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April 8, 2015 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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April 8, 2015, Wednesday, Hour #3
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Let me let me let me try to simplify what I was engaging in a little verbal diarrhea in the last segment of the previous hour.
Uh in responding to the to the woman who expresses every frustration we all have.
You're watching TV and you watch yourself lied about.
The TV people go out and find these mad capped leftist extremists that are just absurdly insane.
And they're presented as normal.
They're presented as the backbone of America.
And they believe all this cockamamy crap that isn't true.
And it's all defamatory.
It's all incendiary, and they spout it left and right, and the media amplifies it.
And you're sitting there and you're watching it, you're getting ticked off.
And you're why doesn't somebody stand up and correct them?
And that's where you go off path, because nobody wants to be corrected.
It's their identity.
It's how they get through the day, it's how they deal with their own inadequacies.
It's how they deal with the fact that they know they're a bunch of oddballs one way or the other.
It's how they know they're not in, it's how they deal with the fact that they're really not in the mainstream, is to impugn, make fun of, defame everything that is.
And then they have to try to wipe out that which threatens them.
And that's what this is all about.
This is not about the expansion of civil rights or human rights.
This is about a direct attack on a clear majority in this country.
Via intimidation and threats, and it is designed to get you to shut up and leave it alone and basically surrender in the face of this pressure.
And uh want you to make basically take no action to defend yourself or the group that you happen to be in the the fellow members of the majority.
They want you to say, okay, you know what, I'll just deal with this myself and I'd let everybody else fend for themselves.
Nobody stands up, defends anything, and that's made the order for them.
Now, how to deal with this.
Uh this which I just described happens to define much of the American media today.
So that is going to determine what you're exposed to.
The way I have done it, personally and professionally, is to have two theories about.
One is that they that they have to be defeated.
Their representatives have to be defeated.
And that's why, to me, I have done everything I can to educate and inform as many people to look at all of this ideologically.
It isn't Democrat versus Republican anymore.
It's liberal extremist, progressive, fascist, whatever, versus the rest of us.
And it's it's in that context that I we we have to do a uh, I think a better job of of helping people that don't spend their days absorbed in this stuff like you and I do.
Nevertheless, being able to learn to identify it and to not be taken in by it, and certainly not be uh put on the defensive constantly by it.
I've shared with you many ways this manifests itself.
And I'll I'll remind you of of uh uh first one that comes to my mind is the dinner party at my own home that I walked out on because a couple people there were ready to throw Sarah Palin overboard simply because the media had destroyed her.
And I was I was aghast.
I said, you guys, are you really telling me that you are that content and that docile that if our candidate can't pass muster with the media, then you're content with them being destroyed.
And they pretty much agreed, yeah, that's the late land rush.
If we have people that can't score with the media, if uh uh the media is able to destroy our people, not worth it defending them.
I said, so you're content to let the Democrats choose our candidates every year.
And they didn't look at it that way.
And even after I'd positioned it that way, they didn't see it that way.
But it's that kind of acquiescence and that kind of surrender that to me, well, it just is that it's surrender.
So you defeat them, Or you support people trying to defeat them, which does that not express your anger at the modern day Republicans?
You don't think they're trying to defeat them.
You see them trying to get along with them.
So that double frustrates you.
They tell you during a campaign they're going to defeat them.
They tell you during campaign they're going to stand up to them.
And then after they win, get to Washington, it's kumbaya.
And can't say anything critical, the independence might not like it, or blah, blah, blah, whatever it is.
So you get doubly frustrated over that.
So what I do, folks, I just ignore it.
Even when it's personal, I just ignore it.
And I've had people say to me, just so you know this, Russia, are you not aware of what's said about you?
I mean, you don't follow Twitter and you don't spend a lot of time on Facebook.
Are you aware of the defamatory stuff?
I said, well, in general, yeah, not specifically.
Well, how do you not do anything about it?
So I've learned that every time I engage it, it gets worse.
The provocateurs claim victory.
And they get even more enthused and more energetic.
The way I deal with it every day on the radio, I be who I am.
And that's I'm very proud and happy to let myself speak for me.
And I've had to learn, this is this is the toughest thing.
I've had to learn to take stuff like that as a measure of success.
And that was really hard because nobody's raised.
Nobody's parents say, now, son, if half our neighborhood hates you, that is your ticket.
That's what you need to aim for, son.
30, 40% of people in the neighborhood hate you.
You want everybody in the neighborhood to love you.
You want everybody in a town to love you.
Um that's not true in my case.
I never thought that anyway, I never thought that was realistic.
Now, that's why I don't go on very many media problems, Fox now and then, but I don't, you have no idea what we turn down here.
I don't bother to tell you, but it's every day.
And sometimes when they get the hint it's every other day, and it's it's every week.
But there's nothing in it.
There's no point.
I know absolutely for a fact that my desire, that my the my desired presence on these programs is not, because anybody's really interested in what I have to say.
They want to be able to take shots and bring up things from 25, 30 years ago that have no relevance.
And since I am one of the few people that doesn't live and die to be on TV, it's very easy to say no.
And I've learned to ignore them.
And I'm surrounded by it.
It's not, I don't have not walled myself off from it, but I've I've learned to ignore it, and I've learned to take some of it as a measure of success.
Now, as I don't think I was really as clear as I wanted to be when I was describing the formulas that exist in in uh TV interviews and so forth.
What I what I meant, and I wasn't being critical of anybody, but when I started in 1988, going forward, all of these things that I just finished telling, I it took me 10 years of experience to learn and figure this stuff out.
And my only point was there weren't very many people, and for the first five years there was nobody.
Nobody had ever experienced it that I was working with.
So there was nobody that could advise me on how to deal with it.
So I was asking everybody, you know, I did kind of an offshoot of the people who say, Rush, are you aware of what they're saying about you?
Yeah, yeah.
Back in the old days, some AP story or something would accuse me of racism or sexism.
And I'd have people, you can't let that stand.
You have got.
You have got to fire back.
You can't let them say that.
So inexperienced, I'd listen to all this and say, okay, I'll try firing back.
So I'd go on the radio and I'd point to the piece and I'd read it.
So you realize this is a crock, this isn't true, and all that happened was another story was generated in which Limbaugh claims and moans and whines that he's been unfairly characterized, and then they give more of their so-called quotable examples of how I'm wrong.
So it just they just double down on it.
Other people said, ignore it.
The more you respond to it, the more you elevate it.
And that certainly became true as this program got bigger and bigger.
I mean, why respond to a newspaper story in a single city and thereby tell the whole country about this before the internet, and then tell the whole country about it, instead of ignoring it and letting it fester there in that little city.
And I I've told this, I wrote about this in my in my first book, and maybe some of you remember hearing this.
But it was within the first, I guess four years I was in it.
It had to be the first five years.
And I was an invited guest at a dinner at a 21 club.
Yeah, it was, it was like 1990, because my first book was out.
So this is in 1992 or 1993.
And I was invited to dinner at 21 Club, and my host said, please bring a copy of your book because the restroom attendant is one of your biggest fans.
So, oh, cool, fine, Dandy.
So I arrive, and after being there a while, uh I'm escorted to the restroom, and the guy in there is indeed a huge fan.
His nickname was the Rev. He's African American, and he was a minister.
And he he moonlighted at 21.
And the minute he saw me, he just started babbling.
I didn't get a word in.
He started telling me how much he enjoyed me, how much he listened, he started quoting things I said, and he said, you know, it's just like Mr. Reagan.
Just like Mr. Now, I'm at this point in time, I'm in the midst of trying to figure out how to deal with all of this.
Because four years ago, nobody hated me.
Nobody who knew me thought I hated anybody.
After six months on the radio, I am filled with all this hate and bigotry and so forth, and trying to figure it all out.
Why is this happening?
Don't these people know me?
And that's what I mean.
They didn't care to get to know me.
They didn't want to know that I was conservative, and therefore I had to be whatever they claimed as a means of rendering me ineffective.
And this guy said to me, you know, he's just Mr. Reagan, Mr. Rey, he just laughed at him.
I hadn't said a word.
I had not said a word.
And then this guy says to me, and he's a reverend.
He said, Mr. Reagan, he just laughed at him.
And I thought, this is divine intervention here.
I got a rev from up in Westchester County in the bathroom at 21, telling me how Reagan dealt with it.
This guy would have had no way of knowing that I was going through an internal struggle of how to deal with this.
He just threw it out there.
He was smiling and laughing, so I figured, okay, that's how to deal with it.
Laugh at him.
But on this interview stuff, the thing about not having mentors, there weren't any until started meeting people in TV.
They were able to give me some advice, but there wasn't much.
It was it was thought, you know, let the kid learn it on his own.
Go out and trip up with Barbara Walters.
Go out and say something stupid, whatever.
Nobody, my here's my point, folks.
Nobody, not a single person told me what I have now learned about the media.
Every bit of what I know about the media has learned from firsthand experience and study.
None of it is the result of prejudice.
None of it is the result of somebody telling me, this is going to happen, this is what they think of you.
Don't fall for this trick.
Try this trick on them.
I got none of that.
And I was thinking, I was wandering the halls here at the Southern Command earlier.
I was thinking, if there was ever a circumstance where there was some young host back where I was 26 years ago, who was about to go through the same things, I would take him aside, and I wouldn't, I wouldn't let three or four years of wasting time gaining experience.
I'd say, here's what you're up against.
You're conservative and you're going to go on X. Well, here's here's what's going to happen.
Here's exactly how they're going to treat you.
This is what they think of you.
So I told the House freshman when I did the orientation speech after the Republicans won the House in 1994.
We had it, in fact, I didn't get to it.
We had an excerpt, a soundbite of the speech I gave them that year.
And I told them, you know, you you're used to watching the news, come out of what you think the media is sidles up to the winners.
You think the media loves the winners and they treat them like good buds and friends and said, No, you are not going to be treated as the winners.
You're the interlopers.
The media in this town is not going to like you.
They're not going to be happy you're here.
They really hate the fact that you now run the House of Representatives.
They're going to do everything they can to make you look like the boobs and idiots they think you are.
Oh, they may bat their eyelashes and ask you to dinner or lunch or whatever, but make no mistake.
The only thing they want is to get you back out of town.
They're never going to treat you the way they treat Ted Kennedy.
They're never going to treat you the way they treat Bill Clinton.
You're never going to be one of their buddies unless you turn traitorous and start ripping your own caucus and then they'll love you.
I remember saying all this to them.
Nobody taught me.
I had to figure that out on myself.
And so I'm the reason I'm pointing this out to you is when woman calls here and asks me for advice.
The only advice I can give you is what I've learned.
And what I have uh what I've lived through.
And the biggest piece of advice that I could give anybody.
And now it's time for me to give a tribute to you, actually.
For all of you who have wanted to call me and warn me about all those things that you're seeing about me and all of these various pockets of the internet.
Rush.
You see what they're saying about you?
I'm aware of it.
Have you ever wondered?
You ever asked yourself why they haven't really succeeded?
I mean, why am I still here?
In the face of all of this.
Twenty-six years of this stuff.
You are aware of every high energy, concerted effort they have made.
I don't have to name them.
You know what they all are.
By the way, I've given them ammo.
It's not all of it's been unfair.
I have given them ammo.
And the reason it hasn't worked, and this is the overriding philosophy that I also evolved.
The media cannot destroy you if they're not the ones who make you.
But if the media makes you, if the media in other words, let's say you have a TV show, and it's actually number 10 in the market, but the media loves you.
And they write about it all the time, and they talk about it all the time, and they promote it, and they make everybody think it's number one.
The day comes when they don't like you, they can take you out.
Because you never have been what they say you are.
If they build you up, it's unreal and untrue, they can take you out.
Well, the media had nothing to do with making me.
They tried to prevent me from making it from the first moment they discovered what was going on.
You made me.
And as such, you're the only ones that can take me out.
They can't.
And that is an overriding philosophy that I, whenever I'm asked by anybody who's in this business or in an ancillary one.
Do not go the PR route.
Do not try to have buzz and PR define your success.
Make it real.
And make it make your success real and dependent on real people making you a success, not some media buzz, because that is fleeting.
They can they can take that away from you, and you're a nobody.
But they can't take away from you what they haven't built.
Gotta take a break back after this.
Here, here's this one little excerpt of the speech I delivered to the Republican freshman class.
They made me an honorary member.
1994, this was uh the Heritage Foundation put this thing on.
It was at uh Camden Yards in uh in Baltimore, and this is just about a minute, but it it's the point that I was making mere moments ago.
We all are susceptible to human nature, and we all want to be liked.
We all want to be loved, and you all want to live in surroundings which are not hostile.
But inside the beltway for people like us, this is not possible.
And so sometimes to avoid the hostility, we say things and then begin to do things designed to gain the approval of Those who are hostile toward us.
I want to warn you against it.
I want to warn you, you will never ever be their friends.
They don't want to be your friends.
Some female reporter will come up to one of you and start batting her eyes and ask you to go to lunch.
And you'll think, wow, I'm only a freshman.
Koki Roberts wants to take me to lunch.
I've really made it.
Don't seriously, don't fall for this.
This is not the time to get moderate.
This is not the time to start trying to be like.
This is not the time to start gaining the approval of the people you've just defeated.
Well, uh, that class listened to it, but it was shortly forgotten.
But it wasn't long after that that Koki Roberts called and invited me to lunch.
She was laughing when she called, by the way.
But it's it's still the case today.
It was true then, and it's it's still is the case today, but it's a very unnatural thing.
People don't want to be in conflict all the time.
But see, that's the thing the left is.
Life to them is confrontation.
Life is conflict.
They are incapable of being content.
They cannot simply take a day off and enjoy things as they are.
Psychologically, well, I don't know what it is.
Uh realization they're oddballs and kooks.
I don't know, but they just don't.
You're just the opposite.
You just want to live.
You only get one life, you want to enjoy it.
You don't want to be in constant battle and conflict, but that's all they want to do.
And they are.
Every day, never stops.
To deal with it, you have to engage it and defeat it.
Never gonna change their minds.
It's a futile thing to try.
Yeah, I know.
I I've the the Rutgers professor story.
I did, I hyped it.
I'm not gonna read this whole thing, but I do you need to hear this.
This is a professor, assistant professor.
Women's and gender studies at Rutgers.
Her name is Brittany Cooper, and she says that the religious right worships a butthole god, although she doesn't say but a butthole god with nothing holy or loving or righteous or inclusive or liberatory theologically sound about them.
Just days before Easter, she took to the internet to blast Christians for inventing a white supremacist Jesus.
Published a column for online magazine Slate excoriating supporters of Indiana's religious freedom restoration act, which she dubbed the religious freedom garbage, and alleging that conservative Christians harbor antagonistic political views toward every single group of people who are not white male Christian, cisgender straight and middle class.
We especially hate the non-cis-gendered.
She says, "'Any time right-wing conservatives declare that they're trying to restore or reclaim something, we should all be very afraid.'"Cooper claims the Indiana law sanctions the exercise of Islamophobia, and declares it a slippery slope that'll lead to racially inflected religious discrimination.
Nothing about the cultural and moral regime of the religious right in this country signals any kind of freedom, she wrote, adding that, quote, this kind of legislation is rooted in a politics that gives white people the authority to police and terrorize people of color, queer people, and poor women.
Who is terrorizing whom here?
She claims to be a Christian.
She's a self-proclaimed Christian professor, says she often questions if she worships the same god of white religious conservatives, who she describes as a white, blonde haired, blue eyed, gun-toting, Bible quoting Jesus.
I call this God the God of white supremacy and patriarchy.
According to Brittany Cooper, if your politics are rooted in a contemporary anti-black misogynist homophobic conservatism, that we are not serving the same God.
That God, she claims, is the aforementioned bodily orifice, with nothing holy or loving or righteous or inclusive or theologically sound about him.
She concludes by encouraging others to declare death to the unholy trinity of white supremacist, capitalist hetero patriarchy, allegedly created by those on the religious right who have pimped Jesus' death to support the global spread of American empire via war.
Again, she teaches women and gender studies and Africana studies at the publicly funded University in New Brunswick, New Jersey, Rutgers, and she describes herself as a next generation black intellectual.
And somebody sending their kids to this woman to be taught.
And she is just filled with rage and hatred that she assigns to other people.
Interesting story, and we know we've talked about this on previous occasions.
You remember we've discussed the Democrat Party and their identity politics problem.
I think it's a problem, identity politics.
And that's Brittany Cooper, classic example, identity politics.
What somebody is, what they really think is irrelevant, all this surface stuff about them is what defines them.
But here you have Obama, first African American president above criticism, insulated from criticism because any criticism is said to be racist.
So the critics shut up, and he has his way.
And it was theorized the Democrats would try it next with the first female president, and the same thing.
Any criticism, sexism, war on women, and thereby all the critics of Mrs. Clinton would shut up.
And she would have her way.
And then they would try it with the first Hispanic president.
And any criticism of the first Hispanic president would be bigotry.
Or another form of racism.
And the media would level the charge and the critics would shut up, and the Hispanic president would have his way with no obstructions in the way.
Well, Josh Kraushauer has a piece here at National Journal.
The Democrats have an identity politics problem.
In the Obama era, Democrats have become a party defined by identity.
What happens when they run out of candidates who can excite their diverse base?
He starts out this way the question of the moment, as the competitive Republican field grows larger by the day, is why Hillary Clinton is barely being challenged for the Democrat nomination.
And the answer lies within the changing nature of her party.
It's not because she's capable of raising record sums of money.
It's not because she's a Clinton.
That's not why she's the only Democrat seen with a chance.
It isn't because she's a strong campaigner.
And it's not primarily because the Democrats have a fairly weak bench, even though it is a bit of a factor.
No, the main reason why Clinton's a near luck for the nomination is the Democrats have become the party of identity.
They're now dependent on a coalition that relies on exciting less reliable voters with non-traditional candidates.
Obama proved he could turn out African American, Hispanic, and young voters to his side in 2012, even as they faced particularly rough economic hardships brought on by his policies.
As the first female major party nominee for president, Hillary hopes to win decisive margins with Women voters and is planning to run on that historic message in sharp contrast to her campaign's argument playing down that uniqueness in 2008.
See, she didn't, in 2008, she didn't hype the fact that she'd be the first female president, but that's out the window.
Now she's going to do it after having seen how successful it was for Barack Hussein, oh.
One of the paradoxes of today's Democrat Party is that despite the increasing importance of a diversified voting coalition, the Democrat Party is drastically underrepresented by talented non-white politicians.
That's an oxymoron.
Talented non-white politicians.
I'm kidding.
I'm just kidding.
It's drastically underrepresented by talented non-white politicians in its congressional gubernatorial and statewide ranks.
The great irony of Obama's presidency is that by playing to his progressive base so much, Obama oversaw the collapse of his party at the local level.
And by the way, there is no doubt about that.
You don't hear about it because it isn't written, but in 2010 and 2014, the Democrat Party lost close to over a thousand seats.
Nationwide, all the way down the ballot.
For all the Republicans' recent internal struggles, the dividing lines within the party have primarily been over policy.
In the Democrat Party, the dividing lines are about identity.
And who's authentically X?
Who's an authentic African American?
Who's an authentic feminazi?
Who is an authentic woman?
Who's an authentic Hispanic?
Who's an authentic illegal?
All of that.
They got internal arguments about it.
It's all surface.
National Journal is not a liberal not a conservative publication.
This means they're worried about this out there.
It's quite a lengthy piece.
I've just given you some of the highlights.
And uh now we must take a brief.
Look at this historic Cybercast News Service.
People fleeing high-tax states for low-tax alternatives.
I. It's amazing to me.
When given the freedom to do so, people will flock to places with more freedom.
They will pack up and they move from places that hinder freedom.
And it and yet most people don't get this.
Even the people moving don't really get it, or at least don't seem to.
I should develop that greatly or more greatly, but time again a factor.
Got to take a break.
Back after this.
El Jokar, Sinaev guilty on all counts.
In the uh Boston bombing, and it looks like he's uh eligible for the death penalty.
Jury came back in just two days, which was kind of a telltale sign.
It's a good thing it wasn't an L.A. It might have felt sorry for him that it was missing all his friends.
That's the Menendez jury uh, by the way.
Here's Bruce in Muskegon, Michigan.
Bruce, I'm uh I'm glad you waited.
Great to have you on the program.
Hello.
Uh I'll get right to my thank you, Ross.
I'll get right to my comment.
Thank you.
Thank you.
Uh referring to the Obama the Obama um interview that you you talked about earlier on your show.
I'd like you to comment on what I think was a subtle but very revealing statement that he made, which I think really shows his colors.
He went on and on about how great this deal was, and this was our only chance, and there are all sorts of guarantees.
And then he made this statement.
And before I meet before I repeat a statement, let me state what he did not say.
He did not say, I guarantee you that this will prevent Iran from getting a bomb.
What he did say, and I quote, I guarantee you that this agreement will prevent Iran from getting a bomb on my watch.
He is That's that's a good catch.
That's a good catch because that's exactly right.
That's everybody for the most part is gonna be gone in ten years.
If all the central figures, uh Kerry is certainly gonna be back in uh Sun Valley skiing or snowsurfing, whatever he does.
And they're all gonna be gone, and none of what is scheduled to happen in ten years is uh probably gonna be a tributable to them.
That attributed to them.
That's that's that's another reason for the ten years, which then becomes thirteen.
Uh won't happen on my watch.
Pretty safe bet that be able to factually say that Iran will not have a nuclear weapon in a year and a half by the time Obama's term expires.
Good catch, Bruce.
I appreciate that, and we will be right back.
Don't go away.
Folks, that's it for today.
But uh don't worry, as is always the case, we are here tomorrow.
Back at it in 21 short hours on the EIB network.
And thank you again so much for being with us.
It's always a thrill and highly appreciated.
Sit tight.
Whatever happens between now and then will be on top of it, we'll be revved and ready to tell you what happened and what to think about it.
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