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June 23, 2015 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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June 23, 2015, Tuesday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 podcast.
Okay, look, look, look, in the first place, it's not the Confederate flag.
I know it's a mere technicality, but I'm the mayor of Realville.
Facts matter to me.
We're not talking about the Confederate flag.
The flag that's got everybody exercised here is actually the battle flag of the Army of Northern Virginia.
And that's what everybody's talking about here.
They're just calling it the Confederate flag.
Anyway, it's not even about the flag.
All of this is not even about the flag.
Greetings, my friends.
Great to have you here.
Rush Limbaugh back at it.
Another day of broadcast excellence from the EIB Southern Command.
But as always, as long as I'm here, it doesn't matter.
Where here is, telephone number is 800 282-2882, the email address, Ilrushbow at EIB net.com.
So here we go.
South Carol uh South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley called for the removal of the Confederate flag.
And again, we're actually talking about the battle flag of the Army of Northern Virginia.
But it's the last time I'm going to mention it.
For all intents and purposes, it is the Confederate flag.
And Nikki Haley called for the removal of the flag from the grounds of the State Capitol Monday, less than a week after Dylan What's his name shot up the African American church.
Support for the flag to come down for the leaders around the state and around the country has been steadily growing in the wake of the devastating attack.
Okay, as predicted, by the way, Nikki Haley is not being credited for her action in taking down the flag.
The New Republic and other left-wing organisms are saying she didn't do it soon enough.
Some are saying she doesn't really mean it.
Kind of like when the Koch brothers give a hospital in New York a hundred million.
They don't really mean it.
The left says they're just trying to cover their hatred and bigotry by giving money to people so people will not discover who they really are.
Well, here in saying that Nikki Haley doesn't really mean it, she's just bowing to political pressure and trying to gain points, but she doesn't really mean it.
She is getting credit from other places.
James Clyburn thinks that this means that Nikki Haley has now crossed the Rubicon and is down for the struggle.
The fact of all of this is that it's really not about the flag.
The flag and the flag did not pull the trigger, and the flag, I mean Dylan Roof and even wearing this flag.
Not arguing to keep it, that's that's not the point.
So beyond that.
It's not the point.
The point is that, as with everything else the left does, what they tell you they're irritated about is not where it ends.
This effort, excuse me, to have the battle flag of Northern Virginia removed, is really an attempt to segregate and isolate the entire South.
And to sort of Alinski it.
You know, the rules for radicals, you seek the target, you isolate it, you attack it, you humiliate it.
This flag represents what the left believes is the last remaining Republican electoral stronghold.
In terms of presidential politics, and that would be the South.
So this is an effort going far beyond the America or the Confederate flag or the battle flag of the Army of Northern Virginia.
This flag represents to the left a symbol of everything's wrong, not just South Carolina, but North Carolina, Mississippi, Georgia, Alabama.
I mean, you name it.
And that's what the objective here really is, and that's that's why when when Republicans make these efforts to appease, to please, and even if they think they're doing the right thing, it never is enough, and it's never genuine, and it's never accepted.
Or very rarely is it accepted.
Very rarely do the Republicans seeking to gain political points with their opponents or their enemies actually pull that off by acceding to their demands.
So just keep a sharp eye on this because you'll see, even after the flag comes down, it's not gonna be the end of this.
After the flag comes down, after the flag is removed, you're gonna continue to hear what it stands for, what it stood for, how rotten it is, and how even though it's gone, you can bet they will report that Southerners all across this country, in heart and in mind and even geographically, will be displaying the flag in their homes and on their cars with bumper stickers and so forth.
Just keep a sharp eye.
As I'm telling you, the flag is a symbol, and it's a symbol to the left, and it represents a far more wide-reaching objective than just getting the flag removed from public view.
And they got Walmart saying, we're not going to sell any flag, Confederate flag merchandise anymore.
We're not going to sell anything that offends anybody.
Okay.
Well, there you have that's an open invitation to the left to go out and claim that anything that they don't like in Walmart that represents republicanism, conservatism could defend them.
You wait, folks.
I mean, we're we've been trending in this direction for years now.
This is really nothing new.
And don't forget, this is all going to be obscured and forgotten by Thursday.
Isn't that when the next wave of Supreme Court decisions comes down?
Yeah, Thursday and Friday.
I want to warn you, be prepared for that.
I mean, experience guided by intelligence.
The Supreme Court has disappointed in the past, not predicting what the outcome on various cases is going to be.
But even with the Obamacare case on subsidies, if you've been paying any attention, you know, or you you've you've read or seen, reported, and no matter what happens, the Republicans lose.
If the Supreme Court overturns the whole federal government subsidizing Obamacare patients as unconstitutional, the Republicans lose their because that means people who love Obamacare and love their subsidies are going to have it taken away from them because of Republicans.
Even though the Republicans really won't have anything to do with it.
And so the Republicans, anticipating that they're going to take it in the shorts, if the Constitution is upheld, have already given hints that they have a plan ready to implement immediately that would maintain those subsidies, despite winning at the Supreme Court.
And all of this is rooted in the fact, well, it's many things.
We don't really know how many Republicans in Congress actually oppose Obamacare.
But we do know the number of Republicans who are scared to death of being accused of denying people benefits.
So it's it's gonna be a week that will test our mettle.
M-E-T-T-L-E.
For those of you in uh in Rio Linda.
We have audio sound, but I was asking some people today.
Cornell West is out there saying I I can't say the word.
I and I I'm I've been asking people what in the heck it means.
You know, the Cornell West is out there saying that Obama has been um the N-wordized.
The N-wordized.
And I said, what in the world does that mean?
And Cornell West says, well, what it means is that Obama has accepted the idea of white supremacy, and he is willing to play the role of being uh uh African American in secondary status.
That's what Cordell West means, or Cornell West means when he says that Obama has been N wordized.
Other people have an entirely different definition of it.
But whatever it means, it certainly isn't good to have the word being tossed around in everyday conversation on cable TV.
I mean, here's Cornell West throwing the word around left and right, and he's perfectly permitted to use it because he is African American.
And there's Obama throwing the word around and getting credit for throwing the word around.
He can get away with it because of course he is the president, and he's so brilliant, and he's so much smarter than all of us, that he is brilliantly using the word to illustrate the dangers inherent with the other people in our culture who do use it.
It's just the decline, the coursening of things happening.
Also, my friends, not one to let things go.
I have dug deep, and I have found out practically everything there is to know about the science advisor to Pope Francis on this encyclical.
And would you here's the main thing you need to know, the guy's an atheist.
The word for it in the story that I found one of the most credible stories is a pantheist, which is a variation of atheist.
A pantheist is somebody that believes the earth is a living organism that has the equivalent of a brain and reacts to horrible things done to it by humans, not by lions, and not by tigers, and not by chimpanzees or any other animal or plant, but only humans.
And the earth compensates for all of the rotten, horrible things.
And the primary belief of a pantheist is that everything that happens in climate or weather is the earth intelligently reacting to egregious acts and behavior by man.
And of course, in this view, the earth becomes the deity.
And there is no God.
And the earth is an intelligent living and breathing organism with self-protection built in to compensate for the daily destructive tendencies of humanity.
This is the guy who was the lead science advisor for Pope Francis on the global warming and climate change aspects of his uh of his encyclical.
Interesting polling data from Gallup.
What is this dovetail with one of the things we were talking about yesterday?
It is essentially this.
Americans still are not wild about electing a socialist.
The Democrat Party is, but a majority of the American people are not.
However, it's close.
It's 50 to 47%.
People say would you that they ran around and they asked this question.
Between now and the 2016 political conventions, there'll be discussion about the qualifications of presidential candidates, their education, their age, their religion, their race, and so on.
If your party nominated a generally well qualified person for president who happened to be blank, would you vote for that person?
And here were the various things you can fill in the blank with.
Catholic.
Yes, 93% would vote for a Catholic, 6% no.
A woman, 92% said yep, no problem, 8% said no.
Black, 92% said yep, no problem, 7% said they wouldn't.
If your party nominated a generally well qualified person for president who happened to be Hispanic, would you vote for that person?
91% say yes.
Who happened to be Jewish?
91% say yes.
Who happened to be Mormon?
81% say yes.
Who happened to be gay or lesbian?
74% say yes.
Who happened to be an evangelical Christian?
73% say yes.
Happen to be a Muslim, 60% say yes.
Happened to be an atheist, 58% said yes.
Happened to be a socialist.
47% said yes.
So we have three four three six.
We've got ten different fill-in-the-blank options here.
And only one of them did not gain a majority of support, and that is socialist.
Forty-seven percent would vote for a socialist.
50% would not.
What was that number?
Sturdly, what was that number that um you know that videotape that they snuck in there at a Romney fundraiser?
And Romney was telling these people, hey, there's a number of people out there never gonna vote for me, no matter what we do, no matter how we do it.
That number was 47%, wasn't it?
Humdinger, 47%.
Romney said 47%.
He was raked over the calls.
He was he was called a divider and all that for that.
And right here in this Gallup poll, 47% said they wouldn't vote for a socialist.
Not quite the same, but just interesting juxtaposition the numbers.
50% said that they would not, 47% said they would.
And Romney says there's 47% of the people that are never going to vote for him, no matter what he does.
Uh in our continuing continuing quest here, my friends, to uh inform and elucidate for you.
The cultural decline on campus.
Couple of added instances today.
Women's studies professor calls for men control, just like we speak of gun control.
Dr. Ashwindi, I'm sorry, Ashwini Tumbay, associate professor, Department of Women's Studies, University of Maryland, who has called for men control, bashed me, Rush Limbaugh, and wants women's studies taught in high school.
That's just one of them.
Then there's another one, Allie Michael, white Ivy League professor, University of Pennsylvania.
We talked about her last week.
She is back.
She is saying she chose not to have children because they would be white.
And that would poison the culture.
And she thinks that she's doing a great service.
And then the University of California has instituted a demand that no longer can we use the term melting pot.
To describe the way our country was put together and assembled via immigration and so forth because it is offensive.
Melting pot offends those who are in the melting pot.
We can't do it.
Other terms as well.
So sit back, buckle in, and stand by.
Be right back.
Okay, look at me.
I have a predic look at me.
I have a prediction.
Just said it's not going to stop with the Confederate flag because it's not about the Confederate flag.
It is about destroying the South as a political force.
It's about isolating, targeting and identifying the South as Dylan Roof, not Charleston, South Carolina, the South.
That's what the leftists' effort on the Confederate flag are.
The next flag that will come under assault, and it will not be long, is the American flag.
Do not look at me that way.
It makes perfect sense if you take a look at the timeline of progression of events.
The speed and rapidity with which the left is conducting this assault on all of these American traditions and institutions.
If you don't think the American flags in their crosshairs down the road, you had better stop and reconsider.
The American flag is what?
It's the symbol of America.
The left what?
Doesn't like this country very much and never has, and is getting angrier and angrier about it seemingly every day.
The American flag stands for the United States of America and as such everything that's wrong with it.
And you wait, it isn't gonna be long before the American flag is gonna cause chills, fear, oh, scary thoughts.
It's gonna make me nervous.
American flag, when I see the American flag, it's it's a symbol of hate.
You wait, folks.
You wait, and then what are the Republicans going to do?
Who will be the first among them to say, yep, we need a redesign.
Yep, we need to get in the 21st.
Just saying, I'm just saying, hang in there, be tough.
Can you just hear it now?
I can hear it now.
The United States flag has flown over slavery and symbolized racism, discrimination, bigotry, homophobia.
For hundreds of years.
The Confederate flag flew only four years.
And we're getting rid of the Confederate flag.
Mark my words.
You remember, ladies and gentlemen, July 20th, 2011, about four years ago.
Shock study.
This is taken right from the pages of my website.
U.S. flag only boosts GOP.
Paul Bedard writing, just a brief exposure to an image of the American flag shifts voters, even Democrats to Republican beliefs, attitudes, and voting behavior, even though most people don't believe it'll impact their politics.
This, according to a new two-year study just published in the Scholarly Psychological Science.
What's more, according to three authors from the University of Chicago, Cornell University, and Hebrew University, the impact had staying power.
Now, listen, this is absurd, but listen to this.
A single exposure to an American flag resulted in a significant increase in participants' Republican voting intentions, voting behavior, political beliefs, and implicit and explicit attitudes, with some of these effects lasting eight months.
Really?
So you have your average ordinary low information voter walking around just trying to find the latest on TMZ and accidentally spots an American flag.
You know what happens?
All of a sudden, that low information voter becomes a Republican, and it lasts for eight months.
One glance at the American flag.
That low information voter abandons TMZ, immediately becomes a Republican voter, starts exhibiting similar behavior, starts espousing Republican political beliefs and attitudes, and some of these effects, effects, last eight months.
That's actually from the study.
That was done in psychological science, some scholarly quarterly, annual, whatever the heck it is publication.
Back to the study.
These results constitute the first evidence that non-conscious priming effects from exposure to a national flag can bias the citizenry toward one political party and can have considerable durability.
Mr. Bedard writes that theirs is the first study to look at the political impact on Americans who have seen an American flag, and it seems to back up another recent Harvard professor study that found that kids who attended a Fourth of July parade ended up leaning Republican when they grew up.
You remember that one too.
And as Mr. Bedard wrote here back in 2011, this is sure to make Republican presidential candidates add more flags to their events in speech.
Now, you may be laughing at this, and you may be scoffing at it.
You mean, oh, this is ridiculous.
No, no, no, folks, a bunch of leftists did this.
And I am I'm here to tell you they believe these results.
They believe the American flag has mystical powers to turn people away from the Democrat Party.
That's what they'll see here.
It's not so much that it makes people vote Republican, although the survey results say so.
The way it'll be internalized and uh experience.
My God, that flag, that flag makes them leave us.
We own the TMZ on it.
That flag, somebody spots the American flag and they vote.
They'll look at this as the flag results in them losing support.
And they'll believe this.
This is this is.
And then the bit about the the Fourth of July parade.
Kids who attend the Fourth of July parade end up leaning Republican when they grew up.
And what's the meaning there?
Well, the Fourth of July parade is Independence Day.
That is uber patriotism.
And that uber patriotism is showing Dracula the cross.
So I'm just here to tell you, I'm I'm here to warn you.
I'm not going to make a flat-out time sensitive prediction.
But I am going to tell you that the day will come when what's happening to the Confederate flag or the battle flag of the Army of Northern Virginia is going to happen to the American flag.
The seeds have been planted four years ago.
Holding the data right here, my formerly nicotine-stained fingers.
It is going to happen.
We are trending that way.
And you know as well as I do that part and parcel of being a socialist or a leftist is animosity to one degree or another for the United States in general.
And then it intensifies once you get specific about aspects of the United States they find objectionable.
And now let's let's take this.
Keep this in your mind.
Let's head over here to the latest from the Feminazis.
First from college, legal insurrection.
That's the website.
Women's Studies professor calls for men control.
The latest find, Dr. Ashwinny Tombe, associate professor of the Department of Women's Studies, University of Maryland, has called for men control.
Now this story says that she has also bashed me, bashed Rush Limbaugh, and wants women's studies taught in high schools.
Tombe, whose faculty profile says that her major areas of research include transnational feminist theory and sexuality studies has weighed in on a variety of national conversations during her twine time in the Twitterverse.
And I got her picture right here.
I mean, if you ran onto this woman in Walmart, you wouldn't think that she's loony.
But here's what she actually tweeted.
She didn't just bash me.
I have the actual tweet here.
Mr. Snerdley found it from Ashwinny Tombay.
I'd be uneasy if someone bombed Rush Limbaugh's office.
And then suddenly everyone declared I am Rush Limbaugh.
That is bouncing off what happened at Charles Ebdu.
The militant Islamist bombed Charles Edu, the French magazine making fun of the prophet and so forth.
And then every I am Charles Hibdu.
So what Ashwinny Tombe is saying here, she'd be perfectly fine if somebody bombed my office with me in it, but she wouldn't do it if it meant that would rally countless people to my support.
And this is a professor at the University of Maryland.
And I assume it costs parents anywhere from 15 to 20,000 a year to send their kids there to learn this.
I'd be uneasy if someone bombed Rush Limbaugh's office and suddenly everyone declared I am Rush Limbaugh.
She has also defended Rolling Stone magazine on their fake, provably fake, demonstrably fake story on a rape that never happened.
This babe is defending them.
She says, worth asking, why did Jackie's story about Frat House rape ring so true to Rolling Stone editors?
Maybe because the campus rape culture is a thing.
So here I have a totally made up story.
It didn't happen.
There was no frat boy rape culture at UVA.
Rolling Stone made it up, and she said, but why did the editors believe it?
They believed it because it does happen.
It does exist.
Maybe it didn't at this place, but it doesn't matter because this served the purpose of raising consciousness.
So there you that's that's men control.
Men control, by the way.
Men control, she means in the same vein as gun control.
Men are the absolute pockmarks of society.
And now Allie Michael.
Not to be confused with my good friend Al Michaels of NBC Sunday Night Football.
Professor, I chose not to have children because they would be white.
A white Ivy League professor has taken to the pages of the Huffing and Puffington Post to condemn her own race, declaring that she chose never to reproduce because her children would simply inherit white privilege.
Allie Michael, professor, University of Pennsylvania graduate school of education.
She was in the news last week for something.
And I even searched my archives, I could not find it, but she was in the news for something as inane as this.
It may be this, and I've just it was stated in a different way.
She was prompted to write about all this because of Rachel Dolazol.
She was prompted to write by the Rachel Dolazal saga in which the head of Spokane's NAA LCP branch was revealed to be a white woman who simply identifies as black and has assimilated into black culture.
Dolezal's aspiration to forsake whiteness and embrace a new race, Michael says, is actually a routine.
It's a routine one among whites who are repulsed by the racism and the privilege they see all around them.
Allie Michael says that like Rachel Dolazo, she's gone through an extensive phase of trying to eradicate her whiteness.
Capital W, her whiteness.
One so severe that she decided she didn't want to reproduce.
Yeah, I sometimes don't want to be white either, Michaels.
This is what she was agreeing with Dolez all last week.
That's what the story we had on this babe was last week.
I sometimes don't want to be white either.
There was a time in my twenties when everything I learned about the history of racism made me hate myself, hate my whiteness, hate my ancestors and my descendants.
And I remember deciding I couldn't have biological children because I didn't want to propagate my privilege biological.
This is an insane lunatic who also happens to be a learned professor of various studies, this one at the University of Pennsylvania, graduate school of education.
If you think this woman when she was five or six hated herself, think she was ten, she She hated herself.
Some point, somebody had to start preaching to her about white privilege, uh, bigotry, racism, guilt, and it stuck.
And I'm telling you, this is happening and has been happening throughout the American education system.
And so she's bought into it.
I mean, nobody wants to feel guilty.
And boy, this is one of the fastest, quickest tricks.
The leftist uh professors in academ have succeeded in doing is ladling guilt all over students.
White privilege, whiteness, look what you've done.
Even though this woman probably hasn't done anything to anybody.
She's convinced that just because she exists as white, other people suffer.
Because she has privilege that she doesn't deserve simply because of the color of her skin.
They fine and dandy.
I mean, it takes all kinds, right?
But she's teaching.
She is propagandizing, indoctrinating another group of young skulls full of mush to accept this same kind of self-loathing that she's running through with her life.
By the way, it's over in the U.S. Senate.
They have voted to give fast track trade authority to President Obama.
Minus skin of their teeth, 60 votes yet again.
Made it happen.
Ted Cruz changed his mind.
He was originally for this, and he was given a verbal assurance that giving the president fast track authority would uh would eliminate the export import bank, which is nothing more.
It honestly is, folks, a slush fund for big American corporations.
And Ted Cruz claims he was lied to, misled by Boehner and McConnell.
They said, Oh, yeah, yeah, we'll get rid of it.
It's going to have expired a couple of months anyway, we just won't renew it.
And then Jeffrey Melt, the CEO of GE piped, you bet you export import we need debt for our exports.
So they're keeping it.
The export import bank stays and will probably be renewed, and yet it's just more corporate welfare.
Never thought I would be using that term, snurdly.
I never did.
But it's exactly what it is.
Here's Robert driving through New Jersey.
Great to have you up first today for us, sir.
Hello.
Hi, Russ.
Pleasure to speak to you.
Thank you.
Um my question is regarding like all these little clips and everything you play or these stories that you talk about from like professors that are really nobodies that nobody would ever ever hear about unless you, you know, tell us about them.
And to me, you ask the question all the time, how does the Democrat party continue to win elections and just you know how how does it go and later.
Let me let me take over here as the broadcast professional because I know exactly what you're asking me.
I will ask myself the question.
It's a great question.
What he wants to know is, Rush, you successfully creamed MSNBC by virtue of you stop it.
Any publicity for MSNBC by refusing to play the audio soundbites.
Look what happened to them.
They died.
Nobody had any curiosity about them anymore.
They can't survive just on what their own programming.
So when you stopped highlighting them, they lost their audience.
So why are you talking about these obscure nobodies?
And elevating them and creating national figures out of them.
And it's a great question, and it's something I struggle with all the time.
The point that the answer to your question is, Robert, that they're not obscure.
Twenty-five years ago I did treat them that way.
Twenty-five years ago, 20 years, 15, 10 years ago, I talked about them.
And we created parodies and we laughed about it.
And we assume nobody's gonna believe this is insane.
And here we are in 2015.
And nearly half the country's buying into this stuff.
So I figure, Robert, it's time to start explaining to people how this has happened, because most people think this happened overnight and snuck up on them.
And it hasn't.
It's been going on for 25, 30 or more years.
And it's now starting to manifest itself.
The demographics and the generational timelines have intersected here.
We have a young generation, Because of a lot of factors, has no real life experience with anything other than this stuff.
It is their new normal.
This rotten economy, no careers, no jobs, this kind of uh just insane educational stuff.
So I've decided it's time people be told what's happening to their kids on campus and how and who's doing it.
Because everybody's scratching their heads, how did this happen?
When did this happen?
You wake up one day and you think you've lost the country.
I'm trying to explain why.
Yeah, I should probably spend a little bit more time on the answer to the question posed by the previous caller.
I understand it.
And it's it's I'll just present some options to you and you see what you uh what you think.
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