Rush Limbaugh was a conservative icon. He was one of the most influential conservative talk radio hosts of all time. On the morning of Ash Wednesday, February 5th, 2011, Rush's life was forever changed when he passed away at the age of 64.
00:17:35.900Beyond Mr. Clymer, we have Cameron Caskey, who is sort of the lesser known of the David Hogg people, you know, of the young pro-gun control people.
00:18:02.140It's not because he's particularly well-known, but because I think he's actually revealing something about these people who are attacking Rush.
00:22:53.020I'm really pleased that the former president did that, called in to pay tribute to him.
00:23:00.960He gave him such a wonderful honor at the State of the Union when he awarded Rush the Medal of Freedom in that room.
00:23:06.920And I'm so glad he did because it drove the Democrats crazy.
00:23:11.480I bet it drove some Republicans crazy.
00:23:13.700And most of all, because Rush deserved it.
00:23:16.000That's a great use of the term or of the Medal of Freedom.
00:23:19.620Guys like Donald Trump and Rush Limbaugh are much, much, much more representative of true conservatism, whatever you want to call that.0.71
00:23:31.100It's a term that's often invoked by liberal rats like the Lincoln Project.0.79
00:23:35.980You know, they say, we're the true conservatives.
00:23:37.680Now, give us money so we can elect Democrats.
00:23:42.920But there is a sort of truer or deeper, more substantive conservatism in America.
00:23:47.780And Trump and Rush are much more representative of that than basically all of the think tankers and the talkers and the politicians who call themselves right-wing put together.
00:24:02.860And the way you can tell is if you look at the way that the left goes after them.
00:24:09.460Not even in just one isolated moment because one or two things, but year after year as their influence grows and grows, they attack them and they attack them and they attack them.
00:24:22.280When the golden EIB microphone goes silent, as it has, it's, you know, I suspect it's not so sad for Rush.
00:24:31.760I suspect he's at his eternal reward and we can pray that that's the case.
00:24:34.600Very sad for those of us who will miss him because it's not just his voice that is disappearing from the country.
00:24:42.180But he was a spokesman for so many of us.
00:25:28.800I actually host a show at PragerU called The Book Club, which I highly recommend you check out if you have not started listening to that already.
00:29:24.080I'm an absolutist for free speech in the American tradition, and those are different things.
00:29:29.140I support the American tradition of free speech, which I think is fabulous.
00:29:35.560But I don't believe there's any such thing as totally absolute free speech.
00:29:38.960This is a finite world, and we're not going to permit things like fraud, like threats, like, you know, so on and so forth.
00:29:46.600But the liberals have always said, we're for free speech.
00:29:49.100They had the free speech movement at Berkeley to destroy all the old social norms in this country.
00:29:53.780They insist that burning the American flag is absolutely 100% protected free speech, no matter what the American legal tradition said before.
00:30:01.800They brought this to the Supreme Court.
00:30:03.360But now the liberals are showing their hands.
00:30:50.240I'm one for listening to what Bill Gates says, and then when I hear his own words, I believe him when he describes his own views.0.98
00:30:57.040One goal that he describes, of course, is that he wants to kill babies in Africa.0.97
00:31:02.580He wants to increase abortion in Africa.0.99
00:31:04.580He wants to increase the use of contraception.
00:31:07.040He wants to curb the growth, specifically, of Africa and the third world.0.99
00:31:11.460But he's very concerned about overpopulation, which is a discredited and preposterous and anti-human and wicked sort of concept to be worried about.
00:32:41.140Because Bill Gates, while he's a sales genius and was able to sell a lot of computers in the 90s, is a moral idiot.0.99
00:32:48.600I mean, there's no reason to believe that Bill Gates has any sort of sophisticated understanding of philosophy, ethics, morality, theology.0.99
00:33:00.780But because he's really rich and full of himself, he believes that he is capable of pontificating on these sorts of subjects that he knows nothing about.
00:33:11.900Why should they move to synthetic beef?
00:33:14.200Well, because, I'm just guessing here, because, you know, it's bad to kill the animals.
00:34:21.800Because for Bill Gates, like all progressives, he believes that he understands the science of history, the science of politics, and it's going to move in his direction.
00:34:31.840And if you don't like that, well, that's too bad.
00:34:34.540Oh, you've got your little constitution, your little self-government?
00:34:36.960Well, too bad, buddy, because I know the way the future is going to move, and it's going to take your hamburger away.
00:34:42.860And there's nothing you can do about it.
00:34:44.800Bill Gates expresses the same view on jobs and energy.
00:34:48.740You know, the left-wingers, like Bill Gates and other liberal elites, have decided that they're going to take away jobs in the energy sector.
00:34:58.940Joe Biden promised he wouldn't do it, but at other times he promised he would do it.
00:35:02.200We all knew he was going to do it, and now he's done it.
00:35:04.760He's taken away jobs in the fossil fuel industry, for instance.
00:35:08.960So Bill Gates was on a TV show, and he was asked, hey, what do you say to the millions of people who are losing their jobs in the energy industry?
00:35:16.320Bill Gates has soft consolation for them.
00:35:19.420What happens to the 2.8 million Americans that are working in the oil and gas industry?
00:35:25.040This is a 30-year transition, and there's lots of clean jobs that can be created in those same locations.
00:35:33.820A total number of jobs will actually go up.
00:35:36.920There may be some places there's dislocation, and so as we budget, we have to think about those affected communities,
00:35:43.500as well as funding the innovation and deployment.
00:36:34.380I didn't sign up for any 30-year transition, and I didn't appoint Bill freaking Gates to utterly transform the American energy sector over 30 years.
00:36:53.100And when I talk about the blob or the liberal elite, I'm talking about the dominant regime that, I guess, right now expresses itself through the elected politicians,
00:37:02.400because Democrats have unified government.
00:37:04.160It expresses itself through the administrative state, the bureaucracy.
00:37:07.280It expresses itself through the universities, through technology, and, generally speaking, with some exceptions, through the richest Americans.
00:38:12.180This is the question, as I'm sure is the case for all of you, that every neighbor, every friend, every family member asks, at least me in the street when I'm walking my dog in the morning.
00:38:22.880We want to be straight with the American public, though.
00:38:25.460It is, we are not in a place where we can predict exactly when everybody will feel normal again.
00:38:30.240And it has, there are a number of reasons.
00:38:32.180One is, even though we will have enough doses for every person in this country, as you all know, because we've talked about it in here, vaccine hesitancy remains a challenge.
00:38:42.280We need to ensure that everybody who can get a dose is getting a dose.
00:38:47.740We will also need to be masking for some time.
00:38:50.500We will also need to be still taking social distancing measures.
00:38:53.140So, you know, there is, of course, is an understandable question.
00:38:57.620And I think the president wants things to return to normal, as we all do.
00:39:02.220But we don't know at this point what that timeline is going to look like.
00:39:06.960The president does not want us to return to normal, because if he did, he would just do it, because he has political power, because we theoretically have self-government and we theoretically elected this guy president.
00:39:17.380So, if he wanted to, he would, but he isn't, because he doesn't.
00:39:24.520We do not need to social distance, an Orwellian term, if ever there was one, a contradiction in terms.0.90
00:39:29.540We do not need to do any of this silly nonsense.
00:39:33.460We've had epidemics before, many harsher epidemics than the coronavirus.0.94
00:39:38.780We haven't reordered society in the way that these psychos are reordering.
00:39:43.940Do you know how we can return to normal?
00:39:45.320No, we can just stop listening to the exalted Dr. Fauci, peace be upon him, the world leader, you know.
00:39:54.040We can just stop listening to all of these self-appointed elites in all the dominant regime.
00:40:02.060Unfortunately, they have a lot of power right now.
00:40:03.940They have a lot of way of lording that over us.
00:40:06.780Jen Psaki did this thing that is so frustrating.
00:40:09.260You've probably experienced this if you want someone to apologize to you, and the person, they know they should apologize, but they can't quite bring themselves to do it.
00:40:21.280So, for instance, they'll come to you and they'll say, hey, I'm sorry if you feel offended.
00:42:27.640I don't want you to think that I am hyperbolic here when I say that the current rules that we're living under, the masks and the social distancing, whatever that means, that this is a grave threat to our way of life.
00:43:04.700Unfortunately, there was a hidden camera in some restaurant, some bar, of an L.A. health inspector.
00:43:11.220L.A., one of the worst-run cities for coronavirus, and also, they're not just the worst run in terms of the spread of the virus, but they're also the worst run in terms of the psychos who are enforcing rules there.
00:43:20.980So, this L.A. health inspector shows up, shuts down this bar, and then, as she's doing it, she does a little dance.0.99
00:43:31.760You can see through the security footage, she's dancing around, you know, moving her hips, shaking around.1.00
00:43:43.920Now, I don't want to read too much into just this one video clip.
00:43:50.880It's pretty damning stuff, but maybe, I don't know, I don't know what was going on in her head.
00:43:55.240Maybe she was just, maybe she's just a nut, and she just has to spontaneously start dancing in public.1.00
00:44:00.600If so, you know, not the best bedside manner for a regulator who's throwing people out of work.
00:44:05.880But, I do know that normal is a choice.
00:44:52.220And, I don't think any of us need to be reminded, that woman gets her paycheck, regardless.
00:44:58.780This woman goes in, shuts down a place of business, puts workers out of their job, probably puts the owner, you know, if this goes on long enough, out of his job.1.00