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Oct. 8, 2015 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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October 8, 2015, Thursday, Hour #3
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I'm going to be on the TV Saturday on Fox News.
I think it's 8 o'clock Eastern on a John Stossel special about being censored in America.
It's about the state of free speech in the land of the First Amendment, which believe me is not in a good condition, particularly on American campuses.
And it's a big special.
I'm going to be in there and a lot along with some other distinguished people, such as Ayaan Hirsi Ali and Kirsten Powers is in there.
And it's Censored in America with John Stossel.
And that's on Fox News Channel, I think, eight o'clock Eastern on Saturday night.
But to check your local listings for any variations to that.
But speaking of which, I want to go back to what I said at the beginning about Ben Carson's thing.
One of the one of the things I can't stand is when somebody says anything that's slightly out of the norms of approved political discourse and people come down on them like a ton of bricks.
And Ben Carson said something that is a practical benefit.
The what matters in situations like a gunman at an Oregon college is what you do in the first few seconds.
All of us know that that's demonstrated across the world.
That's why those that guy on the train didn't get to kill a bunch of people on the train, because a small number of people recognize what was going on and charged him and were able to prevent him taking control of the train and killing a large number of people.
Now, people didn't like it that I was defending Ben Carson.
I had all these emails from people saying it's an insult to the people who were there.
It's not insulting the people who were there.
It's telling the people who are going to be there at the next mass shooting, whether that's four months, eight months, two years down the line, to be thinking about this, particularly if you're in a gun-free zone.
Because oddly enough, these guys are targeting gun-free zones.
And if you're in a gun-free zone, your options are more limited than if you're in a non-gun-free zone.
But this is a typical email from Bud Harton.
Bud Harton writes to me and he goes, How dare you!
Ben Carson would pee his pants.
I've cleaned that up slightly.
Ben Carson would pee his pants if someone pointed a loaded gun to his head.
So would you.
You have no idea what was going through the minds of those young people at the moment that lunatic was terrorizing them.
No idea at all!
Do you think they might have been scared?
You chump!
Yes, of course they're scared.
Of course they're scared.
It's a scary situation.
And as I said, I've been in scary situations.
I'm not a brave guy.
So let's take it as read that Ben Carson and I are both little girly boys who'd be urinating our little girly pants and be all trickling down our legs, like Bud Harton says.
Nevertheless, if you accept that as your default position, I've been through this.
I've had this conversation a long time, over all the years since this massacre at the École Polytechnique in Montreal, which is a city I love and I know well.
When everyone was scared and everyone did what the gunman said.
and everyone died.
Everyone died.
And what you do when you write stupid emails like this guy Bud has just written to me is you make, as Kathy Schadel, a great Canadian blogger, says, what you do is you make this horrible, enervating, corrosive passivity the default setting in these situations.
And that leads to double-figure body counts.
The reason there was no double-figure body count on that train is because, basically, as far as I can gather, because some people didn't want their names brought forward and other bits and pieces, but there were five people involved.
There were three young people, two of whom had had military training.
And I understand the military does give you a certain amount of training in what to do if you're unarmed, but in this situation.
But even if it doesn't, even if I'm wrong on that, the military does train you to calculate risk and calculate response when you're in high stress situations.
That's part of what being a soldier is all about.
The other people were just some middle-aged sales guy, I think he was 61 or something from the United Kingdom, and then there was like a 55-year-old professor from Paris or something, something like that.
They haven't had any special training.
But they get the message when they see the other guys charging that this is it.
This is make or break.
The actions you take now are going to determine life or death.
Ben Carson understands that.
He's not, whether or not he urinates down his trouser leg when someone puts a gun to his head, he's been in stressful situations where he's had to do things that most of us couldn't do in order to save a baby's life.
And so he understands how to make decisions in high-stress situations.
But let us take Bud Harton's point right: that he and I are both little girly men.
Him because he's just some pansified little doctor boy who doesn't know anything about the real world.
And me just because I'm some dweeby weirdo foreigner and foreigners are by definition a bunch of pansies and we don't know anything anyway.
So let's take all that as red.
The point is, if you accept that people are just going to be terrified and paralyzed, you are saying there is no alternative.
You're saying the body count will be determined by the killer.
The body count will be determined by the killer.
That's no way to do it.
You change the odds.
You're like the guy who charged the guy and took seven shots.
We don't know how many deaths he prevented, but he understood that in those split seconds, we are called upon to act.
And the decisions we make determine it.
So I'm not saying, I'm a big, brave guy.
I'm happy to take on three guys with guns.
I'm happy to charge them and take them all out just through the sheer power of my mighty shoulders.
And Ben Carson isn't saying that either.
But he's saying it's time to give some practical advice.
The world is a lot more dangerous than it used to be.
And our governments are making life more dangerous.
As Donald Trump likes to say, you know, America is importing all these rapists.
So we have Kate Steinley dead in San Francisco.
So we have all these people that are being imported into the country to cause all kinds of trouble, according to Donald Trump.
In Germany, thanks to Angela Merkel, they're importing all these other people.
And there's all these rapes and things going on in all the camps.
It's a dangerous world out there.
We teach our children stupid things to worry about the hypothetical situation of sea level in the Maldives in the year 2100.
But we don't teach them for, and that's the global warming alarmists may be right on that.
Maybe right on that.
So it may not be hypothetical.
There may be a very tiny chance of it actually coming true.
But these things happen regularly in the United States.
And it's best to understand what it is that's happening and what we can do to mitigate it.
And what I loathe, as I said, I've had this discussion a long time since the Montreal shootings.
And I'm sick of being told by Bud Harton that all we can do, that if you speak on this, you're just some swaggering blowhard when in fact you'd be wetting your little girly pants.
Let's so stipulate all that.
Let's say Ben Carson and me are the biggest fairies on the planet.
It doesn't matter.
Ben Carson is still performing a public service by asking us seriously to think of what we can do if we find ourselves in that situation and to know instinctively your best chance of surviving that situation.
And he is doing us a great service by saying that.
And that's one reason to keep him in the race.
He's a thoughtful guy and he thinks outside the box and he says things that are outside the box.
And he's not insulting anybody and he's not insulting the people who were there at the time.
He's talking about the people who are going to be there next time.
And that's maybe that's not unconnected with what John Slossel and I are talking about on Saturday night on Fox News because we spend some time talking about college campuses where people are worried about microaggressions.
And they give some thought.
They have structures created for microaggressions, so-called microaggressions, where somebody uses the wrong word, somebody takes offense at the wrong word, somebody takes offense at some little thing that's posted on some website.
And they have real structures to do that, but they don't have any real structures to do with these things that happen enough times and have enough similar qualities that we ought to actually have a practical approach to them.
And that's what Ben Carson was offering.
And I would like it if, at the very least, people did not attack him for what he didn't say.
He's not putting down anything that those kids did in that.
There was a lot of individual bravery at that college campus, and we should learn from that.
But what matters is not whether he's a little girly boy or I'm a little girly boy or any of the other stupid things this half-wit is saying.
What matters is that we try and actually inculcate in people some kind of response to it.
We could all, the guys on Flight 93 could have wet their trousers, but at some point they decided that, you know, they weren't going to wet their trousers and they were going to act.
People, that's the lesson of that French train.
The three young guys acted, and then the flabby old 61-year-old businessman and the 55-year-old French professor or whatever he is, then they joined in.
Because as I said the day after, courage is contagious.
Courage is contagious.
And if you make non-courage, if you make passivity the default lever of society, if you basically put the gun-free zone mentality everywhere, then basically you just, we're like deer waiting to be shooed into the headlights to be run over.
Mark Stein and Farush will take your call straight ahead.
Hey, Mark Stein in Farush.
Harry Reid and his wife are filing a lawsuit against the makers of the exercise band that Harry Reid was using when it went crazy and attacked him a few months ago.
He's filed a lawsuit against the Hygienic Intangible Property Holding Company.
That is a great name, by the way.
I have no idea what they do, but I know when I have intangible property, I always like it to be hygienic because even though you can't touch it, you still want it to be clean.
Harry Reid has filed a lawsuit against the Hygienic Intangible Property Holding Company in Clark County District Court in Nevada for this exercise band that just suddenly went bananas and attacked him.
And he's lost vision in his right eye.
He looks like when you see him in the Senate, he looks like somebody out of the Sopranos these days.
He's got the big black shades and everything on.
But he's now I don't know that that goes far enough, though, because this is this is like Hillary's thing to sue gun makers, isn't it?
You know, it's the same thing, suing the exercise band.
The exercise band attacked him, but I do think we could do with exercise band control.
And I don't know why we don't actually have more exercise band control.
I mean, Harry Reid, people maybe need to have training, may need to have license.
You shouldn't be able to just go around with an exercise band in your pocket.
You should be able to have an exercise band-free zone.
But at any rate, Harry Reid, who was attacked by this exercise band, is now launching a suit against the Hygienic Intangible Property Holding Company for this exercise band of theirs going crazy and attacking him.
Let us go to, is it Margene in Salt Lake City?
Is that correct, Margin?
I say that correctly?
You did.
Thank you.
Oh, what a lovely name.
How good to have you with us.
I don't know whether Rush keeps a list of his ten favourite ladies' names.
I don't know whether Margin is on it, but it certainly ought to be just bubbling outside the top 10 at number 11 or 12 if it's not actually up there at position 6.
I would imagine.
I hope so.
I certainly hope so.
Great to have you with us on the show.
What's on your mind today, Marjean?
Well, you know, I've been thinking a lot about our government wanting to basically strip us of our weapons.
And what I've concluded is the number one reason why we should be allowed to keep our personal weapons is because we've never been attacked in this country.
We've had little pockets of attacking, you know, but we've never been attacked, I mean, recently on our own country ground.
And I think one of the reasons why is because other countries know that most of us are packing.
And in our early history, when things happened, our citizens took up arms, joined the armies, and were ready to go because they knew what they were doing.
They didn't have to be trained.
We were armed and ready.
And I just, you know, I think that's a point that people miss, is if we lose our weapons in this United States, we're going to be sitting ducks in a lot of ways.
There's a lot of truth in that.
But what was interesting about Obama's statement, because normally he talks fairly generally about gun control.
And this time around, he was specific.
He actually named the United Kingdom and Australia as, quotes, countries like us, unquote.
And he actually commend, he was, if you understood what he was talking about there, he's talking about gun confiscation, Margine.
He's not talking about, he's talking, he's now commending the example of government gun confiscation.
Do you think that's what he's got the Democrats are moving to the next stage on this?
I think if we don't fix it, it's going to happen in the next five or ten years.
And I think that it's going to be a bloodbath if it does because, you know, there are people who have the mindset of Ruby Ridge, and you're not going to take what's mine, regardless.
And they'll fight to the death for it.
Right, right.
I mean, simply as a practical proposition, I don't understand how they're going to do that because everyone reckons this, whatever it is, 307 million guns, is a low-ball estimate, that actually the number's probably significantly higher than that.
And I don't even understand how you would institute that.
I mean, the question is, because Hillary Clinton's now on board with this.
The only way they could do it, they couldn't do that.
But what they could do is they could somehow make it legal to sue gun manufacturers.
And at that point, they will drive gun manufacturers out of business or at any rate out of the country.
I mean, do you think that's also something they're serious about or whether they're just posturing on this?
I don't think it'll ever happen.
That's like me choking on a piece of bazooka.
I can't go and sue the company for chewing on a piece of gum that I bought.
Right.
Right?
You know, it's stupid to think, and these are going to be throwaway cases.
No, well, yes, exactly.
But if they did pass that law, that's what it would have.
You would be able to say things like, if a Honda Civic is involved in a bank holdup, then you sue Honda for manufacturing the Honda Civic.
You're right.
That's what it would lead to.
So do you mean that they're going to sue the Lugs shoe company because that's what the perpetrator was wearing too?
Yeah, that's right.
When he held up the bank and he ran out of the bank, he was wearing UGGS.
So we're going to have to sue, and we're going to have to mandate stickier shoes so he can't run so fast.
You've actually got to the nub of it, which is why it would affect almost every aspect of human existence, Margin.
You have a terrific way of words, by the way.
Great to hear from you.
I like that, what was that, little pockets, little pockets of invasionness.
We'll pick that up in just a moment on the Rush Limbaugh show.
You know, when we were talking about with Marjean, and she said America had never been invaded, and she said, Well, okay, we've had whatever it was, small pockets of invadedness, whatever it was, she said.
And I chuckle because I thought that was she was being a little canuckophobic there and putting down the War of 1812.
If you remember when the British Army did invade little pockets of America, Detroit, in fact, was under British occupation.
The U.S. governor of Detroit was drunk when the troops showed up and prematurely surrendered.
And so the British Empire wound up administering Detroit for a couple of years.
And actually, that would probably be the best answer if they could persuade the Canadians to reoccupy Detroit.
But I thought she was, so I thought Margin was just getting in a little canuckophobic dig there.
I was up in Canada a couple of years ago with an American friend, and we were walking through across the concourse, and the Royal Canadian Mint had a display stand of their commemorative coins marking the 200th anniversary of the war of 1812.
My American chum was absolutely horrified.
Couldn't believe that she didn't understand how anyone could want to commemorate 200 years of such a thing.
So I thought Margene was just indulging in a little canuckophobia there.
But if America can somehow persuade Canada to reoccupy Detroit, it would solve an awful lot of problems.
Rush two days ago was talking about we're erasing Western civilization.
That's essentially what all this stuff has in common.
You take any itsy bitsy little story in the news, and that's what modern progressivism is about.
This week, the head of the Native American program at Dartmouth College, which was actually set up as a school for Indians, by the way, was so I believe Indians still go for free to Dartmouth College.
So actually qualifying as a Native American at Dartmouth is actually something of some value.
But the head of the Native American program, who was appointed a few weeks ago, called Susan Taff Reed, and she is a supposed Native American, and she belongs to the Eastern Delaware Nations.
And she has just been forced out of her job.
She's not being fired or anything.
She's being reassigned to some department at Dartmouth College that has nothing to do with Native Americans.
Because a genuine Native American who is a Navajo discovered that this Native American has a bit of a same problem as Elizabeth Warren had, in that she was trading on being a Native American, but actually isn't a Native American.
She's not a Native American.
Susan Taff Reed of the Eastern Delaware Nations and Dartmouth, whoever mans the Dartmouth College Diversity Outreach Recruitment Department, this is how you have to, you can't just advertise the job now.
You've got to have certain people to fit certain jobs.
So they have a whole department at Dartmouth College that exists for just diversity recruitment.
You've got to go out and find we're a bit lacking in lesbians.
So can you go out and rustle up a couple more lesbians?
We need a couple of Hispanics here.
We need a Native American here.
So they found this Native American, Susan Taff Reed, of the Eastern Delaware Nations.
And then it turned out that actually she doesn't have a drop of Indian blood in her.
Now, I'm going by the official diversity component thing of the new segregationism, one drop is enough.
You know, Elizabeth Warren, when she got into trouble, because she claimed to be the first, she was publicly declared to be Harvard Law School's first woman of color.
And as I said on this show, she's the whitest white since Frosty the Snowman fell in a vat of whiteout.
And when she and she claimed that she'd entered an authentic Native American recipe to pow wow chow, and the authentic Native American recipe for the pow wow chow cookbook turned out to come from Cole Porter and the Duke of Windsor's favorite restaurant in Midtown Manhattan.
And it was some crab recipe because we all know that the Native American tribes in Elizabeth Warrens, Oklahoma like to spear the authentic Oklahoma crab as it comes across the plain.
You know, Oklahoma, where the crab comes, sweeping across the plain.
It's in the state song.
And so Elizabeth Warren eventually said that she was actually 132nd.
I think she's 132nd Indian.
And that's enough to make you Harvard Law School's first woman of color.
I wanted her to run for president just because she would be our first woman of color as president.
How exciting.
She would be the first Native American president in the White House.
That would be terrific.
But this woman isn't even 132nd.
And this is, again, this is one of those stories that just exemplifies the flight from our own civilizational inheritance.
There's no point being a white male.
There's no point being a white European female.
There's no point getting hung up on all that kind of stuff if you can be something else.
So she claimed to be, and this was good enough for Dartmouth College.
She claimed to be a member of the Eastern Delaware Nations.
Now, how many of you know your Indian tribes?
I love it.
Are there any?
In fact, if there's any members of the Eastern Delaware Nations out there listening, do call it.
The Eastern Delaware Nations was founded by her grandfather, Susan Taff Reed.
Susan Taff's Reed's grandfather Taff, these people are all genetically Irish.
Their Indian nations come from Cork and Connemara and Donegal.
That's their Indian nation.
But they set up, her grandfather set up this thing called Eastern Delaware Nations.
He basically set up his own Indian tribe so his granddaughter wouldn't have to pay for college.
That's brilliant.
That's brilliant.
Have you got a teenage daughter?
She's in 10th, 11th grade.
You're thinking, oh my God, I got these $50,000 a year college bills coming up.
Well, there's a way around it.
There's a way around it.
Where are you?
You're in Westchester County, are you?
Well, just set up something called the North Westchester County Nation and say it's an Indian tribe.
It's good enough for Dartmouth College.
They don't check nothing at the diversity outreach office.
that's fine for them.
And you can get any.
And so on the basis of being a member of a tribe, her Irish grandfather invented, she was hired to be head of the school's Native American program.
Now, at one level, there's nothing wrong with this.
I mean, if Caitlin Jenner is a woman, why shouldn't an Irishman from County Mayo be able to set up his own Indian tribe?
Why not?
What's the problem with that?
You know, if we can define our own identity when it comes to putting on Grace Kelly's bathing suit and being photographed on the cover of Vanity Fair, then why can we not create our own identity when it comes to inventing our own Indian tribe?
It's just the Rachel Dollarzel thing taken to another level.
This guy effectively invented his own tribe.
And people complain about it about the transphobic.
They say, what do they call it now?
Cisgendered.
If you're a genetic female or a genetic male, you're a cis person.
You're a cis male or a cis female.
That's CIS.
That means you're a sort of biological, I don't want to be pejorative, a biological male, a biological female.
And a lot of cis women are prejudiced against trans women like Caitlin Jenner because she's only been a woman for 24 hours and she's on the cover of Vanity Fair and she's having this fabulous photo shoot.
So she's like the most glamorous woman in the world and she's only had the gig for 24 hours.
And it's the same thing here, that the authentic Indians like Sherry Sneezer, this Navajo, these cis Indians, as it were, are objecting to the trans Indian claiming to be from this tribe, the Eastern Delaware Nations, that actually isn't an Indian tribe.
And when it was all uncovered, she said, well, she said, well, I think this is an excellent opportunity for us all to, it's a teachable moment about what we mean by identity and identification in America today.
That's what it means.
It means that no matter how, you can invent your own Indian tribe and it will be good enough to become head of the Native American program at Dartmouth College, an elite institution that people mortgage their homes to send their kids to.
That is identity in America today.
It's a flight from what Rush was talking about, from our actual inheritance, to say that's too boring.
It's too boring to say my grandfather came from Connemara in Ireland.
That's too boring now.
I want to be Indian.
I want to be Native American, but I don't belong to any tribe.
But fortunately, my grandpa created a tribe, invented a tribe for me to be a member of.
So go for it.
Go for it.
It's good enough for Dartmouth College.
Anyone will fall for it in today's America.
Mark, sign in for Rush.
We'll take your calls straight ahead.
Mark Stein in for Rush.
I've had the complaint from somebody who said they listened to me mentioned my new book and went to try and buy it at Amazon and said it was listed for $450.
And they said, I know you're being sued by this big climber guy, Michael Mann, the hockey stick creator, but $450 for a paperback book is still a bit steep.
I think you've gone to the wrong, I think you've gone to the wrong site there, unfortunately.
It's not $450.
I think it's like it's discounted at Amazon, so it's whatever it is, $13 or $14, something like that.
But it's, quote, a disgrace to the profession, unquote, by Mark Stein.
And that's S-T-E-Y, S-T-E-Y-N, S-T-E-Y, as in why do I have to listen to some annoying foreigner guest host for the ultimate American radio show, S-T-E-Y-N.
It's not $450.
If it was, I would have retired to the Bahamas.
It's just way less than that.
Let's go to Courtney, who is in the high mountains of southern Colorado and has probably already founded his own authentic Indian tribe up there.
Courtney, you're live on America's number one radio show.
What's on your mind today?
Hello, Mark.
I love your logic and love your intellect.
And the accent, too, is awesome.
That's great.
Your accent is good, too.
Where's that come from?
Native American, actual real American.
Excellent.
May I first say hello to my beautiful wife, Michelle, who's listening right now?
Listen, Mark, back to this Boehner discussion.
I don't think that this idea of his that we stop the vote at this point is necessarily a bad idea.
Let me tell you why.
Mr. McCarthy was a poor choice.
He was a questionable conservative, but he was inarticulate.
He made George W. sound like a Toastmaster.
And what we need is a leader in the House, not a politician, but someone who can stop this fundamental transportation and transformation, excuse me, and do it articulately.
We don't need a politician.
We don't need someone who's going to waffle and stick to their talking points.
The House controls the budget, or it used to, until Boehner rolled over.
So of the two remaining candidates, Chaffetz and Webster, I listened to both of them this weekend on the news shows, and they both have a couple talking points, which I won't repeat here.
But they stuck to those talking points like politicians that neither of them said, we're going to stop the fundamental transformation.
Neither of them said, we're going to do what the people sent us to Washington to do to defund Obamacare, to stop the unconstitutional amnesty policy.
Neither of them would say that.
What they said was, you know, we're going to bring the Republicans together, and he's a fresh face, you know, Chaffetz.
He is a fresh face.
Okay, that's great.
But what we need is somebody with some cojones to stand up and actually say, I'm going to stop Obama.
And that's what conservatives and I think most Americans look around there on.
Someone like Trey Gowdy or Louie Gilmore.
I mean, I could give you half a dozen names.
It would be better than either of the candidates that remain, and certainly Mr. McCarthy.
Yeah, well, what you don't want is a sort of guy like Boehner who was a parliamentary operator, which meant he'd just explain why nothing could be done.
I mean, that's the thing.
You don't want a guy who's effectively the House equivalent of a DMV clerk who says, oh, no, sorry, we can't give you a license because you've only brought three copies of the green form and you're supposed to have four copies of the blue form, but come back in two years' time with four copies of the blue form.
And that's basically how Boehner ran it, and that's how McCarthy would have run it.
So you like the idea of Trey Gowdy or Louis Gomeut or someone who's actually willing to move the ball down into the Democrats' half of the field, Courtney.
Right.
Someone who's not a politician.
A politician blows whichever way the wind goes.
There's no difference between Sanders and Clinton or as far as I'm concerned, Boehner or McCarthy.
They've got their talking points and they stick with it, but they're unwilling to have an intellectually honest discussion and say, look, you elected me to defund the illegal amnesty program.
So we're going to do that.
And if the government shuts down, we'll let the chips fall where they may.
I mean, it's not, you know, it might be ugly, but you know what?
People are behind us.
And what their risk is when they go to Washington and like Mr. McConnell with his marble mouth lunacy about, well, we're not going to shut the government down.
Well, that's not what we elected you for.
We elected you to pull out Obamacare by the roots like you said you would.
Yeah, we're coming up against the hard break, Courtney.
So I got to go.
But you are right.
And you want someone who just doesn't accept the opposition's terms.
I said, and it's a cruel line about Boehner, you know, that he folds so well, he should be the White House valid.
But it's true.
There's no point in asking people every two years to turn you into bring you to office because you're going to do great things.
And then the day after the election, you start explaining why no great things can be done.
That has to stop because the Republican Party is destroying its brand by doing that.
Mark, sign for Rush.
More to come.
Hey, thanks for all your good wishes to Rush.
He's on the men shaking off this cold.
And I know you're itching, itching, itching to hear him back at the microphone.
He will be here for three hours of Open Line Friday starting tomorrow.
And it's been an honor for me because we were talking about cis women and trans women and cis Indians and trans Indians like they have at Dartmouth.
And I regard Rush as the ultimate cis American.
And I'm really more of just a trans-American, sort of dilettanteing it around and trying to pull it off here for three hours.
But the real deal is going to be returning with Open Line Friday live tomorrow.
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