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No, I do not want to cross the aisle and get along with these people.
Like I've always said I want them defeated.
I want payback.
I want these people to have to eat it, folks.
They have been doing what they have been doing for 25 or 30 years and longer.
And they're now being called out on it, and that's good.
Now, of course they're going to react like stuck pigs to all of it.
But I mean, it's this was never going to be pretty.
I tried to warn everybody I could all during the campaign.
Uh election week and the election aftermath and during the transition that this is serious.
Trump means it.
He is, he he when he says that uh we've had stupid people leading doing stupid things, he means it.
Now, Trump's not ideological like I am.
You know, Trump doesn't take the time.
That's not that he doesn't take the time.
It's just that liberalism as the source and root of the problem.
That's not, he thinks it's stupidity, and I don't care.
It doesn't matter to me that Trump's not a doctrinaire conservative like I am.
Uh as long as the objectives remain the same, uh, that's good enough for me because that's what we've got.
And it is, I think, showing amazing success.
A Democrat Party's been decimated.
The Democrat Party doesn't have a numbers to stop Trump, whatever he wants to do.
This is not the time to start acting like we're sorry for winning.
Which is what we always have done.
This is not the time for power sharing.
This is not the time for feeling bad for people because they lost and maybe reaching across the.
It's not the time for the way John McCain does things.
Which is a whole nother story.
I mentioned Shelby Steele.
I've quoted him often.
He is a uh scholar at the Hoover Institute on the campus at Stanford.
He is uh African American, a very brilliant man, and very much to our benefit, a conservative.
And his uh well, one of the most recent pieces of his that I've come across is headlined, The Perils of Political Correctness.
And here's how he begins this piece.
Societies have many of the qualities individuals have.
America is a particularly great society.
There's been no country like this ever before in all of human history, and he's exactly right about that.
But see, that is actually one of the roots of the problem.
The Democrat Party today, you know, I was just sitting here, if I may make a brief departure.
I played this soundbite from the ABC News round table.
Here's Katrina Vandenhoovel, who is a radical leftist pro-communist sympathizer, is who she is.
It is amazing to me how the extreme radicals of the left and the Democrat Party have become mainstream.
American political figures.
She literally said that because Jeff Session's middle name is Beauregard, that Trump ought to be going easy on people like John Lewis and ought to understand that people little worried for race relations because Trump nominated a guy whose middle name is Beauregard.
Now, who is the racist?
Who is the racist pig in this situation?
Who's the bigot?
It would be Katrina Vandenhoobel.
Who in the world thinks this way?
But there she is, position of prominence on the ABC News round table.
It's just it's insane.
We're dealing with unhinged, deranged lunatics who are presented to us as mainstream American Democrats and liberals.
They do not think this is a great country.
They're even running around now carrying protest signs.
America was never great.
And they believe America was never great for one reason, slavery.
And they think it's still in place, I guess.
I mean, it's just it's it's it's difficult to deal with these people rationally because they're not rational.
Anyway, back Shelby Steele here.
America's a particularly great society.
There have been no country like this ever before in all of human history, and all of the sins that America has committed in its past, and nothing that's new.
Many countries around the world had slavery and so forth, and it's still alive and well in many places.
U.S. never gets any credit for eliminating it, for defeating it, for wiping it out.
You ever ask yourself why that is?
Never.
Like I say, folks, I haven't seen the Democrats this unhinged since Lincoln freed the slaves, as a matter of fact.
I mean, the Democrats were fit to be tied back when that happened.
Well, they were the plantation owners.
You know, John Lewis, John Lewis, the dogs were set upon, and the fire hoses when they're marching across the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma.
You know who was behind the dogs in the fire hoses?
Democrats.
I gotta I gotta rate it in here.
I know I scare 24-year-old women.
Uh to whom passion is a is a very frightening thing.
Bull Connor, who beat countless protesters, George Wallace, Lester Maddox, all these universities who had closed doors were in states run by Democrat governors.
The Democrats were the segregationists, the KKK was the military arm of the Democrat Party back then.
John Lewis was beat upside the head, his words, by Democrats, not Republicans, not people like Donald Trump.
He was beat upside the head, and violence was committed against him and the other marchers by Democrats.
We defeated slavery, we eliminated it.
It still exists in many places, including in the Middle East, ladies and gentlemen.
Anyway, nevertheless, writes Mr. Steele, having grown up during the civil rights era, America was brought to account for the sin of slavery, for its mistreatment of women, for all these things that white supremacy in a sense fostered.
Still we all live with the knowledge of this past tragedy and of the hypocrisy of it.
I think that knowledge has generated in American life this need to be redemptive to prove that we're not like that anymore.
And so how do you show yourself to be redemptive?
See, this is what I was trying to dig down, drill down and find to explain Democrat behavior.
And that is they're unable to forget that there was slavery in our past 200 years ago, and they think we still need redemption.
Even though there isn't slavery now and hasn't been for hundreds of years, they are convinced that we still need to be redemptive, that we still need to prove that we aren't like that anymore.
And so Mr. Steele says, how do you show yourself to be redemptive?
Why you keep deferring to those groups that are associated with that victimization, and you keep trying to give them things and use them as a vehicle for America's redemption.
This is what I spotted when I ran into so many sports writers, so so almost sympathetic.
You know, a black person would get the job as a manager of a baseball team or a coach, and they would think it was one of the greatest achievements in their lives.
And they would write pieces and profiles of what, whoa, this is this, what and I can what what's the big deal there?
I mean, not that I was opposed to it, don't misunderstand.
I'm trying to understand why they are having a cow over it.
And this explains it.
They're still so imbued with guilt over something they didn't even do.
And they are then so obsessed with the need to show people that they have no ties to any of that victimization that happened in the past.
That they never were approving of slavery, and they still to this day aren't.
And so what they do is defer, constantly defer to the groups associated with the victimization, and then keep giving them things.
And the giving in things can be inclusive of never criticizing them, putting them on pedestals, allowing them to be and say and do whatever they want because they've got the right to because they come from something that happened 200 years ago.
And then this.
One of the points that I feel very strongly about rights Mr. Steele coming as a black man is that the deference that America has shown black Americans since the 60s with the war on poverty, Great Society and Welfare, those deferential policies that defer to our history of victimization now victimize us more than racism did.
Let that sink in.
Let me read this again.
All of the great things America has done for African Americans since the 60s.
War on poverty, great society, welfare.
These policies that defer to our history as blacks of victimization.
All of that now victimizes us more than the racism did.
And it does not just victimizes, it stigmatizes.
It's the soft bigotry of low expectations.
It's the presumption that because there is this thing that happened to African Americans 200 years ago.
It makes it today impossible for them to ever be full-fledged because they've got so many strikes against them.
So it's a low expectations, the constant victimization, the stigmatization that they can't do anything without the help of liberals.
And so we need these programs.
And Mr. Steele is saying this is not helping us.
This is not helping African Americans or any other minority.
It's continuing to perpetuate the idea that we're prisoners and that we can't of American society in general, not plantation owners anymore, but just the country itself.
And we can't escape this penalty box we're in without the help of liberals, government programs, or what have you.
He says, I grew up in segregation.
I know exactly what segregation is like, and I had a more positive attitude toward America than many blacks do today, who are the beneficiaries of affirmative action.
Since he was living during the days of segregation, he had a better outlook on his life than blacks today do after affirmative action.
And he said, I think that deference has become a very corrupting influence on the people that tries to help.
It's honorable that it wants to help these people, but they never ask the people to be responsible for their own transformation and uplift.
And that's the great tragedy of deference and political correctness.
And there again is the soft bigotry, below expectations.
He's admitting it here.
All of this assistance, whatever it is, affirmative action, Great Society, uh on poverty, uh, or the or the way John Lewis and others are allowed to be, do, say whatever they want, no matter how crazy it is, how wrong it is, because of something that happened to them that was horrible 50 years ago.
He says we are not asking the beneficiaries of all this uh political correctness or all these programs.
We're not asking them to step up and be responsible for their own transformation.
Well, the reason that is because the left really doesn't believe it's possible.
This is the problem.
That's the soft bigotry below expectations.
The left does not believe that there can actually be progress for blacks in America.
When there is, when you come across a Clarence Thomas, what do they do to him?
Shelby Steele gets the same treatment Clarence Thomas has gotten.
When there are blacks who have escaped the plantation of affirmative action and liberal assistance programs, what does the left do to them?
Calls them Uncle Toms, attempts to deny them anything they've achieved, claim that they have betrayed their people.
They have betrayed the neighborhood.
They have betrayed and are no longer down for the struggle.
They're not allowed to escape it.
This is the key.
There still are plantation owners.
They are Democrats.
They are left-wing liberals.
And they are demanding that victims of slavery continue to act like it's still happening today so that the left can get credit for caring and whatever else they want.
Thank you.
for supposedly trying to help.
He's nailed it here.
This is right.
This is why.
You know, I know I'm really on thin ice with this.
I probably ought not mention this.
Let me think of it.
One, two, three, four, Michelle Obama and fashion.
Should I talk about Michelle Obama?
Nah.
You think I should.
Somehow, sometime over the weekend or last week, I don't know what it was, and I'm not even sure what it was.
It might have been vogue, it might have been Vanity Fair.
It might have been the New York Times magazine, might have been seeing it.
Somebody did a puff piece profile on how Michelle Obama redefined White House fashion, and that there's never been any first lady that ever even approached Michelle Obama when it comes to fashion.
That she has just blown them all away.
She blew Jackie O. She blew Nancy Reagan.
It doesn't matter what First Lady's Martha What you doesn't matter.
Michelle Obama, there's never been anything.
Now that is precisely what I'm talking about.
Where does that come from?
What is the need for doing that?
Why can't it just be she was a fashion icon?
She did wonderful.
Why does it have to be that there's never ever been anybody even close to Michelle Obama?
And it's rooted right here.
The only way, when you when you boil it all down, the only way minorities, and I don't care if it's African Americans, uh Hispanics, the only way that it will ever be said that they have achieved is when the left can claim credit for whatever the achievement is.
They are not allowed to do it on their own.
They are not allowed to escape current circumstances on their own.
They're not allowed to get anywhere without affirmative action.
They're not allowed to get anywhere without whatever prescriptions the left demands they follow.
And if they do, then they come under an assault, unlike that which most people ever have to deal with.
Well, it's it's not Mr. Snerdley saying they're not allowed to fail ever.
That's I know what you mean.
You're not allowed to say that they failed, even when they do.
It's understandable.
With all the racism and bigotry, how dare you say you hope he fails?
Well, I didn't want his policies to succeed.
And you these people knew all that.
Anyway, this piece by Shelby still goes on.
I'm gonna take another break here.
But as he says, as I said in a recent Wall Street Journal article, political correctness is just the codification of deference.
As blacks, we live in a society that keeps trying even now to help us and to redeem itself through us.
And that's exactly these leftists are trying to make themselves feel better people.
They're better than you, better than me, they're good people because they understand the plight and the suffering, and at least they're trying to do something about it, which they never accomplish.
And this never-ending effort to help blacks redeem themselves just pushes blacks into a symbiotic relationship with white America.
We become their poster boy for redemption, and it's now begun to hurt the fabric of American life.
Shelby steel on the perils of political correctness.
Back after this, folks.
Now, if the left didn't hate Trump so much, they would excoriate me for this last segment.
And they may still, because you know what the left doesn't like about me and the civil rights coalitions?
What they don't like about me, folks, is that I do really believe in equality, and I really am colorblind, and I really do want everybody to enjoy life, and I want everybody to succeed.
And I realize that the left and the Democrat Party has a bunch of the people that vote for it in the equivalent of shackles.
The Democrat Party has has preventing people from becoming the best they can be because the Democrat Party is telling them they can't.
The Democrat Party and blames Republicans for that, blames conservatives for all of these obstacles in people's way.
When the biggest obstacle in the way of people that vote for Democrats is the Democrat Party.
I mean, look at it.
Everybody is under threat of stigmatization.
Blacks are fanatical about who's really black and who isn't.
And whites are fanatical about whether they're racist or whether they're not.
And in the process, nobody seeing anybody else for what they really are.
Human beings.
To the left, there aren't any human beings.
They're just votes.
They're just opportunities.
And it just all of this has irritated me for so long I can't tell you.
I just I wish people could escape that.
So I have people in the email, and it's understandable.
I mean, I know this is going to happen.
I think you're maybe you're going a little bit too far on this Michelle Obama fashion Icon.
No, no, I'm not.
See, that that is the whole point.
I I'm really holding back, folks, in telling you what I really think about why all this stuff is being said.
I'm practicing restraint here.
But let me throw something else into the mix.
And just maybe you can may draw some conclusions on your own without me having to spell it out.
On the one hand, we have over here Michelle Obama as a as the greatest fashion icon first lady ever.
It's not just that she's fashionable and has achieved whatever you do in the world of fashion.
And no, no, no.
Better than ever.
Nobody even close icons, set new standards, all of this just effusive over the top praise.
At the same time, Melania and Ivanka Trump are being savaged for their sense of fashion.
Not recently, but it has happened.
Over the course of the campaign, both women mocked, laughed at, made fun of, criticized the objects of derision in a number of different ways.
Now you put the two together, and I guarantee you, if you're if you take what you have already heard today and have learned from it, you'll be able to put all this together and make it make sense.
And let me give another word, sympathy.
A lot of sympathy in it.
It's it's a leftist exclusive.
It's really what this is all about.
Same thing with Obama.
They feel so sorry, so sad.
And so it's just it's just gotta make up for that.
Gotta accommodate for it.
And part and parcel, when there's sympathy involved, you're immune from criticism.
You can't be criticized.
It's like this.
What is Barack Obama's full name?
Anyone know?
That's right.
It's Barack Hussein Obama.
Now, John McCain one time canceled a person they had hired to introduce him and warm up his crowd because that man mentioned Obama's middle name.
I didn't have that kind of discrimination in my campaign.
We're not gonna do that.
It's Bill Cunningham.
Bill Cunningham, you fight it, get out.
So Cunningham was could not say Obama's middle name.
Anybody who did, the left came after him, did they not?
And yet now it is required that you criticize Jeff Sessions because of his middle name.
Because his middle name is Beauregard.
John Lewis can say whatever he says with impunity.
Because Jeff Sessions' middle name is Beauregard.
We need to understand that the Justice Department's gonna be the new home of racism.
That's Katrina Vandenhoov on ABC.
So Session's middle name, we must acknowledge it, recognize it, say it, define it, and tell people what it means.
Obama's middle name, shh.
No, no, no, don't even don't know.
You're not allowed to say it.
People might get the wrong idea.
What wrong idea?
Well, you know.
No, I don't.
What wrong idea?
You just don't say it, okay?
Just don't say it.
Here's Bill.
Bill is in um Ewing, Ewing, New Jersey.
Great to have you on the Rush Limbaugh program.
How are you doing, sir?
I'm doing well yourself.
I'm fine.
Thanks very much.
Second time through.
First time was when you were still local in ABC.
Wow, so that's going back 29 years.
Yeah, it's been a long time.
Many moons ago.
Little Indian.
Yes.
So anyway, uh I'm just calling, you know, to express my displeasure at my Congresswoman, uh Bonnie Watson Coleman here in NJ 12.
Uh while I wasn't a big fan of Trump before the election, I was never Hillary.
Uh, but the statements that they're the Democrats were making, especially one by her, threatening health care, kicking workers to the curb, pursuing education that's privatized, that's hashtag un-American.
I don't understand these people.
You know, they're driving me more and more to be a bigger fan for uh uh Mr. Trump or uh president elect.
Yeah, well, I that that's that's what they're that's what's happening, but that's not what they're shooting for, obviously.
Again, um look, have you heard that there's a there's another story out there, all of these Democrats that are not going to go to the inauguration.
I think there's like 20 of them now.
And then there's all these supposed A-list performers who aren't going to perform.
Andrea Bocelli, um noted uh tenor, has even performed concerts down here at Mar a Lango.
I, Il Rushbo attended one with dinner beforehand.
He's a friend of Trump's.
He got death threats.
So he pulled out.
And then Jennifer Hudson.
She was gonna sing something, national anthem, or some such thing, and then she started hearing from angry gays and lesbians.
Don't know why, but she did.
And she said, you know what, in in honor of the LGBT community, and she said it in tears.
I am withdrawing from performing at the inauguration of Donald Trump.
I mean, we're looking at pure bullying going on here.
The Democrat Party is bullying people into staying away from the Trump inauguration.
And I say, fine and dandy.
If that's how they want to play the hand that they've been dealt, by God, let it happen.
I I the last thing in the world that needs to happen is for Republicans to start begging them to show up.
And there's only a reason why the Republicans, only one reason why, and that's the Republicans.
There's some of them still think that there's a lot of credit to be had by appearing to be tolerant and understanding and desirous of working together with the defeated Democrats.
And he wanted once again trying to curry favor with the media, which never ever gonna work.
It isn't ever, ever gonna happen.
It's amazing to me, the lesson hasn't been learned yet.
Yeah, Jennifer Hudson's my only choice must now be stand with the LGBT community and to state unequivocally that I will not perform for the welcome concert or any of the inauguration festivities.
I don't know what the LGBT community has to do with this, unless there's a bathroom controversy involving the porta potties on the parade route.
I can't imagine what it would be.
Paul Anka, who wrote the song my way, he's pulled out.
He has cited a scheduling conflict.
Yeah, on inauguration day.
Uh the there is one brave and courageous performer.
There may be more, but the one that I Toby Keith is hanging in there and saying, I don't care what anybody says.
He's asked me to perform, and I'm gonna perform.
This is my country.
I'm gonna perform at the inauguration.
I'm happy to do it, I'm honored to do it.
But the left is trying to bully as many people as possible.
They I say the more the merrier.
This is why they lost the election.
It's exactly this kind of behavior.
that a majority of Americans said they're sick and tired of being governed by.
And make no mistake, that is how people looked at it.
We're being governed by these local weeds on protest marches.
We're being governed by all of these Occupy Wall Street protesters and malcontents.
And they're fed up with it.
And Trump wins.
And so far Trump hasn't done anything to distance himself from his supporters.
Somebody I got a I got a note from a friend over the weekend who said he was getting tired of people saying that that Trump's gone too far now, and it's time to dial it back and start trying to put some of this acrimony back together.
And I wrote about who in the world is saying that.
I haven't heard anybody say Trump's gone too far.
And he said, well, you know, it's the Republican leadership.
And I I hadn't heard, have you heard snurdly any Republican leadership say that?
Don't give me names.
Have you heard any of them say Trump's gone too far?
This is going too far now.
You have.
What McCain?
Who?
I'm not going to read, just tell me who.
You can't think of it.
Oh, well, no, that's not current leadership.
Michael Steele, that's dream on.
Well, he's not in the leadership, so I can say his name.
That's what I'm trying to.
By leadership, I tell you what this guy thought was it was Ryan and McConnell.
And they've not said that.
McCain is actively working with the Democrats, the Edtel community to undermine Trump.
There's no question about that.
And no, I haven't forgotten the points I want to make on this Inspector General investigation of the FBI and this ongoing attempt to engrave on this election the idea that the whole thing was illegitimate and the result of Russian treachery.
And they're not stopping on that.
They're not going to give up on this.
They got nothing else.
Anyway, uh, let me take a time out here.
We'll come back, Obama blaming me, and then Obama blaming Talk Radio, which is me, and then Obama blaming Fox News for the fact that Republicans just wouldn't cooperate with him.
And the reason the Republicans wouldn't is because they were afraid of what I would say about them if they cooperated with Obama.
The last I looked, they did cooperate.
If Obama wanted a new budget, he got it, didn't he?
Now they didn't cooperate on Obamacare because they they couldn't stop it anyway, so there was anyway.
Look, brief timeout, my friends, as time just marches faster here than any other three-hour period in the world.
Okay, so the TV show's NBC News dateline.
It's Friday night, NBC.
Doubt that too many people saw this.
So we're going to play the audio soundbites.
Lester Holt.
And he is interviewing Barack Hussein Obama.
He said, given the recovery was as uneven as it was, the people in the bottom slower to recover than the people on the top.
Didn't that in some way plant the seeds for the election of Donald Trump?
Well, what is true is that the ability of Republican leaders to rile up their base, helped along with by folks like Rush Limbaugh.
Some commentators on Fox News, I think, created an environment in which Republican voters would punish Republicans for cooperating with me.
That hot house of back and forth argument and really sharp partisanship.
I think it has been harmful to the country.
Right.
Now Obama came into office January 23rd, 2009, congressional leadership conference in the White House.
He's got Boehner and McConnell there and their aides, House and Senate leaders, both parties, and Obama said to Boehner and McConnell, you can't just listen to Rush Limbaugh and get things done.
That's just not how it happens in Washington.
So he came into office blaming me and telling the Republicans they have to stop listening to me.
As I have mentioned on a couple of previous occasions, I had a meeting with Boehner right here at the EIB Southern Command headquarters a couple of weeks after that, and he was talking about this, and he said, I can't believe I don't know why he would do that.
I don't know why he would say that, Rush.
I was kind of dumbfounded.
You really don't?
No, why would he say that?
I said, because he was hoping that you or Mitch or somebody in your group would go out to that pile of microphones, always outside the White House after a meeting with the president, and that one of you would agree that there's a new day, and we need to have a new way of looking at things, and Rushlin Baugh has been too whatever, and he was desperately hoping that you would agree with him.
He was trying to marginalize conservative opposition to him.
Another way he did, he had dinner with noted conservatives in Washington.
It was at the home of George F. Will.
Obama chose the conservatives to be there.
Naturally, I was not there.
They were David Brooks, George Will, Larry Cudlow, Dr. Krauthammer.
It was at this meeting that that uh David Brooks discovered the crease in Obama's slacks, and that convinced Brooks that Obama's gonna be great.
And people said, why did he have the because what he was trying to do was designate the official conservative leadership in Washington for the media to follow.
And he had chosen many of those, not all, but he had chosen many of them because they had already been solicitous of him and already been open and praiseworthy and complimentary towards him.
So uh he was trying to eliminate any opposition, but it's it's kind of it's kind of a crack here for the guy, blame me for partisanship in Washington.
I'm never there.
I'm a guy on the radio.
Admittedly a powerful influential member of the media guy on the radio, but nevertheless, I'm not there.
But the noteworthy thing here is how he exempts himself from any of the reasons for partisanship, that hot house of back and forth argument, that really sharp partisanship.
I think that's been harmful.
See, none of what he did is partisan.
No, no, no.
We leftists, we're not partisan.
We are just what is.
Any opposition to us is what partisanship is.
You have the audacity to disagree with us or to oppose us.
That's what partisanship is.
Up 60 minutes.
Sunday night with the go-to interview.
Whenever Obama does 60 minutes got to be Steve Croft, he uh cut his teeth with the with the Clintons and showing how it's done there.
So Croft says, you had two of the most unpopular presidential candidates selected by the two parties in history, Trump and Hillary.
Doesn't that say something serious is wrong with the system?
Now think of that question.
Here's Obama, the greatest ever.
The only thing Michelle did, fashion Obama himself can't hold a candle, but aside from that, Obama redefined the presidency better than anybody ever.
Brilliant, articulate, greatest guy ever.
And then Croft says, I mean, this country, the Nimrods in this country nominated Hillary and Trump for crying out loud.
We in the Hamptons, we were so embarrassed, Mr. President.
What about you?
Doesn't it say something seriously wrong with our system that these two dolts happen to be nominated?
It indicates that there is a lot of cynicism out there.
It indicates that the corrosive nature of everything from talk radio to fake news to negative advertising has made people lack confidence in a lot of our existing institutions.
I think it it indicates, at least on the Democratic side, that we've got more work to do to strengthen our grassroots networks.
You believe that.
But I give him credit for having activated themselves.
And they made a difference in terms of moving the Republican Party and in terms of moving the country in a particular direction.
It's a direction I disagreed with, but it showed that in fact you get involved.
If your voice is heard, it has an impact.
So guess who's to blame for making America cynical?
That's right.
That guy on the radio again.
Your beloved host, L. Rushbow.
Yeah, it's right.
The corrosive nature of everything talk radio to fake news, negative advertising, oh, it's horrible.
Tea Party.
And who's responsible for the tea party?
That Guy on the radio.
Poor Obama, most powerful man in the world, and he couldn't overcome the guy on the radio.
Hey, any of you people out there fans of the Showtime TV series Homeland?
Episode one was last night.
Did any of you watch it?
If you did, if you're a fan, if you're invested in the show, if you really like it, what did you think of last night's episode and the story arc?