{"id":218380,"date":"2017-01-20T13:30:00","date_gmt":"2017-01-20T18:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/?p=218380"},"modified":"2017-01-23T16:20:38","modified_gmt":"2017-01-23T21:20:38","slug":"a-reclamation-of-america-as-founded","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2017\/01\/20\/a-reclamation-of-america-as-founded\/","title":{"rendered":"A Reclamation of America as Founded"},"content":{"rendered":"

RUSH: Now, last night, I have to tell you, I was deeply touched and blown away. Some of you might remember during the second term of George W. Bush, he had a White House ceremony for Pope Benedict.<\/p>\n

And, at that ceremony, the United States Army Chorus and Band did a rousing rendition of The Battle Hymn of the Republic, and it just blew me away. I was deeply touched by it. I found a way to get a copy of it and I started listening to it over and over and over again, recognizing every element of the performance. I was so moved by it, I actually called the White House and begged somebody to just put President Bush on the phone for just 30 seconds so that I could thank him for what had happened.<\/p>\n

\"\"Because it was a White House ceremony where once again God — with no fear and without any unabashed nervousness — had been reintroduced to the White House and to the country. God was on full display. The Battle Hymn of the Republic with Pope Benedict, and I just felt compelled to thank President Bush. I\u2019d sent Karl Rove an email quickly while this was all going on, and said, “Could you do what you could to help?” He said, “I don\u2019t think it\u2019s gonna happen. We\u2019re on a tight schedule today.”<\/p>\n

Well, it happened. President Bush came on for 30 seconds that ended up to be a couple of minutes, and I thanked him profusely for that ceremony. It remains one of the most incredible things that I have seen, and it was largely focused around the performance by the Army Chorus of The Battle Hymn of the Republic. So last night… (interruption) Yeah, we\u2019ve got that. Before the program ends, I\u2019ll play that performance that happened. Do you have the date on that by any chance? Does the computer entry have the date that that happened? Not that it matters.<\/p>\n

It\u2019d just be an interesting point. But it was in Bush\u2019s second term. Anyway, last night I\u2019m watching the inaugural events that are taking place at the Lincoln Memorial, and Toby Keith is performing, a couple of the other groups are performing. And the Trump family is there. And there\u2019s a huge crowd, huge, huge crowd. Trump addressed the crowd at one point and made mention of the fact that such an event had not really happened on inauguration eve and had been so well attended.<\/p>\n

And then I heard the public address announcer announce the United States Army Band and the chorus doing Battle Hymn of the Republic, and I said, “Whoa!” I said, “This is… This is… It\u2019s…” I don\u2019t know what it was, but it had deep meaning, and here came the performance, and it was practically identical to the performance at the White House for Pope Benedict. It had the same orchestration, the same arrangement. I know members of the Army band and chorus change constantly, but it sounded the same, and the fireworks were going off.<\/p>\n

The Trump family had ascended the steps of the Lincoln Memorial and they were standing at the top while this song was being sung and performed, and the fireworks display was just never ending. It was one of the most over the top fireworks displays I\u2019ve seen. It went on. I\u2019m sure there have been others like it, Fourth of July in Washington, but it just went on and on and on, and it was intense, and it was loud, and it was never ending, accompanying The Battle Hymn of the Republic.<\/p>\n

The historical of The Battle Hymn of the Republic dates back to the Civil War, and when the song was first played for President Lincoln, he loved it so much that he demanded that whoever was performing it at the time — it was written by a woman. He demanded that it be played again. And I\u2019ve always had a certain spot in my heart for that song. I have listened to that song be played while watching video of American military aircraft scrambling and taking off from Hawaii and from Air Force Bases in California.<\/p>\n

And I was thinking, “What are the odds that the same song and the same performance would be played here at a Trump inaugural party or ceremony the night before the inauguration?” I was just… I don\u2019t know. It was deep, deep meaning to me. And then the realization that we were looking at and listening to an event where God was again front and center. With no excuses made, and with no apologies and with no attempts to say anything to the people who might be offended. It was just there. It was front and center, and the same thing today.<\/p>\n

God was present, acknowledged, from beginning to end of the Trump inauguration today. And it\u2019s something we haven\u2019t seen in a while. And I think there is a much more substantive and deep meaning to what\u2019s happening here, and it hit me last night when I was watching the inaugural celebration at the Lincoln Memorial, Battle Hymn of the Republic, and some of the speeches and words that were said last night. There\u2019s a reclamation of the country taking place, is I guess the best way to describe how they say affecting me.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>And by reclamation of the country, I mean that the people who honor the time-honored institutions and traditions of this country from its founding are reclaiming this country from efforts made by others to eliminate those institutions and traditions or to water them down, and to transform this country away from what it was intended to be from its founding forward. I think that\u2019s what these last eight years have been. I noticed that Dr. Krauthammer has a column at National Review — it might be his Washington Post column — that runs today.<\/p>\n

Dr. Krauthammer, Charles Krauthammer in his piece today acknowledges that now Obama has clearly illustrated that he is a radical. Krauthammer cites the pardon or the commutation of the sentence of Chelsey Manning and a couple of other events that says Obama claimed to have a bucket list but actually it was not a bucket list, it was another kind of list — a word that Sundays like “bucket” but without a B in it. I was reading Dr. Krauthammer\u2019s piece, and I said, “I\u2019m glad that he is acknowledging today that Obama was indeed a radical. But it\u2019s not new.<\/p>\n

The fact that Obama has been a radical and a leftist is something that has been obvious since Obama was inaugurated to me and I\u2019m sure many of you. So you couple the events of last night and some of the ceremonial aspects of the inauguration today that surrounded Trump\u2019s actual inaugural address, and there\u2019s no question there\u2019s a reclamation going on. I think this is one of the things the left knows, and it has them totally disoriented and discombobulated, and they\u2019re wandering in the desert.<\/p>\n

They haven\u2019t the slightest idea of what to do, because this is the antitheses of where they thought they were. They thought that after eight years of Obama, which would lead into more eight years of Hillary, that they were going to finally close the deal and complete the transformation of this country and take it away from the power structure that created and founded this country, and turn it over to the people they think have been the victims of the founding of this country. And that\u2019s something you and I — and I will deign to speak for you — have a hard time relating to.<\/p>\n

To think that the founding of this country has led to victims of it. Now, for the purposes of this discussion I will omit slavery. Nobody wants to defend that. But even our founders knew it could not be sustained and left steps and procedures in the Constitution for eliminating it, which we did! Slavery is a thing of the past. The American left wants to behave as though it\u2019s something still omnipresent and dominant. And it isn\u2019t. Aside from that, the idea that this country was founded by the government picking winners and picking losers, and therefore there have been victims of this country from the days of the founding?<\/p>\n

\"\"This has been the guiding principle, the inspiring, motivating principle the Obama administration and the American left for the last eight years and even prior to that before Obama was elected. And what\u2019s happening with the Donald Trump campaign, the Donald Trump election, the Trump inaugural is what I think is a reclamation project, without ever saying it. Trump\u2019s language has this reclamation project described as “Make America Great Again,” and we\u2019re gonna bring back American jobs. We\u2019re gonna protect our border.<\/p>\n

We\u2019re going to protect American manufacturing, bring American business home. We\u2019re not gonna waste our money overseas on foreign entanglements where our interests are not threatened or involved in them. But you add it all up, and it is a shot. It is a shot across the bow to establishment Washington who, for the longest time, has believed this country has a debt to pay to the world, many debts to pay because of our egregious behavior as a superpower. And Trump today put up his hand and said (summarized), “Whoa” and “Stop. It is not the case.<\/p>\n

“We don\u2019t have anything to apologize for except to the American people who\u2019ve been left behind by this vast establishment move to globalism led by incompetent politicians who can\u2019t be trusted,” and they were all sitting there as he said this! They were all standing right behind him, as he blamed them for the malaise that exists in the country today. We didn\u2019t get too many camera shots of those people standing behind him, but when we did, you could see blank faces, an occasional grimace, an occasional shaking of the head.<\/p>\n

When we got camera shots of the Congress sitting in the seats closest to the stage area, there was no movement. There is perfunctory applause but, I mean, this was incredible. The fearless repetition of the high points of the Trump campaign were front and center in the Trump inaugural address, and it was breathtaking. I had no expectation of the speech. I didn\u2019t have any idea what it was gonna be. I know that many pundits in the establishment, many Drive-By analysts expected — because they still don\u2019t know what they\u2019re dealing with.<\/p>\n

They expected that Trump would become one of them today, they expected that the campaign and the transition have all been Trump acknowledging the people who elected him. But starting today Trump was going to be, quote\/unquote, “presidential.” And that means Trump was going to become of Washington, and he was going to deliver an inaugural address that they could lump in with JFKs and one of Reagan\u2019s and maybe a couple or three others. And you can\u2019t do that. The closest we can get to the inaugural address today is Ronaldus Magnus back in 1981.<\/p>\n