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Nov. 9, 2015 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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November 9, 2015, Monday, Hour #3
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And greetings to you, music lovers, thrill seekers, and conversationalists all across the fruited plane.
Great to have you here.
Telephone number, if you want to be on the program, 800-282-2882, and the email address, lrushbow at eibnet.com.
Trump was on Saturday Night Live.
I didn't watch it.
You know why I didn't watch it?
Catherine said, I want to see it, but I don't want to stay up.
She had other things to do.
So I recorded it.
I DVR'd.
You know, we still haven't watched it.
I got up the next day.
I started reading reviews of it, and it didn't sound like it was even funny.
Did any of you watch Trump on Saturday Night Live?
You did?
Was it any good?
Was it funny?
Wasn't hysterical?
Well, it's supposed to be hysterical.
I mean, it's a comedy show.
It wasn't hysterical.
It wasn't worth the hype.
Okay.
Well, are you, did it, you think it hurt Trump in any way?
Didn't help?
Okay.
Okay.
Well, it may have helped him, and he could laugh at himself.
You know what?
The thing I read the most about it, you know what the biggest uptake in the media was?
You know, who they really loved was Larry David pretending to be Bernie Sanders calling Trump a racist.
This guy stands up, you're a racist, you're a racist.
Trump says, why are you calling me that?
Because somebody paid me $5,000 to say it.
Well, you know, I can respect that.
A business name.
Okay, fine.
And that was that.
Then the media started speculating, did Larry David mean it?
Oh, God, we hope he meant it.
We hope we really meant Larry David meant it when he called Trump a racist.
But anyway, I have another report about what happened on Saturday Night Live.
And I didn't see it, but it was from the black co-anchor of the weekend update section.
The co-anchor is African-American Michelle Che or something like that.
And she said in reference to the title of Trump's Crippled America, How to Make America Great Again, that whenever old white dudes start talking about the good old days, my Negro senses start tingling.
And he went on to laugh at the idea that America was ever great.
We could never have been great.
We were a racist.
We had slavery.
America was never great.
It's a guy, right?
I'm sorry.
Well, it says Michelle up here.
I missed it's Michael, Michael Che.
Don't look at it.
I told you I didn't see it.
I'm going on a report here.
So blame the person telling me for cracking.
What difference does it make male or female?
Who are you to judge?
Anyway, the point is a black, let's just call it metrosexual, okay?
A black metro sanctual could have been transgender, could have been gay.
Who is it for us to say?
Talked about Trump's book and America's greatness.
And when a white guy starts talking about greatness, my Negro senses start tingling because there ain't no greatness in America's past because of slavery and so forth.
Grab soundbite number 25.
We have a Professor Ett here from Mizzou who was on Wolf Blitzer this afternoon on CNN.
And Professor Ett's name is Stephanie Shaunikin or Shaunikan.
Shaunika.
I'm not sure how she pronounces it.
The question from Wolf Blitzer was, how did things get so bad, Professor?
How did they get so bad?
I think most recently the catalyst was last year when Michael Brown was killed in Ferguson.
Our students realized that what they've been feeling here is linked to what happened just down the road.
And so they started agitating for change on campus.
What?
What?
You mean the students were stuck on this peaceful, idyllic college campus?
And just down the road, there was protest and agitation.
And the students on the peaceful, idyllic college campus wanted in on the action?
Is that what we're to believe here?
They saw Ferguson blow up, and they said, hey, we're not blowing up.
We want in on the blowing up.
Took an awful long time for this to fall out then.
Ferguson happened over a year ago, well, longer in the goal than that.
This thing just spoke.
Anyway, convenient excuse from the professor.
Now, back to this one little point here before we get back to the other audio soundbites, and that is from William F. Buckley's famous book, God and Man in Yale.
He was a student at Yale, and he wrote of the discrimination against conservatism on campus and a number of other things.
And it was suggested to him in his book that he include a couple of lines written by a man named Wilmore Kendall.
And Buckley used those lines in the book.
And this goes to what I was just discussing here about the point of youth and liberalism and fear of Christianity.
And it's not just fear of Christianity, it's fear of Christians, fear of religious people, because they represent a judgmental threat.
Here are the two lines that Buckley included in God and a man at Yale.
And this is just another way of saying the point that I was trying to make before the program, the previous hour, ended.
I believe, Buckley included here, I believe that the duel between Christianity and atheism is the most important in the world.
And I further believe that the struggle between individualism and collectivism is the same struggle reproduced on another level.
So we have a commingling here of individualism and Christianity with atheism and collectivism.
Now, the people on the left who fear Christianity do not think of these people as individuals.
That's where they miss the point.
These young little millennials and leftists in journalism and wherever else they are, who have this irrational fear of the religious and of Christianity, do not think of them as individuals at all.
They are the true brainwashed.
To them, Christians are the epitome of mind-numbed robots.
They are walking, talking automatons.
And they all believe all of this stuff in the Bible that makes no sense, that's crazy and stupid and weird, and none of it can be proved in their life, in their belief.
None of it can be proved.
So they're idiots.
Christians are non-thinkers.
They're nothing more than sponges who soak this stuff up because they're looking for something better than there is on earth.
And the atheist believes, of course, there's nothing but what's on earth.
So these little liberals and leftists with their fear of Christians and Christianity miss totally who they are.
They are not collectivists.
They are not mind-numbed robots.
They're actually fairly deep in their thinking.
And not all cases, obviously, but in most cases, they're independent.
And you know what I've found of most Christians?
Contrary to, this is going to shock a lot of you little leftists.
You think that Christianity is made up and everybody in it believes everything but nothing more.
Everything.
Literally what's in the Bible.
And that's it.
And they don't question any of it.
And you couldn't be more wrong.
One of the great things, one of the most fascinating things about Christianity to me is how I don't know what the percentage is, obviously, but a good number of Christians are looking for more than is in the Bible.
They're looking for some sort of concrete logic or proof that they can offer to themselves.
It's the natural quest of the curious.
They have the foundation of faith.
That's what they believe.
They believe the faith.
They have faith in what can't be proven, which every religion does, including liberalism.
But beyond that, there's this ongoing, even if it's private and internal and entirely inwardly and self-focused.
I'll give you just a little example.
And I've told you this story before.
To me, my dad was Christian and deeply religious, and it mattered a great deal to him.
He was biblical scholar in his own right, taught Sunday school in addition to all that, but was constantly curious and looking for other ways to prove what he desperately wanted to believe and did believe on faith.
So he told a story when I was real young, and I don't remember how old.
We were driving in the car.
And he said, when telling the story, he said that I asked him, why do you believe in God?
And why do you believe in heaven?
Or how do you know there's a heaven or something?
How do you know there's a God?
Now, from his perspective, he believed in both.
Here's his little son, me, six or seven years old, asking the question.
As a father, he wants his son to believe what he believes because he believes that what he believes is good and right and promising and so forth.
But I'm six or seven.
How does he, he can't quote the Bible to me.
I'm six or seven.
That ain't going to explain anything to me.
All I'm going to say is, well, how do you know that's true?
Why do you think that's right?
He anticipated that whatever he read to me from the Bible, that I wouldn't be intellectually capable or old enough to accept, that I would have even more curiosity.
So he devised a way to explain his belief.
I've never forgotten it.
And to me, it was extremely powerful.
It isn't to a lot of people, but it is to me.
The way he answered the question was to say that he believed in a loving God.
And he asked me if I knew what that meant.
And I said, no.
Remember, he's telling a story.
I don't remember all the details of this because I was five or six when it was happening.
Just started going to Sunday school, preschool, church, and so forth.
So he said, well, God is the father of creation.
He explained creation to me in a way that a five or six year old would understand it.
And he said, son, I just have a time.
I'm going to condense this for you for the sake of time.
He said, I just can't believe that the loving God of creation in whom I deeply believe could and would create beings like us, human beings, capable of contemplating such a place of beauty and serenity for it not to be true.
That would be cruel.
That would be one of the cruelest things a loving God could do, to create human beings who can imagine because they've been told it exists a heaven where there is eternal life and beyond that, who knows?
He said, but it would be cruel beyond belief for a loving God to create beings who could fathom such a thing and live their lives in ways they believe would get them there for it all to be a lie.
And that did more for me to make me understand what his belief was than anything he could have read to me from the Bible.
But my point is here, that none of that's in the Bible.
I don't think it is.
He came up with that on his own just as a means of explaining why he believed.
Most liberals think Christians believe unquestioningly, and this is what scares them.
And such is not the case.
There's constant curiosity, testing.
Malcolm Muggeridge, one of the world's foremost atheists, and incidentally an associate of Mr. Buckley's, began a quest to disprove Christianity on the basis that it was silly.
He was a renowned British intellectual.
He embarked on this crusade to prove that it couldn't possibly be.
This story of the Bible.
This is just, it's the biggest bunch of mush ever.
And he ended up being, after his in-depth attempt to disprove it, he ended up being one of the most devout Christians ever to the point that when he died, National Review referred to him as one of God's gargoyles.
Gargoyle is a religious sculpture on a church facial figure.
And Buckley was a devout Catholic, of course, and had many interviews with Muggeridge on his show Firing Line and so forth.
I remember talking to Buckley about Malcolm Muggeridge because the whole story fascinated me.
And he was not, Muggeridge is not the only, by no means the only intellectual who was just didn't think it could possibly be true.
Some of these biblical stories, you're telling me Noah and the Ark, Old Testament, New Testament, didn't matter.
But particularly New Testament set out to disprove it once and for all and ended up being one of the biggest proselytizers.
And that can't happen.
My point is for all you little squiggling little liberals, that can't happen without intellectual curiosity.
Your fear of Christianity is so misplaced, you actually need to be afraid of your own leaders on the same basis you're afraid of Christians.
If there's anybody intolerant and demanding and accepting of only one way to think and do it, it's the people you idolize.
The mind-numbed robots are today's American left who don't question anything, who don't have the slightest idea what's going on outside this little cocoon of a bubble they've constructed for themselves to live in.
But I'm telling you, it is this fear of Christians that has the Democrat Party so much support.
That's why so many Republicans, you got to get rid of the social issues.
What they really mean by that is, stop talking about God.
Will you stop talking?
Just get the Christians to shut up.
They're killing us.
That's what all that means.
I'm just telling you, I can read it.
When you go out and read some of these people I'm talking about, including my little tech bloggers, but it's not just them.
It's any liberal journalist, young people, this Ben Carson political story, they think Ben Carson is the biggest fruitcake they have ever encountered.
He's bigger fruitcake than Sharon Angle, bigger fruitcake than Sarah Palin, bigger fruitcake.
They are scared to death.
They think he's a genuinely mentally ill lunatic.
And it's the fear of his devout Christianity that I believe is at the root of that.
We will be back.
Don't go away, folks.
Okay, back to the folks.
We go to Ithaca, New York.
Hi, John.
Glad you waited.
It's great to have you on the Rush Limbaugh program.
Hi.
Mega Dittos, Rush.
You are my hero.
Thank you, sir, very much.
If I didn't have you Monday through Friday, the only thing that survives me is football on the weekend.
Yeah, and that's even getting kind of shaky, too, isn't it?
Yeah, I hear.
I wanted to add to the list of get rid of the presidents between Missouri and Yale.
I see college here in Ithaca have having a problem with race relations, and they have their agitators, and one of them is a woman economics professor, just like the lady on CNN with an accent.
I don't know if that's coincidental or not, but that's what we got here.
That's diversity.
That's diversity.
It's Jamaican, I think, is what it sounds like to me, but I don't know.
It doesn't matter.
I'm just saying it as a student of voices.
It sounds like a Jamaican accent.
And there's nothing wrong with that in and of itself.
Don't anybody jump down my chili on this.
You're saying you've got agitators on campus at Ithaca, too, huh?
Yep.
It's here.
Little Ithaca College.
It's only getting started here, folks.
That's why I'm adding to the list.
Yeah.
Well, I'm glad you did, because it's this is I'm sorry.
Well, you were going to say something else.
No, go ahead.
Okay.
Well, I'm just going to add to what you say here by pointing out Yale.
What happened at Yale?
This is the craziest, craziest thing in the world.
It really is about the students wanting a safe place, safe harbor from people and ideas who make us nervous and scare us.
It really isn't fair that we have to tolerate these people who think and say things that we don't agree with.
So Yale agreed with.
Yeah, okay, you need some safe spaces.
But before that happened, there were some complaints from Yale students about Halloween costumes that scared them.
And a female professor happened to be walking in a quad somewhere, and the students were agitating about it.
And the professorette said, well, look, if the Halloween costume bothers you, just don't look at it.
You know, just turn away from it.
We're talking Halloween costume.
How many Halloween costumes are actually scary anyway?
But anyway, apparently that was the wrong thing to say because they surrounded her and started threatening her and they reported her as being insensitive and all the other epithets that get thrown in here.
And Yale's caving to it.
They actually had a number of colleges have the equivalent of guidance counselors approving or disapproving of certain Halloween costumes so as not to frighten the students.
We're talking college kids here, folks.
It's just begun.
The agitation just begun.
Why stop when it's working?
Now, speaking of religion, I got to give my brother a plug here because this it fits precisely with what I am talking about.
I think religious Christians are among the most tolerant and open people, and I think the evidence of the last three years is abundant.
Look at all the things forced on this country, and there hasn't been anything like you see at the University of Missouri, no uprisings, no protests, no destruction, none of this.
The intolerance is all on the left here.
The lack of curiosity about things is on the left.
The arrogance and the condescension, the know-it-alls are all on the left, not on the right.
Now, my brother is a devout Christian, independently studied and so forth, and he writes about it.
He's got a new book out, and this is going to shake up a lot of people.
It's called the Emmaus Code, but it is the subheadline here that's going to rock a lot of people.
Finding Jesus in the Old Testament.
That's a bridge that you're not supposed to cross.
And yet he has written an entire book.
It's just out.
In fact, you might want to pick one up while you're out picking up the latest Rush Revere children's book, Rush Revere and the Star-Spangled Banner.
You might want to try to look for David's book called the Emmaus Code.
It's E-M-M-A-U-S.
Looks like Emmas or Emos, but it's pronounced the Emmaus Code, Finding Jesus in the Old Testament.
And the contention here is that the Old Testament sets up the birth of Christ in the New Testament.
And that's, well, I'll leave it to others to characterize that.
But to some people, that's going to be okay.
Let's put our fists up.
That's not, you can't say that.
So here's a devout Christian, my brother, branching out beyond, not just accepting what is and being blindly devotional and loyal to it.
There is that, of course.
But all of this is, to me, rooted in the total misunderstanding, rooted in fear.
The misunderstanding derives from the fear on the part of leftists of all religious people.
Except, strangely enough, they're not afraid of Muslims.
They're not afraid of Islam.
They don't look at Islam as anything that could harm them or step in their way or judge them or what have you.
And man, oh man.
If Sharia law ever hit, Hollywood would be closed.
If Sharia law ever became the law of the land here, they wouldn't permit Hollywood or else it would be taken over and used.
We'll deal with that later.
Got some audio sound bites.
I've got to get to them.
We start here with CNN's State of the Union on Sunday morning.
Former South Carolina State Representative Bakari Sellers, a Democrat, is on.
And they're discussing Ben Carson's campaign.
And this Bakari Sellers guy, who is a former South Carolina Democrat representative, says...
Everybody has red gifted hands or watched the movie with Cuba Gooding Jr.
I mean, it's inspiring.
When I travel around and speak, I tell kids, you know, to be a lawyer like Durgen Marshall or be a scientist like George Washington Carver or doctor like Ben Carson.
I mean, that's what I say because it was that inspirational.
Now I can't tell if he's Rush Limbaugh.
See, see, he was going along just fine until he got to get all conservative on everybody.
Now, I can't tell if a guy's Rush Limbaugh.
Let me tell you something.
That is a profound compliment.
Somebody thinks Ben Carson's starting to sound like me.
He's going to go places.
But see, these Democrats, what they think is the mention of my name causes immediate disapproval for the person they associate with.
This Democrat guy is Bukhari Sellers.
So he's on CNN.
And they've got to take Ben Carson out.
They've got focus group and polling day that says Democrats hate me.
So associate Ben Carson with me, that discredits Carson.
That's why they do that.
They don't understand that this is a multifaceted compliment.
I'll take it each and every time.
Grab number two.
We've got to play this before we get to Ben Carson.
You've got to hear Carson refute some of this stuff because he was really good and actually came alive on a couple of these things.
But here's Mark Lamotte Hill, a well-known malcontent, well-known civil rights activist.
And he's now the professor of African American studies at Morehouse College.
Why does this guy keep changing schools, snirdly?
Well, he used to be in Georgetown, I think.
I know he was at Columbia.
Why does he keep changing schools?
Did these other schools come along and offer better deals?
I don't know.
Anyway, the CNN Info babe Poppy Harlow spoke with Mark Lamont Hill about Ben Carson's presidential campaign.
And she reads part of the Washington Post op-ed that says that Carson's up-from-nothing story works with white Republican voters.
Why doesn't an up-from-nothing story work with black voters?
I mean, it's a distinctly American phenomenon.
Up from nothing?
It's happened to a lot of African Americans.
Carson is one of them.
And yet, here it is, Ben Carson, it happened to him.
And somehow, all it is, is a message that's something that resonates with white Republican voters.
Poppy Harlow says, Mark, is the key to what the op-ed says, white Republican voters?
Absolutely.
I mean, Ben Carson, the greatest lie in American history is the myth of the self-made person.
Nobody makes themselves.
We're all shaped by our communities, by people who struggled and sacrificed for us, by governments that offer safety nets.
Ben Carson is able to say, I was saved by Jesus and hard work.
That allows him to reject a safety net.
That allows him to push back against the expansion of a welfare state.
Man, is that convoluted that is?
So, Elizabeth Warren, you didn't build that, Barack Obama.
You didn't build that, Mark Lamont Hill.
They're a myth.
The greatest lie in American history is the myth of the self-made person.
Nobody makes themselves.
We shape our communities, our governments, and our safety nets.
This is what young African Americans are being taught at Morehouse College or Georgetown or Columbia, wherever this guy's teaching African-American studies.
The entire concept of capitalism and the American dream is being debunked.
Well, I maintain that it doesn't take very long for you as a black student to keep hearing the deck stacked against you.
You can't do it.
The only people that make it are white Republicans.
I'd get mad too.
If I believed my professor, if I believed my professor was an authoritarian figure and unassailable, and if I trusted him, I'd believe this garbage.
I'd get mad too.
Now to Dr. Carson himself.
He was in Palm Beach Gardens on Friday night.
He held a press conference after all this politico stuff.
Reporters said, to what extent do you believe your West Point account is relevant to the public assessment of you as a presidential candidate?
What it shows, and these kinds of things show, is that there is a desperation on behalf of some to try to find a way to tarnish me because they have been looking through everything.
They have been talking to everybody I've ever known, everybody I've ever seen.
There's got to be a scandal.
There's got to be some nurses having a fear.
There's got to be something.
They are getting desperate.
So next week, it'll be my kindergarten teacher who said I peed in my pants.
I mean, it's just ridiculous.
But it's okay because I totally.
Reported it says, you don't seem to have a recollection when questions were asked.
Everybody it's been spoken to says, I don't remember these incidents, like when you stab somebody or when you beat somebody up.
Although his mother, it's been discovered, wrote about the stabbing.
That's been found.
I've got it somewhere here in the stack.
Anyway, here's Carson's answer to that.
Why would they remember them?
What?
A bunch of garbage.
Only people who would know about that would be the people who were involved.
My prediction is that all of you guys trying to pile on is actually going to help me.
Because when I go out to these book signings, I see these thousands of people.
They say, don't let the media get you down.
Don't let them disturb you.
Please continue to fight for us.
See, they understand that this is a witch hunt.
Yes, I'm going to tell you, that just fuels the media even more.
When the people reject them, they get even more committed to the cause.
See, back when the media had their monopoly, there wasn't any of this.
The political story happens during a media monopoly, and Carson's finished.
That's over.
He can go out and do all the press conferences he wants.
They're not going to get covered.
All the reporters in the world can continue to blaspheme the guy.
They go out and ridicule a guy, and he can do all the press conferences in the world, and nobody's going to ever know about it.
But now everybody does know, and everybody does react, and the media has competition.
It just steals them to get even more outrageous to prove that they can still shape public opinion.
Be right back, folks.
Here's Tom in Dallas.
I'm glad you waited, sir.
Really appreciate it.
How are you doing?
Very good.
Thank you for taking the call.
I really enjoyed the parodies on hold.
Yeah, thank you.
I just want to say that I had applied to a service academy and attended and graduated and spent some considerable time in the service around the same time that Ben Carson would have.
And it would be my opinion, and I think it would be shared by many, that it would have been his for the taking if he had applied based on where he'd been, Yale and later Johns Hopkins.
I can also remember the forums that I went to and attended as a student and hearing the kinds of recruiting type of things, like this is an equivalent scholarship.
But the fact that he used the term scholarship and not appointment, which is what happens when you do go to a service academy, you get appointed, I believe it was just an honest mistake in terms.
And that's how it should be treated.
I think it's nothing but that.
I mean, exactly.
If you're a kid like Carson who grew up poor, and even at that age at 19, you're top ROTC, and you're talking to one of the top dogs in the Army, William Westmoreland, and he starts describing West Point to you and happens to mention it doesn't cost you anything, that will put you through college.
He's going to hear that as scholarship.
That's what to people, even today of that age, if you don't pay to go to college, it's a scholarship.
The fact that he doesn't know that they don't call it a scholarship does not disqualify him telling the story.
And in fact, we've even found, as I pointed out, some printed literature that West Point uses, the Army uses.
And they even use the word scholarship because they know that's how to communicate what they're offering in terms of the common vernacular.
It was really a cheap shot, and it's ongoing, by the way.
The media is not letting up on this.
They're not going to stop.
He's leading in the polls in too many places.
They have to take him out.
That's the purpose of the media when it comes to Republican candidates.
That's all they exist to do is take out Republican frontrunners, period.
Hey, Mark Lamont Hill, who built the safety nets?
Who built all these things that you think you built for people to rely on?
Seems like the producers built all that stuff.
Not you.
You're just a user.
See you tomorrow, folks.
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