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Dec. 1, 2015 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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December 1, 2015, Tuesday, Hour #3
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It's very simple, folks.
If it cannot be used to redistribute the wealth of this country to Democrat voters, then the left is not going to be interested in it.
And there's no way to redistribute the national debt.
Obviously.
So it's not something the left is ever going to care about.
Climate change, wow.
New taxes.
Wow.
It's a way to redistribute wealth, which is what the left's all about.
Great greetings, folks, and welcome back.
It's great to have you here.
Telephone numbers 800 282-2882.
Richard Cohen in the Washington Post, Obama the president who lost his voice.
This is thematic, and uh trust me here, Cohen writing about it is indicative that more and more on the left, and even the drive-by's are feeling the same thing.
There's massive disappointment with Obama.
You go back to the heady days of the 2008 campaign, the promise, the utopian outlook, the all of it.
The blank canvas, Obama was going to be whatever you wanted him to be, he was going to fix everything that was wrong, the U.S. is going to be loved again, there's going to be unity, politics was going to end, there's going to be massive agreement with people, and the exact opposite's happened.
And there's massive disappointment with Obama.
Now, with the liberals, it's it's not that they they will never admit or conclude that their beliefs fail.
Just the people in charge of implementing them.
Now, to many people, Barack Obama is the man presiding over the funeral of America.
Sadly, that's what many people that's how many people view Obama as an eight-year eulogy.
An eight-year funeral, which is his desire, the decline of the United States.
But let me give you a few pull quotes here from Cohen's piece, because that's all I need.
Yet Obama spoke coldly by wrote, saying all the right things in the manner of a minister presiding at the funeral of a perfect stranger.
To a large degree, Obama became president on the strength of his eloquence.
To a large degree, that's what's deserted him.
He's out of words because he's out of ideas.
Consequently, Obama ought to listen to others.
They aren't the ones who are popping off.
is.
The headline of this piece is "Obama the President Who Lost His Voice." Now the reason that Richard Cohen and the Washington Post and other leftists think that Obama is out of ideas and words is that Obama can't really say the words he wants to say.
Not even as a lame duck.
Not even with just one year remaining.
Obama still can't say what he really wants to say.
He cannot be honest about his true feelings for this country.
But it's coming through.
Even though he can't say the words, it's been obvious to people like me for eight years and even prior to that.
And that's what's happening now.
Others are starting to see what I saw in Obama long ago.
That he really has an animus and animus for this country.
And he's had it his whole life.
So they whine and moan and they wring their hands about, oh my gosh, he's out of words, he's lost his voice, he's out of ideas.
Oh, contraire, he's not out of ideas.
He hasn't lost his voice, he just doesn't have the courage to speak it.
But his ideas are still front and center, and he is in the process of implementing them.
He's in the process of making them reality.
These leftists in that sense do not get it.
They really believe that Obama's about creating utopia, you know, ending prejudice, ending racism, ending bigotry, ending the war on women.
And they Just can't deal with the reality that he hasn't even gotten close to any of that because he never intended to.
Anyway, they think Obama is finished and over, and he's had his chance, and they haven't the slightest clue what remains ahead for us this following year, this this next year.
And I'm telling you that choosing climate change, an issue nobody cares about to him is freedom par excellence.
If I mean, if he's going to focus on things nobody cares about, that means nobody's going to be paying attention, nobody's going to be monitoring, he's going to have a free road, free reign.
Let's just see if I'm uh if I'm right about this.
I've also, you know, in this Rupert Murdoch piece that I cited at the beginning of the program, which I want to get into here in just a second.
Because Murdoch was uh he gave a speech on Monday, Monday night.
He was he got an award that was the Hudson Institute's Global Leadership Award, and he had to make a speech while receiving the award, accepting it.
And it's a barn burner.
I mean, it is fabulous.
It is.
Well, it's everything that we've been talking about in this program for years.
It's just it's just great to hear it out of the mouths of others.
But it's really, it was really well said and well stated.
But it got me to thinking about some other things.
For example, you know, liberals and leftists claim to hate conservatism, and they claim to hate Christianity.
Well, they don't claim they do.
They hate conservatism, they hate Christianity because it's judgmental.
And they don't think that anybody should have the right to judge them.
They don't think that anybody should have the right to judge anybody and to proclaim what anybody's doing is wrong or immoral or any of that.
And it's like most things involving liberalism.
What they say actually applies more to them than the people they accuse.
While liberals claim to hate judgmentalism, they insist on the right to dictate and to judge everyone else, and they use the force of law in order to achieve their aims.
For example, how much and what kind of energy you use.
They want to dictate that, and they will judge you if you are using the wrong kind of energy that could be destroying the planet.
What kind of car you drive, how many miles you drive, what refrigerator you buy, what size home you live in, the size of your soft drink, where your thermostat is set, how many children you have, how much you pay to stay warm or cool.
Liberalism wants to be the first and final word on all of these things, and especially if they deal with energy.
Liberals want the right to judge you and dictate behavior to you.
Liberals insist on telling you where you can pray.
They insist on defining what is a prayer and what isn't.
Liberals tell college students the conditions under which they can have sex, what behavior amounts to a sexual assault.
They define it.
They judge what violates it.
They insist on governing every aspect of the sexual lives of college students.
What do you mean, what am I talking about?
How about getting consent at every level of sexual activity before you move on to the next one, you've got to get consent?
What the hell is that?
If not dictating behavior and judging the violators.
Liberalism has its own definitions of racism, sexism, homophobia, and they are the judge and jury for all infractions.
They are the ones judging, they are the ones dictating.
It's known as political correctness, speech control, what have you.
I mean, all the while they run around and they get mad at conservatives or religious people for dictating and judging and saying you know they are the ones actually engaging in that kind of behavior.
That is intolerant, as they claim to be the most tolerant and open minded among us, and they have the exact opposite.
Liberalism dictates the behavior of banks, dictates the terms of student loans, dictates health, health insurance, health treatment, all the while telling us that Christianity is too judgmental.
Liberalism is judgmentalism on steroids.
The end game of liberalism is totalitarian governance.
The objective, their utopia, is totalitarian governance.
Climate change, that's just a piece of the puzzle.
A disguised takeover of every aspect of the buying, selling, and use of energy is all this is.
And in all of this, their starting point is their dictates and their judgmentalism is necessary because you are misbehaving.
It's you who are destroying the planet.
It's you who are engaging in unfair business practices.
It is you mistreating your fellow citizen.
It is you doing what they must step in after judging you.
They then dictate the ways in which you can run your business, run your university, run your hospital, run your insurance company, whatever it is.
They want to dictate every aspect of it.
And it's all predicated on the premise that you're incompetent and unable.
And if you are competent and able, then you are incompetent.
Somehow unqualified because of prejudice or bias.
You know what another thing they're fixated on is privilege.
They run around.
The modern incarnation of this is to run around talking about white privilege.
In fact, that's a huge subject on college campaign.
Have you seen some of the mind perversion that has occurred around this whole notion of white privilege?
How many, how many innocent young white college students are writing papers rooted in their guilt over their white privilege, giving examples and so forth.
All of this has been instructed.
All of this has been inculcated.
This is mind control.
It's judgmentalism, it's punishment from those who consider themselves the most tolerant.
But I would contend that it's the left fixated on privilege.
You want privilege, what about tenure?
Tenure for college students, whether they're good, bad, qualified or not, they get tenure.
That's privilege.
Most professors are leftists.
Most are Democrats.
Most are white, most are male.
Sounds to me like like a what a white male privilege going on in the tenure business.
And liberals are all for it.
How about civil servant privilege?
Try firing one.
That's public sector privilege, another nest of the left.
The government itself is privilege.
You can't fire governments, damn near impossible to sue them.
Private sector is a meritocracy.
Is it perfect?
No.
But there's a lot less privilege than in the government public sector areas.
I mean, the fact the left is armed and shielded with privilege, and they use their privilege to anoint them with superiority.
And then they batter and undermine free markets and private property and freedom in general.
After judging it and accusing it, and criticizing it, basically saying people are not competent enough to be free.
So all of this talk about judgmentalism and privilege, they are the judgmental.
They have the privilege and demand it for each for themselves.
And they are the ones who dictate.
Which takes us to Rupert Murdoch.
As reported by Politico.
Oh, did they have m they had problems with this because Murdoch was so right on the money.
In his speech Monday night, Murdoch blasted Secretary of State John Kerry and attacked the left for creating an identity crisis that he says has undermined American strength and fostered terrorism around the world.
Rupert Murdoch, in this speech, accuses the American left of undermining American strength and fostering terrorism around the world.
Now that's no great news to you.
You and I already agree that, think that, have stated that.
But it's always welcome to hear it come from the mouths of others.
Murdoch drew a connection between U.S. foreign policy and domestic culture, arguing that in recent years there has been far too much institutionalization of grievance and victimhood.
Exactly right.
Can't tell you the number of times I have bemoaned the whole idea of the grievance industry, victimology, and how the left uses it.
Murdoch said, before delivering my modest message, I feel obliged to alert college students and progressive academics and all other deeply sensitive souls that these words I utter may contain phrases and ideas that challenge your prejudices.
In other words, I formally declare this room is an unsafe space.
After a few words of praise for former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, who had just introduced him to the think tank crowd, Murdoch quickly pivoted to a sweeping indictment of U.S. foreign policy under Obama.
He said for a U.S. Secretary of State to suggest that Islamic terrorists had a rationale in slaughtering journalists is one of the low points of recent Western diplomacy, and it is indicative of a serious malaise.
He was referring to John Kerry, who by the way served in Vietnam, Kerry's attempt to draw a distinction between the assault on Charlie Hebdo and the more recent Paris attacks.
And Kerry did say, in talking about Charlie Hebdo, well, there was a you can say there was a rationale there because they had done cartoons for the profit.
So we can understand him going berserk there.
But Paris, they just did it at random, and there was no rationale.
And Murdoch, like everybody, what do you mean rationale for terrorism?
Rationale for mass murder.
What do you mean there's a rationale for it?
And Murdoch says this is a low point.
In American foreign policy.
For America to have a sense of direction, two conditions are essential.
A U.S. leader must understand, be proud of, and assert the American personality.
An identity crisis is not a starting point for any journey.
And secondly, there must be clear goals informed by values and by a realization of the extraordinary potential of its people.
A massive indictment of the regime.
And I must take a break.
I'm up against it on time.
Sit tight coming back.
Don't call it.
Back to the phones we go.
This is uh Eric in Margate, New Jersey.
Eric, appreciate your patience, sir.
Hello.
Oh, hey, Rush.
Merry Christmas to you and Catherine and all the IP.
Thank you, sir.
Very much.
Ditto.
I called I called to talk to you about how they're trying to cook Trump out with uh he's been going on about after 9-11 about the celebrations.
Right.
And he doubled down on them.
Now I'm here in South Jersey, Rosh.
Next will try to cook out Pat Cruz, by the way.
Um, everybody I speak with here.
Now I live through 9-11.
I started listening to you right after 9-11, only by accident.
And uh I I could give you some examples of people.
I won't say their names.
Very reputable people here, but everybody remembers it.
Okay.
I'll give you one.
I'll start off with morning talk show host, 25 years, Christy's supporter.
He remembers it, spoke to him yesterday.
Big time talk show host here, 18 years.
He remembers it.
Retired Marine.
He remembers it.
Retired retired council member.
He remembers it.
The best is the last, though.
Two people walking on the boardwalk, Rubio supporters.
They remembered it.
Okay?
I told him Rubio didn't, though.
The best is the last.
A gentleman working in Patterson, New Jersey on 9 13.
He was closing a store.
The turnpike was closed.
He had to drive through Patterson.
He saw them celebrating on the rooftops throwing Andy to the kids.
What all of this is establishing is that we now know that it happened.
But the the fascinating thing about this is the is the media coverage or treatment of it.
See what they've been reduced to now is well, it wasn't tens of thousands, and it wasn't thousands like Trump said.
So no matter what, Trump is wrong.
Because even though now we can find lots of evidence in lots of media that there was Islamic celebration in New Jersey as well as around the world.
Now we move on.
It wasn't thousands and so forth.
The fascinating thing about this is that when the drive-bys do this, First thing, they don't report the news.
On 9 11, they didn't report it.
It's one Washington Post story, and now the New York Post story has been found.
Then some years later, like now, the issue comes up.
They search their own archives, which come up empty because they never reported it, and then say, hey, it didn't happen.
We searched our archives.
There isn't any news.
Only because they didn't report it.
Now about this Muslim stuff and Trump and so forth.
Well what's really going on here, as I'm sure most of you have figured out, is an ongoing effort here to discredit Trump as saying things that aren't true or exaggerating wildly.
It's a it's a an effort, they would consider it an opportunity to destroy Trump's credibility with you.
Now the thing that they don't get, the thing they don't realize, they do not yet understand why those of you who support Trump do so.
And as such, they think that they can take Trump out the way they take out other candidates.
But that's not gonna work.
In fact, go back and grab audio soundbite, I think it's number two.
A Republican strategist by the name of Mercedes, I'm having to find the bottom of the stack here.
That's right.
Mercedes Schlap was on uh Fox News Channel's Gretchen Carlson show yesterday afternoon.
This is what she said.
I think we need to understand the Trump voter.
When I was listening to Rush Limbaugh a couple of weeks ago, it was very clear.
A Trump voter called in and said, I don't care what Donald Trump says.
I'm gonna support him anyways.
I want things to get done.
And that is the sentiment of the Trump voter.
The question will be can he expand his coalition based on his different comments that he's made?
That's gonna be his biggest challenge, and quite frankly, we might not have an answer until March 15th.
She's a Republican establishment.
She decided to tune in here to find out what people think about Trump.
Very, very smart woman.
The rest of the Republican consultant class ought to try it.
And what she learned was none of this stuff matters.
What Trump says, that's not why he has support.
It's what they think he's gonna do, and it's why he's going to do it that they support.
The Trump voter thinks all this that's going on now is just the usual campaign falderall, and it's the usual media treatment that's designed to destroy any and all Republicans, right?
Now Trump's in the crosshairs.
If they were to get Trump, they would next go after Cruz, and Republican voters know this.
So Trump comes out and says, tens of thousands of people, Muslims celebrating 9-11.
The media goes to their archives, they can't find any evidence that it happened because they didn't report it.
Except there's a bunch of evidence.
There are media reports.
They just chose to ignore them.
But they come back and say, Well, there's no news here.
We didn't cover it, so it didn't happen.
Brilliant technique.
But as far as Trump voters are concerned, it doesn't matter.
There was Muslim celebration.
They saw it.
Other people that they trust saw it.
Whether it was tens of thousands or tens of hundreds, it doesn't matter.
Trump is right about what he's saying in terms that they believe.
The media can't take Trump out the way they take out traditional candidates because the media has not made Trump.
What the media doesn't make, they can't destroy.
There are exceptions to everything.
But the point is if you allow the media to make you, then you are forever their prisoner.
You can they can destroy you at the same time.
But in Trump's case, they can't.
So they're they're reduced to other manners or other areas of criticism.
And here's the latest.
This is what they're saying about Trump.
They say that Trump has this circle of belief, this loop of belief.
And that's where he gets his reality.
And here's how it works.
Trump will go on Twitter or Facebook and he will see somebody say tens of thousands of Muslims celebrated 9-11.
Trump said, well, I saw it on Twitter, I saw it on Facebook.
So he goes and says it.
And then the media questions him.
What do you mean, tens of thousands?
Trump says, I saw it.
I saw it.
What he means he saw it on Twitter.
He saw it on Facebook.
This is what the media's figuring out.
So now they're criticizing Trump for believing everything he sees.
And what has ended up being created is this loopy loop of Trump and his supporters saying outrageously crazy things that cannot be verified, but that they all believe.
And it's this circle of loopy belief or whatever it is they're calling it that ends up becoming Trump's reality.
So that's the next way they're trying to destroy Trump.
Missing all the while why it is that Trump resonates with the people who support him.
They refuse to get it.
They refuse to even try to understand it.
It involves outsiderism versus insiderism.
But what's really going on here is if the media can't destroy somebody, then they're really, really threatened.
And they have to double down on taking them out.
Because the media is not about media and it's not about news.
It's about bending and shaping opinion, making opinions, shaping the outcome of events, not reporting events, but shaping the outcome.
And those things they can't control panic them.
And it makes them double down on their efforts to try to control those things they can't control.
And one of those things they can't control is Trump.
And I gotta tell you, when Trump goes wherever it was this weekend, Sarasota, Tampa, wherever he was, that there were lines five block long, five blocks long outside to get in.
That just ticks them off like you can't believe.
So they report on the five or ten protesters that were outside.
But the the average Trump voter is sophisticated enough to understand what's going on here.
And as the drive-bys ignore media reports that did happen on 9-11, that did report some celebrating and did support some partering, did report some partying and so forth.
The drive-by's just ignore all of that, including their own reporting, and then they try to say, well, that's you know so long ago and it may not really have been accurate at the time, and so they refuse to rely on it.
Because the narrative is what counts.
And the narrative is that Trump lies and makes things up, or worse, Trump just is ignorant and doesn't know and will believe anything anybody tells him, and then'll combine that with his own racism and prejudice and roll on down the highway with it, and to them that equals mass danger that they have to stop.
But they can't.
And the realization that they can't stop it is what causes them to double down on their efforts to separate you from your support for Trump.
And what they don't get is that all they're doing is solidifying the support.
They're not talking anybody out of it.
Gotta take a break.
Be back after this.
Don't go away.
Hi, welcome back.
Great to have you.
Rush Limbaugh behind the golden EIB microphone here at the Limbaugh Institute, advanced conservative studies.
So I checked the email during the break, and and um uh guy says, What do you mean carbon tax?
That's what this global warming thing is.
You don't understand Russia.
We are in danger of destroying the climate.
Folks, I'm I'll admit I personally get frustrated at emails like that.
People that listen to this program.
Even among you leftists who listen daily, among those of you who listen to this program, you should be under no.
You should have no doubts that this is all a hoax and is all phony.
I've given evidence for 25 years.
And that and the and the proof that liberalism is an agenda rather than a series of honest concepts can be found in people's reaction to this.
Let me try it a different way.
What's going on in Paris is an attack on capitalism.
And every one of you who support whatever is involved in climate change and limiting American and other Western nations' use of energy.
You ought to be celebrating that, you're anti-capitalists.
Energy is the lifeblood of capitalism.
Oil is the fuel of the engine of freedom.
It makes perfect sense that a bunch of leftists would oppose it.
It makes perfect sense that a bunch of socialists would want to take issue with anything that demonstrates the success of capitalism.
And energy is the lifeblood of freedom, energy, and it's the free flow of energy at market prices, is the lifeblood of capitalism of freedom and democracy the world over.
And that is what they want to bring down.
And the way they want to bring it down is by taxing energy to the point that people can't afford to use it.
It's about weakening the United States and other Western democracies.
It's about creating a lesser world under the guise of a fairer and more equitable world.
Because there isn't any warming, and certainly no warming that can be laid at the feet of human beings.
We're not warming.
There hasn't been any in 20 years, and the temperature record that says there has been has probably been faked.
It's one of the greatest scandals.
It may be the biggest worldwide scandal, political scandal in world history.
What has been done to the temperature record?
How it's been altered and doctored to prove, quote unquote, that there has been warming.
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