{"id":223937,"date":"2017-03-02T16:35:00","date_gmt":"2017-03-02T21:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/?p=223937"},"modified":"2017-03-03T16:29:42","modified_gmt":"2017-03-03T21:29:42","slug":"why-jeff-sessions-impeccable-character-doesnt-count-anymore","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2017\/03\/02\/why-jeff-sessions-impeccable-character-doesnt-count-anymore\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Jeff Sessions\u2019 Impeccable Character Doesn\u2019t Count Anymore"},"content":{"rendered":"

RUSH: Huntsville, Alabama. This is Larry. Larry, great to have you on the program. How are you, sir?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Thank you so very much, Rush. We really love you here in Alabama. We love you Limbaughs. I\u2019ve read your brother David\u2019s book, and my daughter teaches my grandchildren out of the Rush Limbaugh books<\/a>. She homeschools them, so, I wanted to say that first of all. But the second thing I wanted to say is, I\u2019m so tired of all of these Republicans jumping in here, \u2019cause they\u2019re not very smart in what they\u2019re saying, Rush.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>You know, if they\u2019re for an investigation, let\u2019s investigate the Hillary Clinton campaign. Let\u2019s see how many of her surrogates talked to Russians and the Russian ambassador. Let\u2019s go back and check out Obama. How many times did Eric Holder talk to a Russian before he became the attorney general of the United States? We here in Alabama, we love Jeff Sessions. He\u2019s a good Christian man. There was a time in America when that would have meant something. It might not mean very much anymore, but it should.<\/p>\n

RUSH: You know, that\u2019s a great point. This is exactly… If I may go back to it, that is exactly the point that Victor Davis Hanson is trying to make today. It\u2019s a brilliant piece, and I want to quote this paragraph again, because that is so right. In days not too far back, Jeff Sessions\u2019 already established character would count for something. But it doesn\u2019t anymore because of the way this country is in the midst of a transformation. The headline here: “Is the American Elite Really Elite?<\/a>” And his point is: Are they really the best? Are they really the smartest?<\/p>\n

Are they really the most accomplished? Are they really better than everybody else at what they do, or are they in the elite because of superficial reasons? Because they\u2019re on TV, because they go to cocktail parties, because they\u2019re in the right social set, because they have the right stance on certain controversial social issues, because they happen to earn so much money or live in the right ZIP code? Is that what makes them rate? And his point is: In America today, it is. You don\u2019t have to be achieved. You don\u2019t have to be accomplished. You don\u2019t have to have a track record.<\/p>\n

\"\"Look at Obama\u2019s cabinet. Not one of them had ever had a job, and yet they were considered the brainiacs of America. They knew better how to run things in the American private sector, and not a one of them had ever worked there — and Obama hasn\u2019t, either, other than a couple of days at a law firm where he says he felt like he was surrounded by the enemy. And it really is a crucial point. We accept that these people are… We call \u2019em elites, we call \u2019em the establishment, but why? Well, it\u2019s because they\u2019re in Washington.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s because they\u2019re elected, or it\u2019s because they earn a lot of money. You know, folks, I have to tell you, in my own trail, some things have been amazing to me, and I can\u2019t mention any names, but… (clears throat) How to explain this? Well, let me just wade in here and try. I have been amazed over the course of my life with people that my success has permitted me the opportunity to meet, and for 15 or 20 years, I have been amazed, surprised, curious when I\u2019ve been told, “You need to meet that guy. He\u2019s really rich!” I said…<\/p>\n

Well, my silent reaction is, “Well, what does that make him worth meeting for?” “Well, the guy\u2019s got a lot of money.” “Well, is that why you\u2019re inviting him to your house? Is that why the only people I see at your house are the latest to have had it known that they\u2019ve got a lot of money?” You know, I didn\u2019t think anything of it other than that. I didn\u2019t attach any deep meaning to it. I was just curious about it. “Why should the fact that somebody\u2019s rich mean I want to be around \u2019em? Why, just because somebody\u2019s rich, are they people I should know? What, are they gonna give me some?<\/p>\n

“Do I sidle up to \u2019em and get to know \u2019em real well and they like me so much, ‘You know, Son, I really like you. Here\u2019s a couple hundred million!\u2019 Is that what\u2019s gonna happen? No. So what is the point?” “Well, they\u2019re rich!” “Yeah, but what does that mean?” “Well…” In some cases, they\u2019ve got a great business, really successful. Okay, now, that interests me. But not the fact the guy\u2019s rich. But I have to tell you, you\u2019d be amazed at what a magnet that is. Look, in human terms I understand it. (chuckles) If you want money, you hang around people who\u2019ve got it, for a host of reasons. But this is what Mr. Hanson\u2019s getting at here: Just because you have a lot of money doesn\u2019t say you\u2019re the best as what you do.<\/p>\n

You could be a blithering idiot!<\/p>\n

His point is that it wasn\u2019t that long ago that a person\u2019s reputation really rested on the substance of their life. Their character, their morality, their achievement and their intelligence. And it was not that long ago that if you worked in a department store, you weren\u2019t automatically considered a peon. If you worked on a farm or owned a farm, you weren\u2019t automatically considered a hick.<\/p>\n

You could have been a great farmer. You could have been acknowledged in your community as a person of great substance and wisdom — somebody who sets a good example, one good enough to follow. He says America\u2019s elites have redefined what elite is to include them, and many of them have nothing other than the ZIP code they live in, a high income, visibility in the media attending various social events, and that\u2019s it.<\/p>\n

\"\"There\u2019s nothing else to recommend them. And these are the people who end up, you know, writing our legislation and laws and determining what happens to other people the country. I could best read his paragraph, probably, to make the point. And he writes it from the standpoint that you have figured this out. So he says the public — that\u2019s you — no longer believes that privilege and influence should be predicated on titles, brands, buzz, PR, wealth, ZIP code. You know, he\u2019s assuming that you out there no long longer automatically are dazzled by any of that.<\/p>\n

Instead, what the American people want to return to is respecting people who have demonstrable knowledge and proven character. The idea that brilliance and competence can be manifested in trade skills or retail sales or that courage can be expressed by dealing with hardship, factory work, or character can be found in an Indiana farm, all of that is foreign to the Washington Beltway. They look derisively at people who do that kind of work. And they do. Particularly on the left.<\/p>\n

The left has their nose in the air looking down on everybody. Not everybody, but a lot of people. The Washington Beltway, Hollywood, Silicon Valley, you want to be known there? You want to be famous there, you want to be considered to have great reputation there? Well, make sure you live in the right ZIP code, make sure everybody knows that you have a huge income, make sure everybody knows that you are invited to all the cool things, and make sure you\u2019re on TV a lot. And you don\u2019t have to have a decent moral code, you don\u2019t have to be particularly smart, and people are gonna think you\u2019re special. He said this definition of elites, is the American elite really elite, is one of the things driving the attempted reclaiming of America from these people.<\/p>\n

He cites Thomas Friedman. This really happened. Thomas Friedman, column, New York Times, compared Trump\u2019s victory to the 9\/11 attack. He compared Trump\u2019s victory to the attack on Pearl Harbor. The New Republic, based on no evidence, theorized that Trump could well be mentally unstable because he had had syphilis. I shared that story with you.<\/p>\n

“Talk of removing the new president through impeachment, or opposing everything he does (the progressive ‘resistance\u2019), is commonplace. Some op-ed writers and pundits abroad have openly hoped for his violent death. Mr. Trump is in a virtual war with the mainstream global media, the entrenched so-called ‘deep state,\u2019 the Democratic Party establishment, progressive activists, and many in the Republican Party as well.<\/p>\n

“The sometimes undisciplined and loud Mr. Trump is certainly not a member of the familiar ruling cadre, which dismisses him as a crude and know-nothing upstart who should never have been elected president. … In California, state planners and legislators focused on things like outlawing plastic grocery bags while California\u2019s roads and dams over three decades sank into decrepitude. The result is crumbling infrastructure that now threatens the very safety of the public. Powerful Californians with impressive degrees also came up with the loony and neo-Confederate idea of nullifying federal immigration law through sanctuary cities.<\/p>\n

\"\"“Sophisticated Washington, D.C., economists produced budgets for the last eight years that saw U.S. debt explode from $10 trillion to nearly $20 trillion, as economic growth reached its lowest level since the Hoover administration.
\nFor a year, most expert pundits and pollsters smugly assured the public of a certain Hillary Clinton victory — until the hour before she was overwhelmed in the Electoral College.<\/p>\n

“Rhodes Scholar and former U.N. Ambassador Susan Rice lied repeatedly on national television about the Benghazi debacle. From the fabulist former NBC anchorman Brian Williams to the disreputable reporters who turned up in WikiLeaks –” These are the people like Glenn Thrush who called Democrat sources, “Hey, yeah, I\u2019m a hack. I\u2019m on your side. Just tell me what will sound best, and I\u2019ll write it.”<\/p>\n

“There are lots of well-educated, influential and self-assured elites who apparently cannot tell the truth or in dishonest fashion mix journalism and politics. Elitism sometimes seems predicated on being branded with the proper degrees. But when universities embrace a therapeutic curriculum and politically correct indoctrination, how can a costly university degree guarantee knowledge or inductive thinking? Is elitism defined by an array of brilliant and proven theories?”<\/p>\n

No, not at all. It\u2019s defined by where they live, who their friends are, what parties they go to, and how much money they\u2019ve got, at least the public perception of all that. And our caller from Alabama, it wasn\u2019t that long ago that Jeff Sessions\u2019 local reputation here as a fine man of unassailable character would have mattered in this story. And now it\u2019s not even a factor.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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