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RUSH: Our official climatologist here, Dr. Roy Spencer, University of Alabama at Huntsville sent me a question after hearing my last dissertation: ‘Equality of outcomes. How can a senator or congressman, for example — after working to achieve their station in life, how can a senator or congressman — then argue that everybody else needs to be the same?\u2019 Now, Snerdley, you\u2019re acting in there like, ‘Yeah, right.\u2019 What do you mean, ‘Yeah, right\u2019? Do you think it\u2019s a good question? It is a good question. Do you know the answer? The answer is relatively simple. Do you know what the answer to it is? (interruption) That\u2019s true. That\u2019s why I\u2019m the host. Members of Congress — senators, presidents, members of the House — consider themselves, particularly the Democrat liberals, as the elites. They always establish different sets of rules for themselves. Like Obama can go anywhere he wants in his airplane — and he can put his wife on a second airplane to go shopping, and can take ten or 12 SUVs for her while she goes shopping in Paris with the daughters — while Obama has to get back. <\/p>\n

They can throw a luau for 2,000 people in the White House while he tells us that the days where we can eat what we want and drive where we want and drive our SUVs and keep our thermostats at 72 degrees are over. I mean, the rest of the world is not going to put up with that. The elites always — and, by the way, have you seen… We haven\u2019t talked about it but there\u2019s a story out of all the travel members of Congress are taking during this recess, the Fourth of July. I mean, they\u2019re all over the place, all over the world on supposed business junkets. It\u2019s just vacation time where they meet with ‘defense experts\u2019 in some country or some company somewhere and they chalk it up to official business. It\u2019s all on the taxpayer dime. When liberals talk about ‘equality of outcomes,\u2019 it\u2019s for everybody else, not them. Now, I\u2019m talking about liberal leaders and so forth — and even amongst rank-and-file liberals they still think if their leader accomplishes everything they want, somehow they\u2019re going to be better off as a result. <\/p>\n

Look, folks, I have given up trying to rationally explain liberalism, because I don\u2019t think it can be. It\u2019s like I asked the question the other day (we need to start really delving into this): Is liberalism something that is chosen or is it something you\u2019re born with? Conservatism is not something you\u2019re born with. Conservatism is an active intellectual pursuit. Liberalism, there\u2019s nothing intellectual about it. It\u2019s all emotional. It\u2019s all feeling. It\u2019s all grievance and victimization. I can\u2019t answer if it\u2019s chosen or if you\u2019re born with it, but we need to find the answer. But trying to rationally explain it is a waste of time. <\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: Ronnie in Lexington, Virginia, hi. You\u2019re next on the EIB Network. Hello.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Thank you for taking my call, Rush.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yes.<\/p>\n

CALLER: I don\u2019t think President Obama cares about anyone, and the reason I say that is because of how his aunt lived in Boston and his half-brother lives in Kenya. That just indicates that to me. Now, if you look at Congress, look at the American-Indian, government-run health care program that they administer and the veterans hospitals. Congress knows what kind of mess they\u2019re going to make of this thing. That\u2019s why they\u2019re being sure to keep their health coverage separate. It\u2019s not national health care that the president\u2019s after. It\u2019s controlling pay for doctors, hospital administrators, CEOs, and insurance agents of insurance companies, and that\u2019s what I think that the bottom line is.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, I think you\u2019re right. I\u2019ve said this in my own way for many years. Liberalism is a series of myths, and people believe these myths about liberals. One of the big myths that people believe is that liberals have genuine compassion for people; that liberals are the ones that care about the downtrodden, the poor and so forth. When you examine it, though, liberals have contempt for people. They\u2019ll look at people and suffering and they\u2019ll blame everybody else for it. They won\u2019t do anything to solve it. Homelessness. Their solution is to buy the homeless shopping carts. That\u2019s really compassionate, isn\u2019t it? We want to end homelessness. We don\u2019t think it\u2019s right that Americans should be homeless, not the way these people are. It\u2019s not what we want to support. The liberals will use their existence to advance their agenda. <\/p>\n

Compassion? Understanding? <\/p>\n

These are the most hateful, angry, enraged people you can find! <\/p>\n

Obama lives on the myth that he cares about people. While he is practicing all this ‘compassion,\u2019 600,000 people a month are losing their jobs. Now, where\u2019s the compassion? <\/p>\n

‘Well, Rush, he\u2019s giving them unemployment compensation.\u2019 <\/p>\n

Oh, yeah, that\u2019s really cool. Yeah. That\u2019s a subsistence! <\/p>\n

‘Well, Obama\u2019s trying to make sure that they stay in their homes.\u2019 <\/p>\n

Yeah? How\u2019s that working out? <\/p>\n

Liberalism is a series of myths. This notion of caring about people? They talk a good game, and it\u2019s fooled a lot of people. The genuine compassion in this society is held by conservatives who want the absolute best for everybody but understand that that\u2019s only achievable if people embark upon the quest themselves. We realize there\u2019s going to be disparities, differences in outcome along the way. But it is the differences that provide the inspiration. It\u2019s the differences that provide the motivation for others to try to equal it and so forth. It all worked. It\u2019s worked marvelously and brilliantly, better than anywhere else in the world. There\u2019s no need to remake it, and there\u2019s no need to tear it apart. No need to tear it down. It just needs to be promoted. The whole concept of America needs to be defended and celebrated, whichever you wish to call it. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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