{"id":22264,"date":"2004-11-10T01:01:01","date_gmt":"2011-05-19T07:00:36","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2011-05-19T07:00:36","modified_gmt":"2011-05-19T07:00:36","slug":"left_looks_through_the_prism_of_fear","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2004\/11\/10\/left_looks_through_the_prism_of_fear\/","title":{"rendered":"Left Looks Through the Prism of Fear"},"content":{"rendered":"
\n

RUSH: What\u2019s new in this to me is that conventional wisdom <\/emphasize>was stood on its head and that is a conspiracy. (Laughing) Who\u2019s in charge of that, I don\u2019t know. The conventional wisdom, for example, the last minute undecideds break for the incumbent. It\u2019s normally, the conventional wisdom is, they break for the challenger, but that was never true. That has not been true in the last 50 years. It\u2019s an old wives tale that is want true yet the kooks out there believe it. The old approval rating rule, the incumbent president never gets higher than his approval rating. That conventional wisdom out. Can you believe this? They actually want to rely on conventional wisdom plus their kook theories to say that the actual <\/emphasize>vote was manipulated. Then, of course, we have to throw in the Washington Redskins. The Redskins if they lose their last home game before the election the incumbent loses. Well, the Redskins lost but Bush won. They forgot to throw that in as a conspiracy theory. The Nickelodeon survey of kids. They had Bush losing in drooooooves, and that\u2019s <\/emphasize>never been wrong but the conspiracy theories and kooks forgot to throw that in. So after Juan Williams goes through all of this, Brit Hume then asks Mara Liasson to chime in on it.<\/line>LIASSON: The thing that\u2019s interesting to me is when you get e-mails that say, in certain precincts there were more votes <\/emphasize>than registered voters,” then you want to have that looked into.<\/line>HUME: Well, is there any evidence that if that were the case, that they were votes for Bush, not Kerry?<\/line>LIASSON: No. No. No.<\/line>HUME: And —<\/line>LIASSON: No. <\/line>RUSH: “No. No. No.” But, Mara… I know it\u2019s impossible for you to watch ABC News when you\u2019re on Fox at the same time, but ABC News — that\u2019s to Cuyahoga County website, and that website has since been taken down. The website that said that there were more votes than there were registered voters. It was all untrue. It was bad data. It was a confusing website, and they have reversed themselves<\/emphasize> at that website and taken the this whole thing down. A straw dog. It was nothing. Juan Williams chimed back in with this.<\/line>WILLIAMS: One of the things that strikes me about this is that people just are upset, Democrats, upset and angry. They think they\u2019ve in fact become a theocracy that you\u2019ve got to believe a — you\u2019ve got to be a Christian, a certain kind of Christian. They think that, in fact, we\u2019re going to become more authoritarian —<\/line>HUME: Yeah, I know they “think” that. Is there evidence to support that?<\/line>WILLIAMS: Well, there\u2019s no evidence to support it at this point.<\/line>RUSH: “There\u2019s no evidence to…” Well, the kooks didn\u2019t have a good day on TV last night, “…no evidence to suggest it at this point.” You know, folks, again, I know some of this may aggravate you and it may even infuriate you but you\u2019ve got to just open your arms and be amused <\/emphasize>at this and understand what this means, and I hate to quote myself — no, actually I love quoting myself because I\u2019m so often right. I told you the day after the election this was going to happen. I told you these people cannot admit the truth. They will not live in the real world<\/emphasize>. They are in utter denial, and they look at life through the prism of fear. They fear <\/emphasize>religion. They fear <\/emphasize>God. They fear <\/emphasize>religious people, and so they assume that everybody that doesn\u2019t agree with them is a “holy roller,” and, of course, the election shows there was not a significant…<\/line><\/p>\n

By the way — and this is true, and I\u2019ve got this in the stack. There have actually been analyses done of the actual vote — not exit polls, or any of that — actual analyses done of the actual vote, there were no more evangelicals that voted this year than in 2000. This election was not about religion. This election was about simple, traditional values<\/emphasize> that endure and triumph every time they are tried. Again, just to repeat my theme of &lt;a href=”\/home\/daily\/site_110904\/content\/rushspeech.member.html”>my Heritage Foundation speech&lt;\/a>, on the left nothing but sheer rage, hatred, lies, seething, disgusting, lying<\/emphasize> anger that is not attractive; it\u2019s an inspiring. That in itself caused a backlash among decent people. On the other side you had George Bush who simply lived it. He exemplified <\/emphasize>it. He didn\u2019t spin it. He didn\u2019t talking about it. He didn\u2019t say, “I\u2019m<\/emphasize> moral.” He didn\u2019t say, “I\u2019m<\/emphasize> decent. I have character.” He lived it. It spoke for itself — a reason to be very excited and happy about these returns.<\/line>Because the values are strong enough on their own when on display<\/emphasize> to overpower every element of negativity and lie and distortion I have seen exhibited in a twelve-month period prior to an election. The things that were tried in this election– and I\u2019m gonna get a list of them for you after the break, because I\u2019ve done this. I want to just get a list for you, remind you of some of the things that were said. You look at the returns; you find out what triumphed and what lost, and for the left to continue to sit here and assign this to this country becoming a theocracy is just blind anger, rage, hurt and fear. They are assigning what they fear. They are assigning success <\/emphasize>to what they fear, and I\u2019ll tell you something else: You get nowhere in life looking at everything through the prism of fear which is exactly where they are, and they look at things through the prism of fear because they know they\u2019re losing.<\/line>They know they\u2019ve lost their monopoly. They know they\u2019ve lost contact with average Americans. They\u2019ve lost touch with average, real <\/emphasize>Americans, and they are so mad because they think that average real Americans have lost touch with the truly bright and intelligent in this country. The left is nowhere near ready to blame themselves. They blame everybody else. It\u2019s like this business of blue state secession the blue states are all upset because the red states are simply a bunch of red state recipients. The blue states are paying all the taxes. We talked about this at the end of yesterday\u2019s program. Is this not stunning? This is a 180 reversal the left has always said, “The rich should <\/emphasize>pay a greater share in taxes! More and more people should <\/emphasize>be on welfare because more and more people are incapable of producing for themselves.” Now they\u2019ve come out with a 180, demolishing one of their old-stand by theories and that is now they\u2019re upset at paying welfare, because the welfare recipients are not paying it back. <\/line>Well, it\u2019s all bohunk anyway because the red states, just an example here, contribute far more to charities <\/emphasize>than do people in the blue states. State-by-state analysis shows that it\u2019s not even close. But beyond all that, the blue states talk about see seeding, red states are so… It\u2019s Jesusland as far as they\u2019re concerned. The simply fact of the matter is, remember September 11th, 2001? A blue state was attacked, New York, and as I recall a bunch of red states came to the aid of New York, and they did it with eagerness and happiness and love, and where is the gratitude now? The red states may as well just secede or go their own way because they\u2019re a bunch of ungrateful, stupid, <\/emphasize>hayseed hicks or what have you. The truth of the matter is, they\u2019re not going to get anywhere and figure this out till they start blaming themselves. When you\u2019re making a mistake or things aren\u2019t going right, you\u2019ve got to be honest with yourself about why <\/emphasize>before you have a hope or a prayer of fixing it, and they are nowhere near that, which is why I say, continue to be amused by all this. <\/line>BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/line><\/p>\n

RUSH: (Peter Jennings Impression:) “Hi, and welcome to ABC\u2019s World News Tonight. I\u2019m Peter Jennings. We don\u2019t usually respond to these kinds of stories but we\u2019ve gotten so many e-mails on this that we thought we should look into this as much as for any other reason, to decrease the number of e-mails we\u2019re getting. So tonight &lt;ahem> penis enlargement here on ABC World News Tonight.” I mean where does this stop? (Laughing.) You realize the standard now for getting a story on World News Tonight or anywhere else is just e-mail spam? (Laughing) So many e-mails on penis enlargement. Penile enhancement, sorry. Go ask your mom if it\u2019s all Greek to you.<\/line>END TRANSCRIPT<\/line><\/p>\n

<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

RUSH: What\u2019s new in this to me is that conventional wisdom was stood on its head and that is a conspiracy. (Laughing) Who\u2019s in charge of that, I don\u2019t know. The conventional wisdom, for example, the last minute undecideds break for the incumbent. It\u2019s normally, the conventional wisdom is, they break for the challenger, but […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"\nLeft Looks Through the Prism of Fear - The Rush Limbaugh Show<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2004\/11\/10\/left_looks_through_the_prism_of_fear\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Left Looks Through the Prism of Fear - The Rush Limbaugh Show\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"RUSH: What\u2019s new in this to me is that conventional wisdom was stood on its head and that is a conspiracy. (Laughing) Who\u2019s in charge of that, I don\u2019t know. The conventional wisdom, for example, the last minute undecideds break for the incumbent. It\u2019s normally, the conventional wisdom is, they break for the challenger, but […]\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:image\" content=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/left_looks_through_prism_of_fear.Par.0002.ImageFile.jpg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"admin\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"7 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/\",\"name\":\"The Rush Limbaugh Show\",\"description\":\"Excellence In Broadcasting\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":\"required name=search_term_string\"}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2004\/11\/10\/left_looks_through_the_prism_of_fear\/#primaryimage\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/left_looks_through_prism_of_fear.Par.0002.ImageFile.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/left_looks_through_prism_of_fear.Par.0002.ImageFile.jpg\"},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2004\/11\/10\/left_looks_through_the_prism_of_fear\/#webpage\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2004\/11\/10\/left_looks_through_the_prism_of_fear\/\",\"name\":\"Left Looks Through the Prism of Fear - The Rush Limbaugh Show\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2004\/11\/10\/left_looks_through_the_prism_of_fear\/#primaryimage\"},\"datePublished\":\"2011-05-19T07:00:36+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2011-05-19T07:00:36+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/#\/schema\/person\/911066e449df26406b107ca78cbbde0b\"},\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2004\/11\/10\/left_looks_through_the_prism_of_fear\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2004\/11\/10\/left_looks_through_the_prism_of_fear\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2004\/11\/10\/left_looks_through_the_prism_of_fear\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Left Looks Through the Prism of Fear\"}]},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/#\/schema\/person\/911066e449df26406b107ca78cbbde0b\",\"name\":\"admin\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/#personlogo\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/f18195e0073013fa0e16b040686c2924?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/f18195e0073013fa0e16b040686c2924?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"caption\":\"admin\"},\"url\":\"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/author\/admin\/\"}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Left Looks Through the Prism of Fear - The Rush Limbaugh Show","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2004\/11\/10\/left_looks_through_the_prism_of_fear\/","twitter_card":"summary","twitter_title":"Left Looks Through the Prism of Fear - The Rush Limbaugh Show","twitter_description":"RUSH: What\u2019s new in this to me is that conventional wisdom was stood on its head and that is a conspiracy. (Laughing) Who\u2019s in charge of that, I don\u2019t know. The conventional wisdom, for example, the last minute undecideds break for the incumbent. It\u2019s normally, the conventional wisdom is, they break for the challenger, but […]","twitter_image":"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/left_looks_through_prism_of_fear.Par.0002.ImageFile.jpg","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"admin","Est. reading time":"7 minutes"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/#website","url":"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/","name":"The Rush Limbaugh Show","description":"Excellence In Broadcasting","potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"ImageObject","@id":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2004\/11\/10\/left_looks_through_the_prism_of_fear\/#primaryimage","inLanguage":"en-US","url":"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/left_looks_through_prism_of_fear.Par.0002.ImageFile.jpg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/left_looks_through_prism_of_fear.Par.0002.ImageFile.jpg"},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2004\/11\/10\/left_looks_through_the_prism_of_fear\/#webpage","url":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2004\/11\/10\/left_looks_through_the_prism_of_fear\/","name":"Left Looks Through the Prism of Fear - The Rush Limbaugh Show","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2004\/11\/10\/left_looks_through_the_prism_of_fear\/#primaryimage"},"datePublished":"2011-05-19T07:00:36+00:00","dateModified":"2011-05-19T07:00:36+00:00","author":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/#\/schema\/person\/911066e449df26406b107ca78cbbde0b"},"breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2004\/11\/10\/left_looks_through_the_prism_of_fear\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2004\/11\/10\/left_looks_through_the_prism_of_fear\/"]}]},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2004\/11\/10\/left_looks_through_the_prism_of_fear\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Left Looks Through the Prism of Fear"}]},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/#\/schema\/person\/911066e449df26406b107ca78cbbde0b","name":"admin","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","@id":"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/#personlogo","inLanguage":"en-US","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/f18195e0073013fa0e16b040686c2924?s=96&d=mm&r=g","contentUrl":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/f18195e0073013fa0e16b040686c2924?s=96&d=mm&r=g","caption":"admin"},"url":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/author\/admin\/"}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22264"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/users\/25"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22264"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22264\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22264"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22264"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22264"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}