{"id":11416,"date":"2013-09-10T17:34:59","date_gmt":"2013-09-10T17:34:59","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2013-09-10T17:34:59","modified_gmt":"2013-09-10T17:34:59","slug":"the_pop_culture_will_never_abandon_obama","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2013\/09\/10\/the_pop_culture_will_never_abandon_obama\/","title":{"rendered":"The Pop Culture Will Never Abandon Obama"},"content":{"rendered":"

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RUSH: Let\u2019s go to the phones. Let\u2019s go to Lissa in St. Louis. Great to have you on the EIB Network. Hello.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Hi, Rush. Thanks so much. You\u2019ve said it before: Obama is our first true pop culture president. He is nourished, supported, fed by the pop culture of this country. It really is gonna have to be the pop culture that takes him down. So the question —<\/p>\n

RUSH: I agree with that, by the way. I agree with that and have tried to make that point. It isn\u2019t gonna be a massive political event like this that does it.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Right. You\u2019re absolutely right about that. The question then becomes, “When will pop culture finally get its intelligence insulted?” You know, my intelligence on this guy has been insulted since day one. But when will the likes of Jon Stewart and the writers at SNL — who are also nourished and fed and supported by the pop culture and, I guess, helped create the pop culture — finally not be able to take it? Because when that happens and Obama loses that nourishment, that\u2019s gonna be like kryptonite to him.<\/p>\n

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RUSH: Let me tell you what\u2019s effervescing right now below the surface.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yes?<\/p>\n

RUSH: All of these pop culture entertainment icons — actors and actresses, primarily — are seething over the potential use of force in Syria. You know, they were being told to shut up for the good of Obama “Shut up! Shut up!” But they can\u2019t. Some of them just couldn\u2019t stop it and they were threatening to break out. Now, because of what\u2019s happened, there isn\u2019t gonna be any US military action in Syria, and so there\u2019s gonna be no reason for them to come out and oppose Obama for doing that. So that is something that you might have had hopes that would happen — i.e., the left anti-war Hollywood crowd finally rising up against Obama. It isn\u2019t gonna happen because there isn\u2019t gonna be a military strike.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yeah, well, this is so badly bungled. You talked about SNL at the beginning of this show. The script is written for the skit. You don\u2019t even have to write it.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Lissa, hang on. I want to get a break here. I know you\u2019re not through so I want to continue this when we get back.<\/p>\n

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RUSH: Okay. We are back with Lissa in St. Louis. I interrupted a point that you were makings, and I knew you were on a roll or making a point about the pop culture and Saturday Night Live and all that. I just wanted to ask you: What pop culture meltdown? See, I don\u2019t think there\u2019s anything that\u2019s ever gonna change the writers of The Daily Show\u2019s opinion on Obama or David Letterman or Saturday Night Live, you name it. They are gonna band together no matter how bad a mistake, gaffe, whatever, this guy might make. They\u2019re gonna band together, prop him up and protect him and support him because of race, Lissa.<\/p>\n

CALLER: I hear that, but, I mean, it\u2019s so obviously ripe for picking. It\u2019s like, are you kidding me? How do they maintain their credibility as drivers of the pop culture if they don\u2019t do something with that red line, if they don\u2019t do something with, you know, the gaffe that Kerry did that now has become the administration\u2019s policy? He\u2019s the chief diplomat of the country! I just feel like it\u2019s getting to the point, this is bungled so badly — and the other thing is, other stuff has been bungled, and more stuff to come will be bungled. <\/p>\n

I just think you get to a tipping point where, if they want to stay relevant… Everybody wants to be relevant. The key is, we have to get the low-information voters to clean their ears out, get the wax out or get their ear buds out, and be primed and ready to hear this. I think the more bungling and the more experience they have with all these bad Obamacare policies that are gonna cost \u2019em a fortune, and the more negative experiences they have, I think they\u2019re gonna be primed to listen, and they\u2019re gonna hear it.<\/p>\n

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RUSH: Well, I don\u2019t know, and the reason that I\u2019m doubtful is the reason that I concocted the Limbaugh Theorem to explain it: Because using the belief system that you just touted, that shoulda happened by now.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yeah.<\/p>\n

RUSH: We\u2019ve got horrible economy, rotten jobs. The bottom line is that — I\u2019ll call it low-information voters because that\u2019s who you\u2019re talking about when you say pop culture audience. They don\u2019t associate Obama with any of this. They blame the Republicans for it. They really do! Even now, the Republicans are to blame. The New York Times today is blaming the Republicans for Syria. Obama blames the Republicans for the red line on Syria just last week, and the media just runs with it. <\/p>\n

The media doesn\u2019t question anything. He can say whatever he wants to say. The people you\u2019re talking about are not going to get the information that he has a bungling anything. Even if their lives are bungled royally, the great thing… Well, “great.” The very sad thing that\u2019s happening here is that what you say is happening. People are losing faith, but not in Obama. They\u2019re losing faith in America. They think America\u2019s great days are gone, and they\u2019re feeling left out. <\/p>\n

Young people think that they\u2019re not gonna do as well or better than their parents, but it\u2019s not Obama\u2019s fault. It\u2019s just their loss. They\u2019ve lost faith in the country. They\u2019ve lost faith in the ability of the country to provide for \u2019em, and that\u2019s the way they look at it. They\u2019ve lost faith in the country to provide opportunity for them. They\u2019re living at home with their parents, but they don\u2019t blame the Republican Party for any of it, they don\u2019t blame Obama for it. That\u2019s the first time in my life that a president has remained insulated from the very results of his own policies.<\/p>\n

CALLER: It is remarkable. <\/line><\/p>\n

RUSH: It has never happened.<\/p>\n

CALLER: It is amazing. Exactly. I totally get what you\u2019re saying, and it is completely amazing to me that the reality of what\u2019s going on is never attributed to him. It is an absolutely remarkable way of thinking. It\u2019s like the whole —<\/p>\n

RUSH: Right. Now, but let\u2019s go back to what you said when I first took your call. Do you disagree? Do you think that something is gonna happen that\u2019s gonna wake these people up?<\/p>\n

CALLER: I think if popular culture, the drivers of popular culture want to stay relevant and they start using some of this stuff in Saturday Night Live skits, on the Jon Stewart show, I think that\u2019s the beginning of people… You know, we don\u2019t have to get people to say, “Oh, Obama is terrible, and a reason that everything\u2019s bad. I now get it. He\u2019s the reason my life is bad.” We just need to get them to say, “Maybe he\u2019s not all that great. Maybe he is kind of weak.” We just have to plant the seed in there is, and I think the rest of it will just by natural course of action —<\/p>\n

RUSH: Okay, but then what? —<\/p>\n

CALLER: Right.<\/p>\n