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Nov. 19, 2015 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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November 19, 2015, Thursday, Hour #3
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Your guiding light through all this confusion and tumult and chaos, lying, the despair and even the good times.
Rush Limbaugh here, eagerly behind the golden EIB microphone, the telephone number if you want to be on the program's 800-282-2882 and the email addresses O'Rushmore at EIBNet.com.
A couple of things here before we get back into the uh actually one thing before we get back into the uh the essential content portion of the program.
I don't want to, speaking for myself, be misunderstood on this refugee situation, and uh nobody's accused me of anything yet, so don't misunderstand.
Uh I have a lot of people I've gotten to know over the course of my life, primarily when I live in California, Syrian people, a lot of people I play golf in California from Syria, frustrated Syrians, not don't like Assad, own property, they're unable to get it, uh, very sad and disheartened by what's happened to their country.
They're Americans, but it's their homeland.
And my point here is that just to stress, and I haven't heard anybody make the point, so I this is not defending anything, it's just asserting something that the opposition to this current refugee program has nothing to do with the fact that any of these refugees are from any particular place, much less Syria.
Um, and I know that's the case with with everybody I know who feels the same way I do about this.
And what brought this to mind when I had the call from the young guy down in Hollywood, Florida, who wanted to know what to say to social media reprobates and human debris accusing him of xenophobia and all this.
We face a serious, serious threat.
We're a great nation, always at risk in a really, really dangerous world.
And things are more dangerous for the United States today than they have been in a long time, and I firmly believe it's because our current leadership does not think that we are at great risk, and does not consider the same people I consider to be the enemies of our country.
Our current president believes his biggest enemies, and therefore the people he's most animated against in opposing are the Republicans in the United States.
His biggest enemies are fellow Americans.
He is much more animated and angry and focused on political opponents in this country than he is on people who actually intend this country harm.
I just find that dangerous.
His unwillingness to admit and recognize, and I think he recognizes it, I just don't think he I don't think he considers the people that you and I consider to be threats.
I don't think he thinks they are.
And I think there are specific personal and political reasons for that.
But this refugee program is not about opposing anybody because of where they're from.
It's because of what they might be.
And all anybody's doing here is using intelligence guided by experience in being wary.
We hear that they're being vetted.
We wish they were.
We don't think it's possible.
Vet these people against what?
Many of them are unknown on purpose.
Many of them live in the shadows on purpose.
Many of them have hidden their identities on purpose.
They don't want to be known because they do not want their intentions to be uncovered.
And so it's really difficult to vet these people.
Our current leadership doesn't see a problem.
Our current leadership wants to flood this country with with virtually anybody he identifies as a victim of what he considers to be long American oppression.
We have a terror group that has formed basically during Obama's presidency.
There wasn't any ISIS before Obama.
There wasn't an ISIS with George W. Bush in the White House.
ISIS came To be precisely because of the policies of Barack Hussein O. Barack Hussein O, for whatever reason, got us out of the Middle East after a successful, eventually successful campaign, left a vacuum, and it has been filled by ISIS, and they're off and running now, and they are terrorizing all of Europe.
And they, like other Islamists, are telegraphing their intentions.
They intend to do the same thing here.
They're being very open about it, they're cutting and releasing videos and promising to do so.
It would be silly to not take them at their word.
It would be silly to assume that we're untouchable.
So when we have current leadership that doesn't seem concerned and doesn't seem half way interested in stopping any of this, and furthermore, doesn't even want to establish that they recognize this same threat that we see.
That's the reason for the opposition to this.
This administration is losing the trust of the American people more and more each day, and for legitimate reasons.
Those of you who have a desire to protect and defend this country for all of the right reasons.
A, it's instinctive for a patriotic American to want to protect and defend his homeland.
There are other reasons, the future for your children and grandchildren.
You know of the greatness of this country and furthermore of its potential.
And its potential is being squandered.
We are being led by people who do not believe in American potential, do not believe in American exceptionalism, and furthermore believe that our superpower status is illegitimate and undeserved.
You combine that with a desire to nuke up the nation of Iran to unfreeze assets totaling 150 billion, allowing Iran to continue to fund terrorism and to modernize some of its military.
None of it makes any sense to us.
What does make sense is that we, for the first time in our lives, don't think that we can rely on the leadership of this country to defend and protect us.
In fact, it seems the opposite.
It seems like the leadership of this country is doing everything it can to further this feeling of unease.
It seems like the leadership of this country is more sympathetic with people all over the world than with Americans, particularly with Americans who did not vote for or support the current leadership at president.
It seems we have leadership that looks at the despondent and the malnourished and the suffering all over the world and sees the United States as the cause.
And therefore, it sees victim after victim after victim of an evil and unjust and immoral United States.
And so conceives and implements policies designed to make us pay for these previous transgressions against all of these people who apparently are going through life in misery and suffering because of us.
That's their belief.
As such, there isn't a concern for who it is that might be emigrating or who it is that might be granted refugee status.
We don't have a right to ask because it's our fault they exist as they do, in our current leadership's opinion.
And therefore, as part of making amends, I guess, or apologizing, we must throw open our borders and relax our immigration policy and refugee policy to accommodate all of these people who are victims of an immoral and unjust United States.
And that's scary.
And it's dangerous.
And it results in people dying.
Results in people getting killed.
And this is why.
It's not because they're from Syria.
It isn't because they're from Saudi Arabia or wherever, it's because there doesn't seem to be any concern at the highest levels of leadership for who might be getting into the country.
It Is essentially commonsensical for us to be highly attuned to this and distrustful of it because it doesn't make any sense.
The president of the United States, number one law enforcer.
He is the number one defender and protector of the country, its people, its constitution, and we just don't see.
By virtue of behavior and policies implemented, we just don't see he recognizes that.
Instead, we see a president who seems to believe he leads a country that has committed sin after sin after sin and must now pay a price for that.
And he almost enjoys the bitter clingers, as he calls them of this country being upset and worried about it.
And now has become petulant and childlike when questioned legitimately by sycophantic media about why he has no interest in quote getting these bastards, unquote.
What are we to think when we hear our own president say he doesn't believe in concepts like leadership and victory and winning?
What are we supposed to think?
We're not irrational.
We hear a president say, I don't believe in that stuff.
That's that's old-fashioned.
I first heard him say it about Afghanistan in 2009 when he said, I just I don't like this concept of victory.
When I think of victory, I think of poor Emperor Hirohito being marched to the battleship Missouri forced to sign surrender papers.
That's not who we are.
That's just not American values.
I said, not?
Long ago, I reminded people of some great words, a former friend of mine and a late friend, a great Marine from Sacramento, California, B.T. Thomas, said they...
He was a staunch Democrat, but hated the anti-war movement, just despised it.
And there was something going on at the time I lived in Sacramento, I forget what it was.
He was inspired, motivated to write a letter to the editor in opposition to it.
And it was about leftists not realizing the purpose of the military and what its objectives were, so he spelled it out in a letter to the editor.
He said the purpose of armies and the purpose of war is to kill things and break, kill people and break things.
That's what war is.
You kill people and break things, and you keep going until your opponent surrenders and apologizes to you.
That's what war is.
And if you're not committed to take it to that end, you don't start it.
And if you don't understand the purpose of armies is to kill people and break things, then you don't have one and you don't use it.
Because if you have an army and you send it to war and it starts killing people and breaking things, and then you get upset and start pulling it back, you are irresponsible.
And I think we've reached a point, time in American cultural evolution here, as evidenced by what we see on campus after campus after campus.
There's the rampant ignorance of the purpose of war, the purpose of the military, the purpose of armies, and how you define success in military involvement.
You tell your average scared college child today that the purpose of armies is to kill people and break things, and they'll ask for the nearest phone book or phone booth that they can find one to go hide.
Well, we don't have a leader who accepts the idea that the purpose of armies is to kill people and break things, and to eventually win to the point where the other side surrenders and apologizes for what they did to start the whole thing.
Because our president seems to think we're responsible for starting these things, that we're responsible for the existence of all of this anti-American evil out there because of our past transgressions is an unjust and illegitimately founded whatever we are country.
So our president talks about not wanting to lead and not wanting to sloganeer and use terms like leadership and winning because that misses the point.
That's not what we're all about.
And we see that combined with other policies the president's implemented, and I'm here to tell you being scared is the only commonsensical reaction.
And wanting to do something in opposition to it and stop it and fix it and reverse it is also quite natural.
So the opposition to the illegal immigrants, the opposition to is nothing about Mexicans, the illegal refugees, nothing about bias against Syrians or ethnic bias, racist bias.
It's about love of country and a recognition that we are at risk in a dangerous world, and it doesn't seem like we have a leadership too interested in defending us.
I guess what we see are not maybe possible threats, but they are real.
They are happening.
They've even happened on our own soil.
So I just wanted to make that clear.
I've not been accused of anything.
I didn't expect to be.
Now I also have one other thing I want to run by you.
Something I found yesterday in my daily perusal of all things news.
But I'm gonna save it for the next half hour.
It I'll tell you what it is.
It's a young writer who just discovered ISIS and Sharia law and is stunned, is shocked, but still thinks the Republicans are the greatest threat politically in the country.
Not gonna name the guy, I don't want to do that.
I'm not gonna name the publication because I really do not want to amplify any of this.
It's a it's an object lesson.
I'm sure this little guy is typical of many youthful people in journalism and in the blogosphere and so forth.
But I've also got other phone calls people have been waiting patiently.
I want to get to, and other items in the stack of stuff.
So a quick time out, and we'll be back and resume after.
Here's Pamela in Jamesville, New York, as we head back to the phones.
Pamela, thank you for calling.
Hi.
Hi, Raj.
It's such an honor to speak with you.
I've been a faithful supporter and longtime listener over 20 years.
Thank you.
Thank you very much.
Well, I wanted to say thank you for writing the Rush Revere series, because my children absolutely love them.
I'm a homeschool mom.
I have a seven-year-old and an eight-year-old boy and girl, and another two-year-old, but my um two children love the books.
We have all of them.
We have the CDs because I had to buy the TVs because they read the book, and then they want to listen to the TV, and they prefer to hear you read them instead of me.
How does that make how does how does that make you feel?
Well, I just joked with my husband and say it was probably because next to my voice, my husband's voice, yours is probably the one they know the most.
Well, I am actually a highly trained uh vocal professional uh as well.
Well, that you are, that you are, and I do have to tell you, my son Ari Errington is um he's eight, and we were um I was going over what we were going to study in history for part of our curriculum, and I said, now we're gonna be talking more about the pilgrims and going through that, and he said, Ma, Mama, I already know everything there is to know about the pilgrim.
And I looked at him and said, Well, how's that?
And he said, Well, I read Rush Revere and the Brave Pilgrim.
All right.
All right.
Now you they you've actually got all four books and all four audio versions.
All four books, all four CDs, and um we my my uh eight-year-old son will read them.
He's he's read them all, and then my daughter, who's seven, has just started reading them, and they got hunt for liberty, and then they got into the actual.
Well, you know what?
I have to send them each a liberty stuffed animal.
I've I've got a that I mean, since you've bought all these things, you you've got Rush Revere and the Star Spangled Banner, you say you have the latest one.
It's already done.
My son was asking me when the next one was coming out.
See, we can't write them fast enough, folks.
We need a factory here.
We can't we can't turn them up.
Look, look, I uh uh Pamela, I need you to hang on so that the nice man who answered your call can get your address so that we can put together a little uh goodie package for your uh for your kids, including the Liberty Stuffed Animal Toilet.
They'll love it, I guarantee you.
Appreciate it.
The saga continues.
And I mentioned earlier when I said we're gonna announce they're gonna call the winners of the latest Rush Revere Sweepstakes next week.
The um the winner of the trip for five days, four people to the Hawaiian Islands.
Nobody won yet.
We haven't called a winner.
Still could be you.
It'll happen early next week.
Um we've also constantly asked and are running little uh I don't know what you call them, contests for for prizes for the uh young readers of these books to submit videos to win valuable prizes.
And we look for the most creative as they relate to the things they've learned reading the books and so forth.
And you can find all these at RushRevere.com.
We just had uh the the latest winner is a seven-year-old and a panel of judges, I have to tell you, had a really difficult time selecting the winners this time.
The entries were all that good.
And after numerous reviews, we were thrilled to announce that Hannah J is the first place winner of the reporter on the scene Adventures of Rush Revere Challenge.
It just simply fantastic for a seven-year-old to create this kind of uh video is uncanny.
And we've got there's a YouTube video, but I can't, I'm not gonna read off the YouTube um uh address here, but you can see all this at RushRevere.com.
Now, this next, I've got to be very careful with it because I don't want to be specific about where I found it.
Because I'm not trying to I I don't want any attention focused on the place or the person, it's not the point here.
If that happens, I'll I'll have screwed up.
But as you know, I'm a voluminous and omnivorous reader.
For those of you in real end, it means I read a lot about a lot of things.
Omnivorous meaning omni and all over.
Voluminous means like volume, like how much is left in the bottle of beer.
And I happen to be reading uh a website populated by young people who just happen to be snarky and snivelling as they can be when anything about Republican comes up.
It's not politics that they write about.
They're primarily cultural.
But when something happens and Republicans are in the news that these clowns want to talk about, they are just snarky.
And when I read it, it's classically obvious to me that they don't know what they're talking about.
They are products of what they have been force-fed and exposed to in their own media access, and they are examples of how the Republican brand has really, really suffered.
Now, having said that, there are still things that I assume a lot of people who are, I don't care how old they are or young, that if there's a modicum of education, there are some things I assume that they know.
And I'm always shocked to learn that they don't know things that I would think they do.
In this case, this young snarky, typically arrogant pop culture writer who thinks Republicans are the biggest unhip, uncoolest nerds on earth, just discovered ISIS and Sharia Law.
And can't believe what he learned.
For example, do you know?
He's he writes a piece here advising his readers that do you know under these guys you can't talk to women?
Do you know under these guys you can't even have a beer?
Now I'm reading this, and this guy thinks he has just discovered something nobody knows, and he's passing it on without the slightest bit of context.
I mean, it understands the Paris attacks and that all this descends from that.
But what he he ran across a story about this in another blog.
It's where he got the information.
And he's writing a piece about man, what it would be this is these guys, these are really back rich people.
This is really crazy.
We couldn't, and he compares this to help you understand, compares living under ISIS to living under Dean Warmer in Animal House.
So I read this.
And here I realize that we've got some snarky little guy that's constantly ripping Republicans and constantly ripping conservatives and thinks Obama, the sun rises and sets.
And doesn't have the slightest ability to connect the dots and understand that we face a genuine threat from these people that's far worse than not being able to have a beer or talk to babes.
And he doesn't understand that he would be the first one targeted by these people and shut down.
He thinks it's chilling, he's shocking to read this.
And what it goes to, I think the thing that really got me about it is that it confirms this overarching point that politics on the left is totally tribal now.
It's not, it's not rooted in any kind of intellectual curiosity or or thought, critical thought, independent thought.
Logic plays no part.
This guy doesn't understand the people he votes for are apologists for these people.
He doesn't understand the people he thinks are cool, the people he thinks are hip, are actually the greatest enablers of these people.
He still thinks after reading this, the Republicans are the biggest threat he faces.
And they're the ones who have to constantly be ripped and criticized and torn down.
And he would never ever change his mind about any of this.
Because if he did, it would have to be, he'd have to allow himself to become uncomfortable.
That won't happen.
The cocoon of security allows only certain opinions to get in and certain ways of living and thinking to get in anything counter to it, you keep it out because it makes it too too nervous, too uncomfortable.
It's more important to be on the cool team, it's more important to be hip than it is to be right.
Because being cool and being hip is what's right.
But it just no, I'm not gonna tell you what it because again it doesn't matter.
He probably can find many things like this out there.
I just happened to, it happened to hit me in a certain way when I was reading it a couple three days ago.
Uh because of the total, and I when I say ignorance, I don't mean it in a in an insulting way.
Just a shocking unaware, unawareness of what we're up against, and a total misunderstanding of who best to support to stop this.
It's just, I guess, another bit of evidence that tells me what we're up against and provides for me a little bit of data on what we're gonna have to do to win and overcome this kind of thing.
It's all good in the end, but it doesn't take away from the fact that it's still shocking to run into this kind of naivete.
Uh and irony is that it's naivete among some of the most arrogant superiorist type thinking that you could encounter.
Okay, back we are.
El Rushbone at Cutting Edge.
Bradford, Columbia, South Carolina.
Great to have you, sir, on the EIB Network.
Thank you, Russ.
You're a great American.
Thank you for having me on.
I think thank you, sir, very much.
Um, I just wanted to piggyback on an earlier conversation you had with Adam.
Um I'll make it quick, but I think a lot of people in your audience, myself included, do have a lot of social media interactions with people on Facebook.
And um, all the strategies that I've learned, because I do it kind of for fun to talk to these lids, is um you gotta hit them with facts, and there's so many of them out there, and that's just really the only way you can overcome their objections.
You can't, like you said earlier, you cannot be defensive.
Um I think.
Wait, you can wait slow down.
Are you saying that you can overcome them with facts?
Is that do you like talking to them out there on Facebook and so forth?
Is that what you said?
Absolutely.
You do.
I have four kids, so I can't allow this kind of propaganda to just be disseminated without any kind of pushback.
I just think we're too passive as conservatives, and we allow them to put this stuff out there and for it to be absorbed by people, and that's just not the way we're gonna overcome.
Well, I agree with that.
I mean, the passivity is no good.
So you take them on, and how do you uh how do you push back with specificity?
What what do you and do you actually get concessions from these people that they were wrong?
Well, their silence is a concession, and that's really what drives me.
Because after a while, all of a sudden it's crickets.
You don't hear anything from them anymore, they back off, and they move on.
So that's that's the defeat when they stop talking their nonsense.
Because if you let them, they'll keep going and going and going and stating these opinions as facts, these emotional outbursts that they have is facts.
And once you give them actual facts, then they become quiet, and then they move on, and then they no longer can decimate the propaganda.
But that's what we have to do.
I'm glad I'm glad you found that to be the case.
Uh in our interactions with them, we have found that their silence does not mean acquiescence.
We have found a retreat and they refocus their efforts elsewhere.
When they when they find out that that you don't accept it and you push back, then they leave you alone, they move on down the line.
Because what they're ultimately aiming to do is pervert and collude and corrupt as many people and their opinions as as possible.
So if if you are able in your pushback to uh appear to any and all who were watching to slam them and break them, then of course they're gonna leave you alone and they're gonna try to pretend you don't exist anymore.
But I look, I admire what you're doing.
Don't misunderstand.
I love the pushback.
That's why I was telling uh Adam, whatever you do, if you decide to engage with these people, you always stay superior to them.
You do not accept any premise they put forward that puts you on defense.
Don't accept any premise, but certainly don't ever go on defensive.
Don't think you have to justify or explain yourself to these people because it's the other way around.
They're the ones that don't know diddly squat about what they're talking about.
And well, that's and of course, laugh at them, but how do you you know you it's it's hard to convey laughter on uh Facebook.
You can do it.
Um but yeah, laughing at them and getting other people to join you in mocking them and laughing at them.
I mean, ridiculing that is perhaps the deepest slice of all is succeeding in ridiculing these people as the nimrods that they are.
So don't misunderstand.
I admire the uh the effort, the pushback, and particularly if you're having fun with it, then that in itself is going to be infectious and will inspire other people uh to try it.
The problem with the left is they're fact-proof.
They're not dealing in fact.
You can hit them with fact after fact and stat after stat, and that's not what they're talking about.
Their own facts, and really their opinions are their facts.
And yours don't sway them uh at all.
Maybe you do when they go silent.
That's great if that happens.
More power to you.
By the way, folks, I erred in telling you where to go to see the winning video.
In the reporters on the scene, Adventures of Rush Revere Video Challenges on our Facebook page.
Facebook.com slash rush revere is where the the winning video is.
Seven-year-old these things are they really will blow your mind.
It'll help you understand why we remain so optimistic here.
Anyway, that's it for today.
And back tomorrow for open line Friday.
So hang in there and be tough, folks.
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