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June 17, 2015 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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June 17, 2015, Wednesday, Hour #2
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Ladies and gentlemen, there's a component here that I need to mention.
And this Rachel Dolezal business.
I really need to mention this.
Because it's a factor.
And once I tell you what it is, you can't deny that it's a factor, and that's President Obama himself.
Remember the comments he's made about his uh, what was it, his grandmother?
You know, when he went and made the race speech in 2008 during the campaign about Reverend Wright, he threw something in about his uh grandmother, indicating that she was she was latent uh racist.
Typical white woman.
And in his uh in his book, one of his two books, I don't know which one here at the off top of my head, uh, but I want to read this passage, see if this doesn't sound exactly like what I just read to you from this Pennsylvania, University of Pennsylvania professorette, who's all absorbed in her white guilt.
It's so bad that she can't live with herself, and she's advocating if we all abandon our whiteness and create a new whiteness.
Here's Obama, just a short little passage we got to Trump and the other stuff out there.
For instance, Obama wrote, while watching the movie Black Orpheus, which he hated, he turned to his mother.
I decided that I'd seen enough.
I turned to my mother to see if she might be ready to go.
But her face, lit by the blue glow of the screen, was set in a wistful gaze.
At that moment, I, Barack Obama, felt as if I were being given a window into her heart.
The unreflective heart of her youth.
I suddenly realized that the depiction of childlike blacks that I was now seeing on the movie screen, the reverse image of Conrad's dark savages, was what my mother had carried with her to Hawaii all those years before, a reflection of the simple fantasies that had been forbidden to a white middle class girl from Kansas, the promise of another life, warm, sensual, exotic, different.
I turned away embarrassed for her, embarrassed for my mother, irritated with the people around me.
That's Obama whiting writing about the racism of his mom.
And so they're watching a movie.
Now I don't know how many people have read Obama's books.
Uh that's by the way, this is a this phrase, as if I were being given a window into her heart.
The unreflective heart of her youth.
Some kid thinks like that.
It's with his mom at the movies, his mom is transfixed, watching young black kids in a movie on a screen, and he wants to leave.
He sees his mother is glued to it and can't pull herself away, and he feels embarrassed for her.
That's from dreams from my father.
I mean that that's that's just I don't know who in their teens or early teens even think the the unreflective heart of her youth.
Meaning, yeah, before she'd had time to really even know what she was doing.
She was just exhibiting the racism of her youth that she had no choices.
Poor woman, and she gets to move to grew up in Kansas, a bunch of racists and so forth, and then took all of that to Hawaii for the promise of another life.
That's just the this is obsession with this stuff.
You know, that all these people claim, every one of them claim practically a descendant, right, to the Reverend Martin Luther King, who was about the exact opposite of this.
Anyone remember the big quote about wanting to see his children judged, not by the color of their skin, but rather by the content of their character, whatever happened to that.
That's gone, and now all that matters is the color of your skin.
And that says everything about you that everybody needs to know.
You don't need to go any deeper than that to know deep truths.
Man, what a I don't know, folks.
It's just it is tragic.
I don't want to belabor it.
But what's happening to our culture and the people in it, which actually are it's not good.
And there's and nobody in prominence leadership won't stand up and just say, stop, nobody's nobody wants to.
This is silly.
It's just it's it's this web, this intricately woven web of deceit, continues to be more intricately implanted deeper and deeper into our culture.
I checked the email during the break, and some people thought that I was making it up about Michael Eric Dice.
I don't make anything up here.
Folks, I 26, 27 years, whatever it is.
It's the uh website Super Mexican, which we quoted from them yesterday, occasional MSNBC guest and professional idiot, this is the words of the website, not me.
Michael or Eric Michael Dyson went on some incomprehensible rant about how Rachel Dolazal's parents are asking her to stop betraying the white man and that she's actually more black than Clarence Thomas.
He actually said it.
Who could make it?
I don't think that way.
Even when I'm even when I'm thinking about making fun of or making jokes about people on the on the left.
But you know, here's how crazy it is.
Here you have Bernie Sanders.
Let's look at that.
Bernie Sanders.
Here's a guy who not only mocks and makes fun of rape victims, but he wants to bring the ideology of Stalin and Saddam and Mao Tse Tung to the United States.
And he's perfectly normal as far as the media is concerned, and over here's Donald Trump and he's the clown.
The reflex.
The the the the the willingness that we have, I guess, to let the media select our candidates for us is just credible.
By the way, uh before I get to this National Review piece.
Oh, wait.
Oh no.
Oh no, where?
Oh, here it is.
I think I thought I'd misplaced it, but I haven't.
Um, let me just get straight to this.
I'm looking at the clock at a time, it's really zipping by here.
This Kevin Williamson.
Kevin Williamson is great guy.
Kevin Williamson is one of the stars at National Review, National Review Online.
Kevin Williamson's one of their smart guys.
But man does he have an animus to Donald Trump.
And I'm gonna read some of this verbatim to you.
The headline.
Are you ready?
Witless ape rides escalator.
That's pretty ruthless.
Donald Trump, witless ape on an escape.
You ready for this?
I I like Kevin Williamson.
I wish Kevin would write something like this about Hillary.
I wish some in our conservative media would let go with some of this stuff for Democrats.
Donald Trump may be the man America needs.
Having been through four bankruptcies, the ridiculous buffoon with the worst taste since caligula is uniquely positioned to lead the most indebted organization in the history of the human race.
That's the United States, by the way, if you're wondering.
The Trump conglomerate is the Argentina of limited liability companies, having been in bankruptcy as recently as 2009.
Now, to be sure a lot of companies went bankrupt around then.
The Trump gang went bankrupt in 2004, too, and in 2001.
Before that, Trump was in bankruptcy court back in 1991 when his Taj Mahal casino in Atlantic City, the nation's first casino cum strip club, an aesthetic crime against humanity that is tacky by even the standards of Atlantic City turned out to be such a loser that Trump could not make his debt payments.
Did you hear how he just described Trump's casino?
Let me run through that again.
This is one of these pieces when you read it grammatically and with all the punctuation makes sense, but reading it, sometimes you get lost, so it takes a professional like me with great interpretive reading skills to bring the printed word alive, which we'll do again here.
Trump was in bankruptcy court back in 1991 when his Taj Mahal casino in Atlantic City, which by the way was the nation's first casino slash strip club.
An aesthetic crime against humanity that is tacky by the standards of Atlantic City also turned out to be such a loser that Trump couldn't make his debt payments.
The closing of that casino has been announced at least twice.
It was supposed to shut its doors in December, but it limps on.
Now Donald Trump being Donald Trump announced his candidacy at Trump Plaza, making a weird grand inference via escalator going down, of course, the symbolism of which is lost on that witless ape.
But who could witness that scene?
The self-made man who started with nothing but a modest portfolio of twenty-seven thousand New York City properties acquired by his millionaire slum lord father, barely out of his latest bankruptcy, possibly headed for another one, as the casino jiggle joint bearing his name sinks into the filthy mire of the one U.S. city that makes Las Vegas look respectable.
A reality television grotesque with his plastic surgery disaster wife grunting like a baboon about our country's brand and his own vast wealth.
And not see the peerless sign of our times.
On the substance Trump is how to put it gently.
Oh why bother?
On the substance Trump is an ass.
Not just an ass, but an ass of exceptionally intense assininity.
China?
China's leaders are like Tom Brady, and the U.S. is like a high school football team, Trump says, and so we should do what?
Call Bill Belichick, I would say.
Trump's is a fill in the blanks agenda.
He claims to have a plan for defeating ISIS, but he can't say what it is for reasons of operational security for the mission that exists only in his mind.
By the way, coming up later, our old buddy Ron Fournier does have an idea on how to defeat ISIS and wait till you hear it.
You you wait till the millennials hear it.
I I hope the Democrat Party adopts his idea of how to defeat ISIS.
It would cause the biggest mass exodus to the Republican Party you have yet seen.
But we'll get to that in due course.
I want to finish this national review piece on Trump.
You still with me?
Here we go.
Trump's is a fill in the blanks agenda, claims to have a plan for defeating ISIS, but he can't say what it is for reasons of operational security for the mission that exists only in his mind.
He assures us the plan's foolproof.
But whoever coined that word had never met a fool like Donald Trump.
Immigration?
Simple.
Build a wall, force the Mexicans to pay for it.
Now, how to do that?
Well, the one thing worse than Trump's vague horse pucky is his specific horse pucky, i.e., his nineteen ninety nine plan to impose a one-time tax.
Everybody knows how good Washington is about one time uses of power on the wealth of all high net worth individuals and institutions.
That's who he wanted the one-time tax on.
A 14.25% tax he calculated would retire the national debt.
And what about institutions that don't have 14.25% of their net worth in ready cash?
To take a totally random example, let's say a poorly run real estate concern with a lot of illiquid assets and unmanageable debt payments, eating up all its ready cash like Trump's.
Where's he gonna get the money to pay his own tax?
Trump says that he cannot discuss the details of his agenda because of his word enemies.
Who are these enemies?
Perspective, Trump predicted that we may be heading toward a stock market crash worse than the one in 1929, but quote, I remain extremely optimistic about Atlantic City, unquote.
Now we've been to this corner of Crazy Town before.
If we're gonna have a billionaire dope running for the presidency, I prefer Ross Perot and his cracked tales of Vietnamese hit squads dispatched to take him out while Lee Atwater plotted to crash his daughter's wedding with phonied up lesbian sex pictures.
That, by the way, is why Perot got out of the race, in case you forgot you still with me on this.
This is a national review.
Have you ever heard have you ever read anything in conservative media written like this about a Democrat?
Anyway, it is true.
Perot got out of the race because he heard that Lee Atwater, who is Bush's hitman, Bush 41, was plotting to crash his daughter's wedding with phonied up lesbian sex pictures.
And he announced that.
I have a theory, writes Kevin D. Williamson here.
I have a theory about Trump and his delusions, based, I'll admit, on pure superstition.
There is an ancient belief, one that persists into our own time, that our names exert a cult influence on our lives.
And Trump's name, while potentially comical, Don John, doesn't offer much in the way of spraying, but his father's middle name was true fact, Christ.
Fred Christ Trump.
Obama's arrival was announced by a man called Emmanuel, but McDonald's was brought into this world by Christ himself, Fred Christ.
How could a man like that not have a Messiah complex?
Of course, when Trump sings How Great Thou Art, he sings it in a mirror.
The problem with Messiah complexes is that there's no way to know whether you're going to rise on the third day unless somebody crucifies you.
Shee!
Shee!
Whoa.
Trump has announced, and I say we get started on that.
Kevin D. Williamson, National Reviews Roving Correspondent.
Okay, got to get to the phones here, folks.
It's been an hour and a half and we haven't gotten there yet.
And uh I intended to in the previous hour is gonna start with Monica Spring Hill, Florida.
I'm glad you waited.
Really appreciate your patience, and hello, Monica.
Hello.
Big hug and kiss to you.
Thank you very much.
I feel it, as you're doing as I really do.
So I need your help.
Okay.
We're listening to you, and we're talking about my husband and I are talking about this Rachel Chick and how, oh, she's so crazy, she's white, and she thinks she's black, and then I paused, and I looked at my husband, and I said, okay, I was born in Venezuela.
I am technically Hispanic.
Right.
But I do not relate to the Hispanic culture.
I think of myself as white.
And I was telling him, I'm like, you know, when I've had to fill out some paper that says what race are you, I kind of look at and go, oh yeah, I guess I am Hispanic.
But I completely embraced the I guess you could say American white culture.
I don't think of myself as Hispanic because if I say I'm Spanish, oh well, you must like spicy food, or I should dress a certain way.
You are you are you are offering evidence of how people are getting swept up into this.
The truth is you were born in Venezuela, means you were a communist.
And now living in America, you've become a capitalist.
That's all that matters.
And the rest of this stuff is just window dressing.
Well, that's just it.
It's like I have completely I came to this country when I was nine, so I have completely assimilated to this culture, and I don't think of myself in a Hispanic way.
And so I can kind of relate to this.
No, no, no, no, no, no.
No, seriously.
Monica, seriously.
You can't relate.
What your your story is not similar.
Okay.
You're just an American.
I'm not crazy.
I don't need to get some.
No, you're not.
See what happens here?
Now you're out there thinking you're crazy.
You think you can relate to this woman because you were born in Venezuela, which makes you Hispanic.
You're a normal.
You're not thinking you're a human being.
You live in America.
You like the country and you're trying to make the best of it.
My husband is totally white.
I don't like I mean, I I don't I just don't relate to the Spanish culture, the music, the all that stuff.
I just people just assume things like people think that because I'm Spanish.
Wait a second.
Wait, wait, wait, wait.
Wait a second.
Why just because you were born in Venezuela?
Should you like having a pinata at Christmas?
What in the world there's nothing that says that.
You didn't you didn't grow up there.
You grew up in the United States.
Well, yeah, I mean, everything I can truly formative remember.
I mean, I I do like aspects about Hispanic culture, of course, but I just So do I. Not Joe's.
Anyway, uh look, I I'm out of time here.
It's probably a good thing.
Um back.
Ladies and gentlemen, my little tech blogger buddies are probably having orgasms about now.
The FCC, the Obama regime has announced plans to fine ATT 100 million dollars.
You know why?
For allegedly deceiving customers about unlimited wireless data plans.
The FCC says that ATT sold consumers' data plans advertise unlimited, you know, pay X amount and use as much data as you want, but then the government says that ATT capped data speeds, in other words, slowed people down after they had used a set amount of data within a billing cycle.
This is also called throttling, where you clog the pipe so that speeds show down.
You actually slowed down your uh customers.
Because in your mind, ATT, they're using data that uh their monthly bill is no longer paying for since it's unlimited.
And my little tech blogger buddies have been complaining about this for I don't know, two years, maybe longer.
So they're just gonna be in fat city when they see this.
The only thing to make them happier is if it was Comcast.
They hate Comcast.
Then after that, they hate Time Warner.
Well, I don't know.
Snerdley asked me if uh if the consumers don't get any money back, the money's gonna go to the government.
I don't know.
FCC says that those cap speeds were much slower than the normal network speeds advertised by ATT, and that they impaired consumers' ability to access the internet or use applications for the rest of their billing cycle.
Typical throttling is what they say happened here.
But doesn't say what happens to the fine money.
I assume some look at this is an open invitation for the trial lawyer bar of America to come in here with a big class action.
That's probably what's gonna happen.
sign on and you'll get a check for $9.41 20 years from now.
No.
Make up for all the mistreatment you had at the hands of ATT.
Here's Mike in Alexandria, Louisiana.
Great to have you on the program.
Welcome.
Yes, sir.
Very well, sir.
Thanks much.
Pleasure to be able to talk to you.
Look, I just wanted to make a comment about this Rachel girl uh when she was being interviewed.
I don't know who it was she was talking to, but in any case, what she said at the end caught me.
Uh it struck me when she said uh something about uh when the interviewer was asking about being honest or true about who she was or whatever.
I don't know the exact words, but she said her truth or my truth.
And so now truth is whatever someone thinks it is or who they are.
In this case, she thinks she's black.
So it must be true because she thinks it.
Look, this is it, this is this is under assault.
This is exactly my point from the opening monologue today.
There is no objective truth anymore.
And folks, we we cannot hold together as a cohesive society for very long if there is no objective truth.
If there are no objective facts, the woman is not black.
No matter how you measure it, no matter how you calculate it, biologically, genealically, she isn't black, and she knows it because she does not want to be called African American.
She knows that she's not African American, so black is a mindset.
I if if if I were African American civil rights community, I'd be livid.
She just she's nuking everything these people have been trying to accomplish.
I mean, the civil rights community, let me restate this.
Sometimes you have to say things over and over for them to penetrate.
People's minds.
And the fact is the civil rights community, as it is currently constituted and has been for the recent past, has one objective, and that is to continue to convince as many people as possible of the horrors of being born black in the United States.
It's the worst thing can happen to any human being is to be born black.
The oppression is worse than ever.
It's almost like slavery hasn't ended.
That's the message.
It's just never-ending discrimination, racism, bigotry, all of those things thrown in.
Oppression, you name it.
That is why all these white people are feeling guilty.
They've been hearing this their whole lives.
I mean, if there's all this racism and oppression, who's been doing it?
White people.
If the worst thing to happen to anybody is to be born black in the United States, somebody's got to be responsible for the white people.
So you got all these young white kids and you start pummeling up with this stuff, Saturday morning cartoon shows, uh, kindergarten class, grade school, middle school, you name it, doesn't take long before they're just they're they're walking around so burdened with guilt that they can't live with themselves.
Because they think they're responsible for all these people feeling so horrible and unsafe and put upon and discriminated against and can't get jobs, there's nothing fair for them out there.
It's just horrible, and we're responsible.
I think they personally are responsible.
They've probably never discriminated against anybody in their lives.
Probably haven't held anybody back in their lives, and they're walking around with hundreds of years of guilt that's been ladled on their shoulders.
So here comes here comes Dolezol flipping around here, scamming the NAALCP in Spokane.
And she's got she it she she feels so bad.
They've done such a good job guilt tripping her that she wants to be black.
Well, the problem on the here on the other hand, is the civil rights community.
How can anybody want to be black?
That doesn't really make sense if it's so bad.
The worst thing can happen to you is to be born black in the United States.
Why would some white chick want to be black?
It just destroys the whole meme.
So if I were them, I'd be livid, but they're confused, they're conflated because we live in the era of PC.
And if she thinks she's black, well then she is, because there is no objective truth anymore.
And it's for this reason I say the insane are sweeping us all up.
They're hoovering us, folks.
They're sucking us all up in their giant vacuum hose, and they're taking us with them.
Whether we want to go or not.
And when there's no objective truth, there can't be any real education.
When there are no facts, when everything is what you want it to be, when you are what you feel.
Do you, by the way, do you know what happened?
You know, yesterday on this program, I officially announced that I identify as skinny to make a point.
And I do.
I identify as skinny.
And if you don't see me the way I see myself, you are the bigot.
So you better, every next time you see me, you better think skinny.
Because if you don't, you're the bigot.
You're the discriminator.
So at MediaEight, they run this little story, the giant headline, Rush Limbaugh mocks.
Rachel Dolezal.
Mox.
It used to be called satire.
It used to be called parody.
And it still is, if John Stewart does it.
It still is, if Jimmy Fallon.
It still is if any leftist comedian Bill Maher does it.
If I come along and do it, it's mocking.
It's making fun of.
It's looking down on.
It's mean spirited and extremism and so forth.
Anyway, not to lose train of thought.
Caller's exactly right.
There is no objective truth.
Except there is, see.
That's the little secret.
There is truth.
There are facts.
And if so, what?
What what what what what?
All right, all right.
All right, snarly as a question, but it must, you must be worried that my answer might go on the air, because you are waiting to ask me the question during the commercial break.
Are you disagreeing with me when I say that there is there is objective truth?
What do you mean, not quite?
There is...
Question is...
What if black isn't a race and instead is a culture?
Fine.
Still doesn't make her black.
She's not black.
She's telling people she's black.
She is not saying I'm more comfortable with black life and black culture.
She's telling people she identifies black.
And she's causing all these uh stories, genealogical trace, trying to find any evidence of slave blood.
Her parents, bless their hearts, are going crazy here.
Uh if and by the way, it is it's it's a potential giant pitfall to start talking about black culture or any other culture when because you could you could invariably be accused of bigotry just the way you might describe it.
Any culture, by the people in it.
But your your question really is rooted in the fact is there a culture out there that is you'd call black culture that has nothing to do with race.
Is that your question?
Well, you answer it yourself.
You're in a better position to know than I am.
Okay, is there is there a white culture independent of the white race?
Is there?
I don't think this way, so I'm gonna need some help.
All I can folks, let me let me further elucidate this.
Let's go back to the grooveyard of forgotten favorites.
Remember one of our parody tunes here, Barack the Magic Negro.
Now, if you remember that, what you probably well, not you in this audience because you remember, but the low information crowd out there, the skulls full of mush.
What they think about that, what they think they know about that is 180 degrees wrong.
The the Barack the Magic Negro was the end of a sordid news cycle in which this country was treated to a debate over who was authentically black and who wasn't.
And at the time, 2007-2008, many in the civil rights community who were still aligned with Hillary, were accusing Obama of being inauthentic.
And that's where the Magic Negro Column in the LA Times came from.
I mean, this is nothing new.
It's just getting worse and worse.
It's getting sicker and sicker.
The Magic Negro in uh lore is exactly what Obama was.
Is uh this is not my definition.
It's in the urban dictionary.
It's I'd never heard of it, by the way, until the black guy wrote the column on it in the LA Times.
I'd never heard the term magic Negro.
I didn't know what it was.
And it turns out that it's well, it's uh it's uh African American, it's not threatening that makes white people feel safe voting for.
So in in the political context.
It's got just deeper than that, though.
But the arguments about Obama's authenticity were all on the left.
They were all the Democrat Party.
And it got pretty vicious out there.
On the Democrat Party side, on the side of the American left.
It was vicious.
You had people say wasn't authentic, wasn't down for the struggle, didn't really have slave blood, he didn't know anything about it.
He had to fake it.
He goes to Selma, he didn't know what Selma was about.
He had never heard of Selma.
He had to read about it.
His dad was never in Selma, except he was dad was inspired by Selma Obama said.
I don't know.
It's got to take a break.
Sit tight, my friends.
Don't go away.
I tell you what, the race industry had better be very careful here, folks, because if I'm jumping off here on Mr. Snerdley's pregunta to me.
What if black isn't race?
What if it's just culture?
Just a culture.
Well, if black is not a race.
If black is not a race, if it's just a social construct, if it's just a distinct and unique culture, then there's no reason for affirmative action, folks.
Because race is all made up.
If black isn't a race, and the only way you can welcome Rachel Dolazal to the tribe is to a race.
You know, black isn't a race, it's a culture.
She's not black.
She's not African, she's not African American, she's not South Africa.
She's no African.
She's Ziltzero Nana.
Yet she identifies as black.
So it's going to be black culture.
Well, if black culture isn't race, then I buy affirmative action.
They better be very careful.
Of course, that's not going to happen, but I mean it could open up the argument.
Now, the Magic Negro column, that was the LA Times.
It was in 2007.
It was by a guy named David Erinstein, who is what now?
He's black or African American.
He's both.
As a black guy wrote the column.
Here's an excerpt.
He's there.
Obama is.
He's there to assuage white guilt.
The minimal discomfort they feel over the role of slavery and racial segregation in American history while replacing stereotypes of a dangerous, highly sexualized black man with a benign figure, for whom interracial sexual congress holds no interest.
That's that's how the magic Negro was described in the LA Times.
I didn't make any of it.
Of course, I got I got tired and feathered with creating it, inventing it, and all that, but I didn't.
The lyrics of the parody song even make that claim.
If black isn't a race, then you're not born that way.
You get a little two-month-old baby.
Doesn't know yet what culture he's going to adopt, right?
So if black's not a race, then you aren't born that way.
John in Leavenworth, Washington.
Great to have you, sir.
I'm glad you called.
Hi.
Thank you, Ross, for taking my call.
You bet.
Yeah, I just uh I haven't watched this super closely, the Rachel Dolez all thing.
I have to maintain my sanity.
But uh I haven't heard anybody mention her teaching career that she's actively involved in.
Um specifically, she's a teacher at Eastern Washington University in Cheney, Washington, just outside Spokane.
Uh and my daughter had one of her classes this last fall.
Um my daughter tried to describe some of the classes, and I I it's a little beyond my understanding how far uh some of the stuff went discussions in class.
But I thought I hadn't heard anybody talk about that about her being a teacher and educating young minds to uh to go down her path.
Well, people are.
I mean, I've got I've got the story in the stack.
The Dolez all stack is pretty thick now.
The sex tape, uh the mean ex-husband that forced her into the sex tape, all the photos of her posing as a black babe on the rocks somewhere on a beach, uh, and the fact that she's a uh a professor or teacher.
And there's no question that she's been pummeling this stuff.
And uh well, you're you've you've you've evidence of it right there.
And daughter comes home and describes what's going on in class, and the poor guy's clueless.
He can't figure it out.
Anyway, I'm glad you called, John.
I really am up.
Gotta go, folks.
We got get out of here.
No, no, I've not forgotten.
I've got the uh the Pope and uh climate change coming up.
Audio sound bites on Trump.
Yeah, lots still to do, my friends.
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