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RUSH: Colfax, Wisconsin, back to the phones. This is Susan. Thank you for waiting and welcome to the program.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Oh, hi, Rush. What a wonderful experience to be able to talk to you and Bo Snerdley.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Oh, yes, it makes your day, makes your day.<\/p>\n

CALLER: He is wonderful, and so are you. I\u2019m taking us back to the beginning of the program about this aspirin thing<\/a>, and I\u2019m just sick and tired of the humorless liberal women that are out there. Where\u2019s the warmth? Where\u2019s the love? I don\u2019t mind being barefoot. I don\u2019t mind being pregnant. I don\u2019t mind being in the kitchen, and what\u2019s wrong with it? There was a lot of love in our house and my husband couldn\u2019t wait to get home to me and our little babies. I\u2019ve been married for 42 years and I\u2019m just sick and tired of all this humorless stuff that\u2019s out there.<\/p>\n

<\/a>RUSH: You know, that\u2019s a great way of describing it. They are humorless.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yeah.<\/p>\n

RUSH: They are not happy. They don\u2019t smile. They\u2019re not enjoying life. This babe in San Francisco, this environmentalist wacko —<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yeah.<\/p>\n

RUSH: — I mean what she\u2019s basically doing here is putting an aspirin between the pages of her checkbook, and she\u2019s not gonna open it up and write one for Obama.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Well, I\u2019ll tell you, I\u2019m just sick of it, and what\u2019s the matter with being a real person? I miss Johnny Carson and roasts of, what was that, Dean Martin roasts, I mean that humor, what\u2019s wrong with that? And can\u2019t we get back to being normal people, for crying out loud.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, depends on how you define normal. Normal is old-fashioned and Victorian, fuddy-duddy. But, look, you really have nailed it here. They\u2019re not happy. They are totally humorless. They are constantly angry, upset, agitated about something, and, furthermore, they\u2019re looking for reasons to be every day. They\u2019re part of the class I call “The Offended.” The Concerned. They\u2019re just constantly offended, looking for reasons to be offended. And that\u2019s what they want to redistribute, is their misery. Did I like the Norman Rockwell America stuff? Yeah. I did. I thought my childhood had examples of Norman Rockwell. I mean I thought my life was exemplary of that at times. <\/p>\n

My grandparents, both sets, would fit in a Norman Rockwell painting. Absolutely. You know, try telling a modern-day liberal that. Look at how they laugh and chuckle and, “Oh, man, how out of touch can you possibly be?” That\u2019s not an America that they would look fondly on and certainly not one that they would want to — (interruption) Snerdley says, “Why not? Why wouldn\u2019t modern-day liberals want that?” Because you gotta realize that, what was it that made America Norman Rockwell-like, sexism? The dominant men and patriarchs with women barefoot and pregnant, basically slaves, popping out babies and baking cherry pies and all this stuff. They were happy, but they were ignorant. They didn\u2019t realize how they were being exploited. They didn\u2019t realize how they were being subjugated. <\/p>\n

That was a phony era. That was never real. The Rockwell era, that papered over the real discrimination and disparity and inequality that existed in America. That promoted a dominant white culture that was discriminatory and way too large, and it was forcing its way on everybody. There was no liberty. There was no freedom. Everybody had to conform. It was phony. That\u2019s what they would say about it.<\/p>\n

It was replete with American values. The American left today despises American values. That\u2019s really what the culture war, to the extent that you want to describe it that way, it\u2019s what it\u2019s about, it\u2019s American values. What would it take for liberals to be proud of this country? I think really scaled back in size and power and economic output, but I don\u2019t even know if they\u2019re capable of being proud of the country. I don\u2019t think liberals have — and, by the way, there\u2019s a bunch of different liberals — I\u2019m talking about the true follower, brain-dead people that lurk on all these websites and write all these idiotic, stupid comments to whatever posts are put up there. <\/p>\n

Then you have liberal leaders who are duping all these people. Liberal leaders make certain they live lives in the lap of luxury. They make certain of that. And they are happy as they live their lives of luxury and as they wield their power over people beneath them. I\u2019m talking about the rank and file, dumb, stupid, uninformed libs who are governed totally by broken hearts. They\u2019re forever miserable, they\u2019re forever unhappy, they blame the structure of the country for it. I mean those are the people that are susceptible to the accusation that the way they and the rest of us have lived is destroying the climate, for example. <\/p>\n

But there is redemption possible. These are the people desperately searching for meaning in their lives. Their lives don\u2019t mean anything. Everybody wants their life to have meaning, everybody wants to matter, and so the brilliant liberal leaders say, “Well, fine, you want to matter, then buy some stupid little car here that is gonna save the planet, and, by the way, when a tax increase comes along, happily pay it. This is the price you must pay for the damage that you have wrought.” My gosh, these people are so overwhelmed with guilt, and they want everybody to feel exactly as they do: miserable, unhappy, cantankerous, you name it. And so that\u2019s what their mission is. <\/line><\/p>\n

So I don\u2019t think, Snerdley, that America could ever be anything that they would be proud of. Their existence is based on finding flaws. That\u2019s the essence of liberalism. You find a flaw, you point it out, and in the process you say to yourself, “I\u2019m compassionate. Well, look at me, I care. Look what I\u2019ve noticed. Look what I see. See that suffering? That\u2019s horrible. Wow, am I a good person.” No. You don\u2019t have to solve it. In fact, you make fun of the people who want to solve it and you accuse them of racism, sexism, bigotry, and homophobia and all that other stuff. No, no, no. It\u2019s the most gutless choice one can make, to be a liberal. It\u2019s just easy. You don\u2019t have to ever do anything. <\/p>\n

And, beyond that, all you have to do is think of yourself as a victim of some unseen, powerful force that subjugates you into this life of misery. And that allows you to think you\u2019re owed something, that you\u2019re entitled to something. I know these people. I know them like every square inch of my glorious naked body. Not just the back of my hand. I know more about what they think and how they think than they do. And that\u2019s why they hate me, because I point it out. I nail \u2019em, and they don\u2019t like that. They don\u2019t like confronting the truth about their own existence.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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