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RUSH: We\u2019re always happy to go back and correct the record. Never, never, did we talk about anything other than rolling back the Democrat agenda for the last 65 years. I don\u2019t even recall using the number 65 million, 65 years, 65 this or what have you. But all I could think when I heard about this… You know, Matthews didn\u2019t say that he heard somebody else say or that somebody told him. He said that he heard me say that I want to roll back Truman\u2019s integration of the US Army, and he didn\u2019t twitch and his eyes didn\u2019t glaze over. There was no spittle coming down the chin. He just said it! He had a fierce scowl on his face when he said it. “Rush Limbaugh wants to end Truman\u2019s integration of the Army.”<\/p>\n
All I could think was, “Where\u2019s his staff?” Are they following in the footsteps of Al Sharpton? Are they trying to create attention? You know what Sharpton says now, Snerdley, did you hear this? Sharpton says he did all that on purpose to set the bait for me! (laughing) To set the bait for me. Listen, he wants to preach to my choir. Well, who wouldn\u2019t want this audience? Problem none of them has the ability to go out and get it on their own, don\u2019t have the slightest idea how. They\u2019re all a bunch of parasites, every one of them. But it\u2019s comical on one hand because it just always happens when there\u2019s utter panic setting in on their side about their other prospects.<\/p>\n
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Everybody was supposed to sign up, and there was gonna be this massive, nationwide love affair — worldwide love affair — not only for Obama, but for our country again. We were supposed to have an economic rebound. None of this was supposed to happen, and they have no choice but than to look at themselves when trying to explain why all this has happened. They have held near supermajorities for much of the last four years in the House of Representatives, then in the Senate, and now they add the White House to it. Every day they wake up and look out over the country, and they see the consequences of what they believe, and in those rare moments where the reality permeates and they admit the truth to themselves, they realize it\u2019s their policies that have done all this.<\/p>\n
As it was pointed out the other day, these people all have 401(k)s as well. They all have retirement accounts, and they\u2019ve all got kids, and they\u2019ve all got futures to be concerned about — and, you know, at some point they start saying, is my kids\u2019 future worth supporting this guy? Now, they\u2019re not ever gonna voice that, so when these moments of panic and disquiet set in, you go out — just like the rioters in London — and you attack who you think is responsible for foiling all this, and it\u2019s clear that in the case of many on the left Obama would have been a stunning, overwhelming, resounding success…if it weren\u2019t for me. So now I become the focal point of blame, I become the target. But how in the world you go out there and tell your audience that you heard me say that I want to roll back Truman\u2019s integration of the Army?<\/p>\n
RUSH: Barry in Atlanta, great to have you on the program, sir. You\u2019re up first today. Hello.<\/p>\n
CALLER: Hey, Rush, how you doing?<\/p>\n
RUSH: Very good. Thank you.<\/p>\n
CALLER: I want to preface this by saying, Rush, you\u2019re my favorite. I\u2019ve been with you since the very beginning in \u201988.<\/p>\n
RUSH: Well, I appreciate that, sir. Thanks very much.<\/p>\n
CALLER: Okay. And, a side issue, but my ex-wife went to high school with you, but that\u2019s neither here nor there. (chuckles) Um, I think Chris Matthews is a bonehead and everyday he shows it even more, but I\u2019ll tell you what he\u2019s talking about: He played the clip of what you said yesterday, where he said we need to turn back every Democratic initiative of the last 50, 60 years or something like that. That\u2019s what he\u2019s talking about.<\/p>\n
RUSH: Yeah.<\/p>\n
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RUSH: Yeah, meanwhile, it is his party that is the party of segregation. <\/p>\n
CALLER: Exactly, exactly.<\/p>\n
RUSH: J. William Fulbright, his party.<\/p>\n
CALLER: That\u2019s his premise; that\u2019s what he\u2019s talking about.<\/p>\n
RUSH: Yeah. We\u2019ve got the sound bite. Here it is. There are two of them. Talking about the Wisconsin recall elections first.<\/p>\n
MATTHEWS: Let\u2019s listen to Rushbo today and what he said about what it meant last night.<\/p>\n
RUSH ARCHIVE: [T]he people of Wisconsin have fended off what amounted to a government-union takeover. [edit] … If the taxpayers of Wisconsin can win against all those odds, we should be able to do the same thing in every state, and in Washington, DC. We ought to be able to roll back Obamacare. In fact we ought to be able to roll back everything Obama has given us over the last two and a half years. We should be able to roll back the whole Democrat agenda for the last 65 years. Yes, we can! <\/p>\n
RUSH: So “the whole Democrat agenda for the last 65 years.” Now, you gotta be… (laughing) You gotta look long and hard. You have to be looking for it, you have to be shameless to make a statement like that and then say this.<\/p>\n
No, Snerdley, I know it\u2019s getting worse but it\u2019s only a testament of effectiveness. This is what you have to understand, to take a statement like, “Roll back the whole Democrat agenda for the last 65 years,” everybody with a modicum of understanding means, we gotta get rid of the socialism, we\u2019ve got to reduce the size of government, we have got to get government out of being the central facet in everybody\u2019s life. We do have to repeal Obamacare. We do have to fix Social Security and Medicare and Medicaid. They\u2019re busted, they\u2019re bankrupt, they don\u2019t work! Democrat social programs have led to what\u2019s happening in London. The same thinking, the same type of mentality. It has led to the paralysis of law enforcement, for crying out loud. <\/p>\n
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But, Snerdley, you make the mistake of taking all this personally. You do take it personally. You can\u2019t take it personally. These people are looking at the utter implosion of everything they believe in. Everything they believe in can be pointed to and said to be responsible for the decline of the United States of America as an economic power, as a military power, as a bulwark of freedom. They get up every morning, they look at themselves in the mirror, and they see the reason that there is mass dissatisfaction with government. Who runs it? Whose policies are in charge of government right now? Well, they\u2019re gloating in Europe that their growth rate\u2019s better?<\/p>\n
It may well be. Their credit rating\u2019s better than hours. They get a higher credit rating than we do and so do the frogs. The French have a higher credit rating than we do. That\u2019s why I say, “It\u2019s too late to run around and say I hope Obama fails.” That train left the station. He has succeeded. Truman had to desegregate the US Army by executive order rather than through legislation because everybody knew that congressional representatives of the Old South — people Chris Matthews thinks are the epitome of justice and fairness — are the old racists, the old segregationists, the old Democrats. Truman had to desegregate the Army by executive order because it woulda never happened if he would have relied on the legislative process. <\/p>\n
BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n
RUSH: Just a little closing of the loop here: “In May of 1948, Richard B. Russell, the Democrat Senator from Georgia, attached an amendment to the Selective Services Bill that was then being debated in Congress. The Russell Amendment would have granted draftees and new inductees an opportunity to choose whether or not they wanted to serve in segregated military units.” <\/p>\n
Now, Richard B. Russell was a Democrat, and he wanted to give new inductees the opportunity to decide whether or not they wanted to serve in segregated units. In other words, “Do you want to have to not spend any time with any blacks?” A Democrat attached an amendment to the Selective Services Bill giving new inductees the opportunity to say, I don\u2019t want to serve with blacks. He was a Democrat — and, by the way, a Democrat revered to this day. Even after President Truman\u2019s executive order — and remember, Truman\u2019s executive order desegregated the Army rather than through legislation because everybody knew congressional representatives of the Solid South, the old Democrats, all white would have stonewalled any such legislation.<\/p>\n
And even after Truman\u2019s executive order, the Democrats still tried to make desegregation in the Army voluntary. And this Russell, so revered, is the Russell the Senate Office Building is named in honor of. You want to know one of the first acts of the newly formed NAACP? Snerdley, as a CP, what do you think was the first — one of the first — acts the newly formed NAACP? (interruption) It was to oppose Woodrow Wilson\u2019s segregation of the US government. The NAALCP practically came into existence to oppose Democrat Woodrow Wilson\u2019s segregation of the US government! That started in 1913 — and, by the way, in 1913, most of the NAALCP\u2019s leadership was Republican. <\/p>\n
The NAACP was only incorporated in 1911, so they are a relatively a young group by national standards. There is so much racial history in this country that is 180 degrees wrong in the way it\u2019s told, the way it\u2019s reported, and obviously the way that it is understood. But the larger question, Chris Matthews asked, “What does Rushbo want to do? Does he want to roll back all this…?” Chris, let me make it very simple for you: I want to get rid of every liberal Democrat policy which has led to or contributing to the decline of the United States of America as an economic powerhouse, as the lone greatest place on earth for economic opportunity. To the extent that the liberal agenda is destroying that and has destroyed it, damn right we want to get rid of it!<\/p>\n
What do you think the Tea Party\u2019s all about? <\/p>\n
The Tea Party is about reducing the size of government and getting it out of people\u2019s lives, rejecting the notion that only government can make the right decisions for people. We do not believe in “economic justice” as defined by government being in charge of economic outcomes. We don\u2019t believe in “social justice” as being defined as government deciding who gets what and when and where and how, and who doesn\u2019t get what. We don\u2019t believe in that. Self-reliance, rugged individualism, self-interest, lifting all boats. So, yeah, short answer to your question is, get rid of it, and we opposed you guys every chance we got, and if it hadn\u2019t been for Republicans there would not have been a Civil Rights Act of 1964! <\/p>\n
RUSH: New York, back to the phones. Tom, great to have you on the program, sir. Hello.<\/p>\n
CALLER: Thank you, Rush. Listen, I just want to make a quick point about Chris Matthews and just how crazy he is. An example of the fact is these commercials that he\u2019s been running, that run incessantly on his network. He\u2019s actually running a commercial, Rush, that is antithetical to everything they\u2019ve been talking about for the last two years regarding this birther issue. I don\u2019t know if you\u2019ve seen it, but he actually runs a commercial touting “American exceptionalism,” saying that an example of American exceptionalism is the fact that Barack Obama came from another country and was elected president of the United States.<\/p>\n
RUSH: Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa! They\u2019re running that as a promo on MSNBC?<\/p>\n
CALLER: Yes, they are.<\/p>\n
RUSH: It\u2019s Matthews that says that?<\/p>\n
CALLER: It\u2019s Matthews that says it. <\/p>\n
RUSH: Where is he? Is he in an abandoned railroad car graveyard when he says that, like Sergeant Schultz is? Where is he?<\/p>\n
CALLER: No, he\u2019s not. He\u2019s actually, I believe, sitting — I don\u2019t know — it looks like something that\u2019s overlooking the White House, and he\u2019s actually motions to the White House at the end of the commercial and he says, “You can\u2019t do that in China or France. You can\u2019t go to these countries and become Chinese or French,” and then he says, “American exceptionalism,” and he points to the White House.<\/p>\n
RUSH: Well —<\/p>\n
CALLER: It\u2019s insane, it\u2019s insane.<\/p>\n
RUSH: So he actually says that that\u2019s the definition of American exceptionalism that you can come from another country and be president?<\/p>\n
CALLER: Yes. And he holds Obama out as the example.<\/p>\n
RUSH: Yeah. Well, “respect we much.”<\/p>\n
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RUSH: Yeah.<\/p>\n
CALLER: The problem with these guys is they think wealth is a zero-sum game. What difference does it matter if the wealthy in this country double or triple their wealth by creating wealth, if everybody else still has what they have? Or even if their wealth improves?<\/p>\n
RUSH: No, it\u2019s an excellent question. But they believe that the only way that happens is if the rich steal.<\/p>\n
CALLER: Well, they\u2019re nuts. Because, as we know, the government is not the source of wealth. The people who create the wealth.<\/p>\n
RUSH: Oh, yes, it is, for 48% of the population! You could have somebody in this country who\u2019s 25, has ten kids (which is possible) and dies, and the government will send his heirs Social Security, disability, whatever, $155,000 a year total. The government will do it.<\/p>\n
CALLER: It\u2019s nuts. Abraham Lincoln said, “You cannot empower the poor by impoverishing the wealthy.” It cannot be done, Abraham Lincoln.<\/p>\n
RUSH: Well, who was he? What did he know? (laughing)<\/p>\n
CALLER: I tell you, I\u2019ll match him up against Karl Marx any time. I\u2019d like to see that debate.<\/p>\n
RUSH: Look, “zero-sum game” is exactly the way to put it, in terms of the way they look at it. They just think that everybody\u2019s entitled to stuff. “Economic justice” equals everybody getting stuff, whether they work or not. That\u2019s the key to this. Whether you work or not, you get your stuff. You get what you\u2019re entitled to. And then if it doesn\u2019t happen, well, it\u2019s not the government\u2019s fault because the way you\u2019ve been raised and taught that the government is the agent guaranteeing that you get your stuff. So it\u2019s enemies of the government! Who are they? “Well, Republicans, corporations, all these other people that are taking their unfair share of stuff,” and that\u2019s what these people really think. <\/p>\n
Now, Cornel West is ostensibly a highly educated, Ivy League professor, and he misunderstands something that is fundamental — or maybe he doesn\u2019t misunderstand it and everything he\u2019s doing is just a joke based on partisanship or what have you. But it\u2019s nonsense, you\u2019re exactly right. In fact, if the people that hold 90% of the wealth in this country get wealthier, the whole country is getting wealthier as well. Those people need… (interruption) Well, I\u2019ll stop. (laughing) No, no. (laughing) I\u2019ll leave it to what Tom said. Tom had it right. Remember, I\u2019m tired today. This is Mike in Whittier, California. Mike, I\u2019m glad you waited. It\u2019s really great to have you on the program, sir. Hello.<\/p>\n
CALLER: Hi. I just wanted to call and let you know that you\u2019re right about Chris Matthews needs help, but the help Chris Matthews needs is a priest, because he is possessed.<\/p>\n
RUSH: (laughing)<\/p>\n
CALLER: He\u2019s possessed by the spirit of the late Senator Kennedy.<\/p>\n
RUSH: (laughing)<\/p>\n
CALLER: If you look at when he went off the reservation, so to speak, and got the way he is, it was right around when Kennedy died. As you look at old clips of Ted Kennedy, and then you look at Chris Matthews today, tell me they don\u2019t sound the same. They sound exactly the same.<\/p>\n
RUSH: That\u2019s an interesting observation.<\/p>\n
CALLER: I think we need to call in an exorcist for Chris Matthews.<\/p>\n
RUSH: Interesting, interesting, interesting observation. I hadn\u2019t, obviously, looked at it that way.<\/p>\n
CALLER: Well, I haven\u2019t been able to find any mental issues as far as, you know, at first I thought maybe Tourette\u2019s or something, but the symptoms just don\u2019t fit. But possession by the spirit of Kennedy? Yeah, that fits.<\/p>\n
RUSH: You know, it is something \u2019cause I remember if you go back to the mid-nineties, Matthews at one time was a guest host on this program.<\/p>\n
CALLER: Oh, yes, and I used to watch his show during the Clinton administration.<\/p>\n
RUSH: Yeah, and at one time this audience really liked Chris Matthews. They enjoyed the content of his program over at MSNBC. Well, I\u2019ll tell you: If we ever hear about Matthews doing the waitress sandwich routine like Kennedy did with Chris Dodd — if we ever hear about that happening, say with Cornel West or Smiley — then you may be on to something.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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