{"id":314515,"date":"2019-07-03T16:15:00","date_gmt":"2019-07-03T20:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/?p=314515"},"modified":"2019-07-08T14:21:48","modified_gmt":"2019-07-08T18:21:48","slug":"independence-day-is-political-join-us-in-celebrating-it-leftists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2019\/07\/03\/independence-day-is-political-join-us-in-celebrating-it-leftists\/","title":{"rendered":"Independence Day Is Political! Join Us in Celebrating It, Leftists!"},"content":{"rendered":"

RUSH: I want to ask everybody a quick question: Do you think the Independence Day holiday, the Fourth of July…? Do you think it\u2019s a political holiday? You think it has political attachments? How can it not? How can it not? The Democrats are out there (impression), “Trump is turning July 4th celebration into a political event. It\u2019s unfair. He shouldn\u2019t do it. It\u2019s never been done before! Previous presidents have never made speeches…” What do you mean July 4th is not political? It is precisely a political event! I don\u2019t care how you define it. July 4th, what is it? It\u2019s Independence Day.<\/p>\n

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It is the day the United States declared its independence and began the process of becoming a country. If that\u2019s not political, I don\u2019t know what it is — and let me tell you what this is all about, folks. This goes back I forget how many years, but it\u2019s recent, like in the last 10 years. This is a Harvard survey. They found that images, patriotic images — of, say, the American flag, fireworks, this kind of thing — the visual images, the graphics that are associated with patriotism remind people of Republicans. They promote Republican Party values — or, in this case, conservative values.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s what this is about.<\/p>\n

The Democrats know full well when people are exposed to American symbols and patriotic displays and songs, their political leaning moves to the right! Shortly after that study was made known, that\u2019s when we became engulfed in this Kaepernick crap, the tearing down of our history<\/a>. That\u2019s called “art” and “free expression.” We had to topple statues, had to get rid of the flag. We now know this thing going on with Nike. This stuff is not accidental. It\u2019s not just the evolutionary status of the American protest establishment and the dissent movement.<\/p>\n

It is purposely, strategically targeted.<\/p>\n

So they get to play politics on the Fourth of July and we don\u2019t? We want to handcuff ourselves? “Okay, okay, right. You\u2019re right. We shouldn\u2019t politicize the Fourth of July.” We have to politicize it because these people are politicizing everything. Now, folks, I\u2019m gonna tell you: I\u2019m a little conflicted today, and I want to try to explain why. I\u2019ve not rehearsed this. I\u2019ve not stood in front of the mirror. I\u2019ve not pretended that I was on the radio and begun talking to myself. I just have a vague outline here of what my intentions are, and I\u2019m gonna bounce it off of a really great column that I found at The Federalist by David Harsany<\/a>i.<\/p>\n

It begins this way. I can remember in the past on this program on such days as this — the day before the Fourth of July, the day before Labor Day\/Memorial Day, the day before Thanksgiving, the day before the Christmas break — without exception, those days were fun. This program was devoted to jocularity. It was lighthearted and sometimes heavy-hitting satirical, but it was fun. It wasn\u2019t hand-wringing. It wasn\u2019t obsessed, consumed with worry and concern over things. There was a sense of normalcy.<\/p>\n

And I\u2019m not talking about the ability to have fun without offending anybody. I\u2019m talking about an attitude. I\u2019m talking about an attitude of jocularity and just general fun. It\u2019s the Fourth of July coming up tomorrow, they say. It\u2019s a great day. Everybody was in a great mood, got some days off work, gonna have some social activities around it for most people. And those kinds of things, those kinds of days, to me, are vanishing, at least on this program. Now what do we have?<\/p>\n

Tomorrow\u2019s the Fourth of July, and we\u2019re worried about bombs and protests in Washington! And now we got the media, the Democrats out claiming that the president\u2019s politicizing it when the whole existence of this country is a political miracle! To say that the Independence Day holiday is not political? I think what the Democrats mean by this is, “It\u2019s not the property of one party.” Well, then join us! You are the guys abandoning us. You\u2019re the guys on the left! You don\u2019t want anything to do with the flag, you don\u2019t want anything to do with patriotism. You want to sit there and tear it all down.<\/p>\n

And I guess that\u2019s it. It used to be that we weren\u2019t confronted every day with the sad reality that there is a growing segment of our population that hates us and hates the country and wants to rip it to shreds. For my part, I just can\u2019t sit here and laugh it off. You gotta deal with it. You try to deal with it with the usual ingredients of fun and jocularity but at the same time, you\u2019ve gotta take it seriously because it is. Now, let me read to you the passage that really got me thinking about this in David Harsanyi\u2019s column.<\/p>\n

It is entitled, “Why Nike\u2019s Capitulation to Kaepernick Matters.” Whatever you hear, do not hear criticism of Harsanyi here. That\u2019s not what this is about. But he\u2019s got a very, very important miniature paragraph in this piece that I am now going to read to you with my own dulcet tones. “Whatever the underlying causes for Kaepernick\u2019s popularity — some of them certainly legitimate…” (sigh) What are the causes of his popularity that are legitimate? Well, maybe he was an NFL quarterback for a while, of the San Francisco 49ers, and that he got them close to the Super Bowl. Well, he got them in the Super Bowl.<\/p>\n

Okay, just draw the line there. Okay, maybe legitimate reasons for popularity. Let me start at the beginning. I don\u2019t want to get sidetracked here. “Whatever the underlying causes for Kaepernick\u2019s popularity … these protests are acts of contempt toward an irredeemable nation created in sin.” This is exactly right, and I\u2019m not reading it for this point, but this observation is exactly what I\u2019m telling everybody here. They are targeting this country.<\/p>\n

Like Kaepernick lied to everybody saying he was kneeling and protesting simply because he didn\u2019t like the police shooting people that looked like him, and it was never about that. It was always protesting the flag. It was always protesting the country and the existence of the country and the founding of the country, and Harsanyi has figured that out. “[T]hese protests are acts of contempt toward [what they think is] an irredeemable,” meaning, we can\u2019t fix it so we gotta tear it down, “nation created in sin. ” This view of our founding is an increasingly popular position on the left,” and here\u2019s the sentence that got me:<\/p>\n

“And if it ever takes hold in mainstream American life, we\u2019re in real trouble.”<\/p>\n

“[I]f it ever takes hold in mainstream American life”? It has! This sentence would have been appropriately written 25 years ago. Twenty-five years ago, I remember warning everybody. Within the structures of this program back then, we were focused on fun and jocularity. We had serious moments. I mean, we combined everything here. Twenty-five years ago, 30 years, 20 years ago, this program was made to order to warn everybody that right now and today is where we were headed. “Come on, Rush! It\u2019s not that bad. It\u2019s a small band of malcontents out of there. They\u2019ve always been around.”<\/p>\n

I said, “No, it\u2019s different. These people…” It was slow, but it was daily, forward-march progress for these people. We\u2019re long past the point now where “if it ever takes hold in mainstream American life, we\u2019re in real trouble.” We\u2019ve been in real trouble for 15 or 20 years on this. And depending on how far back you go, you might even be able to make the case for that. How much more mainstream do you get than Nike? An American corporation acknowledging that a tennis shoe with a Betsy Ross flag on it is provocative is maybe needs to come down because one of their paid spokesmen doesn\u2019t like it, because he hates country.<\/p>\n

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So Nike says, “Okay we\u2019ll align with this guy because Kaepernick\u2019s made us a lot of money.” If a guy has made a company a lot of money with anti-Americanism crusades, has that not reached the mainstream? What is the Drive-By Media today if it is not a daily attempt at undermining the values and the concepts that were there at the founding of this country? What do you mean, if it ever hits the mainstream? That\u2019s the problem, the point. It has hit the mainstream! Unless you have a different definition of mainstream than I do.<\/p>\n

Turn on any television show. The odds are it\u2019s going to have something in it that literally destroys or attempts to destroy or attacks you, your values, your way of life, the founding of this country. Movies, ditto. That\u2019s the whole point. This stuff has now gone beyond the fringe. It has escaped the fringe and is in the mainstream. The Democrat Party is seeking the presidency on the basis that illegal aliens deserve more rights and more welfare than citizens of this country, and they have not been laughed out of the arena like they would have been 25 years ago or 20 or even 15.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s time for people to realize this — and, folks, I\u2019m telling you, I\u2019m conflicted, because this is not the kind of attitude I ever brought to this program in years past on the day before Independence Day. Now we\u2019ve got so many lies in the media. How many of you have seen the news that the president is gonna give up on the citizenship question? And how many of you said, “Aw, damn! Why?” Well, he hasn\u2019t. It\u2019s fake news! We have a tweet from the president: “The News Reports about the Department of Commerce dropping its quest to put the Citizenship Question on the Census is incorrect or, to state it differently, FAKE!<\/p>\n

“We are absolutely moving forward, as we must, because of the importance of the answer to this question.” Meaning, we\u2019re still pushing to get this on the census in 2020. But yet it\u2019s all over the news. I don\u2019t care where you go, the stories are leading lists of headlines. “Trump administration abruptly drops quest to put citizenship question on 2020 census.” He hasn\u2019t. It\u2019s outright fake news. Now, the next thing the Drive-By Media is doing in their quest here to say, “Trump is just polluting the Fourth of July…”<\/p>\n

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How can anybody who loves America, wants to make it great again and celebrate the founding of this country, be considered polluting it? But that\u2019s what the Drive-By Media\u2019s doing. The Drive-By Media (we\u2019ve got a montage coming up) says, “He\u2019s politicizing! He wants to bring tanks, he wants to bring missiles, he wants to bring the instruments of war to a July 4th parade. This has never been done. This has only been done in Third World, tinhorn communist countries…” No, no. It\u2019s been done a lot in America.<\/p>\n

It was done at the JFK inaugural. It was done at the Eisenhower inaugural parade in 1953. We used to have a celebrated holiday in this country called Army Day. In 1939, tanks rolled in front of the U.S. Capitol on Army Day. We don\u2019t have Army Day anymore because back in 1939, we didn\u2019t have an Air Force. It was called the Army Air Force back then. We had Army Day, Navy Day, but no Air Force. That was to come later. But the point is, none of this is unprecedented. We have two gigantic fireworks companies that have donated fireworks displays.<\/p>\n

They\u2019re the best ever, Trump says. (Of course, what else would he say?) Trump makes the point that this isn\u2019t costing us anything. Look, we own the airplanes we\u2019re gonna use. We own the tanks. The people driving the airplanes and the tanks work for us. This isn\u2019t costing us anything in terms of dollars. These people are on duty as they are performing these things. So the people who tell us that Trump is politicizing the Fourth of July, the people that politicize everything with their sickness, their quirkiness, their liberalism, their progressivism…<\/p>\n

They politicize everything, and they lie about everything. Like Ocasio-Cortez going down to the border and literally lying about what she saw there<\/a>. She didn\u2019t see what she said she saw. What she claimed happened didn\u2019t happen there! But it made the Drive-By Media as though it was gospel. But the idea that if this wacko, progressive radicalism ever takes hold in mainstream American life, we are in real trouble? Again, this is not a criticism of Mr. Harsanyi. I don\u2019t want anybody getting hold of him and saying that\u2019s what this is.<\/p>\n

He\u2019s not alone thinking this. I think to a lot of people, they\u2019ve never taken this stuff seriously! Not nearly as seriously as I have. You know, I know the left like every square inch of my naked body. I know them; I can predict them. I know what they\u2019re gonna say, what they\u2019re gonna do, what their reaction to thing is gonna be. I\u2019ve been tracking this. You people that listen to this program know more about the American left than they know about themselves. They have been “sneaking up,” quote-unquote, for the last 50 years.<\/p>\n

They\u2019re not sneaking anymore. They are in our face every day. This is my big argument with the Never Trumpers. The Never Trumpers mocked us, laughed at us when we elected Trump because there is a crisis in America and the very fabric of this country and the kind of kind of country it\u2019s gonna be is at stake. And they laughed, and they said, “That\u2019s a bit extreme! Tut-tut-tut,” and patted us on the top of the head like the nincompoops that they thought we were. “You\u2019re just crisismongering. There\u2019s nothing to be afraid of. There is no crisis. These are fringe people that are not gonna…”<\/p>\n

Yeah, you\u2019re joining them now!<\/p>\n

You\u2019re doing everything you can to join them in undermining the president for whatever foolhardy reason! So the best and the brightest of the so-called conservative literary wing in Washington, D.C., and the conservative media? Nooo, they didn\u2019t see this. They mocked people who did, while it was happening right in front of everybody\u2019s nose. How many times…? I can\u2019t count the number of times I have come to this program and told you of an encounter I had over a weekend with a so-called moderate Republican who said, “Well, look, I\u2019m a social liberal and a fiscal conservative,” whatever the term.<\/p>\n

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I\u2019m having a mental block. “I\u2019m liberal on social issues, I\u2019m conservative economic issues.” And all of this, you know, that stated philosophy, “I will refuse to join a Republican Party that will not allow abortion.” I said, “You people don\u2019t know what you\u2019re doing. You are allowing the wanton killing of people! Call \u2019em babies, call \u2019em fetuses or whatever. But we can\u2019t have this in our society. The wanton, consequence-free killing of people. Now we\u2019re doing it at the elderly end,” I said. “That\u2019s a woman\u2019s right to choose,” and so it was sneaking up on us.<\/p>\n

We had not enough people willing to stand up and oppose it. Now here we are. Now people are saying (impression), “My God, this stuff is really getting bad, Rush. If we don\u2019t stop this, I mean, it\u2019s gonna take the country down.” What do you mean, if we don\u2019t stop it? We\u2019ve had 25 years to stop it. We can\u2019t even get the Republican Party, up until Trump, organized around the premise. And to this day, I don\u2019t think a lot of Washington takes what\u2019s happening with this very seriously. In their minds, still a bunch of fringe kooks.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: So the Drive-By Media… We\u2019ll get to the phones here in just a second. Something happened during the break that I gotta comment on. This always happens. I tell you I\u2019m gonna do something, I go to a break, and something pops. During the break, I just ran across a Washington Post story about how much Trump\u2019s Fourth of July extravaganza is gonna cost. I don\u2019t give a flip! I don\u2019t give a flip how much the Fourth of July extravaganza costs. I care about how much money it\u2019s costing us to keep our border open!<\/p>\n

I care about how much money it\u2019s costing us — and the lives we are ruining — with an ever-growing, expanding welfare system. I care about the cost to humanity of allowing everybody that wants to, to become a victim — thereby giving up on themselves and their own self-reliance and then joining the club that thinks America is the problem in their lives. Those are the kind of costs I care about. Those kinds of costs cause massive increase in taxes, massive take-aways on disposable income.<\/p>\n

You know, I care about dropping a $15 billion worth of cash on a pallet at the Tehran International airport for the mullah sponsors of worldwide terrorism like Obama did. That\u2019s the kind of wasteful money I care about! How about the money Robert Mueller spent on a bogus attempted coup? We never hear about this. All of a sudden, for Trump\u2019s Fourth of July extravaganza, we\u2019re getting an itemized cost bill for this. How much can it possibly be cost to celebrate our country? In fact, Trump has tweeted about this. “The cost of our great Salute to America tomorrow will be very little compared to what it is worth.”<\/p>\n

“What it\u2019s worth.”<\/p>\n

He said, “We own the planes,” meaning the jets that are gonna be flying over, flying by, “we have the pilots,” they\u2019re Air Force pilots, we pay them, they\u2019re working that day, “the airport is right next door (Andrews), all we need is the fuel.” And we get a discount on the fuel because we\u2019re such a bulk buyer. “We own the tanks and all.” We own everything that\u2019s gonna be in the parade, and the fireworks are being donated by two of the greatest fireworks manufacturers and display companies in the country.<\/p>\n

What cost are we talking about here? And, of course, the key identifier: “what it\u2019s worth.” That\u2019s how he looks at things, the cost-value assessment, the cost-benefit analysis. He\u2019s hell-bent… This president loves this country. This president is fighting every day against this slow creep of leftist radicalism, and he\u2019s practically the only one who is, within the Republican Party — and if this is how he chooses to do it, then he\u2019s got my full support.<\/p>\n

The best way to stand up against this garbage is to celebrate the greatness of this country and to not let anybody take it away from anybody, not let anybody diminish you or anybody else from engaging in a celebration of this country, however that happens where you are. They\u2019ll come… You know what they\u2019re denigrating now? They\u2019re denigrating the Nathan\u2019s Hot Dog Eating Contest. ESPN is denigrating it. Do you know how? (impression) “It\u2019s not fair! It\u2019s not fair with so many starving immigrants to show people jamming hot dogs in their faces like there\u2019s no tomorrow.”<\/p>\n

I\u2019m not kidding you! Now the Nathan\u2019s hot dog eating contest! Frankly, I couldn\u2019t care to watch it, but that\u2019s not the point! It\u2019s a tradition; people like it and get into it. But here comes a bunch of leftists who want to control everything. “You can\u2019t do that! What…? (sobbing) The starving children. What… what…?” The starving children? What about all these renegade television shows and the impact on children those shows are having? We\u2019re worried about a hot dog eating contest humiliating the poor because they don\u2019t have enough to eat, the illegal immigrants?<\/p>\n

This is the kind of crap we\u2019re dealing with. It\u2019s become mainstream. It\u2019s become something… You know, the Nathan\u2019s hot dog contest will say, “Okay, okay, we\u2019ll cancel it”? I don\u2019t know that. I\u2019m making it up. But I\u2019m saying this is the kind of thing that we\u2019re dealing with now. You know, you got Donald Trump. He\u2019s one of the most open within one of the most transparent, one of the most communicative presidents this country\u2019s ever going to have. He does not see himself as above everybody.<\/p>\n

He\u2019s gonna do a July 4th celebration to not promote him, not to politicize him. See, to the left when you promote America you are “politicizing” an event. To them, opposition to America is as legitimate as support for America, maybe even more so. So if you\u2019re gonna get a guy out there who\u2019s gonna be supporting America — (chuckles) on a national holiday celebrating our Declaration of Independence — the left wants an opportunity to come and disagree and tear it down. Therefore, Trump becomes a political provocateur. “If Trump wouldn\u2019t do this, well, then the left wouldn\u2019t have to do what they\u2019re gonna do.”<\/p>\n

\"\"BS! The left would show up and try to tarnish this day wherever they could anyway. By definition, it\u2019s who they are. Trump doesn\u2019t see himself above anybody. He answers questions from everybody who asks him questions. You ask; he answers. He explains, promotes, argues, cheerleads. Doesn\u2019t hide anything. He\u2019s proud of what he\u2019s doing, proud of his country, shares that thinking, communicates all of this directly. He is quite literally the best weapon those of us who love this country have right now.<\/p>\n

Because no matter all the negativity surrounding him, he never stops speaking of his love and support for this country and its greatness and its potential — and if the left wants to run against that, they can have at it. They have no idea what\u2019s gonna happen to \u2019em. But even if they lose elections, they\u2019re still perverting the basic decency of this country.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: So the left, the Democrat Party thinks that the Independence Day holiday is a political holiday where they deserve equal time. All right. We are out celebrating the founding of America, and they want equal time. To what? To oppose it! And they accuse us of politicizing it. They accuse Trump of politicizing Independence Day, when they\u2019re essentially demanding equal time. By the way, as to the cost of fuel, we now are the world\u2019s largest producer of fossil fuels. So do you think we can get a deal on our own supply for whatever it\u2019s gonna cost to do the flybys?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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