{"id":258154,"date":"2017-12-15T16:15:00","date_gmt":"2017-12-15T21:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/?p=258154"},"modified":"2017-12-18T16:49:51","modified_gmt":"2017-12-18T21:49:51","slug":"we-wake-up-every-morning-and-face-a-mountain-of-ignorance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2017\/12\/15\/we-wake-up-every-morning-and-face-a-mountain-of-ignorance\/","title":{"rendered":"We Wake Up Every Morning and Face a Mountain of Ignorance"},"content":{"rendered":"

RUSH: The first thing I do when I roll out of bed, literally the first thing I do, I grab my iPhone. I have a whole system of programs set up that informs me of things I\u2019m interested in that happened overnight, after I went to bed or even before I went to bed that I didn\u2019t know about. And today the first couple things I saw almost made me want to put up my hands in frustration and say, “Just what the hell are we doing? What is the point?”<\/p>\n

And it was the fact that two late-night comedy shows, Jimmy Kimmel and Colbert, went on rants about net neutrality last night, thereby submitting another level of proof that all it is is yet another phony, left-wing, expand-the-government idea. All it is is the next Obamacare. All it is is the next climate change. All it is is the next Democrat fraud.<\/p>\n

\"\"And then I got to thinking how sad it is that liberalism has now corrupted late-night comedy. Some people like those late night comedy shows. When I was growing up, Johnny Carson, you know, you try to keep the TV lights low so your parents wouldn\u2019t know you were watching. And then as I grew older I didn\u2019t have to hide the fact I was watching it. And then Letterman came along and I watched that. But in the last number of years — and I always try to guard against it. Maybe it\u2019s just I\u2019m getting older and those shows are made for young demographics, and I\u2019m not in the demographic anymore.<\/p>\n

I always try to avoid the old fuddy-duddy position. When I was growing up I always promised myself I was not gonna become one of those old fuddy-duddies that thought everything about modern times was an absolute disaster. And I was always gonna do what I could to stay young at heart. That I was never not gonna abandon the Beatles and go back to Sinatra. My parents never adapted. They like what they like.<\/p>\n

And I\u2019m finding people my age, you know what their most favorite radio stations are? Stations that play the sixties, the oldies from a happier time gone by. And I\u2019ve since learned because of the business I\u2019m in that if you are not in the 18 to 49 demographic, nobody cares about you. When you hit 50 and older advertisers abandon you. They don\u2019t care because they don\u2019t think they can change your mind. But until then, you are fair game.<\/p>\n

So anything the 18 to 49 demographic is doing is considered hip and interesting, and we need to keep our eyes on it, but once you hit 50, nobody cares. I vowed I was not gonna play. I was not gonna become irrelevant at 50. And of course now I\u2019m 66, and I am not irrelevant. I am as and more relevant than ever. But it\u2019s a daily fight. It\u2019s a daily battle. And of course it\u2019s an ongoing battle not to succumb to the negativity that\u2019s out there. Nobody wants to hear it. I certainly don\u2019t like rolling out of bed and seeing it.<\/p>\n

But it just hit me today. Do you ever stop to think — because net neutrality, folks, is an entire fraud. It\u2019s as fraudulent and hoax oriented as climate change. You do everything you can to prove it to people, and when you run out of proof, you simply say, “Okay, look, what\u2019s the difference in climate change and net neutrality?” To these people, not a thing. It means one thing. It means the government controlling and regulating as much as it can get its hands on.<\/p>\n

These lamebrains talking about net neutrality being the end of the internet do not know what they\u2019re talking about. Net neutrality, the Obama rules, are only two years old. But it doesn\u2019t matter. You ever stop to consider how much fraud we are hit with each day that is presented as news, that is presented as news hidden in entertainment, presented as information and cumulatively how negative it all is? And the cumulative impact that it has on people who absorb this stuff on a daily basis, if you want to understand the rage that is occurring all over our country, you have to only look at where people are going to find out what they are learning.<\/p>\n

And the left in this country today is in a constant state of rage, so much so that late-night comedy isn\u2019t funny anymore. It\u2019s just the latest platform for deranged, delusional, left-wing liberalism. And it isn\u2019t healthy. This constant dose of fraud that is always negative, that is piled on top of itself day after day after day, it takes a concerted effort to avoid being affected by it.<\/p>\n

\"\"And even with the greatest efforts you can muster, you cannot avoid totally being affected by it. There\u2019s so much of it, and it\u2019s so all around us, it\u2019s so constant and encompassing that you can\u2019t ignore all of it, and thus you can\u2019t avoid being affected by some of it. You know, there\u2019s a story, I can\u2019t remember who told me this. I was just reminded of it by my old buddy Andy McCarthy. We\u2019ve been chatting about this.<\/p>\n

Robert Bork had a story about watching the Clarence Thomas, Anita Hill hearings at the faculty lounge at Yale. And there was a colleague of his in there, a friend, people think it might have been Irving Kristol, but it doesn\u2019t matter who it was. So Bork is sitting there watching the Clarence Thomas, Anita Hill hearings, and a guy walks up to him, “What do you think you\u2019re looking at, Judge? What are you are witnessing here?”<\/p>\n

And Bork said, “We are looking at the end of civilization.” And the guest said, after handing him a martini in the faculty lounge, hands Bork a martini, the guest says, “Well, yeah, we are, but it\u2019ll take a long time, and it\u2019s still possible to live well.” So even though the left has embarked on a course to transform and destroy our great country as we know it, it is going to take them awhile if they succeed.<\/p>\n

We\u2019re here to do what we can to see that they don\u2019t, but that it is still possible to live well at the same time. But you\u2019re gonna have avoid some of this stuff. I mean, for crying out loud, I\u2019ve been on the net neutrality hobby horse here for this week, and I\u2019m not gonna spend any time on it here again in terms of telling you what it is. All I want, for those of you on the fence about it — in fact, I\u2019ll tell you this. This is the best way to illustrate how this stuff works.<\/p>\n

I have a friend, a professional athlete. You\u2019d all know his name. This guy, unbeknownst to me when I found out he was a listener… Unbeknownst to me, this guy is a bigger right-winger than any of us, but he\u2019s not public about it. If I told you who it was, you\u2019d be shocked. Well, I don\u2019t know that you\u2019d be shocked. You\u2019d be surprised only because you don\u2019t know. There\u2019s nothing that this guy does that would indicate to you that he is one of us. So I get a note from him about a month ago, and he\u2019s in a knock-down-drag-out with a stepson over net neutrality and he\u2019s asking me for assistance.<\/p>\n

\"\"So I reply to his questions, and he was getting sucked in himself by his stepson, by what his stepson was saying. His stepson was literally relaying every liberal bromide about this, and he was getting sucked in because he didn\u2019t understand why some of these major internet service providers would be for it if it penalized them. I gave him an analogy. It\u2019s kind of like what Rubio and these senators are doing. Have you noticed that Rubio came out yesterday and said he\u2019s a “no” vote on tax cuts until they do something more with the child tax credit for poor kids or whatever?<\/p>\n

Now, I know Senator Rubio, and I admire him, but I\u2019m just gonna tell you what this is. He\u2019s gonna vote for this. He\u2019s not gonna vote against it. There\u2019s a lot of attention being focused on it right now, and there is not one of these senators that wants to be the reason this thing doesn\u2019t pass. But they\u2019re using the opportunity of all of the attention to insert themselves in the story in a way that makes it look like they are holding out for a better deal for certain elements of their constituency. It\u2019s a common practice. Politicians do it all the time.<\/p>\n

“I can\u2019t vote for this bill the way it\u2019s currently written.” He\u2019s gonna vote for it, as are most of these others. It\u2019s just an opportunity now to have attention called to himself, particularly caring about poor kids. I\u2019m not being critical. I\u2019m telling you how this works. So when it comes down to major ISPs claiming they\u2019re for net neutrality, what would you do? If you\u2019re a major ISP, if you\u2019re a cable provider and your young customers hate your guts because you charge them money — and if you think your young customers love net neutrality — what sweat is it off your back to say you support net neutrality, too?<\/p>\n

When you know it\u2019s not going to pass, when you know the FCC\u2019s gonna get rid of it, what harm is it to you siding with your young customers (who hate you) and trying to change their minds? And I told my buddy, I said, “This is exactly what\u2019s happening. It\u2019s no different than an automobile company or General Electric signing on for climate change. It\u2019s no different than Nabisco selling green Oreos to relate to climate change. ‘Keep everything green!\u2019 It\u2019s nothing more than marketing.<\/p>\n

\"\"“They\u2019re trying not to antagonize their customers who already hate them.” But,” I said to my buddy, “how in the world are you being fooled by this? Look at the people promoting it and look at everything they promote, and tell me how they\u2019re promoting this any differently than they promote climate change.” With that, finally, the light went on, and he said, “You\u2019re right! It\u2019s not about the specifics. The specifics are what lured me in here. It\u2019s about what the ultimate aim is: Putting government in charge of the internet for the exact opposite reason they claim.”<\/p>\n

I watched… I read these little tech blogs, and my heart goes out to these young kids. They\u2019re so wrong. They are so desperately wrong. They have been ginned up to hate everybody that provides them internet service. They hate them for a host of reasons, and they think the end of net neutrality means that evil internet service providers are going to start throttling their speeds, denying them service, slowing them down in favor of rich customers who will pay more. Let me give you a hint: That\u2019s the way the market operates in virtually every aspect.<\/p>\n

And they love this FedEx example. “Well, you know, Amazon, FedEx all packages are treated the same.” (chuckling) No, they\u2019re not. You can order a package delivered in a week. You can have it ordered by 8:30 the next day. You can order, if you want to pay for it, a faster delivery speed. The internet is no different. But while these guys are worrying… “Throttling” is when the company slows down your connection speed, and they do it to save data. But these guys think they\u2019re doing it to cheat them. The thing is, that\u2019s been happening the past two years under the rules of net neutrality!<\/p>\n

You know, I encounter every day in preparing this program mountains of ignorance coupled with stupidity in some cases, and it\u2019s just frustrating to me, the ill-education and the maleducation that is the happening here. And no matter what the issue the left pushes, it is all about denying the population of our country expanded liberty and freedom in place of the government regulating more and more behavior of people, wherever they are, including on the internet. And then these young people glom right onto it and think it\u2019s the greatest thing in the world and if it doesn\u2019t happen, they\u2019re going to lose their internet.<\/p>\n

This is what they\u2019ve been told, and they believe it. And of course, for the first 15\/20 years of the internet when there was no net neutrality is when it expanded and grew to be this great resource that it is. All of this is in utter defiance of common sense. So I get out of bed and I see that the late-night comedian, Jimmy Kimmel — who has now become the nation\u2019s expert in health care for children — and now that idiot Colbert and probably that idiot, John Oliver, at HBO.<\/p>\n

All of them now. Climate change is no different than net neutrality. And then yesterday, don\u2019t forget a brain — a one-of-a-kind brain, an intelligence so rare we never encounter it — Sandra Fluke worried to death that net neutrality, eliminating net neutrality would all of a sudden make it impossible for women to get abortions. Do you know why? Because net neutrality would lead to the elimination of how-to-get-an-abortion instructions on the internet.<\/p>\n

A bunch of right-wingers are gonna come along and simply erase and clog up the Planned Parenthood site or whatever, and women who want to get abortions would not, starting today, be able to find out where to go or how to do it. What utter stupidity. It\u2019s the kind of stupidity that makes me fear for the country, and it makes me so grateful at the same time to have people like you in my audience. I cannot tell you how appreciative I am.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: Cookie went out and found Jimmy Kimmel last night. The worst thing that happened to Jimmy Kimmel, you know, his ratings are down 30%, ever since he started this health care business on his kid. The reason why is because he\u2019s become — you know who\u2019s feeding him all it is stuff is Chuck Schumer\u2019s office.<\/p>\n

\"\"He has become the late-night connection for the Senate Democrat leader, Chuck Schumer. That\u2019s who provides Kimmel his talking points and his opinions and the way to talk about health care as it relates to his son with the heart defect. And, of course, this is very, very cheap when you take somebody who doesn\u2019t know anything about health care and they get a sick child and then the emotion that is involved in taking the child to the hospital, getting treatment, hoping the child lives, when that becomes, that one emotional experience — This is why legislation is not written during times of emotion. This is why trials are not involved. Everything is done too avoid emotion.<\/p>\n

Emotion clouds everything. One case, one person, one family\u2019s experience cannot define, cannot establish policy for a national system of health care. But that\u2019s what\u2019s happened. Kimmel\u2019s example has become, by design, the Democrat Party saw it, they made a connection — I\u2019m not making it up. Schumer\u2019s office, maybe others, provide Kimmel his talking points. And since they thought it went so well with health care, now they\u2019re feeding Kimmel the same on net neutrality.<\/p>\n

Kimmel doesn\u2019t know anything about net neutrality and probably in the normal course of things doesn\u2019t care about it. But he\u2019s been made to care about it, and his experience with all the attention he got, which was very positive and heartwarming with the example of his sick child, has propelled him now to a new area, and he\u2019s no longer a late-night comedian; he\u2019s much, much more.<\/p>\n

And it just ought to tell you something, that when a guy goes from supporting Obamacare to supporting climate change to supporting net neutrality, it ought to tell you the issues don\u2019t matter. There\u2019s one thing that glues all of these things together. And it is the growth of government. It is the idea that nobody can live their life the proper way without government telling them what they can and can\u2019t do.<\/p>\n

And of course the people in the government regulating this couldn\u2019t do this on their own. There\u2019s nobody in government who could have created the internet. There\u2019s nobody in the government who could have written software for the internet. There\u2019s not a person in the government, in the bureaucracy who could do anything contributory to the American health care system.<\/p>\n

But it\u2019s amazing how all these nonexperienced, nonprofessional politicians who\u2019ve never had real life experience become the experts in people\u2019s mind, and the people who actually build these businesses become the enemy. And the Democrats have parlayed that into an overall hatred of corporations, a hated of the private sector of the economy and a love and devotion that the only element out there making it fair and making it possible to live without being harmed is the United States government, and particularly liberal Democrats in the United States government.<\/p>\n

So here is Jimmy Kimmel last night during his monologue on what is supposed to be a late-night comedy show speaking about the FCC vote to end net neutrality.<\/p>\n

KIMMEL: The FCC did something absolutely despicable today. They voted to put an end to net neutrality. Now, this is the rule that says everyone gets equal access to the internet, a big company or somebody selling crocheted owls from their house in the Midwest.<\/p>\n