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RUSH: Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.<\/p>\nRUSH: Dana in Newton, Massachusetts. Welcome. Great to have you, sir. Hi.<\/p>\n
CALLER: Hi, Rush. Okay. Well, you and some others have been saying we should watch for Pete Buttigieg, Mayor Pete —<\/p>\n
RUSH: Yeah, keep an eye on Mayor Pete.<\/p>\n
CALLER: Yeah. So I did. I watched, and more importantly, I listened, for example, to the much-touted town hall he recently did on CNN.<\/p>\n
RUSH: Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.<\/p>\n
CALLER: And some other appearances like on The View and Morning Joe. He looks good, calm and relaxed, ready to go to work, pull up his sleeves. He has his trademark white shirt, solid tie, no jacket. But after a while I noticed he really didn\u2019t say anything other than repeating his standard schtick that he\u2019s young and a mayor who has to balance a budget and that\u2019s why he\u2019s good.<\/p>\n
And beyond that he uses mostly vague and meandering language such as, you know, we gotta hear both sides, we need more discussion on, we need to repair our democracy, we need to break with the past and prepare for the future, on foreign affairs we should follow —<\/p>\n
RUSH: Right. Right. So you\u2019re wondering what I was talking about, then?<\/p>\n
CALLER: No, no, no! I\u2019m just saying he\u2019s actually good at what he does because he doesn\u2019t really say anything, but he looks good.<\/p>\n
RUSH: Exactly. He\u2019s articulate saying nothing!<\/p>\n
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CALLER: Exactly.<\/p>\n
RUSH: And the left equals articulation with intelligence. That\u2019s why Trump\u2019s an idiot. That\u2019s why George W. Bush was an idiot \u2019cause he couldn\u2019t articulate.<\/p>\n
CALLER: And Trump\u2019s the exact opposite. You know, Trump talks in low levels of abstraction, which is much clearer in a few words, but since Buttigieg talks like he\u2019s higher level of abstractions, the contrast and he sounds calm and professional, but no substance —<\/p>\n
RUSH: But because of that he didn\u2019t sound as radical as he is. This is the key, the guy is as radical as any of them. He just has it tamped down.<\/p>\n
CALLER: Exactly.<\/p>\n
RUSH: And the first question he got, that audience, did you watch the Q&A with the audience? That\u2019s a different world. That show could have been on Mars, as far as I\u2019m concerned.<\/p>\n
CALLER: Absolutely.<\/p>\n
RUSH: But the first question he got, “What are you gonna do about getting rid of gay conversion therapy? I think it\u2019s hideous. I think it\u2019s horrible. What are you gonna do about it?\u201d And here came the flowing answer about his husband, what a great political spouse the husband is and how gay conversion therapy is one of the most inhumane — this guy is nodding his head out there in the audience. And, of course, nobody is gonna come out for gay conversion therapy at one of these things. But no, you\u2019re right. That\u2019s why I say, keep an eye on the guy because he\u2019s somebody that can make a lot of people think that he is what he isn\u2019t.<\/p>\n
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RUSH: I have the perfect example here. I have the perfect example of what I was talking about, about Mayor Pete, not only when I saw him on that town hall, but with the caller we just had. How about that? I made that hour sound so compelling, that caller went to the archives to find — that happened three weeks ago, that town hall. That caller went back and wanted to look at it because of what I said about it and called in to talk about. \u201cThis guy doesn\u2019t say anything.\u201d That\u2019s exactly right. But it\u2019s actually worse than that.<\/p>\n
Greetings, and welcome back. Rush Limbaugh and the fastest three hours in media. It\u2019s great to have you. Rush Limbaugh here at 800-282-2882.<\/p>\n
Now, a little bit more about Mayor Pete. Pete Buttigieg, the mayor of South Bend, Indiana. His dad was a full-fledged alleged Marxist. He was a Marxist professor who spoke fondly of the communist manifesto and dedicated a large part of his academy career to the work of Antonio Gramsci, the Italian Communist Party founder and also an associate of V. I. Lenin. Joseph Mayor Pete, Joseph Buttigieg died just this past January, age 71.<\/p>\n
He emigrated to the United States in 1970s from Malta. And Malta happened to be where one of the professors who ran the scam on George Papadopoulos was from. Anyway, in 1980, Joseph Buttigieg joined the University of Notre Dame faculty where he taught modern European literature and literary theory, which was a cover for teaching Marxism. He supported an updated version of Marxism that gets rid of some of Marx and Engels\u2019 most doctrinaire theories, but he was proudly and unapologetically Marxist.<\/p>\n
You see, to Mayor Pete, and by the way, I think this applies to pretty much every leftist out there. To Mayor Pete, \u201cany adversity you face in life makes you less \u2018free.\u2019\u201d Anything in your way, any obstacle in your way makes you less free. And by obstacle, I mean, adversity is like being down 30 points in the fourth quarter in a football game or having a tough professor in college. We\u2019re not talking about people denying your rights. We\u2019re just talking about competitive adversity.<\/p>\n And, see, the root here is “competitive.” In Mayor Pete\u2019s world, there can\u2019t be freedom if there\u2019s competition. Because in competition, there are winners and losers, and that\u2019s not fair. We can\u2019t have losers. We can\u2019t have the stigma of “loser” that can destroy a person. It can really give them self-esteem problems.<\/p>\n So anything that constitutes a competitive obstacle, a competitive adversity in his world is essentially a denial of freedom. So to Mayor Pete, being free means the government taking care of you and getting rid of these adversities, these obstacles. And Treacher writes that when he heard Mayor Pete define freedom, he said it sounded exactly like a damn communist.<\/p>\n In Mayor Pete\u2019s world, everything that you would read about him is homophobic because he\u2019s gay. And you\u2019re not allowed to criticize him. Just like Obama, you couldn\u2019t criticize Obama because he was black or half black, and therefore any criticism was logged in as racism. And so Obama had a free pass, and that\u2019s what they want with women, and that\u2019s what they want with the first Hispanic.<\/p>\n And you\u2019re not gonna be able to criticize the first woman \u2019cause it\u2019s gonna be sexist or misogynist. And you\u2019re not gonna be able to criticize the first Hispanic because that\u2019s gonna be whatever it is. And so if we ever do elect a gay president, you\u2019re not gonna be allowed to criticize him because that\u2019s gonna be homophobia. You\u2019re not allowed to criticize him. And if you do, then you are guilty of incurring Mayor Pete\u2019s freedom.<\/p>\n His \u201cdefinition of \u2018freedom\u2019 is the opposite of the one our founding fathers used. He grew up learning about a very different group of dead white guys.\u201d He grew up learning Gramsci and Marx and Engels. He didn\u2019t grow up learning about Madison, Jefferson, and Washington.<\/p>\n Some people call Mayor Pete the white Obama. But that\u2019s not actually true. I\u2019m not gonna give you the actual definition here. Just make sure that you understand that, to the left, any criticism, you\u2019re stomping on their freedom. Any adversity they face is an affront to their freedom. That\u2019s why they don\u2019t want to hear any dissenting points of view. That\u2019s why they don\u2019t care to debate.<\/p>\n They\u2019re not interested in being the arena of ideas and even prevailing, because all of that, it explains the snowflake mentality. You know, a conservative spokesman being brought in to make a speech on a college campus is an assault on their freedom, and they\u2019re generally scared they\u2019re gonna lose their freedom if conservatism is anywhere near. Something they disagree with is an obstacle. It\u2019s adversarial, and it\u2019s interrupting their freedom. And this is how they think.<\/p>\n And it is one of the best ways that I could think of to help you understand what seems to us completely irrational, that having people disagree with you somehow stomps on your freedom or that having an obstacle in life or facing adversity is tantamount to losing your freedom, but freedom and equality and government, see, is there to get rid of all adversity. Government is there to make sure there isn\u2019t any pain, there isn\u2019t any racism, bigotry, homophobia, misogyny, or any of this.<\/p>\n And of course that\u2019s impossible. Government can\u2019t stamp that stuff out because people are people and they\u2019re gonna be who they are no matter what. But they\u2019re not gonna stop trying to grant government that kind of power to shut up people that they don\u2019t want to deal with because it is a denial of freedom for them.<\/p>\n And when Mayor Pete was going through this, that South by Southwest, that got one of the biggest rounds of applause, his definition of freedom is nobody disagreeing with you, nobody having the power to put an obstacle in your way, no adversity in life. Man, that is not real, folks.<\/p>\n You know, most obstacles in life I believe are self-imposed. Not all, but I think most of the hardship in life, a lot of it is self-imposed. Most of the obstacles, most of the challenges that we face are self-imposed. You have to overcome yourself. You have to overcome your own limitations.<\/p>\n But to them, all of that, all of that is bad, that\u2019s mean, it\u2019s unfair, and it ought not happen, and there ought not be any adversarial anything. No adversity, period, and there shouldn\u2019t ever be any obstacle. That\u2019s not a free society when there are obstacles in the way of what you want.<\/p>\n Stop and think how irrational that is. But I\u2019m telling you that audience at South by Southwest was swallowing that stuff up faster than Mayor Pete could produce it!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" RUSH: I have the perfect example of what I was talking about, about Mayor Pete.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":49,"featured_media":304882,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[12,1],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/APP-PJ-Media-Tearaway-040219.jpg\")
<\/a>Well, now, this brings us to Mayor Pete. There\u2019s a story here at PJ Media by the writer Jim Treacher<\/a> who writes, ” I was baffled last week by Pete Buttigieg\u2019s definition of \u2018freedom,\u2019 which was eloquently stated,\u201d It\u2019s what I told you. The guy is articulate. \u201cHis of \u2018freedom,\u2019 which was eloquently stated, rousingly received, and 100% incorrect.\u201d<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/APP-040119-Peter-Buttigieg.jpg\")
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