A Large Overview of Today's Headlines

Rush Limbaugh.com ^ | June 24, 2015 | Rush Limbaugh

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RUSH: I wish somebody would ban all of the stuff from Club Gitmo. Can you imagine the license merchandise sales that I could rack up? They ban the Confederate flag and everybody matches it, says, "We're not gonna sell it! We're not gonna sell it!" Walmart, everybody getting out of the Confederate flag business, NASCAR, and yet some enterprising entrepreneurs are saying, "Well, hell, we'll sell it." There's a market for it and people are buying it up left and right.

I made a prediction yesterday on this program that The Politico actually writes a story about and got it 100% correct, and no snark. Now, they do that occasionally at Politico. Sometimes it's hard to figure out why. But I predicted the American flag would be next after the Confederate flag and I laid out the reasons why. I didn't give a timeline but, I mean, look, we're trending in that direction.

Well, as you can expect some people think it was a bit much, a little bit over the top, as a prediction, including our buddies at Fox & Friends today who did a little segment on it back and forth about it. "They just can't, no, no, no. That would never happen, not the American flag, no, no." It's already happening. Not about the flag, but about everything else. That's my point, it's already happening.

I've got some stories in the Stack of Stuff here today about the ongoing corruption of higher education. I figured something out. You know, higher education today, as we've been discussing, the things being taught, we had a call yesterday from a guy who said (paraphrasing), "You needed to stop talking about this, Rush. All you're doing is giving it prominence." And he said, "Remember when you banned all audio sound bites from MSNBC, their ratings went in the toilet."

I said, "It's true."

"Well, you need to stop talking about these oddball professors."

And I said, "They're not the oddballs anymore, they're the mainstream. They're not the exception, they're the rule, and I think people need to know what their kids are being taught. I don't know that they do."

But the thing is, what we have now at many -- more than you would believe -- institutions of higher learning, universities, is the equivalent of reeducation camps. The difference is American parents are paying for it, or somebody is. They're paying to have their kids' minds messed with.

So let's just get started with this, folks. I mean, it is one of those days where I don't really know -- try this. New York Times has a story today. Let me grab the headline. In fact, let me just do a little headline review here just to give you an idea of what I've got here today.

"White House Blames White Male Resentment for Obama Failures on Guns and Race." Now, stop and soak that in. "White House Blames White Male Resentment for Obama Failures on Guns --" that would be gun control "-- and Race," whatever that is. Details coming up.

"Racial Subordination is the Premise of the American Project," says Georgetown Professor regarding Dylann Roof. This guy's name is Paul Butler. He's a professor of criminal law and race relations at Georgetown. He was on The NewsHour last night on PBS. He said, "the 'national conversation' that should follow the murders 'should be about racism and white supremacy.' He said: 'We have to disrupt this rush to a kumbaya moment that we have seen in Ferguson,'" where people chanted "All lives matter."

No. All lives do not matter. Saying "All lives matter" is a corruption of, "Black lives matter." This is a Georgetown professor who says that if you come along and say, "All lives matter," you are still segregating black people and relegating black people to second class humanity status. Because the phrase was, "Black lives matter," and that's what you have to say and if you make that, "All lives matter," you are a racist. Georgetown University.

From the Washington Post: "Black America Should Stop Forgiving White Racists." Stacey Patton, senior enterprise reporter for the Chronicle of Higher Education, adjunct professor of American history at American University, is upset that the families of the nine dead parishioners forgave Dylann Roof. She's livid that the forgiveness was offered, which means she doesn't understand Christianity. Those people are incredible, by the way, those families, but they did the Christian thing, and obviously Stacey Patton has no clue. She has not the slightest idea.

Speaking of Christianity, did you hear what the pope said? I'm sorry, folks, I'm just reading news here and passing along what I see. The pope said that family separation can be morally necessary. The pope said that. He said that today. It may be morally necessary for some families to split up, marking a change of tone in the Catholic's attitude toward troubled marriages.

Now, we got the audio of this coming up on CNN. Do you think the American flag is not out of bounds from these people? CNN did a segment with the bespectacled Ashleigh Banfield and Don "Black Hole" Lemon asking if the Thomas Jefferson Memorial should be removed from the United States capitol because he owned slaves, and the answer was, "Yep, we need to close the Jefferson Memorial. We need to either tear it down or move it, but because he owned slaves, whether he inherited them from his dad or not, he owned 'em. It's unacceptable and there's no way Jefferson should have a memorial in Washington, DC.

There should not be a Washington, DC. There should not be a Washington memorial or Washington Monument, there shouldn't be any of this. Exactly. Do you think the American flag is not gonna be next? And they don't even have to go after the flag per se to accomplish the same thing.

Fox News. "The Cultural Cleansing of the Southern States Begins." What did I tell you yesterday? This is not about the Confederate flag. This is about going after a way of life. This is political and this is targeting the last geographical area that could be said to be a Republican stronghold, and that's the South. This is about segregating and humiliating the South and discrediting all of Southern culture including the way they vote and their politics, that's what the attack on the flag is.

Todd Starnes, Fox News: "A full-fledged cultural cleansing of the Southern states is underway as lawmakers debate whether to remove Confederate flags and rename schools and parks named after Confederate war heroes." Don't doubt me. "St. Louis lawmakers debating over the future of a Confederate statue in a city park there."

New York Times. Are you ready for this? "Homegrown Radicals More Deadly Than Jihadis in US." You have to ask, why do this? What's the point of this story? To what end do you do a story claiming that right-wing extremism kills more people in America than Islamic fanaticism. What do you intend to accomplish with a story like that? Not left-wing radicals, by the way. No, no, no. This is homegrown right wingers, deadlier than jihadis in the United States. What's the premise behind this? Why even do it?

Meanwhile, ISIS, have you seen the latest or heard about the latest video in which ISIS is committing mass murder. There's two things. They put a bunch of prisoners in a cage and then they lower the cage, videotaping all this. They lower the cage into a lake or a large body of water, swimming pool. Then after they drown, they bring the cage up. However, they've added a new technique. Underwater cameras. The videos now show the actual drowning of the people in the cage. The cage is raised at just that point in time right after death where people are still frothing at the mouth after drowning, and that's displayed.

The next ISIS technique is to grab a bunch of prisoners, put 'em in a car, lock the doors, grab a jihadist, give him an RPG standing on a hillside, fire a rocket-propelled grenade at the car, blowing it up. (interruption) What? (interruption) Yeah, oh, the explosive necklaces, yeah, but that's just a technique. That's building on what happened South Africa. Well, it is necklacing. South Africa, Nelson Mandela's bunch, necklace they would fill automobile and truck tires with gasoline and then put the tires around the necks of their prisoners and light it all up, called necklacing. Winnie Mandela, it was one of her favored techniques, not supposed to talk about it, but was it.

ISIS didn't invent that, but they have now built on it. Rather than tires filled with gasoline, necklaces are bombs. They put bombs around the necks these people and then blow them all to smithereens, but all of this videotaped.

In the midst of all this the New York Times with a story about homegrown right-wing extremism is far more dangerous and far deadly than jihadism in the United States. The pope says family separation can be morally necessary. There's even global warming news today. Get this, folks, you know, "Weak Sun Could Offset Some Global Warming in Europe and the US." Now, wait a second. It has always been believed by me and others with common sense if there is warming -- and there is -- there's no doubt that our climate is always warming or cooling, it's never steady and constant. Well, unless, you know, in universal time, 100 years is a few seconds.

But the point is the climate's always changing. And whenever somebody like me says, "You know, maybe the sun has a little bit to do with it, maybe."

"No, no, no, no, no, you don't know what you're talking about. You're not a scientist. The sun can't have anything to do with global warming. It's all greenhouse gasses." Oh, okay. Well, now, since there isn't any warming, and there hasn't been any warming for 18 years, they have to come up with an excuse to satisfy the low-information lowest common denominator people that buy into this. "We're entering a phase where the sun is entering a weaker than normal cycle, and this is going to cause a temporary halt to global warming."

But wait. Aren't you the people that told us the sun isn't a factor one way or the other? From the UK Express: "Britain Faces Freezing Temperatures, Freezing Winters as a Slump in Solar Activity Threatens a New Little Ice Age." What is somebody who really believes this stuff to do? How sane do they end up being? Anyway, that, folks, is a large overview, but it doesn't by any means encompass everything. You have to be here all three hours today. We'll try to squeeze it all in.