{"id":9146,"date":"2014-06-16T18:58:56","date_gmt":"2014-06-16T18:58:56","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2014-06-16T18:58:56","modified_gmt":"2014-06-16T18:58:56","slug":"the_president_s_weekend_of_bashing_america","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2014\/06\/16\/the_president_s_weekend_of_bashing_america\/","title":{"rendered":"The President\u2019s Weekend of Bashing America"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Listen<\/a><\/p>\n

RUSH: President Obama on Friday, late Friday afternoon in Canon Ball, North Dakota, the Standing Rock Indian Reservation. This is during the Canon Ball Flag Day celebration.<\/p>\n

OBAMA: I know that throughout history the United States often didn\u2019t give the nation-to-nation relationship the respect that it deserved. So I promised when I ran to be a president who changed that, a president who honors our sacred trust and who respects your sovereignty and upholds treaty obligations and who works with you in a spirit of true partnership and mutual respect to give our children the future that they deserve.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Any opportunity to flip off this country, this guy will take it. There\u2019s another example. (translated) “I know that throughout history the United States often didn\u2019t give the nation-to-nation relationship the respect that it deserved, but I changed all that. I\u2019m the guy that cares. I\u2019m the first president that gives a rat\u2019s rear! I\u2019m the first president to do any kind of reconciliation, because I understand how unfair and discriminatory this country\u2019s been.”<\/p>\n

\"original\"That\u2019s what he\u2019s telling them. <\/line><\/p>\n

What president speaks this way? <\/p>\n

And, of course, then he said that he and the lovely and gracious Moochelle identify with this audience.<\/p>\n

OBAMA: Michelle and I know what it feels like sometimes to go through tough times.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Really?<\/p>\n

OBAMA: We grew up at times feeling like we were on the outside looking in.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Really? <\/p>\n

OBAMA: There\u2019s no denying that for some Americans the deck\u2019s been stacked against \u2019em —<\/p>\n

RUSH: See?<\/p>\n

OBAMA: — sometimes for generations.<\/p>\n

RUSH: See?<\/p>\n

OBAMA: That\u2019s been the case for many Native Americans.<\/p>\n

RUSH: See?<\/p>\n

OBAMA: But if we\u2019re workin\u2019 together, we can make things better.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Right.<\/p>\n

OBAMA: We\u2019ve got a long way to go, but if we do our part, I believe that we can turn the corner.<\/p>\n

RUSH: This is freaking Flag Day, and he\u2019s out there once again letting them know just how rotten this country\u2019s been. Now, I don\u2019t want anybody to misunderstand. I do not believe that the United States of America is perfection, and I do not sit here blindly believing that the United States has never, ever made a mistake. That\u2019s not the point. The United States of America is the freest land.<\/p>\n

It has the most freedom.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s the land of liberty.<\/p>\n

There\u2019s not a nation that has ever come anywhere close. We are a nation that realized, at our founding, what some of these very problems were and constitutional provisions were written in so that they would be addressed and corrected. It\u2019s a standing matter of fact that certain things had to happen in order for there to be a unified country at the time of the Revolution, and to get a Declaration of Independence and later a Constitution. <\/line><\/p>\n

That\u2019s not the point. The point is focusing constantly on this to the point of making it look like it is still institutional, this racism and bigotry. He and his wife grew up on the outside looking in? Who in the world doesn\u2019t think they\u2019re on the outside looking in? Everybody grows up thinking that! Some because of their weight, some because of their race, some because of their gender, some because of their own psychological problems, whatever. <\/p>\n

Deck stacked against them? <\/p>\n

From the president of the United States? What deck is stacked against them? The fact of the matter… Well, it\u2019s just the exact opposite. The deck is now reverse stacked in perpetuity. This kind of stuff just really infuriates me that this continues to happen. But it\u2019s good in the sense that for those willing to listen, you\u2019re being told exactly what I\u2019ve always tried to get everybody to believe about how this man sees this country. <\/p>\n

I\u2019m not making it up. It\u2019s undeniable. Okay, let\u2019s move forward now to Anaheim, Angel Stadium, for the University of California-Irvine commencement. The world is literally burning with violence all over the globe — allies are under assault everywhere — and President Obama is in California playing golf, raising money, and mocking “climate deniers.”<\/p>\n

OBAMA: (godlike echo) When President Kennedy set us on a course for the moon, there were a number of people who made a serious case that it wouldn\u2019t be worth it. It was gonna be too expensive, it was gonna be too hard, it would take too long. But nobody ignored the science. I don\u2019t remember anybody saying that the moon wasn\u2019t there or that it was made of cheese.<\/p>\n

AUDIENCE: (one person laughs)<\/p>\n

RUSH: In fact, if you go back and if you listen carefully to the tapes of Armstrong getting off the lunar module, there was a school of thought — even during the mission and leading up to it — that the moon surface was like quick stand, that it would be impossible to land on it, that it would simply swallow up anything that hit the surface. This was science. This was accepted science. It was a possibility. <\/p>\n

It was not obviously etched in stone. You go back and listen to Armstrong describe the surface getting off, they were really, really worried about this because it was accepted in the day that the surface of the moon was like quick stand. That\u2019s not the term that was used. I forget what it was, but it was the equivalent. There were people who thought it was “cheese.” But this is the kind of thing here he does.<\/p>\n

“I don\u2019t remember anybody…”<\/p>\n

It\u2019s another straw-man creation. “I don\u2019t remember anybody saying the moon wasn\u2019t there.” (laughing) Well, you can see it! He\u2019s trying to compare that to those of us who say there isn\u2019t any global warming. Mr. President, you can\u2019t prove it, and none of your scientists can prove it. There is no proof. All you\u2019ve got is computer models. The only thing saying there is global warming is computer models! <\/p>\n

There is no empirical evidence of it. That\u2019s why it\u2019s all talked about as, “In 10 years, 50 years, a hundred years, it\u2019s gonna be really bad!” The problem for these people is that they\u2019ve been, since 1980, saying 20 years — and then, since 1990, they\u2019ve been saying 10 years. The problem is that the warning time has gone by, and there\u2019s no warming. There are still icebergs on Lake Superior! So this is the best he\u2019s got. <\/p>\n

Here\u2019s the next bite along these same lines.<\/p>\n

OBAMA: Today\u2019s Congress, though, is full of folks who stubbornly and automatically reject the scientific evidence about climate change. They will tell you it is a hoax or a fad.<\/line><\/p>\n

RUSH: It is.<\/p>\n

OBAMA: One member of Congress actually says the world is cooling.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well?<\/p>\n

OBAMA: There was one member of Congress who mentioned a theory involving dinosaur flatulence, which I won\u2019t get into.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, it had to be a Democrat. It\u2019s you people that believe cow flatulence is causing global warming. It is a hoax. There is no evidence. I tell you, the audience he\u2019s speaking to, little college graduates and Millennials, they buy it, I\u2019m telling you, folks, hook, line, and sinker. It\u2019s easy to understand why, psychologically. They are effectively at the beginning of their lives. They\u2019re being told there isn\u2019t gonna be a planet waiting for them. <\/p>\n

They\u2019re being told that their parents and grandparents are destroying the planet or have destroyed the planet and they don\u2019t want that to happen. They haven\u2019t been properly educated on this so they buy it hook, line, and sinker. It\u2019s much easier to be a fatalist, pessimist, than it is to be an optimist. It\u2019s just 10, 25,000 times easier. Being an optimist takes a lot of effort. Pessimism is easy. Everybody can do it, and does. <\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: It was moon dust. I remember what it is now. There were a bunch of — well, for lack of a better word, people believed that so many collisions over time with the moon had created a layer of moon dust that would essentially be like quick stand, that we would just sink into. A pretty sizable contingent at NASA thought that. They were very, very worried. You could listen to Armstrong describing his first steps on the moon to tell people, “No, no, no, solid as a rock here.” He didn\u2019t say that, those words. So Obama (imitating Obama), “Moon made of cheese.” Well, a lot of people thought it was made of dust and we still sent the astronauts there. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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