{"id":13686,"date":"2012-12-17T17:08:11","date_gmt":"2012-12-17T17:08:11","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2012-12-17T17:08:11","modified_gmt":"2012-12-17T17:08:11","slug":"we_re_living_the_collapse_of_our_culture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2012\/12\/17\/we_re_living_the_collapse_of_our_culture\/","title":{"rendered":"We\u2019re Living the Collapse of Our Culture"},"content":{"rendered":"

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RUSH: Oh, no, no, no, no. It\u2019s very frustrating because we\u2019re now immersed in many circumstances and situations where the last thing that anybody wants to hear are facts. The last thing anybody wants to contemplate is the real truth about something. Instead, everybody wants to live in illusions and advanced political agendas. <\/p>\n

Greetings, folks. Great to have you. Rush Limbaugh, the EIB Network and the Limbaugh Institute for Advanced Conservative Studies. Telephone number if you want to be on the program, 800-282-2882. The e-mail address, ElRushbo@eibnet.com<\/a>. <\/p>\n

So much to say about this, and I sit here in full knowledge that were I to open up and share with you my genuine, real thoughts about what\u2019s going on in this country, I\u2019d be brought up on charges. I think we\u2019re looking at all the wrong places to solve all of these problems. <\/p>\n

Remember, folks, during the presidential campaign, I said, “Twenty-five years ago we were warning about what was going to happen if X kept happening and Y kept happening and if we didn\u2019t stop Z.” Well, now, we\u2019re there. We\u2019re no longer talking about what will happen unless we do something about it. We\u2019re living it. We\u2019re living the collapse. We\u2019re living the implosion of our culture and our society. Politically, morally, religiously, you name it, and it all stems from the fact that no one is allowed to have values. Values are judgmental. You have no right to impose values on people. <\/line><\/p>\n

So we\u2019ve gotten to the point where nothing is really wrong. There are just explanations for it. And in practically every instance, the explanation and the proposed cure is nothing more than the advancement of a particular political belief or ideology. In this case, liberalism. But before we get into this in great detail, there\u2019s something I need to get squared here. And I don\u2019t think it\u2019s nitpicking to do this. As we got information here on Friday afternoon to tell you what was happening, we passed it along. And it turns out that it was all wrong. It was all wrong, in the substantive sense.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s stunning, folks, how wrong everything we were initially told was. And I believe that also pinpoints or highlights a problem that we have in our culture, because people only believe what they\u2019re told, and if they\u2019re told a bunch of crap repeatedly day in and day out, that\u2019s what they\u2019re going to end up believing, particularly low-information people. But almost all of the early news reports on the Sandy Hook shooting turned out to be wrong. Almost everything that I passed on to you from the Drive-By Media on Friday turned out to be wrong. The shooter\u2019s name was wrong, his age was wrong, who he shot was wrong, where he shot was wrong. His mother did not work at the school. She did not teach kindergarten. She was not shot at the school, for example. <\/line><\/p>\n

The shooter was not 24-year-old Ryan Lanza. The father was not shot. None of this that we were told turned out to be remotely true. There was no second shooter. We were told that there was a second shooter perhaps involved. Now all of these things were reported by — well, I don\u2019t even want to pick one. They all reported it, CBS, NBC, ABC, and we were told with many of these items that all of it had been confirmed by authorities. CBS News confirms, ABC News confirms, NBC News confirms. Now, we try to be on the cutting edge here at the EIB Network. We try to be the firstest with the mostest, but if I got a fraction of the things wrong that the Drive-By Media gets wrong whenever there is breaking news like this, I would never hear the end of it. And nobody would be trying to make excuses for me, either, were I to have been so blatantly, consistently wrong about this. Nobody would be trying to make excuses. They would simply be pointing fingers of blame. <\/p>\n

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But now, ladies and gentlemen, it\u2019s completely acceptable, even expected, from our media guardians in their quest to be first and their desire to get it right. And you know why all of this stuff is wrong? All of this stuff is wrong because the first thing that happens when a disaster like this hits is excitement. Not pain. Not tears. Excitement at the opportunity to advance whatever political agenda fits into the event. In this case, it happens to be gun control. So that became the overriding, informing characteristic of this story. And therefore, every bit of news that they wanted to believe was true. To make the gun look like it was the enemy here, that\u2019s what became reported news. <\/p>\n

They were in such a hurry to sensationalize the news, again, because they wanted to advance their agenda, that the basic rules of journalism got thrown out, like two sources or three sources, just went out the window. It\u2019s the same Drive-By Media that says they didn\u2019t want to rush into covering the attack in Benghazi, which killed four Americans. They didn\u2019t want to be rushed into that \u2019til they had all the facts, and they still don\u2019t have all the facts. So they still don\u2019t want to rush into covering that. And the person who has all the facts who could testify isn\u2019t going to \u2019cause she fell down, had a concussion the other day and will no longer be secretary of state when the hearings take place. <\/p>\n

Fast and Furious, same thing. No desire, no rush, no interest whatsoever. Had Fast and Furious manifested itself the way it was intended to, they woulda covered that story the same way they covered Sandy Hook, because that was the objective of Fast and Furious. The express purpose of Fast and Furious was to create throughout this country the exact emotions and energy that the story, the shootings at the Sandy Hook Elementary School created. That was the design of Fast and Furious. <\/p>\n

So you\u2019re sitting down and you\u2019re watching Sunday Night Football last night because you want to escape from all this, and then you hear Al Michaels say (paraphrasing), “Oh, by the way, the president\u2019s gonna speak and we\u2019re going to be abandoning the coverage here for a while. You can watch us over at our sports channel or at CNBC, but the president, he\u2019s in Connecticut and he\u2019s gonna be speaking.” Then the president shows up, says we\u2019re not doing enough, we have to change. And he correctly pointed out that since he\u2019s been president it\u2019s the fourth time that we have come together to comfort a grieving community torn apart by mass shootings. Fourth time, that\u2019s right, four mass shootings. Still nowhere near the record. <\/p>\n