Post by Rob W. Case on Apr 23, 2010 18:19:00 GMT -6
Rush Limbaugh rarely writes op-ed pieces, since his radio show requires so much preparation and organizing of structure. But this week, he recently wrote an opinion piece for the Wall Street Journal that is very thought-provoking and true. Many people who hate the truth try to conjue up many excuses to ignore it. The substance in this article is fascinating, and it brings the real truth back down to earth. Here is the article. I'll have more to say after it.
APRIL 23, 2010.
Liberals and the Violence Card
Conservative protest is motivated by a love of what America stands for.
By RUSH LIMBAUGH
online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703876404575199743566950622.html
The latest liberal meme is to equate skepticism of the Obama administration with a tendency toward violence. That takes me back 15 years ago to the time President Bill Clinton accused "loud and angry voices" on the airwaves (i.e., radio talk-show hosts like me) of having incited Oklahoma City bomber Timothy McVeigh. What self-serving nonsense. Liberals are perfectly comfortable with antigovernment protest when they're not in power.
From the halls of the Ivy League to the halls of Congress, from the antiwar protests during the Vietnam War and the war in Iraq to the anticapitalist protests during International Monetary Fund and World Bank meetings, we're used to seeing leftist malcontents take to the streets. Sometimes they're violent, breaking shop windows with bricks and throwing rocks at police. Sometimes there are arrests. Not all leftists are violent, of course. But most are angry. It's in their DNA. They view the culture as corrupt and capitalism as unjust.
Now the liberals run the government and they're using their power to implement their radical agenda. Mr. Obama and his party believe that the election of November 2008 entitled them to make permanent, "transformational" changes to our society. In just 16 months they've added more than $2 trillion to the national debt, essentially nationalized the health-care system, the student-loan industry, and have their sights set on draconian cap-and-trade regulations on carbon emissions and amnesty for illegal aliens.
Had President Obama campaigned on this agenda, he wouldn't have garnered 30% of the popular vote.
Like the millions of citizens who've peacefully risen up and attended thousands of rallies in protest, I seek nothing more than the preservation of the social contract that undergirds our society. I do not hate the government, as the left does when it is not running it. I love this country. And because I do, I insist that the temporary inhabitants of high political office comply with the Constitution, honor our God-given unalienable rights, and respect our hard-earned private property. For this I am called seditious, among other things, by some of the very people who've condemned this society?
I reject the notion that America is in a well-deserved decline, that she and her citizens are unexceptional. I do not believe America is the problem in the world. I believe America is the solution to the world's problems. I reject a foreign policy that treats our allies like our enemies and our enemies like our allies. I condemn the president traveling the world apologizing for America's great contributions to mankind. And I condemn his soft-pedaling the dangers we face from terrorism. For this I am inciting violence?
Few presidents have sunk so low as Mr. Clinton did with his accusations about Oklahoma City. Last week—on the very day I was contributing to and raising more than $3 million to fight leukemia and lymphoma on my radio program—Mr. Clinton used the 15th anniversary of that horrific day to regurgitate his claims about talk radio.
At a speech delivered last Friday at the Center for American Progress in Washington, D.C., the former president said: [T]here were a lot of people who were in the business back then of saying that the biggest threat to our liberty and the cause of our domestic economic problem was the federal government itself. And we have to realize that there were others who fueled this both because they agreed with it and because it was in their advantage to do so. . . . We didn't have blog sites back then so the instrument of carrying this forward was basically the right-wing radio talk show hosts and they understand clearly that emotion was more powerful than reason most of the time."
Timothy McVeigh was incensed by the Clinton administration's 1993 siege on the Branch Davidian compound in Waco, Texas. It's no coincidence that the bombing took place two years to the day of the Waco siege. McVeigh was not inspired by anything I said or believe and to say otherwise is outright slander. In the aftermath of the bombing, I raised millions of dollars for the children of federal employees killed in that cowardly attack through I disagreeociation with the Marine Corp Law Enforcement Foundation.
Let me just say it. The Obama/Clinton/media left are comfortable with the unrest in our society today. It allows them to blame and demonize their opponents (doctors, insurance companies, Wall Street, talk radio, Fox News) in order to portray their regime as the great healer of all our ills, thus expanding their power and control over our society.
A clear majority of the American people want no part of this. They instinctively know that the Obama way is not how things get done in this country. They are motivated by love. Not hate, not sedition. They love their country and want to save it from those who do not.
Mr. Limbaugh is a nationally syndicated radio talk-show host.
What gets me about the people who still support the president, is their loyalty to the PERSON of Barack Obama, with little to no regard at all about what he is actually doing to all Americans, including his own supporters. And yet, I am not surprised. This was the whole purpose of the "cult of personality" strategy under Hitler, Stalin, Mussolini, etc. Since people are totally ignorant of the basics of how things actually work (like businesses, legal matters, the medical field, and so forth), they rely on the words that the man says rather than the words that are in writing. And people like us know that what is in writing is what is bound to be enacted, protected, and enforced, and nothing more.
This is the reality we face today. People are attracted to the personality, and don't really put much, or any thought in what he's actually doing. This, I've noticed, is a trait transparently strong in a huge majority of young people. They idealistically want the man they supported for president to succeed, without the slightest bit of consideration, care, or knowledge of what he really stands for, and how it will literally screw them over for the rest of their lives. What's equally interesting is when somebody rises up and has the courage to bring to light the simple truth, and the projected consequences of the actions being put forth, loyalists under the "spell" if you will, respond emotionally and irrationally by calling the gutsy people names or essentially any derogatory or insidious name that they call Sarah Palin. Anybody who shines light on this administration, or any shady action is either demonized, ignored, or slandered against.
In the end, it is the classic battle between delusion and truth.
APRIL 23, 2010.
Liberals and the Violence Card
Conservative protest is motivated by a love of what America stands for.
By RUSH LIMBAUGH
online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703876404575199743566950622.html
The latest liberal meme is to equate skepticism of the Obama administration with a tendency toward violence. That takes me back 15 years ago to the time President Bill Clinton accused "loud and angry voices" on the airwaves (i.e., radio talk-show hosts like me) of having incited Oklahoma City bomber Timothy McVeigh. What self-serving nonsense. Liberals are perfectly comfortable with antigovernment protest when they're not in power.
From the halls of the Ivy League to the halls of Congress, from the antiwar protests during the Vietnam War and the war in Iraq to the anticapitalist protests during International Monetary Fund and World Bank meetings, we're used to seeing leftist malcontents take to the streets. Sometimes they're violent, breaking shop windows with bricks and throwing rocks at police. Sometimes there are arrests. Not all leftists are violent, of course. But most are angry. It's in their DNA. They view the culture as corrupt and capitalism as unjust.
Now the liberals run the government and they're using their power to implement their radical agenda. Mr. Obama and his party believe that the election of November 2008 entitled them to make permanent, "transformational" changes to our society. In just 16 months they've added more than $2 trillion to the national debt, essentially nationalized the health-care system, the student-loan industry, and have their sights set on draconian cap-and-trade regulations on carbon emissions and amnesty for illegal aliens.
Had President Obama campaigned on this agenda, he wouldn't have garnered 30% of the popular vote.
Like the millions of citizens who've peacefully risen up and attended thousands of rallies in protest, I seek nothing more than the preservation of the social contract that undergirds our society. I do not hate the government, as the left does when it is not running it. I love this country. And because I do, I insist that the temporary inhabitants of high political office comply with the Constitution, honor our God-given unalienable rights, and respect our hard-earned private property. For this I am called seditious, among other things, by some of the very people who've condemned this society?
I reject the notion that America is in a well-deserved decline, that she and her citizens are unexceptional. I do not believe America is the problem in the world. I believe America is the solution to the world's problems. I reject a foreign policy that treats our allies like our enemies and our enemies like our allies. I condemn the president traveling the world apologizing for America's great contributions to mankind. And I condemn his soft-pedaling the dangers we face from terrorism. For this I am inciting violence?
Few presidents have sunk so low as Mr. Clinton did with his accusations about Oklahoma City. Last week—on the very day I was contributing to and raising more than $3 million to fight leukemia and lymphoma on my radio program—Mr. Clinton used the 15th anniversary of that horrific day to regurgitate his claims about talk radio.
At a speech delivered last Friday at the Center for American Progress in Washington, D.C., the former president said: [T]here were a lot of people who were in the business back then of saying that the biggest threat to our liberty and the cause of our domestic economic problem was the federal government itself. And we have to realize that there were others who fueled this both because they agreed with it and because it was in their advantage to do so. . . . We didn't have blog sites back then so the instrument of carrying this forward was basically the right-wing radio talk show hosts and they understand clearly that emotion was more powerful than reason most of the time."
Timothy McVeigh was incensed by the Clinton administration's 1993 siege on the Branch Davidian compound in Waco, Texas. It's no coincidence that the bombing took place two years to the day of the Waco siege. McVeigh was not inspired by anything I said or believe and to say otherwise is outright slander. In the aftermath of the bombing, I raised millions of dollars for the children of federal employees killed in that cowardly attack through I disagreeociation with the Marine Corp Law Enforcement Foundation.
Let me just say it. The Obama/Clinton/media left are comfortable with the unrest in our society today. It allows them to blame and demonize their opponents (doctors, insurance companies, Wall Street, talk radio, Fox News) in order to portray their regime as the great healer of all our ills, thus expanding their power and control over our society.
A clear majority of the American people want no part of this. They instinctively know that the Obama way is not how things get done in this country. They are motivated by love. Not hate, not sedition. They love their country and want to save it from those who do not.
Mr. Limbaugh is a nationally syndicated radio talk-show host.
What gets me about the people who still support the president, is their loyalty to the PERSON of Barack Obama, with little to no regard at all about what he is actually doing to all Americans, including his own supporters. And yet, I am not surprised. This was the whole purpose of the "cult of personality" strategy under Hitler, Stalin, Mussolini, etc. Since people are totally ignorant of the basics of how things actually work (like businesses, legal matters, the medical field, and so forth), they rely on the words that the man says rather than the words that are in writing. And people like us know that what is in writing is what is bound to be enacted, protected, and enforced, and nothing more.
This is the reality we face today. People are attracted to the personality, and don't really put much, or any thought in what he's actually doing. This, I've noticed, is a trait transparently strong in a huge majority of young people. They idealistically want the man they supported for president to succeed, without the slightest bit of consideration, care, or knowledge of what he really stands for, and how it will literally screw them over for the rest of their lives. What's equally interesting is when somebody rises up and has the courage to bring to light the simple truth, and the projected consequences of the actions being put forth, loyalists under the "spell" if you will, respond emotionally and irrationally by calling the gutsy people names or essentially any derogatory or insidious name that they call Sarah Palin. Anybody who shines light on this administration, or any shady action is either demonized, ignored, or slandered against.
In the end, it is the classic battle between delusion and truth.