{"id":4156,"date":"2016-02-18T19:04:25","date_gmt":"2016-02-18T19:04:25","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2016-02-18T19:04:25","modified_gmt":"2016-02-18T19:04:25","slug":"america_leads_the_world_in_goodness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2016\/02\/18\/america_leads_the_world_in_goodness\/","title":{"rendered":"America Leads the World in Goodness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"\/\/videos\/37\/70175\" target=\"_blank\"><img class=\"alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/listentoit.jpg\" alt=\"Listen to it Button\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Here\u2019s Brian in Las Vegas. It\u2019s great to have you on the program, sir. Hello.<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: Byzantine Catholic dittos to you, Rush. Thank you so much for having me on.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Yeah, you bet.<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: I&#8230; (sigh) I just had to call. I\u2019m a Byzantine Catholic. (sigh) I do love the pope and his predecessors before him. The way I see it, and the way he\u2019s been portraying himself since that infamous trip back from Argentina where he said, &#8220;Who am I to judge?&#8221; it just seems the Drive-By Media tries to mold our thoughts (sigh) about the pope in a way that just isn\u2019t true. If you look at Catholic media, it gives a much better and consistent picture of this pope, and he teaches Catholicism. He cares about the dignity of everyone. And I don\u2019t see his comments, uh, towards &#8212; or his answer to the question about Donald Trump as an attack on Trump per se but a way of saying, &#8220;Listen, everyone has equal dignity, and if you\u2019re just going to put up a wall or some kind of barrier and not address the problems that people have and how to take care of people, the poor, the hungry, then there\u2019s a problem.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><img id=\"eZObject_118197\" class=\"aligncenter\" align=\"middle\" src=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/PhonesWeGo-Rush-Flag-B.jpg\"\/><BR\/>RUSH: You know what? I must&#8230; There is no country on earth that has done more for our own poor and for the poor around the world. We are not the ones that need to be targeted. There is no country on earth that can touch us in charitable efforts, in disaster relief efforts, in doing everything to help. We do not live under a suicide pact in the name of compassion, because you see what\u2019s incorporated in all this is that we\u2019re guilty of something. And we\u2019re not. We lead the world in goodness.<\/line><\/p>\n<p>BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Ladies and gentlemen, the last caller was classic. The United States is guilty. We\u2019re not treating people fairly. We\u2019re not treating people with dignity. Building a wall is an affront and an insult, and we have no right.<\/p>\n<p>I believe the number is 70% of the world\u2019s refugees since World War II have been taken in by the United States. Every year, year in, year out, the United States admits more legal immigrants than the rest of the world combined. The United States has granted amnesty before to three million illegals and appears prepared to do it again. Mexico, by comparison, has accepted 1,500 immigrants over the last ten years. We took in 1.6 million legal immigrants just last year.<\/p>\n<p>But for these people to advance the things they claim they believe, we, the United States, have to be guilty. We have to be guilty. We have to be underperforming. We have to be not showing compassion or dignity or whatever code word is used to transmit the notion that we\u2019re mean-spirited, that we\u2019re selfish, and that we\u2019re probably bigoted and racist and don\u2019t want people here like that. None of what we have done is credited. None of the good works. Our foreign affairs budget, foreign aid budget, none of it is ever thanked.<\/p>\n<p>We never get any gratitude for what we do. We just are constantly ripped. We are constantly complained about. We are constantly attacked. And people are fed up with it. People are fed up being told they haven\u2019t done enough, that they don\u2019t do enough, that they don\u2019t care enough, that they\u2019re mean-spirited, that they\u2019re extremists, when this is the most loving and charitable, the most giving country the world has ever seen. You know the next line, right? The next line, &#8220;Is it any wonder somebody like Donald Trump is racing through the presidential primary process?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Here\u2019s Madeleine in Westchester County in New York. It\u2019s great to have you on the program. Hello.<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: How do you do? Mega dittos, Rush, from a conservative Republican Catholic senior.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Well.<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: I am absolutely disgusted with this pope. I sincerely feel that he\u2019s a communist. The way he talks and the way he acts, I\u2019m very disgusted &#8212; very, very, very disgusted.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Well, wait a minute, now. Communists disavow the existence of God and religion. They hate it, because it\u2019s a competitor.<\/p>\n<p><img id=\"eZObject_118196\" class=\"aligncenter\" align=\"middle\" src=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/Pope-plea-3.jpg\"\/><BR\/>CALLER: Well, then maybe &#8220;communist&#8221; is a harsh word. A socialist is better?<\/line><\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Well, I\u2019m just reacting. I think with the kind of corruption going on today, I think it\u2019s entirely possible. I\u2019m not saying that it is. I\u2019m saying it\u2019s entirely&#8230; Look, the communists have tried to corrupt our education system. They\u2019ve tried to corrupt any number of institutions. Why wouldn\u2019t they try to corrupt the Catholic Church? It is a big enemy.<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: Without a doubt.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Well, anyway, I\u2019m not a Catholic. She is. And you heard her reaction. She\u2019s not the first. Then you\u2019ve got others like our Byzantine guy, caller, a half hour ago &#8212; which basically I think it\u2019s Greek Orthodox &#8212; who totally believes in the pope, not anything about attacking the United States, which needs to be because we\u2019re not recognizing the dignity of all people.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RUSH: Here\u2019s Brian in Las Vegas. It\u2019s great to have you on the program, sir. Hello. CALLER: Byzantine Catholic dittos to you, Rush. Thank you so much for having me on. RUSH: Yeah, you bet. CALLER: I&#8230; (sigh) I just had to call. I\u2019m a Byzantine Catholic. 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