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RUSH: No, no, no, I didn\u2019t even know about it. I didn\u2019t even know about this David Brooks piece because it\u2019s in the New York Times, and I do not read the New York Times. I honestly don\u2019t. I have people that do. I can\u2019t deal with it. So I have people that do, and anything in it that I should know the show prep little helpers deal with, and they fire me stuff from the New York Times, and I throw away 90% of it. I didn\u2019t know about this. Nobody told me about this. Snerdley came in about a half hour before the program today. <\/p>\n

Greetings, and welcome back. Great to have you here, Rush Limbaugh behind the Golden EIB Microphone at the distinguished Limbaugh Institute for Advanced Conservative Studies. 800-282-2882 if you want to be on the program. <\/line><\/p>\n

So Snerdley walks in here and he says, “You\u2019ve been called out again. David Brooks, New York Times, all this is your fault.” <\/p>\n

I said, “You\u2019re kidding? I haven\u2019t heard of that.” So he showed it to me, right there it is, and I said, “You know, I\u2019m not even gonna mention this. How many times has this been said about me?” <\/p>\n

“You can\u2019t let this go by. This is Brooks. He calls himself a conservative, and here he is lambasting you.” <\/p>\n

And I said, “All he wants is click bait, Snerdley. These people all know that all I have to do is mention \u2019em and they\u2019re gonna get droves more traffic than otherwise. That\u2019s half the reason they write about me.” <\/p>\n

And Snerdley said, “I don\u2019t know. Even so, you just can\u2019t let this stand.” <\/p>\n

“Why not?” <\/p>\n

And, lo and behold, so I mention this as a tease at the end of the previous hour, and I get a bunch of e-mails, “Why\u2019d you do that? All you\u2019re doing is driving traffic to the New York Times.” I knew it. Because nobody believes this. But since I\u2019ve mentioned it, and, by the way, Ben Shapiro who is writing here at DailyWire.com<\/a>. I should mention him because he writes a piece totally refuting it. <\/line><\/p>\n

Folks, do not misunderstand this, because this is not whining. It isn\u2019t complaining. All I\u2019m doing is observing here. Whenever I am under assault or under attack, I am rarely defended out there, even by people supposedly quasi-on my team. The reason for it is very understandable. They all think I can handle it myself. They don\u2019t think I need any help. They don\u2019t think I need any defending because it\u2019s not right what is being said and so forth. So it doesn\u2019t happen much. It does happen, but it doesn\u2019t happen much. In fact, sometimes it happens and then some so-called conservatives then jump on the bandwagon. “Yeah, yeah, you know Limbaugh\u2019s been a problem.” It\u2019s all just career and professional envy and jealousy, in most cases, which is also very normal. It\u2019s standard human nature. <\/p>\n

So Shapiro has written this piece refuting David Brooks, which doesn\u2019t happen much in my case. So I wanted to mention Shapiro as well as Brooks. Now, what\u2019s amazing to me, David Brooks is the guy — and I totally understand him striking back at me. I mean, I made fun of this guy <\/line>ever since he told everybody that he was convinced Obama was gonna be a great president because of the crease in his slacks at dinner at George Will\u2019s house. That was David Brooks. David Brooks is the so-called conservative with Mark “Maxi” Shields on whatever that is. What is the name of that show? PBS. The NewsHour. That\u2019s right. The Newshour with Jim Lehrer. He\u2019s not there anymore. Somebody else, I guess Gwen Eiffel. I don\u2019t even know that. But Brooks is supposedly the conservative columnist at the New York Times. <\/line><\/p>\n

You know what I\u2019m really curious about, is how come it is the media loves to question the authenticity of conservative politicians. Like they\u2019ll go out and demand that Ted Cruz prove he\u2019s Hispanic by asking him what\u2019s your favorite Cuban meal, or do you know how to hit a pinata? Have you ever been a pinata? You know, stupid stuff like that. They\u2019re always demanding that these conservatives defend or proclaim their authenticity, but they never question the authenticity of so-called conservative pundits, like Brooks here. He\u2019s not a conservative anymore. If anything, the guy\u2019s No Labels. <\/p>\n

But that\u2019s the best that can be said. The fact of the matter is he\u2019s a New York Times columnist, and he\u2019s, if anything, a moderate RINO. But there\u2019s not much authentic conservatism in Brooks anymore. But he is the guy that wrote about Obama, his crease in his slacks dazzled him and convinced him he\u2019s gonna be a good president. ‘Cause I guess it meant that he was fastidious and cared so much about his appearance that somebody was that concerned about their appearance would have to be a brilliant, brilliant president. <\/p>\n

Anyway, the piece is headlined: “The Republicans Incompetence Caucus<\/a> — The House Republican caucus is close to ungovernable these days. How did this situation come about? This was not just the work of the Freedom Caucus or Ted Cruz or one month\u00c2\u2019s activity. The Republican Party\u00c2\u2019s capacity for effective self-governance degraded slowly, over the course of a long chain of rhetorical excesses, mental corruptions and philosophical betrayals. Basically, the party abandoned traditional conservatism for right-wing radicalism.”<\/p>\n

And of course you and I know that that\u2019s not what\u2019s happened. Traditional conservatism has been abandoned for squishy, linguini-spined, RINO moderate beliefs, and that has led them to now call what is mainstream conservatism radical. Mainstream conservatism is focused on liberty. Anyway, you get it. <\/p>\n

“Republicans came to see themselves as insurgents and revolutionaries, and every revolution tends toward anarchy and ends up devouring its own.” Anarchy. Revolution. Anarchy. “By traditional definitions,” writes Mr. Brooks, “conservatism stands for intellectual humility.”<\/p>\n

Intellectual humility is, “I am smarter than you or anybody else, but I\u2019m not going to tell you. I\u2019m only going to act like it.” But to proclaim intellectual humility is to me to proclaim intellectual braggadocio. If you are so damn smart that you need to act dumb, you must really think you are hot excrement. <\/line><\/p>\n

“By traditional definitions, conservatism stands for intellectual humility.” Well I have that. I tell people all the time I\u2019m not as smart as they think I am. I\u2019m the most humble person in media. Anyway, “By traditional definitions, conservatism stands for intellectual humility, a belief in steady, incremental change, a preference for reform rather than revolution.” Really? That\u2019s how the country was founded? Reformers? (laughing) Reformers wrote the founding documents? “A respect for hierarchy.” Meaning you must respect the establishment and the various levels, and you must understand where you are on the ladder. He-he-he-he. And that\u2019s gonna be at the bottom. <\/p>\n

“Traditional conservatism requires respect for precedent, balance, and order,” which means don\u2019t make the Democrats mad. “And a tone of voice that is prudent, measured, and responsible.” Well, that obviously disqualifies me. Certainly I\u2019m not prudent or measured or responsible, in their view. And I certainly lack grace. I\u2019m sure they would add that in. That\u2019s another favorite word of these people. “Conservatives of this disposition can be dull,” like Brooks is, “but they know how to nurture and run institutions.” Really? Show me one. Show me one you\u2019re running that\u2019s winning and triumphing over anything. <\/p>\n

“They also see the nation as one organic whole. Citizens may fall into different classes and political factions, but they are still joined by chains of affection that command ultimate loyalty and love.” Like illegal immigrants, acts of individual love. “All of this has been overturned in dangerous parts of the Republican Party. Over the past 30 years, or at least since Rush Limbaugh came on the scene.” (laughing) I wish my parents were alive. (laughing) To read this, my grandfather, too, the New York Times, this would blow their minds. <\/p>\n

“Over the past 30 years, or at least since Rush Limbaugh came on the scene, the Republican rhetorical tone has grown ever more bombastic, hyperbolic and imbalanced. Public figures are prisoners of their own prose styles, and Republicans from Newt Gingrich through Ben Carson have become addicted to a crisis mentality. Civilization was always on the brink of collapse. Every setback, like the passage of Obamacare, became the ruination of the republic. Comparisons to Nazi Germany became a staple.”<\/p>\n

So you see, Brooks is the perfect illustration of that part of our country which does not think that anything that\u2019s happened in the last seven years is abnormal or even particularly threatening or dangerous. And we who do see it that way, we are the problem, you see. Because we are crisis-mongers, and we\u2019ve become addicted. <\/p>\n

Mr. Brooks, do you read the paper you\u2019re in? Or the Washington Post? Have you somehow missed that the standard operating procedure of the American left today is crisis after crisis after crisis? And, Mr. Brooks, have you forgotten what conservatism is? Somebody has to try to stop this onslaught of the left. They are responsible for this crisis mentality because they promote crisis after crisis after crisis, and those of us with the gonads to stand up and try to stop it end up being accused of causing the crisis? You think it\u2019s perfectly normal that the federal government, and you\u2019re a conservative, would simply subsume one-sixth of the US economy? That\u2019s conservatism? Well, he thinks that. <\/line><\/p>\n

Anyway, ” This produced a radical mind-set. Conservatives started talking about the Reagan ‘revolution,\u2019 the Gingrich ‘revolution.\u2019 Among people too ill educated to understand the different spheres –” in other words, you people who are too stupid and too dumb, you mind-numbed robots who listen to Svengalis like me, “– adopted the mental habits of the entrepreneur. Everything had to be transformational and disruptive. Hierarchy and authority were equated with injustice. Self-expression became more valued than self-restraint and coalition building.” Self-restraint? You mean like our rules of engagement in Afghanistan where we can\u2019t fire? “A contempt for politics infested the Republican mind.”<\/p>\n

No, Mr. Brooks, a contempt for liberalism, which, thanks to you, is winning every damn day, because of you and people like you. Your liberal friends are literally winning the day. And the fact that you don\u2019t even see a competition with them, big problem, sir. “Politics is the process of making decisions amid diverse opinions.” No, politics is the art of winning about your cherished principled beliefs. Politics is the art of persuasion. “It involves conversation, calm deliberation, self-discipline.” Right, like we see on the Democrat side every day when they\u2019re out there lying about Romney and his taxes. Or Romney and the guy\u2019s wife who died of cancer, Romney didn\u2019t care, maybe even caused it. You sit idly by while people on your side are ruined and defamed and call for calm deliberation, self-discipline, and the capacity to listen to the liars. <\/p>\n

“But this new Republican faction,” i.e., Rush Limbaugh, “regards the messy business of politics as soiled and impure. Compromise is corruption. Inconvenient facts are ignored. Countrymen with different views are regarded as aliens. Political identity became a sort of ethnic identity, and any compromise was regarded as a blood betrayal.” Yeah, well, I don\u2019t know what there is to compromise with liberals on. When\u2019s the last time they compromised with you, Dave? Well, you\u2019re not a good one to ask because you agree with them. <\/p>\n

When\u2019s the last time the liberals compromised? They don\u2019t. We\u2019re the ones that have to change our attitude on immigration. We\u2019re the ones that gotta change our attitude on abortion. We\u2019re the ones that have to always do the things that really add up to us just kissing away our principles. At least we still have some. This is classic ruling-class drivel that passes for high intellect and brilliant reason, and so forth. <\/p>\n

Now, Shapiro just rips this to pieces in his piece at DailyWire.com. Brooks writes, “Over the past 30 years, or at least since El Rushbo came on the scene, the Republican rhetorical tone has grown ever more bombastic,” blah, blah, blah. Shapiro writes, “One wonders whether Brooks has ever listened to five minutes of Rush Limbaugh, or whether Limbaugh is too gauche for his chichi sensibilities. Blaming Rush Limbaugh for conservative radicalism while ignoring Rush\u00c2\u2019s role in returning Congress to Republican control in 1994 seems odd; blasting Newt Gingrich, the architect of that victory, seems equally odd, when you\u00c2\u2019re talking about successful Republican movements.” Then there\u2019s more. He even called Brooks horse excrement, except he doesn\u2019t say “excrement.”<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: You know, there\u2019s one thing that Brooks is right about and he doesn\u2019t know it. And I\u2019ve even said this on the air. You know what, let me go to the phones because there\u2019s not enough time to fully develop this and say it the way I want to say it, but I think the arrival of this program and the giant conservative army that it built, with all the other talk shows and the conservative blogosphere, I think that is what awoke the Drive-By Media from their phony objectivity and turned them into the partisans they are. It blew up their monopoly. <\/line><\/p>\n

Back in 1988 they had a monopoly. CNN was the only cable news network, and that was it. The three networks and the newspapers, magazines, they owned everything. In \u201988 this program starts and that began the end of their monopoly, and that is when they freaked out. And that\u2019s when they began to stop hiding what they really are: extreme radical leftists. They became competitors and they threw off this objectivity yoke. I mean, they tried to maintain that they were fair and balanced and all this other stuff, but the truth was displayed, was exposed, and they were forced to adopt public positions, portrayals of exactly who they\u2019ve always been, like Cronkite, the biggest arch-leftist that you would ever find, but nobody ever would think that. He never had to come out and be it. <\/p>\n

But in 1988 they all had to come to the surface because there was competition for their audience, which they had lost. So now they are constantly trying to prove that they can still move people that shape and make public opinion rather than reflect it, and that has created competition, on the surface, not beneath the surface, competition in the news business where there supposedly isn\u2019t supposed to be. Objective, not supposed to be known ideologically, party wise, one way or the other, but now there\u2019s no pretense whatsoever. <\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: Snerdley, you\u2019ll want to hear this — a close friend of mine said: “I think you missed the point of the Brooks piece.” He said, “Keep a sharp eye now if the Brooks piece gives other Republicans cover to start blaming you for everything.” <\/p>\n

This friend of mine said: “A lot of these elected Republicans, the stories in the news media constantly say how afraid they are to oppose you.” Remember that story last week, none of them want to be Speaker because they\u2019ll have to deal with me, which I think is utter nonsense, by the way. I think it\u2019s total BS. But the stories are out there. So this friend of mine says: “You better just keep a sharp eye because that Brooks piece could be cover. Now all these Republicans who think you\u2019re in the way, all they gotta do is agree with Brooks. They don\u2019t have to come out and hit you on their own, they just gotta agree with Brooks.” He says: “You keep a sharp eye. They could be ready to throw you overboard inside of two days here.” <\/p>\n

I said, “I don\u2019t know, this has happened many times before. This is not the first time somebody in the Drive-By Media has taken after me.” I thought it was an interesting point. And, by the way, if it were to happen, there\u2019s a lot of — well, let me just leave it at that. I don\u2019t want to try to foretell the future on that, but if things play out here as I think they\u2019re going to, I\u2019ll be honest with you and tell you yep, yep, yep I was gonna tell you that but then I pulled back rather than make the prediction. <\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: Another friend has written about the Brooks piece. “Your other friend is wrong. This is not about anything other than the establishment of the Republican Party is it totally frazzled and at its wits\u2019 end and they have to lash out and blame somebody for it, and it\u2019s you. They\u2019re losing Boehner. They can\u2019t control anything. The conservative caucus is taking over the House of Representatives, and so they got to lash out and blame you.” That\u2019s what you think it is, Snerdley? All right, well, whatever, who do I write to thank? That\u2019s the real question. To whom do I send a thank-you note? ‘Cause I knew it\u2019s not Brooks\u2019 idea, though I\u2019m sure he had no problem doing it. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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