RUSH: Marty\u2019s in Orlando, Florida. Great to have you with us. Hello.<\/p>\n
CALLER: Hello, Rush. Dittos and best wishes from Orlando.<\/p>\n
RUSH: Thank you, sir, very much.<\/p>\n
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CALLER: Rush, a month or so ago, the media was promoting and reminding us that Joe Biden is a “devout Catholic” and that was a good thing. Now the media is warning us that with potential nominee Amy Coney Barrett being a “devout Catholic,” that\u2019s problematic, and I\u2019m confused. If it\u2019s good for Biden, shouldn\u2019t it be good for Barrett and vice-versa: Bad for her, bad for him?<\/p>\n
RUSH: You need to help me out here. What did and who was it in the media that was promoting Biden positively as a devout Catholic and that being a good thing? Who was doing that?<\/p>\n
CALLER: They all did. I remember hearing the montage of most the media spoke people MSNBC, CNN, et cetera, reminding us Joe Biden is a devout Catholic, and they kept reminding us that and telling us that.<\/p>\n
RUSH: Yeah, but they were tying that to something, and it wasn\u2019t abortion. They were tying it to… I wish I… I don\u2019t remember what it is. But, to me, you\u2019re making the argument that, my God, what a bunch of hypocrisy, and I agree with you that it is frustrating and it\u2019s maddening.<\/p>\n
But it\u2019s politics. Hypocrisy doesn\u2019t attach to Democrats. They\u2019re running around; they\u2019re gonna say that Biden is qualified and would be a good nominee \u2019cause he\u2019s a devout Catholic. They\u2019re gonna have no problem at all saying Amy Coney Barrett should be nowhere near the Supreme Court because she\u2019s a Catholic, and Dianne Feinstein\u2019s already done that.<\/p>\n
In the hearings that there were for Amy Coney Barrett for her current judicial seat, Dianne Feinstein — who is Jewish — condescendingly said to Amy Coney Barrett, “The dogma lives loudly in you,” as though Satan was lurking right there in the body of Amy Coney Barrett. “The dogma lives loudly in you.” The dogma! All she was talking about was her religious beliefs as it relates to the sanctity of life.<\/p>\n
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The dogma! Why, Satan himself has moved from the Slim Whitman record grooves to the body of Amy Coney Barrett. I\u2019m sorry, but — and I don\u2019t mean to be throwing cold water on you. But hypocrisy… There\u2019s hypocrisy, and the Democrat Party is a bunch of hypocrites, but it\u2019s like saying, “The ocean\u2019s wet.” It\u2019s not news, and you\u2019re never gonna get them held accountable for it.<\/p>\n
But I need to find out the context of them, \u2019cause I don\u2019t remember off the top of my head why Biden was getting platitudes and approval because of his Catholicism. It had to be related to something, because normally these people, they just don\u2019t like religion or religious people at all, particularly Christians, in any way, shape, manner, or form.<\/p>\n
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RUSH: I think I might have found what it is. And there a couple things here that might be responsible for the Drive-By Media praising Biden and his devout Catholicism. I have a story here from NPR just a couple days ago. “How Joe Biden\u2019s Faith Shapes His Politics.”<\/a> And this is all about how Biden\u2019s Catholicism has made him the politician he is, and NPR\u2019s very supportive of that. Well, now, this is hypocrisy piled on top of itself. However, what gave us this? Well, we gotta go back to August the 7th.<\/p>\n Washington Post: “Trump Said Biden ‘Hurt God.\u2019<\/a> Biden has spent his life drawing from his Catholic faith.” Now, what brought up Biden\u2019s faith was when Trump said in early August that Biden will take away your guns, he will take away your Second Amendment, no religion, no anything. Biden will hurt the Bible, hurt God. He\u2019s against God, he\u2019s against guns, he\u2019s against energy, at least our kind of energy, and that led to the Washington Post headline on August 7th. “Trump Said Biden ‘Hurt God.\u2019 Biden has spent his life drawing from his Catholic faith.”<\/p>\n So the media was kind of driven to this defense of Catholicism by Trump. They would have never written a story supportive of Biden\u2019s Catholicism were it not for the fact that Trump went out there and attacked Biden as somebody who would hurt God. And what do you think Trump meant? He\u2019s talking about abortion. All these Democrats, they run around and they\u2019re pro-choice.<\/p>\n I mean, look at this governor in Virginia, Ralph Northam. Ralph Northam openly believes in taking the life of the baby after it had done survived the abortion attempt. And they say that that is an article of compassion. Out loud, folks, if you\u2019re gonna praise Democrats for supporting infanticide and then Donald Trump is gonna come along and say people like this hurt God, I mean, you want to talk about hypocrisy, Democrats out there extolling the virtues of their devout Catholicism, bragging about themselves being pro-choice. But Trump\u2019s got a point. This drove the Drive-By Media, including NPR, the Washington Post to defend Biden\u2019s Catholicism.<\/p>\n BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/APP-052720-Northam-MASKS.jpg\")
So I think it\u2019s kind of clever maneuvering on Trump\u2019s part. ‘Cause, look, the Democrat base is not gonna be moved by the fact that Biden is a devout Catholic and that his devout Catholicism shapes his politics. Not in the slightest is that gonna excite the Democrat base. But they ran the story — the fact that it\u2019s NPR on their website, I don\u2019t know if it was ever broadcast. The fact that it\u2019s on their website might mean that they were duty-bound to talk about it but not really amplify it very much.<\/p>\n
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<\/a>Well, if that is the criteria, then Amy Coney Barrett would make a perfect successor to Ruth Bader Ginsburg. Forty-eight years old, “president would present the nation with an inspiring vision of what it means to be an American woman in 2020.” Her religious views have shaped her immensely just as Ruth Ginsburg\u2019s shaped hers.<\/p>\n