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Dec. 28, 2015 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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December 28, 2015, Monday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24 7 podcast.
Well, who did you expect?
Do you really think Rush was going to be here today?
Nobody works this week other than people who fill in for people who don't work this week.
Which is why I'm shocked.
I mean, the first string is in here with me.
The only sub is me.
Bo Snerdly is here, physically here, eating what appears to be the largest lunch I've ever seen.
Does that actually say melt shop?
It just that sounds really good.
I don't have any of that.
We have the broadcast engineer Mike Mamone is in here as well.
The only fill in the only sub here is me.
This is Christmas week, but we can't call it Christmas week.
We can't call it New Year's Week for reasons that I'll explain in a moment.
I'm doing the program from EIB's.
I always get it mixed up.
Is this Eastern Command or Northern Command?
Northern.
It's Eastern and Northern.
And Rush calls it Northern because he's normally at Southern.
Anyway, I'm at Northern Command, which is in New York City, the heart of New York City.
It is weird being here right now.
And I know this because I'm always here at this time.
I've done, I bet it's like seven years running that I've done the Monday after Christmas, but before New Year's on this program.
It's just always when they bring me in.
I don't know why that is, other than I'm just always available, and they as soon as they ask me, I come scurrying it.
I'd be happy to do it.
Anyway, I I'm always here this weekend.
It's the weirdest time to be in New York.
When I come into New York, there are certain things that you just expect.
The city's crowded, the taxicab traffic is heavy, and there are all these people that walk on the streets real, real fast because they're all business people, and they're moving up and down the street of the movement and they have a purpose.
This week there are no people, business people.
There's nobody in suits, there's nobody carrying briefcases.
They're all gone.
The only person actually working in New York, evidently is me.
What New York is filled with right now, and I mean literally everywhere, everywhere you turn, children.
There are kids everywhere.
The flight that I took in from Milwaukee, I bet it was 30% kids.
You get to the airport, I was at LaGuardia.
There's children all over the place.
I get to my hotel, which is actually kind of a more, it's not a family hotel.
The hotel that I always stay in when I do the rush program here, it's mostly for business people, and it's set up that way.
It's not, it doesn't have a big kids area or anything.
It's a hotel that kind of appeals to business travelers, adults, and so on.
This place is overwhelmed with children.
They're running around and they are everywhere.
You get out on the street, this business of everyone walking fast and with a purpose, they're all taking photos, they're all gazing up in the sky, and they're all clutching onto the hands of their children.
God forbid that one of them would run away and get lost because they're in New York and something bad could happen.
The children are everywhere.
So, and it took me several years to figure this out.
I figured out what New York now is.
This is Disney World.
This is where people take their kids.
At least on the major holidays.
I guess I've kind of noticed a little bit in the summer when I've come in here in the summer because obviously kids are off of school in the summer, but it's especially this true this week when no children are in school because of the break between Christmas and New Year's.
Families come to New York.
And this has been building for year after year after year after year.
There was a time that Las Vegas tried to make itself this family friendly city, and there's a bring your kids out to Vegas, and you still see some people do that, but that's pretty much died off.
Christmas, it's Disney World, or it's New York.
And not only children, lots and lots and lots of them are European.
I mean, the hotel I'm in, I might be the only guy speaking English.
Lots of foreigners who want to come to the United States for a family vacation.
And it's natural.
When you think of Christmas, you kind of think of New York.
Think about all those Christmas songs that are out, you know, that are out there.
Don't they conjure up in your mind images of New York?
I think about the Christmas movies that I watched when I was a kid.
It's amazing how many of them are set in New York.
Miracle on 34th Street was set in Macy's in New York.
You think of Radio City Music Hall and the Rockets, you think of the Christmas show in New York.
The thing that's weird about being here right now.
All of these people bringing their children in to be in here during the holiday season, the Christmas season, is if you didn't know it was Christmas.
There is, I'm telling you, there is no sign of it in New York at all, with the exception of that big Christmas tree that they put at Rockefeller Center.
Other than that, you cannot tell it's Christmas.
You know that it's something because there's lights and there's commotion.
But it doesn't look like Christmas.
They have wiped that out.
It's God.
Not the only person who noticed this.
On Christmas Eve, which was Thursday, Daninger, great columnist for the Wall Street Journal, wrote a column about a stroll he took down Fifth Avenue in New York.
The two big shopping streets in New York, I guess, are Madison Avenue and Fifth Avenue, and Fifth Avenue is where all the iconic department stores.
The headline of his column is The Year Christmas Died.
I want to give you a few paragraphs of this.
Because after reading it, I decided I was going to venture out and see does he have this right at his yet?
He's right.
He writes, The Christmas killers will get the last laugh.
In fact, they've already won.
This is the year Christmas died as a public event in the United States.
We know this after touring the historic heart of public Christmas, Fifth Avenue in New York City.
For generations, American families have come to New York in December to swaddle themselves in the glow and spirit of Christmas.
Shops, restaurants, brownstones, the evergreen trees along Park Avenue, bar mirrors, and most of all, Fifth Avenue's department store windows.
You couldn't escape it, and why would you want to?
For many, December required a pilgrimage to Saks Fifth Avenue, Lord and Taylor, and Bergdorf Goodman.
No matter the weather, people walked the mile from 38th Street to 59th Street and jammed sidewalks to see the store's joyful Christmas windows.
Stay home.
This year Fifth Avenue in December is about pretty much nothing.
Or worse, to be sure the magnificent Rockefeller Center Christmas tree still stands, and directly across on Fifth Avenue and St. Patrick's Cathedral, its facade washed and hung with a big green wreath.
But walk up or down the famous avenue this week, and what you and your children will see is not merely Christmas scrubbed, but what one can only describe as the anti Christmas.
Forget public nativity scenes as Court Fiat commanded us to do years ago.
On Fifth Avenue this year, you can't even find dear old Santa Claus or his elves.
Christmas past has become Christmas gone.
The scenes inside Sachs Fifth Avenue's many windows aren't easy to describe.
Sachs calls it the Winter Palace.
I would call it prelude to an orgy done in vampire white and amphetamine blue.
A luxuriating woman lies on a table, her legs in the air.
Sachs executives who bear responsibility for this travesty did have the good taste to confine to a side street the display of a passed out man on his back spilling his marcini beneath a moose head dripping with pearls.
A Deste Gomorrah.
But you haven't seen the anti-Christmas yet.
It's up at 59th Street in the holiday windows of Bergdorf Goodman.
In place of anything Christmas, Bergdorf offers the frosty Taj Mahal, a palm reading fortune teller, and King Neptune, the pagan Roman god, seated with his concubine.
I thought, Lord and Taylor, surely the iconic Christmas windows on 38th Street wouldn't shelve Saint Nick, they did.
He's gone.
Replaced by little bears and cupcakes, gingerbread men, and Canada Geese.
There is one holdout to the desanctification of America in Macy's windows at Sixth Avenue and 34th Street, as in Miracle on 34th Street, the characters of a Charlie Ground Christmas, Frolic and Ewell Tide Splendor.
As for Sacks and the other Fifth Avenue sellouts, I have two words this season.
They aren't Merry Christmas.
That's good stuff.
That was Dan Heninger this past Thursday's Wall Street Journal.
He's right, and it isn't just New York.
It's been happening a little bit year after year after year after year.
I've noticed that even in our own tastes with regard to Christmas music.
They start playing Christmas music on radio stations in the middle of November.
My own radio station in Milwaukee.
We started promoting our Christmas programming before Thanksgiving.
The Monday before Thanksgiving, I'm on the air and they're running a promo about what we're going to be doing on Christmas Eve and Christmas Day.
We actually had special programming on Thanksgiving three days later.
That they weren't promoting.
They were giving us what we're going to do on Christmas.
So we hammer Christmas and hammer Christmas and hammer Christmas so much that by the time Christmas Day gets here, people are just fed up with it and sick of it.
We overdo that part.
Christmas songs, nobody wants to hear them after Christmas Day, which is why I've given a directive to the staff here.
Can I give directives, by the way?
I know Rush can give directives, and I know that he does.
In fact, every time he speaks, it's a directive, isn't he?
One of the advantages of having a voice that sounds like God's voice is that even if you say anything, it just sounds like a command.
I don't have one of those voices.
I go in and I meekly ask, can we play the Christmas music today?
Because I want to make this point that Christmas shouldn't go away on Christmas Day, that we are in a Christmas season, and Christmas is nothing to be ashamed of or hidden, squirreled away as if it's some sort of an embarrassment.
But it's been coming for a long time.
You take a look at the circulars prior to Christmas that the uh department stores put in the newspaper, almost no store puts the word Christmas in there anymore.
Everything is holiday this and holiday that.
The thing that's so weird about it is even though we don't say Christmas, and we don't put up anything that represents Christmas, the Christmas holiday period is actually bigger than ever.
The commercialization of this thing, the amount of money that we spend on Christmas, the time that people take away from work on Christmas, the celebration of Christmas.
We just don't call it Christmas when we do it.
The thing of it is I think people really like Christmas.
I know some people get sick of it and people who are lonely and don't have families or don't make a big deal of it at home, kind of think that it's kind of nauseating seeing everybody carry on and on and on.
But that's a small percentage of the country.
Most people are really, really into it and like this time of the year and think it's special.
And the very people that are trying to de-Christmas us are the ones that make the biggest bang out of Christmas.
You're talking to retailers.
Why do you think everybody's buying all of these gifts?
They're buying the gifts because it is Christmas.
Heninger says in his column that eventually Christmas is going to be kind of like Thanksgiving, where it's a holiday that you sort of celebrate at home, and that's all you really say much about it.
And the actual day is just going to be a big giant gift extravaganza.
He says it'll be maybe be Amazon Day.
Maybe yes, maybe no.
It makes you wonder, though, why they've done it.
Why does everybody say that feel the need to say happy holidays?
Why do we, in our attempt to be inclusive, exclude the largest religion in the country?
They always say it's because someone might be offended.
You sing a Christmas song at school, you might offend somebody who isn't a Christian.
You say the word Christmas in a store ad, it might offend somebody who is a nonbeliever.
The thing of it is, has anybody actually ever met one of those people?
I don't think anybody is offended by Christmas.
There are a lot of people who are non-Christians who celebrate Christmas and are perfectly fine with it.
How many people are horrified if they see a Santa Claus?
There aren't that many.
What I think that this is part of Is kind of a systematic, general overall attempt by some elites somewhere.
Nobody really knows who these people are to just take away from America everything that a lot of us have loved about America.
I know that it's a mistake to tie absolutely everything into Trump, but I just when you watch how people react to Trump, part of this is he just seems to represent screw political correctness.
Let's be what we want to be.
There's some sort of message in that in there, and that's how people rebel because nobody else ever says anything about any of this.
Who takes on the I mean I read this column about what's happened to Fifth Avenue New York and Heninger's column in the Wall Street Journal.
I hadn't seen any story on this on television.
I haven't seen anybody putting cameras in the face of these retailers defend asking them to defend their hypocrisy of making a fortune off of Christmas but refusing to say what it is that they're doing.
Anyway, you should come here and see this.
Millions of well, is that millions?
I think it is millions.
Well, there's already millions who live here.
Millions of people in New York, all here because it's the period between Christmas and New Year's, but you would never ever know that Christmas had anything to do with it unless you went to one or two places.
And that's sad.
Anyway, my name is Mark Belling, and I'm your guest host today on the Marshall Program.
Mark Belling in for Rush.
What's the phone number here?
It's never changed, has it?
1-800-282-2882.
You'd think I'd know that by now.
Only once in all the years I've been filling in did I give out the phone number from my local show in Milwaukee.
I did do that once.
I've only done that once.
Yeah.
It's still a big big joke here.
Uh one other point that I want to make about this.
We are instead of focusing on the legitimate threat that Muslim extremists present to those of us in that in the United States because of terrorism, the media keeps lecturing us and lecturing us.
We cannot have any sort of backlash against Muslims here in the United States.
This is drilled into us.
We worry so much about any backlash to non-terrorist Muslims, but Christians aren't allowed to celebrate their own faith by saying Christmas.
It's weird.
Let's take a phone call on this.
Let's go to Tucson, Arizona, and Zacharias.
Zacharias here on the Rush Show with Mark Belling.
Hey, thanks for taking my call, Mark.
You know, um, what I'm noticing, at least in Tucson, Arizona, are that more people are saying Merry Christmas versus happy holidays.
And more of my neighbors are putting up Christmas lights.
I mean big time Christmas lights than years past.
And I'm wondering, and my wife and I were talking about whether or not it is a Trump effect.
You know, he is Donald Trump has brought in public uh, you know, political correctness to the public sphere.
And I think people feel more liberated for saying Merry Christmas and hang up lights as a result of you know, Donald Trump bring up political correctness.
Yeah, I and I don't I don't want to overreact to the whole thing on Trump because in fact I actually sort of made a New Year's resolution before the New Year's started that today I didn't want to do much politics on the program that there's a lot of other stuff that's out there and we need a break from all of it.
But I I think that people have gotten to the point where they want to fight back, and we've just been so bullied.
Now, I haven't noticed what you've described.
In Milwaukee, we have people who put up Christmas lights.
We've always had people who put up Christmas lights, but boy, I just never hear anybody say Merry Christmas anymore.
I mean, I never hear it.
It's always the happy holidays, which the o the one time happy holidays makes sense is now because we're between between holidays and we're celebrating the aftermath of Christmas and toward New Year's.
So I haven't noticed it that much, but I do think that there are a lot of Americans who don't want to lose Christmas.
They just think it's odd that they pick up these giant newspaper circulars advertising all these deals around Christmas, yet you can't see the word Christmas in there.
I mean, you do see, you know, the radio stations that play Christmas music and the people that are trying to keep Christmas alive.
There's a huge audience for it.
So it is out there.
The point though that you make about political correctness in Trump, I think is real.
People, I think, are very, very fed up with being told that they can't do or say all of the things that they have loved doing just because somebody might be offended by it.
And I don't think people are offended.
It's just people who don't like this stuff who want to take it away from us because that lets them look like they're inclusive, they're open-minded.
Whereas in fact, I think they're the ones that are not open-minded.
They're the closed-minded ones.
They're the ones that are threatened by people expressing faith and taking Christmas and enjoying it from both the secular standpoint and celebrating what they mean it to be.
But I'm glad you've noticed that in Tucson.
Yeah, I definitely noticed.
And you know, I I would ask your callers from the coast, you know, California, New York, are they seeing more happy holidays and so forth?
We're Middle America, Arizona, we're seeing it.
It's just really weird in New York because when you think of Christmas, you think of New York, you just can't see any of it here.
My name is Mark Belling, and I'm in the Russian bond.
See, you do run the risk of just sounding like a grumpy old man.
I remember when I was a kid, we were able to say I don't want to do that.
Because the people that I think most enjoy Christmas are actually young people.
I mean, they are into it.
I just don't want them to not get what this is.
And I'm not one of those people, well, it's all too commercialized, and it shouldn't be gift giving.
We should always be praying and thinking about what it is.
I think that you can do both.
Still, by wiping all of this out, they're taking away something from us, and nobody ever really knows how to fight back.
Anyway, the big story in America today, I think, is the weather.
This is wild stuff.
In Texas, it was tragic.
I think the death toll somewhere around 43 from the tornadoes.
If you take a look at a radar picture, by the way, does everybody have that app on their phone now where you can see the radar everywhere in the world?
Everybody has that.
You look at that thing.
There's this big glob of like every color that you could imagine, and it's running from like Mexico all the way up to Canada, and it's this huge mass over the country on the one side of it on the southern end, the southeastern end, I guess.
That's where all the rain and the tornadoes are coming because the weather is warmer there.
And on the northern end, they're talking about snow and ice storms and blizzards, there's winter storm warnings and affected.
Where I'm supposed to try to go back home tonight.
It's a huge system, and it just keeps crawling its way across the country.
It's another thing that happens almost every time I come here this week is I was here the week of the uh Great New York Blizzard where everything was shut down.
Mike Mamon actually came into work.
You were the only local New Yorker who made it in, made it into work.
He barely got here.
I remember when I was walking up the street to get here, I was the only person on the street.
There's always weird weather this week out of the year.
But the thing about weird weather now, when we have unusual weather and we had a we've had in our country a very warm December in New York yesterday, it was 63, 64.
Weird.
It's 63, 64 degrees, and what's everybody wearing?
They're all wearing their winter coats.
It's like, well, this is the this is late December.
It must be winter, so I'm going to dress like it's winter, even though it was spring.
Whenever you get weird weather like this, the people who are trying to push mountains destroying the planet on us roll out with their climate change crapola.
And these stories are all, well, we see more extreme weather, the warm weather, and now there's ice storms and there's rain and there's tornadoes.
Man has to be doing something.
Behind all of this is, I think, really toxic public policy.
And I want to address it for a moment.
Some people make the mistake, some on the right make the mistake of denying climate change.
I don't deny climate change, because as long as this planet has existed, its climate has changed.
The climate is always changing.
It's never been sad.
As long as we've had a planet, there have been changes in the climate.
What those changes will be, I don't think anyone knows.
This is where the global warming/slash climate change people are all wrong.
They A, try to blame what's going on on man, and then B, try to tell us that if we don't stop doing the things that they don't want us to do, A B, C, D, E, F and G are going to happen and they're all going to be terrible.
The planet has always changed, whether or not you are somebody who is a new Earth creationist, or somebody who thinks that we had this big giant bang and the planet's been around for billions and billions of years, we do know that there was an ice age on this planet.
There were glaciers that covered a good chunk of North America.
Then it got warmer, and those glaciers receded.
This is long before man was evolved man was around.
What caused that?
They've never answered that question.
What explains the constant change in the climate before man was producing any carbon emissions at all?
The receding of the glaciers.
Now that had to be real global warming.
It had to be pretty warm to make all of those glaciers just pull back and go away and leave us with, you know, the northern part of the United States and leaving us with Canada.
But it happened because the climate has always changed.
The climate on Mars has changed.
There are scientists who think at one point there was water on Mars.
Well, if there isn't any water now, but there was water then, what happened?
Are we going to blame that on man too?
Hard to do that.
No one knows in what direction the climate will continue to change.
All of the predictions they've made so far have been wrong.
Al Gore's movie, which is now old enough to be a joke, as if it wasn't when it came out, you should watch that and look at all of the things that they said would happen by now.
South Florida would be underwater, the hotels on Miami Beach would have disappeared.
The polar ice caps wouldn't exist, and the temperature would keep rising.
They didn't foresee that global warming would plateau, remains warmer than it's been on record, but not really increasing.
They didn't see that coming.
Remember after Katrina, which they tried to blame on Bush because Bush wouldn't address climate change?
Why we're going to see a dramatic increase in hurricanes in the Atlantic Ocean and in the Northern Hemisphere?
Hurricane rather uh hurricane activity has declined.
We haven't had, I think, a category one storm to hit the North American mainland since Katrina.
We've had a relatively calm period since then.
All of the predictions that they've made have been wrong.
Not one of them has been right.
Since they haven't been right about any of it yet, what makes us anyone think they're going to be right about any of the things that they're saying now?
And another thing.
I'll give you this.
The climate's changing because the climate always changes.
How do we know it's bad?
If the climate has indeed changed, as long as there's been a planet, and everything's pretty good now, I guess it all sort of works out.
We're saying climate change is bad, and therefore we have to stop the climate from changing.
But given the fact that the only way we got to where we are right now is that the climate has changed, what makes us think that we're at the perfect climate now?
Why is this the ideal?
Let's suppose it does warm up a degree or two.
How do we really know that's bad?
Let's suppose it cools off a degree or two.
Why is that necessarily bad?
The arrogance of man presuming that whatever the climate is right now, December of twenty fifteen, this is where we've got to freeze it in place and not allow anything to change.
Man's causing it.
I don't believe that.
For that I'm called a denier.
I'm called an idiot.
I'm called a moron.
I don't believe that man is responsible for the climate change that has gone on, because as I stated earlier, the climate has always changed without man doing much of anything.
Also, if man really did have the ability to change the climate, aren't there some climate changes that we would want to occur?
If we can change the climate, why don't we end the drought in California?
Well, that's weather.
That's not climate, they'll tell you that.
Well, we can't impact weather.
But we have the ability to affect the overall global climate.
We still haven't figured out how to make it rain for heaven's sakes.
And then the real problem with it.
And you know, Obama and the acolytes will all tell us that even if you're not convinced, what's the harm in reducing your carbon emissions to save the planet?
Here's the harm.
Have you been following the stories over the last two weeks about the amount of pollution in China?
It's unbelievable.
There are a number of airline flights out of Beijing over the weekend that were canceled.
The Chinese government is canceling airline flights because the pollution is so bad, the carbon emissions are so terrible.
In some of the cities in China, the fog is so bad that you literally can't see.
China is belching out air pollution.
Here in the United States, our air quality, if anything, is better than it's been at any point in the last 30 or 40 years.
Remember driving through Gary, Indiana when I was younger.
Go past those big smokestacks near the steel mills.
Here looked filthy.
We didn't have any scrubbers on our coal plants.
We were burning leaded gasoline.
We're cranking all of that stuff out.
We've done a number of things to improve the quality of air here.
In the meantime, the rest of the world is becoming industrialized, and they're spewing out all sorts of emissions.
Whatever we do here is a drop in the bucket compared to the increase in emissions that are occurring from the rest of the planet.
And then we're told, well, well, don't worry, China's going to comply to.
China's not going to comply.
Of course, you really think that China is, with their economy already starting to slow, going to deindustrialize themselves.
You really think that they may agree to do this, that, and the other thing, and they won't do it.
The Chinese lie.
So you're talking about ruining the American economy, driving up our utility rates, making manufacturing in this country impossible, all to avoid climate change, which we're not causing in the first place.
And even if we were, any little thing that we're doing here wouldn't do any good in comparison to the amount of pollution that's coming from China, India, and increasingly from Africa.
It's all a crock.
We have El Niño going on right now, and a lot of people think that that's going to mean a rainy season in California, and it's causing it's what's causing the milder weather that we've had so far.
There have been El Niños as long as the planet is around.
Are we to believe that man's causing this El Niño?
Or does the El Niño just happen, just as volcanoes just happen, and tornadoes just happen?
We're not in charge of the universe.
We are not the masters.
So rather than trying to blame ourselves for this for political purposes, we ought to just sit back and kind of watch it happen.
1-800-282-2882 is the phone number.
I'm going to take some calls from the Rush audience in a moment here.
I'm Mark Bellingham for Rush Lib.
Mark Belling into Rush, let's go to the phones.
Waco, Texas.
Frank, Frank, you're on EIB with me.
Hey, great to talk to you.
Uh on the uh climate thing, the question I always have is what is the correct temperature of the Earth?
But that's actually not the main point I called about.
So Well, it is a good it is a good point, though.
Well, right.
I I mean they all they they keep saying that we shouldn't be changing the climate, we shouldn't be changing the climate.
Well, what why don't they tell us exactly where we ought to be then before we start deciding that we're going to freeze everything in place for the remainder of all time?
Exactly.
Right.
Um, but I actually called about what you're talking about in New York about the stores and uh not putting Christmas displays and all that.
And I had this thought the other day for all of these retailers who refuse to say Merry Christmas, they don't want to have Christmas displays and all that, all because they don't want to offend some small handful of people.
I wonder how they would like it if the millions and millions of us who do celebrate and believe in a traditional Christmas, who do celebrate the actual birth of Christ, and do, you know, uh tell our families about what Christmas is actually all about.
And along with that, that we buy presents.
How would all of these retailers like it if all of us said, you know what?
We're just not gonna buy from you anymore.
We're not gonna go out and buy presents this year if you're not willing to say Merry Christmas, and if you're not willing to put a Christmas.
Oh, what they they'd bring Christmas back in a heartbeat if they thought it was costing them costing them sales.
I do try to look and see which stores put Christmas, the word Christmas in there, and it's almost always a local store or a regional chain rather than one of the big national chains.
It's a home improvement chain in the Midwest that's spreading across the country called Menards.
They put their the word Christmas in there all over the place.
So I think that that's wonderful that they do that.
I'd love to see one of the national chains take that up themselves and say that we're not embarrassed by Christmas because it would produce revenue for them.
They're just so terrified of people picketing and people protesting and saying people saying that we are offended.
It's like the entire country is becoming one big giant college campus where we're all having to live, you know, in safe zones for fear of offending anyone.
Thank you for the call.
To Sanger, California and Obi Obi, you're on the Russian Limbaugh program with Mark Belling.
Yeah.
Hold on, take up the phone.
Mark?
Yes, I'm here.
Yeah.
Um, you know, Rush always says that uh atheists are um left wingers.
Well, I'm an atheist, but I'm a staunch Republican and I'm a Trump supporter.
And uh regarding the Christmas issue, for years I really was uncomfortable saying Merry Christmas because uh even though I love the spirit of the season, I didn't like uh supporting the propaganda, religious propaganda, but I have become so disenchanted with political correctness that I now happily say Merry Christmas.
If even though you don't believe in Christmas, right, you say Merry Christmas just to fight back over the constant, you know, sock that we're putting in Americans' mouth about how you can't say this, that, or the other thing.
Yeah, and the the other step I took was I wrote a um about a 13-page treatise on debunking political correctness.
I took every point of political correctness uh from diversity to the self-esteem uh items, and I set up a website so that people could see the the irrationality to political correctness.
Uh, may I say the uh website to you?
Uh are we allowed to put no, we are not uh a ruling has come down from on high that you are not allowed to say the website, but I do appreciate the call.
Obi, now he mentions that he's an atheist, and often the people who object most loudly to things like Christmas are atheists, and that's always struck me as insecurity on their part.
I mean, let's suppose they're right, and I don't believe they are, but let's suppose they're right and there is no God, and we all just happened.
If they are right about that, what are they worried about that a bunch of Christians, or for that matter, Jews or Muslims or anyone are worshiping their God?
If they're right, we're all just wasting our time anyway, so what are they so worried about?
I've felt that most people who are atheists who are threatened by any type of religious celebration are merely threatened and fearful that they might be wrong.
I think that guy has a pretty healthy attitude about it.
I've never had a Jewish person tell me not to say Christmas.
I've never had a Muslim tell me that.
Couple of atheists, maybe, but I've never heard a person of another religion tell me that I am offending them by celebrating Christmas.
Just as I've never been offended in the slightest when friends have a Hanukkah party or the displaying a menorah.
Why would I be offended by that?
You're enjoying your culture and your religion.
That's wonderful.
So let everybody else enjoy theirs, especially since you stores that are trying to make it disappear are making so much money off of it.
Think of the irony of this.
The people making the most money off of Christmas are the ones who are doing the most to pretend that Christmas isn't happening.
I'm Mark Bellingham for Rush Limbaugh.
Mark Belling sitting in for Rush Limbaugh, tying these two topics that I've talked about here in the first hour together.
We bend over backwards to accommodate people who don't believe in Christmas.
We can't offend them.
But we mock and ridicule people who don't believe in climate change.
If you don't accept that, you're an idiot, you're a moron, you're a denier.
Yet we bend over backwards to accommodate the handful of people who don't believe in Christmas.
We mock the gospel of Luke, but we worship the gospel of Gore.
There's an arrogance to that.
An arrogance toward which minority ideas we're going to tolerate and condone and which we're simply going to stifle.
Now you obviously know what the purpose is.
The people who want to make us shut up are doing so for political reasons.
They've got an agenda here, and they don't want anyone to question any of this stuff.
Anyway, I've enjoyed these two topics, and I've enjoyed doing an entire hour so far with barely touching on the presidential race.
It's odd.
So many people are sick of talking about presidential politics, and nobody's even voted yet.
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