{"id":245620,"date":"2017-08-30T10:05:04","date_gmt":"2017-08-30T14:05:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/?p=245620"},"modified":"2017-08-31T16:16:54","modified_gmt":"2017-08-31T20:16:54","slug":"hopscotching-on-harvey-looter-lobbyists-tax-reform-jobs-and-the-economic-boom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2017\/08\/30\/hopscotching-on-harvey-looter-lobbyists-tax-reform-jobs-and-the-economic-boom\/","title":{"rendered":"Hopscotching on Harvey, Looter Lobbyists, Tax Reform, Jobs and the Economic Boom"},"content":{"rendered":"

RUSH: They didn\u2019t run out of anything. They went to New Orleans and restocked, put provisions on, and went back out to sea and waited till they got back into the port of Galveston. I just saw Fox News talk about there\u2019s three cruise ships. There\u2019s a Carnival cruise line, two of them, and I think a Royal Caribbean.<\/p>\n

They were supposed to dock somewhere in Texas, Galveston, and were not able to because of the hurricane. So they\u2019ve been going to New Orleans to restock the ship with food, dancing girls, adult beverages, and so forth, stuff to play in the casinos, and they just referred to people on those ships as stranded.<\/p>\n

\"\"So I wondered, if you\u2019re on a cruise ship, are you stranded? I mean, it\u2019s under power, air-conditioning is working, you\u2019re out at sea. You\u2019ve got pina coladas at an arm\u2019s-length. How are you stranded other than you can\u2019t get off? But maybe you could have gotten off when they got to New Orleans. Anyway, strange things, folks.<\/p>\n

Let\u2019s look at some of the news coming out of Houston here. The economic news, by the way, is through the roof. We have a revised GDP that\u2019s gonna be north of 3% economic growth. This is second quarter GDP, up 3%. 2.7 was the original report, now projected to be at 3%. Jobs news continues to come in. Consumer confidence is at a 17-year high.<\/p>\n

President Trump is on the way to Missouri today where he is going to make a speech on tax reform to get this whole thing kicked off, and the Drive-Bys on CNBC were just livid when they found out Stephen Miller wrote the speech. Stephen Miller, of course, is a white nationalist, and he\u2019s an anti-Semite, even though he\u2019s Jewish. You haven\u2019t heard they called him an anti-Semite? Yeah, they called Stephen Miller an anti-Semite. I forget why. It doesn\u2019t matter. It was some aftermath of some controversy. It might have been Charlottesville because he wrote a Trump speech.<\/p>\n

By the way, folks, I\u2019m sorry to be hopscotching all over the place, but neurons and synapses are firing here in my brain.<\/p>\n

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RUSH: Trump\u2019s going to Missouri, to Springfield, and he\u2019s gonna try to get the ball rolling on tax reform today, and CNBC went off on Stephen Miller<\/a> when they find out he wrote the speech. They think Gary Cohn should have written the speech. And they\u2019re really ticked off that Gary Cohn didn\u2019t write the speech, that Stephen Miller did because Stephen Miller\u2019s a nationalist.<\/p>\n

What\u2019s a nationalist? It\u2019s nothing. It\u2019s another word for being an American. Nationalist has become a dirty word that means you care only about your country and you don\u2019t care about the downtrodden and the homeless and the thirsty and the poor from around the world. You don\u2019t care. That\u2019s what a nationalist is. So they\u2019re trying to discredit Stephen Miller as being one of those kind of guys.<\/p>\n

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RUSH: Now to Houston. Little news there. “Fourteen people in the Houston area have been arrested on looting charges<\/a> over the past 48 hours.” Hurricane Harvey\u2019s moved on, the rain has stopped in Houston, and the floodwaters are receding. In some cases they\u2019re receding at a pretty decent clip. Why are you looking at me? Have you not heard? Oh, I thought you were looking at me like you haven\u2019t heard that said anywhere. No, no, the rain has stopped. I mean, have you seen the radar? I mean, the media may be telling you it\u2019s stilling raining there, but if you look at the radar, it isn\u2019t.<\/p>\n

\"\"Harvey has moved on. Floodwaters will naturally recede at some point once the rain stops. But it\u2019s got a long, long, long way to go, and it\u2019s gonna be devastating when that floodwater recedes and we see what\u2019s beneath the water, the damage is gonna be shocking.<\/p>\n

Anyway, there\u2019s a growing body of thought that people should be allowed to loot. The media is putting forth the idea that it\u2019s not really fair to call people trying to survive looters. It\u2019s unfortunate, they said, it tags them with a term that might stay with them for the rest of their lives, and all they are is decent people trying to hang on, trying to survive.<\/p>\n

Tom Llamas, the ABC World News Tonight anchor<\/a>, said, “We are witnessing looting right now at a large supermarket in Northeast part of Houston. Police have just discovered a body nearby.” Apparently after Tom Llamas reported witnessing looting, people went to Twitter and took issue with the fact that he was tweeting about looters before tweeting about the body.<\/p>\n

Other people were upset at the idea of characterizing people just trying to get food during a disaster as looters. “This disgusting tweet could only serve to make already traumatized people feel more unsafe. You and ABC, Llamas, should feel ashamed. Pretty sure they\u2019re called this trying to survive. Houston\u2019s been devastated. How do you loot bread and peanut butter?” So the movement is on on Twitter to not allow looting to be called looting.<\/p>\n

Now, from the Washington Post, David Von Drehle. “Harvey\u2019s Burdens Will Fall Hardest on the Poor.<\/a>” You could see this coming 35 years ago. For those of you new to the program, let me tell you a joke. Let me tell you how stereotypical this is. “Harvey\u2019s Burdens Will Fall Hardest on the Poor.” One day God\u2019s watching The Oprah show, and he says, “You know what? This thing with humanity is not working. Humanity is a disaster and I\u2019m tired of the experiment.”<\/p>\n

So God called USA Today, he called the New York Times, he called the Wall Street Journal to tell them the world was gonna end in 24 hours. That humanity had blown it, he had blown it, maybe combination two, but it was over. The New York Times asked for an exclusive. They were denied. The way the story, “God to end world” was handled at the newspapers went like this. The USA Today headline: “We\u2019re Done.” The New York Times: “God Says World to End Tomorrow. Experts Await Details.” Washington Post: “God Says World to End Tomorrow. Women and Children Hardest Hit.”<\/p>\n

That joke goes back to the eighties. This is how stereotypically you can predict it. So here we have in the Washington Post, “Harvey\u2019s Burdens Will Fall Hardest on the Poor.”<\/p>\n

Here\u2019s how it starts. “There\u2019s an insight sometimes credited to W. B. ‘Bat\u2019 Masterson, the buffalo hunter turned Wild West lawman turned hard-drinking gambler who ended up as a pal of Theodore Roosevelt and died a famous New York sportswriter. … The insight goes like this: Everyone gets the same amount of ice in life. The rich get theirs in the summer; the poor in the winter. The catastrophe on the Texas coast makes little or no distinction between rich and poor — for now, anyway.”<\/p>\n

\"\"But the burdens will fall hardest on the poor. So if you\u2019re in Houston hearing the sound of my voice, if you\u2019re middle class, or God forbid even rich — and I saw some rich homes nearly all underwater — and if you\u2019ve lost a lot of property, if you\u2019ve lost members of your family in this natural disaster you should be comforted by the fact that the poor are gonna have it even harder than you\u2019ve had.<\/p>\n

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RUSH: Here is the last paragraph of the gut-wrenching, heart-wrenching op-ed piece by David Von Drehle in the Washington Post, “Harvey\u2019s Burdens Will Fall Hardest on the Poor.” Ready? Closing paragraph: “It is on the tired backs of the poor that the heaviest burdens of the hurricane will fall, and they will bear that weight for the longest time. May the sympathy we feel for them in this hour of disaster harden into something more lasting: respect.” So no matter which of you in Houston have lost how much, it doesn\u2019t matter. There\u2019s always somebody that\u2019s gonna lose more, and you need to remember that. And it\u2019s this…<\/p>\n

No, I can imagine (impression), “What\u2019s wrong with that, Mr. Limbaugh? Do you think that\u2019s wrong?” I think what\u2019s wrong here is in the middle of a disaster, they still have to divide people. A disaster is a disaster for all of the people that experience it! But to try to subdivide it and to say that some people have…? It\u2019s politicizing it! That is exactly what it is, and I\u2019m just tired of it. I\u2019m tired of these emotional levers of people trying to advance political agendas on the backs of the poor. I mean, for crying out loud, it stands to reason! There\u2019s nothing inherent… They\u2019re trying… The undercurrent here is: “There\u2019s something really wrong with America.<\/p>\n

“It\u2019s really bad. The poor are hardest hit.” It\u2019s a media meme. It is a narrative. It\u2019s a requirement. It\u2019s oriented toward dividing people and promoting guilt and all of these other things. It\u2019s frustrating. Maybe it\u2019s getting to me a little bit more than it should because of the things I have discovered today that the media has been doing. Actually starting longer than today, but just it\u2019s been codified today with some in-depth research about how they\u2019re just out-and-out lying about what Donald Trump is saying — and then he\u2019s got people in his own administration falling for the lies, like Tillerson and Gary Cohn.<\/p>\n

The lack of curiosity and the willingness to believe the worst is a frustrating thing.<\/p>\n

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RUSH: We start Corpus Christi. Joseph, I\u2019m glad you waited, sir. Welcome to the EIB Network. Hi.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Good morning, sir. How are you doing?<\/p>\n

RUSH: Very well. Very well. Thank you.<\/p>\n

\"\"CALLER: Outstanding, sir. Thank you for taking my call. I guess it\u2019s afternoon where you are. I just wanted to call and make a point. When POTUS flew in yesterday, I had rushed home from evacuating and was cleaning up around the area, cleaning up the church. I\u2019m just south of Port A, and I was deriving west of town towards the airport and wanted to make the point that, you know, everybody was busy taking responsibility on hand.<\/p>\n

No one was concerned with the president flying into town or necessarily what the first lady\u2019s footwear was. We were in a time of need, so we were getting to work, and I thought that it was a small microcosm example of sort of where we are culturally, how the abundance of free time leads us to kind of a pedantic nonsense headspace. And when it comes time to actually get to work, you don\u2019t have time to worry about footwear or little things that often breed the negative conflict in the media right now. It\u2019s take responsibility, pick up your axe, find a neighbor in need, and get to work.<\/p>\n

RUSH: So you were not affected one way or the other by the president\u2019s arrival. He did not do anything to dampen your experts nor lift them much, and you later found out the media was going nuts over the kind of shoes the first lady wore. You didn\u2019t care about that because you didn\u2019t have time to.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Exactly, sir. I mean, we\u2019re a very tight community down there, and Corpus Christi was lucky enough, you know, to kind of dodge it. Port A caught the bulk it of it.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Right, because the Drive-Bys said Corpus Christi was gonna get the bulk of it.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Right, sir. We lost shingles, housed got knocked down, and we needed hands to help pick stuff up and we\u2019ll be rebuilding for a while. But the bigger point was TV\u2019s weren\u2019t queued. We weren\u2019t looking for negatives. It was just, “How can I get out and help?” and it says a lot to the culture down there. As a supporter of our commander-in-chief, you know, of course I would have loved to go to the airfield to see him. But it was important to stay off the roads to find someone who needs help. Kind of in that moment, I saw that we\u2019ve kind of redacted ourselves culturally because we have such an abundance of time to spend listening to a misplaced media when really you should just be taking responsibility and getting after it.<\/p>\n

RUSH: No, I understand it. In fact, I understand it totally. You may have heard this, folks; you may have seen it. Grab audio sound bite number 6. CNN ran into a recently rescued woman and her children in a shelter in Houston, thrust a microphone in her face, and wanted to know what it was like and so forth. Here is how that sounded. Question from the reporterette: “You\u2019re with your children. We\u2019ve heard stories of mothers trying to save their children from the rushing waters. Can you tell us…?”<\/p>\n