Posted on 07/24/2015 1:28:29 PM PDT by Kaslin
RUSH: We start Long Beach, California, with John. Thanks for calling, sir. You are up.
CALLER: Hi, Rush. How you doing? I interviewed you one time many years ago in Long Beach, when you were here back around 1992 when you were emerging as a force. But, anyway, that's not what I called about. I wanted to agree with you and your contention that -- I've been in the newspaper business, in journalism, for 36 years now. The first week I started was when the hostage crisis started in 1979 so, you know, I go back that far.
And I can tell you that there's no doubt, and you said it before, and I'm a member in good standing with a lot of these people, but I've become more conservative as I've gotten older, and they haven't. When I disagree with them I get looked at like, you know, you seem like such an intelligent guy, John, I mean, how could you possibly be talking this way. I think the reason is, and you've mentioned it, too, that they view conservative thought as evil, going back to when we were all Baby Boomers trying to save the world and everything. They view it as evil, and anything you do to be evil is considered to be okay, like Harry Reid when he does that about Mitt Romney. That's okay for them to do it, because they're beating the bad guys, the evil, and it doesn't matter.
That's how they justify it. That's why the New York Times, which I shock my journalistic friends by saying I don't think it's a great newspaper because it's too imbalanced in its coverage about important issues. They would never do the Hillary Clinton kill shot. They will never do it on Benghazi. They will do it for somebody else but they will never bring themselves to take her out, because she represents a bigger cause.
You know, I could go on, give you other examples, but I think that's what prevails. And I can tell you straight up that's what happens. You mentioned somebody the other day said, "Well, the immigration is broken, immigration system is broken." I just ask, "Well, who broke it?" And you could just feel the disappointment, you know, of course I'm pointing out that, you know, the --
RUSH: Well, now, wait, wait, wait, wait. When they say the immigration system is broken, they say the law isn't working, and that's wrong. The immigration system is being corrupted. Like everything else, the law is the law, and it works. It's just not being enforced. It's being corrupted. And then when that happens they claim the law isn't good. The law is not accommodating current reality like they say about the Constitution, the Second Amendment and so forth. Yeah, I know they look at conservatism as evil, but they look at it as otherworldly, too.
I know this is gonna be hard for people to believe. It's a psychological thing. Most uber-leftists do not even think of themselves as that. I mean this psychologically. They think they are normal. They call themselves pragmatists. Anything not them is what's odd, weird, kooky, major minority, really, really small, unhip, uncool, whatever. They are ideologues, but they don't have to calculate their ideology every day. It's just who they are and it's how they operate. And it is what guides them. I mean, they are that first, second, and third. They are liberals first, liberals second, liberals third, whatever else they are then weighs in.
But they're not open to an alternative point of view 'cause there isn't one, in their minds. There is no "other side" to any story. It's just a bunch of kooks over there who got this crazy ass belief system that, gee, man, this is weird, and they treat people that way. It's not very complicated at all.
If you go by the public beliefs yes, but if you go by core nation building principles instilled in the U. S. at it’s inception, no.
Just because the whole citizenship goes bat “stuff” Left, it doesn’t change where the center remains, even if nobody resides there any longer.
Perhaps this is a rotten example, but let’s take the Bible. I consider the Bible to be God’s blueprint for us. It’s placement on the scale of things doesn’t change just because humans don’t abide by it’s teachings the way they should.
People drift. It doesn’t.
Oh, absolutely.
I've always considered myself to be fairly smart, but there's no way in the world I could ever think on my feet the way Koch did that day. That's why I've remembered it all these years.
Just like you watch the Olympics to see the best young athletes in the world turn in the best performances of their lives under incredible pressure, when you heard Mayor Koch handle the press you were hearing a political genius doing Olympic-level mental and verbal gymnastics on a daily basis. I never knew him to disappoint.
He makes the current Mayor look like an absolute moron, although admittedly that's not hard because the current mayor actually is a moron.
LOL, true...
There are a few guys like Koch that I recognize as thinking people. I probably won’t agree with them all the time, but when they’re right they’re right.
I know some “Republicans” that argue against fighting the system and say we can’t stop Amnesty and the rest. They also say “nobody is more Conservative than me.”
It’s hard to tell the difference between them and the liberals on the Democrats side.
“LIBS are mentally ill.”
If only that were enough to describe them.
IMHO
“...the Left, through the media it controls, has successfully given the impression that left wing thought is the norm.”
That’s it, if you can get a liberal to shut his mouth long enough for you to tell him something, almost anything, that actually makes sense he is almost certain to react as if you are some raving maniac. You have to say something utterly stupid to get any agreement from them. I have been told by liberals such things as, “Abortion is about fertilized eggs, not fetuses.” When someone says something that stupid and still thinks HE is the smartest guy in the county, never mind a room, you know you are dealing with a full blown nutcase and it has ZERO to do with IQ, some of the most pathetic idiots on the Earth have genius level IQ scores.
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