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June 26, 2015 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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June 26, 2015, Friday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 247 podcast.
Look, I know everybody's trying to understand this, and everybody's trying to explain it to each other.
Everybody's looking to everybody else for a deep meaning, an explanation that makes sense.
Because none of what's happening makes sense to people.
So what's going on?
Well, hang in there.
I'm gonna give it my shot at this today, folks.
The EIB network and Rush Limbaugh, get ready.
Live from the Southern Command in Sunny South Florida.
It's open line Friday.
Oh, yeah, that too.
Open line Friday, which could be juicy today.
This is where we try to emphasize callers a little more than we do Monday through Thursday.
Never know how it's actually going to play out, but the rule is on Friday, whatever you want to talk about, have at it.
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Ladies and gentlemen, not to be what the word is.
The outcome of this case today has never been in question.
The fact that the Supreme Court was going to find gay marriage as they did should not be a surprise.
It doesn't mitigate the result.
I mean, just like yesterday, we could all predict what was going to happen with Obamacare, but being alive and seeing it happen and living through it, the reality of it, it's crushing.
Same thing here.
But this one was really pre-ordinated.
The only question on this one was going to be the vote.
Was it going to be 5463?
And it turned out to be 5'4.
Now, everybody looking for an explanation.
Everybody's reading dissent opinions.
Everybody's consulting a lot of people calling each other, emailing each other.
Gee, what I've had I can't tell you the number of people have sent me emails uh with it with a simple theme.
Same theme.
How do you persevere?
How can you go on the radio today?
What in the world?
How do you even know anybody's gonna be listening?
Do you realize all seems lost?
What in the world is there to say?
Well, I'm here and I'm gonna do my best to put this into some sort of perspective.
One thing I'm not is in a state of denial.
I think there's a lot going on, and to try to put them in any kind of priority.
Okay, this is the worst, and then this is the next worst, that's a feudal exercise, and ultimately meaningless.
But I think folks, the in the case you can almost include Obamacare in this.
In this in this decision today, uh the court legalizing gay marriage.
This is in a way Roe versus Wade all over again.
Uh the country was involved.
As Scalia pointed out in a dissent, there was a pretty robust debate going on state by state over gay marriage.
It's now been shut down.
So once again, five justices have forced a way of life on people, and many of them just approve of it, do not support it, and have not had a chance to vote on it.
So I think we're faced with a future where a culture will continue to be royaled, much as it has been since Roe vs.
Wade.
And I've heard commentators today on all the cable networks, and they run the gamut, and one of the seemingly common themes among some quasi so-called conservative commentators or analysts, is hey, these are just people, and they just want what's been denied them, and they it goes on and on.
And they just want uh dignity and respect.
Just it's not asking for much.
They just want, and it's not about that in all cases.
The move for gay marriage is not about joining anything.
It's about redefining.
I mean, if the if the move for gay marriage was about joining, then a couple that walks into a bakery and wants a cake bake for their wedding, and the proprietors say no, it's against our religious beliefs to support gay marriage, then the gay couple would leave and go find some other bakery to bake their cake.
But that's not what happens.
They go to court and they try to get that bakery shut down or that photography studio shut down.
So it may it makes me dubious at this idea that there's just an effort here to join the majority.
There's clearly an effort underway to upend and redefine and punish.
You take a look at what happened in Charleston, South Carolina.
I mean, it's, it's, And by the way, all this is comes under an umbrella, which I'm going to explain in just a second.
There's a singular theme for all of this that's happening.
And maybe even a pretty much, though you may not agree with it, singular explanation for it.
But after the shooting in Charleston, look how quickly that became a Republican event.
And look how quickly people moved to banish the Confederate flag.
Confederate flag had nothing to do with anything involved in the Charleston situation.
It had nothing to do with it.
It was totally unrelated.
An opportunity was made, seen, and acted upon by the Democrat Party to move their agenda forward.
Republican Party totally unprepared for it.
Conservative movement totally unprepared for it, was left to either join it or be humiliated and held up for ridicule.
Now I think in the case of this gay marriage decision today, excuse me, the answer to this sadly is not going to be found in politics or policy, because the problems and the truth go way beyond that.
I think we're dealing with a culture that is under assault and is deteriorating rapidly.
that descends.
And the truth is that all this transcends the Constitution.
I think there is a spiritual war going on.
And Where truth is no longer truth.
There is no objective truth.
Everything is relative now, particularly morally.
Words have no meaning.
Words can be whatever the most forceful group of people wants them to mean.
Whatever the most intimidating group of people wants a word to mean is what it will mean.
So the doors open for liberals and oligarchs to do whatever they want to do.
And I I don't know that politics or legal solutions alone are the remedy for what is happening.
To me, a bigger casualty than the health care debacle and the socialism aspects of Obamacare is the assault on the Constitution.
And an even bigger casualty still was on the truth itself.
Words no longer mean anything, they're just tools for liberals to accomplish whatever ends they want to accomplish.
Now I'm going to get into some of the words from dissenting justices on the case today, the gay marriage case, because they're poignant and they get to a point, make a great point.
But I'll tell you the folks one.
Everybody's trying to understand the difference in John Roberts today.
His decision today, the his his uh opposition to gay marriage compared to what he wrote yesterday for Obamacare is incoherent.
The two don't make any sense side by side.
I have a theory.
I think I I think I know or have a good idea of why Obamacare survives, Amnesty survives, and will survive.
And I think it's basically fear.
Fear of being the one, anyone in history, who dared oppose or repeal anything accomplished by the first African American president.
I think that has created a paralysis in the Republican Party and in the conservative movement and at the Supreme Court and at Congress and at the Senate.
I think it's pervasive, and I think it's going to be forever.
I think that fear is going to survive long after Obama has served his terms of office.
In other words, the effort to repeal Obamacare in, say, 2017, 2018, I don't know who's going to have the guts to actually do it.
Somewhere along the lines, somebody's not going to want their name attached to it because the historical notation that X was a leader in the movement that repealed the act of Obamacare brought to us by the first African.
I my point is I think there is more fear than we have ever understood.
I think there is a paralysis type fear brought about and brought on by the election of the first African American president.
And it is made even more intense by the fact that people can see what the media does to you if you dare stand up in opposition to Obama.
And Obama has made it clear that after his terms in office are over, he's not going anywhere.
He's going to have a residence in Washington.
And one of the reasons for that is to protect his legacy if anybody makes a move to repeal anything, whatever it is.
And we're still, we've still got a year and a half.
And I told you when January of this year came around, folks buckle up.
These next two years are going to be unlike anything you've ever seen, and they're starting out that way.
We're now six months in.
And it is the case.
But here's the thing, folks, when you get right down to it.
Everywhere I look today, yesterday, day before, last year, the year before that.
Last decade, the decade before that, everywhere there's conservative anger, everywhere over everything that's happened.
Today the anger is at the Supreme Court.
Yesterday the anger was at the Supreme Court.
And that's all there is anger.
There's never anything done beyond expressing the anger.
There aren't any policy reactions.
There aren't any efforts whatsoever to deal with the assaults and the attacks that are relentless and daily from the left.
I mentioned Charleston.
I mean, here you had a horrible sad event in Charleston, South Carolina.
And within minutes, it became the fault of the Republican Party.
It became the fault of the conservative movement.
The media, as per usual, began looking for any evidence that Dylan Roof had any tie whatsoever to the Republican Party.
They focus on the on the Confederate flag.
It became yet another daily march of the Democrat leftist agenda, which has as its number one objective to eliminate political opposition in this country.
I've said it for the past two days, and I'm going to say it again.
The biggest threat that Obama, the Democrats have is us.
They fear us more than they do ISIS or the Iranians or whatever, because they view us as able to take away from them their power via elections.
They're not worried about ISIS taking their power away.
They're not worried about the Iranians doing that.
So we must be destroyed.
We must be attacked and annihilated and rendered irrelevant.
The Dukes of Hazard for crying out loud television show because The Confederate flag was on the roof of the car comes under assault.
There never is any strategy to deal.
We know what's coming, at least I do, and I'm I've made a career here out of warning everybody what's coming.
And there never is, there doesn't ever appear to be any awareness of what's coming, and there certainly isn't any strategy to deal with it.
And admit that is one of the reasons why I know you're frustrated and maybe despondent.
You have invested in everything you think you can do.
You've donated, you've purchased, you've voted, you've gotten out the vote.
You've done everything you can.
You have called, you have emailed, you have faxed, you have let your opinions be known.
And you hear everything you want to hear during campaigns, and that's the last time you hear it.
The fact of the matter is a Republican Congress is helping Obama build his power base by not stopping any of it, by not opposing any of it.
I I continue to see no opposition strategy.
Gay marriage, Obamacare.
Both of these, particularly Obamacare.
Best I can tell, the Republican strategy has been we don't, we're not going to fight Obama because he's the first black president.
We're just not going to do it.
Say what you want.
Conservative voters and don't, but we're not going to do it.
There's no future.
The media will kill us, they will call us racist.
We'll let the Supreme Court deal with it.
Military base closings back in the in the late 80s.
Congress would go out and hire blue ribbon commission members, former congressmen, retired people doing this or that, to do the heavy lifting of closing military bases rather than get their fingerprints on campaign finance reform, same thing.
Everybody you talk to in the Republican party, it's unconstitutional.
We can't support that.
President Bush signed it because we said, well, let the court fix it.
The court didn't fix it.
The court found it constitutional.
Now we'll let the court deal with Obamacare.
The Supreme Court will fix it.
We'll go to the court.
We'll sue.
That's what'll happen.
And we keep losing every time we go to the Supreme Court because we do not have a political strategy.
Nor is there a political will to even devise a strategy.
Everything is wait till the next election.
We'll get them the next election.
We'll get them in 2017.
We have a year and a half to go till 2017.
Who knows what kind of destruction is going to take place between now and then?
But yet, folks, there is a conservative apparatus all over Washington, D.C. There's conservatives everywhere.
There's an entire TV network made up of them.
Conservative talk radio is made up of conservative.
There's no shortage of conservatives.
They're everywhere.
We got conservative think tanks here, think tanks over there.
We've got conservative analysts, we've got conservative advice.
They're everywhere.
Raising money.
Fundraising.
Promising.
Nothing changes.
Okay, it's open line Friday, and I tell you, I'm gonna go to the phones.
And the only way to do this is be disciplined about it.
I say provocative things all the time, and I've just gotten started today, folks.
I mean, hang in there be tough.
That's just the opening monologue that was just warming up.
I'm gonna go to the phones though.
Nevertheless, Avi, as in ovulation, this is uh in Orlando.
Great to have you on the program, Avi.
Hi.
Hi, how are you?
Actually, oh right.
Like I'll be in here.
But in any case, uh, I was just gonna disagree with you just a little bit.
I don't think that Republicans are so much afraid of uh changing what Obama does because he's the first black president.
I think the real issue for the Republicans is they don't know what to do with those 30 million Americans that if they change Obamacare would be uninsured.
Avi, they're not insured now.
Avi, they're not insured now.
The Obamacare is an absolute disaster.
Obamacare deserves to have been thrown overboard years ago.
Obamacare is destructive.
Obamacare is going to destroy people's ability to end up with disposable income in their lives and get ahead.
Obamacare is an absolute disaster, like much of everything this administration has brought us.
It is not insured any significant millions of uninsured.
Now I understand the theory.
The theory is the Republicans don't want to throw Obamacare overboard because that means they'll have to fix it.
That's exactly my point.
I made the point yesterday that the conservative movement has become not a party of opposition, not a movement of opposition, but a movement of fine-tuning.
And what is it fine-tune?
Democrat proposals, Democrat ideas.
Instead of rejecting them, instead of throwing them overboard and proposing to the American people who are smart enough to understand alternative ideas, we fine-tune socialism and call it conservatism.
Sorry.
That's not the answer.
Greetings, folks, welcome back.
Rush Limbaugh on open line Friday, 800-282-2882, if you want to be on the program.
Now let me give you the headlines in the opening monologue.
Let me expand just a little bit.
Here are just a few of the words that have been given new meaning by Obama and other Democrats just in the last few short years.
Marriage, totally redefined.
Taxes.
Taxes are now shared responsibility payments.
Gross domestic product, redefined under Obama to include thoughts.
There's even a move on to eliminate a statistic reporting gross domestic product.
You may not have heard about this, it's relatively new, but some advanced thinkers on the left in the media think that gross domestic product is not a good indication of economic growth.
Specifically because the gross domestic product under Obama is a disaster.
Because there isn't any economic growth.
There is economic contraction or stagnation.
And so the arbiters of what people are to know want to get rid of the whole notion of reporting GDP because it just doesn't tell the whole story.
The fact of the matter, it does tell the whole story, and that's why they want to get rid of it.
The GDP documents the economic failures that are the Obama administration that are Democrat Party economic policies.
Failures which have given us 93 million Americans, no longer even the workforce.
Millennial college graduates reduced to 29 hours a week with 200,000 college debt.
There is no economic growth, but flooding the market with low-skilled, uneducated people that don't even speak English in most cases.
There is not a single recipe for economic growth taking place, and the GDP reflects that.
And so they want to get rid of reporting the GDP.
Full-time jobs has been redefined.
30 hours a week.
Employed has taken on a new meaning.
You aren't counted as unemployed after a certain number of weeks, because if we did count you, the unemployment rate would be even worse than it is.
Recession is no longer two successive negative quarters of GDP.
Because we can't have a recession reported under Obama.
There isn't to be any bad economic news.
So we redefine recession by not even reporting it.
Recovery.
Economic recovery has been redefined.
There hasn't been an economic recovery since Obama took office.
We have been stagnating.
We have been in an economic malaise.
We have been in the second term of Jimmy Carter.
There is no advances in wages.
There are no advances.
There are no advances in disposable income.
The haves are getting bigger, the have nots are getting bigger.
There is for all this push for equality and sameness and fairness By the Democrats.
The country is becoming more divided, more segregated in every which way you care to count.
Financially, racially, sexual orientation, traditional values versus new.
Whatever.
There is no unity, and there is no equality.
But those are terms that are being redefined along the way to create the impression that all is well when it isn't.
There are a host of other words and phrases that no longer mean what they meant.
There are a host of words and phrases that now on their own and by themselves have become racist, have become sexist, have become bigoted and have become homophobic.
Let me go to some of the dissent in the gay marriage case.
Chief Justice Roberts, this is difficult.
You contrast Roberts and his dissenting opinion today to his majority opinion yesterday, and you scratch your head and you think this is incoherence.
I I you can't understand it.
It does not make common sense or intellectual sense.
Because everything Roberts wrote today criticizing the gay marriage ruling is what he did yesterday in authorizing Obamacare.
He did yesterday everything he criticizes today.
Robert's argument centered around the need to preserve states' rights over what he viewed as following the turn of public opinion.
In ruling in favor of gay marriage, he said five lawyers have closed the debate and enacted their own vision of marriage as a matter of constitutional law.
He's right.
Just as happened with Roe versus Wade.
Five lawyers have now defined marriage.
Oh, and by the way, for those of you who think that you will still have access to the freedom of religion clause in the First Amendment.
You won't for long.
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George Takai, who played, what was it, Mr. Sulu on Star Wars.
He is a gay activist.
He was Star Trek.
Exactly right, Star Trek.
Mr. Sulu, I think.
Anyway, he's a gay activist, George DeCai.
And he was on CNN this morning.
The bespectacled Ashley Banfield said there's so much still left to be said regarding the actual price.
See, it's never a win.
It's never over.
There is never happiness on the left.
It's fleeting and temporary.
And it is the case with gay marriage.
Because Ms. Banfield said, while the Supreme Court has had it say, there's still a lot of messy work that needs to be done in at least 20 of those states that still recognize those bans.
There is.
I thought this meant that we were all aligned, and we were all together, and there was love just breaking out all over the country.
And I thought all that was at stake here was some people who were denied marriage because of their sexual orientation, just wanted to be accepted.
They just wanted to be included.
They want their dignity to be recognized.
But it's about much more than that, as you and I well know.
It's not about being accepted, it's about forcing.
It's about redefining.
The use of force is involved here.
Intimidation, bullying, or what have you.
And George Takai signals there's more to come.
The rest of her question is this.
Those states, George, they still need to be challenged.
So is the work of gay rights activists over?
Or do you still see this as a challenge to the finish line?
Indeed, we see it as challenge.
It's going to be a new challenge, but we are very mindful of that challenge that still remains.
They are now, some of these um states are going to try to use the uh shroud of religious freedom.
I believe in religious freedom.
And people who argue that are entitled to their freedom.
But they do not have the freedom to impose their religious values onto others.
I've heard some of the people uh expressing their comments on the uh Supreme Court ruling, and they're entitled to that, but they are not entitled to impose their will on everybody.
You see, this is what's wrong with this.
Nobody in the can't believe I'm saying this.
Nobody in the heterosexual world is forcing anything on anybody.
They're minding their own business and having something forced on them, is what's happening here.
So Mr. Takai says, hey, you're you're you're free to have your religious beliefs, have them all you like.
I have mine too, but you can't impose your religious values onto others.
But Mr. Takai and his group can impose their beliefs on you all day, every day, or you will lose your business.
You honoring your religious, you you own a bake store to give you the example.
Gay couple walks in, wants a cake, you say, sorry.
My religion forbids supporting gay marriage.
That's the end of your business.
That couple's gonna walk out, go somewhere, come back with an army of lawyers, and you're finished.
Instead of just going someplace that will bake them a cake, they're gonna focus on the place that wouldn't because of religious freedom.
This is not about joining, it's not about being accepted, it's about overthrowing.
And Mr. Takai has just admitted so.
Hey, you're free to have your religious beliefs all day long.
I believe in religious beliefs, he says.
I support them.
But that doesn't mean you can impose them.
How is somebody that owns a business minding your own business, a gay couple that comes in and wants a cake or a picture taken or what have you?
Sorry, can't how is that marriage, that gay marriage being imposed upon?
A baker refusing to make a cake is not stopping the wedding.
A baker refusing to bake the cake is not preventing the gay couple from being in love, and they're not prevented from going out and finding another cake, and they're not prevented from anything.
Plenty of other places it will, but they don't go there.
They stay focused on the place that won't, and they get put out of business or try to.
Now, who's imposing on who?
Well, Mr. Takai says, we're not stopping.
We're religious liberty is next.
There isn't going to be any.
Because folks, religious liberty is the target here, or religion is the target ultimately.
That's what this is really all about.
That's why I say this is far more about far more than politics and policy.
This is spiritual, and it's even the problems that we have go way beyond day-to-day practice politics.
But even having said that, there hasn't been any kind of a pushback strategy on any of this.
I mean, the people that own bakeries and photoshops or whatever other businesses, I mean, they have lives too, and they have livelihoods too, and they supposedly have political beliefs, and they have candidates, and they have nobody defending them.
Nobody pushing back for them.
Other than the lawyers they hire.
There's no we have we got plenty of conservatives everywhere, but no opposition to anything.
Certainly no pushback.
We got Republicans everywhere, but the people that donate to them, other than the Chamber of Commerce, don't get any support.
It's kind of breathtaking to behold, actually.
Gotta take a brief time out here.
Be back after this.
Don't go away.
By the way, here we are right on schedule.
Right on schedule.
Here is a headline from the Washington Examiner.
Paul, 72% fear, economic crash, comma concern, highest ever.
And what this story is about, if you read it, GOP polsters are telling Republicans, You've got to let go of the social issues.
They're killing you.
It's the economy, stupid people worried about the economy.
You've got to drop the social issues.
It is my contention that Republicans aren't doing a damn thing on social issues.
The Democrats are the ones forcing social issues on everybody.
Today, the latest example.
It's the Democrats forcing these things, and average ordinary Americans are trying to defend what they believe in.
There is no aggressive behavior on the part of Republicans or conservatives.
Everybody's in a defensive posture.
Everybody just standing by trying to hold on to what they believe in and what they have left.
Every bit of the aggressiveness, every bit of the offense, every bit of whatever is being undertaken under the umbrella of the Democrat Party.
And yet here we go, the Republican candidates for president being told get rid of social issues.
Let them go.
It's the economy.
Economy's the way to win.
And letting go of the social issues is how our culture is being corrupted.
It's another one of these things that's 180 degrees out of phase.
And this social issues, I know what it is, folks.
I know, I know.
It's a bunch of modern Republicans who think they're losing on abortion.
They're losing on everything, and they just don't know it.
They're losing on everything.
You think they're winning on the economy?
We live in the most disastrous economies and Jimmy Carter.
And the Republicans may be winning elections.
Is there any pushback on any of this?
There's a lot of talk.
There's a lot of requests for donations.
There's a lot of fundraising going on.
There are a lot of people promising you that they're enacting policies or thinking about policies, and they're going to do this or they're going to do that.
The moment of truth comes and they don't do it.
And they kick the can down the road because it's not the right time.
Well, it's never the right time.
There isn't any opposition.
Those of you that are feeling lost today, those of you who feel like it's over, you're at their wit's end, we're winning nothing, we're losing everything.
You're still the majority.
That's what's got you so bedraggled.
That's what's got you so ticked off.
You're still the majority you know it.
Less than 2% of the population is bullying its way through the country, and nobody's doing anything to stop it because of fear or what have you.
And that's what's got you upset.
What good is winning elections?
That's the big truth.
The big final ultimate act is going and voting, and you succeed in winning landslide victories in 2010 and 2014.
What do you got to show for it?
Nothing.
That's why you're mad.
Tired of feeling like losers.
Tired of feeling like there's no recourse.
The way the game's being played right now, there isn't.
The Supreme Court throw them in the mix, depending on the issue.
And they'll pretend they are the federal government, locked stock and barrel.
And the other two branches don't even count.
And don't even matter.
It's a story from yesterday.
Christian farmers fined $13,000 for refusing to host a same-sex wedding.
The owners of a small family farm in upstate New York fine 13 grand for discriminating against a same-sex couple for refusing to host a wedding on their property, are fighting back.
Too bad they'll lose.
Especially with the court's decision today.
All resistance to the militant gay agenda now is officially just a rear guard action.
It's a lost cause, like the Confederacy.
Pretty soon, like the Confederacy, all this is going to be a hate crime to even remember.
In an appeal filed today before an appellate division, New York Supreme Court, a lawyer for Cynthia and Robert Gifford, owners of Liberty Ridge Farm near Albany, argued that when finding them guilty, the court did not consider their constitutional freedoms, nor their religious beliefs.
The decision violates the Gifford's free exercise of religion, freedom of expressive association, freedom of expression protected under the U.S. and New York constitutions, according to their lawyer, plus it was their property.
There isn't a Freedom of religion in the U.S. anymore.
Not for Christians, that's the point.
The Giffords were found guilty of sexual orientation discrimination by an administrative law judge.
And have been told that they must attend sensitivity training classes.
Justice Roberts, if you are among the many Americans of whatever sexual orientation who favor expanding same-sex marriage, by all means celebrate today.
Celebrate the achievement of a desired goal.
Celebrate the opportunity for a new expression of commitment to a partner.
Celebrate the availability of new benefits.
Boy, is that ever right.
But he says, do not celebrate the Constitution.
It had nothing to do with it.
Yes, it did.
That's exactly what this day is about.
The Constitution has been made to be everything about this.
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