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Nov. 9, 2015 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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November 9, 2015, Monday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 podcast.
Well, that may be the end of college football as we know it.
It just might be.
It just could be.
Only time will tell, but if you think this is the end of something, you don't know liberalism.
This is the continuation of some of the greetings, my friends.
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The Ben Carson story continues to explode or percolate.
Donald Trump on uh on on Saturday Night Live, uh, Saturday night, eh?
Not that big a deal to a lot of people.
And then we have a Republican debate coming up tomorrow night on the Fox Business Network.
But what's happening on the American college campus, the wanted Academy.
To me, it takes the top spot in the stack of stuff today.
For those of you who are just now getting attuned to what's happening during the day, the University of Missouri's embattled president has resigned.
His name is Tim Wolfe.
He just quit, just resigned because of committing the crime of being a white male.
And it's it's uh if if you dig deep into this, I first heard about this, I think it was Friday after I got home from working on a note from a friend of mine about this whole story in the subject line.
Wow, your home state's a weird place.
And I said, Well, I already knew that.
What's this about?
And I that's when I started becoming familiar with the story on campus at the University of Missouri.
I did not attend the family did, but I'm not a member of the alma mater there.
Now, if you haven't been following this story, this is a social justice warriors story.
Some of the students at Missoo have been calling for the president of the university to resign.
Uh it's all an extenuation or an ext a continuation of what started boiling over in Ferguson, Missouri, which is 120 miles down the road, down I-70.
And of course, Ferguson had nothing to do with any of this that's happening on campus, and what's happening on campus had nothing to do with anything in Ferguson, and I wouldn't be surprised if what's happening in University of Missouri has been imported from Ferguson in terms of leaders of the community organizers and agitators are concerned.
The pressure on the university president, I guess it really began, a student began a hunger strike with a list of uh demands, none of them specific.
I mean, if you if you go through the list of demands here and the and the uh complaints, you don't find anything specific.
You find the the major problem is that there are too many white people at this place, and they apparently are not nice enough or considerate enough to the 10% of the people there who are black, and so there has to be some changes.
But don't forget, folks, this is the place.
It was just a couple of short years ago, the University of Missouri got a gold star at a university of Missouri was the leading most sensitive university in America because that's where Michael Sam went to school.
Michael Sam, the first gay player to come out in advance of going into the NFL draft, picked up by the St. Louis Rams, didn't make the team, went to the practice squad of the Cowboys, didn't make the team, left Canada, wasn't going to make the team, so quit.
He's out of football for now.
But at the time the University of Missouri was heralded as a citadel of tolerance.
A citadel of progressivism, a citadel of acceptance.
What happened?
What happened?
How could the how could the place that led the nation in tolerance and love and acceptance for gay athletes on the football team?
What could have made it fall so far so fast?
Okay, back to the details.
Student goes on a hunger strike after a list of demands, including that the university president quit and and and ride out of town.
30 black members of the Mizzou football team said that they would begin to boycott practices and games until the university president was forced out or until he resigned.
The faculty then joined, and then the head football coach Gary Pinkle then joined.
And the die was cast.
Because you see, the football program runs most major universities.
And if you take the football game, football program out and the money that it generates out, you've got you've got huge financial problems and image it's incalculable the damage.
The coach, I mean, he's got to go out and recruit at the end of this season.
The last thing he can do is oppose his players.
Of course he's got to join the players in the boycott.
The faculty.
The faculty did not like the president to begin with before any of this started.
You know why?
The president, Tim Wolf, only had a bachelor's degree.
He wasn't properly educated.
He didn't he didn't have a postgraduate degree.
He didn't have one he got from a male order play, didn't have one, period.
He just had a bachelor's degree.
Now they've got no problem with student athletes not learning anything.
The faculty at these places have no problem with student athletes barely attending class.
And few of them even graduating.
But when it comes to the university president, he was white and he only had a bachelor's degree.
No specific complaints were actually ever cited.
It was basically a list of complaints about the atmosphere on campus.
The closest thing to a specific complaint that I've been able to find, and correct me if I'm wrong on this.
But the closest thing that I've been able to find to a specific complaint is that Wolf's car, University President's car, allegedly bumped a protester last month while he was surrounded by a crowd of screaming protesters.
And never mind that he apologized for that quote-unquote crime.
He apologized profusely.
But his car bumping one of the protesters apparently was an unacceptable, unforgivable crime against humanity.
He even said he should have gotten out of the car and apologized in person, which might have just ratcheted things up even more.
I have a list here of the uh of the University of Missouri student demands, and there's nothing specific in it.
Let's instead look at this in a in a different way.
And I just to remind you, SB Nation, a sports website.
Back on February 20, I'm sorry, February 10th, 2014, it's just a year and a half ago.
Michael Sam's announcement shines an incredibly positive light on Mizzou.
Yeah, just a year and a half ago.
A year and a half ago, they loved Mizzou.
Well, they had a star, linebacker, African American, who was gay, and everybody knew he was gay, but they kept a secret.
He confided to the team, the team kept it a secret for whatever reasons, because he didn't want to come out.
But the Missouri University system, the campus at Columbia, the football team was apparently so enlightened a year and a half ago that someone like Michael Sam was not only allowed to go and attend, but to prosper, succeed, excel, and be given an award.
And now, yeah, okay, there's one of the things.
That's right.
It was reported in the drive-by that some idiot made a swastika out of feces on a building.
And that the president didn't do enough about that when he was when he was told about it.
So swastika, feces, I I don't know why that.
Well I don't know what is racist about that.
Swastika?
I mean, I can see got a lot of people being offended by it, but is it a racially motivated thing?
I mean, it's no different.
You know, the quarterback of the New England, or I'm sorry, the Carolina Panthers, uh, Cam Dood.
Did you hear what he did yesterday?
Well, they played the Packers.
They played the Packers in Charlotte, and some Packers fans showed up, wearing their cheese heads and Packers jerseys, and they had a banner.
They had a banner that they had slung over the railing at field level.
Forget exactly what it said, but was promoting the Panthers.
Somebody or the Packers.
We're in Packer Country here.
But they weren't, they're in Charlotte.
So Cam Newton says he saw it and he went over there and he grabbed it and tore it down.
And the Packer fans thought he was coming over to talk to them and say, hey, man, good game, whatever.
And he took it away and they thought it was a joke, and he was going to be bringing their banner back.
But he didn't.
He said, look, last time we were in Green Bay, I didn't see anybody with a Panther sign, so I'm not going to have to look at any Packer signs here in my home stadium.
This is about protecting the building or whatever.
He said, and they ripped it down.
But the University of Missouri president did not get mad enough at the feces-laden swastika sign.
That's that's those are the two specific events that have taken place.
No, it makes total sense.
If you put this in the right context, it makes total sense.
This is this is not about any specific grievance.
This is just the ongoing attempt by the left to re to capture what they're losing in the ballot box.
Ferguson didn't turn out the way the protesters wanted it to.
People have moved down the road.
This is, you know what's really interesting about this to me, and there are many aspects of it that are interesting, is that if you look at this incident by itself, outside of context, you would believe that we still live in the 1800s, that we are still pre-Civil War, that we still have slavery, we still have blatant racism and discrimination.
This country has done more to progress from those days.
This country has done more to address the legitimate grievances.
We have altered policy.
We have had policies implemented to basically punish achievers because of their race in order to balance things out.
We have lowered entry standards.
We've done everything we can with affirmative action.
We've done quotas.
And as you see, it's never enough.
Because it's never really all about that.
And I frankly think part of me was over all weekend and this morning watching this.
I know people are upset about it and wringing their hands together.
But it's also happening at Yale.
You know what happened at Yale?
Some students were very upset by some Halloween costumes.
It really bad.
The students at Yale are demanding a safe area where they can be free from having to hear anything that upsets them, including opposing political points of view.
These 19 to 20, 22-year-old children simply need to feel safe, and they don't feel safe on the campus, and the tipping point was when they saw some really scary Halloween costumes.
And so a faculty member, a female faculty member said, Well, just turn away if you don't want to look at the Andy, just turn away with surrounded by we can't turn away.
And they surrounded the teacher and threatened the teacher, the professor, or what have you.
And so Yale is caving.
We heard last week about the various universities where they are setting up essentially whole monitor type people to approve or disapprove of each and every Halloween costume.
And some on some college campuses.
We're not talking about kindergarten or grade school.
We're talking about college campuses, where the students were so upset by some Halloween costumes that adult supervisors were set up to approve or disapprove various Halloween costumes so that some students wouldn't be scared and upset and offended, maybe.
I think these universities, these institutions of higher propaganda, I think they are getting just what they deserve, folks.
I think they are reaping what they've sown.
They turned over the asylum to the inmates years ago.
And the inmates have finally figured out how to blackmail them.
You do it with the football program.
It's going to win each and every time because these colleges cannot do without the football program.
Mizzou has a game against BYU this Sunday, or this weekend, probably Saturday, over at Kansas City at Airhead Stadium.
Now I'm not, I haven't had the radio on today, but I would wager that all of you listening to Sports Talk Radio this morning in and around Columbia or Kansas City or St. Louis.
I would I would wager that virtually every host has been on the side of the players, every host, because they want the game to be played, they want to cover the game, therefore they're gonna side with the players.
They're not gonna nobody's gonna stand up.
There was one player who stood up and said, hey, there's not unanimity on this team.
There are a bunch of people here, a bunch of players that don't think this boycott ought to happen, but it was too late.
The coach, he's got to go out and recruit.
He can't possibly do anything but join his players in this boycott if he wants to remain coach, if he wants them to listen to him, if he wants to have control of the team, if he wants to be able to recruit players, he's got to stand with the players that are causing the trouble here.
He can't side against them, and this is what everybody knows.
This is what the protesters know.
It's what the striking or the threatened striking players know.
But really, these institutions of higher learning are anything but that.
They are institutions of higher propaganda, and I really do, I think they're getting exactly what they deserve.
All of these tirades from the students, rooted in anger and fear, the threats, the demand.
You know, we don't have students anymore.
We have institutions of higher victimization.
We are turning every student, or we are allowing students to adopt victim status as a means of getting what they want, including grades.
In the list of student demands, there is this demand that the university be more accepting of marginalized students.
That means two things.
Of course, marginalized is a racial reference, but it also has to do with students who might be flunking out.
We're supposed to overlook it.
We're not supposed to punish students who are not getting good grades because it's not their fault.
They're victims of a racist hierarchy and patriarchy on campus, and they're doing the best they can, and you've got to respect and understand that with all the stress and all the pressure and all the racism, they're doing the best they can, and you can't flunk them.
This is what the university experience has become.
Threats, tirades, demands, endless parade of victims, now agitators.
So I think the universities have had their hands in creating these little monsters.
As far as I'm concerned, they can live with them now.
This is exactly when they stopped teaching, when they stopped teaching critical thought, when liberalism overcame every campus, when liberalism overwhelmed everything, it was the end of independent critical thought, and it was the beginning of you better toe the line or you're out.
And this is what they are reaping now.
No, no, no, no.
My point is this.
When you teach how rotten America is, when you teach at the university level, and at the half screw level, when you teach students how racist the country is, how unfair, how unjust, how immoral.
When you have black studies courses and professors who are so extremely radical, that you don't even recognize them.
What do you expect to happen after a few years?
You expect to just teach these students that America's horrible, that it's racist, that they don't have a chance, that the White man so dominates it, it's so unfair, there's such white privilege that they don't have a prayer, they don't have it.
You think they're just gonna sit there and listen to it and then leave campus and cause trouble.
No.
At some point they're gonna realize, hey, wait a minute, this campus is the same place as what they're telling me is outside, and they're gonna get mobilized and they're gonna find their agitators who are adults, like in Ferguson and so forth, and they're gonna try to take over the universities too.
After all, this is what they've been taught.
The thing is, the rabble rousers are supposed to wait till they get out of school, or maybe even graduate, and then take all of this misbehavior outside the campus to other parts of the American society and culture.
But they're not supposed to be doing this on campus.
No, no, no, no.
We're not the kind of people we've been teaching you about, but I guess it's not working.
That's why part of me kind of smiling over this.
It's all coming up.
The Ben Carson stuff Trump on Saturday Night Library, hey folks, this is academic.
This is the academy.
This is education.
This is what every parent thinks is the most important thing about their young kids' future.
Sending them to places like this, sending them to these institutions of higher learning, and they're not institutions of higher learning.
They're institutions of higher propaganda.
And they are places where the malcontents are beginning to run, and that's my contention that the universities have sown their own fate here.
This is the kind of stuff they've been teaching.
This is what they have been putting in these students, these young skulls full of mush in their heads.
You can't expect year after year to teach people what a rotten country they were born to, what a rotten country they live in.
You can't teach young minority students how unfair their lives are.
You can't make the biggest victims in the world, you can't make them a you can't expect to teach them and create all this anger and rage and have it not explode.
When your curriculum is based on the multicultural curriculum, which is that everything about this country is illegitimate from the first days of Western European settlers, what do you expect to happen?
We're not raising an era of college educated people.
We're creating victims.
We're creating rage-filled maniacs with a totally distorted view of reality and of history.
We have a president who has such weird economic policies that even if they do manage to graduate from these supposed higher institutions, they don't have any jobs or careers to latch on to.
Right here in the New York Times, even today, Paul Krugman, who hates everything conservative, hates everything Republican, and despises personally Ronald Reagan, has a piece called Despair American style.
A couple of weeks ago, President Obama mocked Republicans who are down on America, and reinforced his message by doing a pretty good grumpy cat impression.
And he had a point.
With job growth at rates not seen since the 90s, with the percentage of Americans covered by health insurance hitting record highs, the doom and gloom predictions of his political enemies look ever more at odds with reality.
Do you see how devoid of reality this is?
We have ninety-four million Americans not working, and Krugman here writes of job growth at rates not seen since the nineties.
Need I remind you of the news two weeks ago that half of the people who work in this country make less than thirty thousand dollars a year.
When you read Krugman describe the U.S. economy, do you see any evidence of it?
I mean, when we have a roaring economy, and when there's job creation left and right and all kinds of growth, there's generally also a feeling of euphoria or happiness or well-being or contentment that propels it.
It's not the Republicans who are the grumpy cats down on America.
It's the Democrats, the college campuses, the professors.
The anti-American sentiment is found exclusively on the left in this country.
Pro-American sentiment, we own it.
Pro-American sentiment, How great this country was, how great it is, how great the founding.
It's all us, folks.
We're the only ones who are the last ones left who believe it and who teach it.
And to the extent that there's negativity, it's because of what's being done to it.
By that I mean the country.
There's an all-out assault on the founding of this country, on the traditions, the institutions, whatever you want to describe, all of these great things that are under constant assault as unjust, immoral, unfair.
We have done more to reciprocate for slavery and racism in any nation on earth.
And if you didn't know any better, you'd think we hadn't done diddly squat by just reading the news any given day.
We have had affirmative action.
We've done quotas.
We have turned this country upside down to be fair.
We have we have engaged on the basis of sympathy.
We've engaged on the basis of we feel so sorry for you, which is, I think the crux of the civil rights movement to this day.
We have the soft bigotry of low expectations of American minorities.
It's the left that own the plantations of thinking.
It's the left that assumes people can't do well on their own.
It's people like Krugman and the people he props up and supports, who believe that minorities and others are incapable of making the right decisions in life, and that's why we need big governments making decisions for people because the people are not to be trusted.
The people aren't smart enough, the people aren't worldly enough, the people aren't sophisticated enough, they're not going to do the right thing.
Government has to do it for them, under the guise of protecting them from themselves.
The contempt for average ordinary Americans home is the Democrat Party of today and the American left.
And yet here's Kruckman writing around, writing about Republicans down on America.
Who is it that runs around apologizing for America every chance he got?
Barack Hussein Oh, last I looked.
It's Barack Hussein Obama and the Democrat Party, which every time they upturn Iraq finds something wrong with this country from the beginning days, from the get-go.
It's they who have said they need to transform this country.
So Krugman admits that there's despair out there.
Here's his next paragraph.
Yet there is a darkener, a darkness spreading over part of our society, and we don't know why.
And I'm sure they don't.
I'm sure Krugman hasn't the slightest idea.
In his world, why this is this is the greatest this country's ever been.
We have a first African American president.
Why health care?
He actually wants to write about how great Obamacare is and how well it's doing.
It's bankrupting people.
It's closing businesses.
It is reordering the way people live their lives.
Obamacare barely may not even be able to survive on its own without a rewrite.
We just had that story last week from a bunch of Democrats who think so.
It's absolute disaster.
As is most of the Obama administration, the reason why there is a darkness spreading over our society is because there is no pushback to any of this.
The reason there is a darkness is because over half of the country does not agree with what is happening to it and always believe that the people they vote for, the Republican Party would stand up and stop it, or at least try to.
And there hasn't been much of that at all.
That's why there is a darkness.
That's why there is a despair.
Because the political system is letting people down.
They have gone to the polls dutifully.
They've gone to the polls loyally.
They have voted.
They have done everything they can to stop what's happening here, thinking they are electing people who agree with them are going to stand up to Obama and say, stop no more.
Instead, what happens?
The people they elect end up helping Obama accomplish what he wants to accomplish to one degree or another, or joining him if it happens to be something like immigration and amnesty.
Our country's being overrun, just like Europe is being overrun.
American people know that it's not an accident and it's not something that could not be stopped.
It could be.
There isn't a willingness to stop it.
There is a darkness spreading over our society because the people who live in this country have figured out that what they want is not of any concern to people in Washington.
Illegal immigrants' concerns are more important to people in Washington Than they are than the desires and wants of the American people.
There are so many things 180 degrees out of phase, I couldn't list them all if I did if I started here for the remainder of this program.
But Krugman's column indicates a giant disconnect, so now we take it to the campus.
We got such a growing great economy.
Everything's doing so well.
Obama's done so why all this unrest on campus, Mr. Krugman?
Why all this anger at Ferguson, Missouri?
Why are these things going so off the rails?
If this country is so great and Obama's done such a great job and everybody's got a job and everybody's happy and we're roaring for why this anger.
And what's really puzzling about it is the people who are angry are the people who are winning.
The people who are angry are those getting what they want.
University of Missouri president just quit.
You want to bet that there's not any newfound happiness this afternoon, tonight or tomorrow on campus University of Missouri.
You want to bet the unrest continues.
You want to bet all kinds of agitation continues.
You want to bet expressions of anger, unfairness, white privilege continue, even though the university president was gotten rid of.
The people winning are the ones angry.
The people winning are the ones unhappy.
The people winning are the ones protesting, burning, tearing down.
The people winning are unhappy because even when they win, they don't get what they want because what they want is not attainable.
What they want's the elimination of opposition.
This is all about getting rid of Republicans, getting rid of conservatives, eliminating them as a powerful opposition force in any way on campus at the ballot box in Washington, you name it, that's one of the driving forces here.
But beyond that, the left gets what they want in Indiana.
They get what they want with a legalization of marijuana, they get what they want with a legalization of gay marriage.
Now we're on to transgender rights.
Lesbian, gay, bisexual transit, whatever it is, cultural overthrow they want, they're getting.
And with each victory, they become angrier and more miserable.
Why is that?
I wonder.
I don't know about you.
When I win, I'm happy.
Haven't won much lately, so I don't know what it feels like lately, but I guarantee you this, when I do win, I do not get angrier.
And I don't want to tear things down.
And I don't want to destroy or ruin people when I win.
They do.
Figure that out.
Why, it was just a few years ago that we heard Michael Sam was embraced by the entire campus and the entire city of Columbia, Missouri, because the people there were not racist.
They were not homophobic.
Why?
They were advanced.
They were culturally way ahead of the bitter clingers.
Mizzou was a campus showing the way, the light of the way.
Why we had a gay football player.
He won awards.
He was going to be drafted into the NFL, and he was embraced and loved by what in less than two years has become a place of white privilege and dire racism and bigotry and sexism and homophobia.
What happened in these two years?
It's just it's not just Mizzou either, folks.
By the way, right before the University of Missouri president resigned, ESPN, one of the agitating networks on this, reported that the Mizzou basketball team was not joining the protest.
Had you heard that?
You hadn't heard that?
This is right before the University of Missouri president strode to the microphone at Board of Curies meeting and resigned.
I think what he did was said, you know what, you people can have this here.
You deal with it.
But anyway, ESPN reported the Missoula basketball team was not joining the protests.
All indications were they intended to play their opener this week.
Somebody attached to the football team anonymously said two things that not every player on the football team supported this boycott or these demands and further said this anonymous member of the football team said that if this were a year where Mizzou was 8-0 or 7-1 and were in the national championship hunt, none of this would be happening.
But because the team's sucking, it's easy to say I quit.
I'm not playing the rest of the season.
I'm boycotting.
They're not playing anything anyway.
It's a mediocre team this year.
If they happen to make a bowl, it would be a bowl game played on December 5th.
United Farm Workers Bowl or some such thing on ESPN 10 that nobody would see.
Now back to this Paul Krugman piece.
This is instructive too.
It's a it's a good think piece.
He goes on to describe some of the elements of the despair in the country, and he talks about something I've mentioned this twice, did not get to the details of it, but there is an overabundance of death occurring in 49 to 54-year-old white people in America.
Not because of disease.
They're dying.
They're dying more rapidly than they ever have in that in that demographic, and nobody can understand why.
So and that's just the headline.
There are many more details, but I don't want to get into them right now because of time constraints.
So Krugman references those deaths.
And says, so what's going on?
In a recent interview, some guy talked to suggested that middle-aged whites have lost the narrative of their life.
That is their economic setbacks have hit hard because they expected better.
Or to put it a bit differently, we're looking at people who were raised to believe in the American dream and are coping badly with its failure to come true.
And he wants to write a piece.
He's acknowledging that the American dream is not coming true for ever more and more people.
And in the same column, he's writing about how wonderful things are.
How great things are, how there's so much health care, how there's so many new jobs, and yet the American dream isn't coming true, and people are dying, and gee.
And here's his conclusion.
At this point, you probably expect me to offer a solution.
But while universal health care, higher minimum wages, aid to education, and so on would do a lot to help Americans in trouble.
I'm not sure whether they're enough to cure existential despair.
Existential despair means existing despair over current day circumstance.
Look at this.
Here you have the leading economist of the New York Times who actually thinks we have universal health care.
We don't have universal health care.
We have we have promised universal health care.
We've got sticker shock health care.
We've got health care that people had no idea was going to cost this much and can't afford it.
They can't afford the premiums, they sure as hell can't afford the deductibles.
We've got more people without health insurance than beforehand because they can't afford and the subsidies aren't there.
The co-ops and the exchanges are beginning to fall apart.
Aid to education.
What do you mean, Ed do have you taken a look at the endowments?
Have you you know how much the federal government spends on each Ivy League student?
54 grand.
The federal government is basically subsidizing the Ivy League.
Everybody else is on their own.
But even at that aid to education, we're going bankrupt, spilling spending federal money on education.
And social media.
We're going bankrupt on this.
And he thinks it's not enough.
Higher minimum wages?
Does this guy really this big a fool?
He really thinks these incremental microscopic increases in the minimum wage are meaningful.
So he's looking here at the Democrat agenda.
Universal health care, higher minimum wages, aid to education.
Why, that's utopia.
Why is there anybody unhappy?
Look at all the things we've done for them.
Universal health care, higher minimum wages, aid to education.
Have you seen the job market, Mr. Krugman?
Forget your 5% unemployment.
94 million Americans not work.
This is the most astounding disconnect.
This this man lists all the great achievements and then admits they're not enough to keep people who expected the American dream satisfied.
I would hope to hell not, because this is nowhere near the American dream.
This isn't even the Cuban dream, this agenda.
This is not even the ChICOM dream for crying out loud.
We just had a caller who couldn't hang on.
She's um student in Mizzou.
And she was gonna say that everybody's ticked off about this.
They don't support it, they just want this over.
Because normalcy has been interrupted.
This is what's going on at Mizzou is not even supported but anywhere near a majority of the student body or the city or anything else.
It's classic.
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