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July 3, 2015 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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July 3, 2015, Friday, Hour #2
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I was just reading in the New York Times the perfect how to deconstruct the perfect hamburger.
We we were just we were having this discussion off air about food and grilling and baking and whatnot.
I I figured I would bring it up.
It seems to be a relevant topic around here.
I will, Mr. Bamone, I will send you this article on how to make the perfect burger.
I've been grinding my own meat as well, the chuck and short rib and brisket and whatnot.
Okay, welcome.
It is Eric Erikson here, in for Rush Limbaugh, 800-282-2882 is the phone number.
You can get me on Twitter and Facebook at E.W. Erickson.
So I want to stretch my legs here on an issue that I know many of you are focused on right now.
And I see it on Twitter, on Facebook, I get it in emails, comments at redstate.com, my own site, uh here with callers, just a little bit of depression.
I want to set the stage for you on something.
Think of a wildfire.
Let's go back into history for a minute, because I I okay, on my on my own show in Atlanta, I've got about five minutes to talk, and then we have to stop out for step out for traffic, and I got about five minutes to talk, and then we gotta step out for traffic.
It's hard to build a thought.
Here I'm going to use the clock to my advantage, I hope.
Because there is, I think, something that is being missed in the conversation about what's happening in the country right now.
Many of you are perplexed, concerned.
In the 1400s.
Yeah, I'm going way back.
I'm going back to before anyone even discovered the new world, except for the Native Americans who are already here, you bigot.
A nun in a French convent in the 1400s began meowing like a cat.
I kid you not.
This is well documented.
A nun in a convent in the Holy Roman Empire began meowing like a cat.
Now, for those of you who went to government school, after the Roman Empire fell, eventually there was a new empire in parts of Europe.
They called it the Holy Roman Empire.
The Catholic Church was in control, a nun began meowing, and then she began biting other women in the convent, who in turn began meowing and biting each other.
Word of the spread.
And as word of what was happening spread, it started happening in other convents.
It eventually swept through the Holy Roman Empire, made it all the way to Rome with nuns meowing and biting each other before it just kind of disappeared.
In July of 1518 in Strasbourg, also part of the Holy Roman Empire.
A woman named Frau Trophia took to the city square and began dancing.
And she danced for six days nonstop.
And as she started dancing, other people came into the square and started dancing.
And it spread.
More than four hundred people for over a month took to dancing nonstop.
Many of them died.
They had heart attacks, heat stroke.
They just fell over dead.
Nonstop and this was not a I'm gonna go dance all day and go home and go to bed.
It was nonstop dancing.
In sixteen ninety-two, colonists in New England started having fits like epileptic fits.
Demonic possession was suggested.
More and more girls started having these fits.
It led to the Salem witch trials.
In 2008 in Tanzania, students started fainting for no reason.
It spread through schools throughout the area.
Started in one school and it spread.
In 2011, in LaRoy, New York, students developed Tourette's like syndromes.
Parents went into a panic.
The school started doing environmental testing, chemical testing, bacterial viral testing.
They couldn't find anything.
Just a mass hysteria of Tourette syndrome.
History has these mass hysterias.
That sweeps society.
Yes, foot loose, yes, foot loose, exactly.
It happens.
Kevin Bacon happens.
I think this is happening again.
I think that's what we're dealing with here.
I think it is more dramatic and more expanded, but it has infected Western society.
This this anti religious, super secular, supposedly science, except it's not really scientific, because there's no scientific evidence on on the this you can pick your own gender nonsense.
There's hardly really any scientific evidence on you're born gay, although most of us, myself included, tend to think that can happen.
There isn't a lot of scientific data on it, but they say they're pro science, but they don't have any scientific data, but by God, if you don't believe it, you're a bigot.
I think we are dealing with an episode of societal madness, near society suicide.
It is a wildfire burning through society.
Now, wildfires are destructive.
You can be burned up, I can be burned up.
In fact, they're they're looking for more kindling for the fire.
They're trying to shut people up.
I mean, I I have no doubt that they're going to begin censoring dissent.
They're going to begin ruining out, you know, Apple, and I Rush and I are both Apple fans.
I love Apple.
Apple is coming out with a news program for the iPad and the iPhone and be news curation and you'll be able to do things.
They'll have human curators, that's the new trend.
They're getting back to the days of DJs with Apple music.
I've been listening to Beats One, their um worldwide radio station with DJs picking the music, my alt rock station on my iPhone now.
It's it's curated music.
I've liked every single song.
Haven't skipped a song yet in the the Ald Rock section.
Facebook as well, Twitter, they want to use human curators, Facebook doing some algorithms, Google is all algorithms.
I suspect over time they're going to make sure less and less Christians, less and less orthodox believers, less and less conservatives, less and less cultural conservatives.
Find their way to your news.
I mean, we've already seen Buzzfeed declaring its editorial position.
There is no other position than to support gay marriage.
We have the newspaper in Pennsylvania say the same thing that they're not going to take letters to the editor.
The Los Angeles Times won't take letters to the editor dissenting from the global warming nonsense out there.
It's a wildfire burning through society.
It's the Romans one world, some of you would think.
Whether you think it's nature, though, or God, at some point, nature has a way of exerting itself.
The fire burns up because there's nothing left to burn or it rains.
But it's a wildfire right now.
It is a craziness in society.
It is anti-tradition.
It is against what Chesterton called the democracy of the dead.
G.K. Chesterton, the famous philosopher, theologian.
He talked about the democracy of the dead that we we should allow the people who came before us, even though they're dead, we should remember their say in society.
We structured society in such a way over time, whether you say it's it's by divine fiat or through trial and error, society came to be shaped as one man and one woman in marriage through a process of trial and error.
Tradition refuses to submit to the small and arrogant oligarchy of those who merely happen to be walking about.
All Democrats object to men being disqualified by the accident of birth.
Tradition objects to them being disqualified by the accident of death.
Democracy tells us not to neglect a good man's opinion, even if he is our groom, tradition asks us not to neglect a good man's opinion, even if he is our father.
That's Chesterton.
And yet people want to reject that.
Now they want to come after churches.
They want to get rid of tax exempt status.
They want to force people to hold their opinion.
They don't want dissent.
They don't want deviation.
Good is bad, bad is good, evil is right, right is evil, right and wrong are mixed up, up is down, down is up.
It is a societal madness, just like in the 1400s with the biting nuns, the 1500s with the dancing people, the 1600s with the Salem Witch trial.
We are going through a bout of societal madness.
We may get burned up in the fire.
I don't know.
But here's the question for you in this issue.
The question for you is not whether you want to check out to protect your family, because a lot of you do.
A lot of you, you just want to step back and say, What the heck has happened?
I'm getting out of here.
I'm going to the hills.
I'm going Anne Rand on this.
We're getting out of town.
Gulch Gulch, here we come.
You want to build a high wall.
You want to turn off the TV.
You want to unplug from the internet.
You want to cancel your TV, your magazine and newspaper subscriptions.
You just want your family to live in a bubble and not come out.
Rod Dre at the American Conservative talks about the Benedict option to basically move into the monastery and preserve culture while the wildfires burn, while we're in the dark ages.
You can't really do that.
You do have to reach into society.
You do have to go to work.
But you can be the light while the wildfire burns.
I think you've got to remember, and I've got to remember, because sometimes, you know, I I get depressed about this stuff sometimes too.
I try to be the optimist.
I'm kind of the the reverse wave.
When people get too excited about stuff I calmed down.
When people get too calmed, I I get excited.
Try to be the median here on these things.
But I you we've all got to remember.
That we're not alone.
They want to make us feel like we're alone.
They want to make us shut up.
They want to come, I mean, uh the the media neutrality, making sure that other voices are on air, shutting up people like Rush Limbaugh so that they can't tell you the truth.
They want to pick the news stories you hear and they want to leave things out.
There's a bunch of left-wing sites, you know, George Takai, he took after Clarence Thomas.
Calling Clarence Thomas a clown and blackface.
Very few liberals have come out and denounced him, by the way.
To his credit, Paul Bagala's one of them.
Uh Mark Lamont Hill, Roland Martin, they have come out, thank goodness.
So you can disagree with Clarence Thomas, but the clown in blackface was horrifying, and he should apologize.
But a lot of left wing sites think progress, media matters, Huffington Post, Vox, as of yesterday, my buddy Sean Davis at the Federalist pointed out.
None of them cared to even report on it.
There's a wildfire burning through society right now, and I get some of you want to check out.
But here's the question for you.
It's not whether you want to check out and just tune into Rush Limbaugh to find out what's going on in the world while you cancel everything else.
Just come here and let Rush be your creator of a curator of news and pop culture and opinion and sports and things like that.
I get that.
The question is not whether you go.
The question is if you do go, are you going to be prepared when the wildfire burns out to help pick up the pieces of civilization?
Because it's going to be on us to rebuild civilization.
It's not going to be on the people who are destroying it.
Eric Erickson in for Rush Limbaugh.
We'll be back.
Welcome, Eric Erikson, filling in for Rush Limbaugh.
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You know, one of the great disappointments in all of this is the lack of fight from Republicans on Capitol Hill.
Mitch McConnell says Congress can't roll back the gay marriage decision.
I wrote a piece for Fox News the other day about the Oklahoma Supreme Court.
The Oklahoma Supreme Court said there can't be a Ten Commandments monument on the Oklahoma State Capitol grounds.
Now, some of you are thinking, well, that is unconstitutional.
Actually, there is a very similar set of facts from Texas with a Ten Commandments statue or monument.
And the U.S. Supreme Court said it was illegal.
It was constitutional for Texas to have that monument because it was historic, it was private funds, etc.
etc.
etc.
The Oklahoma Supreme Court has said, forget the Federal Constitution under the Oklahoma Constitution, written in 1907, by the way, that it's unconstitutional.
And people are scratching their heads.
Did the writers of the Oklahoma Constitution really in 1907 think that that would be unconstitutional?
The Ten Commandments, the foundation for Western civil legislation and Law.
But apparently so.
When are Republicans going to fight back?
Because Republicans punt, as Louis Goldman and I were talking about in the last hour, Republicans always pass off their issues to the Supreme Court.
Hey, y'all take care of campaign finance.
Guess what?
They rule it constitutional.
Hey, y'all take care of Obamacare.
Hey, guess what?
They rule it constitutional.
Hey, y'all take care of gay marriage.
Guess what?
They rule it constitutional.
When are Republicans going to stand up?
If they're not going to impeach judges, stop hiring law clerks for them.
Let them pay for their own power bill out of their own pocket.
I mean, what are you going to do?
We've essentially taken a democracy and we've made it an oligopoly.
Anthony Kennedy is our king.
What Anthony Kennedy says goes because he is the swing vote of the Supreme Court.
People don't go to the Supreme Court asking what are they going to do.
They ask what is Anthony Kennedy going to do.
They know how the liberals are going to vote.
They know how the conservatives are going to vote.
They want to know what Anthony Kennedy is going to do.
He is our king now.
Anthony Kennedy can by judicial fiat change the morality of this country.
He can tell the voters of three quarters of the states, I don't care what you think, it's what I think.
Anthony Kennedy can substitute his morality for everyone else.
When is the legislature and the executive gonna fight back?
Obama's not gonna do it.
When are the Republicans gonna do it?
Through the power of the purse.
Republicans right now controlling Congress have the ultimate power in our republic.
The power of the purse, and they will not use it against Anthony Kennedy.
They will not tell Anthony Kennedy he's gotta go in Obamacare.
They won't tell John Roberts he's gotta go in Obamacare.
They won't do it.
Republicans on Capitol Hill, they won't tell them pay for your own lights.
We're not turning your lights on for you if you're gonna do this.
They're not telling them we're not gonna give you law clerks.
And you know, there are voices out there that say, Oh, if they can't hire law clerks, they can't people will stay in jail and not have trials.
This is terrible.
Well, they shouldn't have done it then, should they?
When are we gonna hold the judiciary accountable?
When are we gonna cut their budget?
I mean, there are ways to do this.
Mitch McConnell says, we're not gonna fight on this one.
No, no, we're we're the gonna move on.
You got John Kasich in Ohio saying the court has spoken, we must move on.
Lindsey Graham out there saying the same thing.
Why must we move on?
Why can't we fight it?
Because they don't have the spines to fight it.
Because they don't want to fight it.
God bless Texas, Ken Paxton down there willing to stand up for this.
Now he's under attack.
John Cornyn, U.S. Senator from Texas, saying, I would make those law clerks and court clerks and justices of the peace give the licenses and perform marriage.
All the attorney general from Texas has said is look, if you've got a moral objection to this, find someone else in your office to issue the license.
You don't have to.
But no, that's not enough.
Whatever is not prohibited under the leftist totalitarianism will be made mandatory.
You must like the decision.
You must fly the rainbow flag.
You must march in the gay pride parade.
You must give the marriage license.
Society has lost its mind.
So if you need to go take refuge, listen, I don't blame you.
Some of you are scared, you're troubled, some of you don't want to even celebrate Independence Day tomorrow.
You feel like a great divorce has happened and we have divorced ourselves from the values of the founding of this country, I get it.
But when you do, your propensity is gonna be depressed, and it's gonna be well, I'm all alone.
You're not alone.
You may not want to vote for a guy like McConnell, you may not want to fight for the Republican Party, but there are ways to do it.
And I'm gonna talk about Rush, I'm not gonna talk about me.
Rush knows that you have a propensity to feel like you're alone at times like this.
Rush knows that the media only wants to tell you one side of the story.
And so he views his job as not just to keep you company, make sure you don't know, and make sure you know you're not alone, but to tell you what's going on.
So that if you gotta step back, if you've got to breathe, if you've got to take care of your family, at least you can tune in here for three glorious hours, five days a week, and know what's going on in the world.
Know what matters to you, know who the good candidates Are.
Know who the fighters are.
Know what's happening in culture.
That is the genius of Russian the show.
You're not alone.
You're not alone.
When we come back, we will get into some of your phone calls and we'll let you get stuff off your chest.
And then we got to get to Donald Trump.
Donald Trump continuing to make waves and cause heartburn.
You should know circulating right now, burning up on Twitter and elsewhere on in the news, a story from the Daily Signal over at the Heritage Foundation, the Oregon Baker of Melissa Klein, sweet cakes by Melissa, they didn't want to bake the cake for the gay wedding.
They've been forced to infined a hundred some odd thousand dollars.
And there's been a little bit of misreporting on this, that they're they're not under a gag order, doesn't seem I I've been reading the opinion through the breaks, but they are being fined for what they said more than what they did.
That's the interesting thing here.
Is it very clear from the opinion from the Georgia for from the Georgia?
I'm in Georgia, the Oregon Department of Labor, they're being fined for what they said more than what they did.
They went on with my friend Tony Perkins and talked about they're Christians.
They don't want to bake the cake for the gay wedding.
Uh that they don't do gay weddings, they said, and they're being fined for saying that.
Essentially, they're being fined for speaking more than they're being fined.
Well, I I read the actual order.
There's there are a couple reports out there saying they're under a gag order now, and I guess the point they're getting to is that as this case progresses, if they say things in the future, that that may be held against them as well, going after their free speech rights.
But looking at reading the actual order, it appears more that the focus was on their prior statements, not their future statements.
I I haven't found anything that specifically says they got to shut up in the future.
Uh, but what the what the Oregon Department of Labor does say, and I guess this is where people are are getting this from, is that uh their statements suggest ongoing discrimination.
And so from that, I guess you could say they're under a future gag order.
If they continue to say we're Christians, we don't want to bake cakes for uh gay weddings, that they could be fined again for that in the future.
Um however you interpret that, what is clear is that the actual penalties from the Department of Labor in Oregon against sweet cakes by Melissa and the Klein family, they're essentially going to be put out on the street and have to declare bankruptcy over this, losing their business because of one angry pair of lesbians who there were a I I did a Google search.
I just put in bakeries, and there were hundreds of bakeries in the immediate area around sweet cakes by Melissa.
They could have gone to one of them, but no, they had to punish dissent.
They had to punish sweet cakes by Melissa.
The Department of Labor is saying it's not just that you didn't bake the cake, it's that you went on TV and radio and said you're Christians.
I mean, it is illegally throwing them to the lions, is what's going on here.
Uh you gotta stick up for kind people like that, though.
We should respect each other's beliefs.
That's what Anthony Kennedy says.
It's only gonna be a matter of time before they come for your tax exempt status.
All right, to the phones to the phones, James in Lidwood, Washington.
You're up next on the Rush Linbaugh Show.
Well, thank you.
We all know that page one of the Democrat playbook is go around calling people racist, sexist, bigot homophobes.
Yes, you bigot.
Don't forget, there's there's a footnote to that, that if a conservative belongs to one of those Democrat victim groups, attack them, call them names, bully them to avoid having a conversation.
Yes, uh Uncle Tom's uh clown in blackface, yes.
That that that's what they say.
And when George Takay, Mr. Sueyu in court over a cake.
When he says, doesn't Clarence Thomas know that Japanese Americans were marched off by guns and chems.
Doesn't he know that?
Yes, he does.
Don't you, Mr. Tikay, appreciate Franklin Delano Roosevelt, the president that ordered that?
Don't you know that that case went to the Supreme Court and the dissenters in that case were constitutional originalists?
And further, the justices like Thomas and Scalia referenced those dissent in saying saying we need to stick to the constitution of this country.
You know, I I am more and more convinced.
Uh one of the things that George Takay is is known for these days is witty humorous reviews on Amazon.com.
He I am more and more convinced he must have a team of comedy writers writing stuff for him because the guy can't be that smart.
Uh and the reason I say he can't be that smart is because he attacked Clarence Thomas, and Rush talked about this some yesterday.
That he said that Clarence Thomas said that that slavery was had dignity to it.
That's not what Clarence Thomas said.
He said in his dissent, slaves did not lose their dignity any more than they lost their humanity because the government allowed them to be enslaved.
Those held in internment camps did not lose their dignity because the government confined them, and those denied governmental benefits certainly do not lose their dignity because the government denies them those benefits.
Now, George completely misinterpreted, turned on its head the point Clarence Thomas was making.
He perverted what Thomas was saying to try to attack Thomas, to call him a clown in blackface.
He could not comprehend the point that I think if he could comprehend it, he would have agreed with Clarence Thomas.
And by the way, uh George is doubling down today.
He's refusing to apologize for that, even though some liberals have begun to tell him he should apologize.
James, thanks very much for that phone call.
You're right.
Yeah, though those those originalists were the ones who would have kept George's family out of the internment camp.
Brenda in Hendersonville, North Carolina.
Welcome to the EIB network.
Well, thank you, Eric.
I'm appreciate being able to get through.
Um I have to say that today ignorance rules.
Uh a lot I'm from I I live in North Carolina, obviously, and I'm not a Southerner per se.
I come from Northern Virginia.
I'm a sixty-eight-year-old historian.
And uh I live through the fight for civil rights, and um but I've never seen an outright attempt to take away the First Amendment rights of and the pride from the South Confederate history.
Um you were just talking about a bakery.
Well, there is a bakery in the area somewhere in the South, that they were asked to bake a cake depicting the Confederate flag, and they were turned down, and then someone wanted a cake for the ISIS flag, and they were allowed.
Now, that being said, I'm moving on to because I've been asked to keep this kind of succinct.
Um I watched what happened in Charleston, and I lived in Charleston for seven years, and uh what I noted w which disturbed me in the background of the civil rights movement, uh people such as the NAACP,
Al Sharpton, Jesse Jackson, and Barack Obama uh have used one horrific act of a misguided white man to wake up the inaccurate, and I'm saying it like that historically, belief that the Confederate flag was connected with slavery.
It was it never was.
This came much later with the Ku Klux Klan, skinheads, and other select groups, uh trying to eradicate the Confederate flag the direct act of removing the First Amendment rights of the South for folks who have relatives.
Brenda, let me just interrupt you there and say I was really I mean, I was watching TV after this happened and was really shocked and appalled and actually somewhat amazed at trying to ponder the science of it.
How a Confederate flag in Columbia, South Carolina was able to on its own disconnect itself from its flagpole, climb down the pole, climb in a car, drive to Charleston, South Carolina, uh load up some guns and get into a church and and and shoot nine people.
I mean, I I was I thought flags were inanimate objects, and here goes this flag shooting up a church in Charleston.
I mean, they're yes, that they had to find something to blame.
Remember, never let a crisis go to waste.
There's a reason they're doing this, though, uh one of many reasons.
Um but it is as Rush was talking about the the other week, uh a it's the beginning of their attack on the American culture.
Because you start with a Confederate flag and they're already saying, Oh, well, the American flag, it's got racism too.
We need to change this flag.
We should I I find it funny.
Deeply ironic and sick at the same time, that you've got a bunch of people on the left burning the American flag in protest, which is exactly what Dylan Roof, the shooter in Charleston, South Carolina Was doing, burning the American flag, because all of them for various reasons see it as a symbol of oppression.
For different reasons, they see it as a symbol of oppression.
As opposed to being the symbol of the land of the free, the home of the brave, the last best hope for mankind.
That is anathema to the left.
They cannot stand it when you say that this country is the home of freedom, that we are set apart for greatness of the world.
Barack Obama says, Well, everybody says that about their country.
Here it's actually true.
Eric Erickson in for Rush Limbaugh.
We'll be back.
CBS Sports.
They're being sarcastic about Russia's comment yesterday on RG3.
Robert Griffin the Third, the quarterback for the Washington football team.
Can I say Redskins?
Yes, the quarterback for the Redskins.
I was listening, and he he gave the speech of the UN on global warming and protecting the oceans and climate change and plastic bottles, and he's getting rid of plastic bottles in his life.
I actually brought some plastic bottles in here today with water in them.
Uh just just in honor of Rush talking about this yesterday.
And Rush said some people think he's bombed, and the media is kind of strange because here we have an African American quarterback, and yet the media's been kind of mean to RG3, and one of the reasons is it's suspected he's a Republican.
Seems reasonable, CBS Sports says sarcastically.
But Rush, yet again, say it with me, people.
It's true.
And it's been well known.
Listen, I am I'm a college football fan.
Full disclosure.
I I I get lectured by Mr. Limbaugh regularly that I should pay more attention to the NFL and less to to LSU Go Tigers.
But I've noticed this for a long time too.
There have been rumors for a while he was a Christian.
Might be a Republican.
And it is tied to criticisms of him.
I mean, compare criticisms of him, and it goes beyond.
It goes beyond his football skills to ego, what he does in in life out outside of the team.
Criticisms of him have gone on for a while for a host of issues outside of his performance.
Compare this to the the left doubling, letting George Takay double down on his statements against Clarence Thomas.
By the way, people can tell me I'm I'm mispronouncing his name sometimes.
I don't care.
Who cares?
The idiot who is in Star Trek, shall we just refer to him as that way?
Can we call him a bigot?
I mean, referring to Clarence Thomas as a clown in blackface.
Maybe we should call him a racist or a bigot attacking Clarence Thomas.
Yes, Sulu.
Yes.
Sulu.
Sulu got it got the Starship Enterprise lost somewhere posterior.
In any event, we should go back to the phones before I say something regrettable.
Stephen in Milford, Ohio.
You are next on the EIB network.
Thank you for getting to my call, Eric.
You're doing a good job today.
Thank you.
I appreciate it.
Oh, today, you mean last time you're a terrible kid, but this time.
Of course.
But the main thing is I called we're, you know, just started the program.
We're talking about leadership.
And it's kind of a segue because RG3, what's he known for?
Is a quarterback is leadership.
Mm-hmm.
I mean, when he's out of the corner of his eye, there's a linebacker come raging in, ready to roll him in the ball.
He keeps his stance, grasps the ball properly, throws that spiral to the receiver, and they win the game.
And that's leadership.
He doesn't get distracted.
Something we don't have a lot of in this country these days.
That's what I'm pointing to.
We don't have leadership.
We've I mean they're not qualified leaders to be able to manage the office they're in because they keep getting distracted.
Well, it's I don't know that it's just that they they're distracted, Stephen, is as they don't care.
I mean, they're making money.
What's the main focus that happened in Charlotte?
Roof killed those people.
He murdered those people.
The flag he had on his web page.
What?
He murdered those people in that church.
Yes, but you see, the our leaders in Washington, they're not letting the crisis go to waste to fundamentally transform America.
They're being distracted, and they're distracting the people that Roof murdered those people.
Oh, but see now now this is where I would disagree with you, Stephen, respectfully and politely disagree.
I don't think they were distracted.
I think it's by design.
They they want to distract you from Dylan Roof what he did to get you to focus on what they really want, which is to to get rid of symbols that they find oppressive in this country.
They want to replace the Confederate flag with the rainbow flag.
They want to replace the American flag with the United Nations flag.
It's not that they're distracted.
They're keeping their eye on the in-game, hoping to distract you from what their in-game is.
No, they're not doing it.
Well, good for you.
Stephen, thanks very much for the phone call.
I'm I'm glad you're not distracted.
I I'm a I'm worried though, a lot of people do get distracted by these things.
You got Bubba Watson, the golfer.
He owns one of the original General Lees from the Dukes of Hazzard.
And on Twitter he's decided all men are created equal, so I'm gonna paint over the Confederate flag with the American flag.
Come on.
I mean, the the Confederate battle flag on the General Lee had nothing to do with racism.
I mean, th the reason the left hates the Dukes of Hazzard is because who was the bad guy in the Dukes of Hazard?
The government.
The government were the bad guys in the Dukes of Hazard.
I remember back in 1981.
I just turned 40.
I can say this now.
I can look back reflectively.
I remember in 1980 when my sisters were huge Dukes of Hazard fans, and it came on on a Friday night.
And we went to see Raiders of the Lost Ark.
It had come out.
We went on a Friday night.
And I I was six at the time, scared the bejesus out of me at the end, the faces melting, all that's such an awesome movie, though.
But we had to get home because my sisters had to see Dukes of Hazard that night.
I just wanted to see Daisy Duke personally.
But it was it was the the Duke Boys versus the government.
I mean, the r the rebel flag was there more as a a middle finger to government.
I mean, that's why I totally get people going out and buying Confederate battle flags now as as just a a middle finger to government to to tell the government to leave them alone.
There's been a run on Confederate battle flags.
Now the left, that's why the left then had to go after Amazon and Walmart and everyone else.
Are you going to sell Confederate flags?
If so, we're going to sick the hordes of Mordor on you.
And so they stop.
But there are others making a killing on it.
It's just it's sad to see a guy like Bubba Watson come out and say, I'm going to paint over the Confederate battle flag on the General Lee because it might offend people.
That's essentially what it is.
He wants to be loved.
People should spend less time wanting to be liked in the world and more time wanting to be respected.
Eric Erikson in for Rush Limbaugh.
Snerdley's giving me a hard time about the Confederate battle flag, and and listen, I I would never fly that flag at my home, and and I know I have relatives who probably would who buy into the heritage not hate stuff.
Interestingly enough, there was a CNN poll out that that blew their minds away that fifty-six percent of Americans say it has more to do with Southern pride than it has to do with uh racism or slavery or anything like that.
They had a woman on CNN today talking.
It was not a fair and balanced panel.
It was it was some lady who was talking about that the the act of the woman trying to tear down the Confederate battle flag in South Carolina was a feminist act because she did it on the day three of the the victims and they were all women were being buried, and it was a humanitarian act, and it was a bold act, and and on and on and on and on and on and on.
And essentially admitting that she thinks that uh there are a bunch of people based on that polling who need to be reeducated.
The left is all about that.
When we come back, though, I'm not going to dwell on this issue.
We got to move on to Donald Trump.
There are slew of stories out today on how oh Republicans have heartburn over Donald Trump, and oh, his polling is going up.
What is this with Trump?
You got Rich Lowry of National Review saying Trump has a point.
Trump is making waves in this race in ways a lot of people didn't think he would.
Russian eye, though.
We knew he would.
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