{"id":5292,"date":"2015-09-24T17:12:18","date_gmt":"2015-09-24T17:12:18","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2015-09-24T17:12:18","modified_gmt":"2015-09-24T17:12:18","slug":"more_on_the_pope_s_speech_to_congress_what_he_said_and_what_he_meant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2015\/09\/24\/more_on_the_pope_s_speech_to_congress_what_he_said_and_what_he_meant\/","title":{"rendered":"More on the Pope\u2019s Speech to Congress: What He Said — and What He Meant"},"content":{"rendered":"

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RUSH: Okay, we\u2019re gonna go back to the audio sound bites. Pope Francis and his speech before the joint session of Congress. Let me just ask a question. This is rooted, ladies and gentlemen, in our first caller<\/a>. I\u2019ve noticed that there is a process by which people go through when they support somebody, but they\u2019re not sure what the person they support is saying all the time or maybe a person they support never has addressed certain things. The people that support them will always interpret what the person they support says as being what they like. <\/p>\n

I first saw it with Perot. I had people calling here telling me what Perot was gonna do if he was elected and what he was saying, and he hadn\u2019t said any of it, and he wasn\u2019t gonna do any of it. But people were so excited about Perot that what they wanted him to do was what they ended up hearing him say he was gonna do. There\u2019s some of that with Trump. <\/p>\n

Now, we had our caller here, God bless him, this is not a criticism of the caller; this is an observation. He was trying to tell me, “You didn\u2019t hear right, Rush. The pope had plenty of conservative things in there.” Now, I\u2019m probably going to get in a little trouble here, I\u2019m used to that, but I don\u2019t need anybody analyzing this for me. I know exactly what this pope is saying, and I know what he thinks. There isn\u2019t a whole lot of gray area for me here. And if you hear me asking somebody, “What did he mean by that?” I\u2019m trying to get people to start thinking. <\/p>\n

Let\u2019s continue the exercise here. My only point here is that I don\u2019t go looking for phantom statements from people I support. I don\u2019t imagine phantom statements because I support them. If they do things that I don\u2019t like or don\u2019t agree with, my support can go. I mean, my support\u2019s not wedded to anybody at all times ever, depending. So I do not do this. I don\u2019t imagine the people I support saying what I want them to say and then try to explain it, “No, no, you didn\u2019t hear. What he said was, I heard him –“. So my point is I don\u2019t have any doubt what the pope said in any facet of his speech today. I know what he did. I know what he said. And if you have any doubts, just look at the reaction at the White House. Pure and simple. Or anywhere in the Democrat Party. <\/line><\/p>\n

Aside from abortion and the way they look at that is, he had to throw us a bone somewhere. That\u2019s the way they justify it. They\u2019re not gonna throw him overboard because he took \u2019em to task on abortion. They\u2019ll rationalize it some other way. But they\u2019re not gonna pay any attention to it. Anyway, here we go. Where\u2019d we stop? We only got two of these things in, in the first hour. Anyway, here\u2019s the third bite, this is the pope, Golden Rule, refugees — oh, I remember why the second sound bite launched me on this whole notion of why these people think this place is so special, how it got this way, and just assuming it always will be. Anyway, here\u2019s the next bite.<\/p>\n

POPE FRANCIS: Our world is facing a refugee crisis of a magnitude not seen since the Second World War. This presents us with great challenges and many hard decisions. On this continent, too, thousands of persons are led to travel north in search of a better life. … We need to avoid a common temptation nowadays: to discard whatever proves troublesome. Let us remember the Golden Rule: “Do unto others as you would have them do unto you.”<\/p>\n

RUSH: So a bunch of liberals and Democrats in the audience wanted to applaud when the pope said be nice to each other. I mean, that\u2019s the Golden Rule, be nice to each other. “Yeah, right on, you tell \u2019em!” As though that\u2019s something special. Now, why would the left think that\u2019s something special? ‘Cause they think we\u2019re mean, folks, I\u2019m telling you, they think we\u2019re mean and extremists, and they think the pope\u2019s calling us out when he says that. Make no mistake. Pelosi and Reid sitting there, darn right they think he\u2019s calling us out on immigration, the Golden Rule. <\/p>\n