{"id":6269,"date":"2015-05-26T16:08:52","date_gmt":"2015-05-26T16:08:52","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2015-05-26T16:08:52","modified_gmt":"2015-05-26T16:08:52","slug":"welcome_to_all_you_self_brainwashers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2015\/05\/26\/welcome_to_all_you_self_brainwashers\/","title":{"rendered":"Welcome to All You Self-Brainwashers!"},"content":{"rendered":"

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RUSH: I certainly hope everybody had a great weekend. We\u2019re back. I certainly did, I hope you did, and we\u2019re off and running, folks, with a brand-new week of broadcast excellence right here on the ever important, increasingly popular, growing-by-leaps-and-bounds Rush Limbaugh program, where it has just been stated that you who listen to this program are self-brainwashing.<\/p>\n

Have you heard that? You are self-brainwashing. And if you watch Fox News, you are self-brainwashing. If you listen to this program, and if you watch Fox News, do you know what it also means? It automatically means you do not watch any other media. And we know this because of a man named Bruce Bartlett who\u2019s got his nose in a twit over something here about not being popular as a conservative anymore. <\/p>\n

He used to be in the Bush Regime and I used to communicate with this guy e-mail-wise back and forth. He was a nice guy, and I started note — and I don\u2019t remember what year. This is years ago now, two, three, four, maybe five. I\u2019d have to go back to my e-mail record. He-he-he. But I don\u2019t have one anymore, so I can\u2019t do that. But may be I\u2019ll be able to get it back. At some point I could go back and look at when all these exchanges took place, but I could track his disgruntlement with conservative and I don\u2019t remember what it was.<\/line><\/p>\n

But he\u2019s gone over to the dark side now. And I remember I informed him. He was writing a book about, of all things, the Victorian age. I remember I informed him of something he didn\u2019t know, maybe you didn\u2019t know. Did you know the Tudors, the Tudor people, Henry VIII, did you know they only bathed once a year? (interruption) No, no. It is true. I learned this on a trip to London way back in the eighties on the tour guide trip, and we were out at the old estate where Cardinal Wolsey lived and ate five turkeys a day. He was a big guy. <\/p>\n

The tour guide said the Tudor people bathed once a year. They believed that water and bathing damaged them somehow. I forget which. And naturally the birthrate every spring and summer — well, actually toward the end of the year, went crazy \u2019cause that\u2019s when all the copulating took place, is after they bathed that one time a year. Honest to God. It is not something that\u2019s reported much. Anyway, I told Bruce about it, he said, “I didn\u2019t know that. I didn\u2019t know that about Tudor people.” He looked it up, confirmed that I was right. And I used to have e-mail exchanges back and forth with the guy.<\/p>\n

He was on CNN. Grab sound bite three. This is Reliable Sources, he\u2019s talking to Brian Stelter about George H. W. Bush, by the way, not W., George H. W. Bush. He was the assistant Treasury secretary back then and he used to be just a rock-ribbed conservative. And I don\u2019t know what happened. I mean, I could speculate, but that wouldn\u2019t be fair \u2019cause I don\u2019t really know. <\/p>\n

But, anyway, he\u2019s now a darling of the left because he rips into conservatives and conservative media. That\u2019s why he was on CNN. So Stelter said, “You said: ‘It (Fox News) can almost be called self-brainwashing. Many conservatives now refuse to even listen to any news or opinion not vetted through Fox and to believe whatever appears on it as the gospel truth.\u2019 Self-brainwashing?” Is that what you say this is?<\/p>\n

BARTLETT: I don\u2019t think that word is too strong. I think many conservatives live in a bubble, where they watch only Fox News on television. They listen only to conservative talk radio, Rush Limbaugh. When they go on to the Internet, they look at only conservative websites, like National Review, Newsmax, World Net Daily. And so they are completely in a universe in which they are hearing the same exact ideas, the same arguments, the same limited amount of data repeated over and over and over again. And that\u2019s — that\u2019s brainwashing<\/line><\/p>\n

RUSH: Okay. Here\u2019s my problem with this. You who listen to this program learn more about liberalism on this program than you would reading Politico or than you will reading the New York Times \u2019cause it takes me to interpret it for you. My point is, you who listen to this program hear much more about liberalism philosophically and what it is and how to recognize it and how to spot it and how to defeat it.<\/p>\n

You learn that on this program, where supposedly you only come here to hear what you want to hear. You only come here to hear what you know to be true. You only come here to be validated. You\u2019re not interested. You\u2019re living in a bubble. You don\u2019t care what happens outside of what you think. That\u2019s absurd! You cannot listen to this program and only know what conservatism is, because the way conservatism is explained on this program is as a bounce-off, if you will, to liberalism. <\/p>\n

For example, I don\u2019t even need to give you an example. You know what I\u2019m talking about, you know it\u2019s true. The Drive-By Media is liberal. We talk about \u2019em all the time. Let me prepare you. The Drive-By Media has told us today what is the most important story of everything happening, and it\u2019s a close call, \u2019cause there\u2019s many of them that they\u2019re focusing on, but the Supreme Court decision in the Burwell case on Obamacare and whether or not the subsidies live or die, that is the story the Drive-Bys are salivating over because they think the Republicans lose no matter what the Supreme Court does. And they can\u2019t wait. <\/p>\n

And I\u2019m here to tell you, if you haven\u2019t noticed it yourself, and how do I know this? Because I\u2019m watching the liberal media. But according to Mr. Bartlett that\u2019s not what happens here because we conservatives never consult anything other than our own comfort level. It\u2019s so ridiculous and so absurd. Fox News has liberals all over the place. You can\u2019t miss liberalism by watching Fox News. Half of their analysts are. <\/p>\n

I just have to laugh, here we have CNN, which has an audience you can now fit in a thimble. And MSNBC, an audience that you couldn\u2019t find in a thimble, sitting here lamenting what\u2019s wrong with Fox News. It\u2019s like the chickens describing how Colonel Sanders is screwing up. I mean, these people are sitting there dying professionally. They have no audience, nobody cares what\u2019s happening on CNN or MSNBC, and yet every day they do their media shows and try to tell everybody what\u2019s wrong with Fox. What\u2019s wrong with the people doing it right? What\u2019s wrong with the people winning? It\u2019s the most amazing thing. And it\u2019s psychological. <\/p>\n

But, anyway, my point is that I spend countless hours on this program instructing, teaching, informing, explaining, dissecting, analyzing, and everything else, liberalism. People who listen to this program who are conservative know more about liberalism and why and who liberals are, why they do what they do than liberals themselves. So it\u2019s a false premise, and once again, it\u2019s almost like it\u2019s — I don\u2019t know — chip on his shoulder, poor taste in his mouth, I don\u2019t know what it is, but it\u2019s patently absurd that conservatives self-brainwash. <\/line><\/p>\n

The brainwashing, if there is any in this country in the media, is in the Drive-By Media, the left-wing media. In the public school system is where brainwashing is taking place. We are trying to counter it. We\u2019re trying to open it up and expose it. We\u2019re trying to free people from brainwashing, which is what education\u2019s become. Education is not mind expanding. Education has become mind limiting. Education has become propaganda or something worse. Indoctrination. And we expose it all. And we couldn\u2019t expose it if we didn\u2019t talk about liberalism. In talking about liberalism, we explain it so you who listen to this program are well versed and well informed. <\/p>\n

I am more honest about liberalism than liberals are. Liberals have to cover up who they are. They have to mask and camouflage who they are, what they are, what they believe and what their agenda is. A majority wouldn\u2019t vote for them otherwise. So you on this program learn more about it than you will hear anywhere because liberals out there are trying to cover up who they are. We expose them. <\/p>\n

Now, how in the world this results in conservative brainwashing is beyond me, but it\u2019s an often-heard lament from people in the media who are losing to the power of conservative media, and believe me there are a lot of people. I\u2019ve got story. It\u2019s not just conservative media and liberals losing this. You know, one of my main points since the midterms of 2010 and last year, has been the overwhelming, it\u2019s phenomenal, just shellacking defeat the Democrat Party has had in the last two midterm elections all the way down to dogcatcher level. It\u2019s so bad, even Michelle Obama talks about recapturing the dogcatcher office in a graduation speech at Oberlin College.<\/p>\n

I\u2019ve got a couple of stories here lamenting what\u2019s happened to the Democrats and how they don\u2019t have a bench, and this is in the Drive-By Media here, folks. So you are on the cutting edge of societal evolution and political evolution and analysis if you listen to this program. Whenever you have a comment like this, that people are self-brainwashing, it\u2019s actually an assault and an insult to actual members of the audience. I think it\u2019s the exact opposite as you well know. I think the conservative audiences in this country are the most informed, the most open-minded, the most aware, and the most objective people in this country. <\/p>\n

<\/a>I don\u2019t think there is any question about it. So much so that most conservatives in this country still believe in the old civics 101 that we\u2019re all in the arena of ideas. We put our ideas out there, they put theirs, we\u2019re in a competition for ideas, and the good guys, the good ideas win, the bad ideas lose. That\u2019s not what happens anymore. The guys with the bad ideas know they\u2019re gonna lose, and so they start rigging the game and trying to trash, besmirch, destroy, defame every conservative person of power they can. They can\u2019t rely on their ideas, and it is here on this program that you learn about all this. <\/p>\n

I think the audience of this program and Fox News are probably among the most informed audiences in this country. And yet they\u2019ll show you polling data which says something close to the opposite of that, which is, again, disingenuous and illegitimate because we all know how the left uses public opinion polling and their news media agenda, which is to form and shape opinion, not reflect it. But brainwashing, actual brainwashing does work. I mean, look at the school system, K through 12, college education proves that brainwashing works. <\/p>\n

I mean, hell, the people Rio Linda, I would bet you that the people of Rio Linda are more informed and objective and probably in a better mood every day than your average liberal audience member is of anything he or she happens to watch. <\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: I just realized something, ladies and gentlemen, since I obviously I cannot listen to myself, how in the world could I self-brainwash? As Mr. Bartlett claims happens. Maybe he wasn\u2019t talking about me. Maybe he was talking about you, the audience. But even if that\u2019s what he meant, that can\u2019t be true because as I say, you people know more about liberalism here than liberals themselves, because you know the truth about them. They live in denial. And that\u2019s not an exaggeration. But I couldn\u2019t be self-brainwashed because I can\u2019t listen to myself. And I don\u2019t watch a lot of cable news. <\/p>\n

I told Snerdley I treated this weekend as a mini-vacation. I did not turn on one single news related television program, not even for two seconds, not even channel surfing did I happen to whiz through a news station. It\u2019s not that I didn\u2019t do show prep. I read all kinds of things, but I just didn\u2019t have it on on the television. So it\u2019s just further evidence that I, El Rushbo, am not self-brainwashed \u2019cause I don\u2019t do apparently what\u2019s necessary to become self-brainwashed. I don\u2019t listen to me or other talk radio, and I didn\u2019t watch Fox News. I don\u2019t mean that to be cutting. I\u2019m just telling the truth. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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