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RUSH: Tom in South Holland, Illinois. Tom, I\u2019m glad you waited. Welcome to the EIB Network.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Rush, it\u2019s a pleasure to talk to you.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Thank you, sir.<\/p>\n

CALLER: You know, I\u2019ve been sitting here listening to this stuff for the last few days about you, but what really made me mad a while ago is you talked about Jan taking the floor of the House —<\/p>\n

RUSH: That would be Jan Schakowsky. Is she your Congress babe?<\/p>\n

CALLER: In Illinois here?<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yeah.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yeah, I think so.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, I know she\u2019s from Illinois, but is she in your district?<\/p>\n

CALLER: No.<\/p>\n

RUSH: You\u2019re lucky. So we can\u2019t hold you accountable for the fact that she\u2019s in Congress. So you don\u2019t need to apologize.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Oh, that\u2019s right. And then what I\u2019d like to get off my chest is that I\u2019m so tired of the Democrats like her taking the floor and lying to make things perfectly clear when I would like them to make it perfectly honest for a change instead of clear, as they see it. And I believe in my own heart that this bill that was forced on President Bush, knowing he would veto it, for which he was set up. And what really makes me irritated about the fact that he was set up to veto it so they could slam him, is now they\u2019re using children as shields in their fight against Bush, as you would use a child as a shield against a murdering shooter.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Hell, that\u2019s nothing new.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yeah.<\/p>\n

RUSH: They\u2019ve been using the children for a long time. Congressional hearings, they bring up these poor kids to be paraded in front of the media.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Have they no shame?<\/p>\n

RUSH: They bring up the elderly. They bring up all their activists.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Nothing is out of bounds with them, is it?<\/p>\n

RUSH: Look, Tom, they are not about truth.<\/p>\n

CALLER: No, they\u2019re not.<\/p>\n

RUSH: You nailed it. They are about power.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Keep it up, Rush.<\/p>\n

RUSH: In fact, folks, I\u2019m going to say something that might surprise you a bit. I\u2019m beginning to consider the possibility that the Democrats have just moved beyond ideology, in terms of what propels them. And by that I mean, I don\u2019t think that it\u2019s just liberalism that\u2019s propelling them. There is something further and more disastrous and more dangerous going on, and I think they\u2019ve become Stalinist-like. What we\u2019re seeing here from Wesley Clark, Media Matters for America, all the Democrats on the floor of the House and Senate, denouncing me, a private citizen, this is not just liberalism. It\u2019s Stalinist, using the power of the state to intimidate citizens. I have mentioned to you I don\u2019t know how many times, and I\u2019ve asked you to conduct this experiment: When you are with a group of people at a party, I don\u2019t care where, even your friends and maybe some in the group you don\u2019t know but most of the people you do — notice how scared everybody is to say anything for fear of making others uncomfortable, or for fear of offending somebody, or for fear of being ripped to shreds for making somebody uncomfortable, or offending them. <\/p>\n

We are allowing ourselves to be shut up by virtue of political correctness, not willing to offend anybody and so forth, and you try this test. If you really want to try the test, the next time you\u2019re in one of these situations like this, don\u2019t hold back, say what you really think about something and gauge the reaction. I guarantee you that you are going to stand alone, you\u2019re going to stand out, and people are going to go, ‘How can you say that?\u2019 ‘What do you mean? My mouth opened, the tongue moved, and syllables came out, that\u2019s how I said it. It\u2019s what I think.\u2019 ‘No, I don\u2019t mean that. I mean, how can you say that?\u2019 ‘Because it\u2019s what I think.\u2019 So few people are unwilling to tell anybody else what they really think because they are scared. Right now they\u2019re just scared of controversy; they\u2019re scared of other people not liking them; they\u2019re scared of other people being offended; they\u2019re scared of other people criticizing them. But, in a lot of places in the world, the same fear exists, but it\u2019s fear of the state. <\/p>\n

That\u2019s why I heartily recommended last week you go out and rent the movie The Lives of Others. It won the Academy Award for best foreign film. Folks, it is a gray and depressing movie. It ends on a warm note. Don\u2019t watch it with your kids. It\u2019s an R-rated movie, and it\u2019s got some sex in it which is totally unrelated to the story. They just put it in there for the art aspect of it. Just watch it. It is an accurate portrayal and depiction of what life was like in East Germany before the wall fell. I\u2019m not suggesting we live in East Germany. Don\u2019t misunderstand. I\u2019m saying this is the kind of thing that can happen over time while people aren\u2019t even aware of it, shutting up and not telling people what you think, and you think it\u2019s virtuous. We\u2019ve been led to believe it\u2019s virtuous not to offend anybody. We\u2019ve been led to believe it\u2019s virtuous not to cause controversy. Everybody wants to get along, don\u2019t make waves. So the result of this is fear shuts people up, and they think it\u2019s virtue at the same time. Which is asinine. <\/p>\n

You don\u2019t think that Harry Reid\u2019s trying to shut me up? You don\u2019t think Harry Reid is trying to intimidate the company that syndicates this program, shut me up and denounce me? You don\u2019t think the Democrats in the House — that\u2019s what this is about, and to show everybody else what can happen to them next if they succeed. That\u2019s why I\u2019m fighting this. I am not going to cower in fear of anybody in government. I\u2019m not going to cower in fear of people in the state. I\u2019m not going to cower in fear especially when I\u2019m being smeared and lied about in terms of what I said and what I thought! Now they\u2019re even questioning what was in my mind when I said ‘phony soldiers.\u2019 ‘What were you thinking when you said that?\u2019 They are interpreting it for everybody, so they\u2019re granting themselves the power to interpret my thoughts and rework my words, two words they\u2019ve turned into hundreds of thousands of words. We have now something more than liberalism going on. I\u2019m not saying that liberalism isn\u2019t there. Liberalism is a central component to all this. But what\u2019s happening here is Stalinist: fear of the state, people shutting up, fear of other people. <\/p>\n

When you have the state, be it the federal government, or the state government, or your local government, [any of them] can even get involved in using that power to tell you what you can and can\u2019t say and where you can and can\u2019t say it, and what you can and can\u2019t eat, and where you can and can\u2019t eat it. They may not be issuing direct orders. They\u2019re trying to make you feel guilty about driving what you drive, eating what you eat. It\u2019s all designed to control your behavior using fear of punishment if you disobey. That\u2019s who today\u2019s liberals are. That\u2019s who today\u2019s Democrat Party is. They are not about truth. They don\u2019t want to have to deal with the truth because truth to them is whatever they say it is hour to hour, day to day, week to week. The truth is going to be whatever they want it to be and whatever benefits them. So when they say on the House floor, ‘let me make this clear,\u2019 what they\u2019re saying is, ‘this is how I want you to think of this.\u2019 They\u2019re not interested in truth. If they were interested in truth, and if they engaged in attempted truthful discussions, they would lose in landslides. <\/p>\n

They cannot be honest about who they are. This is serious stuff, folks. It may appear to be a game, and I know the way I deal with these things sometimes is to have fun with it. But I\u2019m telling you, you put Mrs. Clinton in the White House, and every damn one of these little minions and all these little organizations of hers that are out trying to destroy her enemies right now are going to be given high-government positions to do their investigations and their seek-and-destroy missions from high-government positions. Make no mistake, this is the bunch that had 500 FBI files during their eight years, make no mistake that that\u2019s what\u2019s happening here. You can choose to believe it or ignore it. It\u2019s tough to face. ‘Gosh, I didn\u2019t think it would be this bad.\u2019 It is. It portends a real problem. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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