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June 20, 2016 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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June 20, 2016, Monday, Hour #2
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Greetings, my friends, and welcome back.
Rush Limbaugh here at 800-282-2882.
Look, let me cut to the chase here of this email.
Again, the bottom line is this.
After reviewing everything that I've pointed out and all of the things that seem to be contradictory, the question is, Mr. Limbaugh, Mr. Limbaugh, I am really struggling with this concept that you keep saying that liberal Democrat progressive hate for us supersedes the one major job of the president, and that is to protect the citizens.
And this all derives from the fact that each time something like this happens, I have been, I don't know, saying, proclaiming, that in order to understand all this without going totally insane, you have to understand that as far as Obama and the Democrats and the Democrat Party,
the official Democrat Party, and all of its loyalists, to them the greater threat to them is us, not ISIS, not a shooter in Orlando, not even Al-Qaeda.
Because for everything Al-Qaeda and ISIS and the Orlando shooter are doing, they're not trying to kick Democrats out of office.
We are.
But it's even more complicated than that.
It used to be that in politics you had opponents, and there was a day in the way old long days ago that it was sort of collegial and it was convenient.
Now it's also true to say that back then the Democrats were perennial winners.
The Republicans were satisfied losers.
And that's when things were collegial.
You know, when the Republicans didn't run the House for 40 years, had 135 members, and no matter what, they didn't have the votes to stop anything.
Of course, everybody got along.
And that was when the Republicans agreed to be the minority party, and everybody in the establishment got to hunker down and be in their little elite club with their assigned roles.
All of that changed with Ronald Reagan.
Reagan was actually the beginning of the change.
Conservatism implemented, which created magical economic conditions.
Everything Reagan succeeded at disproved every liberal theory there.
That scared the heck out of them.
And when Reagan was in office throughout his two terms, and to this day afterward, the efforts to revise what happened in the 1980s have been ongoing.
All of the great job creation, the reduction in debt, deficit debt, the reduction in interest rates, the rapid rise in unemployment, wage and uh wage increases, people accruing wealth, people's standard of living skyrocketing upward.
That scared the heck out of it.
They had to say that that wasn't really what happened.
They had to portray that as false and phony, and it didn't really happen.
And so that's when we started hearing things about we had too big a party, our life was too good, it was so good, it wasn't real.
It was all fake, and now the bill has come due, and we have to have this pay major credit card payment that we've got to make.
That's the Sam Donaldson the media kept portraying the 80s.
There has been a constant effort, never-ending effort since then to diminish obscure lie about all of the prosperity, all of the great things that happened in this country in the night, and then after Reagan left office, the Berlin Wall coming down, the implosion of the Soviet Union.
The hits just kept on coming, and every one of them, if they'd have been allowed to stand, and if they had permeated the body politic, it would have been the end of liberalism as a dominating ideological political force.
They couldn't abide that.
They set out on a policy of personal destruction of every potentially successful conservative, Robert Bork is the first name that comes to mind.
And since then, any conservative, any Republican who has shown any ability whatsoever to persuade large groups of people has summarily been targeted for destruction and has been, in many ways, image wise, reputation wise, destroyed.
What this has produced is a 40 year drumbeat, never ending of total degradation of conservatism and republicanism.
People have not been able to escape it.
It was all over the drive by media.
It dominated Democrat Party policy, politics, and statements.
Bill Clinton on to this day, it's just worsened under Obama than it's ever been, but it's been cumulative.
Now you add, you had the advent of this program and talk radio, the creation of the so called conservative media scared the just the death out of them.
This conservative blogosphere, websites and so forth, newspapers being lose audience, traditional network news shows losing viewers, ad revenue in both places plummeting, sheer panic set in, they doubled their efforts to destroy anybody who had any credibility in the conservative side of things.
And because the conserv that there was a there was a lack of of response to a lot of this throughout all of these 40 years.
Now let's add to it social media fake book, Twitter, you name it, if you are not familiar with what goes on there, you need to somehow familiarize yourself with it because every day it is a nuclear explosion on how rotten,
mean spirited, racist, sexist bigoted, homophobic, and all the other horrible things conservatives are and conservatism is when you have low information people, low information voters, average ordinary people not not steeped or devoted to political matters each and every day, reading that stuff, they can't help but absorb it because it is an explosion every day.
It's a never ending assault and we have gotten to the point now where despite all this conservative media look you have to throw the Republican Party in here to a certain extent because they have not sought to defend anything that they've been attacked for being and that's where it really needed to have happened.
We've been defending conservatism here and everywhere else in the so-called new media each and every day.
But the people that you vote for on the Republican side have not there have been very little defense in fact we've got to the point now where many on the Republican side are so beaten down and so destroyed that they have post-traumatic stress disorder over the way the media has treated them.
And that's why there's no criticism of Obama.
Throw the race card in there as well.
There's a fear of that.
But it's gotten to the point now where there hasn't been any response to it.
There isn't any now.
And so all of these really defamatory attacks, which have been taking place for 40 years, have been allowed to settle in.
Some people refer to this as branding.
some people refer to it as as image making or what have you but my contention is that the real beginning of this was the success of Reagan and conservatism in the 1980s and the left's palpable fear that people would actually understand it.
So they began distorting, defaming, impugning everything to do with Reagan, like Reaganomics and trickle-down.
It wasn't real.
The only reason the 80s worked is because the rich got rich by stealing from the poor.
The rich got rich, and then they didn't share.
It didn't trickle down.
They didn't share it with people.
And so the rich got richer, and the poor got poorer.
And that's been the standard operating procedure from the 1980s, when it's the exact opposite.
What's happening now is the rich are getting richer and the poor getting poorer under a liberal Democrat regime.
All these times people have thought that it's Republicans in bed with.
with the banks, Republicans in bed with CEOs, Republicans in bed with corporate, it's the Democrats today, and it has been for decades.
But nobody knows.
So you ask, you send me an email and say, I'm really struggling with this concept that their hate for us supersedes the one major job of the president, and that's protect the citizens.
What that means is how when something like Orlando happens, when 50 some odd gay Americans are slaughtered.
Why does the president not mobilize in a manner that will try to prevent something like that from happening again?
Because his job is to protect the American citizen instead of using that as an opportunity to once again defame and criticize Republicans.
Look, I wish I had a first grade answer for you that's so simple and understandable.
Everybody would agree with it, but I don't.
All I know is that I'm right when I say they, it's I don't, it's not that they fear us.
I don't think they're afraid of us at all.
I think that they're more focused on us as an enemy than they are Al-Qaeda.
They're more we don't kill anybody, we don't take lives, but that's what they're telling people we do.
They're the ones that kill babies in the womb.
They're the ones that enable terrorists to continue these acts by not pursuing them, by not chasing them, by not categorizing them for what they are and who they are and what they do.
And yet, we're the killers.
We're the ones with all the bias.
We're the ones with all the prejudice, they say.
And the manifestation of this, I have no better example than a little blurb I happened to catch this morning, which is why I decided to share this email with you, because here's the answer to the question.
It's actually a video on YouTube, it's via town hall.
Omar Mateen pledged allegiance to ISIS while he opened fire on the Pulse Nightclub in Orlando last weekend, proving his attack was born out of radical Islam.
Yet if you if you ask some bystanders in Brooklyn, they'll tell you that his rampage had nothing to do with religion.
A filmmaker, Ami Horowitz, who does Man on the Street documentaries and interviews, decided to go to Brooklyn and just asked people on the street who was to blame for the attack in the gay nightclub.
One Brooklynite said, I don't think it had much to do with Islam, to be honest.
I don't even think it was a terrorist, said another.
Republicans and guns played a much larger role in that gay bar massacre than Islam did.
And this is what practically everybody he ran into at random on the street in Brooklyn said to him, one way or the other.
Another one said, oh yeah, 100% the Republicans are responsible.
Guns, guns, another one said guns are way more dangerous than Islam, way more.
But why shouldn't we be surprised?
This is exactly my point.
This is what people have been told.
They can't help but absorb it.
Forty years of this stuff, folks, they can't help but have absorbed it.
And if any of them spend any time at all on social media, I guarantee you that they're, I could I could rename five conservative people that these people believe are more dangerous than somebody who actually shot up a gay bar and massacred over 50 people.
And then you have the regime.
Let's add on top of this, the regime comes along and bans the use of the word sharia, bans the use of the word jihad.
Now you have Obama sending Loretta Lynch out there yesterday, saying, No, no, no, we're gonna redact this because this guy, this guy's a one-off, he was radicalized, but he's had nothing to do with ISIS, he's got nothing to do with Islam, he's got nothing to do with Muslims, it's nothing to do with terrorism.
This guy's a one-off standalone criminal who may have been radicalized on the internet, but he doesn't represent anything.
So we're gonna say that what he said is is irrelevant.
He didn't know what he was talking about.
We're gonna redact his words.
Well, you have to put yourself in the shoes of the average ordinary American who already has, however long they've lived, years of experience of being told that the real threat in this country is the people who oppose choice, the people who oppose climate change, the people who oppose freedom, the people who are for the rich, the people who are for racism, who are for bigotry.
That's what they've been told.
I can't wa I don't know one of their explanation makes sense.
And so ultimately, here you have an act of terror, and there's been one every year.
We've had we've had a serious act of terror every year of the Obama administration.
Every year.
And with every one of them, Republicans end up being thought of by a majority of people as the culprits.
Yeah, if the Republicans hadn't stood in the way of gun control, the guy wouldn't have been able to do it.
If the Republicans weren't in bed with the N or hey, if the Republicans weren't in bed with corporate America, the however it is said in ways that they believe it.
So it it becomes Mateen didn't even do it.
Mateen may have been before it's all over, Mateen may have been inspired to do this by virtue of the hatred he heard coming from Republicans.
Don't be surprised if that's where this long investigation ends up, that this guy had been radicalized not by ISIS, not by Al Qaeda.
He had been radicalized by extreme Republican rhetoric.
You wait and see.
That's what they've been doing.
All I'm telling you is don't doubt me.
If you're thinking that an Islamic jihadist can go blow up a gay bar and have a bunch of American homosexuals see the light, say, wait a second, and then they hear their president come out and say, no, no, no, he's not a bad guy.
He was maybe a little sick, maybe he was off the beaten path.
But he wasn't.
And don't be surprised when you don't see a mass exodus of gay activists from the Democrat Party, or even gay people who are not political activists.
Because the Republicans are more dangerous than this guy.
They've had a lifetime of hearing it.
We'll get to the calls when we get back after this break.
Okay, let's start on the phones.
It's Cody in Fayetteville, North Carolina.
Glad you called, sir.
You're up first.
Welcome to the program.
Yes, hello, thank you.
You bet.
Um basically I just wanted to say, as a gay millennial, I don't see why the gay community is backing Hillary and the Obama administration as much as they are after what happened, because it really does feel like they do not care about any Americans, period.
And they'd rather defend the Islamic terrorists than defend their own people in their own country.
Yeah.
Maybe you can explain this to us.
I mean, I'm trying to wrap my head around it.
I was a Democrat at one point.
Well, if you are, then you've no doubt heard the song and dance, but how the Republicans are more dangerous, the Republicans may be even responsible for this.
Oh, yeah, I have, which I know they're not.
I mean, how could you blame the Republicans when they're not even the ones running the country?
That makes an absolutely nothing.
It defies logic, which is why we're dealing with emotion here, and the Democrats have known it, and they know how to reach these emotional centers in people.
They know how to touch on fear.
You know, all you have to do is tell a group of people that the Republicans want to either kick them out of country or put them in jail or deny them their rights or this or that, and you've made them the biggest enemy people face.
Meanwhile, the Republicans aren't killing anybody, but it is believed by these people in Brooklyn on the street.
The Republicans are responsible for this because they have stood in the way of getting guns out of America.
It's just how it works.
Well, I know after Orlando, I'm going to get me a gun because I don't feel safe.
I don't feel like my government is going to take care of me the way they should be taking care of me.
I don't blame you at all.
If I were if I were gay, millennial or otherwise, and I'm watching the Obama administration reaction to this by basically trying to deny everything we all know to be true.
It's open season on gays.
Do you know that this is part and parcel of Islam?
Look at all these ten Islamic countries that murder and execute gays.
How can Obama say that they're not guilty of that which people think they are?
I don't blame you at all for having this attitude that this regime is not first concerned with your safety.
They'd rather take this event and try to turn it into a way to advance their political agenda rather than protect you and others.
You're right.
Let's move on to Trump here because these two are related, if you ask me, and I think it, I think it all of this stuff is interrelated.
As it always happens when I run into I saw a bunch of friends I haven't seen in almost a year uh out on the golf course, uh both days, Saturday and Sunday in Los Angeles, and without exception, they're all for Trump.
They're all Republicans, they're all getting worried that Trump's blowing it.
And they wish he weren't.
And if I heard once, I heard twice, three times or four times.
Why Rush, when when the inspector general report came out, pretty much just nailing Hillary to the wall on these emails and stuff.
Why was Trump off still talking about the Mexican judge?
Why hasn't why why didn't Trump pounce on that?
Then another question became why is Trump stopped doing what got him there?
Why we can't what Trump's not making sense to us anymore.
What what what what's but then inevitably, after all the complaints about Trump came observations about how the media is likewise uh building Hillary up and trying to destroy Trump and this kind of thing.
My point here is that pretty much everybody I ran into wants Trump to win.
And I'll tell you something, folks.
At least among my circle, which is pretty big, the commonality is not so much that Trump is great.
It's that we just can't stand Hillary.
There did any more of this, and we're done.
And by the same token, everything I just said, this stuff has got to stop.
And that's why I I tell you, I haven't got myself in trouble here.
I was prepared whoever the Republican nominee was was gonna get my full-fledged support.
I didn't care who it was, because this has got to stop.
Not just the policy implementation that we're getting.
Don't think Obama's a standalone.
The entire Democrat Party's gone now.
The impi the entire Democrat Party and their supporters have become full-fledged radical leftist progressives.
And just like this man on the street stuff from Brooklyn, I'm telling you, it's common out there.
You know, people say I used to know a lot of Democrats, and none of this, none of this would be acceptable.
None of that they would abandon the deputy.
It's an embarrassing.
But the reason they don't is because we are the bigger enemy.
Conservatives, Republicans, what people running for office opposite Democrats are the bigger enemy.
And I'm here to tell you they really do, in utter defiance of all logic and common sense.
They really I'm talking about your average ordinary Democrat voter, progressive, liberal, whatever you want to categorize them.
They really do believe that we represent a greater threat to their way of life than any militant terrorist, any military enemy.
We do.
Because of what they've been taught.
And folks, what they have been taught is an absolute corruption and perversion of this country's history.
An absolute perversion and corruption of what the Republican Party and conservative movements are.
They've been taught this from their earliest abilities to understand teaching and learning.
And this has all been by uh by design as well.
Um millennials are a uh a target here.
Uh, people are looking at millennials and don't understand how w when did we lose them?
I mean, this is the first 18 to 24 generation that people can remember in a long time who've already cashed in the chips because they figured out the country's best days are behind them.
And so they're willing here to become wards of the state in order to eat and have some place to live, public transportation and all.
When did that happen?
When when did young people stop desiring to make something of themselves?
I hear this all the time.
And I don't know how universal that is.
But economics is clearly a factor here.
The government's taking more and more of the what we call the economy.
There's the pie that everybody hopes to have a piece of and expand is getting smaller because government keeps taking big chunks of it, like for health care.
They're trying to usurp the entire energy sector now.
And it doesn't work.
It has never worked.
Socialism, communism, what it never works, but people are willing to invest in it rather than let the Republicans get the White House.
Boils the Republicans hate people.
That's just what it boils to.
Republicans just don't like people.
They don't like immigrants, they don't like women, they don't like the poor, and then you have a bunch of people believe in it.
I have a friend who has uh a millennial daughter, so he studies them.
Uh his daughter and and uh and their friends.
Let me see if I can he sent me a uh a note based on his observations of what's important to them and how to reach them based on what he's just heard them talking about.
And he says that one of the big deals about millennials.
See if this is if you have a millennial kid, or if you know a bunch of them.
He said, let me just read his note to you.
I had a just had a weekend interacting with dozens of millennials rush.
And after listening to a weekend of it, in my opinion, if Trump simply explained how his policies and proposals are sustainable, and how Hillary's are not, I think he'd go a long way to making significant inroads with them.
If you own sustainability, you could end up owning millennials.
And he sent me a study from Business Insider that buttresses the point made by what he heard.
It's not just this weekend, he's his daughter's been a millennial for a while.
He's been studying her and uh and her friends.
And he says the underpinning of the millennials he knows, and he's careful not to say that this represents all of them, but the underpinning of their philosophy of life stems from their views on the environment and food.
The mean versus nice narrative will be Hillary's angle, and the media is going to play along.
We're mean, Democrats are nice.
We don't care about people, we don't love they do.
He says, I think Trump can do an end run and talk directly to the millennial audience.
Now he has his own message, but I think it dovetails with his core message.
Obamacare's not sustainable, for example.
They need to be told because apparently he hears them, that word sustainable is apparently something that this group of people he's been studying has been taught, it's been drilled into their heads.
Sustainability, the food supply, the environment, what have you.
So the message needs to be transmitted in their terms, such as Obamacare isn't sustainable.
Open borders are not sustainable.
Gun-free zones are not sustainable.
Women and women's rights and gays and gays' rights are simply not sustainable in a country with a Strong sharia population.
An emasculated military can't sustain a nation in freedom.
It goes on and on.
This is what they care about, Rush, as his note to me says.
We're losing the country because liberalism isn't sustainable, and these kids don't know it.
They think it's the exact opposite.
Now, I don't know if that reflects with similarly with things that you hear from uh millennial aged people.
But the study here, business insider, an emerging retail trend is key for attracting millennials.
The millennial generation has a wider choice, a wider range of choices than any generation before them, Steve Easterbrook, global grand uh chief brand officer from McDonald's told the Wall Street Journal in 2014.
They are promiscuous in their brand loyalty.
It makes it harder work for all of us.
Promiscuous, meaning they don't have single choices.
Like it the rule of thumb used to be that if you haven't gotten to somebody by age 20, you say you're selling beer.
If you haven't got them hooked on Budweiser by age 20, you're never going to get them.
Beer advertising has always been aimed at at young just arriving consumers.
That you don't advertise for people their 30s and 40s, they've made their choice.
This guy is saying that millennials are not wedded to a single brand like previous generations have been, and that's what promiscuous in their brand loyalty means.
It means that there's so many choices for them, so many fast food places, so many different kinds of cars, so many different, that they don't just end up choosing one.
Many of the world's most successful consumer product companies freely admit they are struggling to bond with millennial consumers, the 18 to 34-year-olds now moving into their prime spending years.
And today there are about 75 million of them.
We recently conducted a series of focus groups seeking insights into millennial consumers' beliefs and priorities.
And in the course of these sessions, millennials told us that they can strongly identify with consumer brands that have a status or advertise the lifestyle that they like to live by, or that would they would like to live by, do live by or like to.
Millennials also said they are drawn to brands that reflect their deeply held personal values.
And here is a consensus thought from two different millennial focus groups.
Quote, I like to think forward.
For me, sustainability trumps convenience.
So what this guy is hearing with his daughter and her friends in the millennial...
But sustainability seems to be relevant to delve deeper into the value that millennial consumers place on sustainability.
A.T. Carney and the NPD group conducted an online survey, more than 200 millennials said which, if any of a company's sustainability practices are most important to them when purchasing a car, food, personal care products, consumer electronics apparel, household cleaning products.
Our findings suggests that the time may be ripe for consumer companies to take a fresh look at the value propositions they offer millennials.
For example, when marketing to young adults, many companies tout their commitment to corporate social responsibility.
However, the tangible impact of this strategy is limited because while millennials clearly want to do business to be a force for good in the world, many seem to view CSR as mere table stakes.
Millennials demand, here's the poll quote, millennials demand for sustainable products, not just socially responsible companies, represents an important shift in consumer priority.
Now, what is this?
What is sustainable products?
What would you off the top of your head?
What are we talking about here?
Millennials demand for sustainable products.
Well, for example, when asked specifically about buying a car, the baby boomers we surveyed most frequently said they would prefer to buy a car made in America.
Millennials most often said they want a car that uses little to no fuel and is good for the environment.
Let me no, I'm just telling you, they have they have bought climate change through and through.
I read the first couple chapters of a book that is huge among young people, Ready Player One.
Have you heard of it?
Oh, wait.
It is so it was so eye-opening for what we're up against with millennials, what they think.
What they've been taught, they're not thinking in it, what they have been taught.
This this environmental global warming, destroy the planet system.
They bought it.
They have hook, line, and sinker.
It's not a question anymore.
It's an ontological certifiable, truthful occurrence.
It's happening each and every and guess guess who is seen as not caring about it?
The Republicans, exactly right.
Now I tell you who told me about Ready Player One, Joel Cernos playing golf of Joel on Saturday.
Have you heard of this book?
I said, no.
He said, well, let me tell you something.
Spielberg, he listed off a bunch of names of people are getting ready to make the movie version of it.
And it's the creme de la creme of Hollywood producers.
I've forgotten some of the names, and since I have, I don't want to guess.
But I do remember he said Spielberg.
They're all looking at producing it.
Folks, and I I went because I bought it on a golf course.
I bought the ebook version of the golf course, I think on the 16th hall when he was telling me about it.
And I uh I had some time, I guess Saturday night, yeah, start reading it.
I read the first four or five chapters.
I'm gonna I'm gonna I think I'm gonna read an excerpt to you in the segment next hour uh before getting full bore into the Trump stuff, but it's from 2011.
It's not a new book, it's five years old.
It's fiction, it's dystopian.
It is the opposite of utopia.
It's it's let me just tell you.
The guy that wrote the book is Ernest Klein.
In 2012, it received an Alex Award from the Young Adult Library Services Association division of the American Library Association, which means it's aimed at kids, millennials and and young people.
Spielberg is doing the movie adaptation.
Production is starting in the fall.
Most people in this nom.
Now it's sci-fi, I understand all that, but but don't forget the influence here.
Most people live in what are called the stacks.
This is after global warming has destroyed everything.
All the fossil fuels are gone because we did not start alternative energy soon enough.
And so now what people live in are mobile homes stacked on top of each other, 20 and 30 feet high in the suburbs of cities that are gone.
They are wastelands.
They live in its the stacks, and these RVs, in order to use up less land, these mobile homes, and the description of life in these things is absolutely horrid.
But it's, as I say, it's science fiction, and it's that's the thing.
Young people are going to read this and they're going to combine it with everything that they have been taught so far and think this is the natural conclusion of where we're headed if we don't get a handle here on climate change and stop using all this fossil fuel and start getting into alternative.
You know, for the longest time we've thought all this stuff was so ridiculous that people would have laughing at it like we did.
But nope, they've been hoovering it up as though it's gospel.
So I think I will read just as this is what we're up against, folks.
That's why, you know, Trump versus Hillary, there it's anybody versus the Democrats have got to loot.
They've got this stuff has to be stopped.
Or There's always going to be an America, but it may not look like one that you've recognized for what.
Okay, coming up in the next hour, brief excerpt from this book, Ready Player One, and it's going to be made into a movie which is going to have its own impact on the target audience, which would be millennials and sci-fi fans, and they vote Democrat.
And we'll get into Trump and Lewandowski, what's going on with the Trump campaign, all coming up here when we get into our next hour right after this.
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