{"id":8234,"date":"2014-10-01T18:42:55","date_gmt":"2014-10-01T18:42:55","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2014-10-01T18:42:55","modified_gmt":"2014-10-01T18:42:55","slug":"truth_is_the_biggest_casualty_of_liberalism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2014\/10\/01\/truth_is_the_biggest_casualty_of_liberalism\/","title":{"rendered":"Truth Is the Biggest Casualty of Liberalism"},"content":{"rendered":"

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RUSH: Look, I want to try to say this as precisely as I mean it, because one of the missions here… Please never forget this, if you can try to stay conscious about what this program\u2019s about. One of the many missions of this program is to have as many people as possible understand the pitfalls of liberalism and what it causes. <\/p>\n

It causes a mess. Liberalism makes a mess out of economics. It makes a mess out of personal responsibility. It just screws everything up. And here we have dyed-in-the-wool liberals who have been properly trained in compassion and good intentions and equality and fairness and political correctness, and they\u2019re idiots!<\/p>\n

That\u2019s not the right way to say it. <\/p>\n

That isn\u2019t gonna work.<\/p>\n

This is nonsense what we\u2019re hearing here today — from the CDC guy<\/a>, from the Secret Service woman<\/a> — and it\u2019s all because of what liberalism teaches these people to be, what liberalism instructs them and how it shapes them. (sniveling liberal voice) “Of course we can\u2019t say do anything that would hurt anybody\u2019s feelings. So the Ebola<\/a> patient, we must not victimize the patient and he must not castigate the patient and we must not cause distress.”<\/line><\/p>\n

It\u2019s just asinine. What it leads to is the defining down of everything. What\u2019s decent and right gets canceled out because it\u2019s unfair that it\u2019s decent and right. What is successful isn\u2019t fair to the unsuccessful. The healthy are not fair to the unhealthy. The employed are not fair to the unemployed. So in order to make the sick feel better, we have to get sick! In order to make the unemployed feel better, we have to not advance as much. <\/p>\n

In order to make the poor feel less poor, we\u2019ve got to pay higher taxes. It\u2019s just stupid! Political correctness, liberalism is a direct assault on success. It\u2019s an assault on achievement. It\u2019s an assault on self-reliance. And in this case it\u2019s becoming an assault on national security. It\u2019s getting in the way… What liberalism really excels at is getting in the way of common sense. <\/p>\n

It totally obliterates it. Common sense is not permitted. We\u2019ve been tracking it, outcome-based education. What happens in a classroom where you have some fast learners? “Well, that\u2019s humiliating to the slow learners, and we really can\u2019t have that.” It\u2019s what leads to the silly nonsense of getting all worked up over the name of a football team, when this other kind of stuff of real serious magnitude\u2019s going on.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s also what leads to people who are liberal never being happy no matter what they get, because it\u2019s destructive. It literally destroys systems, traditions, tried-and-true practices. It destroys them all, so that everybody ends up miserable, unhappy, and confused — while they think they\u2019re being compassionate and thoughtful and considerate and fair and equal. It\u2019s just absurd, and it\u2019s in that context I am listening to this CDC guy. <\/p>\n

We have a disease for which there\u2019s no cure, and this guy cannot bring himself to tell us the truth about it because of who it might stigmatize or who it might offend! The truth is the biggest casualty of liberalism. The truth in anything. So for those of you who are new in listening to this program and those of you who have been here a long time, this is a reminder: I\u2019m not ripping these people that rip \u2019em, and I\u2019m not ripping \u2019em to be funny.<\/p>\n

I\u2019m ripping \u2019em because it\u2019s instructional. <\/p>\n

We don\u2019t want people like this in serious positions of leadership. We don\u2019t want judges like this. We\u2019ve got \u2019em. We don\u2019t want doctors like this. We don\u2019t want airline pilots like this. We don\u2019t want presidents like this. We don\u2019t want military commanders like this where the enemy isn\u2019t the enemy, where we\u2019re the enemy. Where the enemy is justified in hating us because we\u2019re so big and they\u2019re so small, and that isn\u2019t fair. This is destructive stuff, folks. <\/p>\n

Liberalism does not permit the recognition of excellence, greatness, superiority, achievement, you name it. Everything has to be torn down and ripped apart so that everybody is either the same or they feel the same. And it is in that sense that I\u2019m being critical of this guy. It\u2019s not personal. To me this is a teachable moment. Why do you think during Hurricane Katrina General Russel Honore was so celebrated and so respected and to this day, I just saw Russel Honore on TV talking about Ebola<\/a>. <\/p>\n

Why do you think that is? Because there\u2019s a no nonsense guy who had the audacity to tell everybody the truth about what was going on in New Orleans after Katrina, what needed to go on, how we\u2019re gonna clean it up, how we\u2019re gonna fix it. We\u2019re gonna crack some heads if there are people out there raping and murdering and breaking laws. We\u2019re gonna crack heads, we\u2019re not gonna put up with it, and people applauded and celebrated. It used to be we had a nation of people like that in leadership positions. <\/p>\n

Now there\u2019s so few that General Russel Honore is one of the only guys the news media can find that is willing to speak as an authority with confidence and assuredness about what the right thing to do is in any given crisis. We don\u2019t have people with that kind of authority. We don\u2019t have people with those kind of guts. We don\u2019t have people with that kind of confidence anymore. They\u2019re afraid of offending whoever it\u2019s gonna offend if they speak with any authority about matters in which they do have expertise. I\u2019m sure the CDC guy knows a hell of a lot more than we do about this disease, but look how he has to couch everything he says because who it might offend and it might get him in trouble.<\/line><\/p>\n

He\u2019s gotta say contradicting things and conflicting things that make him look like an idiot cause he feels the need to be politically correct, even in the face of a disease like this. And, by the way, it gets in the way of us dealing honestly with terrorists and our enemies. We can\u2019t even speak honestly about that because of who it might offend or who it might bother, which might lead to a lawsuit or what the hell ever else. <\/p>\n

I\u2019m telling you, this is gonna be so damn destructive if we don\u2019t stop this stuff and get a handle on it pretty soon. You keep electing liberals and they keep nominating people like this in positions of authority and prestige or what have you, and this is what we\u2019re gonna get no matter what department you go to. These people are running EPA, for crying out loud. I just shudder to think. And it was so unnecessary. This is what bugs me. The Republican Party won\u2019t even go out and characterize these people as what they are. <\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: Steven in Cleveland. Steven, hi. Great to have you on the program, sir. Welcome.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Mr. Limbaugh, thank you very much. It\u2019s an absolute pleasure to speak with you.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Thank you very much, sir.<\/p>\n

CALLER: The reason I called, I wanted to ask you, in an effort to keep one eye on the future, I\u2019m wondering if this sudden Ebola occurrence in Dallas isn\u2019t setting the stage for controlling the voting population come early November, or at least at a minimum, encouraging more absentee ballots which will lead to other game playing as the voting continues.<\/p>\n

RUSH: The level of cynicism that this — I think this is a direct result of the Democrat Party and the things they have done and the kind of things they say. The kind of things they accuse other people of doing, we know they project what they do on to others. This kind of question is normally so out of the bounds you wouldn\u2019t even consider it. Here\u2019s somebody actually thinking that this could be used to stifle vote turnout in November. Remember, who was it? It was Rahm Emanuel who said, “Never let a crisis go to waste.” There is a reason people are thinking this way, and it\u2019s not mean-spiritedness or extremism or any of that. <\/p>\n

Now, having said that, I think this is real. I think this is a real case. I think it\u2019s been percolating in Africa now all year. It was ludicrous to think it was gonna be contained. I haven\u2019t believed that from the get-go. The second thing is — I don\u2019t even want to go there. If this thing really starts spreading like wildfire, they\u2019re gonna do more than keep you from going to the polling place in November. Imagine if this were smallpox. You know, folks, this is why you really hope that you have the best, most qualified people in positions like this. But the best is not allowed to be identified with political correctness. We stigmatize the best. Anyway, I appreciate the call, Steven. Thanks much. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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