America in terms of race relations and police department for 20 minutes, maybe longer.
In what was supposed to be an appeal for calm.
So he started out appealing for calm and then kind of fed the rage.
At least that was our take watching it.
President said there are Americans who are deeply upset, even angry.
It's an understandable reaction.
See, here's the thing.
If you look at this case, with what is now known, there are facts.
If you look at this case with the facts measured against the law, what happened could have had and should have happened two months ago.
This only played out as long as it did because of the fears that the emotional would explode in Ferguson.
Good.
But the facts of the case and the law do not matter to those who are deeply upset and even angry.
Because it isn't about that.
And I think it's I don't know.
I think it's sad, and I think it's a continuing sign of deterioration in certain elements of the country where what is the facts and the law don't even matter.
Don't even make an impression.
Now I know it's not new.
I know here in 2014 there's nothing new.
Everything that's happening today has happened many times before.
But at some point you want to stop it.
Some point you want to make progress.
Some point you want to have it stop happening.
You want to move forward.
Everybody wants to be the agent of that kind of positive change.
I know I would like to be.
That the facts of what happened don't matter.
It's very frustrating that the facts of what happened measured against the law.
No matter, the hill of beans.
Now, as I watched the president last night, sounded to me like he was disappointed with a grand jury decision.
He made his call for calm and then fed the rage.
He sounded like he was disappointed by the grand jury decision.
He said it's tragic when a young man loses his life.
But it was avoidable.
What happened in Ferguson needn't have happened, but it did.
And that's where the great divide begins.
No fact about what happened in this incident that is in any way negative toward the gentle giant will even be processed, much less believed.
It'll be immediately rejected and cast aside as bogus BS.
And it will not even penetrate.
The grand jury system, I was kind of surprised.
I know the uh the legal beagles that I had listened to, a lot of legal people for whom I have great respect, said rush this slam dunk.
There is, we've seen the evidence as much as we've seen, and as much as we've heard about testimony, there's there's there's no way this cop gets indicted.
And I said, Yeah, but that's not the way things happen in the country anymore.
Everybody episodes like this need sacrificial lambs.
And everybody's going to be focused on keeping the peace, and everybody's going to be focused on, you know, just make the problem go away.
So I was surprised.
Grand jury system worked despite enormous pressures exerted by the president's representative, Eric Holder, the attorney general.
A police officer was not indicted, and the president let it be known last night that if some people don't think justice was done, he understands.
If some people are deeply upset and they don't think justice happened last night or the last two months, then he understands of being upset.
I think he missed a golden opportunity.
I can't tell you how many golden opportunities this man has missed.
He missed an opportunity last night.
If he really cared about unity, he could have done a lot for it last night.
If he really cares about bringing people together, if he really cares about a functioning orderly society, even if he wants to transform it, he had a golden opportunity last night, and he punted.
He had 20 minutes of inane ramblings that were designed subtly to feed the rage.
And he could have done so much.
You do have to admit that he is when he applies himself, a very persuasive and talented speaker and orator when he applies himself.
If it's on the teleprompter and the words he wants to use, there he can do it really well.
Didn't even try.
Didn't even try.
It was just the exact opposite.
It was so disappointing to me.
But then I had to stop and realize that's not what Obama's about.
Obama transforming America, he knows it's going to be messy.
And he knows it's going to be filled with strife, and he knows there's going to be a certain amount of chaos.
That's unavoidable, given the scope of the change he desires.
He knows people aren't just going to sit idly by and let it happen.
They're going to fight it, those who don't agree with it.
And that is what community organizers do.
They agitate.
And that's what Obama sadly did last night, was agitating.
He had a chance.
He had a golden opportunity to do exact opposite.
And he didn't even try.
You see, to me, what happened in Ferguson last night, if you say, as the president did, it's an understandable reaction, that there are Americans deeply upset, even angry, it's an understandable reaction.
How is it understandable?
What if the rage and what if the anger is not legitimate?
What if it's the product of this is my whole point.
The Democrat Party, the American left, has created in its base supporters A degree of anger and rage that borders on the irrational.
And they do it about everything.
They do it about the Iraq war.
They're doing about the war and terror.
They're doing about virtually everything.
And they keep their base supporters in a fevered pitch where their base supporters think virtually everybody is out to get them, that the deck is so unfairly stacked that they don't even have a chance, even with a man who is historic as president, the first African American.
That doesn't even matter.
You create this hopelessness.
You create a circumstance where the foregone conclusion is disaster.
But why should the reaction last night be understandable when it isn't really?
We have to define understandable and the way Obama meant it.
He meant it in a way of justifying it.
And that's where he missed a golden opportunity.
But this is unnecessary.
And it's not going to change anything.
It's not going to improve circumstances for anybody.
It's going to make them worse for practically everybody involved.
Other than the people that benefit from this.
Who benefits from this chaos?
Who benefits from this strife?
Who benefits from the continuing racial strife in America?
Who benefits from this?
If you answer that question, you'll find out who is responsible for it.
And don't doubt somebody benefits from it, or it wouldn't happen.
Got to take a break.
Be right back.
Don't go away.
Let's listen to a little bit of President Obama last night.
Grab audio soundbite number 14.
This is where the uh the print now remember now, he starts out by asking for calm.
And then he could have quit.
He could have done a short appeal for calm.
He could have done so much.
He could have appealed to unity.
He could have appealed to the best.
He could have, he didn't even try.
After asking for calm, he then fed the rage.
And I know some of you saying, that's a little bit extreme, don't you think, Mr. Limbaugh?
Feeding the rage.
What exactly are you talking about?
Well, if you know how to listen to these things, and if you know how to hear these things as Obama's audience heard him, you you listen to Obama with your feelings intact, and you hear him ask for calm, and that's it.
Okay, cool.
All right, President African, and you relax, and you watch the rest of it, and you hear this smooth talking guy sounding intelligent, not really paying much attention, and if you do, you think he best he's sound like he's rambling, but he wasn't rambling.
And so for you doubting Tomases out there, let me give you an illustration of that which I am expertly talking about.
The fact is, in too many parts of this country, a deep distrust exists between law enforcement and communities of color.
Some of this is the result of the legacy of racial discrimination in this country.
And this is tragic because nobody needs good policing more than poor communities with higher crime rates.
The good news is we know there are things we can do to help.
That means working with law enforcement officials to make sure their ranks are representative of the communities they serve.
We know that makes a difference.
This man's reciting what he considers to be ongoing problems in this country.
Many parts of that still exist.
And even after six years of him being in charge, it's still happening.
It still exists.
Fact is, in too many parts of this country, a deep distrust exists between law enforcement and communities of color.
Okay.
Right.
So this is all understandable what's happening in Ferguson after you call for calm.
And some of this is the result of the legacy of racial discrimination in this country.
We mean the legacy.
You mean when it used to Be real bad back then, or do you mean as it is today?
Because that's how it was heard.
The legacy justifies the present.
You see, if you know how to hear this stuff, he knows who his audience is, and he knows how they're going to hear it.
You think he's appealing for calm and making these intellectual observations about the status of law enforcement in our community.
And then he went on to parent what Rudy Giuliani said yesterday.
Rudy Giuliani on Meet the Depressed on Sunday said to Michael Eric Dyson, we wouldn't be the white cops, Michael Eric Dyson.
Wouldn't be in the neighborhoods if you weren't killing each other.
Giuliani said that to Michael Eric Dyson, who then blew his gasket.
Obama said the same thing.
And this is tragic, Obama says, because nobody needs good policing more than poor communities with higher crime rates.
Well, the reason a lot of cops in here is because uh there's a lot of crime in there.
And then signifying that all that was bad news, the president then said, Now the good news is we know there are things we can do to help.
Well, we're six years in, pal.
What have we been doing to help Ferguson?
The split screen.
Here's this guy calling for calm and asking and talking, and Ferguson's burning.
On the other half of the screen.
It was ironic, it was uncanny.
I mean, if you weren't in full control of your faculties, you'd find it funny.
Here's Obama, somber and cool, calm, collected, just like he did in the faculty lounge when he's talking to Jonathan Gruber about health care, thinking how stupid the American people are, and appealing for calm and explaining and justifying, and on the other half of the screen, Ferguson's in flames.
Under a season's greetings sign.
Did you see that, snurdly?
How did it happen that the original round protests occurred under the season's greetings?
The same kind of sign that you see in It's a Wonderful Life, the Jimmy Stewart movie.
Seasons greetings.
Monday night riots.
No, no, there are some who might like that as a regular show, Monday Night Riots.
But I I don't know.
I and then there are things that we can do to help.
That means working with law enforcement officials to make sure their ranks are representative of the communities they serve.
We know that makes it a meaning.
We ain't got too many white cops in Ferguson, is what that means.
No.
That means there are too many white cops in Ferguson.
That means if we're going to have more policing, we got to have more black cops in there because they understand and might behave differently than white cops.
You never know.
So Obama was admitting that the races really can't work together because they don't understand each other.
And one of the reasons why there's all this problem in the poor communities is the cops are not representative of the people who are committing the crime.
And if we would change that, then we know that makes a difference.
And then in typical Washington bureaucrat liberalism solutions, he said that he has instructed Eric Holder to immediately have meetings and make phone calls with law enforcement officials all over the country to fix this.
That means problem solved.
In in liberalism, you just say we're going to have a meeting and the problem solved, be it jobs, deficit, call a meeting.
Or you instruct an underling to call somebody else and have a meeting.
Problem solved.
All this designed to comfort people and to let them know that the POTUS is on the case.
Meanwhile, on the other half of that screen, Ferguson, Missouri was in flames.
Hammerback Rush Limbaugh here to Cutting Edge.
Societal evolution.
Here's uh Grab Audio Sunbite 13.
This is Um this is Obama just prior to the soundbite we played moments ago.
I also appeal to the law enforcement officials in Ferguson and the region to show care and restraint in managing peaceful protests that may occur.
As they do their jobs in the coming days, they need to work with the community, right?
Not against the community.
Oh, it's their fault to distinguish the handful of people who may use the grand jury's decision as an excuse for violence.
Right, right, right.
Distinguish them from the vast majority who just want their voices heard around legitimate issues in terms of how communities and law enforcement interact.
So he's basically asking the cops, just stand aside.
You're making it make matters worse if you show up here.
And these are peaceful protests.
You know, just let them happen.
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