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It's Open Line Friday.
A very rare Wednesday edition.
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Open Line Friday on Wednesday.
We got to the phones.
The program's all yours.
I intended to get to the phones in a previous hour.
And I remembered I had this column from the Georgetown Screw newspaper that dovetailed precisely with what I was talking about at the time.
So I may make up for it, snirtly, by getting into phone calls in the monologue section of the hour.
But there's still a lot to do here.
I've only got two hours to cram everything in.
And I've got to mention a name I forgot to mention yesterday when talking about sportscasters, an inadvertent omission I made.
That's a problem.
You start singling people out.
You run the risk of forgetting people.
And I did yesterday, so I have to make amends and make a correction for that.
I got some stuff left over from yesterday I want to get into.
And I finally want to get to the point I'm trying to make here about how we're being manipulated, set up, and staged, and we're watching scripted events portrayed to us as real.
And really, I think what I'm getting at, I know it'll never happen, but if you want to reduce some of the incidents of this stuff, get the cameras out of there.
Get the cameras out of there.
Get the media out of there.
In a real protest, in a real riot, the media doesn't know what's going to happen before it starts.
They show up afterwards.
Everything happens as real.
But when you have a riot that everybody knows is coming, and you've got the cameras, and you've got the journalists, and you've got blithering idiots like Don Lemon getting there.
Do you realize what he did yesterday?
He inadvertently tear gassed himself.
Putting on his mask, he ended up tear gassing himself.
There's a piece in the New York Daily News.
I hope, you know, CNN doesn't get rid of him because we love Don Lemon.
We need him here.
But there's a really, really critical piece at Don Lemon, a media review in the New York Daily News today, about just how out the lunch he is.
I hope it even mentioned he's a guy that asked the transportation official, could a black hole have swallowed up the Malaysian airliner.
But at any rate, if you get the cameras out of there, you get the scriptwriters out of there, get the media out of there, who knows what would have happened.
That's the point.
But we knew it's going to happen.
The cameras show up, and it just makes what happens after, I'm sorry, unreal, even though it was real.
This is where it becomes a real challenge to communicate what I'm really talking about here.
But if the cameras are not there, now in this case, probably would have worked the other way.
The cameras weren't there, the media not being there, the protesters would have torched even more to get them to show up.
I understand that.
But when you've got an event that everybody knows is going to happen, you take the cameras out there, it's not real, folks.
It's when it's all done for the cameras.
And that's the point.
All this is done for the media.
Michael Brown was not shot because he's black.
Trayvon Martin did not die because he's black.
Now, you can't convince anybody else of this on the other side.
If they accept that, then everything they're doing is illegitimate, and they're not going to agree with that point.
So the whole thing's unreal.
The whole thing is not based on reality.
Everything's a setup.
We're being manipulated to participate in it.
And we're told that what we're watching is real.
But you get the cameras out of there.
You get the media out of there and stop all the pre-pub.
Same thing might have happened, but I'm telling you, it would have felt different.
It would have a whole different set of consequences to it.
Anyway, let me move on.
I want to finish this, not the whole thing, but you've got to hear some more excerpts from this piece by Oliver Friedfeld.
He and his boyfriend were leaving home or walking around going home, I forget which, in DuPont Circle, nation's capital.
It's a very ritzy part of town.
They got mugged.
And he's written a piece in the Georgetown University School newspaper, The Hoya, explaining how he was mugged and he understands why.
And he goes on to say that being a person of white privilege, he understands this.
Income inequality, he understands muggers now.
He's closer to understands it.
More capable of understanding why they do it.
He says, when a reporter asked whether I was surprised this happened in Georgetown, not at all.
It was clear to me we live in the most privileged neighborhood within a city that has historically been, continues to be, harshly unequal.
What has been most startling to me, even more so than the incident itself, has been the reactions I've gotten.
I keep hearing thugs and criminals and bad people, but I don't think that's fair.
Not once did I consider our attackers to be bad people.
I trust that they weren't trying to hurt me.
In fact, if they knew me, I'd bet they'd think I was okay.
And Snerdley, during the break, this is the problem I have with this.
Snerdley said something to me during the point.
He's going, what an oddball.
He's not an oddball.
These people are everywhere now, is my point.
These people, kind of people, are in the State Department negotiating.
We've got a story in the stack here.
The Iranians have concluded the Americans have given up.
They have concluded that we have surrendered based on, here it is.
It's from the Washington Free Beacon.
Iran.
Americans have very clearly surrendered.
Top surrendered.
Top Iranian leaders have been celebrating a recently inked extension in nuclear negotiations with the West, with leading military figures and politicians saying that the deal is a sign the Americans have very clearly surrendered to Iran's might.
As negotiations in Vienna break up so that leaders from all sides can go home for further deliberations, the Iranians have begun mocking America and insisting that the country's nuclear rights will soon be recognized because they just got a seven-month extension in talks.
They were supposed to expire two days ago, but the Americans have very clearly surrendered to Iran's might.
After 9-11, the State Department did a seminar.
Why do they hate us so much?
What have we done to deserve it?
It's always our fault.
These people are not one-offs, Snerdley, and they are not rare.
They are being bred and educated in the Ivy League.
This guy is a senior at the School of Foreign Service in Georgetown.
He's going to be in the State Department someday.
He's going to be at the Pentagon someday.
And this is how he's going to look at bad guys, that it's our fault that we created them, that it's our responsibility, and we better do everything we can to understand them.
And that if they only knew us better, they'd probably like us.
You take a look at the American foreign policy today, and you tell me where these guys are not common and prevalent in our foreign policy structure.
This is my point.
They are not oddballs.
Well, they're oddballs.
They're not small in number.
These kind of people and this kind of thinking is all over the place.
Listen to some more of this.
The muggers wanted my stuff, not me.
While I don't know what exactly they needed the money for, I do know that I have never once had to think about going out on a Saturday night to mug people.
I had never before seen a gun, let alone know where to get one.
The fact that these two kids, who appeared younger than I, have even had to entertain these questions of mugging people suggests their universes are light years away from mine.
In other words, my God, I can't believe how bad life is if the only recourse you have is to mug people.
And this was a gunpoint, by the way.
This is Stockholm syndrome times 50,000 in advance.
I come from a solidly middle-class family, and I venture to guess that our attackers have had to experience things I've never dreamed of.
When I struggled in school, I had parents who willingly sat down with me and helped me work through it.
When I have a problem, I have countless people I can turn to for solid advice.
When I walk around at 2 a.m., nobody looks at me suspiciously, and police don't ask me any questions.
I wonder if our attackers could say the same.
It may be insane, but I'm telling you, we have a whole generation of people like this.
You just don't know it because they don't advertise it like this guy's doing it, but they are everywhere.
I'm convinced that they're all over our government.
How about taking this attitude and applying it to illegal immigrants?
And then take a look at our policy on it.
And you take Obama.
Americans have no right to favor Americans.
The only Americans that can legitimately object to immigration are Native Indian Americans, Obama told a Chicago audience yesterday.
He made an impassioned ideological plea for endless immigration, endless cultural diversity, and a big government to manage the resulting multicultural society.
Obama said there have been periods where the folks who were already here suddenly say, well, I don't want those folks.
Even though the only people who have the right to say that are some Native Americans, Obama said.
Rhetorically dismissing the right of 300 million actual Americans to decide who can live in the country.
You don't have any right to object, folks, because this country isn't yours in the first place.
You took it from the Indians.
They are the only ones that can object.
Yeah, I know.
We thought he believed this.
Now we know he thinks that's what I'm saying.
On these next two years, Katie barred the door.
And Obama said, Americans should not favor other Americans over foreigners.
Sometimes we get attached to our particular tribe, Obama said, our particular race, our particular religion, and then we start treating other folks differently.
That sometimes has been a bottleneck to how we think about immigration.
So in other words, folks, the only people who have a right to complain about 5 million illegals getting amnesty are Native Americans.
So just vote Democrat and shut the hell up.
In other words, these modern-day illegal immigrants are no different than your ancestors who came over here with the pilgrims and whoever came later and stole this country from the people who were here first.
You're no different than the people storming the southern border now.
And you have no right to object to these people coming.
The only people, this is Obama.
He has said it.
He has opened up.
He finally admitted what he believes.
Okay?
Take this and you transfer it to Oliver Friedfield, or whatever his name is here, who has written a piece of solidarity with his mugger, understanding the mugger's plight and explaining that the mugger had total common sense to mug him because he's richer and has more privileges than the mugger does, and that you just have to take time to understand.
Here's more.
Who am I, he writes, to stand for my perch of privilege, surrounded by million dollar homes and paying for a $60,000 education?
Who am I to condemn these young men, the muggers, as thugs?
It is precisely this kind of otherization that fuels the problem.
What is otherization?
Never heard the word till I saw this piece.
Well, what he's meaning here, what he means here, is to call these people thugs.
That fuels the problem.
That's an insult.
You don't know their lives.
You don't know their circumstances.
Have you ever had to go through life thinking the only way you're ever going to get anything is to rob from somebody?
I can't imagine how horrible that is.
I was happy to be mugged.
I was happy to be mugged because now I understand.
I have a better understanding.
I was mugged and I understand why.
And these people are not thugs.
They're human beings just like I am.
They just haven't been as fortunate and my white privilege.
I can understand it angering them.
He says I've never had to decide whether or not to steal from people.
We're all capable of good and bad, but it's a whole lot easier for me to choose good than it may be for these other people who mugged me to choose good.
If we ever want opportunistic crime to end, we should look at ourselves first.
So it's our fault for being prosperous uh, having prosperity, success.
That makes us legitimate targets.
Now, how many of you have heard people on the left, Democrats and media Ivy Leaguers, say poverty is the reason there is terrorism.
That's all this guy's saying here, and he's going to end up someday in the State Department negotiating with these people.
And the Iranians are running around thinking we've given up and surrendered because we're going to continue to extend the current deal.
We're not going to insist that they don't get a nuke because, as Obama and others and Dennis Kucinich and even Ron Paul, the famous libertarian, who are we to tell them we've got one, what right do we have?
I'm telling you, these people are everywhere.
This guy is not a one-off.
He's not unique.
This is what is happening in the American educational system at the college level.
This is the kind of stuff that's being taught.
And it all comes under the umbrella, America is unjust.
America is unfair.
It's what you see in Ferguson.
It's what you see in illegal immigration.
It's what you see with every Obama policy there is.
And now there's Obama out admitting, we have no right to determine who gets in here.
Americans have no right to favor Americans.
It's not fair for you to even talk about jobs going to native people who are in this country because you're no different than the illegal immigrants crossing the border today.
You did it once too.
You took this land from people who previously owned it and had it.
See, there's no difference.
There's a moral equivalence.
And in Obama's worldview and the worldview that's taught this kid at Georgetown, we are the guiltiest nation on earth.
And they are all here to make it right now.
We'll be back.
Back to the phones where we go.
I've got two more examples, by the way, of this column in the Georgetown Scroll newspaper.
I have an example in Salon, salon.com, and an example in Time magazine.
But I do need to get to the phones because people have been waiting patiently.
So we'll start in Phoenix with Michael.
Thank you, sir.
Great to have you on the EIB network.
Hello.
Mr. Limbaugh, thanks for taking my call.
First time caller been politics in 2007 when I became an over-the-road truck driver.
I want to make a comment about what you were talking about.
I'll say 20 minutes ago that there's something going on with the Ferguson thing.
You know, I think you're nailing the nail right on the head.
Can't quite pinpoint what it could be.
But my question, you know, you're on to something because the mayor, the governor, the chief of police, somebody, you know, talked about having a National Guard out there.
Well, then they sent the National Guard out after people were already being arrested, after people were already being hurt, after businesses were already being burnt down.
Why wasn't the National Guard out there to begin with when they knew this was going to happen?
A lot of people are asking the question.
The lieutenant governor of the state of Missouri, a man named Peter Kender, is all over the media saying that he personally asked the governor.
He's the lieutenant governor.
He happens to be a Republican.
He asked the governor, and he still hasn't gotten an answer.
Because the governor and a lot of people did originally call for the guard to be in place and ready to be deployed.
The ongoing theory is that the White House or Washington, the DOJ, Eric Holder, called the Governor, Missouri J. Nixon, and told him not to deploy the guard because it looks like they were ready to go.
They had been called up and they were placed on ready status.
And then they were not used.
And the feeling is that the order came from some high authority in Washington not to deploy them.
I don't know why.
Have you heard why, Snirdly?
Have you heard a.
It is a mystery as to why.
Speculate is about all we can do.
Why would the DOJ, why would Holder, why would Obama not want the guard in position to stop some of this based on everything we know now?
I mean, why would that be preferred?
Why wouldn't you want, see, this is my point, folks, not only did we all know what was coming, we all knew what was going.
It was scripted.
Nobody made a move to stop it.
The cameras were in place.
The media was in place.
The only question was how many cars will burn?
How many stores will be destroyed?
How many monotoff cocktails?
Just how big the destruction.
There was no effort to stop it.
The media didn't want it stopped.
It was great programming.
That's why they got the cameras out of there, and a lot less of this kind of crap goes on, but that's never going to happen either.
Somebody wanted this to happen.
And we are back on our Thanksgiving Eve program on the EIB network.
Here's Mark in Orlando.
Been on hold for a long time and actually had to go.
Let us call him back.
And here you are, sir.
Thank you for that.
And welcome to the program.
Thank you, Rush.
Hey, Rush, after listening to you for years, I consider you like a big brother.
Appreciate that, sir.
Yesterday you mentioned the golden opportunity.
And in particular, that referred to Monday night at 10 p.m.
And if I was president on Monday night and I came to my big brother and said, I know this is a golden opportunity.
I know it's one moment in one time, which is what a golden opportunity represents.
Rush, I need a little help.
Do you want to know what I would have done if I were Obama, you mean?
Yeah, I'd want some advice to make sure that I took advantage of my golden opportunity.
Okay.
This is the reason why we wanted to take Mark's calls.
It's a great question.
He's exactly right.
On Monday, well, I guess it was on a Tuesday, which is yesterday.
I can't believe that fast the days are just clicking by here.
But I said that I thought Obama blew a golden opportunity on that 10 o'clock, right after the grand jury announcement had been made and the DA had completed his announcement and answering questions.
Obama shows up from the press room of the White House.
That's where we got the split screen, Obama claiming he wants calm, and then the other half of the screen is the riots beginning.
And I said he blew a golden opportunity because he does have skills.
He does have imminently great communicable skills or communicative skills if he wants to use them.
If somebody puts the words on the teleprompter he wants to say, he's very, very good at doing this.
And he didn't.
He wandered aimlessly and just babbled on and on.
What would I have done?
In the first place, I wouldn't have waited till Monday.
Everybody knew this was coming.
Everybody knew.
And we knew on Monday that it was coming later that day.
Obama could have gone on TV at 8 o'clock Monday night.
He could have asked for television time Monday before this event began.
And he could have defended the American system of justice.
He could have explained the grand jury system to people who obviously don't understand it.
He could have talked about proper, civilized behavior.
He could have talked about civilization as it relates to the rule of law.
He could have said we don't all get everything we want all the time.
He could have said that there are ways that we go about effecting change when things don't happen the way we want them.
He could have pitched for people being better than they are.
He could have encouraged and tried to inspire people to better behavior.
He could have made the point that businesses who had nothing to do with any of this have no business being targeted by anybody for destruction.
He could have made the point that people who have had nothing to do with this have no business being targeted.
There's any number of things he could have done.
It may not have worked.
It may not have stopped.
I think these people are committed to do this anyway.
But he could have changed the entire context and atmosphere in which this is taking place.
And instead, what he's done is legitimize it.
And that's, well, that's just unfortunate to me.
He could have delegitimized this.
He could have segregated these people doing this.
He could have called them out.
He could have chided them.
He could have told them that we do not tolerate this kind of lawless behavior after he defends the American judicial system.
But see, Obama can't do any of this because he doesn't think the judicial system needs to be defended by virtue of the comments he's made since.
He's out justifying this.
He is out feeding this kind of behavior.
This is reprehensible as far as I'm concerned.
Because what happened was barbarism.
People's businesses were torched and destroyed.
People's lives were threatened and on the line.
It needn't have happened.
People had nothing to do with this.
The essence of innocent bystanders were the ones that ended up being hurt and targeted.
The president of the United States could have set a tone.
He could have gone on television before this happened because everybody knew it was coming.
Everybody knew when it was coming.
Everybody knew what was going to happen.
He could have asked people to stop.
He could have set the tone.
He could have set the atmosphere and the context for this so that whatever happened appeared to be illegitimate and unwarranted and worthy of stigmatization as it is.
But instead, he waits for it to begin, goes out after it's already begun, and gives a half-hearted appeal for calm, and then starts telling the rest of us why we'd better understand the rage, thereby feeding it.
I think it's just unfortunate as it can be.
Such a golden opportunity.
It could have been uplifting.
It could have been inspirational.
But he'd have to have defended the American criminal justice system.
He would have had to explain how it works.
He would have to talk about the sanctity of the grand jury.
He would have had to do a number of things, and he really, his heart wouldn't have been in it if he'd tried to do this.
We know this now.
But you ask what I would have done had I been president, or what I think any president should have done, because the key here is we all knew this was coming.
He did not have to wait until after it began when nobody was paying attention to him.
He could have commanded the attention of everybody before it began.
And he could have told these people that if they engage in this activity, law enforcement has full authority to stop it.
The National Guard will be there.
Local and state police will be there.
And people's property and lives will be defended and protected.
Could have said all that.
Most prior past presidents would have.
He could have warned these rioters that if they engaged in this activity, there would be no end in the effort to prevent them from succeeding.
Property damage, taking of life.
He could have made it clear this kind of barbaric, uncivil behavior is not going to be tolerated in America because it isn't productive and it isn't justified.
But I don't think he can say any of that because I don't think that he believes much of it.
That's just me.
But Mark, I appreciate the call.
Who's next?
Where are we headed next?
Give me a line.
Baby, Becca in Boise.
Becca in Boise.
Great to have you on Open Line Friday on Wednesday.
Hello.
Well, Rush, it's a privilege and an honor, truly.
Well, thank you.
I appreciate that very much.
It's a rush baby that's been listening to you for a long time, so I can't tell you how very excited I am.
Well, I'm happy to have you here.
Thank you.
So here's my thought.
The first person that said, you know, maybe Obama leaned on him and told him to keep him out, I could not even fathom why a president would do that.
And the more I thought about it, here's what I'm thinking is how much federal money, how much taxpayer money is going to go into Ferguson and go into rebuilding every bit of what we all just watched them torch to the ground and destroy.
Okay, I missed the first part of what you're saying.
Is your point, you think they let this happen so the feds can get credit for rebuilding it?
I, well, maybe not even just credit for, probably credit for, but because their ultimate goal is to give them all of that and to rely on them and to look to them every time something bad happens.
So they go into.
Wait, who is who?
Who is them?
I mean, I'm just saying, who are you talking about?
To give them all of that, to rely on them, to look to them, everything.
Who is them?
The people in the government.
Okay, so you think I'm lost.
You think Obama wanted this to happen?
Is that what you're saying?
Oh, we lost her.
Okay.
Okay, I think what she was saying that Obama wants this to happen so the government can come back in and build it all up again.
Well, the only reason they'd want to do that is to justify the torching and therefore legitimize the behavior and then come rebuild it, get credit for it so the people of Ferguson thank Obama.
Not local and state, if it thank Obama for rebuilding and so forth and so on.
Well, I don't know about that.
There was a woman, African-American, who just this past summer realized her dream.
She opened a little cake store.
Happened to be right in the epicenter of the riot.
I think I did I throw it because I had the story and I might have thrown it away because there was a development to it that made my story irrelevant.
And I had a picture of her here.
Well, I did.
What happened was her store got totally torched and she had put every cent she ever had into it and it was destroyed.
It was a picture of her in tears.
She had nothing to do with anything here.
And these rioters, I mean, Darren Wilson didn't torch her store.
The grand jury didn't torch her store.
The rioters did.
The people of Ferguson that protested and the outsiders, they torched her store.
The grand jury didn't.
Darren Wilson didn't.
And she was just beside herself.
She didn't know what she was going to do.
Well, what has happened is, her name is Natalie Dubose.
And a bunch of people on the internet have started a couple of donation funds to help her rebuild.
And so far, over $100,000 in just a day or a night's been raised.
So if Obama wants to get credit for this, he's been beaten to the punch by the American people who heard the plight of Nancy Dubose, Natalie Dubose.
And they have, I think she's got three times now what it cost her to open the store.
That's how much has been, and it's not finished.
There is an outpouring of support once people found out what happened to her that she put everything she had into this little cake store.
She just loves baking cakes.
And I'm sure somebody said, you know, Nancy, you ought to sell these.
People would pay for these.
And she thought about it probably and got a little scared at the idea and one day decided to take the plunge.
And then all of a sudden, this goes down, and the very people in the neighborhood burn down her store and totally destroy it.
And people who had nothing to do with it from all over the country are helping her to rebuild it.
These evil Americans, these heartless, whatever.
But anyway, there are two funds out there.
And at showtime, an hour and a half ago, an hour before the program, it was at $70,000.
At noon Eastern, it was at $95,000.
So I'm sure it's well over $100,000.
And who knows what it's going to become now that I, El Rushbo, have mentioned it.
I haven't even given the addresses out.
They're on its Twitter.
I got Facebook.
I'm not sure where they are, but nevertheless, you'll find it.
Natalie Dubose is all you have to search.
So if Obama is looking for credit for rebuilding Ferguson after all this, he is already being beat to the punch by the American people.
Okay, I'm going to go ahead and give the link.
If you would like to donate to Natalie Dubose, it's www.gofundme.
One word, gofundme, G-O-F-U-N-D-Me.
GoFundMe.com slash Natalie's Cakes.
N-M-O-R-E.
I don't know what that is.
Cakes, whatever.
Natalie's, if you just search gofundme.com slash Natalie Dubose, you'll find it.
Now, what's happening here, it's up to $101,000 right now.
And there are a lot of Tea Party sites that are promoting fundraising for her.
You know, these evil racist Republicans.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Tea Party types.
Oh, you know how those be.
I mean, school shooter types.
Yeah, yeah.
Brian Ross, yeah.
These evil, mean-spirited Tea Party types.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Tea Party wasn't in Ferguson, but the Tea Party didn't torch a thing.
Tea Party didn't blow up anything.
Tea Party didn't aim a gun and fire at anybody.
Tea Party was not there when Ferguson was victimized by barbaric behavior.
Oh, it's cakes and more.
Cakes and more, but cakes in.
Cakes, the letter N more, Natalie's Cakes and More.
GoFundMe.gov.
You'll find it.
There it is.
Here's Carrie in Chesapeake, Virginia.
Great to have you on the EIB Network.
Hello.
Well, thank you.
And I want to thank you the day before Thanksgiving for your bringing out truth with a sense of humor.
I have to tell you, that was the best time I've had on hold, and I don't know when.
Your parodies are hilarious.
So I appreciate it.
Thank you very much.
You said that you just, you had, you couldn't quite put your finger on it.
There's something not right.
And I have that same feeling, too.
It's a gut feeling.
And you said, you know, we're being manipulated.
I don't feel manipulated because I'm always on guard when it comes to the president and his administration.
Well, I'm with you.
I don't feel manipulated, but I know they're trying and I resent it.
It's an insult to my intelligence.
That's another aspect.
This whole thing, the whole way this thing happened was set up, being reported on, and the way they tried to ratchet up the attention and create this ever-intensifying crisis of BS.
We knew what was going to happen.
I resent the effort to manipulate me, is I guess what I should better say.
Yeah, well, I think the community was manipulated.
I think they're the ones who are a pawn in an agenda.
Absolutely.
Because he could have, I mean, where was he?
He, as the Nobel Peace Prize winner, he could have addressed the situation, gone there personally knowing what was going to happen, but instead he waited until it happened and then made his statement.
Well, the problem that I have with that is that the cat was already out of the bag.
And he has an agenda of carrying down the law and the respect for law.
And I think that that's the manipulation.
Well, that's that's I just made that exact point that because the guy asked me 20 minutes ago, what would you have done?
You said Obama had a golden opportunity.
He could have gone out before this all started and asked for calm.
He could have gone out and explained the American justice system.
He could have stigmatized the people that were going to behave in barbaric ways.
He could have done any number of things, but he didn't.
He waited till it began and then practically excused it.
Back after this.
Thank you.
The real story of Thanksgiving, I think now more than ever, is it important?
And it's all coming up in the next busy broadcast hour here at the EIB Network.