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RUSH: We\u2019ve got Greg on the phone from Louisville. Greg, great to have you. Hi.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Hi, Rush. Great show. Enjoy your show.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Thank you very much. Appreciate that.<\/p>\n

CALLER: I\u2019m calling about these journalists that President Obama invited to the White House a couple of days ago, and they\u2019re conservative journalists, and I guess they were all conservative journalists who had criticized Senator Cruz and Senator Lee and Senator Paul who\u2019ve been fighting to defund Obamacare. It\u2019s interesting, it seems like it\u2019s a strategy to try to drive a wedge in the Republican Party and try to ostracize Senator Cruz and his supporters, and I just think it\u2019s an interesting situation and you\u2019ve got the surrender caucus of journalists that were called in, the Byron Yorks and —<\/p>\n

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RUSH: Well, who were these people? I know that Krauthammer was one. Who are some of the others?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Byron York and Krauthammer and people who —<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, have you read anything they\u2019ve written or heard anything they\u2019ve said since that visit? Do you think that Obama got to \u2019em?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yeah, I think he did, absolutely.<\/p>\n

RUSH: You do?<\/p>\n

CALLER: I think Byron York especially, absolutely. Yes. I think it\u2019s just a strategy to divide the opposition by Obama.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, no doubt about that. I haven\u2019t studied it the way you apparently have. <\/p>\n

CALLER: I think it\u2019s exciting we have a leader like Cruz doing something. They\u2019re standing up and bringing attention to this issue, and I think that\u2019s an inspirational thing, and we need to support it.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, I agree. I mean, it\u2019s one of the themes of the program today. I\u2019m curious that you think that you\u2019re detecting Byron York having changed the way he reports and writes since the —<\/p>\n

CALLER: Well, I\u2019ve heard him speak on the radio, and I don\u2019t know what he\u2019s written. I haven\u2019t read what he\u2019s written today, but he seems to be indicating a little bit of a hesitancy to criticize the president. And these are the people who were always complaining about the Republicans and the debt ceiling and the sequester, kind of counseling, give in, don\u2019t make a scene, don\u2019t —<\/p>\n

RUSH: Okay. Here\u2019s the list. It was Dr. Krauthammer, it was Paul Gigot of the Wall Street Journal, Robert Costa, National Review, Kathleen Parker, and Byron York.<\/p>\n

CALLER: All of these people, I believe every single one of them, has been on the anti-Cruz side in the Republican debate in this country.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, you may have a point there, but I think they were anti-Cruz before Obama called \u2019em up.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Right, that\u2019s why he called them. That\u2019s what I\u2019m saying, that\u2019s why he called them.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Oh. He called \u2019em up to give \u2019em attaboys.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yeah, exactly, and to encourage the division.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Right. Have you read anything that Robert Costa has either blogged or written, posted at National Review?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Not since the little powwow, no.<\/p>\n

RUSH: David Brooks\u2019 feelings are gonna be hurt, \u2019cause he wasn\u2019t invited, and he\u2019s the guy — I mean, he was all in.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Absolutely.<\/p>\n

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RUSH: — crease in the slacks and so forth the first time around. That\u2019s puzzling.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Maybe there will be a round two. Who knows.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yeah. Brooks wasn\u2019t invited. Hm-hm. Well, you know, I knew it had happened, and I would think, if it were me, I\u2019d come out of there hell-bent on making everybody know that I wasn\u2019t pliable. I\u2019d come out, I\u2019d be firing double barrels at Obama after something like that.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Exactly.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Rather than go soft on him \u2019cause I wouldn\u2019t want my readers to think I was that easily neutered, as it were.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Maybe he chose his subjects well. I hope not, but maybe so. We\u2019ll see.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Byron York, I don\u2019t know. The only guy on that list who really is consistently pro-Republican establishment is Costa from National Review. Now, the other guys have their moments.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yeah.<\/p>\n

RUSH: They go back and forth. They all do good work now and then.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Now and then. Ha-ha-ha.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Now, there was something on the tip of my tongue I want to say here, it\u2019s slipping my mind, and if I don\u2019t concentrate on it, it might — ah, it\u2019ll come to me at some point. There\u2019s something else I wanted to add. But, look, Greg I appreciate the call. Thanks much. It isn\u2019t gonna matter anything. It\u2019s not a big deal one way or the other. Oh! I know what it was. George Will\u2019s column today. George Will was in the first group invited back in 2009, but he wasn\u2019t in this group, and George Will has a column today. It\u2019s based on a book that\u2019s just been written, and I don\u2019t have the name of the book in front of me. <\/p>\n

<\/a> I\u2019ll find it during the break. But the theory espoused in the book is that the modern liberalism that we know can be traced to the Kennedy assassination. This guy\u2019s theory is that faced with the choice that a communist, a little communist had killed Kennedy or America\u2019s defects had killed Kennedy, the liberals chose America\u2019s defects. And from that point to today they glommed on — he gives quotes from Scotty Reston and New York Times writers blaming conservatives, blaming American culture, blaming all sorts of rotten American characteristics for killing Kennedy. And it begot the modern era of liberalism that America is to blame for everything. And I\u2019ve heard that theory espoused, not quite that way before.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: George Will and his column published today in the New York Post. Who the heck knows when it really first ran. It\u2019s within a day or two, obviously. Now, before I share with you the details of it, I found this little blurb on George Will. Apparently he was on NPR yesterday, National Public Radio. “George Will compared Obamacare to segregation and the Fugitive Slave Act in an interview with NPR on Wednesday, noting that just because it\u00c2\u2019s a law doesn\u00c2\u2019t mean that it should continue to be one.” Gee, you know, one of George Will\u2019s best friends is Dr. Krauthammer. They used to play chess together at George Will\u2019s house many, many, many man\u2019s ago. <\/p>\n

The Republican Party establishment would never say this. George Will “also criticized what he called the ‘untidy, utterly Democratic\u2019 process of changing laws. When [he was asked] what he thought about President Obama\u00c2\u2019s argument that Republicans are short-circuiting the system, rather than appealing the law, Will replied that Republicans are doing no such thing. ‘How does this short-circuit the system?\u2019 Will said. ‘I hear Democrats say, ‘The Affordable Care Act is the law,\u2019 as though we\u2019re supposed to genuflect at that sunburst of insight and move on.\u2019<\/p>\n

“Will added that the Fugitive Slave Act had once been law, but that lots of things are the law until the American people decide to change them. While he appears to support Republican efforts to dismantle Obamacare, Will noted that using the debt ceiling as leverage is ‘not novel\u2019, and that it is unlikely to work.”<\/p>\n

Again, that\u2019s not the point to me, but my gosh, if you did things because they wouldn\u2019t work, nobody would do half of what they\u2019ve done or more. But I don\u2019t want to re-prosecute that. I want to move on here. I\u2019m not trying to leave you hanging. George Will\u2019s piece today is on a book written by James Piereson of the Manhattan Institute. His book was published in 2007, and it\u2019s called “Camelot and the Cultural Revolution: How the Assassination of John F. Kennedy Shattered American Liberalism.”<\/p>\n

It begins with a quote from Jackie Kennedy on the day her husband was murdered, November 22nd, 1963. She\u2019s quoted as saying, “He didn\u00c2\u2019t even have the satisfaction of being killed for civil rights. It\u00c2\u2019s — it had to be some silly little Communist.”<\/p>\n

Jackie Kennedy thought that her husband\u2019s death had been robbed of any meaning because he was killed by some silly little communist, Lee Harvey Oswald. This reminds me of the Democrats being jealous that 911 didn\u2019t happen on Clinton\u2019s watch. He was robbed of a chance for greatness. They really said that, folks, if you doubt me. Not Clinton, but his friends, associates, people in his administration actually lamented that if that was gonna happen, why couldn\u2019t it have happened when Clinton was president? Why does Bush get the chance for greatness? So Jackie Kennedy, I did not know that, by the way. I didn\u2019t know that she had said, “He didn\u2019t even have the satisfaction of being killed for civil rights. It had to be some silly little communist.” <\/p>\n

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“Jackie Kennedy thought [her husband being murdered by Oswald] robbed his death of any meaning. But a meaning would be quickly manufactured to serve a new politics. First, however, an inconvenient fact — Oswald — had to be expunged from the story. So, just 24 months after the assassination,” two years, just two years after the assassination, “Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., the Kennedys\u00c2\u2019 kept historian –” I love that phrase, kept historian, like kept woman, meaning Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., the guy we\u2019re paying to write the history we want. He-he-he-he. “– published a 1,000-page history of the 1,000-day presidency without mentioning the assassin.<\/p>\n

“The transformation of a murder by a marginal man into a killing by a sick culture began instantly — before Kennedy was buried. The afternoon of the assassination, Chief Justice Earl Warren ascribed Kennedy\u00c2\u2019s ‘martyrdom\u2019 to ‘the hatred and bitterness that has been injected into the life of our nation by bigots.\u2019 The next day, James Reston, the New York Times luminary, wrote in a front-page story that JFK was a victim of a ‘streak of violence in the American character,\u2019 especially of ‘the violence of the extremists on the right.'”<\/p>\n

The day after. Folks, this is exactly right. I think this analysis is dead on. The Kennedy media machine moved immediately to expunge Oswald from having had anything to do with this, and Kennedy was shot, and you\u2019ve probably remembered growing up hearing not long after the assassination what a bunch of rabid, conspiratorial nutcase conservatives had taken over Texas and Dallas and that that\u2019s why Kennedy even had to go there, because he was in danger of losing the electoral votes of Texas. He had to go down there because it was taken over by a bunch of right-wing kooks and before long the Kennedy media machine had moved into action to make everybody think that Oswald, he didn\u2019t even exist anymore. It was mean extremist right-wingers who had created the atmosphere, the culture in which Oswald was able and inspired to act. <\/p>\n

Now, adjacent to James Reston\u2019s article in the New York Times, again, front-page story, the day after the assassination that JFK was a victim of a streak of violence in the American character, especially of the violence of the extremists on the right.<\/p>\n

“Never mind that adjacent to Reston\u00c2\u2019s article was a Times report on Oswald\u00c2\u2019s communist convictions and associations.” Folks, this theory is really dead-on right, and we\u2019ve talked about this on the program before, although not quite in this detail. I forget who did it. It might have been a caller, but somebody I spoke to postulated that the left, somebody had the theory that modern liberalism could be explained by the Kennedy assassination. It was that they could not possibly allow for it to stand that he\u2019d be killed by communists, because the Democrat Party even then was sympathetic to communists.<\/p>\n

It just didn\u2019t work, so they had to come up with a substitute. They had to come up with some other reason why Oswald did it, why he was able to do it, how he was able to get away with it. So they came up with this extremist radical, right-wing, bigot culture in Texas. “Three days after the assassination, a Times editorial, ‘Spiral of Hate,\u2019 identified JFK\u2019s killer as a ‘spirit\u2019: The Times deplored ‘the shame all America must bear for the spirit of madness and hate that struck down\u2019 Kennedy.<\/p>\n

“The editorialists were, presumably, immune to this spirit. The new liberalism-as-paternalism would be about correcting other people\u2019s defects.” So the modern era of liberalism was born because America\u2019s imperfections had risen to the surface, and they were so great, the imperfections were so profound that they had led to the assassination of the most beloved president ever, and therefore liberalism must begin to immediately correct the “defects” of this country. <\/p>\n

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That\u2019s how it began. “Hitherto a doctrine of American celebration and optimism, liberalism would become a scowling indictment: Kennedy was killed by America\u2019s social climate whose sickness required ‘punitive liberalism,'” and so they expunge Oswald. Now, not from the historical record. Everybody knows Oswald did it. But the successful thing they did was create this mythical, bigot, racist, hateful culture that gave birth to a guy like Oswald. <\/p>\n

Not communism. <\/p>\n

Oswald came back from the Soviet Union to do this! “That phrase,” punitive liberalism, “is from James Piereson of the Manhattan Institute, whose 2007 book ‘Camelot and the Cultural Revolution: How the Assassination of John F. Kennedy Shattered American Liberalism\u2019 is a profound meditation on the reverberations of the rifle shots in Dealey Plaza. The bullets of Nov. 22, 1963, altered the nation\u2019s trajectory less by killing a president than by giving birth to a destructive narrative about America.<\/p>\n

“Fittingly, the narrative was most injurious to the narrators. Their recasting of the tragedy to validate their curdled conception of the nation marked a ruinous turn for liberalism.” Now, some of you might be asking, “What ruinous? They\u2019re running the show! Obama\u2019s the president; liberals are running everything.” Yeah, but in the classical sense, classic liberalism, they used to be pretty good. It is a despicable, corrupted mess, and we\u2019re living it. <\/p>\n

“Punitive liberalism preached the necessity of national repentance for a history of crimes and misdeeds that had produced a present so poisonous that it murdered a president,” and that\u2019s what they created. Punitive liberalism. Punish. We\u2019re going to punish people. We need, as a nation, to repent for our sordid history of crimes and misdeeds that had been so bad and so noxious that they created an aura and a universe and an atmosphere and a culture capable of killing the most popular beloved president ever. <\/p>\n

“To be a liberal would mean being a scold. Liberalism would become the doctrine of grievance groups owed redress for cumulative inherited injuries inflicted by the nation\u2019s tawdry history, toxic present and ominous future,” and, lo and behold, that\u2019s exactly what it\u2019s become. Now, I believe that while this is true, I think people like Obama, their opinion of America predates the Kennedy assassination. I think his roots go all the way back to the founding. <\/p>\n

But essentially so does this, too. I mean, if you\u2019re gonna take the Kennedy assassination and claim that the founding of the country gave us this noxious and offensive, poisonous country capable of killing the most beloved popular president ever, then something was wrong with it from the start. “To reread Robert Frost\u2019s banal poem written for JFK\u2019s inauguration (‘A golden age of poetry and power of which this noonday\u2019s the beginning hour\u2019) is to wince at its clunky attempt to conjure an Augustan age from the melding of politics and celebrity that the Kennedys used to pioneer the presidency-as-entertainment. <\/p>\n

“Under Kennedy, liberalism began to become more stylistic than programmatic. After him — especially after his successor, Lyndon Johnson, drove to enactment the Civil Rights Acts, Medicare and Medicaid — liberalism became less concerned with material well-being than with lifestyle, and cultural issues such as feminism, abortion and sexual freedom. The bullets fired on Nov. 22, 1963, could shatter the social consensus that characterized the 1950s only because powerful new forces of an adversarial culture were about to erupt through society\u2019s crust.<\/p>\n

“Foremost among these forces was the college-bound population bulge — baby boomers with their sense of entitlement and moral superiority, vanities encouraged by an intelligentsia bored by peace and prosperity and hungry for heroic politics. Liberalism\u2019s disarray during the late 1960s, combined with Americans\u2019 recoil from liberal hectoring, catalyzed the revival of conservatism in the 1970s. As Piereson writes, the retreat of liberalism from a doctrine of American affirmation left a void that would be filled by Ronald Reagan 17 years after the assassination. <\/p>\n

“The moral of liberalism\u2019s explanation of Kennedy\u2019s murder is that there is a human instinct to reject the fact that large events can have small, squalid causes; there is an intellectual itch to discern large hidden meanings in events. And political opportunism is perennial.” That\u2019s just it. It\u2019s a long way around claiming that people at the moment of Kennedy\u2019s assassination realized they had an opportunity to blame America for it, and specifically the right. They had to expunge Oswald; had to explain Oswald\u2019s existence by virtue of a corrupt, polluted American culture, traceable to our founding. And liberals then gave themselves the power and the excuse to fix it all with punitive liberalism. <\/p>\n

Folks, what we have in the government shutdown is punitive liberalism. <\/p>\n

In fact, the entire Obama administration could be called that. <\/p>\n

Gotta take a break. Back after this. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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