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May 17, 2016 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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May 17, 2016, Tuesday, Hour #2
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Yes, America's Anchorman is away today and this is your official EIB anchor baby.
I just snuck across the border to use the bathroom.
I'm here today.
Rush is at a charity golf tournament but he will return for authentic full-strength all-American, American as apple pie.
Excellence in broadcasting starting tomorrow and taking you through the end of the week.
He's amazingly generous with his time for these charities and the only downside to it is that it means he occasionally has to be away from the microphone to fulfill his obligation.
But he will be back tomorrow for the real deal all the way through the end of the week.
I mentioned at the top of the show that today is the International Day Against Homophobia, transphobia and biphobia.
And all the international organizations and a lot of the world leaders are issuing their messages.
And in fact, Canada, the new Prime Minister, Justin Trudeau, is marking the day by introducing an Obama-style transgendered rights thing on the International Day Against Homophobia, Transphobia and Biphobia.
And if you go to the UNESCO website, it's got this little thing.
It's got this nice little pretty illustration about transgendered rights showing that, oh, you know, people might be dangerous in danger because people say mean things to them at school and they shouldn't have mean things said to them at school and people might be mean to them on the way to school and all the rest of it.
You know, we live in a world where right now ISIS is throwing people off the roofs of buildings for being gay.
It's burning people for being homosexual.
The Prime Minister of Uganda passed a law outlawing homosexuality.
And so you have institutionalized so-called homophobia around the world in nations that all practice a form of law beginning with the letter I for Islamic.
And all these people saying, oh, it's the International Day Against Homophobia, have nothing to say about this.
They all think that being homophobic is somebody saying mean things to you at school because you suggested starting a gay straight alliance in your high school and the big jock on the football team didn't want to join in.
And we live in a world where homosexuals are being burned alive or they're being thrown off the roofs of buildings because that's the dispute in the Islamic world.
They can't agree which one it is.
Imam Karadawi, whom the city of Boston, he's the head of a big shot to Muslim Foundation.
He's on the board of this big Islamic center that the city of Boston gave the land to to build.
Imam Karadawi is one of these big buddies with the new Muslim mayor of London.
And he says he's open-minded on homosexuality.
He can't decide whether we should throw him off the building or we should burn him alive.
And none of this, oh, International Day Against Homophobia, has nothing to say about any of that.
Nothing to say about any of that, because they'd much rather go on about they'd much rather go up against less motivated enemies.
For example, the guy who accused Whole Foods, Whole Foods, this is where liberals go to shop, the guy who accused Whole Foods, oh, wait a minute, Mr. Snerdly is a Whole Foods fan.
How dare you produce the Rush Limbaugh show when you're going to Whole Foods?
That's an absolute...
What was it Rush said?
If you don't like barbecue, you're not one of us.
You're not getting your barbecue.
Don't tell me you get your barbecue at Whole Foods, Mr. Snurdley.
That's how it goes.
That's your death of the Republic right there, folks.
Mr. Snurdley shops at Whole Foods.
Anyway, Whole Foods.
I wouldn't know.
They don't have them in New Hampshire.
Whole Foods.
Whole Foods.
A guy goes, a gay pastor, Jordan Brown, three weeks ago, he went to order a gay wedding cake from Whole Foods, and he wanted the phrase love wins iced on the top of it.
And instead, he claimed three weeks ago, he got a cake with the phrase, love wins, and then underneath, spelt out F-A-G fag, love wins, fag.
So a homophobic slur.
And so he complained about it and he went public and it became a big deal in the media that this was a hate crime, that Whole Foods is now handing openly gay people homophobic wedding cakes.
You can't get a wedding cake without them adding a gay slur to it.
And then they showed the store video footage which showed him apparently purchasing the cake without the slur on it.
And he apparently added the slur later.
And anyway, he's now withdrawn his charge against Whole Foods.
And Whole Foods is not going to sue him for damaging this reputation.
And he's apologized to the LGBT community for diverting attention from real issues.
And he says he wants to apologize to Whole Foods for questioning the company's commitment to its values.
And if you look at the way this story has been reported, there's a very, even when a guy basically perpetrated a fake hate crime to make a very gay-friendly store look homophobic.
That's what this guy did.
And The Washington Post reports the story saying, Pastor Brown normally preaches about love and acceptance with a particular focus on outreach to lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender Christians at the church he leads in Austin, Texas.
But after he picked up a cake in April that was supposed to say love wins, he turned to preaching in the media and in court.
No, he didn't.
This guy lied.
He lied.
He got a cake that was what he wanted that said love wins, beautifully iced on the gay wedding cake.
And then he went and he got a little icing funnel and he got some, he made some icing.
He heated up the sugar and the coloring and he went to the trouble of icing the letters F A G on his gay wedding cake to make Whole Foods look like homophobes, look like holophobes.
Homo, it's not Whole Foods, it's homo, homo, holophobe there.
Whole foods is holophobic.
He went to the trouble of icing F A G. Do you know how difficult it is?
I used to ice cakes when my little girl was a young girl and she was still impressed by it and didn't want the Shrek cake or whatever from the Finding Nemo cake from the official cake store.
I used to go to the trouble of icing her birthday cake.
I used to ice cakes.
Mr. Serley's now going, oh, you used to ice cakes.
Come on, you shop at Whole Foods.
There's not a real man in a hundred mile radius.
It's the new.
Yeah, exactly.
Yeah, that's right.
It's just, there's no men anymore.
We're all girls now.
Yes, I iced my daughter's birthday cake.
And it's incredibly difficult.
When a real man, when a manly man ices a cake, it's a hell of a mess.
You know, you have to have the number of goes, you have to have that like little paper bag, you're icing the name on the cake.
This guy went to the trouble.
Most of these fake hate crimes, they just smear blood on a college dorm door in the shape of, or they draw a swastika or they hang a noose.
And this guy, he went to the trouble of making icing and icing the letters F A G on his hate crime wedding cake from Whole Foods.
And that's what's fascinating about this.
The whole identity politics thing, which is the most poisonous thing that has come to the Western world.
Because the great thing about the Western world, particularly the common law world, common law has never acknowledged groups.
Common law says you are an individual and your rights derive from the fact that you're an individual before the law.
And it doesn't matter whether you're a gay individual or a transgendered individual or a black individual or a Muslim individual under common law, in the common law tradition, your rights derive as an individual before the law.
And now we live in this identity group world and more to the point, an identity group hierarchy that is defined mostly by victimhood, by the fact that everybody else is out to get you.
So if you live in a reasonably nice place and you shop at Whole Foods, if you're a gay pastor, for example, which would be a contradiction in terms At many points in human history, if you're a gay pastor and you've got a gay church and you shop at Whole Foods and you have a pretty nice life,
and yet the whole mode of society today is that identity groups politics is so overpowering that the haters, you need someone to hate you, and the haters aren't hating you enough.
And you wind up going to Whole Foods and ordering a gay wedding cake and icing the letters FA, going to the trouble of icing the letters FAG on your wedding cake.
Think of that guy.
Think of him making the heating, heating the sugar, putting in the coloring, putting it into the little piping bag with the greasy paper and painstakingly, beautifully lettering the letters F A G so he can make Whole Foods look like haters.
And this is the sickness about identity group politics, and for which the left is almost entirely to blame in that it asks people not to define themselves as Americans, not to define themselves as citizens,
and not to conduct their relationships on the basis of a citizen treating with other citizens, but ask them instead to look on themselves as a functionary of a particular grievance industry.
And when you do that, you end up with the insanity of this deranged lunatic whom the Washington Post is apologizing for.
They're saying, well, after he picked up a cake in April that was supposed to say love wins, he turned to preaching in the middle.
No, he didn't.
He lied.
You twitter, the Washington Post, you incompetent journalist.
He didn't turn to anything.
What he did was he iced the letters FAG.
He's so poisoned by the identity politics where we're supposed to think of ourselves as members of this group or that group, and we come in a hierarchy of groups.
So as we discussed yesterday at a German swimming bath, migrants trump women, and in an Idaho bathroom, transgendered Trump women.
We're supposed to think of ourselves as victim groups with a hierarchy of victimhood.
And it has been one of the most disgraceful and damaging things to the point where this guy shouldn't be preaching to anyone.
He's mentally ill.
He's mentally ill.
A guy who is so twisted and insecure and obsessed with identity politics that he painstakingly ices FAG on a wedding cake served to him by a pro-gay wedding clerk at a pro-gay cake store.
That's where identity politics leads.
You need someone to hate you.
And if you live in a reasonably civilized society, there aren't enough people to hate you.
So you have to conjure phantoms.
And then you end up in a world where you can't even recognize the people who really hate you.
Because that guy's problem is not Whole Foods Cake Department.
That guy's problem is the vast arc of the Sharia world where they want to burn him alive or toss him off a building and he's too stupid and twisted by this insane identity politics of the left that he can't even see it.
And that's where the dead end of identity politics leads to a pathetic guy who's been given a wedding cake by a pro-gay wedding store and he's sitting there painstakingly lettering the FAG in icing on the cake.
Identity politics is a dead end.
In a free society, we are citizens and we treat with our fellow citizens as individuals, equal before the law.
Mark Stein for us 1-800-282-2882.
Hey, Mark Stein, in Farush.
Let's go to Doug on the Isle of Palm, South Carolina.
Not Palm Beach, not Palm Springs, but Isle of Palm.
Doug, you're live on the Russian Embosho.
Great to have you with us.
Thank you, Mark.
You and I grew up in the same square mile, suburban Toronto, 25 years apart.
Oh, right.
Oh, that's great.
Where are you from?
The Royal York, Etobicoke, kind of.
Oh, wonderful.
Wonderful.
Great to have you.
And you've led South.
Okay.
First of all, when Rush announced you're coming on this week, I pulled out America alone because I thought I should just sort of refresh myself.
In 2006, you called what's happening in Europe like a play-by-play over about 50 pages.
It's exactly what's happening.
You were incredibly prescient.
Yeah, I didn't want to be.
If you write a kind of apocalyptic book, you want to do it so people won't, people will prevent the scenario from happening.
I think I've got a section in there called Eurabian Night as Europe descends into Eurabia.
And I talk about the four horsemen of the eupocalypse or whatever I call it in there.
And basically, everything I did say about the demographic decline and the resurgence of Islam, basically, instead of saying, oh, this is terrible, we need to avert this, Ankela Merkel in Germany said, this is great, and put her foot on the gas and decided to accelerate the process.
So it gives me no pride to realize I was right on that, because I think it's a tragedy what's happening in Europe.
And I certainly don't want anything similar to happen here.
But that is a prescient book.
And if you're a Rush Limbaugh listener and you haven't read that book, it stands up pretty well today.
Not 100%, these things never do.
But in terms of the demographic decline of Europe and what is happening in Germany, Austria, France, Belgium, Sweden, the Netherlands, it's pretty much on the money.
And even from this distance, Doug.
Now a question.
Okay.
I know your UK credentials and your global thoughts.
What do you think is going to happen with Brexit, the UK's attempt to disengage from Europe?
Well, I'm in favor of Brexit because I think the European Union is a super centralized state.
The reason the United States has survived is because until fairly recently, it was a decentralized federation.
If it had been as centralized as the European Union is trying to be, it would have collapsed by about 1793.
We're now seeing that centralization with Obama's appointment of the Attorney General as Chief Commissar of Bathrooms from Maine to Hawaii.
That's the kind of thing they do in the European Union.
This guy, Herman van Rompuy, who is an apparatchic who, under some backroom deal between the Germans and the French, gets to call himself President of Europe.
He's an obscure Belgian no one had ever heard of.
And now he's an obscure Belgian no one's ever heard of with President of Europe on his business card.
It's amazing how that happens over there.
But this guy, Herman van Rompuy, said a couple of years ago, this is the beginning of the age of global governance.
Where do you go to vote out global governance if you object to it?
What polling station, what town hall, what school gym do you get to go and get a ballot paper if you disagree with global governance?
That's how the elite in the European Union look at it.
And the fact is that for Britain, which is off the coast of Europe, but throughout its history has been an outward-looking nation, that's why it settled North America and Australia and New Zealand and it went to India and to Belize and to South Africa and all these other places.
It doesn't primarily think of itself as a continental power.
And Doug, I am in favor of the citizens of the United Kingdom voting to leave the European Union in the referendum next month.
And I was honored to appear on stage in Toronto recently with Nigel Farage, who is the leader of the UK Independence Party.
The fact of the matter is that we are at a critical time for both halves of the Western world, in North America and Europe, where they are turning on both sides of the Atlantic Ocean.
They are turning into these super-elite technocrat superstates, centralized superstates, where a small number of clever people, whether it's the curvature of bananas in Europe or transgendered bathrooms in America, which is also not unrelated to the curvature of your banana, they are declining into these centralized superstates.
And that's wrong.
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You know, I was talking about this guy with the hate crime, the fake hate crime, which is what most of them are.
They're these artificially iced hate crimes where the guy goes to get a gay wedding cake from Whole Foods.
And in fact, the fellow who baked the cake for him was a gay baker, so a gay baker at a gay-friendly store.
And then this guy went back and iced, painstakingly iced the words F-A-G on it.
And I was describing the way that the difficulty I had when I used to ice birthday cakes for my daughter's birthday.
And I've had all these emails.
And Snerdley is still.
Snerdley won't let go.
There are no real men anymore, Snerdley.
Let's just face it.
You know, you're shopping at Whole Foods.
I'm icing cakes.
There's no men.
Forget it.
It's over.
We're all girls now.
That's why we all have to use the girls' bathroom.
The age of men is gone and we are all girls.
Actually, there is a point I saw.
You sent me that thing this morning.
There's some story somewhere which is complaining on this transgender rights thing that we're just focusing on male to female transgenders like Caitlin Jenner, who are because we're so shallow that we're just obsessed with this conventional, shallow, essentially male ideas of feminine beauty like Caitlin sprawled all over Vanity Fair.
And we're not talking about all the female to male transgenders like Chas Bono.
And there's this, you sent me this whole thing on this.
And the reason we don't do that, by the way, is because of the discrepancy.
For every nine men who decide to become women, only one woman decides to become a man.
So there are nine Caitlin Jenners for every Chas Bono.
So net, the whole process, this whole transgender rights thing is an entire 90% net transfer from the male sector to the female sector.
That's what's going that.
No, no, there's no point to being a man at all anymore.
There's absolutely no point.
There's no point.
And that's why everyone, in the end, we will all be women.
We'll all be icing cakes at Whole Foods.
But since I mentioned that, I've had all these emails and tweets and things from people saying, what are you on about?
All the difficulty of icing.
You just go and you can buy this thing like a toothpaste tube from Betty Crocker or whoever it is, and you just like press it and the icing comes out perfectly every time.
What are you wasting time heating up sugar and putting it in a piping bag and all the rest of it?
Listen, listen.
This is what's wrong with America today.
When I commit a fake hate crime, right?
Okay, when I go to a homophobic bakery and I ask for a gay wedding cake, it's totally not in the spit.
Do you think Martha Stewart would use some Betty Crocker mix to ice her fake hate crime, anti-gay, homophobic wedding and cake?
Of course not.
If Americans, when they're committing fake hate crimes, can't even be bothered doing their own icing on their homophobic wedding cakes.
What is this country coming to?
So I'm not going to, I'm not going to join these people just taking the shortcut and saying, oh, here's one.
You don't switch on Martha Stewart's show and say, oh, here's a homophobic wedding cake I made earlier.
No, you've got to do the real work of doing the icing yourself.
International Day Against Homophobia and Transphobia.
Be careful.
This is a warning for those of you who were wanting to do your bit against transphobia.
A foreign tourist in the Thailand city of Pattaya was doing his bit to combat transphobia by having sex with a transsexual escort in his hotel room when he got carried away, banged his head on the wall and died.
So if you are, this man died in the battle against transphobia.
He's one of the fallen heroes in the battle of transphobia.
He was so anxious to combat transphobia that he had overvigorous sex with a transsexual prostitute in Thailand, banged his head on the wall and died.
Let that be a cautionary tale to you.
And, you know, If Obama is as serious about this as he purports to be, I think he's going to be handing out a Medal of Freedom or whatever to this guy because he played his part in the war against transphobia.
Where is all this heading?
Employers, new college grads aren't ready for workplace.
Gee, there's a surprise.
This is from CBS News.
Many people fresh out of college who succeed in landing work in recent years may need to face a painful truth.
Their employers often don't think they're ready for the job.
According to a survey released today by Payscale, which provides data on salaries and the executive development firm Future Workplace, nearly 90% of all recent college graduates considered themselves well prepared for their jobs because they've got great self-esteem.
They don't know nothing, but they've got terrific self-esteem.
Unfortunately for young employees, only half of hiring managers shared that opinion.
More than half of all companies, 60%, said new graduates lacked critical thinking skills and attention to detail, 56%, while 44% found fault with their writing proficiency and 39% were critical of their public speaking ability.
So these new college graduates lack critical thinking skills.
They lack writing proficiency.
They lack public speaking ability.
Why would you be surprised at this?
They spend whatever it is now, four to six years getting a bachelor's in colonialism and transgender studies, and they're taught to be alert for every microaggression.
And if a microaggression is occurring on the other side of town, then the college has to build a safe space to put them in and to make them safe in their safe space.
Why would you be surprised that when you make the mistake of hiring these people, they lack critical thinking skills, writing proficiency, and public speaking ability?
This is the new world.
We are going to live in a world where everybody goes to college until the age of 32 and they do these non-subjects and they spend essentially an ever longer period of life in this weird bubble, alert for microaggressions, demanding the safe space be ever more fluffily insulated.
And then when they come out into the real world and you make the mistake of hiring these guys, you find out they don't know nothing.
That's the state we're in, according to this new survey from Payscale and the executive development firm Future Workplace, as reported by CBS News.
And it's about really the skills gap.
You know, college, university used to be a very particular thing that very few people went to, and you went there to pursue an academic discipline.
This is where I disagree with Marco Rubio.
Marco Rubio was making snide cracks about philosophy majors during his campaign.
In fact, philosophy is a genuine field of scholarship.
It's a real subject.
And it involves a lot of old dead people with funny names writing in funny languages.
And it's hard to do.
It's not an easy subject to do, philosophy.
If you do transgendered studies, that's easy.
You can do it in your sleep.
You can do it in the bathroom.
You'll get points for doing it in the bathroom.
Those are not real subjects of academic discipline.
And so if you have the situation now where college debt in America is over a trillion dollars and it's more than credit card debt, and it's a trillion, essentially, people have taken on a trillion dollars of debt to master pseudo-subjects of no economic value.
The idea that when they've taken on these huge debts, the pseudo-skills they have mastered for the cost of a six-figure sum are going to be any use for the lives they want to live is completely ridiculous.
And this is what this survey confirms.
The college majors with the lowest early career salary are ones in family and consumer sciences.
What is that?
What is family and consumer science?
If you're a family and consumer science major, apparently you have the lowest early career salary.
It's $28,000 a year, which is you do the math.
If you've taken on, if you paid $60,000 a year for four years For a starting salary of $28,000, you do the math on that.
In family and consumer sciences, I don't even know what that is.
If you know what family and consumer sciences is, and you've got a degree in it, tell me.
But at any rate, we do not appear to be, for taking on a trillion dollars in debt, we do not appear to be producing young people with the basic skills such as critical thinking, critical thinking, to do the kind of jobs that the cost of their education would presuppose that they're being lined up to do.
Mark Stein and Farush, we'll take your calls straight ahead.
Mark Stein Farush, let us go to Steve in Boyne City, Michigan.
Steve, you're live on the Rush Limbaugh Show.
Great to have you with us.
Mark, it's great to be with you.
I have a question for you.
So there's obviously a spectrum of people who call themselves conservatives.
And you described how you thought you are a conservative, you know, what you believe in that spectrum.
I consider myself very much the same as you.
And so normally, when this type of thing happens, where I don't get the kind of candidate in my party that I would like, I hold my nose and vote for them because the alternative is not a pleasant alternative.
People who are national speakers, national media people who are quite conservative and who are quite intelligent and moral and have integrity that I respect, are saying that they are concerned that this situation today is different than previous presidential elections in that they're concerned that the economy is headed in a very bad direction, regardless of who gets in.
And if Trump should get in, it will make things vastly more difficult for a more conservative, a true conservative, down the road, or even a libertarian.
What are your thoughts on that?
Well, I think there's two ways to look at that.
For start, I think if Hillary gets in, we will be on the same trajectory we've been in the eight years, which is the short story of what's happening is that Americans are falling out of the middle class, and getting back into the middle class is getting beyond the reach of many of them.
So we're having greater economic immobility in this country, lack of economic mobility.
So there's a group of people who run everything, like the guys I was mentioning yesterday, these 12-year-old pajama boys who get jobs as speechwriters for Obama, like Ben Rhodes and the two fellas who were joking about if you like your doctor, you can keep your doctor on the Charlie Rose show on PBS.
And they make the decisions, and there's a great big, vast swamp of people at the bottom who live with the consequences of the decision.
And people whose parents and grandparents had steady work that enabled them to lead a middle-class life in a nice three-bedroom house on a decent-sized lot in a non-crime-ridden part of town.
That life is increasingly being closed off to them.
If Hillary is elected, that trajectory will accelerate and will bifurcate in the way that Latin American countries do.
There's the president and his elite and a big swamp of dysfunctional mass at the bottom and a smaller and smaller middle class.
Against that is Trump.
And to be honest, Steve, nobody knows what would happen if Trump were to be elected because it would be a wild ride.
It would be an experiment.
It would be America taking a flyer on a kind of president that nobody has ever seen before in this country, where traditionally the presidents emerge from one or other particular party.
So that's my honest answer.
He's a businessman and he's successful in business.
What none of us know is whether the skills that are required to put up a Trump resort in Scotland are the same skills that are required to manage the Department of Housing and Urban Development or the Department of Health and Human Services,
whether the skill set that builds a Trump casino in Atlantic City is the same skill set required for managing one of the biggest bureaucracies on earth.
That's the honest answer, Steve.
We don't know how to scary answer, isn't it?
Well, it's not a scary answer necessarily up against the certainty of decline, which is what is being offered by Hillary.
The fact is, if you're right and there is an economic depression looming, then whoever is in charge of that will get the blame for that.
Democrats get less blame because they can still blame it on George W. Bush.
And if we have an unending chain of Democrats for the next six decades, they'll still be blaming it on a decision George W. Bush took at the beginning of the century.
Trump, if you are scared by those choices, the certainty of continuing decline or the wild ride with Trump, the way to look at it is this, Steve, just quickly, we've got a break approaching, but I want to get this in because it's quite an important thought.
Trump would be a president from no party.
He basically joined the Republican Party 20 minutes before he announced he was running for it.
So in a sense, he would be in the White House as a president of no party.
And one good effect of that might be that Congress might reassert its prerogatives, which they haven't done in decades, and Congress might start to act legitimately as the legislative branch.
The Republican Party and the Democratic Party both would not be natural bedmates of Trump.
And that actually might, in the long run, a Congress reasserting its privileges might be one of the best things that comes out of this situation.
But as I said, Steve, you know, the honest answer is that it is a leap into the unknown, whereas Hillary is a leap into the certainty of accelerating long-term decline and ultimately the end of America as a superpower.
Mark Stein for Rush, more to come.
Mark Stein in Farush, you know, we were talking about that fake hate crime with the guy basically icing his own homophobic wedding cake and then accusing Whole Foods of it.
I don't believe in hate crimes.
I'm in favor of prosecuting crimes in a timely manner, which is getting more and more difficult in this country.
I'm in favor of prosecuting crimes as crimes.
But hate crimes is a bogus category that incentivizes identity group grievance.
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