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RUSH: Mallory in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, welcome to the EIB Network. Hello.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Hi.<\/p>\n\n

RUSH: Hi.<\/p>\n

CALLER: I am calling about the speech on faith yesterday.<\/p>\n\n

RUSH: By Mitt Romney.<\/p>\n\n

CALLER: Yes, sir. I\u2019m 21. My peers are mostly liberal, and I\u2019m a conservative atheist, but I keep hearing them complain about, oh, he didn\u2019t include this, or he didn\u2019t include that. He didn\u2019t include atheists, and I\u2019m really frustrated because it seems like honesty has taken a back seat to political correctness. I just don\u2019t know what to do anymore. (chuckles)<\/p>\n\n

RUSH: You\u2019re reacting to what? People criticizing him because he didn\u2019t include atheists in his speech?<\/p>\n\n

CALLER: Or anyone, for that matter, but I hear predominantly about the atheists.<\/p>\n\n

RUSH: You know what I find interesting about that? I\u2019ve got a couple stories in here. I\u2019m looking for them even as we speak, and I will find them in due course. One of them has Sally Quinn — you know, the social doyenne, or the former social doyenne of Washington. Here\u2019s one of them. Here\u2019s one. Yeah, he didn\u2019t include atheists. The Washington Post lead editorial today: ‘There\u2019s a gap in Mitt Romney\u2019s admirable call for tolerance. Where Mr. Romney most fell short, though, was in his failure to recognize that America is composed of citizens not only of different faiths but of no faith at all, and that the genius of America is to treat them all with equal dignity.\u2019 What did he do? You\u2019re an atheist. Were you insulted by anything he said?<\/p>\n\n

CALLER: Absolutely not. I would rather hear somebody speak honestly and from the heart, than take an extra 20 minutes every speech to make sure they mention every variety of faith or lack thereof.<\/p>\n\n

RUSH: Yeah, it\u2019s silly. It was bad enough when some conservative friends of mine started harping on this aspect of it yesterday. Now it\u2019s split over to the left side of the line, too. <\/p>\n\n

CALLER: (laughs)<\/p>\n\n

RUSH: It\u2019s like, if that\u2019s the best they can do, this must have been one hell of a humdinger of a speech.<\/p>\n\n

CALLER: Oh, it was amazing, and moving, and I really appreciated the sincerity.<\/p>\n\n

RUSH: That\u2019s fascinating. Now, you\u2019re an atheist.<\/p>\n\n

CALLER: Yeah.<\/p>\n\n

RUSH: I wouldn\u2019t expect you to be threatened by that speech, but you found it soaring? You found it amazing and moving?<\/p>\n\n

CALLER: He took a step a lot of people won\u2019t do, which is speak his mind and say, ‘I feel strongly about this, and be damned if you don\u2019t agree with that because I am a good man for it,\u2019 and that means a lot to me, because that\u2019s honesty rather than just saying what you know everybody wants to hear. I\u2019m not insulted because I don\u2019t have faith. I\u2019m moved when somebody is strong in whatever they believe.<\/p>\n\n

RUSH: Let me ask you about —<\/p>\n\n

CALLER: And honest.<\/p>\n\n

RUSH: Okay, I appreciate it. Let me ask you a question here about this Washington Post editorial in which atheists are described as people who have ‘no faith at all.\u2019 Is that accurate?<\/p>\n\n

CALLER: In a god, yes. I have faith in myself and my fellow man, though.<\/p>\n\n

RUSH: So you do have faith. That\u2019s my point.<\/p>\n\n

CALLER: Oh, absolutely. Just not in a higher power. And I don\u2019t fault anybody for having faith in a higher power. I think it\u2019s beautiful if they do good things with it, and tragic if they do bad things with it. They\u2019re still people.<\/p>\n\n

RUSH: Where do you get your moral and behavioral code?<\/p>\n\n

CALLER: Reason. My mother is a Catholic, and my father\u2019s side of the family is Islamic, and I grew up seeing two very, very different sides of the spectrum, and they were both very good people. You don\u2019t fault people for their faith. That\u2019s asinine.<\/p>\n\n

RUSH: Well, that was Romney\u2019s point yesterday.<\/p>\n\n

CALLER: And I think he made it well.<\/p>\n\n

RUSH: Well, look, Mallory, I appreciate the phone call. Very enlightening here, I\u2019m sure, and I hope you have a great weekend.<\/p>\n\n

CALLER: You, too.<\/p>\n\n

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BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: To Redding, California, this is Travis. Hello, Travis.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yes, hello. I would just like to make a point about Mitt Romney\u2019s speech, and the fact that necessarily, you know, doesn\u2019t mean that he\u2019s a good candidate for president because he wrote a good speech. You know, I figure Stephen King is a great writer, but that doesn\u2019t make him a president, you know? And that\u2019s basically all I wanted to say.<\/p>\n

RUSH: You were not impressed by the speech?<\/p>\n

CALLER: You know, I\u2019m not impressed with the speech, necessarily.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Who is your candidate?<\/p>\n

CALLER: I don\u2019t necessarily have a candidate yet. I just want to see some action and not words.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, I understand what you\u2019re saying, and like Mario Cuomo made a great speech at a convention and that\u2019s what he\u2019s remembered for but he never became president, and ditto for the Reverend Jackson at the San Francisco convention, made a speech that was widely heralded. This I think is a little different circumstance. The reason I liked it, as I said yesterday, it did not cherry-pick; it didn\u2019t try to appeal to every little group out there and their pet cause. It was filled with grand ideas. It was a teaching moment about the nature of the country, its greatness, how to continue it, from where we derive our freedom, the kind of thing that the American people are not told often enough. It was uplifting. It was optimistic, and it was inspiring. And, for that reason, whether it gets him elected or not, it was a great speech for people to hear, and to have it be talked about. Travis, thanks for the call. <\/p>\n

Last night on Charlie Rose, Mark Halperin, TIME Magazine\u2019s senior political analyst, was one of the guests. Charlie Rose said, ‘Mark, clearly the evangelical vote was sliding to Huckabee. Will this speech stop it somehow because they\u2019ll say, ‘Well, you know, I don\u2019t understand necessarily more about his Mormonism, but I do know that he believes in these things that I believe in\u2019?\u2019<\/p>\n

HALPERIN: Rush Limbaugh has spoken favorably of the speech, other religious conservatives have. I think that\u2019s enough to be in the game with people. Are there people who want to vote for him in Iowa because he\u2019s a Mormon, were there before the speech? Yes. Are there now? Yes. But I think he did as we say what he had to do to be in the game, but to show them his heart, not to get them to say, ‘My preference as a Mormon is president,\u2019 but to say, ‘This is a man of faith and a man I\u2019m comfortable with.\u2019<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yeah, also, in addition to this, there are a number of people — Charles Krauthammer is one of those, ‘It\u2019s just a crying shame he had to make this speech.\u2019 And Krauthammer lays it off on Huckabee. Krauthammer says that Huckabee is running a pretty effective ad up in Iowa that says, ‘I have no problem talking about my faith, Christian,\u2019 whatever, I forget the exact text of the ad, calls it a good ad, but he says Huckabee is behind this, not totally, but the final straw requiring Romney to make the speech, and he was just unhappy. Krauthammer says it\u2019s just a shame that the climate in this country has gotten to the point that that speech was even necessary. Here\u2019s a passage from the speech yesterday, and this passage has the libs literally up in arms.<\/p>\n

ROMNEY: In John Adams\u2019 words: ‘We have no government armed with power capable of contending with human passions unbridled by morality and religion… Our constitution was made for a moral and religious people. Freedom requires religion just as religion requires freedom. Freedom opens the windows of the soul so that man can discover his most profound beliefs and commune with God. Freedom and religion endure together, or perish alone.\u2019<\/p>\n

RUSH: Now, that passage he\u2019s quoting John Adams. Listen to Sally Quinn on the Charlie Rose Show last night when asked about this passage.<\/p>\n

QUINN: I was absolutely stunned by how exclusive it was. I expected him to be much more inclusive. The line that I was just absolutely shocked by was when he said, ‘freedom requires religion just as religion requires freedom.\u2019 And then went on to say, ‘freedom and religion endure together or perish alone.\u2019 And that sounded to me like he was basically recommending a theocracy, and it sounded as though he was excluding anybody who might be a doubter, an agnostic, an atheist —<\/p>\n

RUSH: Stop the tape. This is why sometimes I\u2019m forced to say liberals just don\u2019t have religion. He was quoting one of the Founders! The whole speech, she has missed the point. The whole speech was about the founding of the country and how important elements were in having it happen and, furthermore, keeping it together, the traditions, the institutions that have made this country great, as I love to say over and over again. And all she can focus on is the PC aspect. ‘It was so exclusive, I expected it to be far more inclusive. I thought he was excluding anybody who might be a doubter, an agnostic, an atheist, a free thinker, even a seeker,\u2019 she says. Do these people have not one original thought? There must be one liberal who has an original thought, and they all pick up on it, and they all start echoing it. But he\u2019s quoting John Adams, for crying out loud. I don\u2019t know, Sally Quinn may not know who he is. Sure she knows; she\u2019s gotta know who he is. He was talking about the founding of the country and she thinks it\u2019s dangerous, a theocracy. They are scared to death of any religious people, folks, not just Mormons.<\/p>\n

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I want to go back to some of the lib reaction to a passage in Mitt Romney\u2019s speech yesterday. It just has the libs up in arms. In fact, let\u2019s go back and, Ed, grab sound bite five. We\u2019ll just start at the top here because this is worth hearing again. This is Romney from the speech yesterday in College Station, Texas, and he is quoting one of the founders, John Adams.<\/p>\n

ROMNEY: In John Adams\u2019 words: ‘We have no government armed with power capable of contending with human passions unbridled by morality and religion… Our constitution was made for a moral and religious people. Freedom requires religion just as religion requires freedom. Freedom opens the windows of the soul so that man can discover his most profound beliefs and commune with God. Freedom and religion endure together, or perish alone.\u2019<\/p>\n

RUSH: That last line — well, not just that, but the ‘freedom requires religion just as religion requires freedom,\u2019 that just got a lot of libs today turned upside down. Here Sally Quinn, wife of Ben Bradley, social doyenne, ex-social doyenne since there\u2019s not much social going on in Washington, of Washington, DC.<\/p>\n

QUINN: I was absolutely stunned by how exclusive it was. I expected him to be much more inclusive. The line that I was just absolutely shocked by was when he said, ‘freedom requires religion just as religion requires freedom.\u2019 And then went on to say, ‘freedom and religion endure together or perish alone.\u2019 And that sounded, to me, like he was basically recommending a theocracy, and it sounded as though he was excluding anybody who might be a doubter, an agnostic, an atheist, a free thinker, even a seeker. It was as though he were saying, you know, if you believe in God, then that\u2019s the American way. And it seemed to me that it was exactly the opposite, the antithesis of the American way, which is we are all Americans, and whether we are believers or not, I include everyone.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Sally, it\u2019s embarrassing how profound your ignorance on the founding of this country is, and the rest of you libs who might have this paranoid belief, ‘He was leaving out the atheists, and he was leaving out the agnostics. It was exclusive.\u2019 He was encapsulating what the Founding Fathers said in the Declaration of Independence. They pointed to natural law and the Creator. I am convinced these liberals have no more understanding of the founding of this country and the tradition behind it than people who have never been born here or live here. I don\u2019t think they have the slightest — (interruption) well, then if they do, then they just can\u2019t stand it, whatever it is, either they don\u2019t know or they\u2019ve forgotten, or they do know and they can\u2019t stand it. Whatever they\u2019re doing, they want to change it. They don\u2019t like it. <\/p>\n

When you get right down to the bottom line, what really grates on them is that our country was founded on the belief in God, and natural law does not compel every future citizen to believe in God. But it does mean that for our society to survive, the founding principles must be embraced by most of us, otherwise what do we have here? Who are we? What is this place? It will cease to be America. It is why I ask the question over and over again, have you ever stopped to wonder why, in the course of all human history, nations, civilizations, thousands of years before we came into existence, we dwarf them in every which way for good? Economics, technological advancement, freedom, civil rights, human dignity, all of these things, quality of life, standard of living. How did it happen? It is not an accident. It is not a coincidence. It\u2019s directly traceable to our founding. What he was talking about yesterday, he was encapsulating what the Founding Fathers said in the Declaration of Independence. If we lose this tradition, if we lose the roots to our founding, we are not going to be the America that we are today, that we\u2019ve always been. <\/p>\n

I\u2019m really frightened that that\u2019s what some libs want to do, is destroy and eliminate, as best they can. The court system is their primary route, because they\u2019re insulated from elections there, to totally destroy the link to the roots that make this country what it is. Because there is a genuine fear, I said it yesterday, I\u2019m going to say it again, because I firmly believe it. I think in a lot of liberals, a lot of leftists, there is a genuine fear of people who have faith in God. Liberals want people to have faith in them and their institutions, which is government, and they are frightened by the fact that people who have faith in something larger than themselves that can\u2019t be controlled, which is what liberalism must do in order to thrive. It must control people. Nobody is required to believe in God, but it does mean that for our society to survive, I\u2019m going to say this again, the founding principles must be embraced by most of us, otherwise, who are we? If you accept the founding had a religious aspect, then you also have to accept what comes with it. If you don\u2019t want to accept that, then you want to deny. How about that? You\u2019re a founding denier. Yeah, those of us that don\u2019t buy the global warming hoax, we\u2019re called global warming deniers. Well, those of you who want to destroy or deny the truth about the founding of this nation are founding deniers. <\/p>\n

So there\u2019s dissent in this country, there are different views, but most of us believe in God, and most of us believe in natural law. Most of us do. Look at the Passion of the Christ. Look how well that did and how inflamed the liberals were over it, particularly out in Hollywood? That is the American tradition. It is our founding. That most of us believe in God and natural law. Now, I am sorry to report this to Sally Quinn and even Christopher Hitchens and others, but our country was not founded by atheists. Our country was not founded by agnostics. Our country was not founded by deists. Our country was founded by religious people. You have to go way, way, way out of line to deny it. You can\u2019t read any of George Washington\u2019s speeches, first Thanksgiving proclamation, farewell address, the inaugural, everything. The first Thanksgiving was thanks to God. We tell the story each year here. Atheists had nothing to do with founding this country, dissenters, yes, but not atheists. It\u2019s called the Judeo-Christian ethic, and that Judeo-Christian ethic and principles undergird the society. They provide the foundation, the building blocks from which this great nation rose. There is no other answer for this, and this is precisely why our society is so tolerant. There was nothing intolerant in Mitt Romney\u2019s speech. But they are scared to death of it, nonetheless. They just don\u2019t get it. <\/p>\n

Here, listen to Jon Meacham. Jon Meacham is Newsweek editor. MSNBC Live yesterday afternoon, Norah O\u2019Donnell said, ‘What do you make of the phrase, when he said freedom requires religion just as religion requires freedom?\u2019<\/p>\n

MEACHAM: He\u2019s half right. The second part is true. The first part is not. And I\u2019m curious about that, since you focused on it, it literally made me start when I — when I saw it. Freedom doesn\u2019t require religion. As an empirical matter, in the United States, the fight for freedom has been informed by American religion. That is a fact, but the idea that somehow or another you have to have religion in order to have human freedom is actually not true, I think.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yeah, okay, the editor at Newsweek here is now a qualified expert to tell us that John Adams was full of it, one of our founders. Yes, exactly right. The arrogance and the condescension, the elitism. (Doing Meacham impression) ‘Adams, he doesn\u2019t know what he\u2019s talking about. I\u2019m the editor of Newsweek. I know what I\u2019m talking about. Yeah, John Adams, who the hell was he? He doesn\u2019t know what he\u2019s talking about.\u2019 <\/p>\n

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So you have the Sally Quinns of the world and all these people, the Jon Meachams, the expert at Newsweek who is able to proclaim that John Adams is half right. Why should we listen to Adams, when we have Jon Meacham at Newsweek? These same people, my friends, are the people that gave us this willowy phrase, ‘the Constitution is a living and breathing document.\u2019 The founding of liberalism is based on moral relativism. The main threat to that view, is the originalist view of our nation and the Constitution. So the founding and the original intent of the Constitution are considered threats to liberalism, by liberals, and they have to be dealt with. So, ‘Well, the Constitution is a living, breathing document. It must change and adapt with the evolving mores of our corrupted, perverted society on which we will make no judgment,\u2019 say the liberals, and then the Founding Fathers have no clue. Well, they were half right, until the editor of Newsweek comes along and sets it straight on this. You know, I find it always useful to go back and read the words of former communists, because like it or not, leftists in this country are far more comfortable with the lines from Karl Marx than they are with some of the lines in the Constitution of the United States of America, or the Declaration of Independence. They think the Constitution and The Declaration of Independence, like Romney\u2019s speech, are exclusionary, not inclusive, not tolerant enough. <\/p>\n\n

They can read Karl Marx, and salivate. Read Karl Marx, and have tears of dreamy wonderment. They read the Constitution, they get panicked. ‘The Second Amendment? What were those racist white guys thinking? We gotta change that!\u2019 It\u2019s the way they look at things. I love to go back to former communists, who have seen the light. Leszek Kolakowski. He\u2019s a Polish historian of Marxist revolutions in Eastern Europe, and this quote of his is on the importance of Christianity in the development of the free society. It\u2019s from an essay he wrote, and it\u2019s very famous among we intellectuals, us intellectuals, called The Idolatry of Politics. I want you to listen to this. ‘One may reasonably argue that modern liberal doctrines were historically rooted in the biblical belief that, in a basic sense, all human beings are equal and equally precious. However tortuous and self-contradictory was the path from the religious to the political meaning of this insight, however often it was strewn with conflicts and struggles, it was historically real. It has largely been forgotten now.\u2019 Forgetting is a luxury we don\u2019t have, and there are too many people not only trying to make those who know it, forget it. There are too many people trying to never have it be taught what is happening, what was the truth of our founding. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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