{"id":319643,"date":"2019-08-19T16:11:00","date_gmt":"2019-08-19T20:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/?p=319643"},"modified":"2019-08-20T15:21:29","modified_gmt":"2019-08-20T19:21:29","slug":"dont-accept-the-premise-of-the-left","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2019\/08\/19\/dont-accept-the-premise-of-the-left\/","title":{"rendered":"Don\u2019t Accept the Premise of the Left!"},"content":{"rendered":"

RUSH: Now, look, I\u2019m gonna move on from this 1619 business.<\/a> I\u2019m not kidding. I hate talking about the New York Times. I hate citing things from the New York Times, because they\u2019re not news anymore! And I resent the fact that they\u2019re so damned important. They\u2019re not news anymore. They\u2019ve lost, they\u2019re gone. There is no journalism in Drive-By Media today.<\/p>\n

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\nI mean, real journalism. Journalism at its root is telling people what happens someplace. What\u2019s going on there that people not there to see themselves. You boil it down to its bare essence, and that\u2019s what it is. And you do that without bias and you do that with as much objectivity as you can master. Of course, we know that doesn\u2019t exist anymore.<\/p>\n

But now the New York Times has evolved a project to reframe America\u2019s founding<\/a> to blow up the history of America and to basically lead an effort to convince Americans that their country is not great, that it is not exceptional because everything that has happened that is good in this country has happened on the backs of slaves.<\/p>\n

Now, when I get into things like this, I always get emails from people who try to give me information to rebut the premise I\u2019m making. So if we\u2019re talking about slavery and America, whenever I bring this up, I get email, “Hey, Rush, there\u2019s still slavery in Africa.” Let me take a brief point here, and then I got another one here. \u201cIs this true of the founding of Canada, Rush? They only got rid of slavery a couple decades before us. How about Cuba and Mexico and all the rest of the nations in the western hemisphere? Have you ever looked at the slave trade map and seen Brazil?\u201d<\/p>\n

That\u2019s not the point, folks. To deal with it this way is to accept the premise. We\u2019re gonna accept the premise of the New York Times that slavery was what built America, that there is no legitimacy to our country. And so the way we\u2019re gonna defend it, \u201cWell, if you think we\u2019re bad, look what happened in Brazil. Or if you think we\u2019re bad, look at when the Canadians only got rid of it.\u201d<\/p>\n

All of this kind of thinking is why we keep losing this issue. We have to stop accepting the premise. The New York Times is insane, is the premise. The New York Times is off its rocker. Whatever vernacular you want to use. The New York Times has become dangerous. America was not founded in 1619! It\u2019s not debatable. It\u2019s not arguable! The greatness of the United States was not built on slavery!<\/p>\n

We got rid of slavery over a century ago, 18 some odd. It\u2019s gone! There is no slavery in America today. The idea that everything — what happens to the civil rights bill, all the civil rights legislation that has been written to try to make amends, to try to address all the grievances. Is all of that stuff meaningless? Yes, according to the New York Times and the American left today. None of it counts! None of it counts, no fix is permissible, no fix deserves any credit, no correction, nothing. No improvement, no positive change, because we can\u2019t erase the fact that there was slavery in America.<\/p>\n

This is their premise to disqualify America as exceptional, to disqualify America as great, and to give them the entree into transforming — basically destroying it. This is what we\u2019re up against. We\u2019re not into a debate over, “Well, if you think we\u2019re bad, try and see it\u2019s worse elsewhere.\u201d I don\u2019t even want to get close to accepting their premise here!<\/p>\n

If we\u2019re gonna win a public argument about this, we have to use ridicule of the premise. The premise that America was founded in 1619? The premise that when slavery was brought to North America, there wasn\u2019t even a United States in 1619. We\u2019re gonna build a premise that everything that happened after — all the good that happened after that — let me tell you, the other way of going about this, if everything about the United States today was built on slavery, then what was wrong with it? Rhetorical question.<\/p>\n

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Rhetorical question. What\u2019s wrong with the United States. Are we not the greatest nation on earth? Are we not the most prosperous nation on earth? Are we not the richest nation on earth? And now they want to come along and tell us the only reason that happened is because of slavery? I know this is gonna be twisted and bent all out of shape, but the point is this is one of the most ridiculous premises I have ever heard in my life. And it doesn\u2019t deserve any acceptance in terms of finding an argument against it. That\u2019s where we on the right end up losing so many of these arguments anyway. They set the premise on everything because they\u2019re obviously advancing, they\u2019re on offense.<\/p>\n

So they set premise that we\u2019re having a recession. What do we do? Instead of ripping them to shreds as unqualified and a bunch of fake news specialists, we start debating economic statistics. And then we try to point out how their economists are nothing but a bunch of left-wing hacks, rather than just blow their premise to smithereens.<\/p>\n

Look at the Democrat campaign. Everything that you hear from these people is outrageously absurd. They do not need to be engaged. These people do not want to debate us anyway. That\u2019s not the point. They\u2019re out trying, with all of this talk of slavery, we\u2019re all now, not just America, but if the New York Times persists with this, every American today is tainted by it and every American is thus unjust and immoral and has a price to pay.<\/p>\n

I think this desperation is such that it doesn\u2019t even deserve one ounce of acceptance and debate with an attempt to refute it. Not accepting their premise. You can blow the hell out of their facts. The founding of America was 1619; American greatness today, everything about America is built on slavery. The New York Times sent out a tweet six days ago warning of this, promising that this was what was coming in the newspaper.<\/p>\n

It was a tweet from Mara Gay. On August 13th. \u201cIn the days and weeks to come, we will publish essays demonstrating that nearly everything that has made America exceptional grew out of slavery.\u201d<\/p>\n

So we think, “Okay. Okay. Well, if they\u2019re gonna say that, we have to devise, uh, some debate points, and we have to be able to meet them on the playing field here and refute their claims.” Wrong way to go. You let them get away with the idea their premise has merit and you can forget it. Because you can\u2019t ever say there wasn\u2019t slavery in America. They want to say that slavery is responsible for everything good that has happened in America! Imagine that! Slavery.<\/p>\n

And so therefore they want to disqualify everything that\u2019s good in the minds of as many Americans as they can. And they hope to win the presidency on this. God help us if they ever do. They will have a license to rip this country apart like it\u2019s never been ripped apart, under the premise that it\u2019s being finally, finally fixed! By being disbanded.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: Paul in Royse City, Texas. Great to have you.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Hey, Rush. Thanks for taking my call. I\u2019ve been with you from the beginning, man.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Thank you, sir.<\/p>\n

CALLER: I think the thing that ties all this racial stuff together, the slavery and calling us all racists and all the leftist talking heads pressing all that… I think they are scared to death of losing part of the black vote. I think… We\u2019ve always gotten about 10% of the black vote. But now that so many people have jobs compared to Obama\u2019s time — the new normal with no jobs — I think if the right got 20% of the black vote, the Democrats couldn\u2019t win an election. And it\u2019s the economy. Like Carville said, “It\u2019s the economy, stupid.”<\/p>\n

\"\"RUSH: There\u2019s no question that this is a factor — and last week, you know, while the Drive-Bys were happily reporting Trump\u2019s approval number down in the latest stupid-ass poll of theirs, the same poll showed that Trump\u2019s approval with African-Americans and Hispanics was 51%. I will guarantee you that number scares the daylights off these people. This is also a good point. Look, it\u2019s not the only reason that the Times is pushing this. Getting rid of America as founded is a real objective, folks. It\u2019s also an attempt to save the Democrats with the black vote, yes.<\/p>\n

But don\u2019t discount what the large objective here of eternal damage to America, as founded, really is in all of this.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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