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June 17, 2015 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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June 17, 2015, Wednesday, Hour #3
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The views expressed by the host on this program make more sense than anything anybody else out there happens to be saying because the views expressed by the host of this program documented to be almost always right 99.7% of the time because we engage here in a relentless pursuit of objective truth.
And we find it and we herald it.
And this causes panic in many sectors of our society.
Great to have you back here, folks, as we uh rev up for the third hour, broadcast excellence at 800 28282, email address L Rushmow at EIB net.com.
Look, I note Rachel Dolazal is no longer a professor.
She'd been fired from uh the university in uh in Washington.
And who knows, they now may end up being sued given the garbage that was her class she meant she may end up suing them for firing her, like Ward Churchill did when he was run out of Dodge.
Uh I think that was in Denver, somewhere in uh in Colorado.
Anyway.
The Pope.
Now I realize it's risky to discuss the Pope because it could be misunderstood as talking about Catholicism.
And in a theological way, and I'm not doing that.
I think the Pope has entered the realm of politics with this encyclical, and so my reaction is likewise political.
I'm not at all entering the world of Catholicism in order to discuss this.
But it was just yesterday on this program that I, your beloved host, just your average guy on the radio here, suggested that the Pope's encyclical on climate change was nothing more than Marxism.
Nothing more than communism.
Well, get this from the National Catholic Reporter.
Pope Francis, concern for poor is a sign of the gospel.
It's not communism.
Now, I do not believe that you, Papa nor the Vatican are responding to me.
I think they are responding to what they assume a lot of people are going to think about his encyclical.
Focusing on poverty and sacrificing for the poor are the heart of the gospel, not signs of communism, Pope Francis said at his morning mass.
Furthermore, if Christians do not dig deep and generously open their wallets, they do not have genuine faith.
The Pope said today during the Mass Folks, I'm s uh look, I uh I'm not I've not heard this before.
That faith, genuine faith is tied.
I mean, I know about tithing, don't misunderstand me here.
I'm not a neophyte, but I've never heard it put this way.
If Christians don't dig deep and generously open their wallets, they do not have genuine faith, and that's in quotes, genuine faith is in quote.
So people's faith in God, religious faith is now, according to the vicar of Christ, directly related to how wide open their wallets are.
Now wait till you hear what opening up your wallet means.
Again, I'm reading here from the National Catholic reporter.
The Pope said that People often hear, quote, oh, this priest speaks about poverty too much.
This bishop talks about poverty.
This Christian, this sister talk about poverty.
Well, they're a bit communist, aren't they?
Quote unquote.
But poverty is precisely at the heart of the gospel.
If we were to remove poverty from the gospel, people would understand nothing about Jesus' message, the Pope said.
Being fully Christian means being rich in spirit, rich in faith, rich in the word, rich in wisdom, rich in zeal, things that Jesus has taught and offered all people, he said.
Make sure, however, that this huge amount of wealth in the heart also impacts the wallet, he said, because when the faith doesn't reach your pockets, it is not a genuine faith.
Okay.
Now this went on.
Pope Francis said the theology of poverty, the theology of poverty, is based on the fact that Jesus, in his divine richness, became poor.
He lowered himself and sacrificed himself to save humanity.
Look, I don't want to quibble with any of that, but uh.
Anyway, Christian giving goes beyond plain charity, said the Pope, which is good, but isn't the Christian poverty believers are called to embrace, he said, Christian poverty is I give to the poor what is mine, not the excess, but also what is necessary for one's own well-being.
In other words, you can't just give your disposable income to charity.
You have to give money that you yourself actually need.
And until you give up what you need for yourself, you are not being charitable.
That's what you Pampa is saying.
Anybody can give disposable income.
That's no big deal.
You've got to give up what you need.
You in other words, instead of paying the electric bill or buying whatever.
That money needs to go to the poor.
And if it doesn't, you're not genuine.
Your faith isn't genuine.
Now, maybe this isn't communism, I don't know, but it is it's scary, and it's a little it's a little out there.
Remember what all this is related to is climate change, folks.
Every bit of this is related to climate change.
Now we had a morning update today.
The morning update commentary that ran on all of our EIB affiliate stations has to do with uh California.
California, just come up with a new brilliant plan to elevate the poor.
And that is affordable housing, but not where the poor currently live.
No, no, no, no, no, no, no.
Otherwise, you don't get credit for it.
Building affordable housing where the poor already are, non-starter.
You've got to build your affordable housing, you developers, you contractors, you've got to build it where the rich live, and the rich have got to sit by and let it happen.
You know what happens when you do that?
There's a name for that.
It's called Baltimore.
It's called Detroit.
It's called flight.
But let's take that theory and let's apply it to Whole Foods.
Whole Foods, big popular shopping food store, a lot of people think it's hip and cool to go to Whole Foods.
Why not force Whole Foods to devote a section of its stores?
To say poor people.
Let's say fifteen percent of the stores should have affordable food in there.
In fact, this every store, every 15% of every whole food store should have affordable food in there.
But if it's if it's good for affordable housing, why not affordable food?
It's a great idea.
You go to Whole Foods, and there's 15% of it that's priced, quote unquote, affordable.
What a brilliant marketing idea, right?
I mean, it's good for neighborhoods, why not do it for Whole Foods?
Now, back to the Pope.
Ladies and gentlemen, I have always, from the earliest days of this program when discussing the environmentalist wackos, I've always pointed out that the modern environmental movement actually got going with the fall of the Berlin Wall.
It was around and it was doing what it was doing, the anti-pollution crowd and the militants, they were always there, but with the fall of the Soviet Union, communism needed a new home.
And I told everybody, I predicted that militant environmentalism will become the new home of communists.
And it has.
And it was, by the way, that insight which has, or which did lead to, what has become a popular characterization of environmentalist wackos.
Green on the outside, red on the inside.
If you wonder where that came from, that came right from this program.
Now the Pope, the Pope seems to have fallen for this.
A man of religion, the vicar of Christ seems to have fallen in with the communist way of doing things, controlling mankind through command and control governments backed by police or military power.
This is what the Pope is essentially calling for.
The problem is, human beings suffer under collectivist or communist regimes.
They do not prosper.
That's the history of the world.
The history of humanity is tyranny, and the people who live in tyranny do not prosper by definition.
Now the Pope goes on to say, and we just touched on it here, that giving from your disposable income is not enough.
You've got to give and you've got to keep giving until you're no longer rich.
Nations must do this in order to save the climate.
It's all in this story, the National Catholic Reporter.
You can't just give your disposable income to charity.
You have to give money that you actually need.
That is genuine sacrifice.
That is genuine faith.
You have to give until you too are poor.
The Pope said the following: when people strip themselves of the material, for those of you in real linda, that means when you give away your big screen, when you give away your Samsung Galaxy X5 Edge, whatever, when you give away your Harley Davidson, you are finally becoming a person of genuine faith.
When you strip yourselves of the material and give that money to the poor, Jesus works within those who do so, and they are enriched.
You get rid of your big screen, get rid of your Galaxy S5 edge, get rid of your Harley.
And Jesus will work within you.
When people give to the poor, Jesus is also working in the poor in order to enrich me when I do this, the Pope said.
It's a quote.
When it comes to environmentalism, there is, here we are again, an objective truth.
And the objective truth is in addition to communism keeps people poor, makes people poor, it impoverishes people.
Militant environmentalism seeks the identical thing.
Militant environmentalism is anti-progress.
The militant environmentalists will openly tell you they want to roll back all kinds of technological progress and others.
Because it's all poisoning the planet.
The really extreme environmentalist wackos will tell you that humans must begin to commit suicide in order to save the planet.
There are too many of us.
Paul Ehrlich, population bomb, totally discredited, totally discredited in a book he wrote back in the 1970s.
I mean, nobody could have been more discredited than this guy, and he's still the gospel to people on population control.
Militant environmentalists.
Where is their real poverty?
In the third world.
I am going to give this example again because it happens to be truthful.
Let's say, let's let's make up little African countries.
it Abu Dine.
Let's say Abu Dine is a third world country with pestilence, locusts, dry riverbeds, Rotting vegetation, has a regime kind of government, big military.
The people literally have nothing, barely enough to clothe themselves.
And then one day, oil is discovered in Aberdeen.
Oil is a fossil fuel.
Oil equals wealth.
Oil could single-handedly elevate our imaginary country of Abu Dean from poverty to wealth overnight.
Who do you think shows up to stop that from happening?
Greenpeace, the Sierra Club, the Environmental Defense Fund.
Take your pick.
Any and all environmental activations, activist groups show up.
They hate fossil fuels, they hate oil.
What happens with militant environmentalism?
Third world countries are not allowed to innovate.
If they don't have electricity, they're not allowed to get it.
I'm not making this up.
If coal happens to be discovered in our little makeup country of Abu Deen, it's gonna stay in the mines.
The militant environmentalists are not going to allow anybody to go get it.
The people stay poor.
Why?
Save the planet.
Yeah, because if little Abu Dean was allowed to go out and drill for its oil or mine its coal, it would just further global warming and climate change.
That's how it happens, folks.
This is what the Pope is signed on to here.
It's a shame.
It's just a shame.
I take a break.
We'll be back and continue after this.
Don't go away.
How are you?
Welcome back.
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Last night in the Fox News Channel, the five.
Co-host Kimberly Gilfoyle speaking with Juan Williams about Donald Trump's announcement he's running for the president.
Kimberly Gilfoyle said Trump is not afraid to answer a question.
He has ideas.
He has passion.
He's got enthusiasm.
He's not going to be afraid or intimidated to debate people.
I want to hear what Trump has to say.
If you said to me, you know what, Rush Limbaugh should run for president.
I'd say, come on, Kimberly, what is this about?
Are we running for talk show host conservative right-wing talk shows?
What is that?
I'm not running for pro Why throw me into this.
I'll tell you why throw me into this, because every time Juan Williams mentions my name, I get the sound.
And we end up airing it.
Juan's a smart uh uh is he a black guy?
Now I'm confused.
Smart guy.
But this is not smart.
Well, if you said to me, what if Rush Limbaugh should run for president?
Come on, Kimberly.
She didn't say I should run for president.
They're talking about Trump.
Trump is not a talk show host.
There isn't a talk show host running for president, not that I know of.
But then after that, Juan Williams continued.
He came into the Fox building the other day and came over to say hello to me.
And you know what?
The people who work in this building, the people who let us in, the people who clean the building, flock to him.
Wait a minute now.
Wait, just did you hear what he said?
He said the people who work in this building, the people who let us in, the people who clean the building.
Does that not sound a little elitist to you?
I mean, here's Juilliams, Fox News star, talking about the little people.
The custodians, the uh the door men, people who let them in.
Those people, the little people, flock to Trump.
People had better be very, very careful here because what Trump is saying, even with the humor is going to resonate with a lot of people, just like Perot did.
In fact, I posited this just yesterday on the program.
I warned people to be on the lookout.
Remember what Perot did, 92 campaign.
Here's Chris Kumo on CNN this morning.
Donald Trump.
Could he play the spoiler?
Is he the Ross Perot of 2016?
This is how it happens.
They don't give credit, folks, but this show, many days shapes the rest of the media.
And there you have it.
The answer to that question that Chris Cuomo asks is kind of interesting, too.
But I have to take another brief time out here.
We'll do that.
And only have 30 big broadcast minutes left here, folks, and get to them right after this.
Yeah, yeah, I did, I did.
I mentioned it earlier.
Ron Fournier, how to defeat ISIS with millennial spirit and service.
Um what Ron Fournier wants to do is mandate national service for all 18 to 28 year olds.
This is now this is his recipe for defeating ISIS.
ISIS, the bloodiest, most murderous Al Qaeda-like uh enemy that we face at the moment.
You know, these are the clowns that are beheading people.
I mean, they just they're a vicious bunch.
Ron Fournier says we need to require virtually every young American, the civic-minded millennial generation, to complete a year of service through programs such as Teach for America, America Corpse, the Peace Corps, or the U.S. military, and two things will happen, he says.
Number one, virtually every American family will become intimately invested in the nation's biggest challenges, including poverty, education, income inequality, and America's place in a world on fire.
You got that?
National service, every millennial mandated to spend a full year in the military, Americor, Peace Corps, whatever, because that way their families will become immediately invested in our biggest challenges.
Military recruiting will rise to meet threats posed by ISIS and other terrorist networks, giving more people skin in a very dangerous game.
He says here, it may seem like a radical plan until you compare it with two alternatives, the status quo, which clearly isn't working, or a military draft, which might be the boldest and fairest way to wage the long war against Islamic extremists.
This is classic.
This is how liberals think.
We can stop beheading by being nicer.
We can stop beheading by being engaged.
Doctors, nurses, clean water.
Yeah, that's the answer.
And of course, this idea is brought forth after Obama has decimated the military with social experiments.
I mean, it's just it's it's it's it's typical.
This is this is where I get the doctor's nurses' clean water line.
It's exactly thinking like this.
But that's so I I I would hope.
I hope Mrs. Clinton likes this idea.
No, she and Ron Fournier are close.
The Clintons and Fournier go all the way back to Arkansas.
So I would hope Mrs. Clinton's campaign were to read this.
You know, it's a great idea.
Mandatory national service on the part of all millennials for one year, and some of them to the military.
I'm gonna work on that, snurdly.
I'm gonna I'm gonna work on subtly influencing Hillary to adopt this.
Best way to do it might be to support it myself.
No, no, then they wouldn't.
No, no, can't do that.
Maybe if I come out against it really loud.
Because they think everybody in the country hates me, so if I come out against it really loud, then they will do it, thinking everybody disagrees with me.
I don't know, folks, we'll play some psych games on them here.
Try to get Hillary to adopt this plan.
Oh, would that not be brilliant?
I mean, if we did it once with Operation Chaos, we can do it again.
I just remembered I promised everybody yesterday that we would go get some uh sound bites uh that I didn't have time to get to yesterday about Rachel Dolazole.
And one of them is Don Lemon.
Don Lemon of CNN, who remember once asked a former uh transportation secretary if the missing Malaysian airliner could have been sucked up, swallowed up by a black hole.
Well, thought, given the way he thinks it'd be interesting what he thinks of Rachel Dolezal, who identifies black.
So this is on Aaron Burnett out front on Monday night, CNN.
And uh let's see it she spoke with with Don Lemon, who anchors his own show there.
And she said, look, it's one thing to want to identify with a culture and an ethnicity, but she took on everything but the burden.
Meaning she wanted all the great things about being black, but she didn't want the burden.
We heard about the burden of being African American, the way people look at you differently on the street.
She always has the ability to walk away from that, Don.
We've been talking a lot about what's transracial, and it's just one more thing that you know that white people can do that black people can't.
They say, hey, listen, I choose to be black, and so I'm gonna be black now.
You know, I don't know of many African Americans now who can say, you know what, I'm gonna choose to be white and not have to deal with that burden.
Everybody's doing it.
Look at uh Tom Hanks and Rita Wilson's son.
He says he identifies as African American or as black and with hip hop culture.
All right, now what is this that black people can't identify as white?
Isn't that what they accuse Clarence Thomas of doing?
I mean, d don't they say Clarence Thomas cannot be black because he's conservative?
Do they not say that?
Is that not the same thing as saying Clarence Thomas identifies as being white?
And Don Lemon's running around here saying, well, it's unfair.
Of all the ways to look at this, by the way, can you believe of all the possibilities you can see here?
Don Lemon sees the unfairness.
That this woman can run around and say she's black and everything.
So cool.
But he couldn't run around and say he identifies as white without being made fun of and laughed at.
What a way to look at it.
And Aaron Burnett said, but wait a minute, Don, that's kind of a joke that you're making.
But he wasn't.
He was he was he was being serious.
Aaron Burnett said, look, she changed the way she looked so that she would look like what she was saying.
I see some people on television now, and I go, uh-uh, you're not white.
You know, there are many people I see on television.
But those pictures, as someone who's from Louisiana, those pictures of her as a kid say nothing to me.
Many of us evolve as people.
You don't look the same as you looked when you were 10, 12, 13, 14, 15 years old.
We all change.
So those pictures really say nothing to me.
For me, if she wants to identify as black, come on in.
But then you gotta take the burden that comes with it.
See?
See?
You see, if you gotta come this is how they're dealing with the fact, wait a minute.
Being black is a burden.
It's oppressive.
Being black, civil rights community is the worst thing can happen to you in this country, be born black.
So why does this woman want to be black?
And now CNN's discovered.
Well, she, you know what?
She doesn't want the burden.
She wants to get all the goodies, so she wants to identify as a victim and get all the goodies, and she wants to get the affirmative action, but she doesn't want the burden.
Well, come on in, but you better be willing to accept the burden.
And that is done.
What is the burden?
He didn't identify it.
What is the burden that he's talking about?
Being an African.
What did Rachel Dolezal have to do in order to be burdened properly?
Get a job at CNN.
I mean, what is it?
He doesn't identify that.
And Whoopi Goldberg, she was on ABC's The View Monday morning.
And this is her take.
Look.
Just like people say, I feel like I'm a man.
I feel like I'm a woman.
I feel like I'm this.
I'm feeling she feels like a black woman.
She wants to be a black woman.
Fine.
Everything that comes with that, she is prepared for.
Okay?
As far as I'm concerned, if she wants to be black, she can be black.
She's been passive as this woman for over five years.
If this b don't know by now what it's like, she's never right.
Okay, I'm sure it made perfect sense to everybody, right?
Yeah, in fact, that is right.
That is right.
Whoopi Whoopi Goldberg said that Dolezal can self-identify with whatever she wants.
But she also has said that Carly Fiorina is not fit to be president because she self-identifies as a Christian in pro-life.
And as far as Whoopi's concerned, that disqualifies her.
People are just they're nuts, folks.
We're living in an age of no logic, no thought, no independent critical thought, and certainly no objective truth.
It's just stunning.
Seth in Columbus, Ohio.
Great to have you on the program, sir.
Hello.
Hey, how are you, I'm good.
I'm good.
I'm glad you got through.
Well, thanks for taking my call.
Yes, sir.
Uh I wanted to thank you for coming out as skinny the other day, and you're an inspiration to me, and you're giving me the courage to come out today as a thin young black female lesbian.
He's trapped in a fat, middle-aged white heterosexual man's body.
Oh, man, that's gotta be a burden.
Well, I identify as a transway raise sexual individual.
A transway trans what?
Araisexual.
Transway raise sexual.
And I have a cat whose name's Bear.
He's trans canine.
You have a cat?
A female cat who identifies himself as a male.
And his name's Bear.
I think Caitlin Jenner has a dog that he thinks is a cat.
I think I saw.
He's giving me courage.
Well, I'm happy to be an inspiration.
Uh I all I did was uh tell people to identify as skinny uh yesterday.
And look at you.
You have been given the courage to identify as who you really think you are.
And it's uncomfortable as long as everyone recognizes me as that.
Well, of course they have to now.
That's the point.
They have to recognize you the way you identify, otherwise, they are the bigot.
You're not insane, you're not crazy, you're not Looney Tunes, you're not in need of any kind of help whatsoever.
You are the epitome of normalcy in the America today.
And anybody who doesn't recognize you as the trans whatever you are, they're the ones with the problem.
That's right.
I'm the new normal.
You're the new normal, and that should give you confidence and inspiration even beyond what you got from me.
I appreciate that.
Well, you bet.
But I'm glad you called uh Seth.
I uh I appreciate it.
You know, I had there just isn't enough time here, and I know what you're saying.
Don't blame time.
You just didn't get to it.
If you'd get off this stuff and get it, but I I've got I've got all of these media sound bites reacting to Trump and then Trump reacting to them.
And I've got a I've got to hold these over for tomorrow.
Cookie, uh, number nine through uh, let's see, number 15.
Give me give you those tomorrow, in addition to whatever else we have that accrues between now and then.
By the way, do you know who else is mad at Rachel Dolezal?
The transgender crowd.
The Daily Beast had a piece by a uh a woman really livid that what Dolezole is doing is going to have a negative impact on the push for transgender equality.
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