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Nov. 26, 2014 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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November 26, 2014, Wednesday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 podcast.
Greetings, my friends, and welcome, Rush Limboy.
And we're going to do open line Friday on Wednesday today, since this is the last live broadcast for the week.
Thanksgiving holiday is tomorrow.
We traditionally take the Friday after Thanksgiving off as well.
And we have a guest host on Friday, or we're doing a two days of best doves.
Mark Stein will be here on Friday.
Okay, cool.
So and uh thank you to Mark Stein in advance uh for hosting a pro and I'll thank him again on Monday.
Pre-and-post thanks during the Thanksgiving weekend.
Anyway, here's the phone number.
What open line Friday and Wednesday means that there are very, very, very few call screener limits applied to people at call.
Whatever you want to talk about, fair game for the most part.
I mean, we still don't allow complaints about the electric bill and that kind of thing.
But um anything else, fair game.
Whatever you wish to talk about, questions, comments, you name it.
It's up to you today.
That's the great career risk taken by your beloved host on these broadcast days.
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Okay, in addition to, and I hang on, I've got a tickle in my throat, just on the verge of a cough, and I think I should take a sip of something, but that would not be polite.
So hang on at the cough button.
I'm gonna clear my throat out of there, be back in mere seconds.
Okay, didn't help.
But we'll keep we'll keep plotting away here for well.
In fact, let me just here.
Now I there.
Now I'm not impolite.
It's radio.
You have to do that.
As opposed to dead air.
You do.
Flash.
A flashback.
What?
Oh, I remember that.
That reporter for the Washington Post and went off on me for slurping on the radio and bad manners and all that.
Not understanding the theatrics of um of what's required here.
Anyway, this just this little you know, I hope this doesn't mean I'm all of a sudden coming down with a I you know you get these little tickles in your throat that start a little hacking cough.
Ah no.
Well, if it does happen, I'll have four days to recuperate.
And uh true, don't have to fly anywhere commercial.
Well, that means I won't you're talking about not being further susceptible.
Contracting disease while ensconced inside the fuselage of a commercial.
That's true.
That's very, very true.
Okay, here's what we have.
We've got audio sound bites of the uh St. Louis, uh the Ferguson police officer Darren Wilson, interviewed by George Stephanopoulos.
We have uh our traditional offerings on the day before Thanksgiving, the real history of Thanksgiving, as written about by me in my first book.
And the uh in addition, some other things about Thanksgiving that have been maligned and misconstrued over the years, and this is uh always a day where we take a brief moment to tell everybody the real story of Thanksgiving and why it exists.
And what brought it about, what were the origins of it and what actually happened that resulted in this day in American history being called Thanksgiving.
But there's other news.
I got some stuff held over from yesterday, such as why sleeping naked could cut your risk of diabetes, ward off infections, trim your waistline, and make you less exhausted.
So we have a bunch of stuff held over from yesterday, and there's some news outside the Ferguson arena that uh is also noteworthy today.
Did you see the jobless numbers that have been released today?
Isn't it fascinating here?
Prior to the election, every time unemployment numbers were released, they were well indicative of an improving job market on the surface.
And the unemployment rate was dropping by tenths of a percentage point on schedule right before the election.
And it was all part of the illusion being created that the economy finally maybe had bottomed out.
It finally maybe was beginning to really recover.
And now the first jobs report post-election, and it's a hoe hummer, you have to look really hard to find this.
I mean, it's out there, but it's not the lead item anywhere.
Applications for jobless aid jump to three hundred thirteen thousand.
That's up from a hundred and some odd thousand last month.
The number of people seeking U.S. unemployment benefits jumped last week, pushing total applications above 300,000 for the first time in nearly three months.
Isn't it amazing how that happens?
Isn't it stunning?
What is it about the election?
What is it about the month of November that causes this to happen?
Every time we have a Democrat president, weekly applications rose 21,000 to a seasonally adjusted 313,000, according to the labor department, the highest level since the first week of September.
The first week of September is the traditional beginning of the campaign season.
Right on schedule.
You know, Obama, ladies and gentlemen, kind of left the whole thing out of the bag yesterday.
And it didn't get noticed much.
It's gotten some attention.
It's in the daily caller, but it didn't get a whole lot of notice because of everything still going on surrounding Ferguson and St. Louis.
By the way, I tried yesterday to make a point about about this business in Ferguson, and I did not spend enough time actually thinking about how I wanted to say it in order to be the most clearly communicable and understood.
The artificiality of this, if you remember we have on the on the, and I do mean artificiality.
These were not riots.
These were planned, staged, predicted, counted on, incidents of civil disobedience.
This was not a riot.
This did not happen spontaneously.
It did not happen because of something that happened unexpectedly that caused people to lose their mind.
They planned it.
It was a strategic plan, and the media fell right in line, predicting it and counting down to it and heightening tensions.
And so when it happens, it was expected.
And therefore it can't be a riot.
And the fact that it was expected and still happen, what does it say about the civility of our culture?
What does it say about the overall civilization that we have?
Something about this is just not seemed right to me, and I haven't been able to put my finger on it, but it's it's the same way I felt in the days leading up to the Obama announcement on amnesty, the executive amnesty for the 5 million illegals.
Here we were told what was going to happen, and the media in the pre-days and hours leading up to the event heightened the tension, the anticipation.
We had a countdown to an event we all knew was coming, and that was the Constitution being violated.
When you get right down to it, that's what the event was.
And it seemed, even though it happened, and we knew it was going to happen, it just seemed surreal.
Everything seemed to happen on a media schedule on a media timetable.
Everything seemed to happen because of the media.
In other words, it was real.
There's no question about that.
But same thing here in Ferguson.
We knew the grand jury was going to have a report at some point.
And we knew that no matter what that grand jury report was, there was going to be a riot.
So we all sat down and we expected and we waited for.
And the only question was, how big was it going to be?
As though now it's just common.
We sit by almost idly and accept the idea that we're going to have civil unrest, civil disobedience.
Call it a riot if you want.
And that it is justified and we'd better try to understand it.
And it's now part of the American fabric.
Instead of being something spontaneous that is an actual reaction to something that is at this point.
this riot was planned, it was going to happen no matter what.
How bad it was going to be was the only thing unknown.
The um the actions of the authorities to stop it or not stop it.
That was an unknown.
But it we knew it was going to happen.
And it it just Rodney King was not like this, for example.
The Ratzwyots in the 60s were not like this.
Trayvon Martin was not like this.
This has all been staged.
I'm not saying conspiratorially.
And I'm not saying that they're wizards of Oz behind the screens behind the curtain pulling marionette type strings on puppets and this kind of thing.
It's just that there are now certain destructive aspects of the American culture, civilization that we have just accepted.
We have resigned ourselves to the fact that they're going to happen in a way it legitimizes them, is the problem here.
And the way the media focuses attention on and counts down, builds the anticipation, and the media leading up to it was not, will there or won't there be a riot?
There was, no question there was going to be a riot.
The only question was how bad.
And here come the experts predicting the degree of badness of the riot based on whatever the grand jury said.
And while it happened, I'm not saying it didn't happen, I'm not saying it isn't real, but it at the same time it it was not, there was nothing spontaneous about this.
It was orchestrated, it was planned, it was going to happen no matter what.
It was going to happen independent of events.
We knew the trigger.
All we had to do was wait for the trigger.
That was the grand jury decision and the report and the announcement, and that was it.
And we all knew what was going to happen.
And it's almost as though we've come to expect it.
And in a way, it's therefore justified, justifiable.
I don't know, folks, I can't put my finger on this.
And again, I'm not alleging conspiracy.
Don't misunderstand.
I wish I wish I could find a way to my problem here is I have feelings about this, and I'm not good at describing the feelings I've got.
I'm trying to turn the feelings, convert them into thoughts, which is what I rely on.
There's something about it that, even though it happened, and even though I saw it, and even though it was real, there's something about it that seems illegitimate to me.
Well, it was a stunt.
It was preventable.
But nobody made any effort to stop it.
There wasn't, and that's another thing about this that kind of troubles me in the deep dark crevices of my mind is this acceptance, okay, it's going to happen, it's justified, whatever.
It's there was no effort to stop it.
The president didn't even make an effort.
The president fed the rage when he had his 20-minute little speech when he was split-screened with the riots.
Have had this story out there today, by the way, that that split screen shot is going to haunt Obama for the rest of his.
Who in the world believes that?
What how in the world is that gonna haunt Obama?
If if anybody thinks that that split-screen TV shot, here's Obama on one half of the screen, supposedly railing against riots and trying to ask for calm, which is not what he really did, on the other half of the screen is Ferguson burning.
And people, I guess, cannot give up the traditional way of looking At politics and political figures in this country.
Some presidents, if that would have been George W. Bush or George H.W. Bush, maybe even Clinton.
It might be something that would haunt.
But what was happening on the screen was not something that troubles Obama.
He can't, there's no way that he could be haunted by this.
And haunted by it means it's harmful.
Haunted by it means he has no credibility.
Well, there he is out demanding and asking for calm, and a right next to him on the other side of the screen is Ferguson in flames.
That's not going to be a problem for Barack Obama.
A, he's not responsible for it.
B he wishes it didn't happen, but but C, he.
His call for calm was perfunctor.
But even without all of that, that split screen image, you could you could practically do that every day with some sector of life in this country in chaos and say that's going to haunt Obama for the.
I mean, why isn't Fast and Furious going to haunt him?
Why isn't Ben Ghaznik if those things are not going to haunt him?
Why isn't that using the IRS against the Tea Party?
Why is that not going to haunt him?
If that stuff's not going to, why is not violating the Constitution going to haunt Obama?
That's not going to haunt Obama.
None of this is going to haunt Obama because it's all working from his standpoint.
All of these are elements of his success story, terms of his ultimate agenda of transforming the country.
Anyway, what I was going to say, Obama's kind of given up the ghost here in a way.
He's in Chicago and he had a lot of things to say in Chicago yesterday.
He got heckled by pro-amnesty people.
He didn't understand it.
Hey, and he even admitted, hey, I just changed the law, giving up the ghost on that.
What are you getting mad at me for?
No.
I did what you want.
I just changed the law.
But that's not what I'm talking about.
He admitted, he told this crowd in Chicago that Americans have no right to oppose immigration.
Americans have no right to favor Americans.
He said the only group of people who could legitimately be mad or upset about anything to do with immigration, Native Americans.
They, the original owners, occupiers of this country, they and only they are permitted, allowed, have the right to feel ticked off over immigration.
We'll develop this and other things.
Sit tight, we're coming right back.
Look, let me clarify something.
When I say there's no conspiracy, of course there is a conspiracy between all of the groups that were organizing to protest in Ferguson and all over the country.
Of course, that was a conspiracy.
What I'm trying to say was that there was not a conspiracy between all of this and the timing of the grand jury announcement and what the grand jury announcement was going to be.
I'm trying to make a really, really fine point here, and I'm not doing it.
I haven't gotten there yet.
I'm talking about fake versus real, artificial versus substance.
And a lot of this is not real.
Politics, people think politics is about the way things are, and it isn't.
Politics is about the way things appear.
And that's one of the things that bothers me the most, what's happening in our Look at this Darren Wilson interview.
The cop.
Do you realize that to whatever group of people we're talking about on the other side, it doesn't matter.
A hill of beans, what the facts are.
The truth and what is real doesn't matter.
There's no way you can convince them.
There's no way you can convince them to care about the truth and what is real.
It doesn't matter.
It's a pointless effort.
And to me, the mayor of Realville, and somebody Consumed and obsessed by the idea of getting truth out and having people understand it and act on it and believe it and behave according to it.
It's really frustrating to know that to a large segment of this country, none of that matters.
They don't care what the truth is.
The agenda is all it is, the appearance, the fake, whatever it takes in order to I'm telling you, it's destructive.
Liberalism is a poison that is rotting this country in every element of it, where it is dominant or growing.
Don't know how to push it back.
Let me try this another way.
I'm sitting down, Catherine and I in front of TV on whatever the night the grand jury announcement happened.
This is Wednesday, so it must have been Monday.
The days run together in a short week, I get confused.
Whatever night it was.
And we turned on Fox at 9 o'clock, and we're expecting the announcement at 9 o'clock.
And by 920, there's no announcement.
No, we turned in at 8 o'clock, they're going to announce it we were off by an hour.
Anyway, the announcement finally came, and I finally looked at Catherine and I said, look, listen to all these people on TV.
They're just vamping and filling time, and they're just trying to flap their gums until the real news is made.
And the whole thing to me, it made me feel like I was watching a scripted event.
Now, one of the alures, supposedly of reality TV, is that it's real, that there isn't a script.
That's why audiences really like it, like the real housewives of whatever, or whatever reality TV show.
But let me tell you, there is no such thing as improvisation or reality TV.
It's all scripted.
The only difference in reality TV and other TV is that the writers in reality TV are not members of unions.
And that's it.
The whole thing feels like a scripted event that I know in advance the outcome.
And therefore it isn't news.
And none of it was spontaneous.
We tuned in, all knowing what was going to happen.
We tuned in expecting what was going to happen.
There was not any thought given by anybody to stopping it.
And what happened?
Sheer barbarism.
People's businesses were destroyed.
That's real.
Real live bullets were fired at people.
Real live Molotov cocktails were used.
A woman who saved up everything because she's her hobby, her passion in life is baking cakes.
And she's black.
And she has a place in a, I think a little strip mall or some street in Ferguson near where all this happened.
It was totally destroyed.
She had nothing to do with any of this.
She was in tears the next day.
Her own neighborhood.
People from her own neighborhood and from who knows where else showed up and destroyed her little cake shop.
Now, there's a great campaign on to refund and donate to her to rebuild, and she's collected, I think, before the program started over 70 grand, and she's happy as she can be, and thank God for that.
But everybody knew this was going to happen.
Maybe not that specific thing, but everybody knew it.
The governor knew it.
Where was the National Guard?
The governor knew it.
Every law enforcement official knew what was going to happen.
There was no effort to stop it.
The only thing that we speculated about was how bad is this going to be.
How big was it going to be?
And we all tuned in to see that.
We all tuned in to see how bad the destruction, how big the flames, how chaotic.
There wasn't an effort made to stop it.
We were witnesses to barbarism, scripted barbarism that was designed to tear apart the fabric of an American of an American community.
And we sat and watched.
And we had pre-advanced knowledge.
They could have put the listings in TV guide.
Your DVR could have scheduled this because that's how much in advance we knew it was going to happen.
Just like any other scheduled television show, which is what this was.
Except it's not.
Lives were at risk.
People's businesses were destroyed.
Barbarism was on play, on display, all-out assaults on the American culture and civilization were taking place.
And there was no effort to stop it.
None.
Nowhere.
The governor of Missouri in preparing the state made it look like it was London in World War II on the eve of the German blitz.
That's to the degree to which he made preparations.
And then for some reason a National Guard was not deployed.
And we were told that, well, maybe Obama called on the governor, fellow Democrats, you know, keep the guard out of this.
We don't uh, you know, I don't want militarized pictures during my regime.
I want to do what I want to do without anybody figuring it out with the pictures.
So keep the guard out of there.
Who knows?
But we're left to speculate, but there wasn't any effort to stop it.
And then the next day we got questions on television, which should be absurd.
But instead they were legitimate.
Did authorities let Ferguson burn?
Was a legitimate question, sadly.
Did the authorities let Ferguson?
Why?
There was I just that no effort to stop it.
When the Rodney King riots, when the when the uh the watch riots of the 60s, when those things started, there were efforts to stop them.
I mean, they played out to a certain point, but and they were they were, I don't know, you could call them great TV or what have you.
And they were structured and planned and so forth.
I'm not again, nothing is brand new.
In in 2014, we've everything has a precedent.
But this is destructive in ways way beyond the riot itself.
This is destructive in ways way beyond the damage to Ferguson, Missouri.
This is destructive because there are a lot of casualties here.
Truth, reality, fact, all casualties.
None of that mattered.
None of it matters today to uh a significant portion of the population which is hell-bent on tearing down the modern day order.
And nobody appears to be willing or knowledgeable enough or whatever to stop it.
Instead, it becomes a television show, a scripted television show.
There was not even a cliffhanger.
We knew who shot J.R. before watching the episode.
And the whole thing, I don't know.
It just it just seems to we're we're being manipulated in ways that we haven't been before.
We are really being manipulated by a media complex in its association with the American left and the and the Democrat Party.
And I am simply, I think I'm instinctively here reacting and objecting to and pushing back against that manipulation and saying I'm not gonna fall for it.
You're not gonna get me.
I am not gonna be manipulated by that.
I'm not gonna get emotionally caught up in this because I know that what I'm seeing on TV is not what this is really all about.
And that's the bottom line.
None of this is really, when you get down to brass tax, you strip all this away.
This is not about the grand jury.
It's not about Darren Wilson, it's not even about the gentle giant.
It's about entirely different things that they don't show you, that you don't see.
And it's the this this the ease with which people are being manipulated, and the ease with which people are falling for it, to me is a problem, and it's it's very troublesome.
And it I look at all of this, and I think I understand the purpose of it.
I don't think I know, I know what the ultimate objective to all this is.
You know what it is?
At the end of all this, the real objective is to make you think that it's ludicrous and ridiculous to oppose any of this or speak out against it, because you can't stop it.
The grievances are too real.
The country is too unjust.
The country is ill illegitimate and immoral.
And it's taken 250 years for this to come to light.
But you'd better learn to accept that, and you'd better learn to accept that if you've been on the wrong side, i.e., in the majority in this country since it was founded, your day is coming.
That's what this is about.
And all of these events are just steps taken in that direction.
I mean, how do you listen to Obama and his speech in Chicago?
Obama, here's the Breitbart story.
They have Obama lectures America about the justified anger towards law enforcement in minority communities.
Tuesday at Copernicus Community Community Center in Chicago, President Obama addressed the riots and protests going on throughout the country in reaction to the grand jury announcement that Ferguson blah, blah, blah.
And that's just BS.
What he did was he went before a black audience.
And this is what he said.
A grand jury made a decision yesterday that upset a lot of people.
And as I said last night, the frustrations that we have seen are not just about a particular incident.
So you see, it's not just about that.
And by the way, the jury decision, a grand jury decision upset a lot of people.
They're justified being upset.
Not because this decision might have been wrong, but because all the previous ones where people got screwed.
You have to understand.
We have to step back and understand what happened, those businesses being destroyed, that barbarism, we had better understand that it is legitimate.
Because a lot of people were upset.
Maybe this decision, grand jury got it right, but that doesn't erase all the wrongs that happened before it, which still breed all kinds of frustration.
So I said last night, the frustrations we have seen are not just about a particular incident.
See, it's about a lot of stuff that came before this.
They have deep roots in many communities of color.
The frustrations do.
Have a sense that our laws are not always being enforced uniformly or fairly.
In other words, even though the facts of the Brown case do not support any claims of an unjust shooting.
The anger over all the previous injustices is enough to legitimize the anger this week in Ferguson.
And that's the problem, folks.
There's no reason for feeling screwed.
There's no reason.
The facts of this case do not support any claims that the shooting was unjust.
Okay, fine.
Well, what about last year?
What about Trayvon Martin?
What about O.J. What about?
What about what about Emmett Till?
And it never ends.
And so this incident is used to justify and permit all of this barbarism, not based on what happened this week, but all of the years prior, about which nothing can be done now, see.
The events in the years prior, they're over and done with.
And they have deep roots in many communities of color.
Sense that our laws are not always being enforced uniformly or fairly.
Even though they might have been in this case, that doesn't erase what happened in years past.
Like the Trayvon Martin case, in fact, which ended up not being supported by the facts either.
That doesn't matter.
The facts of the Trayvon case have been forgotten, just like the facts here will be forgotten.
The news media's early lies will be remembered.
The Duke Lacrosse case is a case in reverse.
If anybody ought to be mad about anything and an injustice and so forth, look at that case.
But were there riots?
Were there barbarism?
Were there any kinds of acts of destruction that took place over that injustice?
No, sir.
No, ma'am, there were not.
And that was a gross miscarriage of justice.
But you see, that was also justified because, well, they're white and they played lacrosse.
Come on.
That means they're rich.
Come on, even if these guys didn't do it, you know they wanted it.
Even if these guys did, you know what's happened before.
So these guys pay the price, except they didn't.
So all of this adds up to this country has a lot to account for.
It has a lot of prices to pay.
It has a lot of forgiveness.
It has a lot to make up for.
And you better just get used to it.
And if they're getting so accustomed to it, now they're writing a script of all these events in advance.
We know what's going to happen.
Nobody tries to stop it because everything, yeah, you know, we do kind of suck.
Yeah, we work on a bad back.
Yeah, I guess we do kind of justify this.
We deserve this.
Sit tight.
We'll be back.
Don't go away.
Let me give you another illustration of what I'm talking about.
I'm holding here my formerly nicotine-stained fingers, a column by a man named Oliver Friedfeld.
Oliver Friedfeld is a senior at Georgetown University at the School of Foreign Service.
Guy's gonna be in the foreign policy bureaucracy of this country someday.
He's a senior at the School of Foreign Service, Georgetown, and he writes a piece that runs in a screw newspaper called The Hoya.
It's entitled I Was Mugged, and I understand why.
Last weekend my housemate and I were mugged at gunpoint while walking home from DuPont Circle.
The entire incident lasted under a minute as I was forced to the floor, handed over my phone, it was patted down.
And yet when a reporter asked whether I was surprised that this happened in Georgetown, I said immediately, not at all.
It was so clear to me that we live in the most privileged neighborhood within a city that has historically been harshly unequal.
While we aren't often confronted by this stark reality, West of Rock Creek Park, the economic inequality is very real.
Year after year, Washington is ranked among the most unequal cities in the country.
The wealthiest 5% earning an estimated 54 times more than the poorest 20%.
What's been most startling to me, even more so than the mugging itself, has been the reactions I've gotten.
I keep hearing thugs, criminals, bad people.
And while I understand why one might jump to that conclusion, I don't think it's fair.
Not once did I consider our muggers, our attackers to be bad people.
I trust that they weren't trying to hurt me.
In fact, if they knew me, I bet they'd think I was a pretty good guy.
Is this not pathetic?
There's a little glimpse here into the minds of our indoctrinated youth.
You know, it used to be said.
It used to be said that a conservative is a liberal who's been mugged.
Now, if you want to mug a liberal, you go right ahead because the correct reaction is love for the mugger, understanding of the economic plight of the mucker.
And in addition to that, he goes on to talk about his white privilege and how that could irritate others in this most unequal capital city.
Being mugged just makes people aware of their white privilege and the terribleness of income equality.
You see how we have progressed.
Being mugged is now an act of understanding.
It gets you even closer to the misery and the unfairness and the inequality of an unfair, unjust country and system.
We wondered how is it that the State Department after 9-11 could do a seminar on why do they hate us so much?
Well, now we know.
They're populated by people like this.
Yeah, I think the muggers, if they knew me, would probably think I was an okay guy.
What does that matter?
Okay, folks, that's it.
A brief uh pause here at the top of the busy broadcast hour, and we will come back.
I was n this is not a parody.
I was not making this up.
But this uh this guy was mugged at gunpoint in DuPont Circle.
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