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RUSH: Ryan in Port Jervis, New York, welcome to the EIB Network, sir. Hello.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Rush, mega dittos from Port Jervis. Honor to speak with you, sir.<\/p>\n

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

CALLER: You know I\u2019ve always kind of pictured what I was going to say when I met Rush Limbaugh and, you know, I\u2019m a 33-year-old white male from Port Jervis, New York and what\u2019s always kind of struck in my craw, I guess, about people\u2019s view of the GOP — or, you know, the mainstream\u2019s portrayal of the GOP — is that they\u2019re all older white males. And it\u2019s simply not true. I began listening to you when I was 14 years old.<\/line><\/a>RUSH: Yeah, so you\u2019re a Rush Baby.<\/line><\/p>\n

CALLER: Oh, you have no idea. When I was 14 in high school, and you had your show on channel 5. Well, it was 5 in New York.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yeah.<\/p>\n

CALLER: It was the Fox network, and I used to be up at — and I would wait until two in the morning when this came on.<\/p>\n

RUSH: I\u2019m sorry you had to do that but we had a feminist general manager there who refused to play it at a time when most normal people were awake.<\/p>\n

CALLER: (laughing) Well, it was well worth the wait. I mean, I would stay up and I would watch this and I realized that, you know, in the classes I would go to, you know, in social studies and economics in business, I\u2019m one of the only ones in class that knew what was going on, and I would watch and became like, you know, a devout follower. And, you know, to this day — and this the fact that mainly when — and I was into punk rock when I was in high school, okay? I had spiked up green hair, I had chains around the neck. I had the whole spiel, and this, you know, kind of continued through college and outside of it, but I mean so I was always kind of the outcast of my friends —<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yes?<\/p>\n

CALLER: — politically, but I mean the very idea that people just look at the GOP and anybody who, you know, ‘Republican\u2019 kind of got turned into a four-letter word lately, it\u2019s stereotypical to see people that way.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, there are many stereotypes of Republicans and conservatives: racist, sexist, bigot, homophobe. But, you know, you\u2019re right, it is really uncool to be white male today. It\u2019s been that way for a while but really uncool to be white male.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Right.<\/p>\n

RUSH: There\u2019s a stigma attached to it when talking about, oh, social or political things. I understand what you\u2019re talking about. I think this is the culmination of multiculturalism. It is the… We\u2019re not quite at the end of it yet, but this is a process that\u2019s been underway for a long, long time — longer than I have been doing this program — to basically tar and feather the majority.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Right.<\/p>\n

RUSH: White men particularly. White women are considered a minority, and everybody else but white men have always been minorities. And the white men have been tyrants. They have controlled everything. They have denied or approved based on their own discrimination and bias and racism, and all of this. And so the multicultural curriculum was basically oriented around how Western Civilization and white Europeans actually destroyed what was once a great civilization and continent, North America, and gave it the polluted existence known as the United States of America — a land of bias, a land of unfairness, a land of racism, slavery, sexism, homophobia, disease, pestilence, environmental destruction. That is why you have someone like Sonia Sotomayor or who was educated under those precepts thinking and saying the things that she says. <\/p>\n

CALLER: Right.<\/p>\n

RUSH: That is how you end up with a Barack Obama, who lives and breathes and believes the things that he says, because that\u2019s what he\u2019s been taught about this country. His wife, ditto. And those people are all enraged. They\u2019re all angry. Then you throw the white liberals in there who have guilt over the charge, and so they don\u2019t want to be the focus of the charge. So they join with the critics of the white male, and that makes them feel enlightened and advanced. But during the midst of all this… Before I say the next thing, what are you tempted to do or how are you frustrated? How is it affecting your life to know that this stigma about you is out there? Does it matter to you?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Well, it matters to me in the way that my job goes. Right now, I do alcohol and substance abuse therapy, and I meet with a group every day which is, you know, more or less total minorities. And so when this comes out eventually… You know, the therapeutic relationship is great. You know, you set up a rapport, everything is well, but the minute it comes to something that goes even the slightest bit political and the word ‘Republican\u2019 comes out of my mouth then it is straight downhill and to, you know, make any kind of stereotypes about a minority in the group is racist. ‘How dare you! How were you raised? Where did you come from?\u2019 But the second ‘Republican\u2019 comes out, ‘Ah, you\u2019re a rich white male. You\u2019re from Connecticut, blah, blah, blah. You don\u2019t even know how your people did this to us,\u2019 and it\u2019s just all this like baggage that gets carried around.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, now, I have to ask you a question.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yes, sir?<\/p>\n

RUSH: In the process… You conduct these therapy sessions with the substance abusers?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yes.<\/p>\n

RUSH: You\u2019re the therapist?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yes.<\/p>\n

RUSH: How does politics enter into these sessions?<\/p>\n

CALLER: You\u2019d be surprised.<\/p>\n

RUSH: I mean, how do you introduce politics. Because once you say, you said, that you\u2019re Republican then you lose them. <\/p>\n

CALLER: Right.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Why do you tell them you\u2019re Republican? What does it matter?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Well, what happens is, every Monday morning we do a current events group. It comes up once in a while just on little things but when the Sotomayor thing hit where she said, you know, I can make a better decision than a white male, the first thing out of my mouth was, ‘Why is this okay but if I were nominated to be a Supreme Court judge and I said, ‘You know, I could totally make a better decision than any black male out there,\u2019 you know, you would never see me again.\u2019<\/p>\n

RUSH: Okay, so that caused your group, some members of your group to blow up at you?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Well, kind of sorta. I mean, they never blow up. <\/p>\n

RUSH: I know but it got strained.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yes.<\/p>\n

RUSH: There\u2019s tension in there. Well, that\u2019s because you told \u2019em the truth.<\/p>\n

CALLER: (laughing) <\/p>\n

RUSH: That\u2019s all it is. You\u2019re challenging them. You\u2019re talking to people that live in a cocoon that protects them from the real world. They buy into all they\u2019ve been taught. They\u2019re privileged. They\u2019re special. They\u2019re victims. You just confronted, by hitting the bull\u2019s-eye, their cocoon. You blew up the cocoon. They don\u2019t want to consider anything other than the comfort level existence they\u2019ve been taught in which they live. So, bam, you hit \u2019em in the eye, between the eyes with the truth, and that\u2019s why they\u2019re lashing out at you.<\/p>\n

CALLER: And even if I thought anything else, you know, that is what I\u2019m going to keep with me. (laughs) Whatever the group comes up.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, it is. Look, what you said to them is absolutely right. You wouldn\u2019t have a chance if they had discovered that you as a judge had said you\u2019re far better than an Hispanic woman, that your experiences make you more qualified. You wouldn\u2019t see the next day in your career. You\u2019ve just told them the truth. But, see, they have been told that they can\u2019t be racist because they don\u2019t have the power to implement their racism. This has been the argument the Reverend Jackson has proffered throughout my life, that it\u2019s impossible for minorities to be racist because they don\u2019t have any power. Well… (chuckling) President of the United States? We\u2019re talking now about a Supreme Court justice? The days of them not having any power are over, and they are angry, and they want to use their power as a means of retribution. <\/p>\n

That\u2019s what Obama\u2019s about, gang. He\u2019s angry. He\u2019s gonna cut this country down to size. He\u2019s gonna make it pay for all the multicultural mistakes that it has made, its mistreatment of minorities. I know exactly what\u2019s going on here. So you have one of two options. You can avoid telling these people the truth, which I wouldn\u2019t suggest. Because if you\u2019re really dealing with substance abusers and therapy, the thing you have to do is prepare them for the real world, and if they can\u2019t face the real world, guess what they\u2019re going to return to? Whatever they were abusing. So you\u2019re doing a good thing. It\u2019s just pioneers like you take the arrows. You need a thick skin and understand that what they\u2019re saying about you is BS. You\u2019re telling them the truth. You\u2019re trying to help them, and just make sure you keep telling them, ‘Look, I\u2019m trying to help you.\u2019 You\u2019ll eventually get through to them. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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