{"id":337907,"date":"2020-02-25T16:16:00","date_gmt":"2020-02-25T21:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/?p=337907"},"modified":"2020-02-26T15:52:45","modified_gmt":"2020-02-26T20:52:45","slug":"a-lesson-for-new-listeners-symbolic-liberalism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2020\/02\/25\/a-lesson-for-new-listeners-symbolic-liberalism\/","title":{"rendered":"A Lesson for New Listeners: Symbolic Liberalism"},"content":{"rendered":"

RUSH: All right. This happens every day. I tell you what I\u2019m gonna do, and then things happen and what I\u2019m gonna do gets delayed. Like I was gonna share with you all these stories detailing the panic<\/a> in the Democrat Party and the media over Crazy Bernie. I\u2019m still gonna do it, but things happen. Things happened. And another thing just happened, so I\u2019m gonna delay it even further. And the same thing with your phone calls. If you\u2019re on hold, please stay there.<\/p>\n

But, folks, there\u2019s a life lesson here and a show lesson here. And remember, for those of you who have been listening for any length of time whatsoever, there are new people tuning in every hour to this program, and certainly every day, which is a great, great thing. The audience is expanding here at geometric proportions. I\u2019m very happy and proud of that.<\/p>\n

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What it means is that there are people listening for the first time every day who may hear me say something that they don\u2019t have the context of experience listening to the program to understand, such as what I said just before the end of the first hour. So I want to convert this into a miniature, brief, little lesson on conservatism versus liberalism, phoniness versus reality, and a way to make sure that some of these people listening for the first time don\u2019t misunderstand me.<\/p>\n

So we have here a circumstance where the media is saying that Donald Trump is insufficiently prepared to be truthful or effective in dealing with the coronavirus. CNN did this today.<\/a> And they pointed out that when Trump talked about it, he only talked about it from the standpoint of protecting America and that\u2019s not good. We need to look to what people like Barack Obama did. Obama, back during the Ebola fear — and, by the way, whatever happened to that? Whatever happened to the worldwide Ebola pandemic? Didn\u2019t happen, did it?<\/p>\n

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But, anyway, Obama appointed an Ebola czar. And what did the Ebola czar do? Nothing. There was nothing the Ebola czar could do. We don\u2019t have a cure for it. Ebola is a deadly, horrible thing. And the idea that the Obama administration tried to make people believe that by appointing a czar we could somehow stop it is irresponsible. And it\u2019s public relations. It is not real. It misleads people. And I think it\u2019s a disservice to people. I think it\u2019s what liberalism is.<\/p>\n

Liberalism, communism, socialism, the last thing that they do in those ideologies is solve problems. They create problems. Like the Democrats are trying to do to the entire Democrat campaign is trying to create problems because they have solutions, they\u2019re offering solutions for which there are no problems right now. Trump and America have gone beyond them. We don\u2019t have the problems the Democrats are whining and moaning about in their debates and their commercials and so forth.<\/p>\n

So here I am criticizing Obama and the Ebola czar. “Come on, Rush, don\u2019t you realize he\u2019s only trying to help?” No. That\u2019s not what he was trying. He was trying to make you think he was doing something about it when there\u2019s nothing he can do about it. Obama was not God. He\u2019s not a doctor. He doesn\u2019t understand health care. He\u2019s got no experience in it at all. Why should anybody think that he is the savant?<\/p>\n

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So my comparison is this. There\u2019s a terrorist group in Africa, Nigeria. It\u2019s called Boko Haram. They kidnap and traffic young girls in addition to being terrorists. So I forget the year, but they went in there and they kidnapped a bunch, like 200 girls from a African village and the world was shocked, the world was outraged. Many people never heard of Boko Haram until this happened. They were confusing it with Procol Harum, Whiter Shade of Pale, but that was not who it was. It was Boko Haram.<\/p>\n

And immediately Michelle Obama created a Twitter hashtag called #BringBackOurGirls. And what did the media do? They melted. “Oh-ho-ho-ho, she so wonderful.” And I criticized it from the standpoint it sounds good but it isn\u2019t gonna do diddly-squat. So you go on the #BringBackOurGirls hashtag, you go on Twitter and you sign it, and what are the Boko Haram guys gonna do? They\u2019re gonna see all these people hashtagging #BringBackOurGirls and give them back? Ain\u2019t gonna happen.<\/p>\n

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That night Jon Stewart did a 10-minute monologue on me and the fact that I have no soul because I dared criticize Michelle Obama\u2019s #BringBackOurGirls hashtag. Now, the difference here is I\u2019m actually interested in solutions. I don\u2019t believe a Twitter hashtag is gonna get any kidnap victim back. It\u2019s gonna make somebody who has nothing to do with it feel better, make them think they\u2019re doing something about it, but that\u2019s the whole point of liberalism versus conservatism.<\/p>\n

Liberalism is the most gutless, easy choice you can make. You never have a solve a problem. All you have to do is claim that you care about it. And, man, people assume you\u2019ve got this gigantic, big heart. And you\u2019re a wonderful person. But you don\u2019t have to do anything. You don\u2019t have to give any money to a charity, you don\u2019t have to save anybody who is in dire straits, you don\u2019t have to get the girls back that were kidnapped by Boko Haram. All you have to do is sign on to the hashtag, #BringBackOurGirls. I\u2019m sorry, but that doesn\u2019t cut it for me.<\/p>\n

Now, if you\u2019re into making yourself feel better in these things and making it feel like you\u2019re doing something that\u2019s meaningful, have at it, but it isn\u2019t gonna mean anything. And for that I\u2019m said to have no soul. “Well, what would you do?” In the first place I wouldn\u2019t tell anybody, if I\u2019m president or if I really wanted to do something about it, I would target these people, I\u2019d go in and mount a mission and do what it took to take them out and get the girls back.<\/p>\n

I wouldn\u2019t do any of it on Twitter, and I wouldn\u2019t do any of it publicly. And I would only announce that it happened afterwards, and it would be part of a comprehensive anti-terrorist strategy that would be part of hopefully a framework I have as a president to deal with these kinds of things.<\/p>\n

Now, the reason I bring this up, Donald Trump has survived every coup attempt, every assault on him that has been made up. And now the coronavirus, they\u2019re trying to lay it at his feet and make him responsible for it, and they\u2019re doing irresponsible news reports claiming that the coronavirus is gonna destroy the U.S. economy by when? November. Isn\u2019t it magical?<\/p>\n

The coronavirus is the new Russians. The coronavirus is gonna take out Donald Trump because Donald Trump doesn\u2019t care about anybody but America. And we can\u2019t trust what Trump says anyway. And so I\u2019m sitting here, and I\u2019m not gonna play ball with this. I\u2019m not gonna join a panic over something that I have been independently informing myself about. I have no interest in lying to you about anything, that doesn\u2019t help me, it doesn\u2019t help you, it doesn\u2019t further anything. It doesn\u2019t help a thing for me to knowingly lie to you about something as serious as a possible global pandemic.<\/p>\n

And that\u2019s how the media is treating this. And they\u2019ve been treating it this way since late January, before the Chinese New Year. And they have been using it to attack the various enemies they have, like Apple and other tech firms, and now they\u2019re using it to go after Trump. And some of the stories — let me get just a couple headlines here real quick.<\/p>\n

CDC: “Very strong chance of an extremely serious outbreak of the coronavirus.” Very strong chance of an extremely serious. And the CDC warns, “It\u2019s not a question of if. It\u2019s a question of when.” And so the media is out basically telling people you might die. There are also stories that the United States is short on latex gloves and masks. We don\u2019t have enough. Oh, my God. We don\u2019t have anything to protect ourselves, it\u2019s Trump\u2019s fault.<\/p>\n

I\u2019m just telling you that where this whole thing started, the fatality rate is 2% of the infection rate. That\u2019s less than the flu. I\u2019m not saying it\u2019s tolerable. Folks, this kind of story is made to order for modern media, which reports first before they know anything, and they flame it, flake it, form it to fit their agenda of the moment, which now is “get Trump.”<\/p>\n

And now they\u2019re comparing Trump to Obama and Trump\u2019s coming up short because, “Trump only said that he was gonna make sure it\u2019s okay in the United States. Well, Obama did an Ebola czar and made sure it\u2019s safe around the world. That\u2019s the difference in Trump and Obama.” Well, Obama\u2019s Ebola czar had zero effect on anything to do with Ebola, just a hashtag on Twitter, #BringBackOurGirls, had zero to do with saving anybody from Boko Haram.<\/p>\n

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I\u2019m sorry if that sounds mean. This is what being the mayor of Realville is. This is what it means to live in reality versus hiding yourself away in the universe of platitudes and feel-goodism. That doesn\u2019t get anything done. And we in Realville are about getting things done.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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