{"id":32235,"date":"2009-04-22T01:01:01","date_gmt":"2011-05-19T02:30:17","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2011-05-19T02:30:17","modified_gmt":"2011-05-19T02:30:17","slug":"obama_s_demagoguery_explained3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2009\/04\/22\/obama_s_demagoguery_explained3\/","title":{"rendered":"Obama\u2019s Demagoguery Explained"},"content":{"rendered":"<section>\n<p>RUSH: Thank you all for waiting on the phones. I appreciate your patience. Back to Orange County, California, now, for our next phone call. It\u2019s great to have you on the program, John.<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: Hello, Rush. I just want to say what an honor and a privilege it is to speak with you today.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Thank you, sir.<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: Thank you for everything you do for our country. I just wanted to comment on something that you discussed the other day regarding how you would hope to invoke an intellectual response from your audience rather than emotional.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: No. My audience, I think most of my audience does react intellectually. It\u2019s left, the people reacting emotionally to Obama, even to me. I\u2019d love to be able to get past their emotion to get through to their brains, yes.<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: Well, I agree with that a hundred percent, and I wanted to say that I believe that most of your audience does do that. And I started thinking about that myself, what do I do, and the first thing I thought about was, &#8216;Do I agree? Is this good for myself, my family, my country?\u2019 But then immediately I come up with an emotional response, and sometimes a very strong one, where I believe on the left if something is said, they come out with immediate emotional response, based on an agenda, where I believe I would come out with an emotional response first based on an intellectual &#8212;<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Well, of course, intellectual creates the emotion in learned people, in people that are paying attention. The problem with people that have a strict emotional response or an emotional attachment to an agenda is that you can\u2019t get to them. There is no rationality for their belief, that\u2019s why you can\u2019t argue with them. You make a fool of yourself trying to argue with somebody who is simply emotionally attached to something.<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: It is so extremely frustrating. When I see this happen on a daily basis, and I think somebody brought this up the other day, I\u2019m wondering, they can\u2019t be thinking about the facts. They have to be thinking about an agenda that they\u2019re going for and just dismissing everything else that\u2019s in front of them.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Well, they live in a worldview that\u2019s a cocoon, and it\u2019s created in their emotion. In many cases, the people we\u2019re discussing, it\u2019s a desire for utopianism where everybody loves everybody and there\u2019s no crime and there\u2019s no arguments and there\u2019s no differences between people. They all have same amount of money, same housing, same car, nobody has any advantages and so forth. Anything that challenges that worldview, they cannot deal with and they strike out and try to silence it. They don\u2019t want to hear it. And that\u2019s what we\u2019re up against.<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: Well, please keep telling it &#8212; and like you said, I also want to thank God on today.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Well, thank you very much. The big problem is that we have irresponsible politicians that play to that emotional cocoon worldview simply to get votes. They\u2019re called demagogues, and the current demagogue is Barack Obama. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RUSH: Thank you all for waiting on the phones. I appreciate your patience. Back to Orange County, California, now, for our next phone call. It\u2019s great to have you on the program, John. CALLER: Hello, Rush. I just want to say what an honor and a privilege it is to speak with you today. 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