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<\/p>\nRUSH: Grab sound bite No. 21. Before we get to latest drivel on the shutdown and who\u2019s responsible for it, the continuing theme now into its fifth week, we\u2019ve got a new sound bite to add to the Covington schoolboys story. This afternoon on CNN Right Now, the host of CNN Right Now, Brianna Keilar, asked the CNN religion commentator and author, Father Edward Beck, about the confrontation between Covington Catholic High School students and the frail and elderly Indian activist beating on his war drum.<\/p>\n
Brianna Keilar said, “You said that those boys shouldn\u2019t have been allowed to wear the ‘Make America Great\u2019 hats on this field trip. Tell us why you think that.”<\/p>\n
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BECK: The students acted inappropriately. I was raised at a time when we were taught respect your elders. With regard the hats, the hats that they were wearing — the so-called MAGA hats or “Make America Great Again” hats — come with a certain political agenda that, in my opinion, can be seen as anti-Catholic, anti-Christian, \u2019cause abortion is not the only pro-life issue. What about immigration and the migrants? What about capital punishment? What about the environment and climate change? And so by wearing that hat, it\u2019s saying that you\u2019re aligning yourself with a political agenda. The students had no right to be wearing that hat. Wear a school hat.<\/p>\n
RUSH: “The students had no right to be wearing that hat.” This is a guy — and they do, by the way. It\u2019s called America. Is this guy a priest? What is he? “Father Edward Beck, CNN religion commentator.” So he\u2019s an uber-leftist. We know that. He\u2019s author Father Edward Beck. (impression) “The students acted inappropriately. I was raised at a time when we were taught respect your elders.” This guy is so uninformed… I\u2019m really steamed about this, because this is an adult — supposedly a responsible adult, supposedly a religious leader — and he is perpetuating a lie.<\/p>\n
Those boys were the epitome of respect. Those boys were the epitome of “respect your elders,” and this guy, he either knows it and is simply furthering his political agenda or he is blatantly ignorant. We had the father of one of the boys call the program yesterday in the last hour of the program. So I don\u2019t know how many people didn\u2019t hear. It I just want to repeat something I said to him. I think that those kids, those students, acted to lower the temperature of that circumstance.<\/p>\n
They were the ones that were being subjected to the abuse. They were being subjected to vile verbal assault and insult by the black Hebrew nationalist whatever they are, and then the Indians coming over and beating the war drum and getting in the face of this kid. This kid said, “I made a calculated decision to stand my ground and smile, to not provoke. Don\u2019t say anything. Don\u2019t act out in any way.” These kids were obviously well raised. See, in my thinking… I want to try to find the right way to say this.<\/p>\n
But I think the kids that I\u2019ve seen on TV and their parents that I have seen and heard and read, are as close as we\u2019re gonna get to model citizens in this circumstance as we can find. They obviously come from families that are educated, rounded, well-rounded, grounded, and raised properly. Their parents can be proud as they can be of these boys and the way they behaved based on that that they faced! It wasn\u2019t that long ago that the boys in that story would have been proclaimed as the adults.<\/p>\n
And if we\u2019re gonna start conferring hero status, they would have been the ones to earn it! They were properly mannered. They did not respond to any attempt to provoke them into any action whatsoever. As I say, they tried to dial down the temperature of this. I think that they represent what is good and decent — or what has been considered good and decent — in terms of family structure, family behavior that is a model of what American family life was.<\/p>\n
I think that\u2019s why they\u2019re hated. They are what\u2019s always been considered to be normal. They\u2019re religious, they\u2019re Catholic, they\u2019re devout, they\u2019re serious, they\u2019re polite. They were the only ones who weren\u2019t profane. They were the only ones who weren\u2019t provocative. They were the only ones who were not insulting. They were the only ones who were the rabble-rousing. They were, quote-unquote, “the peacemakers,” and it was adults surrounding them and attempting to bully them, to harm them, to provoke them.<\/p>\n
They stood their ground. There were chaperones who witnessed throughout all this. In my estimation, if I were one of their parents, I would be as proud as I could be. They were obviously really great young people who I have no doubt have been raised well. They have been taught well. They\u2019ve been taught manners. They\u2019ve been taught respect for elders — everything the opposite of what they\u2019re being accused of.<\/p>\n
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Now they have to hear this so-called religious leader on CNN claim they\u2019ve got no right to wear those caps because those caps represent an agenda that\u2019s anti-Catholic? These kids, by virtue of their behavior, were acting more Catholic than this priest is — or whatever he is. I don\u2019t know if he\u2019s a priest. It\u2019s Father… Father… Father… Father Edward Beck. But to claim that they were anti-Catholic, and they were anti-Christian, and that the Trump agenda is anti-Catholic and anti-Christian? (interruption)<\/p>\n
He is a priest. I\u2019m told he is a priest. I\u2019m not surprised he\u2019s a priest with the direction this current Il Papa has taken the Catholic Church. I\u2019m looking for ways to describe my admiration for these young kids, these young teenagers and their families. They\u2019re a throwback. They\u2019re the epitome of what used to be normal! They\u2019re the epitome of what everybody used to aspire to! Every parent wanted kids like these! Hoped they turned out this well! Wanted to be proud of them. They every reason to be proud of \u2019em!<\/p>\n
Now they have to close their school today — and the Indians are claimed to be the morally superior people and the black Israeli Israelites, whatever they are? The moral superiority there was the total province of the people wearing the MAGA hats, if you ask me. And what the hell is anti-Catholic about the Trump agenda? What is anti-Christian about it? Anti-Christian is what the left is! Anti-Christian is what the left is attempting to invoke and implement!<\/p>\n
Anti-Judeo-Christian, Western Civ ethic!<\/p>\n
“They have no right to be wearing those hats.” No right? The Indian can show up banging on the tom-tom? The Indian can show up and act like an aggrieved minority put out by this unfair, damaging nation? The black Israelites can show up and just start shouting the most vile obscenities and threats, and nobody says they don\u2019t have the right to say those things? But these teenagers…? Look at this! These are teenagers!<\/p>\n
The people you would expect to have to cut a break in a situation like this because of their relative inexperience and immaturity because of their relatively young age, and they end up being the role models. And we have to listen and see continued attempts to impugn them, to threaten them, to destroy them. This is the Duke lacrosse case all over again with some different circumstances. The same bigoted presumptions. The same bigoted prejudice. The same mean-spirited, ignorant, full fledged…<\/p>\n
The faculty as Duke was ignorant about what happened. This Father Beck is ignorant about what happened, the media is ignorant about what happened, and they don\u2019t care that they don\u2019t know what they\u2019re talking about. If I were a Catholic priest and this circumstance had gone down and I had finally learned what happened, I\u2019d be proud of these young kids as members of my parish, for crying out loud.<\/p>\n
BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n
RUSH: You know how this Catholic priest here — and he is a Catholic priest, Father Edward Beck on CNN — said the students had no right to be wearing those MAGA hats at the pro-life rally? And, by the way, said the Catholic priest, pro-life, and what\u2019s he…? Pro-life issue abortion. That\u2019s not the only thing that\u2019s Catholic. There\u2019s immigration and migrants and nest and blah, blah, yeah, every bit of government charity religions have fallen for as pro-religious!<\/p>\n
Anyway, the guy says they\u2019ve got no right to be wearing that hat. Now, I thought that, for example, women wearing provocative clothing such as short skirts, short authorities, exposing lots of cleavage, I thought that had no bearing whatsoever any time anything happened to them. You can\u2019t say that. Just because a woman\u2019s baring wearing any clothes does not give the right to anybody. And that\u2019s true! So imagine if, after the news would hit us that a woman was criminally abused and the perps, “I couldn\u2019t help it, Judge! Look at the way she was dressed.”<\/p>\n
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Imagine if one of us said, “Yeah, well, she had no right to be dressed like that.” Can you imagine the mountain of crap they would throw on you? “You can\u2019t say that! You can\u2019t say women invite it. You can\u2019t say that she\u2019s to blame. You can\u2019t!” But when it comes to these teenagers wearing Trump hats? “You can\u2019t! They can\u2019t wear those caps. They don\u2019t have that right.” “In Minnesota…” I had a chance to digest this story.<\/p>\n
In Minnesota, there\u2019s a basketball team that had a Trump banner. They won\u2019t let \u2019em play the game \u2019til they take the Trump banner out of the gymnasium. I guaran-damn-tee you if they had an Obama or Hillary banner in there that wouldn\u2019t stop \u2019em from playing the game. All right. Yeah, this U.K. comedy piece thing is… I don\u2019t want to build it up too much \u2019cause I don\u2019t want your expectations to be not met. I\u2019ve gotta get to this. But people have been waiting patiently in the phones, too, so in Monmouth, Oregon, this is Jim. Jim, thank you for waiting. Great to have you with us the EIB Network. Hi.<\/p>\n
CALLER: Hi, Rush. Thanks for taking the call. And I was really paying attention to the priest\u2019s remarks about the demonstration and the Catholic kids. It\u2019s germane to what I wanted to tell you. I just wanted to point out — you\u2019ve done it for years, and you helped people like me be a little bit more attentive to doing research on my own. I\u2019m just gonna read a quote. It\u2019s who said it is fascinating to me. “The biggest business in America is not steel, automobiles, or television. It\u2019s the manufacture, refinement, and distribution of anxiety. That was written by Eric Sevareid.<\/p>\n
RUSH: Eric Sevareid — the guy with lower teeth that were not the best of shape — was a commentator on CBS way back when.<\/p>\n
CALLER: And I thought for a journalist at least acknowledge that. I\u2019ve been paying attention to what this is doing to people, and this constant barrage about reframing and tweaking and narrative creation, it\u2019s not just harmless political ploys. It\u2019s actually hurting people. If you watch the eke news, it\u2019s interesting to me who run commercials during the evening news, it\u2019s anti-depressants, antacids, laxatives, and heart meds. I think that\u2019s interesting. And I think that it\u2019s really making a dangerous sort of inroads into people —<\/p>\n
RUSH: You left out hemorrhoids, too, the Prep H advertisers, a lot of them.<\/p>\n
CALLER: Yeah.<\/p>\n
RUSH: Look, I think it\u2019s a good. It\u2019s actually an excellent point. All this anxiety… That\u2019s why I say, I\u2019ve told people, if you really want a break, just turn off the news, including whatever your favorite network is. Just turn it off. Don\u2019t watch cable news. Continue to listen here. We don\u2019t cause anxieties. I mean, not the way they do. We\u2019re not purposely spreading it. But the anxiety and the chaos and the “Gosh. Everything\u2019s getting worse. Gosh. Nothing\u2019s getting better. Gosh. Nothing\u2019s getting resolved. Gosh. Nothing\u2019s getting fix.”<\/p>\n
It does affect people. There\u2019s no question. I\u2019m convinced it affects a lot of people. I think it\u2019s very destructive for people on the left because in their minds they think they\u2019re winning every day. They think they already have won. They think they are the dominant in everything. And yet the news is filled with… Like for two years, if you\u2019re a leftist, do you think they\u2019re going nuts that Mueller hasn\u2019t reported yet?<\/p>\n
Do you think they\u2019re going nuts that despite all the promises in the New York Times and in CNN, that there is hard, cold evidence that Trump stole the election? Where is the evidence? They\u2019re going nuts waiting for it! And they\u2019re not getting it because it doesn\u2019t exist. But I guarantee you they\u2019re climbing the walls. They\u2019re fit to be tied because they have been convinced by the people lying to them every day — their own media — that it exists.<\/p>\n
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Just like they were lied to by Hillary\u2019s poll numbers. Just like they were lied to that Hillary was gonna win in a landslide. They all had it… Their lives are in total chaos because they are lied to each and every day about all this stuff that they have been assured is gonna happen. Trump\u2019s gonna be arrested, Trump\u2019s gonna go to jail, Trump\u2019s gonna get impeached, and yet Trump keeps winning things, and Trump keeps showing up every day.<\/p>\n
He keeps laughing and smiling and he\u2019s throwing it right back in their fay. They have to be… We don\u2019t stop to think of this. They have to be, many of these uber-leftists — and I\u2019m talking about rank-and-file leftist pop, indivisible people we don\u2019t see, the trolls on Twitter and all these people, they have to be going nuts. They run Twitter. They\u2019re out there trying to destroy every opponent and enemy they\u2019ve got — and yet we\u2019re still here and we\u2019re still ticking and we\u2019re still throwing it right back down their throats.<\/p>\n
It\u2019s gotta be driving \u2019em nuts. Where is their utopia? They got Obamacare. They got national health care. Where is it? And even when they had it, it cost more than ever. Every Democrat policy that\u2019s designed to do two things. Democrat policies are designed to do two things: create utopia for Democrats and pain and suffering for Republicans. That\u2019s why Democrats support half the things that their leaders come up with, because they want conservatives and Republicans punished. And when they think it\u2019s happened, they\u2019re still not satisfied.<\/p>\n
They\u2019re still not happy \u2019cause Republicans still keep (well, some) coming back. For us, the anxiety and the chaos are just as real, too, because the news is presented in such a way that everything we hold dear is being overturned, ripped apart, and shredded. And so the Drive-By Media is doing a bang-up job of laundering the language to the point that there is nothing but angst, anxious, and chaos. I think it\u2019s a great point. I didn\u2019t know that Eric Sevareid said that.<\/p>\n
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Eric Sevareid was a commentator on the CBS Evening News back in the sixties and Walter Cronkite was the most trusted man in America. And even into the 1970s. Eric Sevareid. I never forget Eric Sevareid his comments. He\u2019d be sitting there, his hunched shoulders and his gray suit and his collar, it was about an inch and a half too big, and about a minute and a half sit there and speak in a monotone, and Cronkite would act like the oracle from Mt. Sinai has just spoken every night.<\/p>\n
But that was back in the days when you had a commentary job on the networks, you were the only one that had the job. There weren\u2019t 15,000 cable channels and websites where everybody was an analyst, strategist, or common. There was one. These people wielded extreme power. They were all liberals and leftist Democrats back in the day, starting with the post-World War II era. At any rate, stop and think about for a second the leftists who have this irrational hatred for Donald Trump.<\/p>\n
And they have been assured every day multiple times a day that they\u2019ve got the goods at the FBI and the DOJ and Clapper and Brennan and Comey and all these guys. “Oh, yeah, just a matter of time!” They thought they were gonna get rid of Trump before he was inaugurated, folks! They thought that Trump was gonna be gone during the transition! Well, they thought Trump was gonna lose in a landslide. And the day is gonna come when they are going to realize that there isn\u2019t any evidence Trump colluded, and I wonder what they\u2019re gonna do then.<\/p>\n
Why is the Mueller investigation still open anyway? Anybody wondered about that? I mean, what the hell is going on? Why is it still going? Why hasn\u2019t it been wrapped up, why hasn\u2019t the reporter been writ, why haven\u2019t we been told whatever he found? You know, after this BuzzFeed story where they totally make up something and it\u2019s so bad the special counsel has to debunk it? Isn\u2019t it time the special counsel just laid it out, say, “Here\u2019s what we\u2019ve got”?<\/p>\n
Why don\u2019t they? I have a theory. I think the reason they don\u2019t close down this investigation is because of the leak factory that it gives them. As long as the Mueller factor is still, quote-unquote, “investigating,” then the media can continue to leak a bunch of drivel and BS about what Mueller is looking into or may have found.<\/p>\n
But the minute the Mueller investigation ends, do you realize 50% of the content of the New York Times dries up? Half of the content of the New York Times every day is related to Russian collusion, Trump collusion, or some offshoot of it. It takes up an incredible amount, an incredible number of pages in every day\u2019s issue of the New York Times. And when Mueller finally shuts down, what are they gonna replace that content with? Oh, don\u2019t worry, they\u2019ll come up with something.<\/p>\n
But, I mean, the Mueller investigation is furnishing much of the news that gets recycled over and over again by CNN, PMSNBC, New York Times, Washington Post, you name it. And I think they\u2019re keeping it open for that purpose among many others. They\u2019re also keeping it open hoping and praying that Trump said something, something somebody go and say he committed a crime right now \u2019cause they don\u2019t have one up to the present.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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