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June 20, 2016 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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June 20, 2016, Monday, Hour #3
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Now what I'm doing here is trying to keep you uh up to speed on what younger generations are considering important and who they listen to, what influences them and leads them to vote the way they do.
Now it's always tricky because uh younger generations, by definition, are not as knowledgeable as their elders.
They haven't lived as long.
They don't have as many experiences, but that doesn't matter because they don't believe that.
They don't they think they know everything, which is we all did when we were their age.
But re never mind that.
The fact is that they are targeted by advertisers, they are targeted by pretty much uh every consumer group, movies, books, newspapers, music, you name it, they are the targets because it is it is felt that uh by the time you get to 45,
40, you pretty much have made your consumer choices in terms of products, even though the vast majority of disposable income is in the the uh 48 to 54 and up demographic.
There's far more disposable income there than in the millenni.
The choices have been made in large part by the uh quote unquote adults.
But the key to this is to remember that Hollywood's political, and Hollywood is a primary tool that's used, and same thing with the entertainment industry, wherever you find it in books, TV shows, it's part of the whole agenda advancement apparatus of the American left.
The pop culture, where you don't find conservatism uh much at all.
And so I'm on point, is the the thrust of my comment.
I'm not veering away from what's important here.
Uh quite the contrary.
I'm using this as an opportunity to inform you of things that otherwise you wouldn't even know are going on, uh, unless you are parents and you stay closely involved with your kids to understand what they believe and why, particularly if it differs from the way you raise them.
They are being bombarded by every potential industry that wants their business.
And the Democrat Party is an industry that wants their business, their business equals vote.
And they have many avenues to reach them, and entertainment and pop culture is near the top of the list, if not the top.
Education is another area that has been corrupted by the left for the express purpose of demonizing and destroying Republicans concerned.
Anybody that's not a leftist.
So I I was told about this book on Saturday, and that Spielberg is producing at the movie adaptation.
Production starting in the fall.
Now, normally people come on, Rush, it's you gotta they all like the Beatles at one point, but they grow out of it and so forth.
I don't look at it.
I I think it's important.
This stuff's important.
You want to figure out why they vote, why they think what they think.
More importantly, you want to know what.
So when I was reading this book, I had no idea what it was.
It was uh when it was when it was told to me, it was it was Rush, I can't explain it, you just gotta read it.
But it's you'll you you're you'll be dazzled with the writing and so forth.
Okay.
So Ready Player One is uh from 2011.
It's science fiction, it's dystopian.
The author is Ernest Klein.
It's gotten all kinds of awards.
And let me just read to you an excerpt.
Because the book, I think, is a representation of what people already think.
And to people who don't already think this way, it is going to be a huge influence, or probably has been.
I don't know how many young people have read it.
I think it's it's popular enough that Spielberg's making a movie out of it.
So here's the except this is line, paragraph chapter four, I think, if I recall.
See, did it mention that when I printed it out?
No, the chapter's not mentioned, but it's it's early on, because it's as far as I've gotten.
The lead character and narrator is named Wade, and he's a nerd and a geek and an outcast.
He has been laughed at and made fun of his whole life.
He doesn't have any friends except fellow geeks and really only one or two.
Virtual reality is how they live.
They never leave their homes.
They go to school in virtual reality.
Nothing is real.
Everything is a VR headset.
That's how they travel, it's how they go to school.
It's how they date.
They don't leave home.
Everything is a VR headset.
Because the real world is so bad.
They have had to create fantasy lives and fantasy worlds.
And this guy is at this point in the book, he's lamenting that nobody told him the truth earlier in his life.
The real truth about humanity and life and America.
I wish somebody had just told me, and now imagine your sixteen, seventeen, eighteen, twenty-five, thirty-year-old reading this is the point.
And imagine watching a movie made of this.
I wish someone had just told me the truth right up front, as soon as I was old enough to understand it.
I wish somebody had just said, here's the deal, Wade.
You're something called a human being.
That's a really smart kind of animal.
Like every other animal on this planet, we are descended from a single celled organism that lived millions of years ago.
This happened by a process called evolution, and you'll learn more about that later.
Now, Wade, that story you heard about how we were all created by a super powerful dude named God who lives up in the sky, it's total BS, Wade.
The whole God thing's actually an ancient fairy tale that people have been telling one another for thousands of years.
We made it all up, like Santa Claus, the the Easter bunny.
Oh, by the way, Wade, there's no Santa Claus.
There's no Easter Bunny, and there never have been all BS.
Sorry, kid, deal with it.
You're probably wondering what happened before you got here.
What happened before you were born?
Well, an awful lot of stuff happened, Wade.
Once we evolved into humans, things got pretty interesting.
We figured out how to grow food and domesticate animals, so we didn't have to spend all of our time hunting.
Our tribes got much bigger.
We spread across the entire planet like an unstoppable virus.
Then, after fighting a bunch of wars with each other over land resources and our made-up gods, we eventually got all of our tribes organized into a global civilization.
But honestly, it wasn't all that organized or civilized, Wade.
And we continue to fight a lot of wars with each other, but we also figured out how to do science, which of course that's where the bad news comes in, Wade.
You see, our global civilization came at a huge cost.
You see, we needed a whole bunch of energy to build it.
And we got that energy by burning fossil fuels, which came from dead plants and animals buried deep in the ground.
We used up most of this fuel before you were born, Wade, and now it's pretty much all gone.
This means that we no longer have enough energy to keep our civilization running like it was before.
So we've had to cut back big time.
We call it the global energy crisis, and it's been going on for a while now.
It turns out, Wade, this is the big thing that burning all those fossil fuels, it had some nasty side effects, like raising the temperature of our planet and screwing up the environment.
So now the polar ice caps are melting, sea levels are rising, and the weather is all screwed up.
Plants and animals are dying off in record numbers, and lots of people are starving and homeless.
And we're still fighting wars with each other, mostly over the few resources that we have left.
Basically, kid, what this all means is that life is a lot tougher than it used to be in the good old days back before you were born.
Things used to be awesome, but now they're kind of terrifying.
To be honest, the future doesn't look too bright.
You were born at a pretty crappy time in history, Wade.
It looks like things are only going to get worse from here on out.
Human civilization's in decline.
Some people even say it's collapsing.
You're probably wondering what's going to happen to you.
Well, that's easy.
The same thing's going to happen to you that has happened to every other human being who has ever lived.
You're gonna die.
We're all gonna die.
That's just how it is.
And what happens when you die, Wade?
Well, we're not completely sure, but the evidence seems to suggest that nothing happens.
You're just dead.
Your brain stops working, and you're not around anymore to ask annoying questions.
Those stories you've heard about heaven.
Well, no more pain or death.
You live forever in a state of perpetual happiness.
That's total BS, Wade.
Just like all that God stuff.
There's no evidence of a heaven, and there never was.
We made that up too.
Wishful thinking.
So now you have to live the rest of your life knowing you're gonna die someday and disappear forever.
Sorry.
Okay, on second thought, maybe honesty isn't the best policy after all.
Maybe it isn't a good idea to tell you, tell a newly arrived human being that he's been born into a world of chaos, pain, and poverty just in time to watch everything fall to pieces.
See, I discovered all of that gradually over several years, and it still made me feel like jumping off a bridge.
Luckily, I had access to the OASI, which is the virtual reality video game that everybody lives in in this book.
The book's about the guy who created it and who died and left a giant game.
Anybody who figured out the answer to his game would get his 240 billion dollar fortune.
And so the book is about people that try to figure out the game, which is a haven't got far enough to know exactly what it is, but it's like deciphering a bunch of computer code to get to the end of a giant puzzle, and the story of the book is it's so hard it's impossible to do.
But anyway, the video game kept me sane.
The video game allowed me to think I was living life.
Video game allowed me by virtual reality to go to school to learn history and so forth.
Anyway, it's just pessimism, it's dystopia.
All rooted in the fact that global warming destroyed everything, and of course, all of the traditions and beliefs that propelled and guided humanity were all a bunch of lies.
Now I know it's entertainment.
I know it's a book, I understand all of that.
But how many people already believe this stuff?
You know as well as I do, it's a huge number.
How many people are already being taught this stuff in their classrooms?
One of the most puzzling things for me is when you have this contest between liberalism and conservatism.
Liberalism is doom.
It's pessimism.
It is the end of everything.
It's how you've been lied to, it's how you have no chance.
The only prayer you have is voting for Democrats and relying on the government because everything else is a fraud that will use you, eat you up, chew you up, and spit you out.
Liberalism is the is the most pessimistic thing I have ever seen successfully sold.
Now, admittedly, it's not sold purely as pessimism, but it's filled with doom and gloom.
Liberalism is nothing but doom and liberalism is a way to justify never amounting to anything.
Liberalism is a way to justify never accomplishing anything.
Liberalism is what you invest in if you want to end up a schlub and have an excuse for it.
There isn't any optimism in it.
When you dig down, drill down really deep, and there isn't any optimism.
Everything's on the cum.
Do this, do that, and we're gonna end up in this glorious utopia that you talk about heaven not existing.
Let me tell you what doesn't exist.
Utopia doesn't exist.
There's no socialism, communism, or any other ism that's ever gotten close to it.
The closest it's ever gotten to utopia is capitalism.
And of course, it has been summarily destroyed in the minds of many via the public education system and the university system as well.
So that's that.
A movie is coming with this theme, not enough to impact this election, but it's just, you know, add it to all the other stimuli out there that has created this sense of it's over, we missed it, the best days in life are behind this.
And so all we can hope for is sustainability, just maybe maintain what we've got.
That's why we've got to buy the right products and go to the right things and not overdo this.
That's just a life of denial.
I've I've never seen pessimism so successfully sold as liberalism has been.
Let's take a break.
We'll come back.
More of your phone calls and into Trump canning Lewandowski, the whole campaign thing, what it means after this.
Okay, it has uh been reported now that what the New York Times originally said about Lewandowski being canned is not entirely accurate.
Um it was uh was John Roberts at Fox is reporting that the Lewandowski firing was due to an ultimatum from Paul Manafort.
Apparently Manafort, this according to Fox News, Manafort told Trump it's either fire Lewandowski within 48 hours, or he, Manafort, would quit.
And that Erica or I'm sorry, Ivanka, Eric Trump, and and Donald Trump Jr. came down on the side of keeping Manafort.
Now the original report in the New York Times, when they broke the story, said that the Trump campaign had been planning to get rid of Lewandowski for weeks, because they knew they had a transition to the general election, and that the Trump uh his adult children advisers had had uh told him today that Lewandowski had to go.
It's a little different now.
There's an ultimatum from uh from Manafort and Lewandowski's out acting good soldier, he still supports Trump, loves Trump, and says that he would uh be happy to stay on as a Trump advisor.
So everybody's trying to analyze what all this means.
Because that the the media template now is that the Trump campaign's falling apart.
There's no organization, there's no money, Trump doesn't know what he's doing, nobody in the Trump campaign knows what they're doing.
Hillary and the Democrats are running rings.
Uh, Hillary's got this massive ad campaign defining Trump as intemperant, somebody unqualified, not temperamentally fit for office, trying to define Trump in the month of June, the way Obama defined Romney in the month of June in 2012.
And remember how that happened.
There may be something to this.
If you go back to June of 2012, that's when we learned that Romney didn't care enough about pets that he put his dog on the roof of the family station wagon.
And that's when they were running ads that Romney didn't care that an employee's wife died of cancer.
Romney didn't answer it because he didn't have the money.
Because the convention hadn't happened yet, and so the matching funds hadn't come in.
And even at that, Romney had a hundred million dollars that he couldn't spend.
Trump has something like 30.
He couldn't spend it because you can't touch it till after the convention.
So the drive buyers are saying the same thing.
Democrats are the same thing to Trump now, and Trump's not answering it, and Trump doesn't know what to do.
So that and the polling data they say looks horrible.
The polling data for Trump is not as horrible as they're telling you it is.
Let me start on the phones here.
People have been really loyally hanging on it.
Joni and uh in Loma Linda, California.
Hey Joni, how are you?
I'm fine, Raj.
Thank you for taking my call.
You bet.
Um, my main this is gonna be back on the subject of the first two hours.
Sure.
But my main concern with this stuff that they always get away with on Republicans and conservatives, where they twist our um motives and change our words.
When they do that with these Islamic um probably they believe sincere believers.
They redact their words, they take them out of their mouth.
Then they give all the credit and glory to the Republicans that they have done this.
So I'm concerned that this is going to incite more um true believers or whatever you want to call them to try to get the subject back on the reason they really do this, which is the glory of ISIS and Allah.
The glory of jihad.
You know what, Joni, you may have a point.
Here's what she's saying.
She's saying that the fact that these guys go out and they commit their acts loyal to their religion, Obama comes along.
No, no, no, no.
They're they're not that.
They're not because that doesn't exist in Islam.
And instead they blame the Republicans for gun control or lack of gun or whatever.
Joni's theory is that these people are gonna get mad.
That they're doing this for the glory of Mohammed and Allah, and it's being denied, and they're just gonna wrap uh ratchet up even more attacks, is her fear.
Because getting credit for it is a big part of why you do it, and Obama's denying it to us.
She may have a point.
We'll have to see.
So I've had some email complaints today from people are asking, Rush.
Seems like there are more commercial breaks than ever before in your show.
So fully aware that there could be things going on behind my back, I checked into it.
And I can tell you that we have not added any more commercial breaks, nor have we added any more time to each commercial break.
Let me tell you what's going on, folks.
This program is so compelling, you just don't like it being interrupted.
That's all it is.
Well, it's not all it is, I mean, that's what it is.
I'm uh I'm actually flattered at the uh at the question because it means that you uh think there's an inordinate amount of interruptions, which means you don't want her to be, which is a testament to the compelling nature of the program.
Welcome back 800-282-2882.
Uh Republican National Committee Chairman Rince, sorry, Ryan's prebus has been quietly having conversations with state party leaders to discuss the latest push by convention delegates to nominate anybody other than Donald Trump.
Priebus has spoken with Republican Party chairmen in many states in recent days, in part to get a better sense of how large the anti-Trump faction is among their convention delegates.
There's even a move on to change the rules at the convention to allow delegates to vote their conscience on the first ballot.
Have you heard that one?
It's out there.
They're hiring staff and lawyers and this drum beat that Trump you sh some of the stuff that I'm hearing, I mean you've probably have heard it too.
Um it it's it's really getting deep, some of this stuff.
It's really getting conspiratorial, too.
So have you heard this one?
That Trump is already thinking about quitting because the last thing he wants to do is lose.
He does not, he can't abide lose.
Trump's a winner.
Win-win-win-win-win.
And so there are people telling other people that Trump is already planning an exit strategy based on the fact of this.
Previous meeting with people trying to come up with a mechanism by which they could steal the nomination from Trump.
Trump supposedly very mad about it.
And say, you know what?
The heck with you guys.
You're rigging the game against me, I quit, rather than plod on and lose.
Others think that he might not do this Until October to really put the party in a bind.
Then there are others who say, you know what?
Trump's figured out he doesn't want to do it now.
That's why you're not seeing.
I actually had somebody explain this to me over the weekend.
When the conversation came up about Hillary running, and she is, she's got a million-dollar ad campaign out there.
You may not be seeing it because it's in swing states.
See, in the primaries, Trump could triumph with free media, just being on every show that would have him multiple times a day, and therefore not have to buy any media time.
But once you get to the general election, it's not about that.
It's about states.
It's about swing states.
It's about winning states to amass electoral votes.
And the theory is you can't do that with free media.
You can't do it by blanketing free media with interviews and guest appearances.
No matter how often you do it, you have to target in swing states.
And Trump isn't doing that.
And the theory is that Trump's organization is not nearly set up to do it.
They're not in any way ready to go with.
I mean, there's all kinds of stuff that's, and a lot of this, don't forget, is designed.
A lot of it's not true, folks.
A lot of it is designed to once again create impressions and to dispirit the Republican voter base, the Trump voter base.
It's part and parcel of the Democrat media.
Game plan.
It happens every four years.
Like I say, this is what they did to Romney back in 2012, and they timed it to where Romney couldn't spend any of the money he had to counter any of the charges that were being made by Obama in TV ads.
And the same observation is occurring now.
Here, let me find a soundbite.
There was a meeting.
It's going to take me a while here.
I'm looking, it's number seven.
This Sunday morning, CNN State of the Union during the all-star panel, Dana Bash was hosting speaking with Republican strategist Anna Navarro about Trump and the Republican Party.
Dana Bash said, let's go back to what you said, Anna, about being at the Romney retreat, which happens every year in Utah.
And there was, that's the point.
There was a Romney retreat where Republican establishment types go to try to figure out how to basically stay in charge of things.
And they did it again recently.
She was there apparently.
And so Dana Bash says Bromney brings a whole bunch of donors and others in.
Was there any talk, Anna, of an alternative to Trump?
Was there any talk, maybe Mitt Romney wanting to jump in again?
If we try to have a coup in Cleveland, we're going to get slaughtered in Cleaver.
Do we get slaughtered in Cleveland in July or do we get slaughtered in uh November across the nation?
What I did sense out of the Romney retreat is that there's a willingness to come together for there to be a Republican reconstruction.
And I think Mitt Romney is going to be one of those leaders, as is Paul Ryan, whether it's in November, whether it's in four years or eight years, there is going to be a post-Trump reconstruction and coming together of the Republican Party.
So the consensus hear this now.
The consensus at the Romney retreat is there is no way to take the nomination from Trump.
Anybody trying that is going to get blown out, but it doesn't matter because we're going to get slaughtered.
We're going to get slaughtered in November with Trump.
And if there's a coup to oust Trump, whoever replaces Trump becomes a nominee is also going to get slaughtered.
So the Republican establishment brains think that no matter what we get slaughtered this November.
And that's where their mindset is.
And that mindset has been there for months.
It's not really new.
I wonder how long it's actually been there.
I I think this is also one of the enduring problems with the Republican Party.
It manifests as lack of confidence.
They don't think they're going to win.
For whatever reasons, they just don't think it.
If you don't think you're going to win, you're not going to win.
That's you can make bank on that.
And if they've got this pessimistic attitude about it, uh I think they had that pessimistic attitude even before the primaries began.
But certainly it settled in with Trump and the way he stormed through the primary season and just dominated everything.
They still were of the belief that Trump was going to lose in a landslide like you can't believe.
Here's George Will, Fox News Sunday.
Chris Wallace says, can Trump win without the RNC?
Because it's beginning to look like the RNC and uh this the efforts there are to undermine Trump.
Can he win without them, George?
Um the infrastructure, field organization, money, database, all that the RNC is built.
Can Trump win without that?
Trump got 13 million votes in the primaries.
He'll probably need 65 million votes to win the presidency.
Where is he going to get the other 52 million?
That's a lot of votes.
Donald Trump's assumption clearly at this point is that running in a primary against 16 opponents is pretty much the same as running on a protracted general election against one well-funded, tough democratic machine.
If he doesn't have a get out the vote mechanism, what does he have?
What he has is crowds.
And like a real amateur in politics, he seems to confuse the enthusiasm of the crowds in front of him at the moment in a high school auditorium with the larger electorate.
Isn't that interesting?
You know, a lot of people do.
A lot of people look at a Trump rally and think, man, there's something happening here.
It's big, it's all over the place.
And Mr. Will's point is it doesn't mean anything.
A big crowd is not have a thing to do with the way people are going to vote.
You remember the last ten days of the Romney campaign in 2000.
Remember those huge crowds and how everybody something's happening.
Romney even thought so.
Something's happening.
In 2000, what was it?
No, it's 1996.
Bob Dole called this program at some point in the last ten days of camp.
Russia something's happening out here.
You can feel it.
And of course, near landslide defeats were the what's happening out there now.
I gotta take a break, folks.
Be back.
Don't go away.
Here is Barry Fort Myers, Florida.
It's great to have you on the program, Barry.
How are you?
Great.
Hey, greetings from Southwest Florida, Rush.
Uh great to have you with us, sir.
Thank you.
Thank you.
Hey, I think it's really interesting that the authorities are apparently just not very good at determining motives concerning the Orlando shooter, even in a case where the shooters called him up and tells him exactly what his motive is.
And now they're telling us it may take years to figure it out.
Yeah, it's amazing.
The guy said the investigation could take years today.
And the guy announced what his motivation was.
Contrast last year in South Carolina, Rush, when a young man waving the Confederate flag did nearly the same thing.
And they were willing to almost immediately assign the motive.
Well you have a Dylan Root.
I just uh I just thought it was quite a contrast that, you know, with in one case when it plays to their their agenda, they'll immediately blame the Confederate flag, but in this other case they won't blame because it doesn't play.
Well let me let me tell you why that is.
There's there's two things at work here.
If he is talking about Dylan Root, Dylan Root roof uh joined a church study group, African American church, and went in there and killed nine or ten people, whatever it was, while they were studying the Bible.
And he was waving, and he had a uh in his home, he had a Confederate flag, and he had all Confederate flag decals, and they didn't wait.
They immediately chalked it up.
The guy probably voted Republican, was probably conservative, probably pro-choice, a pro-life, all the things, and he's lunatic.
And they didn't bother to find out what was really bothering.
They just concluded on the spot.
Who did it and why, no questions asked.
Because that fit their narrative that's already been established for haysied Southern hick conservatives.
Republicans, whatever.
I don't even know if this guy was one.
Probably was a Democrat, if you get right down to it.
But here comes Mateen.
Now, Obama's narrative is Islam is a religion of peace.
There is no terrorism in Islam.
These people claiming they're Islamists, they're not.
They're pretenders, they're frauds.
There is no terrorism in the religion of peace.
There's no terrorism in Islam.
Here comes a guy, starts killing gays in a nightclub, calls it in, says he's doing in honor of ISIS.
Allahu Akbar, all that stuff.
No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.
There We're gonna it may take years to find out why this guy was as sick as he was.
They're not gonna let this guy establish the narrative.
Obama is in charge of propaganda, not Mateen.
And they're not gonna let Mateen ruin their message.
It's really no more complicated than that.
All kinds of stuff I didn't get to today.
Iranian cleric, improperly dressed women cause climate change.
That's a militant Islamist in Iran.
And that just scratches the surface.
I'm gonna save all the stuff for tomorrow.
Hope we can get it in.
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