RUSH: Jeffrey, Mount Laguna, California. Welcome, sir. Great to have you with us. How are you doing?<\/p>\n
CALLER: Doing great. Thanks, Rush. I got two quick comments. And I know this hypocrisy and double standard stuff is just as futile as it can possibly be. But here\u2019s another example. When the bomb went off in New York City months ago, Donald Trump was immediately criticized for calling it a bomb and for not waiting for all the facts to come in, jumping to conclusions, not being cerebral. And here he makes a very nice statement minutes after the event. We didn\u2019t even at that time know who this guy was, and he\u2019s criticized for it. And my second comment is what Obama would get away with. He was thought of as cerebral or thoughtful for not naming who the group is. Whatever you do, don\u2019t say radical Muslim —<\/p>\n
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RUSH: Oh, yeah, and don\u2019t dare understand motives. In other words, we don\u2019t know what the motives are, we can\u2019t possibly understand the motives, we need to do a thorough investigation. But here the motives are instantly known, instantly condemned, and, if Trump doesn\u2019t do it, he\u2019s a schlub.<\/p>\n
CALLER: That\u2019s right. And I believe this young man also — I\u2019m not even beginning to try to make an excuse, it would work on the left, I believe there\u2019s a report today that stated that he has a history of schizophrenia and has been on medications to treat that. Whether that\u2019s true or not, it doesn\u2019t excuse it, but it certainly would if it was on the other side.<\/p>\n
RUSH: Since you bring that up — and can we have a red flag note here, caller brought this up, you know, for reference on the website, caller brought this up. Since you bring up schizophrenia — how many — let me just ask you a question out there, Jeffrey. I\u2019ve got 45 seconds. You ponder the answer. How many young men today in their twenties and early thirties do you think have been on some mind-changing drug since they were in first grade? ADD, Ritalin, you name it, how many?<\/p>\n
CALLER: As a pediatric physician for 35 years, I\u2019m gonna estimate 25 to 35%.<\/p>\n
RUSH: You are a pediatric physician?<\/p>\n
CALLER: Yes.<\/p>\n
RUSH: Well, then your estimate is informed. Twenty-five to 30% you would guess have been given mind-altering drugs of some kind?<\/p>\n
CALLER: At some point.<\/p>\n
RUSH: Jeffrey, I have to go. I wish I had more time but we\u2019re out of it. That is Jeffrey, Mount Laguna, California. Gotta take a quick time-out. Food for thought here on the EIB Network.<\/p>\n
BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n
RUSH: We had a caller, our previous caller — we didn\u2019t even know this \u2019til I just randomly asked him a question, and he turned out to admit that he was a child pediatric physician. And he had made the point that he had seen some reports that the guy who drove the car into the crowd at Charlottesville had been schizophrenic. And, according to a report in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, one of his teachers said that he had been treated for schizophrenia as a child.<\/p>\n
The teacher also says that he\u2019s been a Nazi fanatic since he was a very young boy and confided to the teacher that he had been diagnosed with schizophrenia when he was younger and had been prescribed an anti-psychotic medication. The teacher\u2019s name is Weimer, also says that James Fields was a big Trump supporter, which will be all the Drive-Bys need to take away from the interview of the teacher who once had this kid in class.<\/p>\n
But theoretically this should be over because Trump, he did a do-over<\/a>. He went out there and did his statement, and he condemned the Klan and the white supremacists and the Nazis, and so it should be over. Well, of course it won\u2019t be. Let me give you an — (interruption) Well, no, no, I can build on that if you want. I asked the caller how many kids, how many young men he would estimate have been drugged since youth, since grade school, and that\u2019s when he told us that he was a pediatric physician. And he guessed 25 to 30%. And we\u2019re thinking of things like Ritalin and other drugs for attention deficit disorder and who knows whatever else, hyperkinetic attention deficit disorder.<\/p>\n All these drugs are designed to basically zone you out because kids were too active and hard to control, and they didn\u2019t have any attention span, and they weren\u2019t learning. And so we decided we need to calm them down a little bit. I think young men in this country of all persuasions have been — what\u2019s the word? Not treated unfairly, but with so much identity politics going on — we have to admit here, folks, the left, the Democrat Party, one of the reasons they\u2019re losing elections is identity politics.<\/p>\n You know, they abandoned the traditional support base that they\u2019ve always had, blue-collar, working people, abandoned them. They actively, purposely — they even announced that they were doing so in — instead of them, they were focusing on putting together a coalition of as many different minority groups as they could, because they had come to believe that that number would secure national elections for them because they have been busy trying to make everybody think they\u2019re victims of something. And what have they been using in their efforts to victimize people? Their identity.<\/p>\n What are they victims of? Well, the large umbrella answer is victims of America, victims of the American founding. The American founding enshrined inequality, they tell people, enshrined unfairness. The American founding enshrined racism and bigotry and homophobia.<\/p>\n So that\u2019s probably gonna sell pretty well when you\u2019re out there trying to make as many victims as you can. But one group is prohibited from ever being in the victims club, and that is white men. Plenty of white women are welcome in the victims club. Who are they victimized by? White men. White men have become predators and rapists that are constantly on the prowl.<\/p>\n So let\u2019s say that you are an uneducated, relatively IQ average or below, and now you can\u2019t escape politics because it\u2019s all over social media. You got Facebook, Twitter, nowhere you can go. Video games have politics in \u2019em, movies have politics, you can\u2019t escape it. So if you\u2019re on the victim side, how many years have you been reading and listening and watching that you have been taken advantage of, that you are discriminated against, that you are treated unfairly, and that there\u2019s no solution except violence and outrage and anger and voting for the Democrat Party.<\/p>\n Well, that group of people is gonna be pretty screwed up, if you ask me. That group of people is gonna be unbalanced. They\u2019re gonna be perpetually angry and enraged. Happiness is not going to be possible when they are forever told that they\u2019re victims of something, when they\u2019re never treated to anything positive, when they\u2019re never given positive talks. They\u2019re never given attaboys. They\u2019re never told, “You can do it.” They\u2019re never enlightened. They\u2019re never inspired. All they are is victimized every waking moment of their day.<\/p>\n This also serves to excuse their failures. It\u2019s not their fault. Now combine this with, in some cases, the way people are raised. “You\u2019re special, little Johnny. You\u2019re wonderful. All you have to do is continue to grow up, and the world will be yours, little Johnny, because you\u2019re special.” How many kids have been told that?<\/p>\n So you\u2019ve got people on the left who I would maintain, from all walks of life, who are in a constant state of anger, rage, depression, defeatism, hopelessness. I mean, this is what the left does to people, while promising them somewhere out there a panacea end to all of this. But what has to happen for that to happen? Well, the victimizers, the enemy have to be vanquished.<\/p>\n On the other side of this is a very, very small group of people, and they are the victimizers. And according to the Democrat Party and the media and the people that run the show on the left, who are the victimizers? Well, I hate to tell you, but that\u2019s white men. So let\u2019s put you in this group. You\u2019re in a group of white men, and nobody wants to cut you any slack, because you\u2019re the reason everybody else is deranged, unhappy, unsuccessful, depressed, and angry. Why? Because you have had unfair privilege. Why? Because you\u2019re white.<\/p>\n Who are these guys? These are people that can\u2019t find jobs. They\u2019re not going to school because they don\u2019t want to be preached to by a bunch of feminists. They at the same time look at a future that\u2019s bleak and hopeless, who are they blaming? They wonder, how in the world did we become responsible for all this? How in the world are we responsible for all of the messes out there? ‘Cause that\u2019s what they\u2019re told. Everybody else is victims. Nobody on the victim side\u2019s responsible for anything that happens to \u2019em.<\/p>\n Quite the contrary. They\u2019re victims, and so their rage and anger is legitimate, in their minds. Their depression is legitimate, in their minds. Their belief that they have no control over their own lives is legitimate. They\u2019re told this. And over here, this relatively small group of people who are responsible for all of it, white men. Not all white men because some white men are liberals who understand that white men are trash, and as long as they come out and say such, then they will be accepted by the feminists. These are average Democrat politicians and media types.<\/p>\n What you\u2019re left with is the same disaffection, the same disconnectedness, the same anger, but for different reasons. They\u2019re angry and frustrated and ticked off because they\u2019re being blamed for the plight of all these other people who they supposedly are keeping down, discriminating against, hating, being bigoted against. Well, this sets up a monumental clash that I think a lot of people have seen coming and are seeking ways to take advantage of the clash, because the clashes keep happening.<\/p>\n There doesn\u2019t seem to be to be any sincere desire for all this to end, despite what people say, despite what all the politicians in the world say and despite what the media, when they wring their hands over each of these incidents, “It\u2019s so bad. Why can\u2019t we all come together,” but we never do, do we? And I maintain it\u2019s because there are people who benefit from this in many ways.<\/p>\n It\u2019s just that the people over here that are the victimizers all come from one group. You\u2019ll note that no black men, no black women, no Native American men, no illegal immigrant men, they are not creating the problem. They are all victims. So if you\u2019ve been drugged for a lot of your life under the pretext that there\u2019s something wrong with you to begin with, that you\u2019re too rambunctious, that you don\u2019t have a big enough attention span, that you\u2019re not nice or what have you, if you\u2019ve been drugged and you\u2019ve had your mind altered, and then you spent a lot of years hearing how you are responsible and your dad, your granddad are responsible.<\/p>\n And then you hear how that guy Robert E. Lee, whoever he was, are responsible, gotta take down his statue. Hey, I got an idea. I have an idea. We like to help here. What do you think of my theory here, Mr. Snerdley? I mean, in everything I\u2019m describing, there\u2019s no solution, there\u2019s no middle ground here. People benefit. It\u2019s so easy to be a victim.<\/p>\n Just like it\u2019s easy to be a liberal. It\u2019s one of the most gutless choices you can make. It\u2019s easy to have built-in excuses. It\u2019s easy for everybody else to be blamed for your plight. And it\u2019s easy to have a political party claim to be your representative and your bulwark, the people that are gonna help you, which, by the way, they never do.<\/p>\n Take a look at all these groups to see how little they are advancing after 50 years voting Democrat. And over here the small, little group that claim to be responsible for all of it, and they gotta be just as confused. How in the hell is some guy who is 20 years old that can barely afford a jalopy and can\u2019t probably and doesn\u2019t have anything, doesn\u2019t have two sticks to rub together, is to blame for all this? Well, it doesn\u2019t compute; it doesn\u2019t make any sense.<\/p>\n And then we\u2019re told all these white guys from the past going all the way back to the founding, and the the Confederate Army, and Robert E. Lee.<\/p>\n BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n RUSH: Identity politics in the Democrat Party is a primary factor in where our culture is today. Everybody talks about identity politics, but who really knows what it is and what it has become? And so there are a couple of pieces on this today. One of them is by a guy named Mark Lilla. He is a professor at Columbia University, and he wrote a book, and the book is called… I think it\u2019s Liberal Crackup. No! The Once and Future Liberal After Identity Politics.<\/p>\n It\u2019ll be published tomorrow by Harper, and that\u2019s owned by the Journal — the Wall Street Journal, News Corp, the Murdochs. The review of this book (excerpt, actually, of the book) in the Wall Street Journal on August 11th<\/a>, Friday last week, over the weekend. This guy is a liberal, Mark Lilla, professor of humanities at Columbia, and he writes scathingly of identity politics and fears that it is the end of the Democrat Party. He fears that it is creating circumstances which will forever prohibit and not permit unity.<\/p>\n “I\u2019m a white man, so you should listen to absolutely nothing I say, at least on matters of social justice. I have no standing. No way to relate. My color and gender nullify me, and it gets worse: I grew up in the suburbs. Dad made six figures. We had a backyard pool. From the 10th through 12th grades, I attended private school. So the only proper way for me to check my privilege is to realize that it blinds me to others\u2019 struggles and should gag me during discussions about the right responses to them.”<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/DemPlaybookhRACISM.jpg\")
And so the Democrat Party has been the party of identity politics. And when you do that, when you pick victims — and virtually everybody in the country except one or two different groups is a victim — what\u2019s the end result of this? Well, let\u2019s take it on the victim side. And let\u2019s assume that the Democrats are persuasive across gender lines, sexual orientation lines, that they\u2019re able to convince a whole swath of the American population that they\u2019re victims. There are African-Americans, there are illegal immigrants, there are Native Americans, there are space aliens, women, transgenders, cisgenders, you name it. Any number of created groups are then said to have been victims. But of what?<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Dem-Logo-cONF-fLAG.jpg\"){kind=logo}
There are people who benefit financially from this. There are people that benefit politically from this. And the people that benefit professionally is a wide group of people. The media benefits professionally. You have people that produce movies about this kind of victimization, they benefit professionally. There\u2019s any number of people that benefit. Politicians benefit from the division. Politicians need demons and enemies on the other side to turn out the vote and this kind of thing.<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/democrats-hate-us.jpg\")
Now, in leading into it, I found a piece that\u2019s unrelated to Lilla and his piece in the Wall Street Journal. I found a column in the New York Times the next day, August 12th, and it\u2019s by Frank Bruni. I think that\u2019s how he pronounces it. He\u2019s theater critic or some kind of columnist. It\u2019s entitled, “I\u2019m a White Man. Hear Me Out.<\/a>” (interruption) Now, wait! (interruption) Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, Snerdley! Hang on. Hang on. It is what you think at first. Here\u2019s the opening paragraph. He\u2019s a liberal. Listen to this, folks.<\/p>\n
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And what are they doing? We hear that they\u2019re in their basements, in their pajamas and they\u2019re playing video games and they\u2019re not going to college because college is now run by militant feminists. They don\u2019t want any part of that. And they\u2019ve got all this energy, and it\u2019s not being utilized. They\u2019ve outgrown the drugs, we can\u2019t drug \u2019em once they leave school, so what do we do?<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/TrumpWinning.jpg\")
But we are way ahead of ourselves — dangerously so. For a start, the presidency just isn\u2019t what it used to be, certainly not for Democrats. In the last generation, Bill Clinton and Barack Obama won the office with comfortable margins, but they were repeatedly stymied by assertive Republicans in Congress, a right-leaning Supreme Court –” I know this doesn\u2019t make sense to you, but this is how he sees it. Republicans stymied Obama? When did that happen?<\/p>\n