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RUSH: The other day I happened to mention on this program the correct way to pronounce the name Brzezinski and that I had heard that Mika Brzezinski, the daughter of Zbigniew Brzezinski… By the way, it\u2019s another one. His name ends in I-E-W. In Poland, that\u2019s ‘yeff.\u2019 Zbigniew Brzezinski. Here in America, his name is Zbig-new Br-zezinski, but a Polish friend of mine in Kansas City said, ‘You want to be accurate on this. The Polish pronounce it Brzezinski.\u2019 Then I heard that Mika Brzezinski was mad one day telling Scarborough that I purposely mispronounced her name, when I\u2019m trying to get it pronounced correctly! So yesterday Mika Brzezinski, the daughter of Zbigniew Brzezinski, talked about my pronunciation of their name on Scarborough\u2019s show, and you\u2019ll hear during… Actually, no. It was on their radio show on WABC, and she says something about my mispronouncing her first name, which it\u2019s Mika! I\u2019ve never called her anything but Mika. Anyway, here\u2019s how it went.<\/p>\n

MIKA: First of all, what I had been saying about Rush Limbaugh is how he used to pronounce my first name, and he used to purposefully say it wrong. But, he actually has it right with our last name in terms of the Polish pronunciation, does he not? <\/p>\n

ZBIGNIEW: (phone) Absolutely. We have to give him credit. He\u2019s absolutely right. <\/p>\n

MIKA: We will give him credit for that. I\u2019m going to check that off. <\/p>\n

ZBIGNIEW: He makes the point quite explicitly. He says, ‘That\u2019s the way it\u2019s pronounced in Poland.\u2019 <\/p>\n

MIKA: (giggling) <\/p>\n

ZBIGNIEW: And he\u2019s right. But, for most Americans, to have RZ together — <\/p>\n

MIKA: Yes. <\/p>\n

ZBIGNIEW: — is hard to handle — <\/p>\n

MIKA: It\u2019s too much. <\/p>\n

ZBIGNIEW: — and they don\u2019t know that RZ in Polish, is the equivalent of ZH in this country, a kind of Zzzhhhh sound. <\/p>\n

MIKA: Exactly. Exactly. <\/p>\n

ZBIGNIEW: So when he says Bzhhe-zinski, he is absolutely right in terms of how it is pronounced in Poland. <\/p>\n

RUSH: Okay, okay. I still don\u2019t know what I ever said wrong about her first time. You\u2019re probably saying, ‘Rush? Rush, why are you wasting time on this?\u2019 That\u2019s not the question. I made them waste time on me, and I\u2019m showing you how it happened. Then after that, you know, I had played Zbigniew\u2019s sound bites on how he\u2019s anticipating rights based on economic disparity. That\u2019s how bad he thinks it\u2019s going to get and I commented on what he said and he had a reaction to that.<\/p>\n

ZBIGNIEW: He completely misunderstands what I\u2019m saying. <\/p>\n

MIKA: Mmmm.<\/p>\n

ZBIGNIEW: I\u2019m arguing that we should be doing things to avoid class hostility — <\/p>\n

RUSH: Get out of the Democrat Party, then, Zbig.<\/p>\n

ZBIGNIEW: — resentments, class conflict.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Stop the tape! Recue that. Recue it back up. Get out of the Democrat Party, Zbig, because your party is all about promoting class hostility! That\u2019s what the Porkulus bill\u2019s about. That\u2019s what the mortgage bailout\u2019s about. Class hostility. The whole Democrat Party. Where did the whole phrase class envy come from? It\u2019s been a staple of the left. Zbig, join us, in our party. Here it is from the top again.<\/p>\n

ZBIGNIEW: He completely misunderstands what I\u2019m saying. I\u2019m arguing that we should be doing things to avoid class hostility, resentments, class conflict; and there is a rising wave of anger against the people who made a lot of money on short-term speculation, and —<\/p>\n

RUSH: Stop the tape! Stop the tape! Stop the tape! There\u2019s a rising wave of anger against this administration, who\u2019s picking winners and losers and choosing the losers and making the winners pay to subsidize the losers. And that anger is not long from vastly outweighing whatever anger there is at these short-term speculators, whoever they are. Here\u2019s the next.<\/p>\n

ZBIGNIEW: — if there isn\u2019t some private initiative to somehow or other make people feel less deprived, less cheated, less taken advantage of, then there is going to be class conflict. And I think he misses the point when he rails against that. This is not an advocacy of a class collision. It is an advocacy of social solidarity, and that\u2019s what we need in this society.<\/p>\n

RUSH: I\u2019ll trust that that\u2019s what he means, but I think this administration is aiming for something else. Zbig, I mean it, and this is tough for me to say. I never thought that I would think the thoughts I have about any presidential administration that I have about this one. Never in my wildest dreams. My father feared it, Mr. Brzezinski, my father feared it, warned my brother and me that this day would come, if we weren\u2019t vigilant. Some private initiative? ‘Private\u2019 anything is under assault. The private sector, the free market, is under assault. We\u2019ve got an affirmative action plan going on. We\u2019re gonna get even with the achievers. <\/p>\n

We\u2019re gonna get even with the achievers for a long time, and we\u2019re going to give whatever the achievers have produced on their own and give it to the non-producers, and we\u2019re going to create chaos in the process. We\u2019re going to take people that feel less deprived, less cheated, less taken advantage of; we\u2019re going to make \u2019em feel deprived, cheated, and taken advantage of. See, Mr. Brzezinski, all this comes from a faulty premise, and the faulty premise is that the losers — the non-producers, the welfare state or whatever — is in that circumstance because of the wealthy, or because of it achievers, because the producers, somehow the producers are taking a bigger share of the pie than they are owed and than they deserve, as though the economy is a zero-sum game and if somebody takes a piece of pie out, then the pie gets smaller. <\/p>\n

It\u2019s not traditionally the way it works. It will work that way now with Keynesian economics and the government parceling things out, but that\u2019s not the way the country has worked. The pie has always grown. Do you realize, Mr. Brzezinski…? Folks, the stimulus package, the Porkulus bill of $897 billion, is larger than the federal budget in total in 1982? What is this about depravity? What is this about people are deprived and people are cheated? We have spent so much money on people, we have conditioned them not to work for themselves! We finally got welfare reform, and the Porkulus bill destroys it. We do need social solidarity. We need to go back to the day where everybody in this country had a real expectation they could experience the American dream. <\/p>\n

But who\u2019s killed that expectation in people? Mr. Brzezinski, it\u2019s your party. Your president to this day is running down this country\u2019s economy. The Democrat Party has been the party of doom and gloom. ‘You can\u2019t make it; you don\u2019t have a prayer. Depend on us! You don\u2019t have what it takes; you\u2019re not competent. We need to guide you,\u2019 and look what that\u2019s done for the people that voted for them. The numbers of people and dependence continue to grow. They believe the Democrat Party\u2019s going to make things right for them, and they never do, and they\u2019re always angry and they\u2019re always being told that Republicans are to blame for it, from Ronald Reagan to other rich guys to Wall Street or what have you. <\/p>\n

What the Democrat Party has done to decent people of this country is an outrage: Depriving them of any hope, telling them they don\u2019t have a prayer, telling them they haven\u2019t got a chance because of their race, sex, religion, what have you, because of the oppression of conservatives. They don\u2019t even try now to improve themselves. They don\u2019t think it\u2019s possible. They\u2019ve been made comfortable to sit there and blame others for their shortcomings, failures, or misfortune, and then that\u2019s why we keep electing demagogues like Obama who promise magic and miracles. People actually think that Obama\u2019s going to see to it they get a house — and by gosh, he might! — that they\u2019re going to have a full gas tank, maybe even a new kitchen. They show up at his town meetings and they ask for it. How do you think it makes people producing who are playing by the rules feel? <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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