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April 19, 2016 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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April 19, 2016, Tuesday, Hour #3
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The uh the video I was referencing uh a couple of hours ago, an hour and a half ago, about a guy who went out to uh University of Washington, Washington State, and started engaging students, and could not get them to say that anything he was doing or saying was wrong.
And it's it was fascinating to watch this.
And you know, it answered some questions for me about the culture, what I call cultural rot or cultural decay.
Uh some people call it cultural evolution.
But there are many factors that that combine to produce the phenomena where we are like students that are afraid if anybody disagrees with them.
This uh new concept called microaggressions.
We've got students afraid of the word Trump written in chalk on a sidewalk that they have to pass.
And you read these stories, this is kind of exaggerated.
It has to be it's not.
Um then you remember everything that has happened to uh college age kids today growing up, they got trophies for just waking up, they got trophies for going to bed on time, they got trophies for participating in a sport, didn't have to win diddly squat, self-esteem movement told them they were excellent and superb and special and the greatest ever when they hadn't done anything to warrant any such thing.
And it's all led somewhere.
It has it is all led, then you add the average ordinary daily dose of liberalism to all of this.
And you have uh the phenomenon, really, where nothing except Republicans and conservatives are wrong.
Everything else is to be tolerated.
And this whole instance of tolerance has been bastardized now into acceptance of virtually anything because it's just not right to judge anybody.
I don't have the right to say that what you think or do is wrong.
I don't have the right to think it.
And what we end up losing is truth.
When there it's impossible for there to be truth.
It's impossible for there to be objective right and wrong.
Now, this is the first in in what's planned as a series of videos from uh the Family Policy Institute of Washington.
And in the video that I saw, the director of the Family Policy Institute has exchanges with students at the University of Washington.
And the context, the reason for this taking place, is a law in Washington State allowing transgender people to use restrooms and locker rooms of whatever gender they happen to identify with that moment, that day, that month.
However, it is they decide to present on a given day.
So the guy conducting the interviews with the students on the video is named Joseph Backholm.
He's Caucasian.
For those of you in real enemy, he's a white guy.
He's about 5'9.
And he walks up to these students and says, What would you say if I told you that I'm a now remember what what got this going is people who one day, you know, I I I feel like a woman, I'm gonna go to the women's bathroom.
And it's a guy.
Could be a 25-year-old six foot four inch guy who wants to go to the women's bathroom because he says he feels like a woman that day.
And nobody who tries to stop this, anybody who tries to stop this is ridiculed for not being tolerant.
And it's all happening under the rubric of the LGBT movement, lesbian gay, bisexual transgender movement, which exactly I predicted, by the way.
Once the gay community accomplished much of their agenda, they had to transfer it somewhere.
They can't allow the agenda of the movement to die.
So the next group of victims became transgenders.
But now we are having to write law and make adjustments as a society to accommodate that one-tenth of one percent of the population.
And the reason we're doing it having is because nobody will condemn it.
Nobody will say that it's wrong.
Nobody has the guts or the because what happens to them when they do.
As you can see happening in the state of Georgia, you can see happening in the state of North North Carolina, in Indiana, whenever a society via its elected representatives attempts to pass legislation, which is not, shouldn't be needed, by the way, that does not permit wanton use of opposite sex restrooms just because you feel like all hell comes down on you.
And it's a very uh active movement that is very much into intimidation and threats of violence and so forth.
And people who have been trained to avoid confrontation, no, that's been we shouldn't disagree at all.
We should all be getting along.
Then people that avoid confrontation.
Cave and the aberrants triumph yet again.
So that's what starts us.
The guy runs around and he young male students, young female students, and he says to one female student, okay, I'm walk up to you, I tell you right now, I I'm a six foot-five Chinese male.
What what what is your reaction?
And the girl says, well, I I, you know, like if you uh it's it's not it's not for me to say that you're not.
I mean, if if that's how you feel, uh then it's not for me to tell you that that's not who you are.
If he if that's how you feel, it's fine.
And he comes up with other examples.
Uh not just how he looks, but he he invents behavioral things that he has engaged in.
Well, if if that makes you happy, well, I it uh I'm just real uncomfortable.
I'm I'm just I'm just not comfortable uh judging you.
I uh and you can tell they get with each example this guy gives them, they get more and more pained.
But they will not, in no instance, do they tell the guy he's wrong?
In no instance, they tell the guy he's not who he says he is.
And from this, you can learn why it is then when somebody says that they are 24 years old and they're five nine, five ten, six, two, and they feel like a woman that day and want to use the women's restroom, why I I you know, I I that's what you who you are that that's that's fine.
We all have to be who we are.
If that's what you have to do, it's not my job to say no.
And this video is filled with example after example of this.
And you know, this takes moral equivalence and just obliterates it.
This goes so far beyond moral equivalence.
This is an obvious inability to stand for anything.
It's an inability to condemn anything.
It's an inability to um uh have any notion of objective right and wrong.
So it's a bye-bye morality, it's bye-bye right and wrong, it's bye-bye value system, it's bye-bye virtue.
And it's not just this one campus.
This is happening more and more, and particularly in younger generations, because this is how they've been taught.
And a lot of this is rooted in anti Christianity because Christianity has been portrayed as the premier judgmental religion, the premier condemnatory religion, that all they do is judge and condemn and put people down and deny people of freedom to be who they are.
And so you you we're raising uh kids in certain sectors of the country that simply will not stand for anything.
And by the same token, they use this as a license to do anything themselves.
Because none of their friends or colleagues or peers condemn what they do.
And they sit around, they praise each other for their openness.
And they praise each other for their tolerance while condemning others who are closed-minded and bigots.
One of one of the students on the tape says, a female student says, I I I feel like it's not my place as like another human being to say someone's wrong or or or to draw lines or draw boundaries.
It's not my place.
I don't have that right.
I have that right to say that you're wrong.
Think of what breaks down.
By the way, this just didn't happen.
This is not something we have been trending in this direction for years.
And I can thank you off the top of my head, think of countless examples.
I remember back in uh the 90s when the subject was condoms, and we had to make condoms available everywhere.
To give them away, had to instruct people in their usage in junior high, middle school, high school, and so forth, on the theory that we can't stop kids from having sex.
They're gonna have sex.
You can't stop them, Rush.
I don't care what you do, you can't stop them.
So I take calls from parents who would agree with that.
No, we can't stop them.
I'd call some parents of Long Island to actually say, yeah, I I let my daughter and her boyfriend spend the night in one of our guest rooms because it's cleaner than the back of his car.
I'm sitting here as host, incredulous at what I'm hearing.
They think it's virtuous.
And they can't stop them anyway.
So since they're going to do it, let's make sure that they have condoms and a clean bed.
So I suggested, well, how about a pack of cigarettes on the nightstand?
What do you mean?
Well, then that what everybody does.
After you have sex, you light up a cigarette.
No, no, no, they can't smoke.
What do you mean?
You think you can stop them from smoking?
Damn right, they're not going to smoke in my house.
Really?
You can stop them from smoking.
You're not going to permit it.
But uh they can have sex like a bunch of minks, and there's nothing you can do about it.
That's right, Mr. Limbaugh, that's right.
So this isn't anything new.
This is it's been trending in this direction.
And by this is made to order for the left.
Because the left can only survive when they're not being judged.
The left can only survive and prosper when they have bullied everybody into tolerating whatever behavior they want to engage in.
And good behavior doesn't require any tolerance.
So it's we're talking about aberrant behavior to begin with.
Good behavior, do you have to have any tolerance for that?
Good behavior is laudatory.
Good manners, good behavior, that's becoming an exception, but in the old days, I mean, you wouldn't, you wouldn't need tolerance for it.
You would have appreciation for it, maybe, but you wouldn't have to tolerate it.
It's the build up the tolerance for abnormal, destructive any other kind of behavior you want to describe.
But on this campus, University of uh of Washington.
I mean, I'm just giving you one example when he told them I'm a six foot five Chinese male.
Uh, but he gave them a bunch of other examples about, you know, differing types of physical appearance and things that he says that he had done or wanted to do, some of it reprehensible stuff.
Nobody would condemn it.
No and they got you could see they were getting tense.
You you you could you could see these uh these these kids getting all stressed out at the thought of condemning it.
They weren't getting stressed out at the kind of behavior.
They weren't getting stressed out at the fact that they were talking to some five foot nine inch white guy who thought he was a six point five inch, six foot five inch Chinese male.
That didn't bother them.
They were getting stressed out over the notion that oh I might have to say something.
I come on.
Bottom folks, we're in deep doo-doo is the bottom line here.
Okay, yesterday on the David Gregory Podcast website, the David Gregory Podcast website.
Is this the guy that used to run Meet the Press?
He's got a podcast.
I've seen him on CNN doing.
And we found it.
Well, I don't know.
Anyway, Mitt Romney was there on the David Gregory podcast website.
That's what I want to do when I grow up and Gregory said to Romney, do you think that Republicans are headed to an open convention?
That's an incisive question.
Happy to be able to provide that for you.
Here's Romney's answer.
I think that depends on uh whether or not Mr. Cruz and Mr. Kasich both stay in the race aggressively through California.
I think uh uh Cruz and and Kasich uh divide the vote, if you will, and that would make it easier for Mr. Trump to win the winner take all congressional districts and the winner take all states and get the delegates he needs either to reach the 1237 or to get close enough to it that he could persuade uh the uncommitted delegates uh that he'd need to to get the uh victory on the first ballot.
If it remains three candidates, I think Mr. Trump gets it on the first ballot.
If it remains three, I mean Kasich stays in, and of course there's no question Cruz is gonna what it was is Kasich or Cruz unless they drop what's run through this.
He says if Cruz I'm sorry, Mr. Cruz and Mr. Kasich divide the vote, if you will.
Uh that would make it easier for Mr. Trump to win the winner take all congressional districts and the winner take all states and get the delegates he needs to reach 1237, or to get close enough to it that he could persuade uncommitted delegates that he could get there anyway.
If it remains three candidates, Trump gets it on the first ballot.
Now, what do you think Kasich would say if somebody did you hear what I'm sure that's happened?
You would Mitt Romney said, Mitt Romney said you stay again guarantees Trump wins.
And Casey, no, no, no, I'm the nominee.
I'm gonna be the nominee.
You watch.
People look at themselves and ask if there are any men in white coats nearby.
Anyway, David Gregory had another question.
He said, everybody keeps focusing on twelve thirty-seven is the magic number, but if Trump gets close and he has the ability to work it a little bit, get some unbound delegates to go his way, then what?
That's the problem.
The nature of the process and uh my guess is some delegates might like to fly around on air Trump or perhaps get a a membership to uh Mara Largo.
I think there's a lot of way to be persuasive uh on the on the part of the uh the people who are close.
There will be uh quite a few uncommitted delegates that go to Cleveland and being able to pick off fifty or a hundred of them is probably not uh beyond the uh the possibility of a strong campaign.
Sounds like Mitt's kind of uh accepting the obvious.
It sounds like kind of it's gonna happen.
Who was it uh Rex Ryan?
I just saw him, I guess introduce Trump uh upstate New York near Buffalo.
The f the bills, yeah.
But he did it.
He said he was not acting as part of the Buffalo Bills.
He was just an independent guy up there.
But he introduced Trump at a at a uh at a campaign rally.
Quickly, Kathy, Kansas City, Missouri.
Great to have you on the program.
Hi.
Glad you waited.
Rush, I've been on hold for over an hour and a half, which only proves how much I love you.
Well, thank you very much.
My husband's gonna flip when he found finds out I sat patiently this long, but I'll make my point quickly.
I just feel like I need to call on behalf of so many of your listeners who just love you just as much as I do, but I feel like you're frustrated with us because you seem to want to put anyone who is um angry and frustrated at these last few primaries as being anti-cruz.
And I would like to say on behalf of many of these people, I feel confident that I can do this and say that I am not angry at Cruz at all for the way that these primaries are unfolding.
I am angry at the establishment.
I am angry at the R and C. I have been frustrated by this group of people for a long time, and I will not stand.
I will change my party affiliation after this election.
But Kathy, I I I need to frustration is not I need to interrupt you if I can ask you to hold on through a break.
Um because you said something at the outset here.
You you you sense that I'm frustrated with many in the audience, is that right?
I'm not at all.
I did uh no way, shape, manner, or form.
But don't go away.
We will continue in a moment.
Yeah, I hope to be able to squeeze them in.
We've got some.
I got some good sound bites and crooked Hillary coming up here.
You know that coughing spasm bit that she has.
It seems to me, I could be wrong about this.
I'm uh rare, but it could be.
It seems to me that she uses that coughing spasm uh trick well timed.
Uh at a point in time where she gets a trick question or a tough question and and doesn't want to deal with it.
Or it could really be the uh an indicator of a serious uh health problem, which they wouldn't want anybody to really get their arms around.
Anyway, back to Kathy Kansas City, Missouri.
Before we get to your point about you and the R and C what is it that I I must know this.
What is it that's given you the idea that I am frustrated with uh listeners, people listen to the Well no, it's okay.
First of all, I know and love you, so I'm not gonna go down this path and spend a lot of my time discussing it.
You have been a little frustrated with us.
We have been a little frustrated with you, but I know you love us.
I but I'm not frustrated I'm not frustrated.
Okay, that's fine.
You don't have to be frustrated.
My point is this.
I have been very frustrated with the R and C for years.
Four years.
For the establishment, the Republicans that are actually just Democrats in slow motion.
It's ridiculous.
This is the same group of people who doesn't care a lick about my vote.
They don't care.
Okay?
So they are going in and they are making this a game.
And the only they don't care about democracy, they don't care that I pay a boatload in taxes.
It's a game to them.
Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, no, what's the primary is doing is playing the game.
That's all he's doing.
He's not to blame, but he is playing the game rush.
And I for one am not gonna play anymore.
I'm done playing games.
Wait a second.
What do you mean Cruz is playing the game?
You mean he he's insincere about something?
No, no, no.
No, he's just playing you you want to discuss rules and the rules have been set up and rules this and rules that, and when did Trump know the rules and has he not known the rules?
Rules, whatever.
I'm saying the RNC looks at this as a game.
And for whatever reason, Trump's not playing.
And that's my point.
Trump is not playing, but Cruz is.
Okay.
So they are that that's that's the only thing.
Is my frustration is not with Cruz, and I think I can speak on behalf of a lot of people who just want whoever can be Hillary.
Okay.
It would help me think it's Cruz.
Kathy, it would help me to know, because I'm desperately trying to, you know, I mayor of Realville here.
Yes.
And I try to put things in c context.
What is it that inspired you to call with this?
What happened that made you rush to the phone to want to call here today?
I don't know.
I think just because I listened to you, I you and I walk together every day.
And so every you know, I just detect this I I've been so frustrated.
Okay, you mentioned the rules.
And I we talked about the rules today, and I did ask an uh uh listener a question if they thought Trump knew the rules and just ignored them or didn't know the rules was genuinely incompetent and ignorant about the rules.
I think he found out the rules, but if you think that put side by side Donald Trump and Ted Cruz, who could smooth better?
Are you kidding me?
There's no contest.
Okay?
And that would be Cruz.
And you're that you you're you're in that comparison, Cruz is the winner hands down, and you're no no no no, no, no, no.
He's probably a very nice guy, and I would vote for him if he is the candidate.
Oh, you're a Trumpist.
I guess.
Okay, I get it now.
I get that's where I that's the I was missing a piece.
I was unable to tell what it was driving your call here.
No, I'm not a Trumpist, okay.
If he is the candidate, I'm voting for him.
You're just anti-RNC.
Right.
You're just fed up with the R and C because you don't think they w they they're just gaming you.
Yes.
I think the RNC is the Democratic Party in slow motion.
They don't give a rip about anybody.
They care about like you keep saying.
They care about their power.
That is all they care about.
They want to be in power.
They don't care about I mean, they're pathetic.
They are the most pathetic group.
I cannot stand the whole establishment.
And I just get very frustrated because I feel like you're making apologies for them as of late.
You are very much saying, well, these are the rules.
The rules are the rules.
Like suddenly, the people that make the rules are, you know, this wonderful noble group.
Okay, now we're getting to it.
Now we're getting to it.
See, this is why I am patient, ladies and gentlemen.
If you spend enough time, you'll uh you'll if you can't figure it out, take the time, you'll get to what's really you're ticked off at my supposed adherence to the rules, and the rules were written by the RNC, and that means the rules are suspect, and you're a little frustrated with me for advocating for the rules.
Yeah, because I feel like in advocating for the rules, you are suddenly cozying up a little bit to the establishment, and you've never been like that ever.
But what I was reacting to, I'm sorry, it just offends my sensibilities to hear Trump call what happened at Colorado a canceled election.
There was never gonna be an election.
And it's been known since August that there wasn't gonna be.
So to run around and call it a cancelled election as though the Democrat process had been thwarted here is not an accurate characterization of what happened.
You have to admit, it's brilliant, because I totally agree.
He knew he didn't have a chance, and so he is spinning this...
No, that's what I don't know.
I I don't know if Trump never knew what the rules in the States are, or if he did and decided he wasn't gonna go that route.
I d I still don't know.
Not that it matters now.
And I think side by side, you you said it the other day, which is so true.
Trump is probably thinking, I'll wait until the convention, then I'll swoop in and I'll swoon these people like they've never been swooned before in their lives.
They won't know what hit them.
But I'm not gonna waste precious days, precious campaign days off the trail trying to hobknob with these people in Colorado and then go into the next state.
He's just gonna, if he meets you.
I posited that as a theory.
You have to take all this and put it all together uh and keep it all in in context.
And uh it it's look at I'm being you you don't know this, probably, Kevin.
I'm being ripped to shreds out there practically everywhere you go, no matter what I say, I'm either pro-Trump, always pro-Trump, or defending Trump or pro-Cruz, but I won't come out and say so.
It's just it's you you if if you don't listen to this program and you read everywhere else what happens here, you're gonna be uh confused.
And I'm not saying that that's that that's you.
All I'm doing is is asking questions here, or at times analyzing things as they happen.
And I looked at what happened in Colorado.
I looked the way uh every you talk about uh a game or so forth.
I mean, there are game aspects of this.
There's theory, there's strategy, there's way various ways to play this.
And uh I've tried to figure out what Trump's technique and what his focus is, how he's actually trying to win this ditto for Cruz, uh, given their relative positions here.
There's only one guy can get to 1237 right now, and that's Trump.
Cruz has no hope unless it's contested.
And so the only thing Cruz can do is try to get delegates pledged to him for the second and third and possibly fourth and fifth ballots, whatever.
Trump, on the other hand, I just am assuming my theory is that he thought he was just gonna swarm the nation, swamp everything with a national popular vote tally that was gonna dwarf everything else.
I think he probably expected to be at 1237 before today, and that's why this individual state-by-state delegate hunt was not something that they thought necessary at the Trump campaign.
All this is a wild guess, by the way.
I'm just I don't call any of these people, I don't talk to them, I don't ask, as I d I don't.
I have my reasons.
So I'm just theorizing on on how all this is is playing out.
So when I see, I know Trump.
He's not he's here's a guy that has to know every he's gonna build a building in Tim Buck too before he even makes the first phone call.
He's gonna know every zoning regulation.
He's gonna know everybody on any committee, zoning, building codes, whatever that he has to deal with and how he's got to deal with them, and every rule that exists that he's either going to try to get around or get nullified or have to obey.
And I have to think he did the same thing here.
And if he didn't, then it calls other things into question.
I'm just under the assumption that the RNC makes all these rules available to all the candidates, as they've said they do back in October or in August.
And uh so Trump doesn't win Colorado Cruises in there sweeping all the delegates.
Trump's got to do something.
So start talking about how this votes are being stolen or the election was canceled or whatever, because he knows who his audience is.
He knows how to play to them.
So you can sit here, you can look at it's like the drive-by media constantly marveled at what a great liar Bill Clinton was.
Rather than call him on it, rather than condemn it, they marvel.
I mean, they knew he was lying to them every day.
Same thing with Obama.
And they marvel at it.
And they think it's great.
They write books on how lying is really helpful, and it doesn't really hurt anybody.
In fact, it might spare feelings and so forth.
Trump supporters have the same attitude about about uh what he's doing.
They're exceptionally tolerant, and he knows it, and he knows how to keep them in uh in in play.
Uh and and make sure the momentum doesn't shift away.
I'm just sitting here marveling at it, is is all, and trying to chronicle it here, but it's being interpreted as support, if I correctly analyze something.
Uh and I haven't in any way stated that, one way or the other, but I'm not frustrated with anybody in the audience.
No way, shape, manner, or form.
Um I'm intrigued by it all.
I've I've I think of myself, Cathy, as the preeminent communicator in America.
And when I am not properly understood, I think it's gotta be my fault.
Because this is what I'm this is this is what I've studied to be, worked hard at being.
So I try to figure out different ways of communicating things.
Because the last thing I want is confusion about what I think uh among my audience.
So I appreciate your call.
I appreciate your patience here, but I'm not up against it.
I have to go to an obscene profit timeout, which is what we call commercial break.
And we'll be back and continue after this.
Don't go away.
Looky here, if this isn't predictable, nothing is from the New York Post, New York voters battled closed polling stations and broken machines Tuesday morning during the city's first relevant primary in decades.
At PS 73, the Bushwick section of Brooklyn, residents waiting for the polls to open at six were furious that workers couldn't access keys to the facility.
You can't vote, you can't cast any type of ballot.
The keys to the building are in a locked box and nobody has the keys, said Torchia Childs on Facebook.
You can't even get inside the building.
You're being turned away at the door.
So it started here.
Voting irregularities in New York.
Don't know, Democrat, Republican, it's not stated here in the story, just statewide.
So you get a story planted like this, so that no matter what the results are, you have the template laid down to suggest there might have been hijinks or fraud or what have you, if it doesn't go the way some want it.
Classic.
Uh Bob, I've got about 45 seconds.
I still I want to squeeze you in if you can get to your point in limited time.
Can you?
Yep.
Good.
Try.
How much sympathy would the Trump real estate organization have for somebody who signed a contract with them they hadn't read?
That's how much sympathy I've got for the Trump people organization.
It was always about delegates.
And while I was on hold, I worked it out.
It was 277 days between when Trump announced and when they hired what's his name to run the delegates.
Manafort.
That's it.
Manafort, yes.
That's it.
Meaning what?
You don't think he took it seriously?
Well, I'm saying if he's gonna hire the best people, and it's always about the ballot.
Okay, if he's gonna hire the best people, how come he didn't hire them first when the traditional first would have been?
Okay, I'm glad you were quick.
I gotta go.
Back after this, folks.
Don't go away.
It's the fastest three hours in media for a reason.
It's over.
It just gets going, just gets revved up.
We have to take a 21 hour break.
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