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Nov. 10, 2015 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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November 10, 2015, Tuesday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 podcast.
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Rush Limbaugh program to EIB Network.
Great to have you here.
Loaded for bear today.
We have another Republican debate tonight on a Fox business network.
Actually, we got two of them.
We got the pregame meal at 7.
And then we got the full boat thing at, I guess it's at 9.
Isn't that right?
8.30 or 9 o'clock for the big-time debate.
Excuse me, folks.
Just a minor little frog.
Nothing.
No, no, not trying to be funny, but just legitimate frog in the throat, but now taken care of.
Telephone number if you want to be on the program today, 800-282-2882 and the email address, lrushbow at EIBnet.com.
Predictably, your host has found himself enmeshed in this mess at Mizzou with people there being asked to react to comments that I've made.
We've got some audio soundbites of this coming up.
We've got the big debate tonight and Ben Carson.
This is amazing.
The drive-by media is publishing and reporting stories about how Carson is beating them.
No, no, no, no, just watch Fox Snerdly.
Look at there right there.
GOP debates begin at 7 on the Fox Business Network, not 6.
6, I think it's 7 and 9.
I'm looking at it right there.
Tonight's GOP debates, plural, that means more than one.
And I didn't go to college, and I know that.
That's right, 6 Central, 8 Central, 7 in the Eastern time zones.
Anyway, there's going to be all kinds of time to discuss the Republican presidential sweepstakes, and we're going to get to that today.
Fear not.
They're already after the Kentucky governor.
Before the guy is even sworn in, predictably, this is a prediction that I made, gee, I don't know, years ago.
Just tell you this.
You see what I mean?
This is from the Washington Post.
Kentucky's newly insured worry about their health under next governor.
We just had a Republican governor, a Tea Party guy, a staunch conservative win in a landslide in Kentucky, in part running against Obamacare.
And here comes the drive-by media saying that the people in Kentucky are now getting scared and they're worried that this new wacko governor is going to take their health care away from them.
You remember when we made that prediction here?
I'll tell you, the prediction came in a discussion about why the Republicans are gutless in opposing it and trying to roll it back.
Because they fear that as the entitlement has its tentacles woven deeply into the web of our society, that people end up getting used to the entitlement and it's going to be ripe for the lying message that Republicans want to take it away from them.
I predicted this.
This is a slam dunk.
It's going to happen.
And it's no reason not to oppose it.
It's no reason not to try to roll it back, repeal it, or what have you.
This is one of those things, if you're in politics, you've got to know this is coming and you've got to have a plan to deal with it.
The way the Republicans act is kind of like the way the adults at Mizzou are acting.
You know, it's stunning to note the similarities between the way the adults at the University of Missouri, particularly some of the alums, the administration, the board of curators, they're acting identically to the Republicans in the way they deal with the Democrats.
The Republicans are scared to death to stand up to the Democrats.
Republicans scared to death to stand up to the media.
The Republicans are scared to death to oppose to pushback.
And that's exactly what's happening on the campus at Mizzou.
You have a small number, a genuinely small number of malcontent.
Look, I want to be very precise in the way I characterize these student protesters because they are actually, and they're legit, don't misunderstand, but they are being manipulated.
These people, these young people, these students, I think they are a product of the self-esteem movement that so many parents seemed to have adopted over the last generation or two.
The self-esteem movement that found its way into schools and what we have here, and I look, I don't have kids, so you people out there disagree, you're going to have to call and correct me on this if you think I'm missing the point here, but I don't think I am.
I think we have a young generation, a generation of young people that let me set it up by pointing out the things they're demanding.
They're demanding safe spaces at places like Yale and at Mizzou and many other college campuses.
What are safe spaces where they are not subjected to people that disagree and where they're not subjected to symbols that hurt their feelings and they're not subjected to negative comments and they're not subjected to jokes that they don't like.
In other words, they're shielded and protected from reality.
They are basically, I just, I don't know any word to describe them, but cowards.
They're just scared to death of reality.
They're scared to death of life.
And they have been raised and educated to believe that it is legitimately possible to shield yourself from anything that's upsetting.
And if somebody gets through that shield and succeeds in upsetting you, then they have to go.
We've got to do something about them.
We can't handle symbols that offend us.
We can't handle speech that bothers us.
We can't handle actions.
We can't handle just the normal day-to-day aspects and characteristics of life.
They have been shielded from them.
Now, I'm not talking about the leaders of this, the Black Lives Matter.
These are hardcore leftist community organizers out of the Saul Olinsky Barack Obama school.
And they have manipulated these kids.
They've recognized what they've got, and they're manipulating them perfectly.
They have turned them into their own little army.
And once they got the football team on board, do you realize how this changes college football going forward?
Do you realize the pressure that's going to be brought to bear on every college football program to now get involved in politics?
And if they don't, can you imagine the peer pressure that's going to be brought down on these athletes on college football teams who decide they don't want to get involved in something like this?
This is going to change things forever if people don't get a handle on this.
But right now, the adults are totally caving.
The politically correct crowd, including manipulative adults and shielded from reality students, are running the show.
The inmates are running the asylum.
And it is, to me, I'm fascinated by cultural shifts, cultural evolution, because I care about the future of the country.
I'm very much concerned about the kind of people we're raising, educated, how we're raising them, how we're educating them, what kind of country we're going to have when these little brats end up becoming adults and someday become the targets of the kind of treatment they are handing out.
These people are no more prepared for the realities of life anywhere in the world.
In fact, they may be less prepared for it than people who are not going to college.
I think college is regressing, is causing, it's stunting the growth.
I think it is giving these kids a false sense of their power and their security.
I think it's creating a convoluted and distorted version of what's possible and what isn't.
And I think it's the exact opposite of preparing them for lives as adults.
And I fear for what is going to happen when this country is in the hands of people like this.
Not just the manipulators, but the students as well.
When you read, you'll hear some of the comments, some of these students.
What happened in Ferguson traumatized them?
They were literally traumatized, but they don't know the truth of what happened in Ferguson.
They still, like I said yesterday, most of them believe that the gentle giant was a gentle giant and that he was trying to surrender.
They still don't know the truth.
Do you know that the University of Missouri law school class demanded that their exams be postponed because of the trauma they were dealing with having watched what went down in Ferguson?
And it was so close they didn't feel protected.
They didn't feel shielded.
They feared the same thing could happen to them.
They feared the cops could just start roaming the streets of Columbia, Missouri, and start shooting anybody they wanted.
And they were so traumatized, they asked to be excused from taking the test.
And what did the university do?
They bet over, Grabbed the Ankle, said, fine and dandy.
They're coddling them.
They are, it's the exact opposite of the way anybody would think of a responsible way to educate kids, to raise kids, what have you.
At Yale University, we've got even more evidence of the student body there being traumatized by everyday occurrences and their inability to deal with it.
Jason Whitlock, of all people, has characterized it thus.
Young people of all colors and economic levels are not nurtured the way they used to be.
Young people are far more sensitive and vulnerable than previous generations.
What rolled off of our backs crushes them.
They see themselves as unwilling to take any BS.
We see them as soft and unprepared for a world that has never once been fair or concerned with individual feelings.
I don't subscribe to all of that, but I think it's a fairly accurate characterization of many of the students, the joiners in these protests, not the leaders.
The leaders are a whole different ball of wax, just like it always is throughout liberalism.
The liberal leaders are a far different breed of cat than the rank and file followers are.
And I'm talking about the followers here.
The average ordinary student getting caught up in all this, but it's not getting caught up.
I think it's legitimate.
I think they're genuinely afraid.
Somebody goes driving down the street with a Confederate flag flying from the car.
They get scared to death.
They feel personally threatened.
They demand something be done about it.
And the school didn't do anything about it, so the university president had to be fired.
They got scared with somebody driving around town with a Confederate flag.
Well, no, I scared her opportunity.
The leaders, this is my point, the leaders see an opportunity in this.
I think there's genuine fright over this.
That's my whole point.
I think in some of these young people, there is a total inability to deal with anything that is outside their comfort level.
What's most fascinating is the way the adults are dealing with it.
And by adults, I mean the faculty and the administration.
You'll see as all this unfolds before your very eyes and ears today.
But back to the Kentucky story, just so you think I lost my place, but I never do.
Amid the coal fields of eastern Kentucky, a small clinic that's part of the big sandy healthcare network furnishes daily proof of this state's full embrace of the Affordable Care Act.
It was here that Mindy Fleming handed a wad of tissues to Tiffany Coleman when she arrived, sleepless and frantic, with no health insurance and a daughter suffering a 103-degree fever and mysterious pain.
It'll be all right, Fleming assured her.
And it was.
An hour later, Coleman had a welcare card that paid for hospital tests, which found that four-year-old Alexis had an unusual bladder problem.
Such one-by-one life changes are the ground-level stakes ushered in by the election last week of businessman Matt Bevin as Kentucky's next governor.
The second Republican elected to the office in 48 years, he wrapped his campaign around a pledge to dismantle Connect, the state's response to the federal health care law.
And if he follows through, Bluegrass State would go from being perhaps the nation's premier Obamacare success story to the first to undo it, raising a state insurance exchange, R-A-Z-I-N-G, obliterating a state insurance exchange, and reversing its considerable expansion of Medicaid.
So you see, we have a story here.
Again, of a newly elected Republican governor, we have the myth that everybody in the state loves Obamacare.
The guy ran for office in part on replacing it, repealing it, doing away because it's a disaster and replacing it with something worse.
Yet this story in the Washington Post portrays Kentucky as one of the biggest pro-Obamacare states out there.
If that's true, how'd this guy get elected?
The second thing they're now doing is they're trying to warn people: you know what?
You elected this Republican.
You know what that means?
He's going to take your health care away from you.
He doesn't want you to have health care.
That's his whole objective.
Yep.
This Republican governor wants you to get sick.
And then this Republican governor doesn't want you to get treatment.
If you die, he doesn't care, just like the people at Mizzou.
You see how this works?
And that's what's being set up.
And he hadn't even been inaugurated.
He just won the election last week.
And already the people of Kentucky are being warned about what they did.
But as the Ben Carson episode is showing, these people can be beaten back and they can be beaten.
And even the drive-bys are writing about how Carson is beating them.
And some of them are indeed.
All of that and much more is coming up straight ahead here on the EIB network.
Don't go away, folks.
Where do you think Obama comes down on this situation at Mizzou?
Oh, you're right.
He absolutely loves it.
Obama is reliving his own childhood going through this.
The regime is praising protesters who successfully forced out the University of Missouri president Tim Wolf.
The press secretary Josh Ernest praised the group of protesters for rallying together and demanding change, pointing out that Obama's first presidential campaign was embodied by the same spirit.
It reminds me during the Arab Spring, when Egypt was trying to get rid of Mubarak, I should say, the Muslim Brotherhood was trying to get rid of Hosni Mubarak, and the youth were protesting in Egypt and Tahriri Square, as Egypt had fallen on hard economic times, much like the United States has.
And so CNN sent the esteemed Nick Robertson over to Tahriri Square to ask the protesters what it meant to them that Barack Obama had inspired their protest.
And they said, who?
Barack, what?
Obama's got nothing to do with what we're doing.
All right.
Well, Mustafa, let me ask you, Mustafa, what do you think about Obama's proposal that the young people get jobs and workable wages?
You don't know what Obama believes.
My point is, the regime tried to take credit for what's happening in what happened in Egypt, and they deserved it.
It's a mess.
And the regime clearly wants to be seen on the side of the malcontent children because it's all about overthrowing the current power structure wherever it is as part of the transformation of the United States into a nation not at all like it was founded.
Ernest praised a group of protesters rallying together, demanding change, pointing out Obama's first presidential campaign was embodied by the same spirit.
And there is some truth to that, although not in the way Ernest means it, but certainly a subtext in the Obama campaign was that he was owed the presidency because of his skin color.
He played on that.
He got a lot of people voting for him simply for that reason, because what they hoped it would accomplish, and that would be the end of racism.
How many people voted for Obama thinking that's what their vote meant?
And how many of them are today regretting it, shocked, dismayed, sad that racial relations have worsened and are epitomized by what's going on at Mizzou, what happened in Ferguson, Missouri?
Obama hasn't made any of it better, but he has not failed.
This kind of thing is exactly what Obama dreamed of and inspired.
Naturally, he associates with it.
As usually happens during discussions of the youth of America on this program, and particularly on college camp I, I will report something factual and be deluged with emails from people who do not believe me, accuse me of making it up.
And so I then am forced to go get evidence, which I'm happy to do.
And I have some here in my formerly nicotine state picture.
Just one story, but this is one of many.
They're all over the place.
University of Missouri Police.
This is the University Police Force, not the Columbia Missouri Police Force.
The University of Missouri Police asks students to report hurtful speech.
The Missouri University Police Department, MUPD, sent an email to students Tuesday morning.
That's today, for those of you in Riolinda, urging them to call them and report any hurtful speech they encounter on campus.
In an email that was flagged by several Missouri-based journalists, the Missouri University Police Department asked individuals who witness incidents of hateful and or hurtful speech or actions to call the department's general phone line to continue to ensure the University of Missouri campus remains safe.
We have a bunch of children, folks.
We have a bunch of four and five-year-olds who see the boogeyman outside the back door.
And everybody's the boogeyman.
It doesn't matter anything outside the comfort level, and it's very narrow.
The comfort level is very narrow.
You'd better be 100% politically correct.
You cannot be in any way, shape, manner, or form conservative.
You can't be self-reliant.
You can't be self-confident.
All of that offends.
All of that scares.
I'm not kidding.
If you're confident running around campus, sure of yourself, having a good time, you pose a threat because nobody's supposed to be that sure of themselves.
Nobody's supposed to be that confident because there are too many outside forces that are working to undermine people.
And you're not supposed to be able to just have that stuff roll off your back.
And anybody who can is a suspect because it's not natural.
You are to be vulnerable.
You are to be exposed.
You are to be very wary of those things that can hurt you.
If anybody says anything outside the doctrine of climate change, they're going to be reported.
If anybody makes any kind of a stereotypical joke, they are now going to be reported to the campus cops.
This is another example of the adults caving.
They're trying to buy peace.
This is not the way to get it.
This is not the way you deal with bullies.
I don't care if they're children bullies, coward bullies, or what have you.
This is not the way you deal with them.
You stand up to them.
You push back against them.
But nobody's willing to do that.
Nobody's willing to do that to the Democrat Party bullies.
Nobody's willing to do that to the White House bullies.
Nobody's willing to do it to student bullies.
Nobody's willing to do it to race hustler bullies.
And so we end up with a bunch of stories that are fabrications and out-and-out lies, such as hands up, don't shoot.
We have students 120 miles down the road literally scared to death and feeling unsafe because there was not an appropriate response from the university administration after Ferguson happened.
Never mind that the students don't know the truth of what happened in Ferguson.
And if they're told it, that makes them feel unsafe.
That frightens them.
That worries them.
They don't want to hear anything other than what they, quote unquote, know to be true.
Be it climate change, be it fossil fuels, be it blood for oil, be it you name it.
Hands up, don't shoot.
And so, the University of Missouri Police Department is suggesting that students provide a detailed description of the offender, the location of the offender, or the license plate number of the offender's car, and if the car is offensive.
And they're being urged to even take pictures of the people saying or doing things that offend them, that make them feel unsafe.
Take pictures of people engaging in hurtful speech.
You know what hurtful speech is?
It's anything our little children don't understand.
It's anything our little children don't agree with.
It's anything our little children don't want to have to deal with.
It's all hurtful.
And they demand to be protected from it.
The only way to be protected from it is to find the people engaging in hurtful speech using the First Amendment and somehow penalize them.
Kick them out of school, kick them out of town, put them in jail, whatever it takes to protect our precious treasure of our young college children.
Yes, because they must not be upset.
They must not at all ever encounter anything that makes them the slightest bit uncomfortable.
Otherwise, they may have to postpone taking tests because they will not be in a proper mental attitude of success to take one.
It's a terrible, terrible downward cycle that we have put our children in, all because of the mean-spirited, racist, sexist, bigoted, homophobic American culture.
In the email, the University of Missouri Police Department admits that hurtful or hateful speech is not against the law.
But that doesn't matter.
Only the feelings of our young children students matter.
The police department writes: if the individuals identified the hurtful speech students, if they're students, the university's Office of Student Conduct will be informed and will take disciplinary action.
Realize the power this gives the children.
Hey, hey, I saw a Confederate flag!
Two blacks away going through Greenlight?
You get it?
And they're going to track down that car.
They're going to find a Confederate flag.
And if it's a student, students are going to hear it from the University Administration Department and explain him or herself.
And if they don't have a valid reason for driving around with a Confederate flag somewhere on their car, and who could in this day and age, then I shudder to think what's going to happen to them.
Might be thrown out of school because they're unnecessarily upsetting the student body.
The Confederate flag example is real.
This hunger strike student says that he was walking along campus one day and heard somebody shouting the N-word.
He doesn't know who, doesn't know where it came from.
So he tried to get the university president, Tim Thorpe, whatever his name is, to do something about it.
And the university president's office didn't respond to the guy.
And that's what started this.
Did you know that?
Did you know that that's what started this?
Theoretically, that's what started this.
What started this is political correctness, the multicultural curriculum, and liberal community organizers decades ago started this.
But this specific event was started by this hunger strike kid walking along campus.
He's been on campus for seven years.
Do you know that?
Seven years?
How does one stay on campus seven years if you can't afford it?
How does one stay on campus seven years if you're passing your classes?
How does one stay on campus that's so rotten and horrible and racist and bigoted?
Why would you stay there for seven years?
Anyway, apparently he's walking down the street, minding his own business, being a good liberal, highly attuned to anything that might offend or upset anybody.
And from somewhere over there, street, building, somewhere, he hears the N-word, and he can barely go on.
In his quaking fear, he calls the university office, the office of the president, and reports the incident.
He can't identify anybody.
He just says it happened.
And therefore, the climate is unsafe.
Therefore, it's not safe.
The environment, nothing is safe.
Everybody feels threatened.
The student feels threatened.
Apparently, the president of the college didn't respond, didn't do anything.
The office of the president didn't react.
And therefore, the students felt ostracized.
They felt ignored.
They felt irrelevant.
They felt like nobody cared.
Nobody from upper management theoretically cared.
Nobody was upset whatsoever.
And we have an unsafe, dangerous environment.
And nobody cared to do anything.
And that's what started all of this.
The football team?
Look, that's a whole other thing.
And you have no idea what that's going to mean.
I mean, weeks, months from now, next season, you wait till these people learn that they can get their universities to do anything if they can co-opt the football team into joining whatever they're protesting.
And imagine the peer pressure on African-American football players.
You better join our protest or else you better join us in our protest.
You better sign this pledge.
Do you not play, not practice?
You better sign the boycott pledge.
Can you imagine this happening, Ohio State?
Can you imagine this happening, Clemson?
Can you imagine anywhere?
Mizzou has a record nobody cares about.
If Mizzou didn't play another game, nobody'd miss it.
You take it to a program that's got a national championship possibility, and it's going to happen.
And you're going to have, I've warned you for decades, folks, about how the politics of sports is occurring, or the politicizing of sports is taking place.
Nothing is safe from it any longer.
Anyway, I'm going to take a break here.
A couple of soundbites, and we move into the Republican presidential campaign.
They'll come back to this.
Phone calls.
Just going to mix it up and keep it going today.
Don't go away.
Yeah, season six is it for Downton Abbey.
And the finale aired.
Well, they still have a Christmas annual Christmas special to go, but the episode eight, the finale, aired Sunday.
I'm watching the UK version, powerful, influential member of the media I've access.
It's greatest season yet.
And it's an absolutely great finale.
And I'm sorry to frustrate you because this won't air in the U.S. until probably 1st of March.
It's eight weeks, starts January 3rd.
So yeah, 1st of January, February, 1st of March.
I'm sorry to do it to you, but it's worth waiting for.
Audio soundbite time.
There is a professor.
She's being misidentified as a journalism professor.
That is not who this woman is.
This woman is a media.
She's an assistant professor of mass media, which is not the journalism school.
Mass communications is the degree that people who couldn't get into the journalism school get.
Athletes, for example, often get this degree.
Mass communications.
Now, this woman is named Melissa Glick, or is it Click?
You know, I'm seeing it both ways in different stories, Glick or Click.
Either way, I want to read to you her resume.
I would like for you to hear just because this woman is telling the media they are not welcome among the students as they protest on the Missoula campus.
You know, why?
Because the media is making them feel unsafe.
The media is forcing its way in.
The left is totally created.
This is what I mean.
They've created this situation.
They're running the show.
You know, this whole state is run by Democrats.
The university runs by Democrats.
The governor's Democrat.
The senators are Democrats.
Well, one of them is, how in the world can all of this hell happen when Democrats who love and feel and touch and have sensitivity and compassion and tolerance, how can this hellhole of a university exist as it does when the whole show is run by Democrats?
Anyway, according to the University of Missouri website, Melissa Click specializes in this is the woman she's teaching your students at the University of Missouri.
This is what you're paying 50 grand a year for.
She specializes in audience studies, theories of gender and sexuality, and media literacy.
Her research interests center on popular culture texts and audiences, particularly texts and audiences disdained in mainstream culture.
You would think that she would be writing about conservatives, but no, she means African Americans and women.
Those are the minorities often disdained in her corrupted, perverted world of the mainstream media.
This woman actually believes the mainstream media is unfair to minorities, unfair to women, and that's why she's not permitting them in the midst of the protests.
Her work in this area is guided by audience studies, theories of gender and sexuality, and media literacy.
Current research products involve 50 Shades of Gray readers, the impact of social media in fans' relationships with Lady Gaga, masculinity and male fans, messages about class and food in reality TV programming, and messages about work in children's television programs.
That's your mass media, mass communications studies teacher.
And she was interviewed.
We have a sound, but this is number 1A.
She was on CNN this morning with Carol Costello.
Name is Elisa Click.
And here's how that went.
Rush Limbaugh said colleges have become an endless parade of victims.
Your response?
I would say that it's actually difficult to exaggerate the degree to which our campus is in crisis, has been in crisis for some time.
Some of our activists are truly talking about being called the N-word on a daily basis.
There have been trucks with Confederate flags sighted by the campsite.
Students continue to feel threatened and unsafe.
You still think I'm making this up?
The campsite, have you seen this?
The students attending this university are pitching tents and living in tents because it's unsafe elsewhere.
They're living amongst themselves where it is safe.
Yeah, so there are trucks.
There are trucks with a Confederate flag driving around and people, you don't see them, you just hear the N-word.
It's really a campus in crisis.
Here's a media professor at Missoula trying to incite the mob against the media.
Same woman.
Here you go.
Hi, Media.
Can I talk to you?
No, you need to get out.
You need to get out.
No, I don't.
You need to get out.
I actually don't.
All right.
Hey, you want to help me get this reporter out of here?
Help me.
Help me.
Who wants to get this reporter out?
Help me.
You can't be here.
He's a journalist.
He's on your side, you dope.
He's there to help spread your propaganda.
Not even recognized their friends.
Because that's what it is.
You know, if I had kids, and I don't, I readily admit it, not that I know of, I wouldn't send them to college these.
They'd learn on the internet or at my knee.
I wouldn't pay for this crap.
I wouldn't pay anywhere near what it costs.
Okay, here's why I was confused.
It's worse than I thought.
There are two of these women.
Okay.
Melissa Click and Elisa Glick, the mass media lady.
Get out of here.
You can't come in here.
You journalists.
Get it.
That's Melissa Click, the gender studies professor.
It was just as that's Elisa Glick.
It's a pure coincidence.
Who would have thought?
Two of them.
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