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RUSH: James in Manhattan, glad you waited. Welcome to the EIB Network, sir. Hello.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Hello. Why don\u2019t we call a spade a spade and say that the Democrats are trying to re-create the Soviet Union? You know, you mentioned Waxman, socialized medicine, polluting young minds — &agrave; la, you know, George Orwell — and I think it was on Friday you were talking about how pediatricians in Massachusetts were interviewing children about the social habits of their parents.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yeah.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Income redistribution, creating mediocrity and then total dependence.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, the answer to the question — Why don\u2019t we just say that they\u2019re trying to re-create the old Soviet Union? — I don\u2019t know that it would sell. You know, you want to persuade people.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Okay.<\/p>\n

RUSH: You have to understand that my perception is that a vast majority of the people of the United States of America will just never believe that there\u2019s a political party that wants to establish a set of circumstances like Khrushchev and Brezhnev and the boys had in the Soviet Union, or that Erich Honecker had in East Germany. They just won\u2019t want to believe it. That\u2019s why all during the eighties and sixties and seventies, it was really not productive to call communists ‘communists,\u2019 because people didn\u2019t believe it was possible for communists to exist in this country. People don\u2019t believe it\u2019s possible. They don\u2019t want to believe it, so they\u2019ll tune it out. But I gotta tell you, there\u2019s a bunch of communist parties in this country. They\u2019re relatively small, but they\u2019re all endorsing the Democrats.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Right.<\/p>\n

RUSH: That\u2019s one way of doing it, is to point out the communist parties in this country — the Communist Workers Party, the Socialist Workers Party, all these communist parties — guess who they\u2019re endorsing? Hillary Clinton, or, in some cases, John Edwards. It doesn\u2019t matter. But it\u2019s always Democrats that they endorse.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Well, that\u2019s my point.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Take a look at our enemies. Bin Laden and Ahmadinejad endorse Democrats. They use their talking points. Mind-boggling, is it not? Are the Democrats embarrassed by any of it? Hell no! They think half the country or more wants this kind of socialism. <\/p>\n

CALLER: Well…<\/p>\n

RUSH: You know, I got some Democrats upset. I put a picture of Josef Stalin up on my website on Friday, because I\u2019ve been calling these people neo-Stalinists in the way that they want to control everybody\u2019s lives. ‘How dare you? How dare you!\u2019 Somebody ought to say it. Somebody has to say it! Bob Beckel went nuts on television. ‘You gotta be careful about saying Stalinists out there. They killed 20 million people.\u2019 No, the Stalinists didn\u2019t kill anybody! Walter Duranty of the New York Times said they didn\u2019t, and he got a Pulitzer Prize for it, which still stands. So according to some people, it never happened anyway. There are ways of accomplishing this without using a single word or two words like the ‘Soviet Union\u2019 which would just repel people. It\u2019s all about convincing and persuading, and let me tell you… How should I say this? Let me call \u2019em ‘acquaintances\u2019 so you people don\u2019t beat me up. I have several liberal acquaintances who over the past week witnessed this. They know me personally, and they\u2019ve known me for a long, long time and they\u2019ve known full well who I am. They saw this smear campaign. They saw the media surrounding it. They also saw the mainstream media. <\/p>\n

You know, this is a key element here. People said, ‘How come the mainstream media didn\u2019t pile on to this, Rush?\u2019 You didn\u2019t get NBC or ABC or CBS on it. You didn\u2019t get the New York Times \u2019til the week after. You didn\u2019t get the Washington Post on it. Why?\u2019 Because they know it was BS. That\u2019s why they didn\u2019t jump. But that\u2019s not the question. The question is, ‘Knowing that it was BS, why didn\u2019t they write that?\u2019 Where was the story, ‘Senate majority leader falsely accuses radio talk show host from floor of Senate\u2019? Where was that story? It\u2019s not there because the mainstream press is just waiting for the next little kerfuffle to come up here that they can jump on and get away with being credible on. Anyway, the story I was going to tell you is, a number of these liberals have seen what has happened in the past week, and it\u2019s shaking their foundations. They didn\u2019t think their people were capable of this kind of lying and character assassination. They thought that\u2019s what we did, and they have told me they are questioning everything they have believed. It\u2019s only three or four people, but they are questioning it. They started out, like liberals do, trying to equivocate it. ‘Well, you know, you have said some un…\u2019 Wait a minute! Forget that. This is a lie. Forget this equivocation, will you? It\u2019s the one thing about you libs that drives me nuts. We properly identify something you do, and you have to say, ‘Well, you did this and that.\u2019 <\/p>\n

It\u2019s not the point. This was an abject smear. Anyway, by the end of the week, these people all said, ‘You are making me question this. Knowing you is making me question everything I\u2019ve believed,\u2019 and the only reason they knew about it was because they know me. If they didn\u2019t know me, they would have bought — hook, line, and sinker — everything that the left put out yesterday. Now, this, folks, is why, in an additional way, I am such a target, because now there are liberals who are seeing what their side does and how they do it. You gotta understand: Proud liberals really do buy all of the PR. They think they are better, they\u2019re smarter, they\u2019re nicer, they\u2019re more compassionate, that they\u2019re not bigoted, that they\u2019re not racist. They\u2019re none of those things. Now they see the people on their side of the aisle and the way they\u2019re misreporting, misrepresenting, lying, even after getting the facts. I don\u2019t know that they\u2019re going to stop being liberals, but it has caused them to see something that they\u2019ve never seen before, that they just accepted, which I was talking about at the beginning of the program. They just accept this stuff. They\u2019re the mind-numbed robots. They don\u2019t think about it. They\u2019re so caught up in hating us and thinking we\u2019re rotten to the core, while they are God\u2019s gift to Creation, that none of this stuff permeates — \u2019til these people saw it firsthand. One of them even said, ‘I\u2019m beginning to wonder about all this stuff they\u2019ve told me about Bush.\u2019 These are just anecdotal little stories. But don\u2019t think that that\u2019s not happening across a wider spectrum than just the people who know me personally. <\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: Travis, Washington, DC. Thanks for waiting, sir. You\u2019re next.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Thank you. Look at what Democrats and Congress have done over the past few years. First they investigated that conservative White House reporter Jeff Gannon after you mentioned him on your show and then drove Ken Tomlinson off the PBS board because he wanted to monitor PBS for political balance.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Oh, that\u2019s right, they did get rid of Ken Tomlinson. He wanted to do a study to find out if there\u2019s too much liberalism on PBS, and you\u2019re right, the libs were livid over that.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Absolutely, drove him out of town.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yeah. See, that\u2019s why we refer to these people as neo-Stalinists here. By the way, it\u2019s their way or no other way. It\u2019s not open for debate. They are not going to allow themselves to be challenged, especially by the truth. It ain\u2019t going to happen, folks. We had a caller, I\u2019ve been rethinking this, we had a caller in the previous half hour, last half hour, who suggested, why don\u2019t we just say what\u2019s going on here? He recounted some recent incidents. The Democrats are trying to resurrect the old Soviet Union. I said, ah, can\u2019t do that because it would not be persuasive, too many people would not want to believe it. I got to thinking about there\u2019s a whole generation of people out there that will not be scared by the mention of the Soviet Union because they don\u2019t know what it was. They don\u2019t know what the Soviet Union was. They don\u2019t know how evil it was. They may know what it was, but they have not been told how evil it was. They don\u2019t understand the threat to their lives. They think of the Soviet Union as Gorbachev. But, by the same token, referring to the Democrats as the next Soviet Union thus wouldn\u2019t work. It\u2019s not accurate enough.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

<\/a>RUSH: I\u2019m sorry to make this personal, folks, but it\u2019s perhaps the best teaching aide I have. I\u2019ve recommended two or three times that you go out and rent a movie, The Lives of Others. It was the Academy Award-winning foreign language film at the last Epidemic Awards. It\u2019s subtitled. It is made in Germany, and it\u2019s about what life was like when East Germany was part of the Soviet bloc. Given the smear of me by Senator Reid and the amen chorus of those in the media and on the left that bought it hook, line, and sinker, knowing full well it was a lie, the news today that Henry Waxman is going to unleash a number of his staff investigators — he\u2019s chairman of the House government oversight committee. I laugh at this, but there\u2019s a part of me that just gets stunned when I hear that the chairman of the House oversight committee that provides oversight of government functions is going to train some of his investigative staff on a private citizen, a talk show host, for the advancement of his own political operations, and he is using a regulatory agency to come after me, the FCC. When I hear this, I have to tell you, I get stunned. <\/p>\n

I can remember back very clearly, the Nixon days when they discovered his enemies list and how they were so fit to be tied in the Drive-By Media, that the president of the United States was doing research on members of the press and how this was intolerable and unacceptable. Then, after awhile, it became fashionable to be on the list. The idea here that this is happening really makes me want to recommend to you, if you haven\u2019t done so, to go rent the movie. As I\u2019ve said each time I\u2019ve told you about, it\u2019s R rated, there is some nudity in it. I\u2019ve got some people disagreeing with me about this, by the way. I\u2019ve said a number of times that the nudity is gratuitous, it\u2019s not really necessary in the story. Some people say, ‘Yes, it is, Rush, because the nudity is being spied on, too, because the nudity is being used, the sexual activity is being spied on, videotaped, monitored. It is necessary, Rush.\u2019 You don\u2019t want your kids watching this. But it\u2019s not for kids anyway. It\u2019s a movie that you really ought to see, The Lives of Others, just go rent the thing, and understand that it\u2019s an R, and it will show you what happens with totalitarian governments like those in East Germany and the Soviet Union and in Cuba today and places like Hugo Chavez and Venezuela. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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