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Rush as Buckley, MLK and Reagan

And God knows we need all four and We the People so we can soon write Majority Reports...

By Mike DeVine, Legal Editor for The Minority Report and The HinzSight Report

[INSPIRED BY PILGRIM WHO WANTS SPECIALLIST TO CONTACT HIM SO THIS CAN BE EDITED TO INCLUDED PICS OF GRABAR AND HOROWITZ - and other "graphics" to entice the mentally lazy and liberals to see the light! - GC smile]

A few years after former radio broadcaster, Ronaldus Magnus, completed two terms of office as President of the United States in January 1989, he expressly and explicitly passed the banner of conservative leadership to Rush Limbaugh.

Soon after, El Rushbo moved to EIB Tower in the Bigg Apple to take his Sacramento, California radio talk show national, a move made possible by Reagan's obliteration of the un-Fairness Doctrine that had kept am radio the bane of garden talk for decades, the progenitor of the conservative movement invited Rush to a fancy coming out party at his home.

That man, William F. Buckley who recently passed from the scene to meet his maker, was the man that announced the launching of his National Review magazine in the mid-1950s as "Standing Athwart history yelling STOP!"

Rush repeats that call today with a Martin Luther King, Jr. sermon twist.

Cut to Rush...

I want to ask all of you a question, and I would like to be able to ask this question to everybody who is not listening to the program right now. What's it going to take? How long is it going to be before you all have had enough of the encroachment of your freedom and your liberty? How long is it going to be before you stand up and tell the leftists in this country, "Stop, shut up. Go back home. We are not going to let you ruin this country." At what point, and this is not even about Obama. I'm not talking about Obama.

He is talking about liberals and liberalism and anti-America blame America first-ism.

How long?

How long will we sit in warm water like a lobster as the heat rises?

Will rising gas prices make it...Not Long?

The Time Has Come to Say, "Stop!"

I saw something in the newspaper Friday after I finished this program. Seattle, Washington, they are thinking of banning bonfires on beaches in Seattle, Washington, because of global warming. I cannot tell you how infuriated I have been and am and was made even more so by that story. Bonfires equaling global warming? At what point, and look, I know that people living in Seattle are primarily liberals, and bonfires on the beach don't cause any problem whatsoever with global warming. This is absurd!

At some point, and I fear we're not there yet, most of the times when freedom is taken away slowly, under false premises such as saving the planet or securing this or that or for whatever reason people gladly, without question, give away a little liberty a lot of the time. And when they finally realize that they have given a lot of it away, it's too late to get it back without a serious upheaval of elected representation in Washington and state capitals. It is time for people to say they're fed up.

How long? Not long? Reminds me of MLK, Jr. in Selma

I know you are asking today, "How long will it take?" 1 come to say to you this afternoon however difficult the moment, however frustrating the hour, it will not be long, because truth pressed to earth will rise again.

How long? Not long, because no lie can live forever.

How long? Not long, because you still reap what you sow.

How long? Not long. Because the arm of the moral universe is long but it bends toward justice.

How long? Not long, because mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Lord, trampling out the vintage where the grapes of wrath are stored. He has loosed the fateful lightning of his terrible swift sword. His truth is marching on.

King's struggle against segregation and racism was a righteous cause.

So is Rush's and ours. In fact, MLK's and America's battle would not and could not have been won in an America that hated itself and the Judeo-Christian values of God given inalienable rights and liberties that made our progress possible.

I'm going to leave it out because I've talked about it enough. This is happening all over the country in so many ways, and we've had the stories for 20 years about the curtailment of private property rights because of some protected species -- or worse: declaring your property a wetlands and you can't touch it. And it's hard to fight. The Democrats and the leftists have incorporated a lot of class envy in this, so even in this country there are people who want people who they consider to be unfairly affluent and wealthy to suffer. They want them to be punished for their affluence. The leftists have been planting the seeds in the minds of people in this country for years, for decades. What's scary is that for the first time they now have been entire political party, the Democrat Party, advancing their agenda. It used to be they were considered wackos, environmentalist wackos, animal rights wackos, other kinds of "extremists." Guess what? They are the Democrat Party today!

MLK was proud of America before and after the movement. He cited his pride in his speeches to encourage Americans to live up to its ideals. back to Rush and his commentary on American exceptionalism and The Audacity of Democrats to deny same in the American Thinker.

It's by Rocco DiPippo and it is a history of this country from 2001 forward -- 9/11 forward. There's a little stuff before that, but it is excellent. It's nothing that you don't know. It's nothing that you haven't felt. But it's on paper and it's done in such a way that your memory is inspired. You remember all of these things. Let me tell you how it starts -- and I'm paraphrasing this. In an America 30 years ago, 40 years ago, do you realize that a candidate such as Barak Obama would not last a week in the Democrat primary after it was learned that his preacher of 20 years hated America? Twenty, 30, 40 years ago, Barak Obama would have been drummed out of the primaries by his own party and by the American people.

And if he had survived that, when we learned that his best buddies are terrorists and people who bombed the Pentagon and the United States, and, when we learned that he has the support and the tacit endorsement of our enemies around the world, he would be gone and people would be outraged. His political career would be over. Today, he's their nominee.

How many of you last night watched this great Discovery program called When We Left Earth? It's six hours; the first two were last night. They have gotten to the cold storage vaults of NASA. They have 500 hours of film. Some of it is not before seen. Most of it has been if you know where to look. Some of it's new, only it hasn't been seen. They remastered it in HD and they started the first two episodes last night. I was alive during all this. I remembered all of it. I remembered every one of those Gemini launches. I remembered the Mercury loses. I remember Gus Grissom losing his space capsule when he blew the hatch early on his Mercury flight. What I had forgotten, even though I instinctively knew it -- and what reminded me because I've been speaking about it recently -- was how damn proud everybody in this country was, including the media, of what we were doing with the manned space program.

Last week Rush answered the Republicans who call for us to "get over" Reagan:

I was perusing various websites, conservative websites. (I'm not going to mention the names; it doesn't matter; they're a dime a dozen now.) But I ran across some guy in a little post on his blog say, "You know, conservatives have got to change with the times. This is not Reagan anymore. They can't keep talking about Reagan. We've gotta modernize. We've gotta adapt." You know, the problem with this is... Let me make it as simple as possible. It has nothing to do with Reagan. It has nothing to do with cult-like devotion to Ronald Reagan. It has to do with the fact that personal freedom will never go out of style and personal freedom is at the root of conservatism; personal freedom and liberty and holding on to it and maintaining it. And that's what conservative is, and that's never going to go out of style, and I don't know that we have to adapt that to anything other than what needs to be adapted and changed and stopped is the ongoing movement found in way too many parts of this country that would infringe upon individual liberty and freedom and yet we're told, "Come on! You gotta adapt, you gotta modernize. You gotta understand where we're headed here. We got a new set of problems and so forth." That's just it. There isn't a problem in the world that doesn't have as its best start in solving it freedom, pure and simple.

When there was nothing America couldn't do. When we were proud.

In the '60s, even during the Vietnam War, there were days we were proud of this country, and the media led the way in many areas. True, there was a goal to get to the moon, and there was competition with the Russians. We ought to have a goal today. If we had elected leadership, we would have a goal today. You know what the goal would be? Drill here; drill now. The goal would be to stop depending on people who don't have our best interest at heart for petroleum energy when we have our own. We can do it. We have elected leadership stopping us. The aforementioned extremists, leftists, who have now taken over the Democrat party who want to punish this country, if you doubt me when I say this, what party was it that wanted to lose in Iraq and still does? What country was it that waved the white flag to surrender and still does? What party was it that owns the defeat in Iraq if it happens? The Democratic Party.

What is the party that has lied to the American people repeatedly about circumstances involved? It's not George W. Bush and weapons of mass destruction; it's not George Bush and intelligence. It's the Democratic Party which has been taken over by extreme leftists. We have been taught over the years in this country to hate the following: Big Oil. Big Pharmaceutical. Big Retail. Big Insurance. Big Health. Virtually anything in the private sector. We have been told to despise it because it's out to screw us. It is out to cheat us. In the process, the American will, the American sense of pride in the greatness and the traditions and the institutions of their own country, has been broken down to the point that people are distrustful. They're distrustful of the things that have made and kept this country great. The only thing we're told to love, the only thing we're told to trust, the place we are to go, the place we are sent to get even for things that don't go right in our lives, the government, the benevolent government and the 535 dolts that run the place. The 535 elected dolts and the literally hundreds of thousands of unelected bureaucrats who over the past seven years with the tacit approval and support of both the Democratic Party and the Drive-By Media have sought to undermine the US national interest at every possible turn not only domestically, but across the oceans.

We're told to hate the auto industry. The auto industry is destroying our planet, don't you see? Big Oil is cheating us and destroying the planet at the same time. We're being told we're running out of time. We're being told that we do not have the greatness to deal with these problems; that our greatness is over, that we're in a constant state of decline, that we need to back up our expectations. Thirty years ago Barak Obama would be disqualified on the basis of one video of Jeremiah Wright. "Goddamn America? Screw you, buddy. Nobody says that about our country. You are finished!" Today we're told to either overlook it or to try to understand his rage or that he didn't really mean that. He's just saying that for the crowd.

BREAK TRANSCRIPT

RUSH: Let me read you just a couple of paragraphs from the American Thinker piece by Rocco DiPippo that ran on June the 7th. I printed this baby out at 12:21 in the morning. "There was a pre-Lewinsky time, before moral relativism blurred America's vision, when associating with people like Jeremiah Wright and William Ayers would have automatically excluded someone from attaining the [presidency]. Back then, anyone with well-known connections to such America-averse personalities would have been rejected by a super-majority of the electorate during primary season and almost certainly blocked by the Democratic Party before they could have gotten to within a mile of the White House. But those days -- when patriotic, true liberals like Joe Lieberman were considered typical Democratic Party politicians -- are gone. Now politicians like Lieberman are banished to the Party's periphery and leftists, not liberals, like Dennis Kucinich, Bernie Sanders, Jim McDermott, John Kerry, (who served in Vietnam), Jim McGovern, Patrick Leahy, Richard Durbin, Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama have replaced them.

Only a Reagan can effect change in D.C.?

The Republican Party hasn't stood up and said, "Stop!" Nowhere -- nowhere, nowhere -- from elected Republican leadership. Nowhere from elected conservative leadership has anybody stood up on a daily basis and challenged the lies that constitute the primary reporting of the Drive-By Media in the country for the last seven, eight years. Nobody has stood up and said, "No! I'm not going to put out my bonfire. Screw you." No elected leadership has stood up and attempted to impugn or laugh at or criticize some of these things. No, because our party has got this weak-spined idea that the way to deal with this is to accept some of these premises and then try to tweak 'em. Back to this TV show on the Discovery Channel last night.

Jay Barbree, NBC news, who covered much of the space program up until recently and still does some consulting work for them, talked about NASA being the most exciting place there is. We were launching Gemini rockets every six weeks. We did some of the most incredible things. We accomplished some of the most unimaginable objectives -- and all the while, we had a media echo chamber that was telling us, "Yes, these are good things and we should be proud." Today, we don't have that. Today we have a Drive-By Media that echoes and perhaps is intimately involved in structuring, the anti-American, leftist agenda. The eyes of the world were on John Glenn, they reported. People were on their hands and knees on Cocoa Beach praying for John Glenn and the first orbital flight. These things don't happen anymore, and I believe -- I was telling somebody last night -- I said, "Yeah, I think the media could easily turn the tide here; if the media were once again proud of the country, proud of the institutions and led people to loving their country."

And the person I was talking to said, "This media?"

I said, "No, I was talking about that."

He said, "Katie Couric? Brian Williams? These guys?"

I said, "No, I'm talking about the institution and it's capabilities. I'm not talking about this current crop. Of course not this current crop."

But I do think that the media can rally people to be positive because I am media and we've done it here. I know it can be done, because I know that people need leadership and they want it and crave it and they respond to it. That show last night -- and there are two more episodes the next two Sunday nights at 9:00 Eastern -- shows America at its best. People dropped to their knees and prayed. NASA was the greatest place in the world. These guys, these astronauts, they were all heroes. You know who our heroes are today? You know who the heroes are today? Che Guevera -- to the American left. (interruption) Okay, Snerdley, give me one of their heroes. Give me a hero that the American left routinely cites. One of our heroes is Ronald Reagan. What does our own side tell us? "Get over him! Forget Reagan! The era of Reagan has passed!" Their heroes are older than Reagan. We never hear them say, "Get over FDR! Get over JFK! Get over Teddy Kennedy." Our own side, our own party, tells us to get over Ronald Reagan!

Ronald Reagan is one of our heroes. Not a cult figure hero, a substantive hero. Where are the heroes today? Well, how many hundreds of thousands of them are in Iraq, and what the hell is said about them by the leftists and by the Democratic Party, by John Murtha, by Dick Durbin, by John Kerry? You name it! They are murderers! They are rapists! They are thugs! You think this stuff doesn't resonate all over the country? And look at the leftists on college campuses, high school campuses and wherever else you find idle time. They hate the US military! They have been taught and brainwashed to hate the US Military, which is protecting their silly right to say these stupid things. They have an official home: the Democrat Party. They have an official house organ: the New York Times, and the rest of the Drive-By Media. And these are the people who are trying to tell you to stop doing bonfires, to have your car only idle for three minutes at a time.

We have to exalt our heroes. Get on our knees and pray and get up and go to work. Yell STOP! Keep the bonfire burning. Millions of disaffected republican conservatives and democrats will heed the call. We the People rule.

We need a goal today like they had a goal in the '60s. We need a goal. Energy and independence, our own oil. Drill it! Drill it here and drill it now! Who's going to stand in the way? The very people who don't want our independence. The very people who want us to be dependent on other sources of oil. They say it's because they're afraid of pollution. How many oil wells are in the Gulf of Mexico, near the Gulf Coast? How many were damaged or ruined during Hurricane Katrina? How many oil spills were there? Hundreds were damaged or ruined and there were no oil spills! It's a phony argument to say that oil wells offshore will end up polluting and destroying the country and the environment and the planet. These are people who, while taking away your freedom and liberty -- at the same time, by definition because you and I are the ones who make the country work, our ambition, our industriousness and productivity. Take away our freedom to do that and guess what happens? The country's productivity shrinks. That, they want. It's not fear we're so big.

Finally, We ARE the CHANGE!

RUSH: I'm going to read you a little passage here, ladies and gentlemen, a little quote from one of our heroes, Ronald Reagan, whom our own side is telling us to get over. He said: "We should always remember that our strength still lies in our faith in the good sense of the American people. And that the climate in Washington is still opposed to those enduring values, those 'permanent things' that we've always believed in. ... But Washington is a place of fads and one-week stories. It's also a company town, and the company's name is government, big government. ... In the discussion of federal spending, the time has come to put to rest the sob sister attempts to portray our desire to get government spending under control as a hard-hearted attack on the poor people of America."

To this day, we have a federal budget over $3 trillion. Any mention of cutting it is still said to be aimed at the poor, minorities and women, hardest-hit. We don't change anything in Washington unless a Reagan comes along. Obama isn't going to change anything. Obama is going to do what leftists and liberals have done for eons, and that's to try to grow the government to as large as it can, raise taxes on as many people as possible, and eliminate as much personal freedom and liberty as he can. There's nothing new about Obama. Reagan was change.

Read all of The America Thinker article and, if you have the required subscription, read all of Rush's long classic monologue he gave us today.

Then, read Mary Grabar's Obama’s Presidency: Victory in the Culture Wars
and Clay Jenkinson's From Milton to Media: Information Flow in a Free Society as Redstate's own pilgrim has given former Democrat gamecock a homework assignment to outline how We the People can be the Reagan change to save out country from the liberal dark age abyss.

A daunting chore hath the persistent pilgrim cuss bade! But given the danting task of crowing at ever changing times of sunrises, GC is up to the roost!

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