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June 24, 2015 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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June 24, 2015, Wednesday, Hour #1
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Well, I wish somebody would ban all of the stuff from Club Gitbook.
Can you imagine the licensed merchandise sales that I could rack up?
Look at what they banned the Confederate flag and everybody matches it.
It says, we're not going to sell it.
We're not going to sell Walmart.
Everybody getting out of the Confederate flag business, NASCAR.
And yet some enterprising entrepreneurs say, well, hell, we'll sell it.
There's a market for it, and people are buying it up left and right.
They made a prediction yesterday on this program that the Politico actually writes a story about and got it 100% correct and no snark.
Now, they do that occasionally at Politico, and it's sometimes trying to figure out why, but I predicted the American flag would be next after the Confederate flag.
And I laid out the reasons why.
I didn't give a timeline, but I mean, look, we're trending in that direction.
Well, as you can expect, some people think it was a bit much, a little bit over the top as a prediction, including our buddies at Fox and Friends today, who little segment on it back and forth, but they just can't.
No, no, no, that would never happen.
Not the American flag.
No, no.
It's already happening.
Not about the flag, but about everything else.
That's my point.
It's already happening.
And I've got some stories in the stack of stuff here today about the ongoing corruption of higher education and figured something out.
You know, higher education today, as we've been discussing, the things being taught, remember, we had a call yesterday from a guy.
Listen, you need to stop talking about this rush.
All you're doing is giving it prominence.
And he said, remember when you banned all audio soundbites from MSNBC, their ratings went in the toilet.
I said, it's true.
Well, you need to stop talking about these oddball professors.
And I said, they're not the oddballs anymore.
They're the mainstream.
They're not the exception.
They're the rule.
And I think people need to know what their kids are being taught.
I don't know that they do.
But the thing is, what we have now at many, more than you would believe, institutions of higher learning, universities, is the equivalent of re-education camps.
The difference is American parents are paying for it.
Or somebody is.
They're paying to have their kids' minds messed with.
So let's just get started with this, folks.
I mean, it is one of those days where I don't really know.
Try this.
New York Times has a story today.
Let me just grab the headline.
In fact, let me just do a little headline review here just to give you an idea of what I've got here today.
White House blames white male resentment for Obama failures on guns and race.
Now stop.
Stop and soak that in.
White House blames white male resentment for Obama's failures on guns, that would be gun control and race, whatever that is.
Details coming up.
Racial subordination is the premise of the American Project, says Georgetown professor regarding Dylan Roof.
This guy's name is Paul Butler.
He is a professor of criminal law and race relations at Georgetown.
And he was on the news hour last night on PBS.
He said the national conversation that should follow the murders in Charleston, South Carolina, should be about racism and white supremacy.
He said we have to disrupt this rush to a kumbaya moment that we have seen in Ferguson, where people chanted, all lives matter.
No, all lives do not matter.
Saying all lives matter is a corruption of black lives matter.
This is a Georgetown professor who says that if you come along and say all lives matter, you are still segregating black people and relegating black people to second-class humanity status because the phrase was black lives matter, and that's what you have to say.
And if you make that all lives matter, you are a racist.
Georgetown University from the Washington Post, Black America should stop forgiving white racists.
Stacey Patton, senior enterprise reporter for the Chronicle of Higher Education, adjunct professor of American history at American University, says black America, she's upset that the families of the nine dead parishioners forgave Dylan Roof.
They are, they're livid.
She's livid that the forgiveness was offered, which means she doesn't understand Christian yet.
Those people are incredible, by the way, those families.
But they did the Christian thing.
And obviously, Stacey Patton has no clue.
She has not the slightest idea.
Speaking of Christianity, hear what the Pope said.
I'm sorry, folks.
I mean, I'm just, you know, reading the news here and passing along to you what I say.
The Pope, the Pope said, well, the Pope said that actually it's okay.
Family separation can be morally necessary.
Pope said that.
He said that today.
It may be morally necessary for some families to split up, marking a change of tone in the Catholic Church's attitude toward troubled marriages.
Now back to the got the audio of this coming up on CNN.
You think the American flag is not, do you think it's out of bounds from these people?
CNN did a segment with the bespeckled, bespectacled Ashley Banfield and Don Blackhole Lemon asking if the Thomas Jefferson Memorial should be removed from the United States Capitol because he owns slaves.
And the answer was, yep, we need to close the Jefferson Memorial.
We need to either tear it down or move it, but because he owns slaves, whether he inherited them from his dad or not, he owned them, and it's unacceptable.
And there's no way Jefferson should have a memorial in Washington, D.C.
This should not be a Washington, D.C. There should not be a Washington Memorial or Washington Monument.
There shouldn't be any of this.
Exactly.
You think the American flag is not going to be next?
And they don't even have to go after the flag per se to accomplish the same thing.
Fox News: the cultural cleansing of the southern states begins.
What did I tell you yesterday?
This is not about the flag.
This is not about the Confederate flag.
This is about going after a way of life.
This is about this is political, and it is targeting the last geographical area that could be said to be a Republican stronghold, and that's the South.
This is about segregating and humiliating the South and discrediting all of Southern culture and including the way they vote and their politics.
That's what the attack on the flag is.
And Todd Starn's Fox News: full-fledged cultural cleansing of the southern states is underway as lawmakers debate whether to remove Confederate flags and rename screws and parks named after Confederate war heroes.
Don't doubt me.
St. Louis lawmakers debating over the future of a Confederate statue in a city park there.
New York Times, are you ready for this?
Homegrown radicals are more deadly than jihadis in the United States.
The premise of this story, and you have to ask why do this?
What's the point of this story?
What is the to what end do you do a story claiming that right-wing extremism kills more people in America than Islamic fanaticism?
What are you trying to accomplish with a story like that?
Homegrown radical, not left-wing radicals, by the way.
No, no, no, no.
This is homegrown right-wingers, deadlier than jihadis in the United States.
What's the premise behind this?
Why even do it?
You think that's meanwhile, ISIS.
Have you seen the latest or heard about the latest video in which ISIS is committing mass murder?
They put it's two things: they put a bunch of prisoners in a cage and then they lower the cage, videotaping all this, they lower the cage into a lake or a large body of swimming pool.
And then after they drown, they bring the cage up.
However, they've added a new technique: underwater cameras.
The videos now show the actual drowning of the people in the cage.
The cage is raised at just that point in time, right after death, where people are still frothing at the mouth after drowning, and that's displayed.
The next ISIS technique is to grab a bunch of prisoners and put them in a car, lock the doors, grab a jihadist, give him an RPG standing on a hillside, fire a rocket-propelled grenade at the car, blowing it up.
The guy, what?
Yeah, oh, the explosive necklaces.
Yeah, but that's, that's, you know, that's, that's a, that's, that's just a technique that's, that's building on what happened in South Africa.
But the, but the, well, it is necklacing.
South Africa, Nelson Mandela's bunch, they would necklace people, their enemies.
They would fill automobile and truck tires with gasoline and then put the tires around the necks of their prisoners and light it all up.
It's called necklacing.
Winnie Mandela was one of her favorite techniques.
Not supposed to talk about it, but it was.
ISIS didn't invent that, but they have now built on it.
Rather than tires filled with gasolines, they necklaces are bombs.
And they put bombs around the necks of these collectively and then blow them all to smithereens.
But all of this videotaped.
In the midst of all this, the New York Times with a story about homegrown right-wing extremism is far more dangerous and far deadly than jihadism in the United States.
Pope says family separation can be morally necessary.
There's even global warming news today.
Get this, folks.
Did you know weak sun could offset some global warming in Europe and the U.S.
Now, wait a second.
It has always been believed by me and others with common sense that if there is warming, and there is, there's no doubt that our climate is always warming or cooling.
It's never steady and constant.
Well, unless, you know, in universal time, 100 years is a few seconds.
But the point is, the climate's always changing.
And whenever somebody like me says, you know, maybe the sun has a little bit to do with it, maybe.
No, no, no, no, no.
You don't know what you're talking about.
You're not a scientist.
The sun can't have anything to do with global warming.
It's all greenhouse gas.
Oh, okay.
Well, now, since there isn't any warming and there hasn't been any warming for 18 years, they have to come up with an excuse to satisfy the low information, lowest common denominator people that buy into this.
So they're saying, we're entering a phase where the sun is entering a weaker than normal cycle, and this is going to cause a temporary halt to global warming.
But wait, aren't you the people that told us the sun isn't a factor one way or the other?
From the UK Express, Britain faces freezing temperatures, freezing winters as a slump in solar activity threatens a new little ice age.
What is somebody who really believes this stuff to do?
How sane do they end up being?
Anyway, that, folks, is a large overview, but it doesn't by any means encompass everything.
You have to be here all three hours today.
We'll try to squeeze it all in.
We'll get started with all the rest of it.
We get back.
800-282-2882, if you want to be on the program, homegrown radicals more deadly than jihadis in the U.S.
This story, stop and think of the premise here.
Somebody at the New York Times, in the midst of all that's going on in South Carolina and pretty much everywhere else, I'm telling you, folks, there is an all-out assault on the conservative way of life.
Mr. Sterdley walked in here today, if I may make a brief departure, walked in here today, and he was kind of pulling what little hair he has left down.
He's very frustrated over this, the CHICOM hack of the Office of Personnel Management.
They have everything on, was it how many people?
18 million.
That's a stunning.
18 million federal employees.
Is that right?
How many federal employees are there?
18 million people.
All right, 18 million people.
The CHICOMs hacked the Office of Personnel Management.
And for two years, they were able to reauthorize their login credentials as members of this department.
And they have everything on everybody.
And some woman was called up to some babe from the department, was that called up to Congress testify and going, it's not any big deal.
You know, I mean, stuff happens.
I mean, we spy on them, they spy on us.
And there was an FBI guy who was responsible for discovering this in the audience.
He wasn't even slated to testify.
And he stood up at speaking in what was out of order.
It is a big deal.
They know everything about 18 million people, everything.
And as we discussed when this began, it's not that they now can go out and conduct credit card fraud on these people.
That's not what the CHICOMs want.
The CHICOMs are looking for people to blackmail.
They're looking for people that they can turn into agents for whatever beyond what they're learning in this hack.
But the real point is that here you had a member of the regime up there.
And I don't think this is just what you would categorize as self-preservation.
I don't think they do think it's a big deal.
Because the CHICOMs are not that big a threat.
American conservatives are the threat.
And do not, folks, I know that this is going to sound well, it doesn't sound extreme.
It just sounds Russia doesn't make sense.
We're all Americans, Rush.
I mean, they know.
I'm telling you that as far as people like Obama and Valerie Gerard, everybody in the regime, the media, the biggest threat they face is domestic political opposition.
The one thing, ISIS is not threatening their power.
The CHICOMs are not threatening their power.
The CHICOMs are not here.
ISIS is not here.
But the Republicans are.
The conservatives are.
The conservatives run against them in elections.
The conservatives want to win the presidency and as many elective offices as possible.
That's the equivalent of taking power away from these people.
The biggest threat they think they face is us.
So anything that happens, such as this horrible, sad event in Charleston, South Carolina, immediately becomes something totally unrelated to what happened in the event.
What now?
The story of cleansing?
A cleansing of Southern culture?
What the hell is that?
It can only be one thing.
Southern culture is considered conservative, which is racist, sexist, big, and homophobe.
They're getting rid of the flag, and they're going to get rid of any other symbols they can.
But it's all about destroying what they think is a last Republican geographic stronghold, stronghold.
So when the woman at the congressional hearing on the CHICOM hacks, no big deal, it really, to them, the CHICOMs are not the threat, and neither is ISIS, and neither is al-Qaeda.
We are.
I mean, how does Obama talk about Fox News compared to the Iranians, for example?
Welcome back, my friends.
Rush Limbaugh doing what I was born to do.
By the way, the New York Times, this story today about homegrown radicals more deadly than jihadis in the United States.
Do you know there was a similar New York story June 19th?
This is the 24th of five days ago.
White terrorism is as old as America.
White, New York Times, white terrorism is as old as America.
And there is a narrative out there.
There's a meme out there that isn't true.
But it's too late.
It has taken hold.
The meme is that white people are killing black people in droves every week.
It's either cops or private citizens, but white people are mowing black people down left and right.
And it's time to stop.
And everybody thinks that's the case.
It's the exact opposite.
Black on black crime is how most African Americans die.
And it's not even close.
Chicago is never talked about in these discussions.
It's just like I've got people sending me emails.
Hey, Rush, look at this, look at this.
You know what it is?
It's little campaign buttons and stickers and stuff with Hillary Clinton posing with the Confederate flag and Bill Clinton posing with the Confederate flag, smiling and happy off in the 1990s.
Isn't going to matter a hill of beans until you see all that at Yahoo News, ABC, CBS, NBC.
It isn't going to matter.
And even then, it wouldn't matter because the Clintons are Democrats and get the benefit of the doubt on caring about people and having good intentions.
I have yet to see any hypocrisy argument carry the day and discredit a Democrat.
I mean, here, the Democrat Party owns the Confederate flag.
The Confederacy was Democrats.
The ancestors, the heirs of the Confederacy, were Democrats.
The governors, the police chiefs, the segregationists were all Democrats.
The Confederacy was Democrats.
It was the Democrat Party.
Abraham Lincoln was the father of the Republican Party.
It was the party of the North.
Fritz Hollings, a Democrat governor, hoisted the Confederate flag in South Carolina.
Everything to do with the Confederacy, the Democrat Party owns, lock, stock, and barrel.
They gave it to us.
Bill Clinton signed all kinds of proclamations.
Hillary Clinton did proudly appear with caricatures and replicas of the Confederate flag.
And people are finding these and they're posting them all over Twitter.
Ain't going to matter.
Because nobody in the media, where the low-information people go that confers authority, is going to give the Clintons any grief over it.
Because it's not the target.
It's not the reason.
We're not, the whole thing in South Carolina, the Confederate flag, it's not to identify hypocrites or racists, or that's what it's made to look like.
This is nothing more than the latest technique from the Democrat Party to advance their political agenda.
With, of course, the media as willing accomplices.
So you can show me all of the Hillary paraphernalia you want with her loving the Confederate flag and kissing the Confederate flag and the Confederate flag all over her campaign operative posters and Bill Clinton ain't gonna matter folks It just isn't going to matter.
It isn't going to disqualify Hillary.
It's not going to get Hillary thrown in the same pot with all these.
I mean, what Republican having to do with what happened in South Carolina anyway?
How did this all of a sudden become a Republican Party problem?
But it is, isn't it?
And now we have the New York Times doing stories, homegrown radicals meant to be like this Dylan Roof.
They are far more deadly than ISIS and al-Qaeda.
And then white terrorism is as old as the nation.
Let's go to this Chris Steyerwalt piece at Fox News, also from today.
This is the one with the headline: White House blames white male resentment for Obama failures on guns and race.
It is perfectly emblematic of the empty hashtagging political era that the primary role of government after a mass murder would be seen as an interpreter for the nation.
As governor of Arkansas, Bill Clinton celebrated his state's Confederate heritage with a special star in the state flag.
Now his wife is running for president as an ardent foe of Confederate remembrance, but her picture is all over Confederate paraphernalia as well.
The GOP consensus of 20 years ago was that the display of the Confederate battle flag was up to the ones displaying it.
Now they are falling over each other to denounce its public display.
But none of it makes much difference in the lives of Americans or on the question of good governance.
These are things that politicians do not as part of leadership, but of the do not as part of leadership, but part of followership.
Public cue is intended to show voters that a candidate is one of them.
But they don't do much to shape outcomes, quite the opposite.
These are things you do when you can't do anything real.
Is racism a problem in America?
Not nearly what it was, but of course it is.
It's worse than ever.
It must be worse than ever in order for the Democrat Party agenda to advance.
Everything must be worse than ever.
Everything must be as bad as it's ever been.
And of course, with the first African-American president, that makes it even worse because the first African-American president, this should have ended all this, but it's even worse.
You know what that means?
It means these white Republicans are even more racist than we ever knew.
That's the narrative.
That's the meme.
So Steyerwalt asks here, what's with all the focus on the flag?
And we get an insight into the thinking of the president and his party from a Washington Post piece on Obama's many frustrations with his administration's failures on gun control and race relations.
A senior administration official, speaking to the Washington Post on condition of anonymity, said, quote, if you are a white man in America, this country is changing dramatically.
You've always been in charge, but now you're not.
So there is something to white men feeling like something has been taken away from them.
So this is apparently, this spokesman, this is what Obama thinks.
The reason for all these atrocities is that white people, they used to run this country.
They had it all.
They founded the country.
They wrote the rules.
They wrote the Constitution, but finally we're catching up to them.
And now, now they're no longer the majority.
They don't get to be the majority anymore.
We're taking it away from them, and they don't like it.
So if you're a white man in America, this country is changing dramatically.
You have always been in charge, but now you're not.
And so this would explain why they cling.
What did Obama say, bitter clingers?
They cling to their religion, they cling to their guns, they cling to their beer, whatever the stereotype is.
What this tells me is that what's happening here has been intended and is part of the Obama agenda from the get-go.
It is part of his transformation of America.
It's happening right before your eyes.
And even while these things happen and the things that are happening give a great indication of what will happen next when you point that.
No, no, no, Rush, don't the flag's not going to be.
It already is, folks.
American flag, maybe not specifically, but what it stands for, is already under assault, and it has been since Inauguration Day of 2009.
Now, a lot of people don't want to go there and admit that deal with that, so they'll accept it's just about the flag and the church shooting in South Carolina, but the other stuff, that's too scary to contemplate.
But it's undeniable.
Now, Steierwalt writes here, not one in 1,000 white males cares about the presence of a Confederate war monument on the grounds of the South Carolina State House.
Not one in 1 million would share the racist worldview of the Charleston killer.
The overwhelming majority are focused on keeping themselves and their families afloat in the face of enormous challenges.
He's right.
But what the regime and the media are trying to portray is that we are all Dylan Roof, just waiting to explode, just waiting for that one moment that lights the fuse, that blows up the keg.
We are all but mere moments from being Dylan Roof.
That is what the regime is attempting to convey to low-information voters via their allies in the media.
And that's why all the, we've got to get rid of these symbols so that you never know what's going to happen.
We've got to tear down.
We've got a Jefferson Memorial flag.
Yeah.
Got to get rid of these parks named after all these racist picks.
They were all Democrats.
And 10 years ago, they were honored and celebrated by the likes of the Clintons.
And that's why there's paraphernalia exhibiting it.
But it's just like you could never get Ted Kennedy on hypocrisy.
And all he did was preside over a woman's death.
And you still could not weaken Ted Kennedy or the Democrat Party using hypocrisy as a technique because the Kennedys had succeeded wildly in convincing everybody that they really didn't like being rich and they were doing everything they could to give their own money to the poor so the poor wouldn't be poor.
And that's what everybody thinks every Democrat does.
The Democrats are some of the most miserly.
Take a look at Obama's charitable donations on his tax form.
Take a look at Biden's, take a look at Al Gore's.
It's embarrassingly invisible compared to the charity and the good works of conservative Republicans, not even close.
But as far as the low-information public is concerned, the LIV is, it's just the exact opposite.
And on and on and on.
But Obama and the regime want to focus on white males as the villains because the country's changing and everything they set up for themselves being taken away from them.
They founded the country.
They wrote the rules, the Constitution, Declaration.
They set everything up for themselves and their heirs.
And finally, it's all being taken away.
Finally, the downtrodden, the minorities, the people that have been discriminated against for 200 plus years finally are getting what has always been theirs.
And the white power structure that created it for itself is powerless doing about it.
And so what do they do?
Blow up churches.
And so that's what the Democrat Party and the media hope to convey that whole line of thought.
So that's why white males are being focused on as villains.
But what that really does is, well, when it comes to gun control and the other issues, yeah, the white male, white people, they're the villains.
They're the bad guys.
They're the ones that want to protect the Second Amendment.
They're the ones that make it possible for Dylan Roof to do what he did see.
Yeah, yeah.
The NRA, the conservatives and so forth.
New York Times warning us, conservative extreme, and far more dangerous than any foreign enemy.
Not even close, says the New York Times.
White terrorism has been around since the founding of the country.
Combine all this with everything just this week we have exposed, with what is being taught to kids in college and universities.
And it all adds up.
All makes perfect sense when you look at it.
I mean, it doesn't make sense.
It makes sense why people buy it, believe it.
They're being assaulted with it each and every day.
And there is no countervailing view.
Well, I mean, there is here, but where else is there?
In the mainstream media.
Anyway, we got to take a break here, folks.
It's always a little long, but sit tight because we're coming right back, don't we?
All right, now just a couple of questions here, folks.
Here we have this White House spokesman speaking for Obama.
And it says here, under condition of anonymity, in order to be candid, so the guy told Chris Steyerwald at Fox, I'll give you the loaddown, but you can't use my name because I'm going to shoot you straight.
Steyerwald said, okay, fire.
Guy says, if you are a white man in America, this country's changing dramatically.
You have always been in charge.
So there is something to white men feeling like something's been taken away from them.
Well, why isn't Obama then worried about a backlash?
He's always worried about a backlash against Muslims.
He's always worried about a backlash against the Iranians.
And where's all the talk about needing to understand white males and what might be upsetting them?
I mean, wasn't it just a couple of months ago, Hillary Clinton said that smart power was understanding and empathizing with our enemies and seeing their point of view.
You remember when she said that?
We played the audio soundbite for you here.
She did say that.
Smart power was understanding and empathizing with our enemies.
We are giving the Iranians nuclear technology.
We are going to enable the Iranians to ramp up their entire nuclear apparatus and eventually to include weapons.
But in the United States, the objective is to get guns out of the hands of the NRA, which Obama and his buds consider to be conservatives.
And don't forget this professor at Georgetown, Paul Butler, professor, criminal law and race relations, who says, American history is a history of racialized violence.
And our history of racialized violence means that everything white people have, they have in part because they are white.
We have to disrupt that status quo.
That's what the president meant when he said that racism is part of our DNA, and our DNA has to be changed, meaning racism is part of this nation's founding blood flow.
And who founded the nation?
Violent white people.
This guy is all upset because the phrase Black Lives Matter came along and then somebody said, no, it's all lives matter.
And this professor, Paul Butler, said, no, no, no, no, that's racial subordination.
You're subordinating black lives to secondary status again.
It's black lives matter and you can't change that to all lives matter because if you do, you're just again saying that black lives don't matter as much.
Professor Criminal Law, Race Relations, Georgetown, and you are paying this institution $20,000, $30,000 a year to have your kids learn this type of dribble.
It's a barn-burning, barn-storming, first busy broadcast hour.
We're going to get into some equally interesting, incendiary, and funny audio soundbites when we get back, and it'll be time to meld your phone calls into the mix.
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