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June 26, 2015 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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June 26, 2015, Friday, Hour #2
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Readings, my friends.
Welcome back.
Rush Limbaugh, the EIB network of the Limbaugh Institute for Advanced Conservative Studies, the president, who three years ago opposed gay marriage.
Did you know that?
Three years ago, the president opposed it and ran for office opposing it.
So did Hillary Clinton.
It wasn't until bundlers in Hollywood who were gay who threatened Obama with the loss of millions of dollars in donations that he changed his mind.
And how did he change his mind?
They sent Joe Biden out there to apparently make a slip of the tongue.
In case you have forgotten how that happened.
Live from the Southern Command in sunny South Florida.
It's open line Friday.
None of this stuff is genuine, and none of it's real.
Three and a half years ago, and every year prior to that, Barack Obama opposed gay marriage.
And you know why?
Because of his Christian religious beliefs.
And he was open about it.
And he ran for office, and so did Hillary Clinton.
So did Bill Clinton.
And then the Hollywood gay mafia threatened him with the loss of campaign dollars.
And what happened next was Joe Biden's out apparently making a speech on 7-Eleven or something and let it slip that the administration apparently made it slip.
This was even more disingenuous.
Biden's trucking along, making some speech nonsensical as usual, and out of nowhere happens to blur to oh, by the way, if you happen to be gay, we support your right to get married.
And every what?
What what just happened here?
And the news media made it look like Obama was now caught.
Biden had gone out and inadvertently put his foot in his mouth.
You remember this.
So Biden went out and put his foot in his mouth, and the regime was kind of caught.
Oh my God.
And then they started debating, well, maybe Obama was going to change his mind on this anyway, and Biden knew it and just kind of forced their hand.
The whole thing was planned, structured, phony created as a way for Obama to make the transition away from opposition to gay marriage to support for it by sending his vice president out there to entrap him into it.
And it was all about campaign donations.
Now Obama's out there saying that ruling today makes every American more free.
It doesn't.
You see, that's the point here, folks.
It doesn't.
It doesn't make America more free.
And it doesn't make America more equal.
And that is a that's a convoluted loaded objective anyway, to make when the Democrats talk about making everybody equal.
It's not something you really want to be a part of.
We already have equality in our Constitution.
It's already there.
It's in the declaration.
It's already there in the way we are treated before the law.
All the rest of this stuff is just the advancement of a leftist agenda, disguised in terms designed to fool young people into thinking they're supporting something that is earth-shattering and wonderful and legendary and so forth when it's end up unwittingly being brought along in plans and procedures that are designed to corrupt.
Anyhow, telephone number 800 282-2882, if you want to be on the program.
Here's more from Justice Roberts.
I want to get some of these dissents, some of these excerpts from the dissent, and move on.
I've got a reason for doing this, so stick with me.
Again, Justice Roberts.
Understand well that this dissent, what this dissent is about.
It's not about whether, in my judgment, the institution of marriage should be changed to include same-sex couples.
It is instead about whether in our democratic republic the decision should rest with the people acting through their elected representatives or with five lawyers who happen to hold commissions authorizing them to resolve legal disputes according to law.
Supporters of same-sex marriage have achieved considerable success persuading their fellow citizens through the Democrat process to adopt their view.
That ends today, Roberts wrote.
Stealing this issue from the people will for many cast a cloud over same-sex marriage, making a dramatic social change.
That much more difficult to accept.
Well, yeah, that's right, but this is from the guy who co-opted the legislative process yesterday.
In his majority opinion on Obama care.
Anyway, this is abortion redone, folks.
It's the same thing.
This is not going to solve any problems whatsoever.
It's just going to exacerbate, and George Takai has promised that they're just getting warmed up.
They're just getting the next target is religious freedom.
Christian religious fruit.
I doubt they're going to be going into any mosques demanding to be married.
But keep a sharp eye on the Catholic Church.
Because that's that's going to be the real target.
And Pope Francis, just keep a sharp eye.
Justice Scalia.
Justice Scalia says today's ruling represents a judicial putch.
In beginning his dissent, Scalia wrote that while he has no personal opinions on whether the law should allow same-sex marriage.
He feels strongly that it is not the place of the Supreme Court to decide.
He stated that he wanted to write a separate dissent to call attention to this court's threat to American democracy.
They're laughing at Scalia today all over Washington.
They're laughing at Scalia all over CNN and all over the drive-by media.
Oh, what a reactionary there's.
Oh, what a loose canon.
Oh, the guy is just hilarious, man.
He thinks it's the end to everything.
Well, where would we be without Scalia to entertain us, they say.
He says, until this court put a stop to it, public debate over same-sex marriage displayed American democracy at its best.
But the court ends this debate in an opinion lacking even a thin veneer of law.
He attacked his colleague's opinion with his signature flourish.
The opinion is couched in a style that is as pretentious as it is content is egotistic.
According to Scalia, the five justices in the majority are using the 14th Amendment in a way that was never intended by its writers.
They have discovered in the 14th Amendment a fundamental right overlooked by every person alive at the time of the ratification and almost everyone else in the time since.
And by the way, that's right.
I read what Justice Kennedy wrote about the 14th Amendment, and I was.
It's all filled with the original authors of the 14th Amendment could not have ever imagined what the concept of freedom would have become generation after generation after.
But they wisely wrote the 14th Amendments will be expanded.
Just gobbledygook after gobbledygook, justification after justification, because they know what they did.
Justice Kennedy in his majority opinion uses uh the word dignity nine times.
Dignity.
What, Mr. Lamborghini?
Are you opposed to dignity?
No, I'm not opposed to dignity.
Don't be silly.
We're talking about the law here.
Not feelings.
Scalia pokes fun at the language the majority used.
The majority wrote the nature of marriage is.
Listen to this.
This is Scalia.
Castigating the majority, Kennedy.
The majority wrote, the nature of marriage is that through its enduring bond, two persons together can find other freedoms, such as expression, intimacy, and spirituality.
That is actually in the majority opinion.
Two persons, nature of marriage, two persons together can find other freedoms.
Such as expression, intimacy, spirituality, scalia.
Really?
Whoever thought that intimacy and spirituality, whatever that means, were freedoms.
And if intimacy is a freedom, one would think freedom of intimacy is abridged rather than expanded by marriage.
Ask the nearest hippie.
Now the media is all over him for the reference to the hippie.
That he's dating himself.
There aren't any hippies anymore.
So what we're to learn here is that Scalia's stuck in hatred for the 60s.
But his point is if Kennedy's going to write that marriage will promote freedom of intimacy.
Scalia says I would think marriage kind of abridges that because there's supposed to be this thing called monogamy in marriage.
That's sort of what the nearest hippie knew about intimacy Scalia did not elaborate on.
That's these excerpts are put together by the uh the national national journal.
Now do you remember when Justice Scalia you remember how Justice Scalia was made fun of when he said that the way the Defense of Marriage Act opinion was written.
You remember his prediction then Scalia predicted that lower courts would use the Defense of Marriage Act or the the obliterating it a lack of defending it to strike down state laws restricting the right to marry which they have done.
Secondly Scalia said the Supreme Court would be eventually forced to support same sex marriage after having said they would leave it to the states because the Defense of Marriage Act ruling turned same sex marriage into a civil right and that too has happened.
And by the way, that has been part of the the leftist or Democrat strategy to uh gather the support of millennials.
Once you turn all of this into a civil right and a human right and a concept involving equality well you know the idealism every young person has it.
You had it when you were that age they have just swept them up in there and they've turned them into a full-fledged army for this particular cause.
Gotta take a brief time out we're going to come back and get to your phone calls people chomping at the bit I'm aware of it.
We'll have at it we get back here.
Back to the phones on open line Friday David Springfield, Tennessee, welcome to the EIB network hello.
Well Megaddo's Rush uh thank you very kind for taking my calling you since ninety eight I'm actually from Calgary Alberta I'm just down here visiting and uh what I was going to say is welcome to Canada as I watch uh as I watch you guys uh slowly turn socially into Canada.
I mean, I can still remember during the 2003 election, I was campaigning for what we call conservative, which are Tories, which I see a lot of your Republican people turning into slowly.
And even some of the liberal candidates were against the gay marriage thing.
And it didn't matter.
The liberals got in, majority government, and that's what happened.
But they ran, the liberals ran on that platform for gay marriage.
Obama didn't.
So I don't know if he's kind of duped people or what, but this is what I see.
And it's not that I agree or disagree.
Well, I mean, I don't live here.
So I'm just watching it happen, and I hope it doesn't become an extreme slippery slope, especially with your health care, because we have the single pair.
We'd even like to see some kind of a two-tier system to keep the competition going.
But we don't even have that.
That's against the law.
just hoping you guys don't turn into that single pair system and that what and and then what happens is it becomes extremely rationed and then it just goes all to H E double hockey sticks you know H. E double hockey sticks is Canadian for hell right I got that yeah because I see I know what a hockey stick looks like I do I and I know how a hockey stick has been used to um bastardize the medieval warming period temperature
scan too the only thing you know about your comment this this has not been slow now some people might argue that we've been trending in this direction but this has happened overnight in political terms these massive social shifts have occurred overnight and have it's one of the reasons people have been caught up short uh there has been commensurate with all this.
A lot of people, it's never gonna happen.
It's never it's never gonna happen.
So there hasn't been a whole lot of public opposition.
And whenever there has been public opposition, those people that dared to engage in it have been uh targeted for any number of things, and so there's been a successful uh bullying campaign and intimidation campaign.
But look, look, that that doesn't erase the fact that there really has not been an opposition structure to any of this.
There's been plenty of opposition, there just hasn't been any formal strategic opposition, and that's because of an abundance of well, a bunch of things, fear.
Okay, I've been through all that for years, I don't need to repeat that.
David, thank you, Max in Scottsdale, Arizona.
Next up, how are you, sir?
Uh, thanks, Russ.
It's a pleasure to speak with you.
Um, my dad recently gave me a signed copy of your book.
See, I told you so.
I belong to my grandpa.
And uh in reading it a little bit, uh it seems like things have gotten a lot worse.
You know, you wrote about Ice P and the songs about killing cops and uh how they were really celebrated, and I'll tell you that today, uh, pop culture and hip hop in particular is even worse than it was back then, and uh today what it means to be a man and uh a rugged individual is no longer something that's respected or celebrated,
uh, but it's ridiculed, and uh we hold up uh these other guys like uh ICT and the and the cop killers, and uh makes me feel just kind of alone out here trying to uh live up to my grandparents uh and their values, and uh it was cool opening your book and seeing all this stuff, and I appreciate it.
But uh little lost at uh where we go for today, and uh also wanted to check in on your marketing plan for uh millennials and see how that was going.
My you want to know how my marketing plan for millennials is going.
Yes, sir, not very well.
What do you think?
How's it going?
Oh, you keep it uh kind of close to the vest.
Well, that's it.
When you have a marketing strategy, my theory and philosophy is you don't announce it.
You you just you just implement it.
Right.
Because why if if if you if you're admitting to people that you're targeting them for anything, either to separate them from their money or to get them to change their mind and agree with you, why tell them that that's your objective because they just prepare a resistance to you.
So I I prepare not to give any details of the secret marketing plan to uh to persuade uh millennials, and I'm not going to now.
I'm not going to now either.
Uh it's not it's not going to be, it's not going to be easy.
And I'll tell you why.
And again, I hate to be repetitive, but I'm sure there are people listening today that haven't in a while.
I'm sure there are all kinds of people tuning in today, snerdily who just want to gloat, and they're hoping to hear all kinds of sadness and anger and misery, and I'm not going to give them the satisfaction of that.
But the millennials in this country, the vast majority of them, they know things aren't right.
Most everybody does.
This isn't the United States of America that most people know or expect.
Not economically.
Not in terms of people's good vibes about the future, the percentage of people in polling and polling, poll after poll after poll.
People think the country going the wrong direction, and number keeps expanding.
Here's the difference, though.
In previous times, when people have thought the country was in the wrong direction, going in the wrong, or in the right direction, either one.
There was always in the world of politics, people always tied those opinions to a particular political party or a particular president given who was in power.
Meaning when the economy was in a tank, the president got the blame for it.
When the country was on the wrong track, the president and his party got the blame for it.
And when parties lost elections, particularly if they lost big and in landslides, then it was incumbent upon that party to respect public opinion, go out and openly promise the changes they were going to make to once again appeal To people who voted against them.
That's gone.
Because today's millennials do not associate any of the current circumstances of the country with the political party in power.
Amazingly, everybody's blaming the Republicans for everything.
And the Republicans haven't been in power for six years.
The Republicans had nothing to do with what happened to Charleston, South Carolina, had nothing to do with any mass shooting.
The Republicans had nothing to do with what went on in Baltimore.
The Republicans had nothing to do with what went on in Ferguson.
The Republicans have nothing to do with the economic policies of the last seven years.
And yet millennials blame them.
And a lot of other people blame the Republicans.
It's the most amazing thing to see.
Got to take a break.
You sit tight.
We have more when we get back.
Open line, Friday, Rush Limbaugh executing a signed host duties flawlessly, meeting and surpassing.
Yes, even today, all audience expectations and every day.
Now see if this makes any sense to you.
Real clear politics.
They have this rolling series of polls.
Obama job approval today, 44%.
Disapprove, 51%.
Direction of the country.
Right direction, 28%.
On the wrong track, 63%.
Does any of that make sense with what is happening in the country?
63% think the country's in the wrong track.
Yet we're told there's massive support for the court's gay marriage decision and Obamacare being upheld and so forth.
I'm here to tell you, you think that you're in the minority.
You are not.
You are actually in a pretty sizable majority that doesn't have any real leadership or strategy or pushback or plan.
I mean, they're helping Obama pass trade bills.
They're thinking about joining Obama on amnesty and have been for a while.
They don't want to speak up on gay marriage in any way, shape, manner, or form.
They don't want to object to those being gold to court.
I mean, they're just you're voting, you're voting in record numbers, you're voting in landslide numbers, great landslide victories in 2010 and 2014, being pushed around by one instance, less than two percent of the population.
It's totally understandable if you think you're losing your mind.
It's totally understandable if you're asking what the heck's going on.
You're not by any stretch of the imagination alone.
You're actually with a pretty big majority, at least according to and then there's more polling data than just this to indicate it.
I know, look, I I'm gonna get blue in the face.
Would you just assume something, folks, so I don't have to say this every time make a point?
I know the media.
I know that.
You you have to shout at me or the radio or send me email.
I know the media.
The media is creating this false picture.
I know.
Here is Stephen in Westchester in New York.
Welcome to the program.
Great to have you on Open Line Friday.
Hi.
Thank you, Maha Russi.
Um, I I'd like to comment on your opening monologue where you said that uh the Republicans will not go against uh the first black president, and that's why things are going this way.
And uh I would say back to that, even though I'm I'm I'm not uh necessarily in the vote for say having Ben Carson be president.
I think more of what the problem is is that the repo the Rhino Republicans um are very happy with all this new lawlessness and uh and the disregard for the Constitution that Obama and his minions have put in place.
And I think they uh they intend on keeping it that way if uh if they're left in power.
And I just uh feel lost for any answer as to really what to do.
Uh, like I mentioned, if you're Okay, now I I know a lot of people, uh, and I've I've joined them on occasion, you know, love ripping into the Republican Party and making that the focal point of of what's wrong.
Uh I want you to tell me, since you you just said the Rhino Republicans actually don't mind all of this constitutional destruction and economic destruction, because they think they're gonna I assume you think this because they think they're gonna win elections someday and they're gonna have power over all this.
Is that the theory?
Um possibly, but uh mainly just because at this point I can't, as as many of us, million of us millions of us, I think, feel I can't make any logic out of the things they do and the things they don't do at this point in regard to getting this.
Okay, that's what I'm getting at.
I I I want to dig deep with you on this.
I if if I I want to be made to understand, do not think of me as arguing with you, okay.
Oh, no, no, no, I won't, I won't.
Okay, so you've you've said something that I find highly interesting, maybe even provocative, that the Rhino Republicans, and I assume by that you mean the Republicans not doing anything to stop this, not opposing Obama, maybe even agreeing with him or going along with him, that they that they want this.
Exactly.
Why?
I I can't because I can't make logic as as to what's going on in this country with them.
I I it I I I've tried for I've tried for years to understand why things aren't aren't being rebuttal against Obama, why they haven't been saying anything, and uh it it it and I it's okay.
Well, let me try.
There may be an answer for this.
Okay.
And the answer could be no more complicated than Rhino Republicans and Democrats have one thing in common, and it isn't big government, and it isn't this it's fear of and hatred of conservatives as a political force.
Okay, I'll go partially with that at this point.
I think the Democrat Party goes out, you take a look at the news every day.
Contrast the way Barack Obama talks about the Iranians or ISIS or Syria or Russia or any genuine enemy that could launch hell on us.
Compare the way he talks about them to the way he talks about Fox News.
Yes, I think.
To the way he talks about conservatism.
It is clear to me that Barack Obama and the Democrat Party consider their biggest enemy and threat.
Okay, so the next question is why?
What in the world about us presents a bigger threat than Iran with nuclear weapons?
What about us presents a bigger threat than Vladimir Putin on the march or al Qaeda back in action, maybe doubling up with ISIS and again marching in worldwide terrorism.
What is it about domestic American conservatism that frightens and scares and angers Obama more than all of the rest of that?
Uh the the only thing I could say right off the top of my head is that they they fear losing losing their power more than they fear losing their lives.
It's that simple in my mind right now.
I I unless you know something steers me in a different direction, but at this point, after years of this, I I I just can't I just can't see anything else.
Well, I would answer my own question with my own answer as I've already provided.
I do think that as far as Obama and and and like-minded people and Democrats to whom power is everything.
These are people that want power to use it against other people.
Exactly.
Obama is a vindictive Obama.
There's nothing inclusive.
They that's another myth.
You're nothing inclusive about these people.
They want power to hammer other people.
And I I'll tell you what really animating or informing all of this.
You have people.
It's not a majority.
It's made to look like a majority.
You have people who resent that this was a country founded in a Judeo-Christian tradition.
You have people who resent that white people founded the country.
They think that those people founded the country for themselves and their families and Their heirs, and they took great pains to make sure all the money that was ever in the country would stay within that group of people.
They think that this country was founded by people who discriminated against anything that wasn't Christian or religious.
And for all of these hundreds of years, there has been a seething anger on the part of all of those who call themselves minorities.
And the effort has been underway to get back at this country for the very way it was founded.
And I believe that is what is happening.
I think in the case of gay marriage, what you have are people who have a multiple decade length of time of anger, seething and raging and building at religion, particularly Christianity, uh, and it at anybody or at any thing at any time that was that was in the majority.
And it's been part of a long, for the longest time it was underneath the surface.
You didn't see it other than occasional outbreaks.
And I think this is get even with everything time.
I'm basically making this a little bit simplistic, more so than it is, because it's got more nuance than this, but the point is there's some people really don't like this country.
They haven't liked it from the way it was founded.
Mostly none of these people were there when it was founded.
They weren't born.
They've been taught this.
They've been taught rage, they have been taught anger, they've been taught to hate.
The hatred's all on the left.
The animosity, the anger, all this aggression, it's all on the left.
Somehow we get blamed for it.
We get labeled with it.
It's all on that side of the aisle.
You bring the Rhino Republicans back into this.
Uh there has to be a reason why Rhino Republicans would stand idly by, and if not stand idly by, would join Obama and the Democrats here and there to further the Democrat agenda.
And I really think if if you do believe that, that the explanation for it is the one thing they have in common is a fear of or hatred of or dislike of what have you, uservatives, because the one thing or another thing they all have in common, they love big government.
They want big government, they want big government getting bigger, they want big government swelling with more and more money, they want power and control over the money, they want to be able to dick their own hands into that pile of money and take out whatever they want for themselves.
And conservatives, of course, want to do away with that.
Conservatives want to make government smaller, we want to get rid of all the debt, we want to eliminate Washington as the focal point of people's lives.
That's a huge threat to people whose life, blood is oriented around controlling government and using the power that control grants them to put other people down.
These are people that want to use power against.
They are not seeking power for inclusion.
You take a look at their targets and you find out what they're mad about.
And if you want to go deeper into history, you find out the anger is generational and it's been around for quite a while.
And there just hasn't been any pushback to any of it.
And one of the reasons, and there are many reasons for that, but one of the reasons there had been a pushback is it's always been unfair.
I mean, there are two percent of the population, and why push back?
This group, they're another minority.
It may be 10% of the population.
Come on, it isn't fair.
There's been a successful campaign to ladle the majority with guilt.
Guilt here, guilt there, guilt over there, the manifestation of the guilt is to stand aside idly, while the victims of the horrible founding of this country make a grab at what is rightfully theirs.
It's all kinds of, I mean, legitimate, I think, explanations and answers for this, but they all fall back.
they all end up being reduced to really, I think a very simple explanation, and that is the lack of willingness to defend and fight back, push back and hold on.
For whatever reasons.
Price is being paid now.
Now, that having been said, there have been plenty of politicians that promise to fight back, and they've gotten big donations.
They've been given massive support.
They've won elections, but then they kind of don't do what they said they were gonna do during the campaigns.
So there's been some trickery involved and some deception uh as well.
And I think all along there's been a belief that none of what's happened was actually ever gonna really happen.
If you warn people about this ten years ago, ah, come on, Rush, that's just over the top.
You can't really believe that.
I'm trying to tell you.
Twenty years ago, Rush, come on, you gotta moderate your tone.
You can't really believe this is where things are h yeah, I do.
For twenty five years in my life anyway, all the warnings a lot of people believed it, but many people just nah Rush, come on.
It isn't possible.
What do you mean?
The Supreme Court's never gonna allow that.
You got it, don't have any more.
The American people are gonna put over that rush, you wait.
Here we are, back in a moment.
Yeah, I know.
I I I've got that here.
There's another big ISIS beheading in uh Tunisia, 27.
It's not news.
It isn't it isn't it's nothing to worry about, nothing to worry about.
It's it's it's not it's the JV team.
ISIS it's over there, it's Tunisia.
Big whoop, okay.
Just across the Mediterranean from Italy.
Big whoop, it's not it's none of our business, Rush.
Okay, fine.
Patrick in Hampton, Virginia.
Welcome to EIB Network.
Great to have you.
Hello.
Patrick, are you there?
Yes, sir.
Hey, it's been w listening to your radio show for over 20 years.
It's been fun listening to you.
Well, thank you, sir.
Very much I appreciate that.
Uh before I do, uh just have a little request.
It's the if before you let me go, I have a little request to ask you and suggest them based on that request.
But okay.
Now um it's a little old now for what my topic is, but um uh originally, just to make note, I'm originally from New England.
And I've done genealogical research.
Um I'm just I'm leaning you up to what I'm gonna talk about.
And I found out that I'm related to Alonso Cushing, the one that was posthumously awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor by President Obama last year.
Right.
And I found out uh I'm and different line of questions, but I found out uh one of the questions of my ancestors married a Lincoln of a different branch, not of uh of Abraham Lincoln's, but they're both related, so I'm differently related to Abraham Lincoln as well.
So you've got generational roots to the civil war.
That's where we're going here.
Yes.
I I have an anticessor who was also involved in the civil war directly as well.
Now uh the premise of my call is that the of course I have relatives and ancestry that fought for the union that fought against the uh the slave states.
Yes.
Yeah, yeah.
And we know that uh the slave that the slave states, uh course, seceded from the union based because they want to maintain slavery.
They didn't like Lincoln, my relative that uh wanted to make all states free states.
So that's why they rebel.
No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.
No, no, no, no, no.
No, they they wanted to be left alone to run their states the way that they wanted to, and in order to do that, they were going to secede, and Lincoln said we can't preserve the nation.
We will not have a nation by allowing this secession.
So we went to war.
Southerners called it the war of northern aggression.
South was not trying to spread slavery around the world.
They just wanted to maintain it for themselves.
But the Southern's would say that wasn't even the reason they went to war.
Lincoln thought it was in large part, but there were a lot of factors.
But uh anyway, I'm I'm sadly out of time.
I just, oh my gosh, I've got to take a break.
Imagine that.
Gee.
Talking to a prominent Republican last night about the Supreme Court decision yesterday.
He said, Yeah, you know, rush elections have consequences.
I said, What does that mean?
Well, American people spoke, I mean, they they get what they voted for.
You mean you're not gonna push back?
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