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Aug. 2, 2016 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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August 2, 2016, Tuesday, Hour #2
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Okay, very quickly, this I'm doing this now to make sure that I get this done, and I because if I don't, I'll keep putting it off until the next day, because it it really doesn't have anything to do with the politics of the day.
However, folks, I have a belief.
I think the cultural rot that has infested our country.
It's been going on for a long time.
It's it's nothing recent, it's just it seems to have really begun to plunge to never seen depths of depravity and perversion just in the last seem like four to seven years.
But it's we've been on a downward plane on this for the longest time, and I think it's actually what everything's all about.
I think the coarsening of culture, the debasement, and the erasure of morality is actually what provides the foundation for the destruction of the political process.
The idea that there isn't any morality anymore, for example, the idea that there's nobody permitted to define it, that if you happen to believe in morality, you are nothing more than a bigot discriminating against people.
And so the lines of right and wrong are being blurred, and people who dare to pronounce something wrong are savagely attacked.
And I I think when we talk about the culture wars, and everybody thinks that this is it, but I think this is really the root of so many other problems.
If behavioral standards and moral codes and moral authority, if they vanish, what is it that gives the political system its weight anyway?
So if if that's the foundation on which everything is built, and I believe it is, if that starts to fritter away, everything on top of it's gonna plunge too.
Politics just one thing.
And I think that we're in the depth of a cultural, and I I it's no more complicated than good manners and decency and and having a full-fledged, unquestionable knowledge of what's right and what's wrong.
These are seminally important.
The virtues.
Virtues are taboo.
Virtues are old-fashioned.
We make fun of people of virtue.
Uh people of honor and integrity.
There are people that get away with faking it now that don't really have any, because if you have honor and integrity, you're an old fuddy-duddy and you're old-fashioned, and you're not really relevant to what's happening now.
So I and we see evidence of this everywhere.
This is this is how all of these great institutions and traditions have become corrupted.
People think they've been corrupted by politics, and they have been, because everything is being politicized.
But take the global warming movement, for example.
The whole thing is a hoax.
The idea that that Western civilization's progressive technological entrepreneurial advancement lifestyle is responsible for destroying the planet.
How do you get there?
What must you believe first in order to fall for that?
A, that human beings can control the clan climate.
The fact that we can't fix it means we don't control it.
The fact that after being warned since the 1980s that we're destroying the planet, they've been telling us this.
I mean, if that were true, that'd be pretty serious.
And if we have actually been destroying the planet by steps taken that result from advancing lifestyles, then it would have been easy to fix it, right?
Why can't we?
Well, we can't, Because we didn't cause it.
We're not responsible.
We don't have that kind of power.
Climate does change constantly.
But how do you how do people end up believing this in the first place?
Well, it's politicized.
And the whole notion of science has now been corrupted.
And you corrupt science by turning it into just an extension of the so-called democratic process.
Sorry, if the democratic process is involved, it isn't science.
If there's a consensus of scientists and they're voting, what we're talking about is not science.
We're talking politics.
What permits this?
What permits people to stand up, people in the business of science, people in the scientific field.
Why don't they stand up and oppose this?
Because they've been corrupted too.
They've been corrupted by virtue of this is how they earn their money, government grants.
Everybody's feeding off the gigantic, swollen federal teeth, and they just keep sucking and sucking.
And the way they do it is report and say what whoever's in charge of the teeth said.
I. Pure and simple.
Political correctness is the most outwardly visible manifestation of this rot.
Political correctness is censorship.
It is control.
It is become dangerous and mean spirited.
But it only succeeds because other virtues designed to stop this kind of insanity have already evaporated and flittered away.
Give you an example here of what I'm talking about.
First off, a university of Houston.
Vice President, student SGA Vice President Rohini Sethy has received a 55-day suspension along with other disciplinary actions from the student government board after she made a Facebook post that said, forget black lives matter.
It's more like all lives matter.
She made this post on the evening of five Dallas police officers being assassinated during a Black Lives Matter protest.
She, like many others, was upset with what she saw unfolding before her, as some police officers lay dead on the streets while others continue to risk their lives to protect those who were there to protest against them.
Now, how many folks, seriously, seriously now?
Over the course of your life, how many times have you either expressed it yourself or have you heard people express incredulity and great curiosity over how in the world were the Nazis able to talk a whole country into not stopping them, into not opposing what the government was doing?
How in the world did it happen?
It could never happen again, Rush.
It'll never happen again.
That's so outrageous.
It was so unspeakable.
It was will never happen again.
it is.
Historically, people have always wondered how the Nazis were able to easily, it seemed, take over the hearts and minds of otherwise sensible citizens.
And this is how you do it.
This is exactly how they did it.
Here we have a young college woman, an SGA vice president, I don't know what SGA is.
You know, I wish these people that write these stories would stop using these acronyms like we all know.
Student government associated.
Well, how do the people who didn't go to college like me know what the hell one of those is?
Thank you.
Why couldn't they just say student government association?
I'm going to start speaking in acronyms and find see how many people know what the heck I'm talking about.
Anyway, okay.
University of Houston Student Government Association, Vice President Rohini Sethy, posted on her Facebook.
The night that an African American was assassinating policemen in Dallas, She simply said, all lives matter.
She was harassed, but she stood firm for a while.
And she eventually even apologized, but she didn't apologize properly.
And she didn't apologize well enough.
She, as a member of the student government association, obviously holds an elected position on campus.
She refused to resign.
So the student government stepped in and handed out the punishment for this egregious behavior.
Fifty-five days suspension, along with other disciplinary actions for simply posting all lives matter.
And it's not the first time this has happened.
Bernie Sanders actually had his microphone commandeered at a campaign appearance he was booting.
Activists actually stormed the stage, took over his microphone.
He had to run around apologize.
Everybody who says all lives matter is attacked and has to apologize.
And even after they apologize, they are still humiliated and punished.
And the university goes right along with it.
University Student Government Association goes right along with it because it's just easier.
It's just easier than to stand up to these people.
Maybe they just take it and they'll go away.
But they don't go away.
They keep coming back for more.
55-day suspension begins yesterday.
She also must attend a Libra Project Diversity Workshop and attend at least three cultural events per month to get her mind right.
She is required to write a reflection letter and make a public presentation to the September Senate meeting on campus.
Oh, they have humiliated.
I'm surprised they didn't put her in the stocks in the center of the campus and start stoning her with eggs and stuff.
So now what's the practical result?
Who on this campus at the University of Houston will ever now speak out about anything they disagree with.
And especially on social media.
Look at what happens to somebody who does.
That's the first example.
How many of you have heard of the actress Julianne Moore?
You haven't.
Julianne Moore did you see the movie on HBO about Sarah Palin and the McCain campaign and all that?
I forget what the name of it.
Well, she played Palin.
She's a fair-skinned, her hair color is red, but they made her up.
She looked pretty close to Palin.
Julianne Moore and her crusade for political correctness manifested itself in the form of her demand that the name of Jeb Stewart Haskrul in Falls Church, Virginia, be changed.
Because she and one of her Hollywood friends believe it represents a history of racism.
Does the name Jeb Stewart ring a bell?
J.E.B. Stewart.
He was a Civil War hero for the Confederacy, but he was much, much more than that.
Who for who do you think I know Jeb Stewart is John Ellis Bush.
But Jeb J.E.B. Stewart is a renowned figure in American history.
On the plus side, Julianne Moore doesn't know anything about it.
In a nutshell, let me tell you what happened.
A Hollywood starlet, a Dumkov, attended a high school named J. E. B. Stewart in Virginia many, many, many years ago.
I think she's got to be in her 50s now.
She's now offended after she found out that she spent two years at a school named for a Confederate general, and she wants the name removed from the school now.
Now J.E.B. Stewart, Jeb Stewart never owned slaves.
His only crime Is to be remembered in history by absolute ignoramuses who haven't the slightest idea of American history or know what they're talking about.
His crime is that he lived in the South and he fought for the South in the Civil War.
And this disgrandstanding by Julianne Moore personifies the axiom that Hollywood is Washington for the stupid.
And that politics is showbiz for the ugly.
She is clueless.
She doesn't know what she's talking about.
What's to stop her from now demanding that maybe Virginia be kicked out of the Union?
Maybe Mississippi get kicked out of the Union.
I mean, they fought for the Confederacy.
If we can't have a school named for J.E.B. Stewart, then how can we name, have states that fought in the Civil War?
Why, how can we still have Alabama, Mississippi why they had slave there?
You know that?
How can we?
Yeah, why do we even we have a Jefferson Memorial or Washington, D.C., where does this stuff end?
We're gonna take down the Washington Monument or rename it because George Washington then said what are we gonna do here?
But she gets to grandstand, she gets to have a parade based on her total ignorance of who this man is and what he did.
And she gets to grandstand, and the entertainment media gets to celebrate her and present her as almost a goddess of compassion and understanding and caring, when in truth she is completely ignorant.
A space cadet concerned only with superficialities and trying to grandstand and score points and buttress her brand or her image.
And furthermore, she's demanding that everybody else accede to her wish that the school be renamed because somehow living in California, it still almost offends her now that she finally learned who this man is.
She attended this school from 1975 to 1977.
She started complaining about the school's name last summer.
She said no one should have to apologize for the name of the public high school you attend.
So apparently, when people ask her where she went to high school, she's a shame to admit it.
She's offended and she's embarrassed to admit she went to school in J.E.B. Stewart.
My guess is that in the crowd she hangs, and with the entertainment media asking her these questions, they don't know who he is.
They haven't the slightest idea.
You wonder who Jeb Stewart was?
19th century patriot.
His great-grandfather fought the British, the American Revolution.
His father fought the British again in the War of 1812.
He followed in his father's and grandfather's footsteps.
At the age of 15, he enlisted in the Army.
They said, no, you're too young.
At 17, he entered the military academy at West Point.
He graduated in 1854, served in the Army for seven years.
When the war broke out in 1861, Native Virginian went to fight with his home state.
That's the man, Julianne Moore, demands name be removed from her high school so she doesn't have to suffer embarrassment.
This is out of control stuff.
And because our moral authority has been evaporated, nobody's going to stand up and tell her no.
They're going to seriously consider this and find a way to deal with it.
You watch and see what happens on this.
You just watch.
By the way, Jeb Stewart, Democrat.
As were most of the segregationists, as were most of the racists, as were all of the slaveholders in the sound.
They were Democrats.
Jeb Stewart's family was Democrat.
But get this.
To mollify Julianne Moore, the school board at Jeb Stewart High School in Falls Church, Virginia, voted last week to form a committee to study the ramifications of changing the school's name.
They're going to form a committee to study the ramifications.
What's going to happen to us if we do this?
This effort has already cost $750,000 that you know this district doesn't have.
So $750,000 to mollify a dingbat from Hollywood on a crusade that is utterly meaningless.
She is personally embarrassed and defended.
A solid majority of people, residents in the school district, oppose this.
That's not gonna matter.
You wait and see.
Okay, I'm gonna take a break here.
We come back.
Uh Mike Pence handled a, I think a planted question at his appearance yesterday on why is Trump being so mean to the military?
I felt just like I did when I was falsely accused of you know calling hither heroes uh phony soldiers.
Uh we have a guy who was there.
I think it's uh yes, a guy who was there, and we have Pence's soundbite, and it's great.
Sit tight.
Okay, yesterday, Carson City, Nevada, there was a Trump Pence campaign event.
Vice President Mike Pence spoke during the QA.
Catherine Byrne, whose son serves in the Air Force, and Pence had this exchange, and you'll hear some other audience members pipe into this as well.
Time and time again, Trump has disrespected our nation's armed forces and veterans, and his disrespect for Mr. Conn and his family is just an example of that.
Will there ever be will there ever be a point in time when you're able to look at Trump in the eye and tell him enough is enough?
You have a son in the military.
Okay.
How do you tolerate his disrespect?
Well, I thank you for the question.
It's all right.
It's all right.
Folks, that's what freedom looks like, and that's what freedom sounds like.
Having spent time with our nominee.
I have never been around someone more devoted to the armed forces of this country.
This whole episode's being held up as an example by people for Trump to follow.
This is how it's done.
Trump should follow Pence's lead here.
You've got a hostile audience member asking hostile questions, and you acknowledge everything and you talk, you don't put anybody down, and then you swear by the nominee.
You know, this is this is a great bite because I remember telling everybody when it comes time to choose the vice president, they're gonna have to pick somebody who's willing to go out there and defend Trump no matter what said, that's the job of the VP.
No matter what, you cannot dump on the VP.
And Pence did indeed show how it's done.
We've got somebody who was there.
This is Tim.
It's great to have you, sir.
I'm glad you called.
How are you?
Hey, Rush, how are you doing?
Very well, thank you much.
Yeah, I was standing right behind that lady, and it was an obvious plant.
Well, I'll tell you, when when we first got in there, there was a mic stand with the microphone in it.
So you knew they were gonna ask ask questions.
And it was there the whole time.
And then Mike Pence was gonna ask this old guy a question first, the first question.
And all of a sudden she jumps up and she had it in her purse or something.
And she just starts yelling over him, and then everyone was like, kind of like, what's going on here?
And then she said the Air Force, and everyone went crazy.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
And then she went on, and then everyone was like, ah, this is just a bunch of baloney.
And that's what they were booing.
If she would have waited her turn and done it right, people would have listened to the answer.
Hold it a minute.
This is folks, you can't start go getting defensive about this.
These people, our opponents are playing for keeps.
Now, uh Tim, don't misunderstand me here.
But this is a public event, and all of the the Hillary people in the world can try to get in there.
And if they're gonna have an open mic, they can work their way to the microphone and they can say whatever they want to say.
You have to be prepared for which Pence was.
Pence did great with it.
But it it it doesn't uh it doesn't serve a purpose to talk about the woman was a plant.
no doubt was.
But you're not going to convince anybody that you need to convince That just because the woman is a plant, you should ignore what she said.
Even if it's all made up, even if she made it all up, which I doubt, you still that you can't you to do that is to go on defense, and defense never scores touchdowns, or well, rarely.
I mean, it's it's not it's not the it's not the position that you want to occupy here.
I'm sure Pence and Trump know that there are going to be Hillary and Obama and liberal protesters getting in trying to get into every one of these events, to sabotage them to undermine we know this happens.
It's it's it's Hillary and Democrats that are going in and causing riots and rallies at Trump protests, trying to make it look like it's Trump supporters doing it.
These people are playing for keeps.
And we need to be playing for keeps too.
And uh they would get away with.
I understand the frustration because if it were reversed, if it were a Hillary event, in the first place, they would probably do a good job of screening and not prevent.
And every questioner would be pre-approved with the question written by the campaign.
That's how a Hillary event happened.
But a Pence Trump event, they don't script anything, they just take it.
Whatever happens, they'll deal with it.
All combers, come on.
We're happy to answer any question you've got.
Hillary can't do it.
Hillary would never do an event like this.
And if she did, everybody that strode to the microphone with a question would have been pre-approved, would have been part of the campaign, would have been an operative something, would have been a donor, would have been a phone bank operator, would have been something, and he would have been given the question to ask, and it would be fawning, and there wouldn't be any opposition in the room.
They would have been screened out.
You'd have to really pull a great trick to be a Trump supporter, get into a Hillary event.
But the fact that she was a plant is not going to make people disregard what she said.
And it's not going to make them forget what Trump said or did that's got people bothered dealing with the cons and this kind of thing.
I think what's what's tough, and I I I mentioned this last week, I think one of the things that has people so frustrated is there doesn't seem to be any reality anymore.
Look, let's go let me go back as an illustration of this Obama business.
You know, folks, this really is curious to me.
Obama and his press conference today, with it it which is to promote globalism, by the way.
A press conference to sub to promote the Trans-Pacific Partnership Trade Deal.
And he's got head honcho from Singapore in there.
And during the QA, it's all Trump.
It's all Trump, it's all con, it's all this.
Nothing about the TPP.
Well, there were a couple things.
And look what Obama did.
He just opened up and he made it sound like Trump is totally unacceptable, which spawns some obvious questions.
Well, if he's unacceptable, Mr. President, if he wins, what are you gonna do?
What are you gonna do if he wins?
It's November 8th, he wins the election, you got two months to go.
What are you gonna do?
But here's another thing.
You know, I ask this question frequently.
I'm gonna ask it again here.
This arrogance exhibited by Obama today.
And just so you know what I'm talking about, if you just tuned in, rather than let me find the bites, they're number 25 and 26, is that right?
I've already put them at the bottom of the stack somewhere.
Yeah, they are 25 and 26.
Uh let's play these again so that my comments here will be understood by those of you who didn't hear what the president said.
The first one is in response to a question, given the Republican nominee's recent comments about the Khan family and his statement that if president he would consider recognizing Russia's annexation of Crimea, does it make you question Trump's fitness for president?
Yes.
I think the Republican nominee is unfit to serve as president.
I said so last week, and he keeps on proving it.
This is not just my opinion.
I think what's been interesting is the repeated denunciations of his statements by leading Republicans, including the Speaker of the House and the Senate Majority Leader, And prominent Republicans like John McCain.
And the question I think that they have to ask themselves is if you are repeatedly having to say, in very strong terms, that what he has said is unacceptable.
Why are you still endorsing him?
This is unprecedented.
For a sitting president incumbent to get this deep in the campaign to replace him, this is unprecedented.
In my lifetime, it's unprecedented.
Nobody, no sitting presidents ever got even close to this.
And Obama's just halfway finished.
But you note the device.
He's got a common device.
When he talks about his economic policies, he always has to say it's not just my opinion.
Leading economists from all across the spectrum also agree with me that blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
He never has the confidence to just say what he thinks is reasonable.
So we've got to bring these Republicans into it.
Same thing here.
Hey, it's not just my opinion that Trump's a dunce.
Look at McCain, look at Ryan.
But see, they're not getting any credit for standing up against Trump, not with Obama.
Obama's still hammering them.
Why do you still endorse him?
And then get this arrogance in this next bite.
I was right in Mitt Romney and John McCain were wrong on certain policy issues, but I never thought that they couldn't do the job.
And had they won, I would have been disappointed.
But I would have said to all Americans, this is our president.
And I know they're going to abide by certain norms and rules and common sense, will observe basic decency, will have enough knowledge about economic policy and foreign policy and our constitutional traditions and rule of law that our government will work.
And then we'll compete four years from now to try to win an election.
But that's not the situation here.
This arrogance is the stated arrogance on parades unprecedented.
First, I was right.
And Romney and McCain were wrong on certain politics.
What do you mean you were right?
What in the hell have you been right about?
Romney was right ten times more than you've been right on Russia, on the economy, on any number of things.
What do you mean you were right and they were wrong?
But note his bigness.
Despite the lame minds of McCain and Romney, Obama would still accept them.
They're still good enough.
I never thought they couldn't do the job.
Not I mean, not nearly as well as I do it.
I mean, in income poops, but they're not bad guys.
I mean, I could have tolerated them.
And had they won, I would have been disappointed, but I would have said all Americans this are president.
They're gonna, they're don't worry, they're not Crow Magnans, they're gonna abide by norms and rules and common sense, and they're decent, they're not gonna whatever.
They've got they know enough about economics and foreign policy, they're not gonna get you killed, and you're not gonna starve.
And they respect our constitution.
This guy.
Now, my question above and beyond my observations, why?
When I hear people go on like this, my experience, which is multifaceted and very deep.
My experience is people that come at things with arrogance like this and condescension like this are one of two things.
They're either really worried about something, or they just have the worst manners on the face of the earth.
But this is not presidential.
This is banana republic territory.
The way he's characterizing McCain and Romney and all these guys who are sucking up to him, by the way, by denouncing Trump.
What do you think the Republicans are just sucking up with the media, sucking up to Obama, something sucking up to the Democrats, say, hey, don't associate us with this Trump maniac.
No, no, no, no.
We want to stay in a club.
We want we want to stay in the establishment.
Yeah, well, you want to stay in the establishment, you better do more than what you're doing.
You better go out there, you you better withdraw your your endorsement.
Well, You're no good to me.
Fine.
So what are they worried about?
And I'll tell you what I think they're worried about.
And it's why Trump had better get back on offense fast.
They know that Hillary Clinton is a dud as a candidate.
They know they have to take Trump out.
And by that I mean they have got to destroy Trump's ability to maintain and increase support by attacks on his sanity, his character, competence, and all that.
I have yet to hear these people extolling the virtues of Hillary Clinton.
Other than the perfunctory required virtue extolment at their convention.
Greetings, my friends.
Welcome back, El Rushball with half my brain tied behind my back, just to make it fair.
Everybody digs fairness.
So we do fairness here at the EIB network.
Last night, Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania.
Donald Trump at a campaign event.
If he would have just not done anything, just go home, go to sleep, relax, he would have been a hero.
But he made a deal with the devil.
She's the devil.
He made a deal with the devil.
True.
He's talking about Bernie Sanders.
He's really ripping Bernie for giving up and caving in endorsing Hillary when it was all over.
He thinks Crazy Bernie should have kept up the fight at the convention.
He should have kept trying to win those superdelegates, but Crazy Bernie was a paper tiger.
Or a paper lion.
Crazy Bernie never was going to win the Democrat nomination.
That was arranged in 2008.
The game was in fact rigged.
Hillary was promised 2012, or 2016, when they stole it from her in 2008 because Obama wanted it.
That led to Trump later in Columbus, Ohio, saying grab number 21.
This is 21 next, rather than 20.
This is in Columbus, and that Bernie bite kind of sets this one up.
I'm afraid the election's going to be rigged, I have to be honest.
Because I think my side was rigged.
If I didn't win by massive landslides, I mean, think of what we won in New York and Indiana, California, 78%.
So here is the Republican nominee signaling the likelihood of defeat on the basis that the whole thing's been rigged against him.
And what he means is if I didn't win by massive landslides, what he's talking about people who said Trump's only hope here was to win by massive landslide because if it's close, he didn't have a prayer.
And of course, there are going to be some people believe this because there have been elections where there has been fraud.
I mean, everybody knows this.
But Trump is being hit from all sides on this one, by even some of his supporters who are upset that he sounds like he's making an excuse already here in August for losing.
And in others who claim to be Trump supporters are also saying you don't do this.
In the freest nation on earth, you don't tell voters that the entire institution of the presidential election is corrupt and unsalvageable.
So this constitutes uh, in my mind, Trump shifting from an aggressive offensive strategy here to one of being on defense.
And I don't know if he's trying to arouse sympathy here.
I really don't.
All I know is that that doesn't work.
Nobody ever got elected anything because somebody felt sorry for the way they've been treated, or what have you.
So I don't think it's that.
But some people think it is.
So we've got to deal with all these possibilities.
Be right back.
And I guess in all of this last three or four days, who have we not heard from?
You haven't heard a peep out of Hillary Clinton, have you?
And guess what?
She's going up in the polls.
Exactly as we've advised everybody.
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