http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/daily/2016/12/20/michelle_obama_and_the_shtruggleMichelle Obama and The Shtruggle
December 20, 2016
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RUSH: We're gonna start in
Kansas City with Marie. Marie, thank you for calling. Great to have you on the program today. How are you?
CALLER: I'm fine, and it's an honor to speak with you.
RUSH: Thank you. Same here. I'm glad you got through.
CALLER: Well, yes, it wasn't too hard. My comment, I haven't heard anybody else say this, but I do believe people feel this way when Michelle Obama was talking about the hopeless and, oh, the lack of hope and how things will be so awful. Well, now she feels the way we felt eight years ago. That was my thought.
RUSH: You know, that's true, although I think there's much, much more to this than a little bit of reciprocity. You know, where does this come from? I mean, you could say, for example, what about the people who voted for Trump? I mean, how about people that haven't had a raise in 15 years or people that have been forced to pay through the nose the money they don't have for health care or face a fine for it. Or people who are --
CALLER: True.
RUSH: -- watching the borders of their country being erased. I mean, that's not just hopelessness, that's anger. But what interests me more than anything about all this is Michelle Obama's attitude that allows her to acknowledge feeling hope -- she said she didn't feel proud of her country until her husband was nominated for president, and now that he's leaving, she's back to feeling hopeless again. And look where she lives. And look at the airplane she flies on. And look at the --
CALLER: Right.
RUSH: -- parties that she throws. And look at all of the advantages that she has had because of being in America, and yet she runs around -- you know what her favorite word is, Marie?
CALLER: You know.
RUSH: Shtruggle. Shtruggle. Every time Michelle Obama --
CALLER: Oh, oh, struggle.
RUSH: -- does a personal appearance somewhere, it is about the shtruggle. And that's what I want to delve into. But before I go I need to ask you, what kind of iPhone, new iPhone would you like, a 7 or a 7 Plus?
CALLER: Ooh, I think a 7 Plus.
RUSH: 7 Plus. Who's your carrier?
CALLER: T-Mobile.
RUSH: T-Mobile. Okay, so pick your color. I think we've got every color.
CALLER: I think rose gold.
RUSH: Rose gold. All right, I know I'm getting down, but I do think I've got one in there for you. If not, if I'm out of rose gold, which I do think I have one, I'll send you a gold one.
CALLER: Okay.
RUSH: All right? Now, it may have an AT&T SIM card in it, Marie, but it'll work on T-Mobile. The phone I'm sending you will work on either one of those. The phone's unlocked, so take your current phone and the new one to the T-Mobile store and tell 'em you want to move your number to it and they'll take care of you.
Now, don't hang up. Mr. Snerdley needs to get your address so we can get this out. This is week five, my friends, fifth week now every caller being offered a brand-new iPhone 7 or iPhone 7 Plus. And every caller today also gets a one-year subscription to Rush 24/7 and a copy of the latest Rush Revere book, Rush Revere and the Presidency. What interests me about Michelle Obama and "the shtruggle," I am viewed as one not down with the shtruggle.
Now, here's Michelle Obama, who is living a life in the top 1% of the top 1%. She has traveled more places in the world than most people will even dream of going. She has lived in one of the finest homes in America. She flies around on the finest airplane and the safest and most secure airplane known to exist. And when that one's not available, she gets one of her own.
If she wants to go to Hawaii a couple days before her husband, they put her on an equally large, or close to as large airplane with the family and her kids and her mother. Vacations are all paid for, meals are all paid for, for the most part, and her husband earns $400,000 a year doing this, which they can pretty much bank all of it because most of their expenses are covered, and yet Michelle continues to talk about the shtruggle.
Now, she's a leftist, and I know what the shtruggle is. And frankly, folks, I'm growing weary of it. "The shtruggle" is the premise that minorities do not have a prayer in America. The deck is so stacked against them that they don't have a chance. And this shtruggle to overcome this great injustice is never ending. She speaks of the shtruggle -- and you have to call it the shtruggle, not the struggle. It's s-h, the shtruggle. Every time she makes a speech. It is a feature of practically every speech that she makes, and what does it do? It reinforces the legitimacy of the shtruggle.
Why would you want to depress people? Why would you not want to inspire them? Why would you not want to use your own example as a way inspiring others to also attempt to achieve in a like manner? Why would you want to present your own success as an aberration and something that is not because of the greatness of America. That your success, in other words, her husband being elected, happened despite America.
It is this ongoing reference of the shtruggle that I think keeps people permanently in an attitude, a mental attitude of impossibility. And it's an unjust, unfair portrayal of America today that I just don't think is helpful.
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RUSH: Now, by the way, part and parcel of Michelle Obama and her husband talking about the shtruggle is that they try to make it look like or make it appear that everybody's up against this shtruggle. And what gets me about it is that it's an argument that this country's unjust and immoral and unfair, and my patience for this is wearing out because it's a never-ending thing. No matter how much progress is made, there's never any acknowledgment of it.
Whatever progress is made is ignored or sometimes even turned around and said to be an example of the inherent immorality of the country since the founding. I know what it's rooted in. I mean, these people are socialists. They don't like capitalism and they're trying to transform or overthrow the country and make it into a different thing. But at some point, you know, it wears people out. And I think this election shows people don't want to hear these things about their country. They don't want to think that this is the country they live in. And they don't think this is the country they live in!
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