{"id":283099,"date":"2018-08-24T15:50:56","date_gmt":"2018-08-24T19:50:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/?p=283099"},"modified":"2018-08-27T16:29:51","modified_gmt":"2018-08-27T20:29:51","slug":"i-offer-to-talk-but-tech-giants-are-just-leftist-haters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2018\/08\/24\/i-offer-to-talk-but-tech-giants-are-just-leftist-haters\/","title":{"rendered":"I Offer to Talk, But Tech Giants Are Just Leftist Haters"},"content":{"rendered":"

RUSH: Okay. We move on now from what to do if you get a period when you\u2019re a man to Franz in Scranton, Pennsylvania. It\u2019s your turn, you\u2019re next up, it\u2019s great to have you with us, Franz. How are you?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Mega dittos from Luzerne County, which carried the president to victory.<\/p>\n

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

\"\"CALLER: I\u2019d like to quickly shout out to my father, John, who\u2019s sitting in the car listening to you right now, smoking a cigar. So he knows now why I haven\u2019t called him back. I\u2019ll call you back after this, Dad.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Right on. What kind of cigar do you think he\u2019s smoking?<\/p>\n

CALLER: He likes Montecristos, but he\u2019ll smoke anything. He\u2019s a connoisseur, but at this point —<\/p>\n

RUSH: Right. But he\u2019s not a snob about it?<\/p>\n

CALLER: No, no.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Exactly right.<\/p>\n

CALLER: During eight years of Obama he smoked anything he could get.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Okay. Cool.<\/p>\n

CALLER: I want to say this, Rush. Last week I was having dinner. I ran into Senator Bob Casey. Now, we\u2019re hoping that Senator Bob Casey gets term limited and we get great Lou Barletta. But my point was I didn\u2019t go over to him. We disagree politically. I didn\u2019t go over to him, I didn\u2019t bother him, I didn\u2019t argue with him, didn\u2019t anything.<\/p>\n

The liberals want to fight with you over everything. I made one Twitter thing about seeing him. And I got barraged by people saying how wrong I was to say where he was and this and that. I was called a racist and all those other things, which I get tired of.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, are you? Are you one?<\/p>\n

CALLER: (sarcastically) Oh, yeah, I\u2019m a racist.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, we just have to make sure. I\u2019m just asking. I know you\u2019re not, but —<\/p>\n

CALLER: Oh, no.<\/p>\n

RUSH: — you never know.<\/p>\n

\"\"CALLER: Exactly. Now, you know, it\u2019s one of those things where you\u2019re called into question because you\u2019re a Republican. Now, I also want to say, the biggest lie that has been told by the Democrats or the liberals, is that only Republicans voted for the president. It took Republicans, it took Democrats, it took independents to vote for the president. They ignore —<\/p>\n

RUSH: Look. I\u2019m sure some men who have periods voted for Trump too. All boundaries were crossed. But, look, let me go back, you said you saw Senator Casey and you didn\u2019t even think about going up and harassing him and so forth, whereas the Democrats do this. But do you expect — don\u2019t misunderstand the tone of my voice. I\u2019m trying to understand why that\u2019s a big deal. Are you expecting like a Gold Star for not harassing him when they harass us? Why is that an important point to make?<\/p>\n

CALLER: I think it\u2019s an important point to make that Republicans want you to live your life. Even if you\u2019re in public service, they want to you enjoy your dinner. They want to you enjoy your life. The politics is for a debate forum, but not for torturing somebody. Like Sarah Sanders, she can\u2019t even go out to dinner. And, by the way, happy birthday to Governor Huckabee today.<\/p>\n

My other thing I want to tell you, that\u2019s the thing, we want you to live your life. We don\u2019t want you to infringe on our life, and we don\u2019t want to infringe on your life. A debate forum is where it is. A call, or a town hall, fine, have those debates.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Let me ask you something. Can I ask your age?<\/p>\n

CALLER: I am 48.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Forty-eight. Okay. There\u2019s no good or bad about it. I\u2019m just curious. Because I have found — and I don\u2019t want to talk you out of this, don\u2019t misunderstand. But the younger people are, the more inclined they are to think that if the liberals just got to know us and if they just realized that we really want them to enjoy life and have fun, they wouldn\u2019t hate us so much. I used to think that. I used to think if they just got past all these cliches about me, that they wouldn\u2019t say these horrible things.<\/p>\n

They don\u2019t want to have a different view of conservatism. They don\u2019t want to have a different, or even true, view of conservatism. They\u2019re not the interested in understanding you. They simply don\u2019t want you around. They don\u2019t want you to exist. They don\u2019t want to have to listen to you no matter what you think or say. They will bully you and intimidate you as much as they have to, to get you to shut up, to get you to stop going out in public. We\u2019re dealing with genuine Stalinist type authoritarians who think the purpose of power is to tell other people how to live.<\/p>\n

I can\u2019t tell you the number of times I have offered, I\u2019ll do it again now. Mr. Zuckerberg or Mr. Brin or Mr. Page at Google<\/a>. I will go anywhere. I\u2019ll meet you for as long as it takes to help you properly understand conservatism. I\u2019ve offered this over the course of my career. I have yet to be taken up on it. I never will be taken up on it. They don\u2019t want to know that you want them to be happy. They don\u2019t care. This is why they are not to be made accommodations. They are to be defeated! They are to be kept in the minority at all times. That\u2019s the lesson to learn about this.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: I hate to be so blunt, folks, but there\u2019s no way that you\u2019re gonna be able to convince people so filled with hate to like you, to love you. It doesn\u2019t matter how many times, how much time you take, trying to tell them who you really are, when they hate you to begin with. And remember what Obama told all these people. On October 23rd, 2010, Obama says, “Punish your enemies. Get in their face. If they bring a knife, bring a gun,” or whatever. You know the drill.<\/p>\n

JOHNNY DONOVAN: And now, from sunny south Florida, it\u2019s Open Line Friday!<\/p>\n

\"\"RUSH: But, hey! You know I\u2019ll offer to do it again here. Facebook and Twitter and Google and — I don\u2019t know — Apple. I don\u2019t think they\u2019re part of it, but the social media sites, these tech leaders. Let me get the story here. Oh. By the way. Something else happened out there that is exactly what I told you yesterday is gonna happen. I\u2019ve gotta get to that right now, right now. Hang on.<\/p>\n

“Tech Giants Meeting Today to Discuss Countermeasures to Election Disinformation Campaign<\/a>.” And this story is all over the tech blogs that I read. And they are digging it. They are lapping it up. They are loving it. Because this is purpose. These tech giants ought to be meeting to find ways to keep conservatives off the platforms. That\u2019s exactly what they think tech leaders should be doing.<\/p>\n

Folks, they hate us. And, by the way, nobody\u2019s born hating. That has to be taught. That has to be instilled. And it has been. These kids, these lives — I think it\u2019s primarily happening via education, but, in some cases, it may happen in the home.<\/p>\n

“More than a dozen tech giants are meeting today to discuss countermeasures for state-sponsored disinformation campaigns on their platforms during the run-up to the 2018 midterm elections.”<\/p>\n

BuzzFeed has the details. Says the meeting was arranged by Facebook. “Last week, Facebook\u2019s head of cybersecurity policy, Nathaniel Gleicher, invited employees from a dozen companies, including Google, Microsoft, and Snapchat, to gather at Twitter\u2019s headquarters in downtown San Francisco.<\/p>\n

“The meeting will have a three-part agenda: Each company presents the work they\u2019ve been doing to counter information operations –” I\u2019m telling you, all this means is how to keep conservatism off the platforms. It\u2019s disguised as how to keep the Russians out. See, the Russians and conservatives are all the same. Russians helping Trump, Russians helping Trump is the same as Russians helping Republicans or conservatives.<\/p>\n

“Each company presents the work they\u2019ve been doing to counter information operations; a discussion period for problems each company faces; and a talk about whether such a meeting should become a regular occurrence.<\/p>\n

“It follows a similar meeting in May, that one attended by senior representatives from the Department of Homeland Security and FBI. The CIA, FBI and NSA all agree that Russia interfered –”<\/p>\n

Grab sound bite number 20. Here we go. The CIA, FBI, NSA all agree that Russia interfered in the U.S. presidential election through fake social media posts and other activities.<\/p>\n