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June 23, 2015 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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June 23, 2015, Tuesday, Hour #2
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Ha, how are you?
It's great to be with you, my friends, Rush Limboy and the Excellence in Broadcasting Network, the Limboy Institute for Advanced Conservative Studies.
Telephone number if you want to be on the programs 800-282-2882 and the email address lrushbow at EIBnet.com.
Let me restate the question posed by our first and most recent caller.
Rush, why are you talking about all these obscure lunatics and wackos who happen to be professors of women's studies and gay studies?
I mean, you're finding these obscure websites and you're finding these obscure teachers.
Why don't you just ignore them?
And they'll go away.
Don't give them any publicity, just like you did in MSNBC.
The guy said, his words, not mine, you killed MSNBC by stopping playing audio soundbites.
That may be a slight exaggeration, but I did.
He's right.
At some point, I said, this isn't insane.
Why am I, what's the entertainment value here?
These people are lunatics.
All they do is irritate and agitate.
Why should I be, nobody watches it anyway, so why should I be telling people who don't watch it what's happening there and giving them promotion that they wouldn't otherwise get?
So I banned all content from MSNBC and they sunk.
I mean, by the way, it's so bad over there right now.
They're so mad at Brian Williams coming back at MSNBC.
No, no, no.
Haven't lost my place.
I'll get back to the point here in just a second.
Apparently what irritates them at MSNBC is when Brian, before he was even, well, no, this might have happened while he was the anchor of the NBC Nightly News, but he was hosting a dateline special.
And it featured a segment on raucous, irresponsible, out-of-control noise on cable news networks.
And it was a segment that was produced by Ted Koppel.
Ted Koppel goes out and just rips cable news, particularly Fox News, but all of them, as a bunch of non-journalists, a bunch of screamers and shouters, giving everybody in journalism a bad name and working people up into a frothy frenzy for no purpose whatsoever.
And Brian agreed with him.
And Ted included MSNBC, some people that worked at MSNBC in his critique.
And the fact that Brian agreed with him, when Brian Williams was announced as returning, it reminded people of, they had a Christmas party once over there at MSNBC shortly after the Ted Koppel incident.
And the chant was, F. Brian Williams, F. Bryant Williams, F. Brian, around the punch bowl.
So they have long memories.
They remember that.
And they resent the fact that Brian Williams is supposed to add to the credibility.
And they are rightfully offended by that.
I mean, Here's a guy that nobody can understand why he's making things up left and right, and they send him over to MSNBC as punishment.
And what you have to understand, for the longest time, people working at MSNBC thought that they were being groomed for eventual jobs on the big network.
I happen to know, and I happen to have it on good authority, that if you go back 10 years, 15 years into the 90s, when MSNBC would hire women to do their morning shows or just do anything, part of the pitch to get them was the dangling of the carrot of the Today Show.
You know, if things work out for you here at MSNBC, you could eventually be on the Today Show.
You could get some segments on the nightly news.
They used that as a sales pitch.
It turns out that very few have ever made that jump.
Especially back then.
More recently, Savannah Guthrie made the jump.
And there's a couple of Willie Geist made the jump.
He's not a girl, I don't think.
And anyway, it's gotten a point now where MSNBC is laughingstock within the cable network industry.
They send Brian Williams over there as punishment.
This is not sitting well with them.
Because essentially, they've just been told that MSNBC is the garbage dump of the NBC network.
And when you screw up on a big network, that's where you get sent.
So it's not looking pretty.
Anyway, I banned all audio soundbites and their numbers did just plummet.
Now, a guy called and said, why don't you do the same thing with all these obscure college professors and this weirdo stuff they're teaching?
Why are you elevating it?
Why are you giving them fame?
Why are you giving them notoriety?
I'm sure he was going to say, you know, they're eating this up.
You know they're loving every mode.
In fact, Rushdie probably, he didn't say this, but he probably was going to if he hung on long enough.
They probably know all they got to do to get mention on your show is to rip you.
And here's the answer to the question.
It was, as I said to him, 20 years ago, 25 years ago, 20 years ago, 10, 15, it wasn't that long ago.
We talked about them, folks, but we laughed at them.
And we created parodies, satirical songs and bits.
And we ridiculed them mercilessly.
And we did so with the full-fledged belief that these people were so far out there that they were going to be considered kooks by everybody.
And at the time, they were the exception.
And that's why we were satirizing them and parodying them.
20, 25 years ago, they were the oddballs.
The problem now is they're not the exception anymore.
They have become the rule.
For everyone that we talk about, there are countless others doing the same thing, teaching the same thing.
I think one of the primary reasons the country is where it is is because of the mind pollution and corruption that's been going on beneath the surface.
Nobody's really seen it at American universities for 25 or 30 years.
Actually, it's longer than that, but this intense Focus on multiculturalism and political correctness is how you get an otherwise perfectly normal white woman feeling guilty over the fact that she's white and choosing not to have kids because she doesn't want to propagate more white privilege into the culture.
That has to be taught.
And believe me, it is being taught.
But now it's standard.
It is in the syllabus.
It's not some oddball like Ward Churchill, where every university has one of these guys.
Now they're filled with them.
And it's become the standard, ordinary, everyday curriculum.
And so the focus has changed here.
You know, I think our culture is rotting.
Others think, no, no, no, Rush, you're wrong.
You're just an old fogey, and what's happening is change, and you're just not willing to change with it.
And I've thought about that.
You know, I always said that when I was younger, when I was a kid, and I watched adults, I always said I was not going to end up being an old fogey, and I fight it constantly.
It's easy.
You know, resisting change is a standard operating procedure.
Most people don't like change because change is new and it upsets routines and it's difficult for people.
That isn't me.
You know, I adapt to changes in many cases more rapidly than most.
But this is not positive building block change.
This is not stemming from a foundation of morality and decency and being built in that.
What's happening is that all the foundations and the traditions and the institutions, not all of them, but many of them, which have basically been the glue that held together a disparate yet connected society, are crumbling.
They're under assault.
And for that express purpose, the idea is to tear down this culture because, as multiculturalists and politically correct people believe, America's poison.
America is evil.
American culture has been filled with, you fill in the blank, racism, bigotry, sexism, homophobia, corruption, inequality, unfairness.
It just runs the gamut.
And for the longest time, those people were fringe.
They're no longer fringe.
And I think decided that you need to know my thoughts on it.
And if it means giving these people airtime or mentioning them or whatever, these are the kind of people that need to be called out.
These are the kind of people about whom you need to know.
I mean, you all, many of you have kids.
You're going to send them away to college or they're already there.
You've done your best to raise them according to your beliefs.
You want them to turn out the absolute best they can be.
And the minute you lose, the minute you lose them and they're off to college, their minds are being, I mean, attacked by this stuff.
And they're impressionable.
And you know, with kids, the parents are always the stupidest.
The parents are always wrong in most cases.
And brand new authority figures are the brilliant ones, brand new authority figures.
They're the ones, especially if they've got things you've never heard before that can make sense and end up feeling better about yourself and feeling better about your fellow man.
It's a brilliant psychological ploy that's been underway here.
And of course, these people, these students, are just the victims of it.
Even this professor who's out there saying, I could never have kids.
Why?
That would just be spreading my white privilege throughout society.
White privilege is destroyed.
She's even not a leader.
She is one of the many duped by whoever it was that taught her, and now she has become one of the many in this invisible army that is out there bending and shaping and flaking and forming the young skulls full of mush, and they're doing it with deep psychological and emotional appeals.
And you combine that with the fact that creative thinking, independent thinking, critical thinking, none of that's being taught.
Conformity is being taught.
Acquiescence, sameness.
Those are now virtues.
Being just like everybody else, being no better than anybody else.
It's okay to be worse than somebody, but never is it good or cool to be better than somebody.
That's the first recipe for guilt.
And so now we've got this massive push for equality.
And I'm telling you, I remember, folks, when I first became aware of the multiculturalists and the multicultural curriculum, we started laughing at them, the things they were teaching and believing.
And we had the list.
And many of them were environmentalist wackos.
And 25, 30 years ago, these people were suggesting that we stop using toilet paper and instead use leaves.
Go outside, use leaves.
They're natural.
Leave them there.
Everything's fine.
But toilet paper is destruction of trees and other wood products.
It was the attack on McDonald's.
This stuff has been going on for the longest time, but it's now become mainstream and believed.
And the multiculturalists are just a bunch of anti-American leftists.
And they're anti-America for a host of reasons.
I think, in many cases, they feel rejected by what they consider the mainstream of society.
It's a way of getting even.
I mean, it's not a blanket reason to explain all of them, but the fact of the matter is that it's now beginning to have a demonstrable effect on the way people think about themselves and their country and the way they vote.
And so I do what I've always done here, and that's simply inform you of things that you may not know if all you do is listen or watch or read the mainstream media.
Have you ever stopped that you hear about all this stuff on this program, such as this professor who thinks it'd be horrible to have kids because she's white, and that would propagate white privilege?
Have you ever stopped that?
You never see these stories on NBC or ABC or CBS or the Washington.
You never see them.
They're out there.
I mean, they reported.
It's how I find out about it.
They're not obscure.
But have you ever noticed, have you ever thought, have you ever realized that you don't hear these stories anywhere in the mainstream press?
Why is that?
Why do you not hear about Jeremiah Wright except places like alternative media?
Or just take your pick.
Why do you not?
And there's a reason for that, too.
This stuff is designed to happen below the radar.
It's designed to happen stealthfully.
And it is not to be commented upon.
It is not to be exposed because it's part and parcel of the overall effort.
Anyway, we've reached the point here I must take a brief time.
Oh, before we go.
One quick soundbite.
Going back to the flag business.
That's another example.
It was four years ago that we had these two studies that showed just one look at the American flag could turn you into a Republican for eight months.
That didn't get reported in very many places, but it was real and it ends up being taught and it affects curriculum.
It affects the way young kids.
If you've got a bunch of lunatic professors and they see a survey that they believe that just one glance at an American flag can turn somebody into a Republican thinking individual for maybe eight months, what are you going to do when you get that person in your class?
Maybe not that person.
What are you going to do?
You're going to start denigrating that flag.
You're going to counter it.
You're going to do everything you can if you're a leftist to make sure that doesn't happen.
Then the compendium story was, the companion story was, that people that go to 4th of July parades end up being far more patriotic and love America far more, and they tend to vote Republican.
Have you noticed the effort community after community to eliminate fireworks on the 4th of July, to eliminate big parades, Memorial Day, veterans, have you noticed this movement here?
There's a reason.
They believe these surveys.
But let's go back even farther.
Let's go back to 2004.
Howard Dean, this is a montage when he was running for the president in 2004.
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You have the power to take back our country so that the flag never again is the sole property of Rush Limbaugh.
You have the power to take back our country so that the flag of the United States is no longer the sole property of Rush Limbaugh.
This country does not belong to Rush Limbaugh.
Move over.
I want my country back again because the flag of this country does not belong to Rush Limbaugh.
You have the power to take back the flag so it no longer belongs solely to Rush Limbaugh.
Howard Dean, 2004 montage.
Obviously, they had focus group data showing that I was a great person to mention to get up liberal hate.
But that's 11 years ago, folks.
This is not new.
It's happening.
I actually think that what's going on in higher education needs all kinds of light shined on it, folks, not less.
Because I think it's at the root, and there are many of these.
I think it's the root of the destruction that's taking place in our culture, certainly educationally.
It is right there as a source.
I think there needs to be even more exposure as to what's happening on college campuses, particularly with how much it costs and how much debt is being incurred for what?
It's poisonous in many cases.
I mean, not all.
And it's not everything at every university, but it clearly is spreading.
That's why I think I think it needs – look at that, University of California.
Administrators at the entire UC system think referring to America as a melting pot is offensive.
And they want teachers to stop using that and many other so-called innocuous phrases.
Now, this is the place, UC Berkeley, where the free speech movement was born.
And these assaults on free speech are all over the place.
And folks, I may not be an expert in Catholicism, but I may not be an expert in this, but I'm an expert in freedom.
And I'm in the free speech business.
And I recognize every assault on it that there is.
Interesting question.
Which, you know, the chicken of the egg question, which came first, liberalism or insanity?
You think insanity had to be first, and then insanity begot liberalism?
Or did liberalism beget insanity?
It's a tough question when you stop and think about it.
There's a couple of poll quotes from this story.
America is a melting pot.
Why are you so quiet?
And I believe the most qualified person should get the job.
Those are all phrases that should not be allowed on the University of California system.
America is a melting pot.
Why are you so quiet?
And I believe the most qualified, because that's subjective and requires judgment.
And who are you to decide who's most qualified?
So if you say, I believe the most qualified person to get the job, what do you mean?
Who are you?
Some random ordinary person to decide who's qualified and who isn't.
The president of the UC system, by the way, is Janet Napolitano.
America is a melting pot, no longer permitted.
Well, let's see.
It's not demanded that professors stop.
It's suggested.
The UC system wants teachers to stop using the phrase.
And they also want professors, graduate assistants, whoever actually teaches these kids, whoever actually is in the classroom teaching, stop saying, why are you so quiet?
And they say that that question is normally asked of women.
And that's just sexist.
Oh, man.
Why are you so quiet?
It's like asking, why are you such a wallflower?
It's insulting, causes self-consciousness, embarrasses, and I believe the most qualified should get the job.
All phrases that should raise red flags according to University of California system.
On January 5th, the UC President Janet Napotatano sent letters to the University of California deans and department chairs inviting them to attend seminars to, quote, foster informed conversation about the best way to build and nurture a productive academic climate.
That means keep your mouth shut and do not rock any boats.
And this also story, this story also features definitions of and examples of microaggressions against students that cause them to experience fear.
For example, here are, you want to hear some microaggression examples that are no longer permitted.
Each of these is said to be racist.
There's only one race, the human race.
That is said to be offensive because it denies the significance of a person's color, racial, ethnic experience, and history.
Martin Luther King would go nuts over that.
That's exactly what he says.
It's a colorblind society.
That's what the left used to say they were for not too long ago.
And there's only one race, the human race, as a way of describing a colorblind society.
That's unacceptable anymore.
America is the land of opportunity.
That implies that people of color are lazy and or incompetent and need to work harder.
You see, if you tell people, look, America's a land of opportunity, and you're looking at some slothful failure out there, you're blaming him.
Hey, if you're failing, it's your fault.
America's a land of opportunity, and we can't humiliate people that way.
We must coddle and nurture and understand people who are failing and get to the root causes, which is usually discrimination, racism, inequality, what have you.
And to tell these people in the midst of their embarrassing failure, and their fact they amount to nothing, to say that America is a land of opportunity is to just prejudge them.
It embarrassed them.
And it really just humiliates them because it blames them.
It can't be the country's fault.
Everything must be the country's fault, you see.
Asking an Asian, Latino, or Native American, why are you so quiet, is tantamount to giving the order to assimilate to dominant culture.
Now, that one goes over my sizable head.
Asking an Asian, Latino, or Native American, why are you so quiet?
It's the same thing as telling them, you better assimilate to our culture or else.
And stating the opinion affirmative action is racist is a microaggression by default.
Oi Yan Poon, an assistant professor of higher education at Loyola in Chicago, explained the rationale for the last example, affirmative action is racist.
She was on Fox News explaining this.
She said, the statement that affirmative action is racist completely ignores the history and purpose of affirmative action, which is to address inequalities resulting from the many ways our government and our society have prevented people of color from accessing economic, educational, and political opportunities and rights.
By categorizing American or affirmative action as racist, you're doing all that stuff.
But how are students and faculty supposed to have an intellectual discussion about the merits of affirmative action if anyone making the opposite case is automatically branded a racist?
Well, that's the exact point.
All of this is to stifle dissent, disagreement.
It's not the college is not where you go to open minds anymore.
Alan Bloom wrote about it, my buddy, the closing of the American mind.
That's exactly what.
Okay, back to the phones.
Germantown, Maryland, and Robert.
And I appreciate your patience, Robert.
Welcome to the EIB Network.
What a pleasure and a privilege, sir.
How are you today?
I'm very well.
Thank you so much.
Great to have you here.
I'm thinking, Rush, you know, I've been listening over the course of the last few months with all the different things that are going on in our country.
I think that the American public, for the most part, is being held hostage by the lack of Americanism, no assimilation.
And you just touched on the assimilation situation, what the kids are being taught in schools.
And I know this is a little off the subject, but just in one small way.
And you mentioned about this professor not wanting to bear children from Pennsylvania.
I mean, that's just insanity.
And I think, yes, insanity and liberalism are, I think they're in bed with each other.
I don't know which would come first, but this trade agreement that's going on, this fast-tracking, you know, Paul Ryan was someone that I really had a lot of trust for initially.
But he's even trying to fast-track it.
And the reason I'm mentioning that is the people, we're all being snafu.
I mean, no one's been allowed to see this agreement.
The president did it under rats for the last six years, didn't tell anyone about it.
And then they try to ram it down everyone's throats.
And all this transparency, I'm thinking, where's all the transparency?
Where's all this transparency?
No one's being allowed to see this, but yet we have to do this.
And it's just, we're being held hostage by all these people, the Congress, the media, everyone.
It's just, this is insanity.
I've never seen anything like it.
Well, now, that's not insanity.
I mean, I know what you mean, but that's not insanity.
It's purposeful.
That's designed, and it's clear why.
There are things in it that they know the people of this country would overwhelmingly oppose, and it doesn't matter.
What this all demonstrates is that the group of people that matters, the members of Congress, are their donors right now on issue after issue after issue.
The voters' purpose is to show up on Election Day and then never to be heard from for the next two years and then two years after that.
It's clear the donors are running the game here.
And, I mean, there's so much about this trade deal, it doesn't make any sense.
I mean, the Democrats abandoning Obama, the Republicans bailing him out.
Nobody can see what's in this.
Even members of Congress have to go to a secret private room in the basement, and they're not allowed.
They can take notes, but they can't leave the room with the notes.
They've got to leave the notes that they're taking.
They can't take any pictures, can't tell anybody what they've seen.
When you hear that, I mean, the word American doesn't even get close to crossing your mind when you hear about this process.
Then you add everything we know already to it, and you're ricket, Obama wants it, fast-track or otherwise.
Look, on the fast-track, there's one thing about fast-track.
Generally, there's two things.
Generally, just as for general purposes, there's nothing wrong with free trade.
And I know that some people fair trade it, but generally there's nothing wrong with it.
And fast track is okay if in normal circumstances, because you have a treaty on, I don't care what it is, by the time 535 people want to get their fingerprints on it, you've got a mess.
So fast-tracking it, in a general sense, I understand that too.
But when you add the ingredients that we also know about, A, Obama, and who he is, what he is, and what his overall objectives might be, then the secrecy, and then the apparent selling out of their voters of the Republicans, then, of course, you've got red flags all over the place where your general beliefs are now thrown into question, such as the general belief that fair trade's good.
Our poor Republicans.
This isn't insanity.
This is trickery.
This is not insanity.
Deception.
Yep.
I mean, Jeff Sessions has been trying to warn everybody about this.
But we're forced to ask a question.
First question is, how many people around the country actually know the procedure that's taken place here?
There hasn't been a lack of effort.
I mean, you've had elected officials from Ted Cruz to Sessions to any number of people who have been, some of them presidential candidates, out there talking about this secretive process.
Doesn't seem to have irritated very many people.
Normally, at least that we know of, now, maybe Washington's phone lines are melting and the email system is melting as well, and we're just not being told that that's happening.
Well, even if it is, it's not having any impact on people.
But this is Obamacare teetering.
I mean, Obamacare, for all intents and purposes, is bust.
It's fallen apart.
There's no way.
I don't care what the Supreme Court does with this.
Every state that signed on wants out of it.
They can't afford it.
And now it looks like the saving grace is going to be the insurance companies who are hated and despised by your average ordinary American because they price gouged, they you know the drill.
So there's so much of this stuff that you want so much of it, you wonder how much emotion people have left in their reservoir to even be angry about it.
Because since Obama took office, every day, seemingly every week, has seen a new outrage.
And people have, I mean, the Tea Party came into existence because of the out-of-control debt and spending in Obamacare.
But that's just one thing.
They're all what the debacle, that is the Arab Spring, Obama's mess in foreign policy, that every week there has been something new to get outraged over.
And I think now into year seven, I wonder how much emotion people have left to be outraged over and how much resignation has just sunk in.
Anyway, I got to take a break.
Robert, I appreciate the call.
Thanks much.
We will be right back.
Don't go away.
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Well, you can see where that's going to lead, can you not?
John in Columbus, Georgia.
I'm glad you waited.
Welcome, sir, to the EIB network.
Hi.
Good afternoon, Russ.
Thank you.
I wanted to digress a little bit, go back to the Confederate flag issue, if you'd let me.
Sure.
I wouldn't be surprised if we went back and retouched this subject, say in a couple months, that a floodgate has been opened.
And we're going to see, well, I think I've already seen it.
I was on John's cruising through the internet.
There's calls in Baltimore County to have a Robert E. Lee Park renamed, a bust of Nathan Bedford Forrest removed from the Senate chambers in Tennessee.
And there's a whole bunch of, I'm not just going to, I just wanted to touch on that.
But I wouldn't be surprised to see a call for all Confederate memorials in any southern community to be torn down, any highway that bears Jeb Stewart or Lee Highway, anything like that to be renamed.
Just basically a full court press put on eradication of anything resembling the old South.
Yeah, okay.
Why do you think that'll happen?
Well, it's starting, and I think, well, from first-hand experience, I know that here in Columbus, we've been having an ongoing battle with the NAACP.
They want to tear down our Confederate war memorial and erect a 12-foot statue of Martin Luther King in its place.
And, you know, the sons of the daughters of the Confederacy has been disbanded for years, but citizens in our community have stepped forward and said, no, we will, you know, take care of this monument.
It says, no, we don't, you know, we want to tear down the monument.
So just from personal experience, I think the floodgates have been opened and it's sort of been like the green light.
Aside from the obvious reasons, I mean, why do you think that this massive push is going to occur?
Well, I hate to say this, but I think those of us of any kind of background are not going to step forward and say, no, this is ridiculous.
Stop.
And we're just going to roll over and let it happen.
Well, that political expediency.
That probably will happen.
Well, I don't know if there's any question.
I think if you do something like, will Sheila Jackson Lee have to change her name?
I mean, if you're going to obliterate Robert E. Lee, would Sheila Jackson Lee maybe have to change her name?
I mean, there's a lot of things the left needs to think about this.
But if this happened, by the way, I've prognosticated earlier on the program that the battle flag of Northern Virginia is, which is what the flag under dispute is.
I know, I know.
We'll call it the Confederate flag for sake of ease of communication here.
But the real objective here, I think, is the American flag.
The American flag has flown over a slave nation much longer than the Confederate flag did, folks.
The American flag has flown over all kinds of atrocities.
You wait.
But I think this Confederate flag business is about much more than the Confederate flag.
This is about an all-out assault on what the left thinks is a last remaining enclave of solid Republican voters, and that is the South.
And it's an attempt to dispirit and basically divide.
So I think your prediction that all things related to the Civil War in the South eventually going to come under assault may have a point to it.
Folks, sit tight.
We've got much more straight ahead.
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