{"id":10712,"date":"2013-12-04T17:35:16","date_gmt":"2013-12-04T17:35:16","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2013-12-04T17:35:16","modified_gmt":"2013-12-04T17:35:16","slug":"the_left_s_unbridled_assault_on_the_traditional_american_family_continues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2013\/12\/04\/the_left_s_unbridled_assault_on_the_traditional_american_family_continues\/","title":{"rendered":"The Left\u2019s Unbridled Assault on the Traditional American Family Continues"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"\/\/videos\/37\/54531\" target=\"_blank\"><img class=\"alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/listentoit.jpg\" alt=\"Listen to it Button\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Ladies and gentlemen, the assault on the traditional, standard American way of life continues unabated, and it is being conducted by a minority of people in this country.  There\u2019s an amazing poll out there today from the Investor\u2019s Business Daily, Investors.com which illustrates just what an extreme minority today\u2019s Democrat Party and the American left really is, in terms of minority, in terms of thinking, the body of thought in this country represented by them. <\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s stunning, but, at the same time, it\u2019s optimistic in a sense to learn just how insignificant in numbers they are.  Now, that doesn\u2019t tell the whole story, obviously.  However, the interesting thing about it is also that it is they who, obviously, when you look at the questions and when you look at the answers in the poll, it\u2019s obviously today\u2019s Democrats, today\u2019s leftists who are the genuine extremists.  It ain\u2019t us, folks. <\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2013\/11\/26\/health\/families.html?_r=1&#038;\"><img id=\"eZObject_84511\" class=\"aligncenter\" align=\"middle\" src=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/RushDittoNYTimesArticleCoParenting.jpg\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>And just to give you an example, here we have the New York Times, I don\u2019t know if you ever thought you would see something like this.  I did.  The New York Times is bidding farewell to the traditional family, the nuclear family.  Mom and dad and 2.8 kids, not possible, except for the wealthy, the white, and the elite.  Sayonara, adios, outta there.  If you have that kind of a family, you are, A, a problem, B, you are a minority, and, C, you are out of there.  And I just want to tell you that this is bogus.  This is not the case.  This is not what is happening. <\/p>\n<p>The traditional American family, yeah, we\u2019ve got a different family makeup in places, and the definition of family is changing, by design, with the left instituting it.  But the idea that the traditional nuclear family is now an oddity and something that was never really natural and needs to be replaced is just absurd.  The entire Science Times section of the New York Times way back on November 26th &#8212; again, this is something that I missed because I chilled out. I took a break from all this.  I\u2019m catching up on all this stuff from the past that I was ignoring while I was out.  And in the November 26th Science Times section of the New York Times they were devoted to the redefined American family, and it was written by the noted journalist Natalie Angier.<\/p>\n<p>She identified the traditional family as a thing of the past.  &#8220;The old-fashioned family plan of stably married parents residing with their children remains a source of considerable power in America &#8211;&#8221; but not for long after we get through attacking and destroying it, &#8220;&#8211; but one that is increasingly seen as out of reach to all but the educated elite.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><img id=\"eZObject_84516\" class=\"alignright\" align=\"right\" src=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/fedup162.jpg\"\/><BR\/>Now, there might be a sad grain of truth in that in the sense that might explain what is happening to the traditional American family, and, i.e., the uneducated, the low-information crowd, as distinguished from the misinformation crowd. The low-information crowd are the people who are the recipients of wealth transfers, the redistribution of income.  I mean, the Democrat Party has succeeded in breaking up those families, no question about that.  The Democrat Party and the welfare state has succeeded in busting up the black American family.  There is no question about that. <\/line><\/p>\n<p>What this story tries to say is that\u2019s normal, that\u2019s natural, that\u2019s the way it was always intended to be, and that\u2019s where we\u2019re headed. And the oddity, the exception here is the white people with mom and dad in a nice house with a family dog and a couple of cats maybe, and 2.8 kids and a picket fence and a couple of cars and a flat screen, that is what\u2019s odd, that\u2019s what\u2019s gotta go, because that\u2019s only attainable to the wealthy white elite.  I\u2019m not making this up.  This is in the New York Times and they\u2019re celebrating it.  They\u2019re trying to make it happen, and it\u2019s why this poll in the Investor\u2019s Business Daily or Investors.com is interesting. <\/p>\n<p>There\u2019s also <a href=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/?p=10709\">devastating news out there for Obama on Millennials<\/a>.  He\u2019s losing \u2019em.  He\u2019s losing them big time.  I\u2019ll give you all the rest of the details on the New York Times story, but it\u2019s just an unbridled assault.  This is not news.  This is not the New York Times surveying the country and simply dispassionately reporting.  This is advocacy.  This is a desire to destroy the traditional American family.  &#8220;It\u2019s not fair.  It may be a good way to raise kids, but it isn\u2019t fair that not everybody can do it, and, since not everybody can do it, nobody can do it, and so we\u2019re gonna side with the people who have no prayer of doing it.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>Why? <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Well, they\u2019re uneducated.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Why are they uneducated?  Who has made that happen?  Who\u2019s been in charge of education?&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>The Democrat Party.  The American left.  Why are people uneducated?  Why are they poor?  The Democrat Party.  Who is it that\u2019s told people, &#8220;Sit around, wait for us to take care of you, don\u2019t rely on yourself, you don\u2019t have what it takes&#8221;?  Democrat Party.  The Democrat Party\u2019s made all this happen.  It\u2019s a route to power for them.  It\u2019s insidious.  It\u2019s the way they want to control people.  It\u2019s the way they ensconce themselves in power, making themselves irreplaceable, making these other people dependent.  And now they have created this schism, if you will, the haves and have-nots.  They have created that. <\/p>\n<p>They claim capitalism has created it.  They created it.  It\u2019s taken \u2019em 50 years of the welfare state since the great old FDR and the New Deal.  But they\u2019ve done it.  And they are relentless as they continue to do it because for them it\u2019s about changing the way this country was founded.  It\u2019s about getting rid of the inequities, the unfairness, the immorality, the injustice of the founding of this country and this is the way it ought to be. If you got two mommies and two daddies and a dog and they represent a family, who\u2019s to say that\u2019s wrong?  Who\u2019s to say that\u2019s wrong?  Who are you people, you nuclear family people, where are you getting your guide from?  The Bible?  Hell with that.  We don\u2019t believe in the Bible.  The Bible, that\u2019s just make-believe. <\/p>\n<p>This is where all this stuff is rooted.  I want to try to tell you, even though this onslaught against the traditions &#8212; and the traditions and institutions are what make this country great, there\u2019s an attack on them, there has been for a while.  I want to try to impress upon you, while they\u2019re having success, they are busting up families, don\u2019t make any mistake about that, I\u2019m not Pollyannish here, they have not destroyed it yet. They have not remade or transformed this country.  People are not happy with the direction of this country, and now a vast majority, including the Millennials, they are not happy with the way this country\u2019s going, the direction it\u2019s headed, they don\u2019t like it.  They may not yet know how to properly affix blame for it. <\/p>\n<p>I think one of the sad things that\u2019s happening, as I have cleverly noted in the past, particularly when it comes to Millennials, is that they are losing faith in the country, rather than losing faith in Obama and the Democrat Party.  That\u2019s what they must realize that they have gotta give up their trust in.  The Democrat Party is responsible for that.  That\u2019s not broad brushing here.  The Democrat Party represents this.  The Democrat Party stands for this. The Democrat Party promotes this.  The Democrat Party is where you find real out of the mainstream extremism today.  Make no mistake about that.  And don\u2019t be afraid to say so, folks. <\/p>\n<p><img id=\"eZObject_84508\" class=\"aligncenter\" align=\"middle\" src=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/ObamaLogosWhatsHeDoneForYou.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s a companion piece to the New York Times story about the nuclear family.  It\u2019s just so uncool now.  You ought to see the picture that accompanies this.  See that picture?  Showing you this on the Dittocam.  That is what is not possible in America today.  That\u2019s what\u2019s wrong with America.  I\u2019m showing this picture in the New York Times on the Dittocam.  If you don\u2019t have the Dittocam, get it.  You get it by <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/?page_id=37804\">joining Rush 24\/7<\/a> at RushLimbaugh.com. It doesn\u2019t cost much, just do it.  That way you can see all this.  You know, people say to me, &#8220;Rush, why don\u2019t you get back on TV?&#8221;  I\u2019m on TV every day, three hours a day, right here, my way.  I don\u2019t have to go on TV to be on TV. <\/p>\n<p>Here it is again.  That picture accompanies the story the New York Times about how that is what is no longer attainable for people in this country.  Does that picture look to you like it\u2019s threatening anybody?  The people in this picture, is that a problem?  You have to understand, to the American left, it is.  To the Democrat Party, it is, and to the New York Times, it is.  What the picture is, you\u2019ve got a guy, 35, 40 years old here, and his wife, and their three kids, and they\u2019re smiling, they\u2019re happy.  How dare they.  They\u2019re smiling, they\u2019re happy, but what they don\u2019t know is it\u2019s over for them.  They\u2019re dinosaurs.  They\u2019re living in Jurassic Park and the left is coming for them in their neighborhoods and they\u2019re gonna turn it all upside down.  They\u2019re starting all this in the schools. <\/p>\n<p>The companion story, this is from ABC News.  I\u2019ll give you the headline: &#8220;Sites Match Potential Co-Parents, Skip Love and Marriage.&#8221;  This is about people that want to be parents but don\u2019t want to get married. They just want to hook up and have babies and then have a family but never see the other spouse.  Kind of like a Match.com for kids.  (No offense, Match.com.)  Listen to this: &#8220;Rachel Hope of Los Angeles says she\u2019s ready to be a mother again.  She\u2019d like to get pregnant next month. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The thing is, she has no idea who the father will be.  Hope is one of a growing number of Americans interested in exploding the old 1950s notion of the nuclear family.&#8221; Isn\u2019t this fascinating?  The New York Times on November 26th, and here we are yesterday, December 3rd, they\u2019re already on it. These people are relentless.  They just never stop coming at us. Let\u2019s see if we can find some woman in LA who doesn\u2019t like the nuclear family.  &#8220;Hope is one of a growing number of Americans interested in exploding the old 1950s notion of the nuclear family.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><img id=\"eZObject_84517\" class=\"alignright\" align=\"right\" src=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/Beave_large.jpg\"\/><BR\/>The nuclear family goes back to the Bible, which is its problem with the left.  There\u2019s nothing they can do about fifties.  You know, to these people, the nuclear family is Ozzie and Harriet, and Beaver Cleaver, and it just isn\u2019t possible.  That was fantasyland, that was make-believe, that was never real, and that\u2019s not possible today.  You can\u2019t have mom and dad and three kids with all that wealth.  It just not possible. And to be happy?  It\u2019s not right!  It isn\u2019t fair.  It\u2019s not possible. <\/line><\/p>\n<p><BR\/>So now we\u2019re being treated to news stories about it, apparently. You think Rachel Hope, whoever she is, is actually running around LA, &#8220;You know what?  I\u2019m gonna blow up the nuclear family!  You know, I\u2019m sick of it.  I hate the nuclear family. I\u2019m gonna be part of a movement that blows it up.&#8221;  Rachel Hope doesn\u2019t have the slightest clue. Let\u2019s get rest of the details and you figure out what she is on your own.  Rachel Hope, it says here at ABC News, &#8220;is one of a growing number of Americans interested in exploding the old 1950s notion of the nuclear family.<\/line><img id=\"eZObject_84515\" class=\"aligncenter\" align=\"middle\" src=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/democrats-LOWEST-COMMON.jpg\"\/><BR\/> <\/line><BR\/>&#8220;She\u2019s not looking for love.&#8221; Oh no! No. &#8220;She wants a co-parent.&#8221;   I\u2019m telling you, folks, the idea that the nuclear family dates back to the fifties? Only in a low-information world could you make people believe that the nuclear family was invented in the fifties &#8212; and why would you do that, by the way? If you\u2019re the American left, why would you say that the nuclear family was invented in the fifties? Well, to make it unhip, to make it uncool!<\/line><\/p>\n<p>Oh, my God, that\u2019s ancient! Also, to tell these young kids and the Millennials, &#8220;You want to live like they did in the fifties?  You can\u2019t go back to that! Look how square things were back in then. They wore letter jackets! I mean, look at that. Did you see the movie? Who wants to go back to that?&#8221;  That\u2019s why they\u2019re trying to peg the nuclear family to the fifties, to make it unhip.  The nuclear family traces back to God-d, and just saying that is like showing Dracula the cross. <\/p>\n<p>By the way, folks, do you know what Obama is out doing today?  Ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha.  He\u2019s out ripping trickle-down economics.  Pope Obama!  The pope is paving the way for Obama to once now join &#8212; well, Obama\u2019s not joining; he\u2019s done it before &#8212; ripping into free market capitalism by calling it &#8220;trickle-down.&#8221;  He\u2019s not quoting the pope.  He just knows the pope said it. The pope\u2019s giving Obama cover.  Ah, I got the sound bites.  It\u2019s all coming up. <\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m still it is not through with this co-parent story.  Rachel Hope is running around Los Angeles, part of &#8220;a growing movement&#8221; ahem that wants to blow up the nuclear family, and she\u2019s not interested in love.  She\u2019s not looking for love.  She looking to co-parent.  She\u2019s a 42-year-old mother, so she been there and done that, but she wants it again.  Here\u2019s a quote: &#8220;If you\u2019re blessed to meet a soul mate and you just gel and it works and you have children, that\u2019s ideal, no one is disputing.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;But what about the rest of us who didn\u2019t meet that person, or not in time?&#8221; You see, everybody\u2019s a victim, and now poor Rachel\u2019s a victim of relationships.  It just never happened for her, and that makes it our problem.  We have to fix it for her because we devised a system where people run around and they date and they meet each other and some people find their soul mates and some don\u2019t &#8212; and the people that don\u2019t, it isn\u2019t fair. <\/p>\n<p>The people that do and have happy relationships, they\u2019re gonna pay the price.  It\u2019s not fair that people like Rachel were denied.  Look at this.  &#8220;If you\u2019re blessed to meet a soul mate &#8230; that\u2019s ideal, no one is disputing. But what about the rest of us who didn\u2019t meet that person, or not in time?&#8221; (crying) Rachel &#8220;Hope already has two kids from two different fathers: Jesse, 22, whose father was her childhood best friend, and Grace, 4, whose father is her current housemate, Paul Wenner.  Wenner loves his daughter, but at age 67, he doesn\u2019t want any more children.&#8221;  <\/p>\n<p>BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n<p><img id=\"eZObject_84527\" class=\"alignright\" align=\"right\" src=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/Rush-Disbelief_large.jpg\"\/><BR\/>RUSH:  By the way, is it a coincidence, ladies and gentlemen, that the New York Times would be focusing on the end of, the destruction of, the dissolving of the nuclear family, while they have been championing the gay agenda, especially same-sex marriage for more than any other newspaper on the planet?  I\u2019m telling you, this is an agenda.  They\u2019re not strictly reporting what is happening.  They want this.<\/line><\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s like the same way they use polling data.  They want to bring about the end of the nuclear family.  Now, in areas where they control people\u2019s income &#8211;I\u2019m talking about Democrat Party and the left, the welfare state &#8212; they are destroying the nuclear family, but it\u2019s not because that\u2019s what those people want to happen.  People whose families are being destroyed are not voting Democrat for that to happen.<\/p>\n<p>They think the exact opposite.  They think the Democrats are going to take care of \u2019em.  And the Democrats end up becoming the husband and the father, and the family gets blown to smithereens. That\u2019s what\u2019s happened to black community, and it\u2019s not me saying it.  It\u2019s countless African-Americans who say this. They were the first ones, in fact, to bring it to my attention, the way some of them look at it. <\/p>\n<p>Now, this Rachel Hope babe, it turns out there\u2019s a website out there called Partnered Parent, and she is trying to make a career out of this.  She has her own magazine and a website.  &#8220;Rachel Hope has a 22-year-old son and a 4-year-old daughter, both from thriving parenting partnerships. While she seeks a third parenting partner for herself, Rachel\u2019s overall mission is to include more and more parenting partners and their children in a growing family tribe and world community.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;As large numbers of people begin to realize their dream of kids in loving and sustainable families, partnered parenting will be recognized and celebrated among people of every gender, lifestyle, creed and race. &#8230; Rachel says, &#8216;I\u2019m focusing on the practical issues that people need to address.  A great joy for me is teaching others how to screen people on the Internet, how to arrange meetings with the best candidates, and how to negotiate an effective Partnered Parenting contract that will be in everyone\u2019s best interests.'&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Now, we used to call that &#8220;marriage.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n<p>RUSH:  One more thing here on this website here that\u2019s promoting &#8220;co-parenting&#8221; as the people that believe in this are said to be eager to blow up the notion of the 1950s nuclear family.  I just want to assure all of you, the nuclear family goes back to the Bible.  The fifties had no claim on it, and nothing to do with it. They just telling you that it is a fifties creation \u2019cause they want you to think it\u2019s uncool and unhip. <\/p>\n<p>Make no mistake, this is not just a little human interest story.  There is an agenda to this like there is to everything the left and the Democrat Party and the media do.  There is no news.  There is no reporting.  There is simply advancing the agenda.  That is all it is.  The news today is simply a soap opera with the requisite amount of suspense, drama, heroes, villains &#8212; and it is also just like a soap opera in the sense that they never deal with the reality of anything. <\/p>\n<p>Obamacare is just some fascinating thing that has them interested in whether or not the great hero who might be on the verge of becoming a victim can save the day.  The effect that it\u2019s having on people is of no consequence, is of no interest to the people reporting it.  They couldn\u2019t care less what the real impact on people is of this thing.  It\u2019s just the latest thing to keep \u2019em interested, just the latest thing to keep \u2019em from getting bored.  It\u2019s all it is in terms of the media. <\/p>\n<p>Now, in this website here trying to match potential co-parents, there\u2019s an organization from Los Angeles called &#8220;Modamily.&#8221; It\u2019s &#8220;modern family,&#8221; I guess, and the CEO and the founder of Modamily is a guy named Ivan Fatovic.  &#8220;Ivan, what did you want to be when you grow up?&#8221;  Well, you know what I wanted to do, Mr. Limbaugh? I wanted to run a website that blew up the nuclear family!&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m always fascinated by what people grow up to be, what they wanted to be, if they could ever imagine themselves doing what they\u2019re doing.  Anyway, Ivan (it might be E\u2019vahn, I don\u2019t know how he pronounces it) Fatovic said that his website &#8220;steers co-parents to the resources they will need after they connect with the right match. &#8216;You see a lawyer, get a co-parenting agreement, do background checks to make sure everything is OK,\u2019 Fatovic said.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><BR\/>That\u2019s how you find your co-parent, and then that\u2019s what you do afterwards.  So they\u2019re taking the prenup and they\u2019re turning it into a whatever.  <\/line><img id=\"eZObject_84528\" class=\"aligncenter\" align=\"middle\" src=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/RushLiberalismVsAmericanism4.jpg\"\/><BR\/>&#8220;Finances, costs, and custody are all issues to sort out.  So is how couples plan to become pregnant.&#8221; Hey, just because you come up with a co-parent, it doesn\u2019t mean that one of \u2019em\u2019s gonna agree to sleep you.  That\u2019s a whole &#8216;nother thing.  That\u2019s not part of the deal.  You gotta negotiate that, too.  &#8220;Will it be natural or artificial insemination?  Most likely, the latter.&#8221;<\/line><\/p>\n<p>They say here that most likely you find a co-parenting partner, it\u2019s gonna be artificial insemination.  There isn\u2019t gonna be&#8230; Maybe, I don\u2019t know.  Look.  &#8220;Legal experts told ABC News that making babies this way could be fraught with potential pitfalls.&#8221; No kidding.  You think so?  (laughing)  Folks, I\u2019m telling you these people are being portrayed as the coming thing, the latest thing that\u2019s gonna overtake the nuclear family &#8212; and they\u2019re not. <\/p>\n<p>They are (as most of these kind of crazy, kooky things are) a minority being promoted  and amplified by a media that wants them being made to look bigger than they are.  If you are in a nuclear family, you are now supposed to start feeling guilty and responsible for other people\u2019s unhappiness, and you are to feel guilty just like you\u2019re responsible for global warming.<\/p>\n<p>You are to feel guilty because somehow you have the means to have a nuclear family, and it just isn\u2019t fair! Other people that don\u2019t are victims of you and you have to make it right &#8212; and how do make it right?  Well, you look the other way while all this is happening and maybe you pay additional taxes to support it or whatever, but you are being guilt tripped.  I know the cycle here.  I know how this all happens.  <\/p>\n<p>BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: I\u2019m trying to stay away from that.  Look, folks, this co-parenting thing, it started in the gay community, and I know that, but I don\u2019t want to focus on that. That doesn\u2019t matter.<\/p>\n<p>I don\u2019t need that element of the story, \u2019cause that\u2019ll just provide a target for people to start going after rather than the focus of what this thing means. I don\u2019t care where it started.  I know full well what\u2019s going on behind this co-parenting thing. I know full well what\u2019s going on, and you do too, behind this effort to bust up the nuclear family.  You know damn well it\u2019s just like every other tradition or institution that has defined this country since the founding.<\/p>\n<p>They\u2019re all under assault, every damn one of them every day, primarily by people who for just, whatever reason, don\u2019t think they fit in with it and nobody wants to feel abnormally, kooky or weird so they try to redefine what\u2019s normal.  That\u2019s what\u2019s going on and it\u2019s been going on for my whole life and it\u2019s not gonna stop.  The difference is now is that you\u2019ve got a whole political party that sponsors and promotes that, raises money for people, and then pays them back with votes. <\/p>\n<p>BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n<p>RUSH:  I want to try to combine all the elements here, and phone calls are one of them.  So we\u2019ll start in Newport Beach, California.  Hi, Steve.  Great to have you here.  Hello.<\/p>\n<p>CALLER:  Hey, Rush, I\u2019ve really enjoyed your show over the last couple decades.  I just wanted to comment about your analysis on the New York Times and their liberal bias.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH:  Yeah.<\/p>\n<p>CALLER:  I\u2019m a lifelong Republican. I believe there\u2019s a liberal bias in the media, but don\u2019t forget that just like your show is the Lord to your audience, the New York Times tailors their stories to their audience, and the biggest gay and lesbian community in the country is in New York, so it shouldn\u2019t surprise anybody that their articles are tailored to that particular audience.  Just saying.<\/p>\n<p><img id=\"eZObject_84529\" class=\"aligncenter\" align=\"middle\" src=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/RushEIBPIX.jpg\"\/><BR\/>RUSH:  I don\u2019t dispute that at all.  But I\u2019m gonna be honest with you.  I\u2019ve got an agenda here.  I\u2019m trying to save America.  The New York Times has an agenda, there\u2019s no question.  Of course they\u2019re serving their audience, you\u2019re exactly right.  But the New York Times also sets the table for news coverage in newsrooms everywhere across the country.  What\u2019s in the New York Times is where news directors at smaller outlets and the networks get their guidance on what\u2019s important, what\u2019s news and so forth. They\u2019ve played that role for the longest time, longer than I\u2019ve been alive, and it\u2019s alive and well today, but there\u2019s no question that they care more about just serving an audience.  They are trying to effect outcomes.  There\u2019s no question about it.<\/line><\/p>\n<p>CALLER:  Well, if we\u2019re really concerned about the situation, and I am, complaining about the media is really the cart &#8212; is, you know &#8212; the horse is out of the barn.  We really need to focus on education and get in front of the problem instead of worrying about what\u2019s said after the fact as people who are adults and out of the system.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH:  Uh, no question.  I mean, you\u2019re singing my song here.  You\u2019re singing my song here because I think having lost education is one of the reasons we\u2019re where we are.  However, I\u2019m not gonna just give up and say, &#8220;Okay, well, we\u2019ve lost the media and the media is who they are.&#8221;  I\u2019m not complaining about that.  I\u2019m not one of those.  Those people who do that bug me, too.  I\u2019m not complaining about \u2019em.  And if I sound like I\u2019m complaining, let me just correct you.  I\u2019m not complaining.  I\u2019m informing. <\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m gonna tell you something, Steve.  There\u2019s a whole bunch of low-information people in this country who have no clue that the media is biased. They just believe everything in it, whether it\u2019s TMZ or CNN or Yahoo news, they just believe it.  And one of the many things that I\u2019m trying to do here is offer education to people and help them creatively, thinkingly analyze what they are told and by whom so that they can perhaps learn to be discriminating in whether or not what they\u2019re hearing and seeing and reading is truthful.  It\u2019s no different, the education that\u2019s taking place outside the classroom, it\u2019s happening here on the radio, and it\u2019s occurring among people who have already come out of the education system and now they\u2019re adults leading their lives. <\/p>\n<p>And it\u2019s working, by the way.  I get more and more e-mail, phone calls from people, &#8220;You know, I used to think X, but I finally stumbled across you, and now I know what I was doing wrong,&#8221; or &#8220;what I believed wasn\u2019t true.&#8221;  The difference is, I will admit my agenda, proudly.  I\u2019m proud of my agenda. I\u2019m proud of what I believe in. I\u2019m proud of what I\u2019m trying to achieve.  The New York Times and the rest of the media will not even admit they have an agenda.  That\u2019s a big difference.  Great call, Steve.  Thanks much.  <\/p>\n<p>BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n<p>RUSH:  I went to the e-mail in the break, and it was typical.  I fully expected it.  &#8220;Rush, why can\u2019t you just leave well enough alone?  They\u2019re not hurting you.  Okay, so a bunch of people want to hook up and become parents; what do you care, Rush?  Why can\u2019t you just leave it alone?  Why can\u2019t you just let people &#8211;&#8221; Because they are the ones who can\u2019t leave it alone.  This is the point.  I don\u2019t care.  I don\u2019t care whether it\u2019s smoking, vegetarianism, whatever it is, it\u2019s the left that\u2019s not content to live their lives the way they want to.  They force their way on everybody else or penalize people who don\u2019t live and speak the way they do. <\/p>\n<p><img id=\"eZObject_84541\" class=\"aligncenter\" align=\"middle\" src=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/ObamacareJulia.jpg\"\/><BR\/>I\u2019m totally content, if some oddballs want to start a website and come up with a way to have babies without actually knowing themselves and having sex, have at it.  But don\u2019t at the same time tell me that I\u2019m the weird one.  Don\u2019t tell me and everybody else that we\u2019re the problem and the kooks and that we\u2019re the ones that are making you do the strange stuff.  Own it if you want to. <\/line><\/p>\n<p>Folks, you know as well as I do, it isn\u2019t us that are trying to force change and force our way on people.  It\u2019s the exact opposite.  We\u2019re here minding our own business.  We\u2019re playing by the rules.  We\u2019re trying to do the best we can.  We know we\u2019re not perfect.  Everybody makes mistakes.  We\u2019re trying to keep our kids healthy. We\u2019re trying to keep \u2019em away from bad influences, crime, drugs, you name it, and yet there are these forces pushing at us from every which way, and they\u2019re trying to redefine what normal is.  No, I\u2019m not surprised I got that e-mail.  I think it\u2019s a seminar e-mailer. If you speak out against any of this extremism that the left engages in you become a target or they\u2019re gonna shut you up or do some other thing to you to try to intimidate you into being quiet. <\/p>\n<p>They are not going to be judged.  They are not going to have anybody inspect or examine them.  No way.  I don\u2019t know who first coined the term, but &#8220;the culture war,&#8221; there\u2019s no question about it.  Pat Buchanan has written about it.  Judge Bork wrote about it.  It\u2019s common, but imagine that you are a Millennial, and you read a story, or you hear me, El Rushbo, tell you about a story, how women are hooking up to get pregnant.  They\u2019re not moving in with each other.  They\u2019re co-parents, but that\u2019s it.  I mean, they\u2019re just inspecting people on websites and all that, but it\u2019s an organization of women who are hooking up, trying to get pregnant. <\/p>\n<p>Now, imagine that you are a Millennial, and you hear this, and you\u2019re being told, &#8220;Well, this is the new normal. To hell with this dating and courting and love and marriage and all that.  Just go to the website, vet somebody, find a way to artificially inseminate whoever and have a kid.&#8221;  On the one hand, the Millennials are being told that their abortions should be free, paid for by taxpayers.  On the other hand, they\u2019ve gotta go to a damn website to find a man willing to donate a sperm so they get pregnant. <\/p>\n<p>Would you not be confused if you were a Millennial?  What are you supposed to?  Have the abortion, or go to a website, find some sperm, and get pregnant?  (interruption) What did you say, Snerdley?  You think the abortion is &#8212; it is a tough choice.  What are you supposed to do?  It\u2019s confusing.  And the website people who are pushing this co-parenting business, they\u2019re trying to pass themselves off as the new normal. Well, yeah, this is the generation of guys that don\u2019t want to own cars.  You know, that really bugs Snerdley.  When he found out that there was a survey of a bunch of Millennials, primarily that live in big cities who have no interest in cars, &#8220;They\u2019re not real guys. You can\u2019t be a guy and not want a car or care about cars,&#8221; or what have you.  And that\u2019s just a sign of different places that we all come from.  It is.  This is exactly my point. <\/p>\n<p>This is why, and it\u2019s why I\u2019m trying to tell people to hold on.  This kind of stuff that we\u2019re talking about, this all-out assault on the nuclear family, and on the other side here, this co-parenting.  And then on the other side have an abortion paid for by your neighbors, this is why people think the country\u2019s falling party.  And I\u2019m telling you, that is purposeful.  That is the result of an agenda.  Do you want to be led by the miserable, folks?  Do you want to be led by the discontented and the unhappy?  I mean, sometimes you\u2019re discontented. I\u2019m talking about people who are institutionally so.  Forever mad, cannot be pleased, cannot be happy, it isn\u2019t in their makeup.  I don\u2019t want them defining anything.  I don\u2019t want that kind of negativism dominating culture and life and everything.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RUSH: Ladies and gentlemen, the assault on the traditional, standard American way of life continues unabated, and it is being conducted by a minority of people in this country. 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