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Dec. 23, 2014 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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December 23, 2014, Tuesday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 podcast.
So let me see now if I have this right.
We had the best gross domestic product numbers, the fastest economic growth in 10 years in the last quarter.
The GDP was up 5%, economic growth up 5%.
And this has propelled a Dow Jones Industrial Average to over 18,000.
Well, if that's the case, and look, folks, I'm not trying to throw cold water on anything.
How did Americans get poorer if gross domestic product grew 5%?
How does this happen?
And I think, ladies and gentlemen, I, your lovable little fuzzball of a host, have the answer.
Great to be with you today, folks.
Christmas Eve Eve here on the EIB network.
Telephone number, if you want to be on the program today, 800-282-2882 and the email address, El Rushbo and EIBNet.com.
This program today will be it for me for the rest of the year.
We have a series of guest hosts in tomorrow and throughout the rest of this year.
And what is it today?
January 5th that we're back here?
Monday, January 5th, right?
So this is it.
I think what we would do, we always, and it's getting tougher and tougher to do it.
Well, we think about, you know, one thing we'll do open line Friday on Tuesday.
So we will throw away any topic limitations on callers and pretty much open it up to whatever it is that you wish to talk about.
And the second thing, we're trying to keep it lighthearted.
I mean, we really do.
I don't know.
I'm looking at the stacks of stuff and there's some lighthearted stuff in here, but even the light-hearted stuff has an edge to it.
And it's really incredible.
I remember the first five years of this program, maybe the first 10, the month of December, there was hardly any controversy, hardly any hard-hitting news.
I mean, there might have been exceptions, but we just don't have any let-up.
There is not a let-up in the intensity of the news.
Here we are two days before Christmas, and we're still dealing with chaos, and we're dealing with crisis.
One after another, we're dealing with facts right in front of our faces that tell us of a crumbling civilization, actually.
Not just a crumbling culture and not just a crumbling society, but a crumbling civilization.
And believe me, that's what's at stake with all of this anti-cop stuff.
And you know, there's a great piece today by Heather McDonald.
And I printed the piece out.
It runs to five pages, and I'm not going to endeavor to read the whole thing to you.
I could.
I mean, I could read the whole thing and keep you locked into it.
Most people cannot read other people's work for any length of time and keep anybody interested that delves into monotone and people just lose interest.
This might even be worth it to try, but I'm not going to.
But her basic thrust is that our civilization is literally being torn apart by a series of lies.
And the biggest lie that is being promulgated, amplified, and serviced by the media, by the Democrat Party, and by special interest groups is this idea that the police exist to shoot black men.
That that is the purpose of police departments is to shoot black men.
And that lie is getting people killed.
And it is a lie.
You know, when the incident happened in St. Louis, in Ferguson, Missouri, with the gentle giant, one of the reasons that made legitimate news at the time is because it's rare anymore that this kind of thing happens.
It's rare and it's white made, but they immediately, when I say they, I'm talking about the leftists, began to immediately cast that story as common every day when anybody countered when, no, no, no, no, the black murder rate in America is what it is because of black on black crime.
You say that and you got pilloried.
If you said that, you were attacked and people came after you and accused you of all kinds of mean things, racism at the top, then you were a divider, not a uniter, you were a bigot.
But the fact remains that it's true.
The incidence of police officers targeting and going hunting on black people, it's a falsehood.
It is a big lie.
And Heather McDonald documents it with facts and data.
And she makes the point here that people believe this lie to the point now that when you tell them the truth, they don't believe that.
They don't want to believe it, and they don't believe it.
And the idea, I'll tell you what services the lie the best is the black incarceration rate.
There are certain things that are true.
The incarceration rate for black males is higher than white males, expressed as a percentage.
And so that gives the agitators like Reverend Jackson and Reverend Sharpton, they use that to prove the lie that the police department all over the country, police departments everywhere are targeting black men and either killing them or accusing them of crimes.
And a rigged jury system is finding them all guilty and that's why they're all in jail.
And over here are the real statistics from the DOJ on black on black crime.
And you find that black on black crime dwarfs whatever happens with police departments.
But the point is that it's just an out-and-out lie.
And the whole thing about the truth being relative, that the truth can fall prey to power and does way too often.
But the way she has written, it's really good, the whole idea that a lie is getting people killed.
And the people servicing the lie are people like this lame-brained mayor, De Blasio.
The New York Times is out defending him and blaming others for stoking this attitude when he's right in there leading the way.
Obama has yet to speak up on the two dead cops.
He's still playing golf.
He could do a lot to quell this if he wanted to, but he's not doing anything.
What are we to believe then?
That he doesn't want to do anything?
No, it's a local matter, and we in the federal government, we don't get involved.
Right.
It's not true.
The New York Times, in an editorial on the 21st, a couple days ago, actually wants Dick Cheney and all the interrogators of al-Qaeda prisoners at Club Gitmo brought before charges at The Hague, war crimes charges.
The New York Times is demanding this while exempt and even the Senate staff report, which was bogus, on the so-called interrogation techniques and the torture.
Even they do not think that anything that they reported is worthy of anybody being charged with anything.
But the New York Times is often running on that.
And of course, they set the table for much of the rest of the media to follow.
But that is just an example of how radicalized what everybody thinks of as mainstream media has become.
All this happening a couple days, three days before Christmas, and no sign that it's getting any better.
And then the mayor of New York, this guy is classic.
In his heart, he's an agitator.
In his heart, he's a low-rent community organizer.
He got elected mayor, and he doesn't have the slightest idea how to responsibly run that office.
He has taken every radical view that he's got, taken it right with him in its base form, and is ruling the city with this radical idea of the series of radical ideas that he's had, not making any adjustment whatsoever for being elected mayor, the whole concept of, well, you're mayor of the whole city, not just.
And apparently, this guy de Blasio, one of the defining aspects of his character and his politics, and has been for most of his life, is police brutality.
These people are just personally invested with the lie that the cops are the biggest problem in America.
And don't forget that piece that I shared with you yesterday from another radical leftist disguised as a tech blogger.
This guy has said, well, you know what?
The reason we're dealing with rogue cops this way is because we give the military a blank check.
He has this comparison.
The military is out wantingly killing thousands of innocent people in Iraq and Afghanistan and Syria.
And the cops are asking for the same exemption.
Well, hell, if the military can kill citizens freely and it will, why can't we in the police department?
This is absurd, but the guy believes it and he's taught this.
But it's genuine radical belief that has dwarfed any belief in the what we call the reasonable left, if there is any of that left or remaining.
And it's just so much of what's affecting this country, not just the problem we're having with the race and the cops, the aftermath, the Ferguson, the grand jury there in Staten Island.
So much of everything that is attacking our basic civilization is the result of lies.
Some big, some little, but people believing them and acting on them.
And people are getting killed because of it.
And the country is being torn apart because of it.
And our civilization, some fear, is coming apart at the seams because of a bunch of lies.
You have basically a bunch of community activists, agitators, organizers, or whatever who are used to not really being heard by that many people.
They go out and they raise hell.
And if you're community organizing on a corner in Chicago, okay, big whoop.
You take that same behavior to the White House, take it, same behavior to Gracie Manchin, City Hall.
You're starting to affect real people and real life with this radical, stupid, cockamami belief system that you've got.
And it's one thing to be in the neighborhood shouting all this stuff about police brutality or this or that, or people go walking on by, but then you take that same behavior, untempered, and put it in positions of real power.
And you've got people who have no idea of the results of their actions or words.
Maybe they do.
Maybe I'm cutting them too much slack.
Maybe they know exactly what they're doing and they're doing it on purpose.
I don't know.
Whatever.
It isn't helpful.
And it's coming from the people who claim to love us and claim to be tolerant and claim to be the ones with all the compassion.
They're the good people, right?
They're the ones that care about.
They're getting people killed.
They are in the process of taking the rivets, if you will, out of our civilization.
And they seem to be doing it happily.
And so this stuff is happening.
It's two days before Christmas.
These people used to take a break at least a couple weeks before Christmas.
So it's there, and we are going to address it because that's what we do.
We keep you up to speed, we make complex understandable, and keep you advised of the absolute latest on everything.
But there is some lighthearted stuff out there today, too.
There is that.
For example, I'll just give you one little example.
A quarterback, Brian, you'll love this.
You're a big fan of Jameis Winston, right?
I mean, if you get his autograph, you'd take it, right?
Quarterback at Florida State University.
This is the guy a couple of months ago, six weeks ago, at the student quad up at Florida State started shouting at the student union outside a bunch of obscenities, and they had to come get him and take him away.
He's the QB.
He's had some charges, what, of sexual abuse?
Oh, rape, yes.
Rape.
Sorry, how can I?
And shoplifting.
Didn't he stole some lobsters or something?
Okay.
Well, he had a hearing.
Florida State's playing in a Rose Bowl on January 1st.
And that they've got to have the guy play if they're going to have a chance.
So they had a hearing.
They had a hearing.
The Florida State Student Code of Conduct hearing earlier this month.
We just now got the transcript.
And he was asked three questions.
Just had to answer three questions.
And according to the testimony in the transcript just released, it resulted in the quarterback Jameis Winston being cleared of sexual assault allegations by the university.
He also avoided criminal prosecution stemming from the accusation he raped a female student at his off-campus apartment in December 2012.
And he won the Heisman Trophy in 2013.
But he said that the sexual encounter was consensual.
And the way he said he knew that it was consensual is because the woman was moaning.
And so the review board said, well, wait a minute now.
Was she moaning during the sexual encounter?
Yes.
Was she moaning before the sexual encounter?
Yes, Your Honor.
What did she say?
What did she do?
Moaning is mostly physical, Your Honor.
Well, moaning is physical and verbally at the time, Your Honor.
And moaning means consent.
Moaning means she was digging it.
Now, I wonder, has a Democrat congressional cabinet, can't think anybody heard about this, and the nags, the national organizations, moaning?
I mean, thank God this guy didn't have to fill out a form and a questionnaire like they have to do in California now.
Every stage, you moan.
Does that mean yes or no?
You know, you interrupt and you moan, you moan.
What does it mean?
Florida, he still gets to interpret that.
But what if a moan meant no?
I mean, that's lighthearted, right?
Now, the guy in Florida State that was doing the hearing, conducting the hearing, the former Supreme Court justice of the state of Florida, Major Harding.
He's retired.
He's a former judge of the Florida Supreme Court.
And it was Jameis Winston's accuser who wanted this hearing.
And the hearing took place at the urging of Winston's accuser.
So here's how it went.
This is the transcript.
And not recently, this is like a month ago or earlier this month.
Judge Harding said, I think it'd be helpful.
Mr. Winston, I understand you've exercised your right and you may continue to do so.
But from the purpose of helping the decision maker to understand the complainant, i.e. the woman, for those of you in Riolinda, the complainant has indicated she continually resisted you by saying no to your sexual overtones.
And you've indicated she gave consent.
And I'd like to know in what manner, verbally or physically, that she gave consent.
And I ask that with the understanding that you have previously given.
Winston said, both, Your Honor, she gave her consent verbally and physically.
Harding said, and what did she say and what did she do?
Jameis Winston.
Well, Your Honor, moaning is mostly physical.
Well, moaning is physically and verbally at the time, Your Honor.
The judge, trying to translate this, said, well, that was during the sexual encounter, the moaning?
Jameis Winston, yes, Your Honor.
Bane Kerr, an attorney for the woman, called the university's hearing unfair.
He said, I don't want to impugn the proceeding as corrupt, but I think it was biased.
The fix was in.
It's all about a football game 10 days from today.
Turned out to be just a predetermined whitewash to keep a guy playing football.
Quite a charge leveled against an esteemed institution of higher learning, Florida State, and a retired Supreme Court judge in the state of Florida, Major Harding.
So moaning was consent.
It wasn't?
You don't think moaning is consent?
It's not all.
So we have some controversy on this.
Well, he clearly thought that it was blissful.
She clearly was enjoying it.
That's what the moaning meant.
Maybe she was saying no and moaning at the same time, and the moaning just dominated.
We're back.
Rushlin Ball open line Friday and Tuesday.
So some people say, hey, Rush, I don't think this Jameis Winston story qualifies as lighthearted.
You think?
That's exactly my point here, folks.
We can't find any lighthearted news.
Look, let me try this.
Let's try this.
Just pull another one here from the light-hearted stack today.
This is from social.newsink.com.
Daily Caller actually has a story, but the outfit here has produced a television PSA.
And the PSA, the public service announcement, is encouraging kids to steal their parents' guns and take them to Scruel and turn them into teachers.
A provocative public service announcement released by a San Francisco-based production company encourages young children to put themselves at risk and commit a slew of crimes by stealing their parents' guns from home and turning them in at screw.
The anti-gun ad, which was published on December 13th by Sleeper13 Productions, in the PSA, a boy appears to be in his early teens, is shown walking up the stairs of his home and wandering into his mother's bedroom.
The boy is shown opening the drawer to his mother's dresser where a handgun is hidden.
The boy takes the gun from the dresser and leaves the room.
The ad then flashes to his scruel.
Sitting in a classroom, the boy ventures up to his teacher's desk after the rest of his classmates have left.
The tension is building.
And then it finally breaks.
The boy produces the gun from his backpack.
See, they make you think the kid might be going to shoot the teacher.
That's how they build you up for this.
They tell you, this is from the light-hearted stack.
You don't think this is light-hearted either, huh?
This is, no, I don't have the stacks mixed up.
I'm telling you, this is the lightest-hearted stuff I've got.
Well, a couple more coming.
You can be the judge.
So they try to make people think in this TV PSA that this is another deranged kid that's going to steal a parent's gun and go shoot it at screw.
And the tension is building and building and building.
And a kid, after all the classmates have left, that's the first sign maybe it isn't going to come out the way you think.
He then ventures up to his teacher's desk, produces the gun from his backpack, slams it down on the desk of the teacher, who is startled.
And the boy says, can you take this away?
I don't feel safe at home with a gun in my house.
Now, what the ad makers are encouraging here is dangerous and it's highly illegal.
The kid would be guilty of weapons theft, illegal concealed carry, and carrying a weapon on scruple property.
The ad's director took to Twitter to taunt those she says are afraid to share her ad.
Now, this is an example of new journalism.
Here's just some outfit calling itself a production company.
It produces this professional or quasi-looking professional video PSA.
It's on Twitter.
A lot of people get their news feed, Facebook and Twitter.
And they make everybody think that this is a deranged kid stealing his parents' gun to go shoot up other kids at school.
And instead, he slams it on a teacher's desk and asks her to take it because he doesn't feel safe at home because his parents have a gun.
Okay.
Another one from the light-hearted stack.
What is man spreading and why are women angry about it?
The NTA, MT, you Metro Transit Authority?
How in the world would you think, why in the world would you think this is a subway story?
Man spreading.
That's a headline.
What is man spreading and why are people angry about it?
I'll give you a hint.
Here's a pull quote.
The man-spreading complaint is couched as a response to rudeness by men, but it is no such thing.
It's pathetic feminist pip squeakery and the last dying gasp of a movement with nothing to win and nothing to say, determined to abuse and antagonize the male sex at all costs and for whatever perceived or outright imaginary infraction it can conjure from the vicissitudes of everyday life.
It's offensively trivial and those associated with it ought to be ashamed.
This is from Breitbart.
Witness the absurd, offensive, ludicrous spectacle of inanity and stupidity currently surrounding the New York subway.
A campaign to stop men sitting comfortably on public transport.
Men man spread, apparently, which observers interpret as sit in such a way as to not painfully crush the testicles or penis, but which the feminazis insist is an expression of patriarchal authority.
The feminists are complaining that men are sitting with their legs spread on the subway and that that expression is one of authority and power and is meant to intimidate women.
And the women want it stopped.
They want men to have to cross their legs like the women do on subways and other public venues.
And the feminists are genuinely angry, but this is an example of what the story refers to as trivial, the daily vicissitudes of life that now they have to make controversial because they've lost every other major battle, although they haven't.
I mean, that's the thing.
And this is Breitbart's story and the conclusion of feminists have lost everything is what's wrong with this.
The feminists are as much responsible as any other derivative of the left for the absolute mess this country is in.
You talk about lies that young women are being told in school.
Stop and think about that.
Parents are spending $20,000, $25,000 a year to send their kids to these institutions and the lies that they are being taught.
Anyway, that's man spreading.
You ever heard the term before today?
Is that lighthearted for you?
Yeah, see, that's lighthearted because that involves men being a problem in their natural existence.
So yeah, we'll laugh at that one.
Okay, one more light-hearted story from the light-hearted stack, and then we'll hit to the phones.
Remember when Columbia Law School let black students postpone their final exams because they might be traumatized over the grand jury decisions in Ferguson, Missouri, and Staten Island.
Remember that?
They asked to be exempted from finals.
It's just too traumatized over the recent protests and the fact that the grand jury screwed them once again.
Well, now students at Oberlin College, this is where, by the way, Lena Dunham made up a story of rape or to some guy that doesn't exist of raping, or let's put it that way.
Oberlin College in Ohio, one of the most liberal colleges in the country, students there are demanding that African American students be completely exempt from failing this semester because they are so deeply affected in times like this.
So far, the Ohio College has said they will allow professors to exercise flexibility in emergency incomplete requests, but they have not given a flat-out pass to all black students.
And this is making students really whiny.
In a poorly written petition to Oberlin President Marvin Kryslov, that has more than 1,300 signatures, by the way, the students lay out their demands.
Here is the petition for the university president, Martin Krysloff, to suspend a standard grading system.
I'm going to read to you, this is the petition, verbatim quote, I would really like to see the normal grading system suspended for this semester and replaced with a no-fail mercy period.
Administrators should require professors to exercise complete flexibility in what students are saying they can produce academically.
Require that every professor listen to what their students are saying.
And if that means rather than writing a paper, students instead meet with their professor to simply discuss in groups their paper topics.
Or if tests are taken collectively with professors, there are ways to make sure we are learning what we're supposed to be learning in ways that are not so taxing in times like this.
Students in this moment should have complete access to alternative modes of learning while we are processing what's happening.
Basically, no student, especially black students and students of color, should be failing a class this semester.
A C grade should be the lowest grade students can receive this semester.
Professors should be required to work with students who would otherwise be at risk of failing to create alternate means of accessing knowledge.
This is a petition for Marvin Krysloff to suspend standard grading system.
Sign if you agree.
So a request has been made via petition to pass black students while requiring the standard academic rigor for everyone else because the times are so traumatic.
Times like these are so tough.
So alternate ways of learning and determining whether or not learning has taken place.
In other words, get rid of the test.
We don't want to take a test.
We don't want to grade based on a test.
We want to get a minimum C just for showing up because we don't want to have to take the test because we're too traumatized for too much pressure.
Oberlin College.
So you see, the left proposes a solution to something.
In Columbia law, it was, let's postpone finals for a while, just until the stress dissolves.
And then we'll be back and we'll take the tests.
In Columbia, so okay, cool.
That's a reasonable request.
Okay, we think problem solved.
No.
New problem just created.
Now, Postponing finals has become no grades this semester for African American students at Oberlin College because it's just too stressful out there right now.
Reminds me of the caller we had yesterday.
Remember this guy called?
He was watching a Philadelphia Eagles game with his friend and their sons.
And they were ripping the Eagles or Ripple.
The Eagles were playing horribly, and his two fathers were just really ripping the Eagles at play calling, the play, the performance.
And their sons said, come on, Dad, tone it down.
We don't have to be this judgmental.
My God, we couldn't do what they just doesn't help, Dad, to be critical.
Just could you stop the criticism, Dad?
There's being too judgmental.
And the guy was calling and tell me he didn't know how to deal with this.
He thought the schools had turned his own kid into a wuss.
It's basically what he was saying, right?
It apparently is happening all over the place.
And you know where the roots are?
The roots are.
Now we're not going to keep score because the losing team would be humiliated.
No, no, no, no, no.
We're not going to keep score.
And really good teams are going to penalize them minus 35 points to start.
All of that stuff.
All rooted in self-esteem and not humiliating our kids.
Here is David in more Oklahoma as we start on the phones.
Great to have you today, sir.
Hello.
Merry Christmas, Rush.
Same to you, sir.
I just wanted to let you know, when every holiday rolls around, we think of you, and you are almost invariably a part of our holiday, whether it's 4th of July, when we read the essay that your dad wrote about the Americans who risked everything, you reading the true meaning of Thanksgiving, the true story of Thanksgiving, and George Washington's proclamation.
And at Christmas time, especially, I know this is a time of you when you get very thankful.
And you actually introduced us to Mannheim Steamroller, and now Stile Nacht is a valuable part of what we do as a family.
Is that not just a beautiful version of that song?
What we do is we all sit around after we've decorated the Christmas tree.
By the way, I have 11 Rush babies.
I've been listening to you since 1989.
11 Rush babies?
Yes, sir.
Since 1989, when I took my baby girl home from the hospital, you were on the radio.
I promise you this is true.
You were on the radio, and you have been inculcating our children ever since.
Wow.
I just want to let you know you're such a part of our family.
Anyway, we sit around the tree after we've decorated.
We turn off all the lights except for the Christmas lights.
We listen to Stile Knox as we enjoy eggnog or whatever it is that we want to enjoy.
And we just contemplate the meaning of Christmas and all the things that we're thankful for.
And Rush, you were right up there.
And I know we've never met.
We've spoken several times.
You've spoken to my wife on occasion.
But we just love you.
And I just, I believe that I know you are very thankful for everything you've received.
And I also know that it's because the Lord has blessed you in proportion to how you have blessed other people with your children's books, educating them about the true history of America, how you defend our traditions and our principles and our values.
I'm just, I'm so thankful for that.
And so I just want to wish you a very Merry Christmas.
Well, thank you, sir, very much.
That's very touching, David, and I appreciate it profoundly.
It echoes my thoughts as well about all of you.
You know, people, Thanksgiving, people give thanks.
For some reason, Christmas time has always been when the Sense of gratitude for my good fortune overwhelms me.
And I share it with people, but I'm honored.
I'm honored to hold a place in your family's Christmas and holiday celebrations the way you described.
You can't know how that honors me, and I appreciate it very much.
Okay, we have breaking news.
A flash update.
Oberlin College has denied the request to suspend failing grades to give relief to black students and demonstrators.
So they denied the petition, denied the request.
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