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Oct. 19, 2015 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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October 19, 2015, Monday, Hour #2
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Did you know, ladies and gentlemen, there's a Republican debate this week?
Did you know that?
You probably didn't.
Some of you, I'm sure, do, you wonks.
But of many people, oh my God, that's right, there's a debate.
And you know what it is, folks?
What?
It's Wednesday night.
It's the day before Mrs. Clinton's Benghazi hearing.
It's on CNBC.
And it's the one that Trump and Ben Carson said, if you guys don't reduce this from three hours to two hours, we're not showing up.
Where are the countdown clocks?
Where is all the news about this?
Now I understand the networks don't promote like CNN and Fox and I've got to promote CNBC.
Oh, it's not this week.
Okay, my bad I had bad information.
I thought it was this week.
Okay, that makes sense, because I've it it it's odd if a Republican debate were coming up this week, they would be touting it's the biggest ratings getter of the political season.
Well, they don't have countdown clocks that go that high.
That's true.
No, no, no.
I was I was told by somebody that I probably well that it was Thursday of this week, and I hadn't heard anything about it, and I knew there was one coming up, and I thought, no, that's interesting.
But my bad, I uh actually I didn't get it wrong.
I was told incorrectly, Mr. Snerdley has given me the correct dope here.
Now, uh, but but did despite that, I want to go back to this Benghazi business and Hillary and this ongoing effort or this new effort here to somehow equate what Hillary did with George Bush.
I mean, George Bush gets a pass on 9-11, that's what they're trying to do with Hillary and Benghazi in advance of the uh hearings that are not going to amount to anything that are coming up on Thursday.
Now remember I pointed out that that Obama's off the grid for the seven hours that the Benghazi attack is is happening, and he leaves Leon Panetta and Hillary in charge, and Panetta to his credit has admitted that he knew from the start that it was a terror attack, that it had nothing to do with a video, that it was not a reaction to something that had made terrorists mad or made average ordinary Muslims mad to the point of protesting.
Now, there's a caveat, however, and that is that Panetta did not admit this until after he had left the regime.
He put it in his book.
At the time Panetta did not acknowledge this.
It wasn't until he is out of the regime that he did, but at least he did.
So we have one of the key players admitting later in his book that they all knew this was a terror attack from the start.
And in fact, it was a terror attack that there was intel on.
And the efforts of this administration and Mrs. Clinton to portray this as a spontaneous reaction to some silly video has been an insult to everybody's intelligence from the first moment they tried it.
And they continued to for months and months, even into a year or more.
Now there's one more difference between 9-11 and Benghazi.
Hillary Clinton was, and she was bragging about it at the debate last week.
She was one of the foremost champions for getting rid of Moamar Qaddafi.
Getting who had become our ally.
You know, people forget this.
People forget so much.
In fact, I think some people may never really know, but when we went into a rock, Qaddafi did a 180.
You want to talk about Bush and being responsible for things?
When we invaded Iraq, Colonel Moamr Qaddafi got scared to death.
And he came out and he announced that he was getting rid of whatever nuclear technology he had, and he was he was downsizing.
He didn't want any part of the United States.
He had already had a taste of us.
When the Reagan administration had bombed his tents and everything, way back in the in the 1980s after the Lockery Downing, the Pan Am jet that fell out of the scary Lockerby Scotland.
And so Qaddafi, after we invaded Iraq in 2003, had really tamed himself.
He had moderated, he had backed off.
He really wasn't the uh bad terror leader that he had been.
I mean, he still dabbled in it, but he was very public about backing off and backing out.
And yet Mrs. Clinton and Obama made it a centerpiece to overthrow the guy.
And Hillary was one of the biggest champions for attacking Qaddafi, who had become an ally after our attack on Iraq after our invasion of Iraq.
And it was getting rid of Qaddafi that led to the whole terrorist uprising in Libya in the first place, which is where Benghazi is.
Now, what did George W. Bush do before 9-11 to correspond to that?
This effort to try to compare Hillary Clinton to George W. Bush as a means of defending her or putting a wall around her, has to be an effort to cover up her incompetence, which is clearly what she is.
On the on the very day that the Benghazi uprising happened, Obama happened to be giving a speech praising the Arab Spring and the toppling of Qaddafi.
So it's a fascinating thing to watch here, this ongoing effort here to absolve Mrs. Clinton of anything.
And you you people that are in there and supporting Trump, you have to realize that he's helping further this uh, what would you call it, narrative along, because in his view, uh it it allows him to continue to champion his position on immigration.
He's basically saying that uh open borders permitted the 9-11 hijackers to get into the country in the first place, and he goes on to say that if he were president, that would never happen.
These guys wouldn't have got in, there wouldn't have been a 9-11 and so forth, which is his uh approach to this.
To the audio soundbites we go, and I'm gonna go ahead and use this as the transition.
Grab soundbite number six.
Uh, ladies and gentlemen, what we have here is a soundbite from C SPAN, Washington Journal today.
The guest is the Democratic Socialists of America executive director Maria Svart, S V A R T. And during the viewer call-in segment, a guy from Pennsylvania named Roger says this.
Long legged successfully brainwashed uh 45% of the nation's people with the help of Rush Limbaugh.
And if you use keywords like socialist and demagogue, they right away think communist and they will not vote for you.
And if you want to fix this problem, you first have to fix the brainwash problem, and you've slowly fixed the brainwash problem by bringing back the equal time laws that Ronald Reagan got rid of.
They didn't get rid of the equal time laws.
You know, people conflate the fairness doctrine with the equal time laws, and they are nothing alike.
They're nothing alike.
They have nothing in common.
But but idiots like this make the mistake of uh confusing the two all the time.
What Reagan got rid of was the fairness doctrine, not the equal time doctrine.
The equal time doctrine still exists, and in fact, are you ready for this?
Who is it?
Somebody has demanded equal time because of the way they were portrayed on Saturday Night Live.
Yeah, yeah, just recently I'm having a middle block.
Somebody has requested equal time because of uh an opponent or somebody got got treated on Saturday Night Live.
And the theory is that whoever's doing this is it's a way to get Trump's appearance canceled.
You know, Trump's appearing on Saturday Night Live someday soon.
Next couple three, maybe in November, first part of November.
I'm having a metal block on who it is.
Who was it?
They they pillow the parodied Hillary, they parodied a Democrat.
It wasn't fun.
They did people Saturday Night Live just do not know how to make fun of liberals because they don't think liberals are funny.
They think it's dead serious.
Oh, that's who it is.
It's this, it's this uh yeah, lessing.
Larry Lessig, the professor, the Ivy League professors running for president.
Um he is suing or demanding equal time on Saturday Night Live because other Democrats are giving being given attention there.
Yeah, that's what it was.
Anyway.
That's a bit of a side show.
The real point of this sound bite, Ronald Reagan successfully brainwashed about 45% of the nation's people with the help of Rush Limbaugh.
Yeah, with the help of Rush Limbaugh.
Now, when Ronald Reagan was president, from 1980 to 1984, I was working for a major league baseball team.
From 1984 to 1988, I was indeed working in talk radio, the majority of it in Sacramento.
Nobody had ever heard of me until August of 88, which is the election year.
I mean, I started this national show with two months, three months ago before the election.
Reagan had long past been a lame duck.
So, but such such is my power and image and reputation that these guys think I have been doing what I've been doing since the 80s.
Since who knows for how long?
So I brainwashed, well, yeah, Ronald Reagan successfully brainwashed 45% of the nation with the help of Rush Limbaugh.
I mean, that means I was doing it along with him.
If you use keywords like socialist and demagogue, they right away think communist, and they will not vote for you.
And if you want to fix this problem, you first have to fix the brainwash problem.
And you slowly fix the brainwash problem by bringing back the equal time laws that Reagan guy Reagan didn't get rid of equal time and get rid of fairness doctrine.
Uh this guy can't read media matters and get it straight.
And then here is the Democratic Socialist of America executive director, Maria Svart, S V A R T. Don't misunderstand the way I'm saying this.
Maria Svart, she followed up the caller with this.
For the last 40 years, the far, far right has really systematically built up institutions to control the discourse, and they've really dismantled the public sphere.
They've really deregulated.
And another thing that they've done is they've flooded the airwaves with their mantra, including how socialism is evil and the government in general is evil and inefficient.
And they just repeat it over and over again, ignoring facts, and it really is true that it has an impact on how people engage with politics.
You know how many people had died?
Try 100 million.
Conservative socialism, communism, totalitarianism, tyranny, you name it, a hundred million easy.
But you know, folks, this guy, Roger from Pennsylvania and Maria Svart from the uh Democratic Socialists of America.
If anybody in this country's been brainwashed, it's the American left.
Sadly, not just the American left.
In fact, quite a lot of America was brainwashed.
Have you heard, do you remember on this program?
The times, if you don't, I'm gonna tell you now.
there have been many times that people have called here and asked me, when did this current liberalism start?
Was it Woodrow Wilson, they asked, was it earlier than that?
Was it civil when did this stuff all happen?
When did it start?
Was it the 60s?
The Students for Democrat Society and the Vietnam War.
And remember my answer has always shocked people.
Snerdley, you will remember my answer is the incarnation of the modern left, as you and I know it today, is a direct result of the assassination of John F. Kennedy.
And I remember the first time I mentioned this.
You mean I people could not believe that I would that I was thinking straight.
You mean to tell me, Rush, you think the modern era of liberalism began with the assassination of JFK?
Yes, it did.
I'll give you a brief summary of why.
We know the evidence is conclusive that JFK was killed by a communist.
Lee Harvey Oswald.
He was not killed by the right wing.
He was not killed by extremists in Dallas or in the South or anywhere else in this country.
He was killed by a communist with ties to Cuba.
Lee Harvey Oswald was an avowed socialist and communist.
He had traveled to the Soviet Union.
He was disappointed.
He was expecting utopia.
He was flat out disappointed with what he found, but it did not persuade him to change his thinking.
He remained an ardent communist.
And after his disappointment with the discoveries in Moscow, he became an acolyte of the Castro regime.
Cuba.
He had traveled to Mexico City in an attempt to get to Cuba.
But the bottom line is I don't warrant him.
I don't care about anybody else, but Lee Harvey Oswald pulled the trigger.
It was his gun.
It was in the sixth-floor window of what the then Texas School Book Depository.
He was nabbed.
He was caught.
There was no doubt Lee Harvey Oswald killed John F. Kennedy, and he was a communist.
And what the left did, they couldn't permit that.
They couldn't allow that to be popularly accepted and understood.
They could not take that chance whatsoever.
So in order to create the Camelot myth and to establish Kennedy as this mythical King Arthur type character and his administration as Camelot, there was a calculated decision among opinion leaders of the day to blame America for it.
To blame American cultural declay, American decay, extremism, John Birch right wingerism and so forth.
And that's the birth of the modern era of liberalism, blaming America.
America got the blame for killing Kennedy, not an avowed communist because they just couldn't abide that.
There's substantiation for this, and I'll bring it to you we get back.
There's a great book out there.
His name is James Pearison.
His book is entitled Shattered Consensus, and his chapter, actually a couple chapters on the on the Kennedy assassination.
The theme of the book is the partisan divide in this country greater than ever and may not be solvable.
And thus there may have to be a revolution for there to be unity in the country.
And his effort is to explain the divide and why it exists, why the hyperpartisanship and the Kennedy assassination in the aftermath is a fundamental aspect or part of his theory.
And it is the most amazing thing.
An ardent full-blooded, full-throated communist killed JFK.
And the American left power structure of the time, including Earl Warren's Supreme Court, the New York Times, Time Magazine, at the time the network, three network uh news anchors just could not deal with it.
They couldn't permit that to be.
There was an affection for the Soviet Union at the time.
There was an affection for communism.
But there was also a opportunity.
They saw an opportunity to do what the left does best, blame America.
Blame America's right wing, blame conservatives, blame cultural matters for taking out the most popular and beloved president ever.
And Pearson has uh written about this in a really fabulously understandable way.
And I copied it just a couple of excerpts from his book last night, just to have on hand for an eventuality on the program of the subject might come up, and lo and behold, I get here and I get this sound bite from this clown on C-SPAN who thinks that Reagan and I have created and brainwashed the American people when in fact it's the American media and the Democrat Party of the Left that brainwashed
this whole country after the Kennedy assassination.
By the way, you people on hold on the phone, just stay there.
We're getting to you, El Quico, coming up the next thing.
As soon as I finish this stuff, I just want to read you these two excerpts from the book Shattered Consensus.
It's actually a couple years old.
It's a 2013, 2014 era.
Uh James Pearson spelled P I E R E S O N. The widespread feeling that the national culture contributed to Kennedy's death encouraged an attitude of anti-Americanism that became a pronounced aspect of the radical and counter-cultural movements of the 1960s.
Look, simple fact of the matter is, and this is for the longest time people would not accept that Oswald was the killer.
It was too simple.
Um the KGB, by the way, was paying all of these conspiracy or not all, the KGB was paying a number of so-called conspiracy authors to write these alternative theories.
The American left and the Soviet Union, nobody wanted communists to blame for this.
If a communist had killed the most beloved president ever, what does that say about the left?
It would have destroyed the modern-day Democrat Party.
They couldn't allow that to happen.
They made it, they made a concerted judgment.
They made an effort to actually whitewash the assassination of Kennedy and blame people who had nothing to do with it in order to save their own skin and their own movement.
And then proceeded to cover all of that up by coming up with alternate conspiracy theories and an effort to blame right-wingers, gun control freaks, John Burchers, and you name it.
And that is what gave birth to the modern left today, rooted in America is to blame for everything that's bad.
And at the top of the list is America killed the most popular president ever.
And by America, they mean Republicans, conservatives, anybody that's not liberal.
You go to the front page of the New York Times today after Kennedy was killed, you'll find two things.
You'll find a story about leftist Oswald kills Kennedy in Motorcade, and you get details on his ties to Havana, and then on an also on the front page, you will find an opinion piece by the revered James Scotty Reston, blaming Dallas and blaming conservatives and extreme right wingers.
And that's where it began.
And then Chet Huntley joined it, and Cronkite joined it, and they all joined the fray.
Other opinion leaders, editorial writers, op-ed writers picked up the theme, and that's how you end up with Hollywood people thinking Castro and Shea Guevara are the biggest studs in the earth.
How they're big heroes and so forth.
This is one of the things that's puzzled many people.
How in the world can leftists embrace openly the people that killed JFK?
the obvious they don't know, they don't believe that happened.
And it was because of a concerted effort by leftist opinion leaders at the time to create this alternative theory.
So the widespread feeling that the national culture contributed to Kennedy's death encouraged an attitude of anti-Americanism that became a pronounced aspect of the radical and countercultural movements of the 60s.
This was an outlook that never entirely disappeared from the world view of the American left.
Now, by any logic, the assassination of a popular president by a communist should have generated a revulsion against everything associated with left-wing doctrines.
Yet something very close to the opposite happened in the wake of the JFK assassination, and for many of the reasons outlined.
Within a few years, radical ideas and revolutionary leaders, Marx, Lenin, Mao, and Castro among them, enjoyed a greater vogue in the U.S. than at any previous time in our history.
Converting college students by the thousands to an anti-American anti-capitalist creed.
Soon those students were taking over campuses and joining protest movements in support of a host of radical and revolutionary causes.
Socialism and revolution, causes that Kennedy fought against, were the watchwords of the new left that emerged within a few years of his death.
In fact, you know what LBJ did?
LBJ essentially blamed the Kennedy assassination on racism and bigotry and who knows what else, and used the Kennedy assassination as the heartstring tug to pass the Civil Rights Act.
Nobody tells you that JFK opposed it, as it was written at the time.
JFK was opposed to the Civil Rights Act.
LBJ, after his assassination, turns around and says, we must do this for Jack.
The greatest eulogy we can give Jack Kennedy is the Civil Rights Act.
And even at that, Democrat senators in the South objected to it and have no interest in it from J. William Fulbright's Ron Thurman, you name him, who was a Democrat at the time.
It really is amazing.
And every time I have mentioned to people that the birthplace of current modern liberalism as we know it was the Kennedy assassination, they think I'm nuts.
Because it doesn't compute.
But it does.
It makes perfect sense once it's laid out for you and you understand how the left could not allow that narrative.
They could not sit by and have it known that a communist had killed JFK.
So they had to create other assassins, they had to create alternative conspiracy theories.
And whatever else anybody did or will come up with, it is fact that Oswald pulled the trigger and killed Kennedy.
And if you don't believe it, it is a sign of how effective the plan has been to get you not to know what really happened.
In just a few years, from 1963 to 1968, the liberal movement under pressure from this new radicalism absorbed a skeptical disposition toward the American past and the major institutions of American society.
It would not be an exaggeration to label this disposition, this new attitude of the new left as anti-American.
Among those who maintained a foothold in the liberal camp, there was a tendency to accept the left-wing assessments of American society as vulgar, violent, and racist.
The radicals and the liberals might differ on style and strategy, but they agreed that real change must come about not through programmatic reforms, but through cultural criticism that leads to a revolution in thought and conduct.
There is little doubt that the animus That pushed liberals and radicals onto this path had its origins in the aftermath of the Kennedy assassination.
Once having accepted the claim that JFK was a victim of the national culture.
And again, that was extreme right wingers in Dallas.
Have you heard the story?
Kennedy was advised not to go.
Yeah, you've heard that BS too, right?
Kennedy was advised not to go because the Birchers and the right wingers were going to kill him.
And lo and behold, Kennedy bravely said, bring them on.
It didn't happen.
Once having accepted the claim that JFK was a victim of the national culture, many found it easy to extend that metaphor into other areas of American life, from race and poverty to the treatment of women to the struggle against communism.
These were no longer seen as challenges to be met and overcome, but is indictments of the nation.
JFK assassinated by a communist was an unacceptable to the leftists of the day, who had a love affair with the Soviet Union, who had a love affair with communism as Utopia, as fairness as all of these things that they claim that it is.
It's the birthplace of Jake Guevara and Castro becoming heroes, and it was more than likely Castro, who engineered, however he did it, the assassination of JFK, with a supporter, Lee Harvey Oswald.
There is you probably know this, but uh Theodore Theodore White, I believe it was, shortly after the assassination in the aftermath, had an interview session with Jackie Kennedy.
And it was Jackie Kennedy who created the entire Camelot PR scheme.
During the time JFK was alive in the White House, nobody had ever mentioned the word Camelot.
Cabalot had never associated itself with anything to do with the Kennedys or the White House.
Jackie did that, and she did it very cleverly.
And by the way, her advisors were opposed to her trying this.
They didn't think that she'd be able to pull it off because it wasn't real anyway.
Their marriage wasn't Camelot.
What was going on in the White House wasn't Camelot, but she was hellbanded.
And one of the things that she told Teddy White in the interviews that she did, oh yes, the president and I, every night, this is a true story.
The president and I, every night before going to bed, lie in bed listening to the soundtrack of Camelot.
And then she read some of the words from some of the songs, talking about King Arthur and so forth.
And that's how the whole thing began.
It was a studied and purposeful public relations creation that survives to this day.
Okay.
The Clintons tried to recapture it, in fact.
So for all of these yokels out there calling C-SPAN that think it's the right wing and conservatism or talk radio that's brainwashing America.
What really has happened is this country was really severely dangerously brainwashed after the Kennedy administration, Kennedy assassination, and it continued for decades.
And what's happening now is a is an effort to cleanse that brainwashing and to unravel it.
And the left has had a lot of success with it, blaming America, blaming the culture.
Take any incident, any incident that happens in this country today.
I don't name one, name the George Zimmerman, Trayvon Martin thing, uh Ferguson, Baltimore, school shooting, name anything that happens.
Whose fault is it?
Right wing, culture, American, bigotry, anti-gay, sexist racism, what have you.
It all, all of this gave or got its energetic birth immediately after the Kennedy assassination.
And it had such profound success with it following the Kennedy assassination that it simply became their identity.
And in their minds, it has stood the well, that's JFK today would no more identify with the modern-day Democrat Party.
He was for Reagan-like tax cuts and any number of other things.
I got to take a break here, and I promise your phone calls are coming up.
I'm done now.
We'll be back and continue in a moment.
Half my brain tied behind my back just to make it fair.
El Rushbo, this is Doc in Bethesda, Maryland.
I really, really appreciate your waiting and greetings.
Hello.
Hi, Russ.
Pleasure to speak to you.
Thank you, sir.
Um I was told to get to my point, so I will.
Um Hillary Clinton, you're you're right.
I think she is trying to pull a page out of Bill Clinton's playbook, uh, you know, getting and getting the issue behind them, and and not and not really uh uh taking responsibility, but saying that she took responsibility.
Um the problem is is that she's not Bill Clinton.
She can't charm people.
Um you know, there's two Hillary Clintons.
There's the unlikable one you see in public, and then there's the horrible one that nobody but her, you know, aides see.
And there's a you know, I I'm I live in DC, so I I hear things because it's just always talking about it.
So what do you think she's gonna be in trouble after these hearings on Thursday?
Um I I think that it's just it's not going to go away because she doesn't have the skills that Bill Clinton had.
I mean, come on, he was a great politician.
I love to hate him, but he was uh he's a great politician.
She doesn't have his charm.
She she looks at him and thinks, oh, that bumped in.
I'm way smarter than him.
I I can do what he did, and she can't.
She she doesn't have any she's a zero on a scale of ten of personality.
I agree with you, but I don't think it matters.
But oh, yeah, i it actually I I think it it does.
It it it always seems through history that the more likable president seems to win unless there's you know something, you know, odd going on.
Um Hillary Clinton could be a donkey and get two hundred and sixty electoral votes because there's a D next to her name.
Oh, I wouldn't be surprised.
They start with winning California, they start with winning New York, they start winning some other Democrat states with large urban areas, and it doesn't matter who the Democrat is, and it doesn't matter whether she's likable, unlikable or not.
Now, when it comes to these hearings, the point about the hearings that I was making earlier is that I don't think anything is gonna happen.
They had Huma Abaddon up there last week, anything happened.
And Huma's knee knee deep in this, or even maybe hip deep.
Nothing happened.
They're not they didn't go after Lois Lerner.
All these hearings where we've all been hyped and so okay, fireworks, we're gonna get to the bottom, we're not getting the bottom of anything.
She's not Uma thermom.
I mean, she's not Uma winger either.
She doesn't have the personality that Uma has.
Well, okay, so you then you must be convinced that the Republicans in this committee on Thursday are gonna be loaded for bear and they're gonna go after her and they're gonna expose her as the phony and the liar that she is.
Brilliant.
I I could I that's exactly what I was thank you.
I I couldn't put it into words, I'm I'm a little nervous.
I've never talked to you before.
Um so yes, that's exactly right.
I think it's a good thing.
Well, I'm not I'm not disagreeing with you that that personality matters.
I mean, that's one of the things that you know, Trump is oozing it.
I think she's gonna blow up, possibly.
If they can get her in the right position, she's such an imperialist, she will get turn into her what difference does it make.
But she already did blow up.
Already when she said, what difference does it make, right?
What difference does it make now?
She's already blown up.
That was years ago.
People are stupid.
They forget.
All right.
Well, I can I know Doc Doc, I can't blame you.
I mean, I know exactly what's going on.
You are hoping.
You know this woman's a fraud.
You know it, and you're so frustrated that the other people in the country that support her don't.
You just so desperately want for this woman to be tricked into exposing herself as a fraud or doing it on her own, that you're almost wishing it to happen on this program.
A lot of people have the same desire.
And it's born out of the completely understandable frustration that the Clintons continue to get away with literally everything.
That they corrupt, touch, poison, or what have you.
And you're just looking for that one day of equalization.
And you're relying on the fact that she's not likable.
The more she speaks, bigger problems that she has.
All that's true.
You know, her approval numbers do drop the more she's in public and the more she talks.
I hope you're right.
But it's going to require the Republicans going after her.
And that's what we have not seen happen much at all in all of these seven years.
And we're two hours into this, and I feel like we, you know, we're just getting going here.
So we got a jam-packed final busy broadcast hour remaining.
What a great weekend it's been for sports fans.
Even if your team's lost, it has just been a jam-packed sports week, and it continues all week.
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