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Oct. 4, 2016 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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October 4, 2016, Tuesday, Hour #3
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Ha, how are you?
Great to have you back, Rush Limbaugh cutting edge, half my brain tied behind my back just to make it fair.
Now I'm telling you folks, in our culture today, in our young culture, and in certain ethnic cultures, this is true to nobody's allowed to work harder.
Because that stigmatizes those who don't work as hard.
You're not allowed to be better.
Because that shames people who aren't.
We are we're trying to force total so-called equality.
We're not talking about equality.
They're talking about sameness.
Sameness is the enemy of equality.
Sameness is one of the greatest assaults on equality that you could ever have.
You cannot have sameness without denying people equality.
Equality does not mean equal outcomes.
Equality does not mean equal station in life.
Equality refers to opportunity and treatment, but it does not mean enforcement of certain standards to make sure that everybody ends up the same.
But that's what political correctness is doing.
That's what higher education's been doing and secondary education's been doing for at least a generation.
Nobody's allowed to work harder, not allowed because you'll get ahead faster, you're not allowed.
You're not allowed to dream bigger.
That's not realistic.
You're not allowed to be smarter.
That's because see they think that's a denial of equality.
We must all be equal.
They don't mean equal.
They mean we must all be the same.
They want us to all be the same because they, the proverbial they are our betters.
The professors, the politicians, the people in power.
They don't impose any of the restrictions on themselves that they are imposing on the body politic.
No, they are plenty smarter and they're allowed to be, and make it work harder if they want and they can dream bigger, but you can't because you're supposed to be no different than anybody else.
Because that's how equality is being defined, and young people are lapping it up.
Young people are swallowing this misguided definition of equality, which is really nothing more than forced sameness.
And I want you to think about it.
Forced sameness is the antithesis of equality.
Because no two people are alike, no two people the same, no two things are the same.
It's not possible.
You force sameness, and you are denying equal opportunity, equal treatment, equal this, equal that.
It's one of the biggest scams that is currently being run on young people, and that is to equate sameness with equality.
Because the only way you can have sameness is by defining everybody down.
And you'll note the left never tries to raise anybody up.
The left never sees these divides.
They never see people upper level, lower level, middle lever level, and seek to raise the people at the bottom up.
That won't help the Democrats.
That means if people might become self-reliant, we can't have that.
We need them constantly dependent on the government, constantly dependent on politicians, preferably the Democrat Party.
So what do we do?
We punish the achievers.
We raise their taxes, we increase regulation on them, we make it tougher for them to exist.
As we attempt to lower everybody under the under the absolute bastardized term of equality, which is really nothing more, as I say, than forced sameness.
And what you end up with is no one is exceptional.
And that is also equality.
It's a beautiful thing.
It's a wonderful thing.
It's utopian.
There is nobody exceptional.
Nobody's better than anybody else, and nobody's worse than anybody else.
And the ugly are not ugly, and the beautiful are not beautiful because they're all the same.
And if you think differently, we are going to punish you accordingly.
So a classic American concept.
American exceptionalism.
A number of concepts.
Self-reliance, rugged individualism, working hard, have all been trashed by education and the left in just twenty years.
In just twenty years.
From a decade when people bought Trump's books and droves and thought what he was able to achieve was awesome for turning it around.
For coming back from the abyss, saving his company, saving the people that work for him, employing many more, building skyscrapers and other buildings, golf courses you name it the world over that people have willingly paid money to join.
Nope, all that's looked at now is somehow a scandal.
Somehow, that's the sign of a reprobate.
It's weird.
It's unfair, and we've got to go after guys like Trump.
We've got to make sure that guys like Trump are intimidated and never ever again try to be like Trump.
No way, no how because Trump is scum.
That's what they want you to think.
And so they pepper it all with how Trump's violated the law and Trump's this and he's a bully and he says mean things about women and so forth.
The real bully is Hillary Clinton.
Her husband's another real bully.
They are cads.
They don't have great compassion for people.
They look at people with contempt.
I maintain to you that a bunch of people who want everybody to be the same under the misguided premise of equality, those are not compassionate people.
Those are people that don't like people and don't trust them.
Those are people that want to control other people and don't trust them.
So you have to strip them of their dignity of the things that make them unique, the things that set them apart and punish the things that they achieve in.
And that's the modern day Democrat Party from Barack Obama on down.
That's the modern movement of liberalism.
Try this.
I've been saving this story for just such an occasion.
UK Telegraph.
Here's the headline.
U.S. University offers course for men to deconstruct toxic masculinities.
You've obviously heard of this story.
You've not.
It's Duke University, where the Duke lacrosse team have...
Yes.
Duke University has begun offering classes in quote constructive male allieship, providing a space where male students are able to question and deconstruct toxic masculinities.
So the things that make men men, real men, The things that make a man a man.
At Duke, it's a list of negatives.
It's a list of characteristics that we have got to erase.
We have to wipe out toxic masculinity.
Duke University held its first learning community session last week.
The women's center has organized a nine-week series of seminars as part of the Duke Men's Project.
So we learn that women are behind this.
Women are behind courses in which men learn to deconstruct their toxic masculinities and reconstruct healthier, more inclusive notions of masculinity.
Nine week course, and its aim is to promote unlearning violence.
And so we have now learned that male existence equals violence.
Real men are violent.
And that is toxic.
To be a man, to be masculine is to be violent, and that has to be stripped away, wiped away, it has to be erased.
With sexual harassment and sexism remaining hot topics on American University Campi, Duke has created the seminar series under the banner of the Men's Project.
On its website, the Men's Project says our purpose is twofold.
To foster constructive male allyship, and to question and deconstruct toxic masculinities.
It's a bunch of drivel.
Male allyship.
Yes, men need to learn to have allies who are likewise not masculine and not toxic and not violent.
We want to deconstruct toxic masculinities to reconstruct healthier, more inclusive notions of masculinity.
And it's all it's all aimed at unlearning about.
How do you do it?
How do you do it?
They're already doing it is I would submit to you that it's already being done, and it's why a lot of men are no longer even registering and going to college.
How do you do it?
You s you stigmatize everything it is to be.
Look, what do guys want?
Girls.
Okay, so you stigmatize the whole pursuit.
You stigmatize the whole pursuit of women as toxic, as prone with violence, as too much masculinity.
You change the whole mode, you try, they're not going to succeed at this because we're dealing with human nature as programmed in genealogy, but they're going to try to change the way men deal with women.
Because that's what this is really all about.
It's about neutering men and having them become docile, essentially drugged up studms for use when needed.
Now Dawn's in there shaking your head.
Don't doubt me on this.
What do you think modern feminism is?
It's a giant testicle lockbox, if they had their dreams.
And here at Duke University, that ought to be the icon for this course.
I'm sure Denise at the Limbaugh Letter could come up with a great graphic of the Duke University testicle lock box to go along with this asinine course deconstructing toxic masculinities.
How do you do it?
It's easy.
Men will do anything.
Men will go to museums if they have to, if that's where they think women are.
This is not hard.
Women know this stuff.
Women run the root one of the world on this kind of stuff anyway, because in a civilized society, it's the women who say no.
Women have always had all the power in these kinds of things.
I've always thought.
In a pleasing way, by the way, don't anybody misunderstand me.
But since men will, I mean, men will do things where women are involved that they would never dream of doing otherwise.
So if you get hold of that and you try to reorder, reprioritize, reteach, relearn the pursuit of women.
And if you tell these guys that the last thing women want is anything masculine, what do you think they're going to do?
Have you seen look, it's already happening.
All you have to do is find your latest modeling magazine.
I mean, it's a shame.
It's a shame.
It's just a shame.
It's called asexual.
I mean, it's a bunch of most guys secure in who they are would say, yeah, what a load of crap and just leave.
But if you have to do this, if the stigmatized nature of this works, you have to do this for a grade, you have to do this uh to get a date, you have to for whatever.
Look, I'm don't don't misunderstand.
You ask me how do they do this?
I'm telling you how they're going to go about doing it.
I don't know whether they're going to succeed.
I would maintain to you that there already has been a tremendous amount of chicken throughout our society, throughout our culture.
My next story is about the NFL and how its numbers, its ratings have just gone to hell, and why Erasmus and Report survey.
People are fed up with what looks like Black Lives Matter running the NFL.
The NFL doesn't want to admit that.
They don't even want to admit they have a problem.
They're trying to blame it on the election.
The election is just captivating everybody and diverting their attention.
And once the election's over, get to next season, the NFL ratings will come back.
They're willfully blind.
They're being willfully blind about About all this.
But I'm telling you, what we have stigmatized achievement when we have stigmatized hard work.
We've stigmatized exceptionalism.
We have stigmatized drug and individualism.
Have you ever looked at the men liberal ladies consider real men?
You tell me it's not already working.
And real men, masculine men, look how they're targeted, and they are attacked, and they're called all these names.
It's gotten so bad they make up stories about rape.
They literally make them up in order to carry forward this premise, this agenda.
Duke University offers course for men to deconstruct toxic masculinity.
I'm going to tell you what we need to do.
The solution to this is not to not to take this on on campus.
The solution is not to do.
The solution is to stop men from going to colleges like this.
Just keep them out of there.
Just don't send them anywhere near these places for their own sakes.
Stop throwing away money.
Forget whatever reputation you think these great universities have.
Because these universities actually now are undertaking to force men to give up the way God created them.
We end up with a massive mental, emotional crisis with young women.
What?
Is it any wonder so many people are messed up here?
Particularly coming out of college.
Look at all these people living at home.
Hillary even talks about all these millennials still living at home with their parents.
It's a combination of factors.
Anyhow, that's that.
I have to take a break.
We'll get back to the calls right after this, folks.
Don't go away.
Every caller today will receive a free brand new iPhone 7 Plus.
And our next recipient, David in Woodstock, Georgia.
Great to have you on the program, sir.
Hello.
Hello, how are you doing, Rush?
Very well, sir.
Thanks much.
I guess my question for you was how how much of an impact do you think a good Mike Pence performance will have on the polls?
Or the election in general.
Well, first place, don't look for anywhere near as large an audience for this debate as we had for the Trump Hillary debate.
That's number one.
I hope I'm wrong.
I hope it's a bit larger audience than uh people expect.
Average vice presidential debate.
Traditionally, vice presidential debates don't move the needle one way or the other.
They have largely been irrelevant and inconsequential.
But here we have perhaps in Mike Pence, someone uniquely capable of explaining Trump and being Trump and explaining for people who Trump is and what he is, and defending against whatever predictable insults and assaults on Trump that Cain comes up with.
So I think there's there's there's a big upside to this.
There's a whole lot of potential here.
But it's not gonna be a substitute for Trump.
Picking up the pace, the slack himself.
It's not gonna be a substitute for that.
I it I don't think barring something totally unforeseen.
I don't mean I don't know how it hurts.
I think the only thing is an upside potential here.
How much?
Traditionally it hasn't been much.
What are you hoping to get from it?
Well, I'm just hoping that uh, you know, he may bring something up that actually sticks the hilly.
Oh, somebody, you know, uh I think that Pence is entirely capable of doing that.
I think he's willing to do it.
Now, I don't know what their strategy is on this.
Um I would hope there aren't any quality.
She's the nominee for crying out loud.
She is the opposition.
She is who we go after.
And whereas Trump let two or three hanging curveballs go by, Pence will not unless they have a strategy to let them go by.
I don't understand it.
I'm not predicting it, but I think Pence is uniquely capable of doing it.
And I tell you, you are I don't know how many people I have called.
The desire to take this woman out to defeat her politically is one of the most loudly reverberating, energized objectives that Trump supporters have.
In fact, I will tell you something.
I think I don't know what percentage it is, but it's it's large.
There's a whole lot of reasons people are supporting Trump.
Don't misunderstand.
And one of those reasons, and and it's maybe the reason why it doesn't matter what Trump does with this group of people.
It's all about defeating her.
It is all about keeping her and her husband as far away from the levers of power as as possible.
It is all about ending this woman's political career.
There are people that are totally devoted to that concept, that premise.
That's why they'll support Trump no matter what he does or says.
And it's a sizable percentage.
And I am assuming, David, that I can lump you in with that group of people.
Yes, sir.
All right.
Well, I don't think you're gonna be disappointed.
That's what you ultimately want to hear is whether or not I think you're gonna be deflated and disappointed tonight.
I don't but remember this going in.
Pence is gonna be who's the moderator tonight?
Does anybody who's who's moderating tonight?
Whoever it is.
Not on our side.
Don't forget that.
Views expressed by the host in this program documented to be almost always right.
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They're not given to me or comp.
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Verizon and Sprinter what's on the CDMA network.
The reason for this, normally, without getting too much in the weeds here, every year Apple produces a single model that'll work on every network in the world, including Chicom networks.
And that model is usually not sold until beginning in November or December.
It's sold as an unlocked version, and it has an LTE chip that works on any band.
This year, because Apple likes to spread the supply chain around, they've uh sold some, they've allowed Intel to provide some of the LTE chips, and L uh Intel's chips only work on ATT and T-Mobile, the GSM network.
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I will be uh I will have some Verizon and Sprint phones at some point to to balance this out.
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By any stretch, it's just an offer, every caller today.
Here's uh here's Heather in Waynesboro, Pennsylvania.
Great to have you, Heather.
What's up?
Uh hi, yes.
I was just calling to talk about Trump's taxes.
I think that it's gonna backfire.
On who?
Um the Democrats.
Oh, okay.
Tell me how.
Well, I think anyone that's had businesses, there are a lot of people that have had small businesses, and when you get into that, you see all the ridiculously crazy tax laws that you shouldn't need lawyers and accountants and other people to explain them to you.
Most of the people that start a business aren't stupid.
They're usually fairly intelligent.
But there are a lot of loopholes.
Those loopholes are there for bigger businesses.
Trump has one.
Wait multiple.
They're not loopholes.
They are laws.
A loophole is people think of a loophole as something that only a select few people can use that actually is a uh outside the law that they are able to use because they're either wealthy or powerful.
There are no loopholes being used.
He's using existing tax law, same as you do.
Right.
See how easy it is to fall into the trap of denigrating something when it's not worth denigrating.
He didn't there's no loophole involved here.
This is by the way, you you you think it's gonna backfire.
I wish it would.
But look at all that they got away with Mitt Romney.
I mean Mitt Romney's the one of the finest people.
Just forget politics in terms of human character, human, but one of the nicest people you will ever encounter.
And look how easily they were able to demonize him with enough people to make it count.
That's true.
But when you look at all the rules, I mean he's employed thousands and thousands of people.
He's kept those families surviving by being in the his employee, and by losing that money and maybe not paying taxes on it legally, he's still been able to keep people employed.
Yeah.
Those people that are employed are probably paying more taxes.
Absolutely.
Look, I'm uh I I'm not trying to to uh uh dispirit you.
But but the vast majority of people are not self-employed and do not own small businesses.
The vast majority of people are employees, and as such, all of this to them is something they can't do.
So it's easily denigrated.
It is easily mischaracterized, and which they're they're succeeding or they're trying desperately to do now, to characterize this as something evil and illegal and under the table when it isn't.
And the the look, Heather, the worst thing about it is it puts everybody on the defensive.
That's what I hate about.
I hate the fact that we end up on the defensive because these insane attacks that these people on the left mount.
And there's no reason to be on the defense about this.
But it's it's a position that they they engineer, and it's the trick to this is to react to it without appearing defensive about it.
It's a tough thing to pull off.
It really is.
But that's one of their techniques.
And we're not just up against the Democrats making the charge, we're up against the media who hopes to prosecute the charge and pro proclaim Trump guilty and therefore influence people not to vote for him.
It's despicable, but it's typical of what's happened to us with Democrat Party politics.
I think it's because they know how many people are supporting him and agree with him.
He's not perfect, but I don't think we have ever had anyone that is.
Well, you're right about one thing.
They are sitting there today, still buffaloed and stymied that Trump is still alive and kicking and contending.
Do not doubt me on this.
They can't believe they haven't taken Trump out.
They can't believe the Kazir Khan episode didn't take him out.
They can't believe that the Elisia Machado episode didn't take him out.
They are fully convinced that they have succeeded in destroying him with this illegal publishing of his tax return by the New York Times.
And everything else in the past that they have used to try to destroy Trump, they have thought every one of those was gonna work, and they're flabbergasted.
They rema and some of the Republican establishment too remain flabbergasted about this.
Um Heather, before I let you go, did Mr. Sturdley get your address for us to send you the phone?
Yes, he did.
Okay, cool.
I appreciate it.
Thanks so much.
Next is Sylvia in Miami.
Welcome to the program.
Great to have you.
Hi.
Hi, Rush.
Thank you for having me.
You bet.
Um, I was calling because I'm very upset about the bias.
I know that there's nothing most of us can do about it about the media bias against Mr. Trump.
But it's it's ridiculous for Hillary to sit there and say that he lost one billion dollars when she has lost six billion dollars while she was on watch at the Secretary of State.
Uh no one knows where that money is.
It's been misplaced, nobody has had any inclination to tracking it.
Nobody has questioned her about it.
It's just becoming really ridiculous.
Well, not only that, the money Trump lost was his.
The money Hillary lost was the taxpayers was but in addition to losing the money, Hillary Clinton loses lives.
Four people died in Benghazi because of Hillary Clinton.
That's correct.
Hillary Clinton.
No one says anything about this.
They keep saying, oh, Benghazi Benghazi, but the mother of these people have come forward crying, upset, and she ridicules them.
It's ridiculous.
It is.
No, they keep in the midst of all this, they persist in telling us how imminently qualified Hillary Clinton is.
Why there hasn't been anybody ever as qualified as Hillary Clinton.
It's an insult, it's a laughable joke.
The very fact they have to point it out means people do not see it for themselves.
And believe me, there is nobody that sees Hillary Clinton more qualified than anybody else who has ever been president.
Somebody with the negatives that she's got couldn't possibly have that reputation, and she doesn't.
It's been tried, they've tried to manufacture this whole narrative that she's the smartest woman in the world for almost thirty years.
And they still haven't pulled it off.
They're still trying.
So smartest woman in the world is now morphing into most qualified ever to endeavor to be president, as Muchell, my Belle Obama said.
Thanks for the call, Sylvia.
We coming back.
Rasmussen reports are Americans tuning out the NFL over protests.
Well, they've done a survey, a telephone and online survey, and nearly thirty-two percent of adults tell Rasmussen reports they are less likely to watch an NFL game because of the growing number of black lives matter protests by players on the field.
Only thirteen percent say they are more likely to watch a game because of the protests, and just over half fifty-two percent say the protests have no impact on their viewing decisions.
But as with most questions involving race, blacks and whites have sharply different reactions.
Twenty-eight percent of blacks say they're more likely to watch an NFL game because of the protests, compared to eight percent of whites and sixteen percent of other minority Americans.
Whites are twice as likely as blacks, thirty-six to eighteen percent to say they're less likely to watch.
Well, I don't know what all this is mumbo jumbo because there are fewer people watching, and it is a significant drop.
The numbers on the Sunday night and Thursday night games are dramatically down, worrisomely so.
The NFL's chalking it up to the election and people's attention being diverted and their passions being split because of the uh campaigns and so forth.
They are attributing none of the problem to the dishonoring of the flag via national anthem protests.
Whatever uh there are th it's it's a trend that is not predicted.
Nobody saw this coming.
Everybody thought with the dearth of programming on TV, NFL programming a guaranteed winner, it's drama.
The outcome is unknown every game.
You can't there's no script, it's uh I think there's a lot of factors here, as we have discussed.
But it's not just the protests.
That's just one part.
I think you know what it really is.
There are things about the NFL telecast that irritate People that they've been willing to put up with.
Commercial breaks so long that delays for instant replay, which is an instant, any number of other little things, blow out games.
But when you add the fact that these players being paid millions of dollars seem eager to show disrespect for the country.
I'm telling you, it rubs a lot of people wrong.
And it could be the what do you call the the thing that breaks a camel's back that it makes people the straw, yes.
That that makes cramp that makes them make a decision to not watch as often.
Debbie in Boca.
Great to have you on the EIB network.
Hello.
Hi, Rush.
Um, I wanted to say that your program yesterday disturbed me greatly.
I could feel your anger and your frustration.
It was palpable.
And uh it actually ruined my day because when you were talking about the New York Times breaking the law and the fact that the IRS might have been complicit in all of this, and with the media, what we're dealing with is props and nothing more than that.
They have no respect for journalism.
It was almost like you were saying, My God, this is a coup.
And what do we do about it?
I mean, you call these congressmen and these senators, Rush, they could care less.
They don't care.
They barely even listen to what you're saying.
And I thought you might have some advice for us.
Yeah, I know.
Well, that's what Trump has become.
People that think there's no other recourse.
Trump is the answer to what do we do?
Right if there is this coup, as you say, whatever it is, whatever you want to call it, it is a stack deck.
Yeah where all the people who used to say they were unbiased and uninterested in the outcome, and all of that's off the table.
And we are up against some of the most vicious partisans everywhere we look, and Trump is the answer.
And that's why Trump supporters are not abandoning him.
That's why the left can't force his supporters away.
That's exactly why they haven't been able to put him away so far.
Because Trump answers that question.
What can we do?
And we will be back.
See you in just a second.
Okay, now we leave here and we go back to monitoring Hurricane Matthew.
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