{"id":12859,"date":"2013-03-26T18:22:23","date_gmt":"2013-03-26T18:22:23","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2013-03-26T18:22:23","modified_gmt":"2013-03-26T18:22:23","slug":"left_outraged_by_roberts_analogy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2013\/03\/26\/left_outraged_by_roberts_analogy\/","title":{"rendered":"Left Outraged by Roberts\u2019 Analogy"},"content":{"rendered":"

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RUSH: I\u2019m just waiting for the printer to spit something out here. It\u2019s about the chief justice. Here\u2019s the headline: “Chief Justice John Roberts Compares Gay Marriage To Forcing A Child To Call Someone ‘A Friend.'” They have released the audio of the oral arguments now, and this is the story from Mediaite. “The optimism that Jean Podrasky, cousin of Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts, displayed when she told The Los Angeles Times that she ‘trust(s) he will go in a good direction\u2019 in deciding whether same-sex couples have the right to marry may have been misplaced. On MSNBC\u00c2\u2019s Andrea Mitchell Reports Tuesday afternoon, fill-in host Chris Cillizza played some sound from today\u00c2\u2019s oral arguments on Proposition 8, in which Roberts compares gay marriage rights to forcing a child to call someone a friend.”<\/p>\n

Whoa-ho! That could not have gone over well inside the court. <\/p>\n

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“In one of the early pieces of sound to emerge from oral arguments … Roberts made a particularly brain-dead comparison that might portend disappointment for his cousin. ‘If you tell a child that somebody has to be their friend, I suppose you can force the child to say “this is my friend,” but it changes the definition of what it means to be a friend. And that\u2019s, it seems to me, what (supporters?) of Proposition 8 are saying here. All you\u00c2\u2019re interested in is the label, and you insist on changing the definition of the label.'”<\/p>\n

So let me interpret this for you. What Roberts is saying, marriage is a man and a woman. It\u2019s what it\u2019s always been. It\u2019s what the word means. Now you want the label to mean something new so you may as well start telling kids that they have to tell everybody that they\u2019re their friend. I know exactly what he\u2019s talking about. He\u2019s simply saying marriage is what it is. If you go to the dictionary, marriage has a specific definition. <\/p>\n

Now, if you\u2019re coming here and saying that you want to change that definition, then you are essentially just telling everybody that they must accept everybody as their friend or as they want to be accepted and that definitions don\u2019t mean anything. Tommy Christopher, the Mediaite reporter, refers to that as brain-dead. And I think that\u2019s classic. I think that perfectly illustrates where we are. We have a low-information reporter here who doesn\u2019t care what the definition of a word is, who doesn\u2019t care what the meaning of it is. All that matters to this brain-dead reporter is that the chief justice doesn\u2019t see the world the way he does, and therefore the chief justice is brain-dead. <\/p>\n

It\u2019s what I\u2019ve always said, the real problem with low-information people is not what they don\u2019t know; it\u2019s what they do know that\u2019s wrong. And that was actually an utterance of the famous and great Ronaldus Magnus. The problem is not what they don\u2019t know; it\u2019s what they do know that\u2019s wrong, or what they do know that isn\u2019t right. <\/p>\n

I tell you, once this gets out, this is gonna be the focal point of everybody\u2019s discussion, and they\u2019re gonna humiliate Roberts. You haven\u2019t seen anything yet. Once this gets out, and it is out now: “Chief Justice Roberts compares gay marriage to forcing a child to call someone a ‘friend.'” And the proponents of gay marriage, I mean this is the most important thing in the world. It\u2019s the most important thing in the world, and it\u2019s love, it\u2019s about love, and here\u2019s Roberts making fun of it and impugning it, diminishing it, acting like these people are just a bunch of kids. Oh, this is not gonna sit well with the low-information crowd in the media, folks.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: We have the audio of Chief Justice Roberts during oral arguments on the same-sex marriage case today.<\/p>\n

ROBERTS: If you tell a child that somebody has to be their friend, I suppose you can force the child to say, “This is my friend,” but it changes the definition of what it means to be a friend — and that, it seems to me, what supporters of Proposition 8 are saying here. All you\u2019re interested in is the label, and you insist on changing the definition of the label.<\/p>\n

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RUSH: I hate to say it — I mean, I really hate to say it — but he\u2019s dead-on right. You know, words mean things. At the root level, that\u2019s what this is all about. It\u2019s about changing definitions to include people who don\u2019t automatically (What\u2019s the word?) qualify. That\u2019s all this is about when you boil it all down, and every argument made to advance it is marketing and packaging. Now, where does this come from, by the way? “If you tell a child that somebody has to be their friend, I suppose you can force the child to say, ‘This is my friend.'” Are there schools that do that? Would he maybe have had a child in a school where that was required?<\/p>\n

Are there schools that make the children refer to every other child as their friend and the teachers refer to the students as their friends, and might he have had a child in such a school? What are the odds? So the media guy is calling him a meathead, but you boil this down to its essence, to its most simple, and this is exactly what this is about. It isn\u2019t a civil rights issue. It isn\u2019t a love issue. It isn\u2019t any of that. If everybody is your friend, then there\u2019s no such thing as a friend — and if anybody can marry anybody, there really isn\u2019t anything called “marriage” anymore.<\/p>\n

Marriage is a word. It\u2019s in the dictionary. Look it up. It has a meaning.<\/p>\n

It did not evolve out of any form of bigotry or discrimination.<\/p>\n

It didn\u2019t evolve negatively at all.<\/p>\n

It wasn\u2019t created negatively.<\/p>\n

It wasn\u2019t created to exclude anybody because everybody has the choice. Anybody in the world can get married, if you convince somebody to marry you (or trick them or whatever you do). But marriage is not something that\u2019s denied people. Now, I know I\u2019ve really stepped in it with the traditional low-information argument as it\u2019s advanced today, but, I\u2019m sorry. It\u2019s what it is. Marriage is not discriminatory. No matter who you are, if you\u2019re a human being, you can get married as marriage is defined. So what is happening here is that a tradition or a custom or what have you, now must be altered and changed to mean something it doesn\u2019t mean.<\/p>\n

I\u2019ll tell you: The media is gonna harp on this. They\u2019re gonna just jump on this.<\/p>\n

Folks, I\u2019m warning you: This could be fascinating to watch. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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