RUSH: Themes to today\u2019s program, the media is dividing this country and tearing it apart and, because of fear of the media, way too many on our side are unwilling to stop or even try to explain or oppose this. Identity politics, which we have been focusing on in recent weeks, intensely in recent days, is the primary weapon being used to divide the country. Nothing new about it, but it is reaching new heights. And what is going on is so far from reality that it\u2019s tough to actually make sense of it.<\/p>\n
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I mean, here\u2019s one way of looking at this. (interruption) No, I\u2019m gonna answer the agenda question. (no audio) So I ask an intriguing question, everybody wants the answer. Coming back to it. You could if you were brave and courageous. Black people and white people who were never slaves are fighting white people and others who were never Nazis over Confederate statues erected by Democrats — and somehow it\u2019s all Donald Trump\u2019s fault.<\/p>\n
That would be one brief summary. Now, that summary, if uttered to a CNN infobabe would be met with a meltdown. I watched a meltdown today. You know what happens? You know what CNN is? CNN goes out and they find some sucker Republican to accept an invitation to appear. The sucker Republican shows up and here\u2019s the interview, “Do you condemn, do you condemn the white racists?”<\/p>\n
“Yeah, I do. But I also condemn the violence on the left.”<\/p>\n
“You think there\u2019s violence on the left? You\u2019re a racist! You think there\u2019s violence on the left? You\u2019re a pig. Do you condemn the white nationalists? Do you condemn the Nazis?”<\/p>\n
“Yeah, yeah, I condemn it all. I condemn violence by everybody committing it, including the Antifa.”<\/p>\n
“You think there\u2019s violence on the left? That\u2019s outrageous. That\u2019s racist. Do you condemn?” That\u2019s what it\u2019s become, folks, do you condemn, will you condemn. What underlies that is for way, way too long there has been this assumption that has been allowed to settle in, that conservatives and Republicans are racists. It\u2019s an insulting question. It ought to be met with derision. “Do you condemn racist violence?” What kind of question is that? Who do you know that supports it, folks? And yet by virtue of asking the question, the intention is to brand and characterize whoever it is you\u2019re asking that question, “do you condemn,” as though we don\u2019t know. As though it may be up for grabs.<\/p>\n
We don\u2019t know if Republican Congressman X or Republican Senator X actually condemns white racism, actually condemns Nazis. But of course the question is never asked of the left, “Do you condemn Black Lives Matter and the murder of five cops in Dallas? Do you condemn Black Lives Matter in the tearing up of Ferguson and Baltimore?” You can\u2019t ask that. Why? Well, because the assumption is that all of that action is entitled.<\/p>\n
All of that destruction, including the violence against cops, why, that\u2019s understandable. Why, these people are victims, and they are simply addressing their grievances, and we must understand. Meanwhile, “Do you condemn the KKK?” And it never ends. And that\u2019s what CNN has become.<\/p>\n
Now, the answer to the question, “Do you remember what the agenda was going into the summer?” Yeah. It was tax reform, primarily. Guess what\u2019s not the agenda right now? Tax reform. Guess what else is not the agenda right now? Repealing and replacing Obamacare. Guess what else isn\u2019t the agenda in practically everything that Trump was elected to do. You think these things are mutually exclusive or coincidental? I do not.<\/p>\n
Advancing the economic plight, advancing the economy, advancing improving economic circumstances for America will not get any Democrat votes. Exactly right. Except it won\u2019t be portrayed that way. No, the reason why the Republicans won\u2019t get any votes is because they\u2019re so racist. They won\u2019t condemn the KKK, and they won\u2019t this condemn the Nazis, and they won\u2019t condemn the white supremacists. Even though they do, and even though the president did, multiple times, it\u2019s as though the condemnations never happened.<\/p>\n The questions continue to be asked, and as such, the Republicans have no brand. They have no credibility. They can\u2019t get anything in their agenda done because they won\u2019t condemn whatever went on in Charlottesville, or because they wish to condemn also the violence perpetrated by Black Lives Matter and the anarchists and the Antifa people and so forth. Which, if you do that, CNN and others just jump right down your throat as though you\u2019re a bigot and a racist for daring to point out that the violence everywhere in this country often starts by people on the left. And not only is the violence in this country often started by people on the left, they are the sole practitioners of the violence in 99% of protests.<\/p>\n Ninety-nine percent of protests you don\u2019t even see the Republicans showing up. It\u2019s a relatively new phenomenon that opposition to the left is showing up at protests. But it still isn\u2019t mainstream Republicans showing up. They just don\u2019t do it. And it isn\u2019t mainstream conservatives showing up to protests. You disagree with the premise, 99% of all violent protests and riots in this country start and are engineered and practiced by the left? It\u2019s inarguable. And yet, “Do you condemn Black Lives Matter? Do you condemn the Nazis? Do you condemn racism? Do you condemn the KKK?”<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/DemHatePIX2.jpg\")
If you go to the Drudge Report — let me turn to the right so I can have the Drudge Report in my eyes here — tax reform impossible, with a question mark after it<\/a>. It\u2019s a question somewhere, CNBC, I don\u2019t know where it is, I don\u2019t remember the link. Doesn\u2019t matter. If there\u2019s one story, there\u2019s 10. Tax reform impossible? You know why? Why is it impossible? Well, because nothing can happen with Republican votes alone in the Senate. The Republicans are going to need some Democrats, and that\u2019s just not possible. Exactly.<\/p>\n
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Now, look at the stories that follow this today from TheHill.com: “