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DNC, Washington Post and NY Times Offer Scripted Retorts for Liberals to
Rush Limbaugh.com ^ | November 25, 2015 | Rush Limbaugh

Posted on 11/25/2015 1:38:00 PM PST by Kaslin

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RUSH: We're gonna have a little bit, not a whole lot more, but a little bit of an expanded Thanksgiving theme on the program today. We're gonna do the usual things. There's a tradition established on this program going back to 1992, and that is I read to you from my very first ever book The True Story of Thanksgiving. The name of the book is The Way Things Ought to Be, and it was over two million copies sold and the true story of Thanksgiving, chapter 6, and a couple of other things, George Washington's first Thanksgiving proclamation.

There's a great piece today in the Stack on the subject of gratitude and how important a virtue it is. And of course gratitude is what Thanksgiving is all about.

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RUSH: Have you people received your Thanksgiving Day dinner Democrat talking points yet? Three different places you can go get 'em.

The New York Times, the Washington Post, and the Democrat National Committee website all with advice on how to deal with crazy conservatives that might be at your Thanksgiving dinner and how to not have the day ruined by them; how to speak to them; how to avoid them; how to ignore them; how to engage them, what to say, what not to say. It is just hilarious, the effort all over the Drive-By Media. There are articles everywhere telling people how to deal with their white uncle who supports Trump, crazy old grandma who doesn't embrace gay marriage. Obama via Josh Earnest at the White House suggested that the topic at the Thanksgiving dinner table this year be gun control -- (interruption) you didn't hear that? Josh Earnest went out there yesterday, said the preferred topic at Thanksgiving dinner tables from the White House is gun control.

Now, the Democrat Party, which has a whole website devoted to giving the party line response to any potential issue, from Trump to climate change, actually gives you short lines that you're supposed to memorize and spout. I would call it McCarthyism, sort of like Charlie McCarthyism. Honest to God, they are giving you lines to memorialize in case your crazy conservative relatives say something about X, you are to memorize a line in response. You're to go to your Thanksgiving dinner and wait, poised, for your conservative relatives to say something outrageous or offensive and you have memorized your lines and you are ready for your reply.

Snerdley says what if somebody brings me up at Thanksgiving. That's been addressed on the Democrat Party website. One of these bottom of the page things that goes on to the next. It's called YourRepublicanUncle.com. That's the subset of the DNC website. The Democrats' guide to talking politics with your Republican uncle, how to talk to your Republican uncle. And goes on and on and on. "Here are the most common myths spouted by your family members who spend too much time listening to Rush Limbaugh and the perfect response to each of them." The DNC. The Democrat Party is actually having their readers and their supporters prepare for their Thanksgiving meal based on things I might say. There's a section here on immigrants and refugees. You want an example some of this stuff?

Okay, let's just do the Washington Post. "How to Talk to Your Family About Politics This Thanksgiving." By Philip Bump. "With the arrival of the holidays each year, political Web sites looking to wring a last few clicks out of people waiting at airports dutifully put together 'how to talk about [CONTROVERSIAL POLITICAL ISSUE] with your [CRASS UNCLE/SNOTTY NIECE] at Thanksgiving' articles." So here is our offering at the Washington Post.

"Number one. Your obnoxious uncle speaks approvingly of something you think is racist. Maybe about Syrian refugees, for example. It is very much the case that there are explicitly racist people out there in the world. It is also the case that many more people hold beliefs or attitudes that are tinged to some degree with racist undertones."

So Washington Post readers today are being informed that most of the people they're gonna come in contact with over Thanksgiving are indeed racist or tinged with it and therefore they are to be on lookout for it. "So maybe that's part of the problem: you're misunderstanding. Or, also: I am an uncle, and I think it is funny to annoy my nieces and nephews. So maybe your uncle is intentionally riling you up because he thinks it is funny."

You're supposed to be on the lookout for anything. Your conservative uncle might also have read this article and be laying in wait for you while you're laying in wait for him, so your wacko conservative uncle could purposely be trying to tick you off. Can you imagine a Democrat reading the post and all these things that you gotta be steeled for and ready for just to go be with your family on Thanksgiving? Don't tell me I'm wrong when I tell you that everything these people do is politics. There's not a single thing that happens in the liberal world that is not oriented toward their agenda. So guidelines for your obnoxious uncle speaking approvingly of something you think is racist.

Another example, your grandmother. Notice it's always your elderly relatives, no doubt bordering on senility or from an old bygone era of official racism and sexism and bigotry and homophobia. So in this example in the Washington Post: "Your grandmother uses a derogatory term for gay people. If you are having a conversation with your grandmother at the dinner table ... she was also born before 1975, only a few years after Stonewall." She may not even know what Stonewall is. "Maybe your grandmother used the slur because she has always used that slur and it's never occurred to her that it is a slur. Or maybe she sincerely hates gay people, because she has always hated gay people." After all, she is a conservative.

"But maybe, even as she worries about the ache in her hip or as she looks into a mirror and sees more wrinkles than she has years, maybe she'll try once again to understand this new thing that the world has presented to her."

Oh, it's not just condescending, it's insulting, but look at the presumptions behind it, that everybody's gonna have elderly relatives that are conservatives, and they're all bigots. Don't doubt me. This is not just for Thanksgiving. This is how they look at the people every day. It's just on Thanksgiving. Some days you can't avoid being with your relatives who are this wacko. So the Washington Post, New York Times has one of these, too, and the DNC on how to deal with these embarrassing, bigoted racist members of your family.

And of course the DNC website. "The Democrats Guide to Talking Politics With Your Republican Uncle -- The holiday season is filled with food, traveling, and lively discussions with Republican relatives about politics sometimes laced with statements that are just not true." See? Your conservative family members, in addition to all these other bad things, are liars, too. "Here are the most common myths spouted by your family members who spend too much time listening to Rush Limbaugh and the perfect response to each of them."

"Immigrants and refugees: Letting Syrian refugees into the US is like hanging a 'Welcome, terrorists' banner on the front door." This is what they think I have told these relatives. "The US has one of the strictest refugee screening processes in the world. We can help families whose lives have been destroyed by ISIS without jeopardizing our security. But when you're leaders grace Islamophobia, that makes it harder for us to fight terrorism abroad. And not for nothing, screening refugees based on their religion goes against everything our country stands for."

You gotta put yourself here in the shoes of an average, ordinary, everyday liberal Democrat reading this, wanting guidance. I mean, why else would you go to the Democrat National Committee website. What in the world is there that you must see? I mean, if you're oriented toward spending time at the DNC website, you have a pretty pathetic life to begin with. So here come these false allegations and phony solutions. And, by the way, screening refugees based on their religion goes against everything our country stands for. My guess is you little liberals will finally or quickly learn that your elderly relatives know that that's totally untrue. We have always screened for religion. Always. It has been a primary, major factor in screening wannabe asylum seekers and refugees.

I can imagine some of you liberals listening, "That's just crazy. See, this is exact kind of thing we have to deal with. Limbaugh says this and my relatives believe it and I have to listen to this at Thanksgiving." Well, let me ask you liberals a question. All these asylum seekers say they're fleeing something. Do you know what the number one thing most refugees say they are fleeing? Religious persecution or political persecution. In the case of religious persecution, somebody wants to be admitted to the country as a refugee, we have to ask, "Well, where you from?" They tell us. "Well, what religion are you?" We have to ask, if they're fleeing religious persecution, we've gotta check their veracity. So, "What religion are you?" We ask. We are required to. We always have, and then as best we can we vet what they tell us. That's increasingly hard to do because there aren't any databases of these people that we can go vet.

So if they say they're from Syria and they're fleeing religious persecution, they identify their religion, we can go check and see what's going on on the ground in Syria, see if it could plausibly be true. But the bottom line is we ask them. We always have asked them. In fact, it's statutory that we ask them. But here go these people at the DNC website, and they're the ones totally misinformed. They are the ones proceeding essentially blind.

On the subject of the climate, if your relative who listens to me at Thanksgiving dinner brings up climate, the DNC website says "Climate change is just a liberal scare tactic." That's what Limbaugh listeners will tell you. "Why are conservatives more likely to believe that climate change is a conspiracy than to acknowledge that 97% of climate scientists, the majority of Americans, believe it? Climate change is real, and it's man-made. The Republican presidential field is living in denial." That's what you are supposed say. What your relative relatives will probably tell you is that there is no such thing -- if they listen to me, what they're gonna tell you is 97% of the scientists doesn't mean anything. You don't have a scientific discovery 'til a hundred percent of them agree. Besides that, there is no consensus in science 'cause it isn't up for a vote. The proposition either is or isn't. The vote doesn't matter a hill of beans.

I think these poor little DNC, Washington Post, New York Times readers are gonna be so woefully ill-equipped and unprepared to deal with Rush Limbaugh listeners at Thanksgiving, that it's gonna ruin their day, 'cause they're gonna show up thinking that they are loaded for bear. They're gonna show up thinking that they've got all the ammo they need and that their conservative relatives are a bunch of hick, hayseed kooks, but they've been to the New York Times site and the Washington Post site and the DNC site and they are fully armed, ready to go. They've got all the facts to dispute everything. And the typical Rush Limbaugh listener is going to be able to have them confused inside of 20 seconds and ruin the day for the whole family.

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RUSH: And now, ladies and gentlemen, to the New York Times: "How to Talk to Your Relatives About Politics at Thanksgiving." This is actually interactive on their website where you can provide them feedback and topics grow. I don't have, obviously, the whole thing. I printed out just some examples here. "It's time for that annual American holiday tradition: awkward political conversation at the Thanksgiving dinner table. With the 2016 presidential primary campaign in full swing and public interest on the rise, the odds are good that relatives will share their thoughts with you about why one candidate will win or how another is going to destroy America.

"I can't tell you how to keep your family away from sensitive topics, but here are brief answers to some frequently asked questions about current events and the 2016 race." The thing that is striking about all of these is that the Washington Post and the New York Times and the DNC all assume that their readers are rational and reasonable, and it's only their family members who are the kooks and the extremists and the racists. But remember: To other families it's quite likely the person reading the Washington Post or the New York Times is the kook in the family.

It's quite likely that the liberal reading all of these advice pieces is the real kook in the family, and the rest of the family is trying to figure out how to deal with this wacko showing up armed and loaded for bear after having read all this liberal talking point stuff to get ready for Thanksgiving dinner. Who is the kook here, by the way? So, the first possible discussion subject: "Will Donald Trump win? Isn't he ahead in the polls? Few observers expected Mr. Trump's early surge to last, but he's parlayed the immigration issue and extensive media coverage into a five-month lead in the polls that shows no sign of ebbing.

"It's time to take seriously the possibility that he could be the Republican nominee. With that said, the best research on modern primary politics suggests that party elites should eventually coalesce around the strongest alternative to Mr. Trump and defeat him. That's why betting markets currently put the chances of a Trump victory at 23% compared with Marco Rubio's 48%." So if the subject of Trump comes up at a Thanksgiving dinner where a New York Times reader has shown up, the New York Times reader will tell the other bumpkins and wackos and weirdos in the family:

"Hey, Trump isn't gonna make it! Trump isn't gonna get any done. Trump's is a loser. He's a nutcase. Republican establishment doesn't want him, but the end of the day, they're all gonna coalesce. They're gonna choose Rubio! Rubio's gonna be the nominee," and this person can act smug and conceited because the New York Times gave them inside information on what's really gonna happen here in the Republican primary.

Another question that comes up, says the Times, "Why won't [group]," pick a group name, "believe the facts on [issue]? From climate change to the debate over Syrian refugees, there is no shortage of topics in the news that could turn the dinner conversation ugly. In general, people's factual beliefs about controversial issues are closely related to their political views, which makes it hard for information to change their minds, especially if they are feeling anxious or fearful." So basically your relatives are idiots, it's not worth your time to try.

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RUSH You know, in all seriousness, these New York Times, Washington Post, DNC websites, take a look at what they're really doing here. You have a holiday here where families are getting together, and for the most part everybody just wants to enjoy it and have a good time. I mean, I know that your average family, there are people in every family that really don't look forward to it and resent other members. Families are families. But here you have the Democrat Party and its media allies actually helping people prepare for stress and battle and war and so forth.

Most of this advice, most of the Drive-By Media advice on Thanksgiving discussions boils down to telling their readers to ignore whatever their crazy old conservative relatives say and just humor them, because they're all gonna be dead soon anyway. And if not dead, we're gonna be able to put people in jail for saying things that we don't want to hear or don't like. I mean, that's what's happening on college campuses. More and more student groups are demanding the cancellation of free speech if it involves speech they disagree with. Not making it up. And in the meantime, most other people in the family are just showing up to have a good time, watch a little football, make as short a time of it as possible, or as long a time of it, whatever, but these people are gonna be showing up loaded for bear, ready to have arguments, because everything in their life is oriented around all this.

I'm struck here by the New York Times' advice specifically on Trump. Ignore the polls. The polls don't mean a thing. What you ought to do is believe the gamblers in Las Vegas, the bettors in Las Vegas, the people putting money on the outcome, 48% Rubio, 23% Trump. None of this Trump stuff at the end is gonna matter. So here's the New York Times disparaging its own news delivery system in one sense, polling data. Don't believe what we tell you. Don't believe what's in the polls. The bettors over here, the gamblers, they're the ones that have a better insight into what's happening.

My point is I've always found that these family gatherings where friction exists, it's always... Well, I can't say always. Vast majority of the time it's the liberal Democrat members of the family who show up tense, stiff, just waiting for somebody to say something that offends them, just waiting, and then launching or getting mad or calling people's names or what have you, basically ruining the day for everybody.

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RUSH: Now, I checked during the bottom-of-the-hour break for e-mails. I always do that. And a bunch of people: "You never miss a chance to make fun of liberals and criticize liberals and blame them for all of this." Well, I'm not the one. You will not go to the Rush Limbaugh website and find a story or a piece on how to deal with nutcase liberals at your family Thanksgiving table. It's you people doing this. And it's not me, and it's not people on our side who have routinely lied and run down the whole concept of Thanksgiving.

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RUSH: Here Roy in Gurnee, Illinois, as we start on the phones. Always try to get a phone call in the first hour, Open Line Friday on Wednesday. How are you, sir?

CALLER: I'm fine.

RUSH: Well, good. Great to have you here.

CALLER: Yeah. First-time caller. Been listening to you if the last few years.

RUSH: Thank you very much.

CALLER: What I'm interested in, is all this stuff about conservatives being older people. But I think that's gonna quickly change. I think there's a group of younger people called "the alt right." And it started in the last few years in Europe because of the Muslim invasion. And I think it's... They're beginning to get people over here, youngsters between 18, 25, 26, to convert to what they call "the alt right." I think it's gonna be pretty intense. I think you should keep an eye out for it.

RUSH: Yeah, that's a good thought. "The alt right," like in alternative right?

CALLER: Alternative right.

RUSH: Yeah, like in alternative media and so forth.

CALLER: The ones they dislike are the old hippies -- and "the '68ers," is what's called in Europe. That's who they have contempt for, the Marxists.

RUSH: Well, I don't... In principle I think you're right. Now, what Roy here is responding to, the Washington Post, New York Times, DNC website pieces I read to you where your average liberal Democrat is going to Thanksgiving dinner and is being warned how to deal with the aging, kooky, perhaps Alzheimer's-stricken conservative crazy aunt or uncle. And he is assuming that... It's a pretty good assumption. He's making the assumption that the libs think the conservatives are all a bunch of old farts that have lost their minds are on the verge of losing their minds, and they have to be dealt with.

He's right. There is an entire... In fact, we don't have wait for this alt whatever it is in Europe. There is a thriving youthful conservative emergence happening in this country. They may be borrowing from what's going on in Europe. But, Roy, there's no question you're right. It's growing and it's thriving because, you know, young... The Millennials, a significant number of them have been seduced by the left and remain buried there, but there are a lot of people that don't want to be part of that movement.

It's nothing but depression. It's nothing but doom and gloom. It's nothing but, "There's no future. America's best days are behind us." A lot of young people that don't want to live their lives or start out their adult lives with that kind of attitude. It's not gonna get anybody anywhere. And I think if anything is aging, you take a look at the Democrat presidential candidate roster. If anything is aging in this country, it's the good old Democrat Party. It isn't us, folks.

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RUSH: You know, stop and think. How insecure must today's liberals be to have to send out a little bunch of brown shirts to Thanksgiving dinner all over the country? I mean, that's what they're doing, all these advice pieces in the New York Times and the Washington Post and the DNC website on how to deal with these nutcase conservatives in your family. Little brown shirt propagandized.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Editorial
KEYWORDS: newyorkslimes; washingtoncompost
The rest of the title is Talk to Limbaugh Listeners at Thanksgiving
1 posted on 11/25/2015 1:38:00 PM PST by Kaslin
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To: Kaslin

How to Talk to Your Pansy Marxist Nephew at Thanksgiving

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3364964/posts


2 posted on 11/25/2015 1:46:00 PM PST by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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To: Kaslin

Pre-Defeat Lib Talking Points:

Post this on your Facebook page:

“Is everyone ready for Thanksgiving? Maybe not ....”

http://hotair.com/archives/2015/11/24/your-republican-uncle-dnc-debuts-new-website-to-help-slow-witted-young-liberals-talk-politics-with-family-on-thanksgiving/


3 posted on 11/25/2015 1:47:05 PM PST by Uncle Miltie (islam is a totalitarian death cult founded by a child rapist.)
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To: Kaslin

Heck, they do this every day with their faxed talking points-—I see them every day in a variety of forum and Facebook comments-—always the same, depending on the issue.


4 posted on 11/25/2015 2:06:00 PM PST by Timber Rattler ("To hold a pen is to be at war." --Voltaire)
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To: Timber Rattler

True, I see move on, occupy, anti tea party, etc, posted “truth rants.” Funny thing is anyone disagreeing is unfriended.


5 posted on 11/25/2015 3:20:39 PM PST by razorback-bert (Due to the high price of ammo, no warning shot will be fired.)
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6 posted on 11/25/2015 3:27:26 PM PST by timestax (American Media = Domestic Enemy)
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