All Episodes
Previous Next
Jan. 8, 2015 - Rush Limbaugh Program
35:55
January 8, 2015, Thursday, Hour #1
| Copy link to current segment

Time Text
Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 podcast.
And greetings to you music lovers, thrill seekers, conversationalists all across the fruited plain.
Great to have you with us.
It's Rush Limbaugh behind the Golden EIB microphone.
Telephone number, if you want to be on the program, is 800-282-2882 and the email address lrushbo at eibnet.com.
I want to turn away from some terrorism news just for a moment, ladies and gentlemen, to share with you a story for the New York Post.
The headline, man yells, I want to kill cops, tries to run them over with car.
I just thought you should know about this.
A man yelling, I want to kill cops, tried to run down a couple of Port Authority police officers with his car near the entrance of the Holland Tunnel last night in the latest attack on officers.
You may not have heard about this because what's going on in France.
Matthew Christian Cash, who has an extensive criminal record, was barreling down a restricted fire lane near Varick and Watts streets when he barely missed the cops who were patrolling the tunnel and smashed his silver Audi right into their police cruiser at about 8 o'clock.
Don't worry, turns out he was unarmed.
He's African American, apparently never any danger to the cops.
But while all this is going on around the world, we just want the leadership in New York City is still pounding the drums on the cops.
Is there a little, Brian, you're hearing a little bit of delay here in the mix minus?
Because I am.
I'm hearing myself just in a very, very faint-like echo in a split second after I say it's not distracting because I'm a highly trained broadcast specialist.
And now it's that test one, two, nope, still there.
Hear it?
You hear it now?
See?
See?
Yeah, it's right.
You heard it this time.
Well, I've been hearing it since the start.
You people.
See, it takes, there is nobody more attuned to what's happening here than me, as it should be.
As it should be.
It's not a distraction.
I just want it to figure it out for a second.
Okay, where to start with this today?
For those of you new to this program, I want to try to tell you a little bit about what we do here.
And there's a new tune-in factor every day.
People are finding this program for however and whatever reasons.
And they're tuning in.
And every day, folks, those of you who have been regular listeners here have to understand that there's a sizable brand new tune-in factor every day, brand new first-time audience members.
And as those of you who have listened for any length of time know, this program is a continuum.
It never, it doesn't have topics where once something's discussed, everything that there is to say about it has been said.
We don't do guests.
We don't do interviews.
Well, rarely when the president calls.
But outside of that, we don't do interviews.
Maybe somebody really guilt-trips me into helping them with their book.
But beyond that, we don't do that.
And so as such, for those of you tuning in on the first day, you have well, you don't have something that regular listeners have, and that's context.
Like, I'm going to comment today on some things that happened yesterday, last week, last month, last year, two years ago.
And people have been here for a long time will remember and be able to place the comments today in context.
You may be hearing it for the first time, and they're mysterious, which is why I always say to new listeners, it takes at least six weeks, minimum, daily devoted listening in order to be fully equipped and prepared to appreciate to the max this program, to understand it, to enjoy it, what have you.
Not saying you can't do all that in one day, you will.
I mean, you'll get hooked.
But I'm talking about really understand it.
So, in deciding where to start with this today, and as a reminder to those of you who have been here for a long time, and those of you for the first day, what happens on this program, I just spell it out for you.
If I had to describe one thing that would characterize what happens on this program, it would be react as opposed to proact.
And what I mean by that is when I prepare this program, say last night when I'm working on today's program, I don't try to figure out what I can go after or who I can go after or what topic I think people need to hear about.
I strictly react to current events.
And current events comprise a lot of things.
If, for example, people that I love, traditions and institutions I believe, if they are under assault, I will come here and defend them.
And oftentimes, a spirited defense of somebody is misunderstood by somebody listening for the first time is an attack.
There are no attacks on this program.
We don't sit around, I don't sit around and design in advance people or things I want to go out and hit.
I strictly, this is a current events program, and it is as topical as anything can be.
It's instantaneously topical.
And so I judge primarily by what my interests are.
What's the thing I am most interested in is what I will generally lead off the program with.
And then hopefully the entire three hours is devoted to things I care about because that's where the passion comes from.
And if there's no passion, you're going to get bored and not listen.
Now, I'm not, I mean, it's impossible for me to be passionless.
And I think it's impossible for me to be boring, but I don't assume that.
I always assume that even I could be boring to some people.
So it's a constant ongoing thing.
Show prep never ends.
Life is show prep.
And show prep is comprised not of figuring out who do I want to criticize tomorrow or what do I want to crit, but it's staying informed on virtually everything I care about so that if it comes up or if it needs to be commented on, I am fully equipped to do so.
And for some reason, I thought it was important to point this out because I know the new tune-in factor is through the roof here.
And it actually has been for quite a while.
I mean, above normal.
And it's much desired by me that the new tune-in people hang around.
And I'm trying to jumpstart the six-week process here by giving you a little heads up.
It's impossible for you the first day to, if you haven't heard what happened yesterday, last week, last month, some of this is going to sound Greek to you because I assume, A, that you're very smart, B, that you were very informed when you arrive here.
And I also assume that everybody listens to all three hours every day.
Well, I do.
I mean, you may think I'm bragging, but I do, and that's how I do the program.
I assume you know what I'm going to talk about.
Now, I'm going to tell you things you don't know in terms of provide information, but I assume you're here.
I assume if I say something in the third hour yesterday, I don't have to say it again in the second hour today.
I don't do that kind of structure anyway.
And sometimes I think I should because it's obvious people do not listen all three hours every day.
It's not possible.
But you who don't know who you are, and so do we.
So, having said all that, I look at all of this going on today.
And what I primarily look at is the reaction that other people are having and the way it's being reported in the media.
And I just continue to find things fascinating about it in a less than enthusiastic way.
For example, we still, even after everything that we've learned at the highest levels of our government, we still can't properly talk about this.
Or we won't still pro we won't characterize it for what it is.
We will not learn from it.
We will not properly inform other people of what it is and how this matters to us and how it relates to us.
One of the things that I've had a lot of email about, and this happens frequently, hey, Rush, hey, Rush, did you hear what Conan said?
Did you hear what?
No, I didn't hear what Conan said.
Hey, Rush, hey, Rush, do you care what Conan said?
Well, normally no.
But what did he say?
Hey, Rush, hey, Rush!
Did you hear what Jon Stewart said?
No, I really didn't hear what John said.
Hey, Rush, hey, Rush, do you care what?
No, what did he say?
So I had to go find out.
And I've got the audio soundbites.
I don't even want to play the audio soundbites.
I don't want to, but I've got something that Conan said here.
And I'm paraphrasing.
He's all worried.
He's wringing his hands out there.
He said, we shouldn't have to pause and think before making a joke.
He's all concerned now that, oh, gee, am I going to say that wrong?
See, Conan O'Brien lives in a protected liberal bubble where no matter what he says is going to be approved of, likely applauded, likely amplified because he's a good and proper liberal.
So he never has in the world apparently had to be afraid of what he's going to say.
And I read comments like this.
I wonder how long Conan would last on this program.
I wonder how long Conan would last with media attention, such as we on this program get.
It was Chris Rock the other day who said he stopped doing stand-up routines on college campaign.
He said because the students don't find anything funny anymore.
They're too busy being offended by his jokes.
Political correctness has just swamped everything.
So he said, I'm not playing college campuses.
You can't go out there.
You can't tell jokes.
You can't be funny because people don't laugh.
They don't think it is funny.
They're sitting there getting mad.
They're getting offended.
This matters because this French magazine was telling jokes.
They were writing articles that were satire and publishing cartoons that were satire.
And so now leftist comedians are all worried.
Oh, no.
Now we're going to have to start thinking before we joke.
And I, you know, I don't, I don't like to make this about me.
And as you people who listen regularly know, I hate it when the program becomes about me, and I strive to avoid that.
But I can't, when I hear comments like this, I really wonder about the two worlds in which we live in, because these guys that are liberal comedians or liberal commentators, they just have a cakewalk when it comes to free speech.
They can get away with saying anything and not just get away with it, they're applauded.
And then what they say gets written about.
Then what they say gets amplified.
And then what they say gets credited as great comedy or whatever.
But Conan, my friend, there are a bunch of American commentators and even, I dare say, American comedians who have been having to pause and think before making a joke for over a decade now.
I know people who've lost jobs, who've lost money, some people who've even lost friends for saying things that liberals in America don't approve of.
Liberals in their protected bubble have no idea what happens to people when their buddies set out on them and try to destroy them.
For example, it is applauded in this country.
It is celebrated in this country.
You can get promoted.
You can get a raise.
You can get a new booking.
You can get written about.
You get profiles.
You can be named one of Barbara Walters' 10 most fascinating people in the world if you do one thing.
Make fun of Sarah Palin and her special needs child.
You do that and you are a hero in the American left.
And not just Sarah Palin, but she's one of the first examples that come to mind.
You go out, you make fun of Palin, her kids, anything that happens to Palin.
Make fun of her being stupid, whatever you want to do.
Barbara Walters will find you one of the 10 most fascinating people like Tina Fay.
These guys all make all these jokes and so forth and they're celebrated as great thinkers and great artists and great comedians and so forth.
Nothing ever happens to them because we do believe in free speech and we're tough and we can take it and so can Palin.
But they can't is the point.
Nothing's even happened to Conan O'Brien.
He's already scared.
Nothing's happened to Jon Stewart and he's running around.
They sound like they're scared.
Oh my God.
Oh gee, I have to pause and think before I make a joke.
Oh, oh, oh, gee.
Well, there are Americans that have to be doing that because of the stupid political correctness that's stifling all kinds of speech and creativity all across the fruited plane.
But when it happens to these people, they think it's never happened to anybody else before, and oh, it's so threatening.
And oh, it is so dangerous and so forth.
Thank you.
The mixed minus is fixed.
That's true.
I'm no longer hearing the one and a half second delay that I was hearing.
But my point is this, the suppression of free speech is the goal of people on the left in this country, folks.
Now, for those of you listening for the first time today, I did not sit around last night, okay, how can I attack the left?
I'm not attacking anybody.
I'm simply reacting to what I'm hearing.
And those of you listening for the first time ever today, or those of you who've been here for a long while, it may not hurt you to understand what happens here.
We don't go on the attack.
We are the attacked.
What we do is defend the people, the things that we love and cherish.
One of those things is free speech.
Another of those things is the Constitution, which guarantees it.
Thank God we don't have to depend on human beings to guarantee it.
The Constitution does that, but the Constitution's under assault, too.
So we're worried about that.
Character assassination, intentional interference with contracts, and the necessity of traveling with security.
This is life in the USA now.
Ah, just saw the clock.
It's another thing we have to do.
Take timeouts now and then.
But it won't be long.
Sit tight.
Coming right back.
Don't go away.
Respond and react.
One of the soonest, quickest things to understand, to understand what happens here on the EIB network.
Rush Lindborg, great to have you here.
By the way, after I get there with all of this, I guess this is not going to be surprising to some of you, but it happens.
It happens after every Muslim terrorist attack.
Everyone.
It happens after everyone, and it has happened again.
The mainstream news media, and I've got two stories, two examples, one by the Bible of the left, the New York Times.
Very, very, very worried about a backlash against Muslims right here in our country.
Yeah.
And also, they're really, really worried about a backlash against Muslims in Paris.
The same anti-Muslim backlash we've been hearing about for years.
The same anti-Muslim backlash.
That has never happened.
There has never been one.
There wasn't one after 9-11 in this country.
There wasn't one after Benghazi.
There has never been an anti-Muslim backlash after any act of Muslim terror.
But an article in the New York Times manages to go even further than that.
The Times has a 37-paragraph, 1,600-word story at the top of the front page with the headline, dangerous moment for Europe, as fear and resentment grow.
But the dangerous moment in the New York Times headlines is a reference to the murder of a dozen French citizens by Muslim terrorists.
No, no.
The Times sees the dangerous moment as the opportunity that the right wing might resurface in France.
That's the dangerous moment that the New York Times is worried about.
A Muslim backlash.
And oh no, the really bad thing that could happen.
Oh, no, the French right wing could have a political resurgence because of this.
Oh, no, that's what's troubling American liberals today.
I kid you not.
The New York Times has got to write here my formerly nicotine-stained fingers.
Dangerous moment for Europe as fear and resentment grow.
And you might think the New York Times would be talking here about the rising tide of militant, dangerous Islamic terrorism.
And they're not.
They are very, very worried about the rise of the right in Europe.
This is a dangerous moment for European societies.
And Peter Newman, director of the International Study, sorry, the International Center for the Study of Radicalization at King's College, London, with increasing radicalization among supporters of jihadist organizations and the white working class increasingly feeling disenfranchised and uncoupled from elites.
Things are coming to a head.
A dangerous moment in the New York Times headline is not referencing the murder of a dozen French citizens by Muslim terrorists.
Nope.
The dangerous moment is a chance that right-wing political parties could gain power by exploiting the stupid working class's groundless fears of Muslim Islam.
I'm telling the honest to God truth.
Now, I've said in the past that the greatest enemy in America today that the left or the media and the Democrat Party face, the Tea Party, they're more fearful or worried, driven crazy by conservatives and the Tea Party than they are by militant Islam.
How many times have you heard me say that over the years?
Quite a few.
Here's truth.
Here's the evidence.
12 people just slaughtered in France.
100,000 French citizens stood in solidarity.
Do you know that the cops are not armed in Paris?
I think throughout France.
Well, that, too, of course, was a gift to the politically correct.
We can't arm the cops.
That just intimidates the criminals and make them even angrier.
And that's the way political correct thought goes.
So the cops are unarmed.
And so therefore are the citizens.
Citizens are unarmed.
Nobody had any way to stop what was happening.
The cops couldn't have even inhibited guns.
You saw the video of the cop pleading for his life.
He was one of the cops who was killed was Muslim.
He was shot dead.
The cops are not even armed.
That's political correctness to the max for you.
And in the face of all of that, the liberal Bible in the United States is worried that all of this is going to cause the stupid, contemptible middle class that doesn't really know enough to take care of itself is going to cause them to start supporting law and order right-wing political movements.
That's what has the New York Times worried.
Dangerous moment for Europe.
Talking about satire.
Hey, Conan, would you tell this joke?
Because this is a joke.
You'd really accept that it's true.
Now, back to this Conan John Stewart thing for just sec, because I'm going to close the loop on that.
I have seen these few comedians, Conan O'Brien's one, John Stewart's another, try to make serious statements.
Oh, yes.
Hand over the heart, very, very serious statements About the terrorist attacks in Paris.
And they were sick about, they're sick about the attacks on people who tell jokes for a living because this obviously strikes close to home.
And they sincerely explained why it's sick.
And they sincerely explained how it's way beyond wrong.
And I know it was heartfelt.
I know it was.
But the leftists in power they bowed down to, the leftist ideology they bowed down to, meaning Hollywood, haven't checked their personal donations, the Democrat Party, but let's face it, the leftist ideology they support, the poisoning of the Republican brand, this meaningless war on women thing that they all join in attacking the Republicans on.
And of course, they've all made their bones making jokes about Sarah Palin and her special needs child and all of her kids.
And they've gotten great acclaim for some of the easiest jokes in the world to tell Palin jokes, but you would think these are some of the greatest comedy acts in the world.
And it's a guaranteed go-to.
Tell a Palin joke and everybody is going to love you and think you're great.
It's the easiest thing in the world to do.
But now, all of a sudden, oh no, there's a little fear and trepidation out there because, oh, no, we might have to actually start thinking before we tell a joke.
Thinking about who?
You're not going to start thinking about Palin.
You're not worried about offending Palin.
You're not worried about offending a Tea Party.
They're not worried about offending conservatives in general.
But all of a sudden, oh, you've got to be very careful about Islam, even the Prophet, Muhammad.
We've got to be very, very careful.
But you go ahead, you poison the Republican Party.
You go ahead and you continue to tell these lies about Republicans, racists, sexists, bigots, homophobes.
You go ahead and continue to tell the lie about the Republican war on women while the real guys conducting the real war on women are murdering people left and right.
And you're going to be afraid of them.
And you're not going to talk about that much because you have perhaps learned your lesson.
But you know the Republicans, they're not going to fire back at you.
Republicans are going to act scared.
Republicans are going to act like, oh my God, would you please stop talking about me that way?
And they're going to try to make friends with you.
So you'll continue to have power over the Republicans, but you will not have power over Islam.
And you know it.
And therefore, no bravery anymore when it comes to, we have to start thinking before we tell our jokes.
I mean, look at what's been directed at Palin and her family and her children.
She's got an autistic child that they routinely laugh at.
You try that.
But the thing is, we never would, is the point.
They do, routinely.
Why is Palin such an enemy?
What'd she ever do to these people?
Why is Salin Palin's kids such an enemy to these people that now want to really make sure the Muslims don't misunderstand them?
Oh, I've got to make, hey, hey, we're going to start thinking before we crack any, hey, this is serious stuff.
They're going to have due respect for the nation of Islam.
They're going to have due respect for Al Sharpton.
They have proper due respect for all of these militant leftist groups, including militant Islam.
What is it that scares them so much about Palin?
What is it that scares them so much about conservatives?
Why do they get so scared about the Tea Party?
The answers are obvious, by the way.
Most of these people know they're living in a self-constructed little cocoon of things, which really aren't true.
And anybody that comes along is going to blow up the cocoon and cause a mad dash of reality to intercede is going to be an enemy.
Palin supports limited government.
She's taken principled stands against crony camp.
Any conservative who does is going to become an end.
They are the biggest enemy, the left, even in light of what happened in Paris.
Write here, again, just to remind you, New York Times, dangerous moment for Europe as fear and resentment grows.
37 paragraphs, 1,600 words, worried about how this might cause the plebes and the ne'er-do-wells and the know-nothings in the middle class of Europe to support right-wing governments.
We are back.
Great to have you.
Rush Limbaugh 800-282-2882 getting your phone calls much sooner today than we did yesterday.
So hang in there and be tough.
This New York Times story, there are actually two of these.
There's one that's worried about a backlash against Muslims.
They write this story after every act of Muslim terror, every act of militant Islamic terror.
They write this story, they're hand-wringing, they're fretting over the backlash against Muslims, and there hasn't been one yet.
Now, contrast that with the backlash against the cops that has been inspired and fomented by people like the New York Times.
Grand juries render decisions, and there is an immediate assault on the cops.
There's an immediate attack on the cops.
And these people are driven so insane by people like the civil rights leadership, they run out and murder a couple of cops sitting harmlessly in their patrol car.
And the New York Times blames the cops, and the New York Times may as well be the American left.
Where was the concern for backlash against the cops after these grand jury decisions?
Not only was there no concern about no backlash against the cops, there was tantamount encouragement for a backlash against the cops, and it's ongoing.
So we're very worried about a backlash against Muslims that had nothing to do with the attack.
And there has yet to be one in a civilized Western country.
There has yet to be one.
And yet here's the New York Times insulting everybody in this country.
Everybody in the middle, all the plebes, the bourgeois, you know, the no-nothing middle class, which they happen to love them when they vote Democrat.
But for the most part, they think you in the middle class are a raging bunch of idiots and lunatics that don't really know anything, and you need to be saved from yourselves.
You're not responsible for your own health care because you wouldn't make, you can't even spend your money the right way.
That's why they've got to tax more and more of it from you.
I mean, this continues.
Actually, it does kind of boggle my mind.
Dangerous moment for Europe.
Fear and resentment grows.
Worried Average people in Europe turning to right-wing governments in the aftermath of this.
And by the way, the Times doesn't stop there.
The New York Times even attacks Shawhibdu, the magazine.
The New York Times says that the magazine was vulgar, sometimes commercially driven in its efforts to offend every Islamic piety, including the figure of the Prophet Muhammad, and that their magazine and their humor, their vulgarity became a symbol of an aggressive French secularism that saw its truest enemy in the rise of conservative Islam in France.
You note the juxtaposition of conservative next to Islam in the New York Times.
Isn't that fascinating?
Yesterday, happened to mention this program, the Financial Times, in a signed editorial, attacked the French magazine mercilessly.
I mean, went after them.
It was so bad that the editors of the Financial Times toward the end of the day yesterday withdrew it and retracted it.
Well, I don't think they retracted it, but they published an editorial that spoke for the entire publication, condemning the earlier column by their signed op-ed columnist.
I forget his name.
But it was typical, blaming the magazine, making fun of Islam.
It was vulgar.
It was crude.
It just went too far.
Maybe it did.
But it still didn't justify this kind of reaction on the part of the militant Islamists.
But nevertheless, the magazine now, it's come into the crosshairs of the New York Times because it became a symbol of an aggressive French secularism that saw its truest enemy in the rise of conservative Islam.
Isn't that what the New York Times does, by the way?
Couldn't the New York Times be described as a raucous, vulgar, sometimes commercially driven effort to offend every conservative piety, including the figure of, take your pick, Ted Cruz, Mike Lee.
You think you would ever see the words, our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, in the New York Times?
You won't, but you'll see the Prophet Muhammad every other sentence.
You'll hear the drive-by media in talking about this.
It was very insulting to believers in the Prophet Muhammad, the Prophet Muhammad, the Prophet Muhammad.
You'll never hear the Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.
You'll never hear our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.
You won't see it in the drive-by media.
You won't hear it in the drive-by media.
No, because it's perfectly fine to offend them.
In fact, you can win awards doing that.
You can win plaudits doing that.
You can get TV shows doing it.
You can be one of Barbara Walters' 10 most famous, fascinating people of the year if you do that.
The Times doesn't seem to be concerned about offending the very large conservative population in this country.
No, no, they're worried about the conservative backlash against Islam.
That's never happened.
Let me grab a quick call.
Tom and Riverside, is that Connecticut?
Great to have you, sir.
You're up first.
Very important.
First call a day sets the tone oftentimes.
Hey, Rush, how are you?
Very well.
Thank you.
Good.
I think you're a little bit confused about gun control.
And the reason why I say that, you mentioned before that the police officer that was shot as he was laying on the sidewalk didn't have a gun.
So with gun control, that means, you know, the criminal or terrorist shouldn't have a gun either.
So I'd like you to try to state your point on that.
I wasn't making a point.
I was simply reciting a fact.
The French cops, and I don't know if it's all of France or just Paris, but they're not armed.
They carry billy clubs, and that's it.
It was about to political correctness.
The leftist, the PC belief is that armed anybody threatens people.
And if you disarm, then you won't threaten people, and they won't use their guns against you.
That's how it works.
That's like why we're getting rid of our nukes.
We're getting rid of our nuclear weapons to show Putin and everybody else that we're not going to nuke them.
And so the hope is they will get rid of theirs too.
Do you think they will?
Yeah, well, I'd like to make one other point, Rush, if I can.
I know you've pressed for time, but really quick.
I mean, I know in Chicago, they have some of the strongest gun control laws in the country.
And we know that there's not a lot of crime going on there.
Yeah.
Okay.
We got a gun control guy here.
And look at what happened.
How many of you were surprised, by the way, when you heard that the French cops don't have guns?
Did you know you were surprised?
Literally, you had no idea.
Well, Tom didn't either.
He said, I can't believe that.
But maybe that's what gun control does, take the cops' guns away from them, and the bad guys won't shoot anymore.
That's what the left will have you believe.
Why would you take guns out of the hands of cops?
Why would you do it?
To understand why you have to understand liberalism.
You have to understand political correctness.
You have to understand the convoluted thought process that leads you to believe disarming the cops improves security.
Only if the cops are the bad guys in your eyes does that make sense.
▲
Export Selection