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July 3, 2015 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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July 3, 2015, Friday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 podcast.
Welcome.
It is Eric Eriksson here filling in for Rush Limbaugh today, the day before Independence Day on the EIB Network.
800-282-2882 is the phone number.
If you want to be a part of the show today, and before I do anything else, I live from New York City.
It's open lives Friday.
So it was a rather interesting morning.
We weren't sure if I was even going to be able to be here.
And now I am.
So we move on.
Bubble Watson has apparently declared that he is going to paint the General Lee.
He's one of the owners of one of the original General Lee's, and he's decided to paint the Confederate flag off of it.
When will the madness end?
I want to get into that today.
And, you know, if you feel, well, despondent in some way, despair, if you're not sure that you can be optimistic about the future of the country anymore, I want to talk about that today as well.
And happy to take your calls on that.
Stick around.
This all plays in together.
Beginning in particular here with Barack Obama and his Hunger Games comment.
He says the Republicans are mean.
He went to La Crosse, Wisconsin, waded into presidential politics, and he declared that, well, Republicans, they're mean.
They're mean when it comes to the economy.
They're mean when it comes to civil rights.
They're good people, he said.
It's just their ideas are bad.
And he said they've got enough candidates to run a Hunger Games competition.
Now, for those of you who do not know what the Hunger Games is, The Hunger Games is a competition in a book.
Well, now a series of movies.
You know, most Americans, they know it from the movies, not from the books.
Like, I bet more people watch the Harry Potter movies than read the books.
I'm reading the books to my kids right now.
But it's a book series.
And essentially, there's a great war, and North America is now divided into 13 districts and a capital.
One of the districts goes kablooey.
And the capital is really well off.
The people who are in the capital are fantastic.
The people in the capital are wealthy.
The people in the capital, I mean, the world revolves around them.
And individuals in each of the other districts, every year they come together, and one person from each district goes and fights to the death in a competition called the Hunger Games.
And I started thinking about Barack Obama.
His comment was a witty one.
But it was also, it let on more than I think he intended because this is Barack Obama's America.
We are headed to the Hunger Games in Barack Obama's America when you think about it.
The only place in the country that is prospering right now is Washington, D.C. and its surrounding suburbs inside the Beltway.
You go to Washington, D.C., real estate's doing well.
People have jobs.
It's booming.
You've got lobbyists.
You've got media.
You've got the federal contractors, the federal employees.
You've got tenured people who can't lose their jobs in the government.
You've got lifers on the Supreme Court who can tell you you're a bigot and they can dictate your morality to you.
We have traded a democracy, in fact, for an oligopoly of five black-robed masters on the Supreme Court and Barack Obama.
I mean, the Congress is impotent.
We've reached that point.
His illusion lets on more than you think.
In fact, he takes it to the next level as well.
The president's Department of Health and Human Services has sent out a memo encouraging you to talk about Obamacare at your family barbecue this weekend.
That's right, friends.
A spokesman for the Department of Health and Human Services wrote on a blog, you should be prepared when Aunt Janine says something like, Obamacare hasn't helped anyone.
If Uncle Ted starts telling Obamacare and calling Obamacare a train work, you should calmly explain.
He's gotten a hold of some old talking points.
And then he suggests you recite a three-paragraph response, citing 14 figures, including healthcare inflation.
You know, that reminds me.
The president the other day, my buddy Brian, in fact, I'm going to retweet Brian here.
You can follow me on Twitter at E.W. Erickson.
Same at Facebook.
My buddy Brian notes that just the other day, the president tweeted, premium increases won't be so high after all.
One of the talking points.
You're supposed to respond to your narrow-minded, bigoted relatives who don't like Obamacare and have yesterday's talking points, that premium increases won't be so high.
Except here's a story from the Wall Street Journal today.
Oregon is forcing insurers to go even higher with their rates.
This is from, well, today.
Yes, late yesterday, 5 p.m. yesterday, Oregon insurance regulators have approved big premium increases sought by health plans for 2016 under Obamacare.
And in some cases, ordered higher rates than insurers request.
What?
The state ordered higher rates than insurers requested, signaling the cost of insurance for people who buy it on their own could jump after two years of relatively modest growth.
So the president two days ago tweets out that it's wrong to say insurance rates are skyrocketing.
Yesterday, rates skyrocket.
He's not a very good prophet, is he?
But you know, my favorite part of the Obamacare memo that came out from the Department of Health and Human Services, Charles Cook over National Review, he noted this on Twitter.
And I got a good laugh out of this one.
They begin it in the age of not being offended about anything.
That as you gather around with your family for your 4th of July barbecue and pull hot dogs off the grill, and then in parentheses, or your favorite vegetarian alternative.
Now, I don't think they were talking to Snerdley there.
I think they were talking to their left-wing crowd.
But I mean, just the fact that they felt they had to put this in the blog post, the fact that they had to write, or your favorite vegetarian alternative in a post.
The fact that they had to do that so that no one takes it so we cover everyone is just insane.
You know, this idea that you've got to bring up politics, first of all, who in their right mind brings up politics?
This is what they did.
Remember at Thanksgiving, some left-wing magazine put out a story about how to win the political debate at the Thanksgiving table.
Nobody I know talks about politics at the Thanksgiving table.
Maybe this is why these people are always so angry.
I mean, they won the White House and they got madder.
They won the gay marriage case last Friday and they're even angrier.
You got George Sakai going off.
That guy's an idiot.
We'll get into him here in a little bit.
So a friend of mine, Dan, he runs a site called Baseball Crank.
He also writes at my site, redstate.com.
And he was reminded of something.
Walter Ulbrick proclaimed the Ten Commandments of socialist morality at the SED, that's East Germany's version of the Communist Party, at their six-party congress in July 1958.
They were supposed to embody the principles of socialist ethics and morality and guide behavior of every East German citizen.
They were incorporated into the Communist Party platform.
He was an archetypal Stalinist, this guy was, designed much of the central planning system that ran East Germany's economy into the ground.
I'll put this out on Twitter if you follow me there at E.W. Erickson.
Let me read you some of these.
Thou shalt always defend the international solidarity of the working class as well as the permanent bonds that unite all socialist countries.
Thou shalt love thy fatherland and always be ready to defend worker and peasant power with all thy strength and capacity.
Thou shalt help to eliminate the exploitation of humans.
Thou shalt perform good deeds for socialism since socialism produces a better life for all working people.
Thou shalt act in the spirit of mutual support and camaraderie.
Cooperation during the construction of socialism.
Respect the collective and take its criticisms to heart.
Thou shalt protect and increase the property of the people.
Thou shalt always pursue ways to improve thy performance, be thrifty, and strengthen socialist work discipline.
Thou shalt rear thy children in the spirit of peace and socialism to become citizens who are well educated, strong in character, and physically healthy.
No junk food for you.
Thou shalt live a clean and decent life and respect thy family.
Thou shalt exhibit solidarity with all those people who are fighting for national liberation.
And, you know, so Dan wrote this back in 2008 after this weird statement from Barack Obama's wife when he was running for president.
She said at the time, he's going to demand that you said your cynicism, that you put down your divisions, that you come out of your isolation, that you move out of your comfort zones, that you push yourselves to be better, that you engage.
Barack will never allow you to go back to your lives as usual, uninvolved, uninformed.
You have to stay at the seat of the table of democracy.
You will have to be engaged.
As I say, you will be made to care.
I mean, what Barack Obama and his administration are doing could come out of the East German Communist Party's playbook and their Ten Commandments.
You must always engage on socialism.
You must always make sure the people know socialism works for you.
You must always fight for socialism.
You must raise your kids in the way of socialism and take its criticism.
Start notice, it's not be allowed to criticize socialism.
Socialism must be allowed to criticize you.
The government must be allowed to tell you how to live.
You're not allowed to tell the government how to live.
The government can tell you to go to the barbecue and re-educate your family members.
This is the hunger games.
Barack Obama's absolutely right.
He caused it.
He started it.
This is his world.
We're just living in it.
In Barack Obama's America, you go to holiday barbecues and pick political fights with your family.
Remember, when he first started, what was it?
Linda Douglas from ABC News.
There is no mediologopoly involved here.
No, no.
She went to the White House and encouraged people to turn in their neighbors.
If they were telling lies about Obamacare, you turn them in.
It's only a matter of time before you turn in your neighbor who doesn't put the rainbow flag outside their house.
It's only a matter of time before the government starts demanding you turn in your neighbors because they don't, they're just not sufficiently worshipful of Barack Obama and all the good he's done for you.
And Barack Obama, he has done a ton of good for you.
You just ask him and he'll tell you or he'll shut you up if you disagree.
Eric Erickson in for Rush Limbaugh.
Welcome back.
Louis Goldmert, Congressman from Texas, is going to join me today.
Should be fun.
Eric Erickson here filling in for Rush.
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You're not really sure what's going on.
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You know, this hunger games theme from the president and this culture in Washington, let's be real candid and honest here.
It's not just the Democrats.
It's the Republicans in Washington as well.
You've got a lot of conservatives outraged.
Russian, my buddy Britton Boeselle outraged by the super PAC hire in the Scott Walker case, hired a guy in D.C. who trashed conservatives in Mississippi and the Thad Cochran race and others.
And conservatives are outraged about it.
But guys in Washington always seem to fall upwards.
They always seem to succeed in the party.
You've got a lot of people in Washington, D.C. in both parties who expanded the size and scope of the federal government, who expanded the size and scope of federal power, who look down on you contemptuously, and they always seem to succeed when they shouldn't.
They always seem to do far better than they should.
And the deck does seem stacked in their favor at all times.
And they want to shout you down.
You know, Ann Coulter, the other day, Ann Coulter was at a book signing at California Barnes and Noble.
BizPAC Review has this story.
She was shouted down by illegal immigrants during a book sign, or at least they tried.
You know, you can't shout down, Ann Coulter.
2468, we don't need your racist hate.
They bellowed, oh, that's clever.
That's, I mean, these people, they're not even original.
People have been chanting stuff 2468, whatever, since the 50s and 60s.
Undocumented, unafraid, ain't no power like the power of the people, because the power of the people don't stop.
Well, Ann Coulter certainly was able to get them to stop.
I mean, they want to shout you down.
They want you to feel like you're alone.
They want to censor.
You know, dissent was real patriotic when George Bush was president.
But now that they are in charge, they feel emboldened to shut up all of those.
So after the incident, Ann was contacted by Breitbart News, and she told him this.
You've got to understand screaming and defacing things is how Latin Americans express disagreement.
At least as long as they were destroying books and screaming in a bookstore, they were out molesting four-year-olds, channeling her inner Donald Trump.
And they're like, ooh, outrage, outrage.
Good for Ann for sticking up for herself.
Then you've got the IRS.
The Associated Press tells us, investigators found no evidence.
IRS employees were told to destroy or hide information from Congress, the Justice Department, or an inspector general in the probe of erased emails related to the tax agency's Tea Party scandal, according to an internal report.
So here's the kicker.
Let me read you this second paragraph.
The 22-page report found no evidence IRS employees intended to destroy data or hard drives, but it also found employees made no effort at all to uncover additional emails as Congress pressed for information.
The investigators concluded employees erased the tapes by mistake.
Right.
See, now, if this had happened in a private business, the Justice Department would be frog marching the CEO of the business in front of cameras in handcuffs into a police station to book them and then doing a show trial to flagellate the CEO to make sure that no one else ever did this.
But the IRS gets away with this in Obama's America.
In Obama's America, in the Capitol District, everybody gets away with everything.
The rest of us could never get away with this stuff.
It's like George Takai or however you pronounce his name, multiple iterations on Twitter.
He can get away with calling Clarence Thomas a man in blackface, a clown in blackface on the Supreme Court.
And the left will let him get away with it in the way they never would if it was a Republican talking about Barack Obama.
No, you can say that about Clarence Thomas, just not Barack Obama.
Because in the Capitol District, the deck is stacked against you.
Republicans and Democrats alike, they hold contempt for you.
And then you get people up there like Louis Gomert, who's going to join me here in a little bit.
He goes to Washington and he stands with guys like Mark Meadows from North Carolina, Jody Heiss from Georgia and others around the country.
And the Washington Press Corps, the Washington media establishment, the Republicans, the Democrats, they don't like any of them because they dare to say one powerful word that they don't like to hear.
No.
They don't like to hear that word.
They don't like it.
And yet they stand up and say it.
And so they must be made to care.
They must be re-educated.
The Capitol District abides no dissent, allows no dissent, tolerates no one saying no or do something else.
They want you to care.
They want you to shut up.
They want you out of the town square in Barack Obama's America.
Pretty soon, I'm sure they'd be perfectly happy to have a bunch of Christians across America engaged in hunger games.
Welcome back to phone number 800-282-2882 here at the EIB Network.
You can get me on Twitter and Facebook at E-W-Ericson, E-W-E-R-I-C-K-S-O-N.
And I know someone has that handle because I just saw Louie Gomert tweeting me and putting up a Facebook note.
He was joining me from Texas.
How are you?
Well, as far as I know, I'm okay.
Happy Independence Day.
Now, listen, I've been talking about this Hunger Games comment from the president, and he and his administration has, in fact, set up a capital district around Washington where as long as you're in the establishment of either party, you do pretty well and seem to hold the people outside the beltway in contempt, and it's not just a Democrat thing.
No, you're exactly right.
And it isn't just pretty well.
I mean, they're doing extremely well.
And that's people that are playing on the Republican leadership side as well as the Democratic leadership side.
And I love your first half hour.
And you mentioned Thad Cochrane.
Holy cow.
You know, in Mississippi, it was apparently a crime to vote in a primary in which you do not intend to vote for that.
Yet you had Republican establishment leadership folks, people that go commit a crime so that they could get Thad Cochrane re-elected.
That is extraordinary.
Heck, right now, I'm getting a lot of calls from people in my district saying, hey, Louie, there's a where they're just lying right and left about you.
You know, you never show up to vote.
You never get a bill.
I do get bills passed, but I do have to get somebody to do it.
Well, let me stop you there.
It's got to be our own guys doing that.
Yeah, Congressman, let me ask you about this because I've seen this, Mark Meadows.
They've come after Jody Heist.
They're running ads in district for him here in Georgia.
They're running ads against Mark Meadows.
They're going after guys like Marlon Stutsman in Indiana and others who have dared to tell leadership no, and they're attacking them worse than they ever attacked the Democrats.
In fact, that was one of the big criticisms Rush had about McCain back in 2008 as the nominee.
He was vastly nastier to Republicans than he was Democrats.
This is a great point.
Yeah.
Well, and if you look, we voted in the TAA that gave more welfare benefits and unemployment to people that are going to lose their job as a result of the TPA, even though it's going to create more jobs.
They just didn't tell people they'd be in Vietnam.
But the thing, when I voted no against the rule with Walter Jones, there were two of us that voted against the rule.
Four times that day, I saw people in leadership saying, when you vote against the procedural rule that brings the bill to the floor, you vote to turn that floor over to Nancy Pelosi.
We don't need Republicans like that.
Eric, when I voted against the rule on the TAA, I voted not to turn the floor over to Nancy Pelosi.
That bill that it got passed, but the big majority of Republicans voted against it.
I voted to keep Pelosi's bill from coming to the floor.
Right.
And they intimidated people to vote for it.
And it's really outrageous that if you stand up for marriage, and I really loved your Red State editorial about, man, they're coming after conservatives, and it's been such a building block.
And what does our leadership in the Republican House and Senate say?
Well, basically, now we're going to back up and just protect religious freedom.
My gosh, I'm still pushing a couple of state attorneys general to challenge, to try to enjoin the Supreme Court decision.
It is illegal what two of the justices did.
The law is very clear.
28 U.S.C. 455 says, if your impartiality might reasonably be questioned, you shall disqualify yourself from sitting on that decision, which is what Scalia did on a Pledge of Allegiance case because he has spoken out publicly.
You have two judges, Kagan and Ginsburg, who have presided in same-sex marriage.
Those people should have disqualified themselves.
They are, this not just reasonably be questioned.
They're disqualified.
Yet they changed foundational building block society law.
And I've got county clerks calling me going, it violates my religious beliefs to do this.
What should I do?
Well, we ought to have someone stand up and say this battle over the foundation of society, the marriage, the home.
The great society did tremendous amount of damage to especially African-American home and now homes all over America.
But this will just be so destructive.
It's the way you bring the society down.
Well, and, you know, I got to give kudos to Ken Paxton, the Attorney General there in Texas, saying that county clerks and stuff, they can opt out of doing it if there's someone else in the office who's okay with it for religious objections.
I was really disappointed in Senator John Cornyn tweeting out that he disagreed and thought that they should just bow down before the Supreme Court and start doing it whether they objected or not.
Well, it's an illegal decision by the Supreme Court.
Somebody has got to stand up and say it.
I would file suit.
I've talked to friends at ACLJ and others.
I don't think that a member of Congress, since it wasn't a bill, and since I didn't retire as a judge, I can't still do weddings like I did when I was a judge.
I don't think I would have standing.
But for heaven's sake, a state ought to have standing to question a law that just destroys state constitutions.
It should.
And the fact that they don't even care.
I mean, there was no law cited in the Supreme Court decision.
They cited essentially theology.
Well, and as Red State has pointed out, this opens the door to anything, polygamy, whatever it is, because the very reasons, you've discussed this, Eric, but the very reasons they cited that they can't stop marriage at just a man and a woman is the reason that Steve King and others pointed out back when we were talking about hate crimes.
If you move this line and say sexual orientation, you can't show any bias about sexual orientation.
At some point, if we don't define what we're talking about, then you're opening the door to, you know, legalized bestiality, necrophilia, all these other terrible things that most everybody, including folks that are gay, agree are bad.
And of course, the gay came after me and say, oh, well, yeah, he's saying that what we do is the same as bestiality.
I never said that.
But what really amazed me is that Democrats were not willing to draw a line on defining sexual orientation, so it eliminated pedophilia, for example.
They wouldn't.
And here we go.
If you want to marry a nine-year-old girl, then it's a good idea.
Hey, if she identifies as an 18-year-old, Anthony Kennedy says you're allowed to define yourself as you want, to identify as you want.
What's really disappointing to me, though, is Republican leaders in Washington have continually decided to let the court decide these things for themselves, whether it's Obamacare or gay marriage or campaign finance.
They always want to punt to the court instead of taking the tough vote.
Right.
And, you know, when you have leaders say, well, there's nothing we can do in Congress, we could do a constitutional amendment, for heaven's sake.
And, okay, maybe it doesn't pass, but we sure show the public who stands for traditional marriage that is the building block for successful societies.
And we show who's not.
And then we get some of them beat because, you know, the media and the education have just uneducated so many people.
And, of course, those of us that speak out like me, you've got leadership groups coming after me.
They're trying to take away my ability to raise money.
They're threats of taking away my subcommittee chairmanship, all this kind of stuff.
But anyway, we'll see what happens.
But if it's okay to mention my website, Gomer, G-O-H-M-E-R-T.com.
We can always use help.
But we're going to go to the next one.
Well, we'll stand with you on this.
There's a great desire to make people feel like they're alone, and you need to know you're not alone out there.
We appreciate everything you've done for us.
Congressman Louie Gomert of Texas, thanks very much for stopping by the Rush Limbaugh Show.
This is Eric Erickson filling in for Rush.
We'll be back with your calls in just a minute.
Welcome back.
It is Eric Erickson filling in for Rush Limbaugh today, 800-282-2882.
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Let's go to the phones, shall we?
Obi in Senger, California.
You are up first today on the Rush Limbaugh Show.
How are you?
Pretty good, Eric.
You're doing a good job, as always.
Thank you.
There are a couple points.
The first being that political correctness has become the new McCarthyism.
People can lose their jobs or have their businesses shut down if they don't march in lockstep in conformance with liberal dogma.
And it's getting dangerous.
We're losing our freedoms.
And I think we need to advise our candidates, our Republican candidates, that this is probably the most important thing they can take a stand against is political correctness.
And they need to do it by taking each of the tenets of political correctness on diversity, racial bias, homosexuality, each of these, and deconstruct them and explain to them to the public why, explain to the public why their irrational points, why they are misguiding points.
That's my primary.
You know, Obi, I got to tell you, first of all, because this happened to me the last time I was here when someone called in and said also that political correctness is McCarthyism, someone emailed me a lengthy, it was at least 500-word email on how I was a terrible host for not correcting the caller, that McCarthyism is a slander against Joe McCarthy, who did good work rooting out communists.
So I've said it now so the person doesn't have to spend another 500 words telling me that I need to tell you that.
But secondly, you're right.
Yes, that's why I think Donald Trump is so alluring to so many people as he's willing to defy the politically correct overlords of Washington and say what you and I are thinking.
Yeah, well, again, it is important, though, that our candidates explain why these tenets of political correctness are wrong.
For instance, take the homosexuality issue.
You know, back in the 1960s, 70s, homosexuality was classified as a disorder by the mental health profession.
That changed not because of science.
It changed because of pressure, political pressure.
Same thing's happening with transgenderism now.
Yeah.
And, you know, the fact that the government is now trying to push it down our throats and force us to accept homosexuality as normal and healthy, that's not right.
And it's not right from a common sense point of view, not a religious point of view, just common sense that, and by the way, anyone has a right to be any way they want.
I mean, there shouldn't be a law against it, but you can't force society to accept that as normal when instinctively we know it's not.
Well, instinctively, we know that it's not healthy for a man to take a certain amount of time.
Another new normal as Bruce Jenner is now referring to himself.
Obi, this point well made.
Thanks very much for the phone call.
You are right that there's just this imposed doctrinaire left-wing worldview in Washington, D.C., that if you don't hold to the tenets of their secular religion, well, then you're just a filthy bigot who must be silenced, punished, and driven out of society.
You must be forced to bake cakes for other people's weddings, etc.
Just crazy.
Okay, Radha, if I've got that right, in Tampa, Florida, you're up next.
How are you?
Thanks for taking my call, and I really appreciate your voice and the Russian Ba's voice.
Most of the time, I listen whenever I can.
And I want to make a point, and I lived in three continents, and what I'm looking into is we are becoming more and more dependent, and we need to celebrate July 4th as a Dependence Day celebration.
Then it's an Independence Day celebration.
History repeats itself, and we cannot do a lot of things.
And I lived in three continents and never seen a government taking the jobs from our country to different countries, like healthcare, Obamacare, is in India.
So even to accenture, we are losing all the jobs.
That is the intention of making the people to lose jobs.
Then they become so dependent upon somebody else to take care of them.
And we are becoming more and more, I see it in the healthcare field, I see it in the education field.
We have become more and more and more.
Radha, let me interrupt you there.
I've actually had a number of conversations, more than I expected to, with friends of mine after the last week who were saying, I just, I don't really feel like celebrating Independence Day this year.
It just seems like the ideals of the founders, we've had a divorce.
My buddy Hunter Baker, he wrote a piece over at the Federalist website where he said, this feels like a divorce, a divorce from traditional America.
Some people championing it, that we've now moved on to a left-wing secularism.
Anthony Kennedy sealed the divorce last Friday, and there are a lot of down and out, depressed people.
We certainly are moving into a dependency culture.
I think we wanted to wake up the people that we are not long going to be dependent on somebody else.
We can stand on our own two feet.
And I think that has to come from the scratch from the educational standpoint.
And we are becoming more and more dependent.
We wanted to be more independent.
I think that's what we wanted to instigate in our school system and also from the healthcare standpoint.
I think we are becoming more and more dependent, then we cannot get out of that.
It's just like taking a bolt from the engine, then the engine is going to fall down.
Then you cannot drive the car anymore.
It is, it's a depressing thought, really.
And where will the next generation, what will they think of these?
Radha, thanks very much for the phone call.
Colin from Florida.
You know, it is immigrant families to the country seem to recognize this a bit more than people who have lived here for a long time.
I actually had a friend of mine tell me that one of the concerns of some Democratic strategists is that long-term in this country, Hispanic immigrants who come in, if they're Protestant, that's the exception here, but if they're Protestant, Hispanic family, they tend over time more and more to lean Republican and become culturally and socially conservative.
And it is largely a recognition of where their family came from.
How long it lasts, who knows?
But right now, it just seems there are a lot of people in the funk.
I want to address this actually the next hour.
I want to spend some time on this and the comment about Clarence Thomas and the lack of response.
In fact, some left-wing sites won't even report on it.
We'll get into all of that.
I got a whole lot more to get through today, though, folks.
Eric Erickson, in for Rush Limbaugh.
You know, speaking about the last call from Radha in Tampa, and we're now in a nation that needs to celebrate Dependence Day instead of Independence Day.
Have you heard about Rick Perry's speech yesterday?
Good gravy.
He finally said what all of us have been wanting a Republican to say.
So he gives this speech, Economic Club or somewhere.
Where I'm not exactly sure where it was, but it was a speech on his economic policy and how he wants to restructure things.
And he starts off recounting history in Texas, bad racial history in Texas, about a terrible lynching that happened in Texas and about a slave in Texas, but he just appointed the great-great-grandson of the slave to be the chief justice of the Texas Supreme Court.
That Texas has been able to progress and Texas has been able to move on and improve just as we have in this country.
He said, we've got Hispanic CEOs now.
We've got a black president for the first time.
And then he says what we've all been wanting people to say.
So why is it that we have our nation's first black president and the plight of the black family in this country has gotten worse?
By all benchmarks, unemployment in the black community has gone up.
Incarceration rates are terrible.
Education rates are terrible.
Graduation rates are terrible.
All of this while we have the nation's first black president.
And he says, look, Republicans have got to do a better job of convincing black voters to support them.
Here's what the party should mean for you.
And he outlines a defense of the free market and how essentially we've been doing all of these things for so long and failing.
The black community is trying to do a different thing.
And the left has lost their mind today attacking him for daring to speak this truth.
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