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June 13, 2011 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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June 13, 2011, Monday, Hour #3
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Yeah, find it here somewhere.
I'll get to it before the show end.
There's no question.
I've got it somewhere right here in the stack.
Yeah, it's the one about where QE2 went.
Bailing out the foreign banks.
I've got I get the detail.
The SEIU.
This is from some website, the Service Employees International Union website, California.
Little post here on California's conservatives.
If we can't get them out, we'll breed them out.
We'll just breed conservatism out of California.
There's a scene in the movie Braveheart where King Edward, who went by the name of Longshanks, that movie.
You see the movie yesterday?
Right.
Longshanks laments that there are too many Scots.
His solution is to just declare reinstatement of the old practice prime noctis, which is to allow his nobles to have the right to take newlywed Scottish wives to their beds on their wedding night.
Upon declaring it, Longshanks states, if we can't get them out, we'll breed them out.
Now, there's wide speculation the practice is, in fact, fictional.
It seems leaders of the California SEIU, feeling there are too many conservatives holding public office in California, have adopted their own union version of the practice.
If we can't get them out, we'll breed them out.
California SEIU leaders are planning on getting rid of California's conservative lawmakers by taking over the California Republican Party by recruiting their own Republican candidates.
That's a smart political play if they can do it.
I mean, this is, if your objective is to wipe out your enemy, just nominate your own people, put the label behind them, and hopefully get elected and basically change definition of Republican in the state to be no different than what Democrat is or liberal.
Well, that's the thing.
California's lost.
I don't know what more they want to accomplish out there.
California's lost.
For all intents and purposes, California's lost in terms of gone to liberalism with no end in sight.
California's gone.
Anyway, folks, it's great to be with you.
Happy to have you along.
Welcome back to the EIB Network.
Rush Limbaugh here at 800-282-2882.
I mentioned earlier the media can't decide whether I matter again.
And going back and forth as to whether or not they really need to worry about me and what I believe, say, do.
Remember, this is how I explained it on Friday, right here on this program.
They go back and forth.
One day I'm so serious, I'm so relevant that I'm the leader of the Republican Party.
The next day, I'm just a bloviating entertainer in it for the money.
And literally, I can be both multiple times a day.
Right.
Depends on the news story.
Jonathan Martin at Politico was in a piece about Palin speculating about what she's going to be.
Does she really want to be a Republican elected official, a politician, running for office, or does she want to be a political celebrity like Rush Limbaugh?
So it's a new characterization of me, political celebrity.
So that's how Jonathan Martin said.
That's what Palin's got to figure out.
She really want to be an elected Republican official or just a political celebrity like Limbaugh.
So let's go last Thursday.
We have a montage here.
This took place on PMSNBC.
And we're repeating this because it facilitates our ultimate objective here.
Well, we played this last week.
This is a montage of members of the media replaying Mitt Romney's fate after I proclaimed his seeking a nomination basically over because of his stated position on man-made global warming, i.e. that the earth is getting warmer and that men are causing it.
This is how that went.
Romney stands by his view that the world is getting warmer and that man is an important contributor.
Then how will he fare when so many Republicans believe that global warming is, in the words of Rush Limbaugh, a complete hoax?
You've got 99.9% of the scientists in the world in one camp, but you have Rush Limbaugh in the other camp.
The Republican primaries, probably Limbaugh wins against all science and facts.
Rush Limbaugh saying bye-bye nomination.
Thanks to Rush Limbaugh, all of these Republican candidates are terrified of reaching out to mainstream voters.
Rush Limbaugh to declare him bye-bye Ville.
Nomination over.
Man-made global warming is a hoax.
This is all Rush Limbaugh.
Did you know that 99.9% of all scientists believe that man-made global warming is real?
That was Sink Uger at MSNBC making that point.
And that thanks to me, all Republican candidates are terrified of reaching out to mainstream voters.
You realize you people in mainstream are the ones that believe hoaxes.
You in the mainstream, you're the ones that believe the hoax.
I mean, well, of course, they don't think it's a hoax.
You believe man-made global warming.
And I, of course, I'm not a man of the mainstream at all.
So Friday night, NPR, All Things Considered, a week in politics segment, the guest David Brooks of the New York Times, who said this during a discussion of all things considered.
The one thing to be said about Huntsman is a lot of people are now saying, oh, he's too moderate to be the candidate.
It's important to remember that Rush Limbaugh is not the Republican primary voter.
Rush Limbaugh campaigned against John McCain for two years.
McCain still won the Republican primary in South Carolina and Florida.
Rush Limbaugh and the Radio Talk Chucks are now campaigning against Mitt Romney for saying global warming may be real.
Campaign against John Huntsman, they do not deliver votes.
Okay, so nothing to worry about here.
Don't deliver votes.
And don't deliver votes.
I don't, nothing to worry about here.
And by the way, I did not campaign against McCain for two years.
This is the thing about the primary.
People get mad at me.
I stayed out of it.
I did not endorse anybody in the primary.
But anyway, that's water under the bridge.
So the David Brooks doesn't, I don't know, he doesn't deliver anything, but that's not his point.
He's not, I don't think he's saying he does.
He's responding here.
I'm going to be fair, but he's responding to questions about all these Republicans who seem to be afraid to cross me.
And Brooks is saying, why are they afraid of Limbaugh?
I mean, look at Limbaugh endorsed a guy who loses.
Limbaugh didn't endorse a guy who wins.
Limbaugh doesn't deliver votes.
Brooks is trying to tell these guys, don't worry about Limbaugh.
He doesn't do anything.
That's Brooks' point.
Not that Brooks himself delivers votes, because Brooks doesn't deliver votes.
And I don't think Brooks, I don't know that Brooks intends to do it.
I don't know what Brooks wants to do.
But he just responding.
The context is, again, all these Republicans, they seem to listen to Limbaugh, and that bugs these people.
So Brooks is trying to say, don't listen to Limbaugh.
It doesn't do anything.
There's a lot of mythology associated with Limbaugh.
People don't listen to Limbaugh.
So it continued.
And Melissa Block, who's the co-host out here, All Things Considered, said to Brooks, well, the Republican debate Monday night, which is tonight, I'm curious to hear what you're going to be listening for from the Republican candidates.
I wonder if they understand their base.
Their base is the white working class.
These people have seen their wages stagnate, their jobs decline, their social order fall apart.
Do any of them have an actual agenda to place to the white working class as opposed to cutting corporate tax rates?
Huckabee last time actually did have an agenda, did have a feel for this population.
So far, Palenti, who should have a feel, that's his background, gave this speech, which was really sort of a Wall Street Journal editorial page speech, not so much a white working class speech.
Now, that's amazing.
Palenti gave a speech.
What's so wrong with the Wall Street Journal editorial page?
Palenti gave a speech advocating policies that will result in job creation for crying out loud.
Corporate tax reduction across the board, capital gains, tax reduction.
Polenti had a great idea, even Jack Welch, former NBC Prexy.
Palenti had a great idea in his speech.
What's wrong with that?
So Brooks has to come out now and impugn Palenti.
But now, I guess Brooks is an expert on you, the Republican base, the white working class.
You've seen your wages stagnate, your jobs decline, your social order fall apart.
What Brooks doesn't understand is that all of you to whom this has happened understand why.
It's called Barack Obama.
What Brooks doesn't understand is that you know that the reversal of this path that we're on requires the defeat of Barack Obama in 2012.
That's what the Republican base understands.
And the Republican base is going to respond to anybody who wants to take it to Obama.
The Republican base, mark my words, is going to rally behind whichever candidate makes them think that that candidate is standing up and fighting for them.
The Republican base is not a color.
That's another fallacy on Mr. Brooks' part.
Republican base, the white working class.
The Republican base consists of the people who make this country work.
And they know what's standing in their way.
And it is liberalism and all who advocate it.
By the way, Mr. Brooks, don't forget the Rock Hussein Obama in February of 2009 told John Boehner and other Republicans not to listen to Rush Limbaugh.
It was Obama's strategy during the midterms to run against me.
How did that turn out?
The Democrats' policies, strategy, campaign was to run against Rush Limbaugh, Mr. Brooks.
I don't really care about any of that.
But not knowing who the Republican base is, and Mr. Brooks, don't doubt me, they understand that it's not Tim Palenti that's their problem.
It's Barack Obama.
They understand it's Mr. Crease in his pants.
That's what they understand, Mr. Brooks.
They understand that you were the guy totally flipping out over somebody for superficial reasons.
They have been really affected, hurt, damaged, harmed by the real world policies of Barack Obama and the Democrat Party.
And that's what they want to change.
And any candidate in this debate tonight or any future debate who makes clear that he is unafraid to go after the reasons we are in this condition, led by Barack Obama, is going to be who wins this nomination.
It isn't going to be who's Mr. Moderate.
It isn't going to be who's the most serious.
It isn't going to be any of these quintessential pseudo-intellectual characterizations.
Because the people who make this country work don't have time for that right now.
It's crunch time.
It's serious.
They're losing everything they've worked for.
It is really horrifying.
It's really scary to people who do not want to live on welfare.
Up next on this show is Mike Murphy.
Now, Mike Murphy is a Republican consultant, an electoral consultant.
If you recall, Murphy, during the Delaware senatorial primary and aftermath, he was a little upset because people said they knew how to get Christine O'Donnell elected, and he was of the opinion it couldn't have happened.
There was no way it could happen.
He's, okay, okay, you guys show me how.
You show me how.
I'll sit here in Georgetown.
I'll sip my cocktails.
That's what you guys say I do.
I'm part of the elite sitting around in a cocktail party.
I'll do that.
You show me how it's done.
Murphy is like most consultants.
He believes the election is won with that 20% of the electorate that calls itself moderate, independent, undecided, or what have you.
Which is all fine and dandy, but I prefer candidates who try to get everybody, not just 20%, but that's just me.
And of course, I'm not a consultant.
It's not my business.
He knows it better than I do.
I don't pretend that I can do it better than he does, but I want you to, nevertheless, listen to what he says yesterday on Meet the Press about the upcoming presidential race from the standpoint or perspective of an electoral consultant.
David Gregory said to Murphy, you frame this in your Time magazine column in a very interesting way, which is the economy, of course, is the vulnerability.
The ace up his sleeve, as you wrote, is demographics.
He's talking about Obama.
The playing field is changing.
When Ronald Reagan was elected, you know, our favorite election we all like to talk about, I got a little shrine in my house of candles and everything, 1980, 88% of the people who cast the vote in the presidential election were white, and they voted more Republican than Democrat.
In the last election, last presidential election, that was down to 74%.
And so what's happening is the voter groups that Republicans do a bad job of getting are growing quickly, particularly Latino voters.
We also have a trouble with young voters.
The demographics are pushing in a more Democratic right now situation versus a bad economy.
And if Republicans don't get into these new demographics, eventually we're going to run out of oxygen.
Oh, yeah.
Now, what does that mean?
What do you think that here's a Republican consultant urging Republicans to go after new demographics, particularly Latino?
Well, this is immigration.
This is amnesty.
That's what that's about.
You can't oppose immigration reform.
But here again, notice that the focus is on the hyphenated voter.
You have a policy to get that voter hyphenated and then this voter hyphenated.
I saw polling data last week, Obama no longer cool among young voters.
He no longer Joe Camill out there with these people.
No longer Joe Cool.
He's lost it.
So you see, inside the Beltway thinking is that Obama, not a shoe-in, but I mean, the demographic's moving in his way.
I mean, it's not over yet, but Obama's clearly the favorite in their way of thinking.
Got to take a timeout.
We'll do it.
We'll be back.
We will continue much more of your phone calls coming up after this.
Okay, so my question to Mike Murphy and David Brooks, how do you explain this landslide last November?
How do we explain this top-to-bottom shellacking that went beyond the federal all the way down to state level?
I mean, it was complete, a total repudiation of liberalism and the Democrat Party, and the Republicans didn't run anything.
By definition, they didn't.
There was no Republican candidate on the ballot.
There was no Republican issue per se.
There was just one opportunity to reject the status quo, and that was reject the Democrat Party.
That's what happened.
Now, how do you explain that?
How do you explain all of those different demographics voting Republican all across the country?
How is that?
I'm serious.
I'm not a political consultant.
How does this happen?
We didn't go out and make a play for Hispanic Americans, not all I'm aware of, did we?
We weren't making a play for anybody.
Our leadership was cowering in fear in the corner, keeping their fingers crossed, hoping that it would be a big win.
But they were saying, let's not say anything.
It'll upset the apple cart here.
Okay, but if we're supposed to go get minorities, there then becomes a question.
What do we say to them?
What do we say to get the minorities?
Do we say, look, we can give just as well as the liberals.
We can put you on welfare programs just as easily as the liberals can.
Do we tell these various demographic groups trending toward Obama that, hey, hey, hey, what about us?
We can be liberals.
We'll pander to you.
We'll destroy your family as well as they do.
We'll drive up unemployment numbers among your demographic.
We can do everything the liberals will do.
We will destroy your family for you.
What would they tell us to say?
I prefer to speak to Americans as Americans.
Mr. Murphy, all due respect, I think I had the answer last week to this next campaign.
We got 9% unemployment.
Do you want 10?
Do you want more of the same?
We got four more years.
You want four more years of this?
Name for me anything that's happened the last four years that you want more of.
Do you want more unemployment?
Do you want more value in homes lost?
Do you want gasoline prices going up?
Do you want food prices going up?
What is there that's happened the last four years that you want more of?
Now, are we supposed to then realize that maybe some demographics do want more of this?
What?
Tell me, where's the demographic that wants higher gas prices?
And where's the demographic that wants higher food prices?
See, our message is for everybody, and it is that big government is bad for everybody.
Big government harms everybody.
Big government socialism is bad for all peoples.
Unemployment, homelessness, high gas and food prices.
They don't know race or ethnicity.
They just know price.
You want four more years of what we've had?
That's the campaign.
You don't have to get demographic about it at all.
Okay, now that we've seen all of Sarah Palin's emails, could we finally get a list of all of Obama's tea times?
Maybe some of his grades somewhere.
Sir, do you realize what has been done here?
The singular effort to destroy a human being by the United States media?
It's not all that uncommon, but I have rarely seen it this intense for this long.
Somebody who's not even elected, not even serving in office.
24,000 emails.
They find nothing.
It backfired.
They're ticked off again.
They were so sure they were going to find that smoking gun.
They didn't know what it would be.
They didn't know what it was, but all they could find out that she's very serious, she's a nice woman, that she took being vice president very seriously.
And they also confirmed that she is the daughter of Trigg.
You know, they tried to spread a rumor that she was the mother.
They spread a rumor that she was not the mother, that one of the daughters was.
They found out that she's imaginative, but they actually told the truth about that.
What do you do?
I'll tell you what, Palin did better in her public colonoscopy than Katie Courig did in hers.
Raleigh, North Carolina, this is Chris.
Welcome to the EIB network.
Great to have you with us.
Hello.
All right, Rush.
Thanks for having me.
You bet, sir.
Look, as a member of that conservative base, I'd really like to get back to Romney.
Right, okay.
I don't know who's advising him to do what he's doing, but not going to the caucus to greet the base of We the People is not the right plan.
He's skipping, he's skipping the Hawkeye Cokey, and he's skipping.
I think New Hampshire isn't.
Who do you expect to get the minority vote when your candidate won't address we the people?
What is the difference between Romney and Obama avoiding we the people?
Well, no, but Obama did not avoid the Hawkeye Caucasi.
He, in fact.
He's avoiding we the people now.
So I'm looking at a potential candidate who is avoiding Romney's not going to be the only politician to skip the Hawkeye Caucasi.
I mean, he's not the only guy to ever have done that.
I mean, look at why skip something you're going to lose.
If you're the front runner and you go someplace you're going to lose and you do lose, you know what's going to be said about that.
I know what's going to be said is that this is the second time around and you're still scared to go.
You think one would learn how to do it.
No, he's simply simulation.
No, he's got a strategy where he wins it without having to do the Hawkeye Caucasi and New Hampshire.
To me, he just looks more and more like Obama by doing that.
I mean, that's part of the grief debate.
It's a risk.
I mean, there might be more people like you than he understands.
He must not get it.
He's doing a wiener.
Wiener's avoiding the constitution.
How's that working for him?
He's getting bounced right out.
I don't know.
I can understand.
Iowa, who wants to have it written about you that you're finished after the first cauckey when you're not?
Who wants to spend a million plus dollars and somebody's going to lose anyway?
Or you think you're going to lose, you get no results.
It's, I don't know, I don't think that that's that.
Well, to me personally, it's not.
I'm not saying it shouldn't offend you.
If it does offend you, let it.
That's fine.
I just understand the strategy of all this.
And the nomination is not one in Iowa.
But if you're Romney with this proclaimed frontrunner status, you could lose the whole thing if you go into Iowa and get skunked.
You know, the politics are perception, perception is reality, and so forth.
Caucuses are easy to game.
Obama did it.
Obama stacked the cauckey big time back in 2000, 2008.
Anyway, Chris, I appreciate the call.
This is Mary in Louisville.
Great to have you on the EIB network.
Hi, Rush!
Husband!
Thank you very much.
Thank you.
Oh, well, we're huge fans.
We have lots of little rush boys for you.
We have five sons.
We're huge fans.
We missed the days when we had rush time and your show on at night.
I guess that was about 20 years ago.
Yeah, the television show, yeah, 15 years ago.
Yeah, was it 15?
Well, it's been a long time.
It was our favorite thing to watch at night.
And we have two out of the nest now who are rush babies and voting conservatives.
But I wanted to comment on this real man thing.
And I'm frustrated because I have five boys.
And if our culture follows boys nightly, as they see a girl a princess, imagine how we would have real men leaders who have nobleness, who have courage to do the right thing, and are willing to fight, like Sarah Palin's willing to fight.
And our schools don't allow our boys to read nightly literature, to read historical literature that can encourage this.
Instead, they have to read things like The Secret Life of Bees.
And so they're not being taught in their elementary and high school levels literature that enforces noble knightly behavior.
So you want, you think it is productive for men to be taught to treat women as princesses?
No, I'm saying our culture treats all little girls like they're a princess, and therefore they are noble and good from the get-go.
Oh, but our culture treats our boys as criminals from the get-go.
Oh, I see.
Instead of treating them as knights in training who are going to fight the hard battles and make the good choices.
I see.
I see.
Well, there's clearly some evidence for what you say.
I don't know that it's universal, but yeah, little girls are angels and harmless and so forth.
Little boys are the devils.
But the literature is that.
See, that's a construct of liberalism.
That's a construct of feminism, particularly.
Well, feminism is really disappointing.
Well, yeah, it's wreaked havoc on any number of things.
Mary, I appreciate the call.
Clarkston, Michigan, next.
Julie, welcome to the EIB Network.
Hello.
Hello, Rush.
Speak loud because I'm losing my hearing.
What I called about was your, when you get on the subject of feminism and chicification, I just think today you went way overboard.
But I want to say you are my mentor and my professor.
But let me ask you one question.
Okay.
Because you go off on our women more moral.
Percentages.
If, for example, in prison are there, how many women are there compared to men?
And my second question is, in divorces, how many are caused by men's infidelity as opposed to women?
But we're not going to have any statistics on that because most divorces say uh, they just can't get along, or you know right.
So even in your own personal life, you look around, Do you see more divorces caused by women or men?
Well, I don't, I have really never tabulated it, but that's the what is it that what I said today that you think went over the top that's led you to ask me about divorces?
Because we weren't talking about divorces.
Are women, they saying women are more moral than men, blah, blah, blah.
No, this is what the women on the ABC show were intimating, that they are more moral and that they are more peaceful and understanding and this kinds of thing.
I was bouncing off what some guests on a Sunday show said.
I don't know.
I love you, Rush, but when you talk about those things, I feel like you're talking about all women and there's no always and there's no never.
All feminists.
I was talking about all feminists.
Okay, okay.
Feminism is liberalism.
It's an ideology.
And it's all-encompassing.
All right.
Liberalism is not something I can live with.
But I just want to say one more thing.
Yes.
Anthony Wiener is not what he is because of feminism or any of that.
Anthony Wiener is just a screwed-up creep.
You cannot judge all the money.
Now we get to the nub of it.
Now we find out what upset you.
Good.
Here's the point.
We are always told throughout my life, we've always had to find the socioeconomic reason to explain why the bad guy did it.
And it was never the bad guy's responsibility.
We always had to find some existential thing to blame.
It was economics or it was Reagan.
I mean, Reagan was responsible for homelessness to a lot of people's minds because he didn't care.
So I'm simply throwing it back at him.
Did you ever think that Wiener might have turned out the way he did because of who raised him, because of who he was hanging around, who influenced him, and who he was trying to escape?
Gotcha.
I understand what you're saying.
Okay, Wiener is a creep.
There's no question.
And this is, as I said, not defending what he did.
But look, all the while they're telling us morality doesn't matter.
Julie, now, follow me on that.
Throughout this whole, my 22, 23 years behind this microphone, the left has told us social issues, get rid of them.
Morality, none of anybody's business.
Don't be judgmental.
It's not your job.
You have no right to tell anybody what's right or wrong.
Who are you to say something moral or immoral?
Not to me, but to just conservatives in general and society at large.
And as such, the family values crowd and the moral majority and people who have sought to live in moral ways are often called hypocrites when they fall, when they slip.
The Democrats say, we don't have to be moral because we've never said to anybody that we are.
We don't believe in morality.
We don't believe in the social issues.
We've never trumpeted them or any of that.
But look what happens.
Wiener comes along and all of a sudden, guess who cares about morality?
They do.
Guess who it is pushing for Wiener to quit?
They are.
Because Wiener is not right.
Wiener is immoral.
Wiener is this.
The very people who spent all of my life telling me that that doesn't matter, that is nobody's business, are now the ones doing the 180 and suggesting Weiner has to go because of moral failings.
It's the ultimate in hypocrisy.
They tell us to ignore moral issues, to get away from God, to get away from faith.
And now they tell us that morality does matter.
And on a Sunday show yesterday, they told us that women are more moral than men.
Ergo, my response.
Weiner was their guy.
Huge, big government lib.
They loved Weiner.
They dismissed the social and moral issues.
He didn't like it.
And now He never gets snared by him.
They tried to save him for a while.
Now even they admit that he's got to go.
And on the Sunday show, it's Weiner that became an example of all men and their immorality, as articulated by the guests on the show, not mine.
I'm repeating what they said and reacting to it.
And what I'm saying to Weiner is, don't let them lick you.
You hang in there and don't quit.
Hope in San Antonio.
Welcome to the EIB Network.
High.
Hi.
Thanks so much for taking my call, Rod.
I was calling about the conversation regarding men being kiddie whipped and having been born in New York and then living in Boston for 15 years.
I was in the Northeast my entire life until four years ago.
Managed to escape to Texas.
And I can attest to the fact that especially in the Northeast where, you know, feminism is the buzzword, men aren't men anymore.
And I don't know what the women are.
You know, when so-called feminists think the world of someone like Hillary Clinton who would stay with a man who cheated on her just so she could get power and provide such a bad daughter.
Oh, it's horrible.
But also, you know, coming down here, men open the door for you.
They're afraid to do that in the Northeast.
They're afraid they'll get yelled at or they'll get a look.
And the women down here are not barefoot and pregnant, I'll tell you, not unless they want to be.
They are strong.
They can shoot the flies off a wing, and they are smart.
And it's nice being around men who are men.
I mean, I tweeted the leaders of the GOP after the budget fiasco in the lame duck session and said, you know, there seems to be a dearth of testosterone in D.C. right now.
Maybe I'll want to call Sarah Perry and see if he can borrow some of that.
You know, without generalizing, I have made the point.
I have made the point that real men in Washington are not the real men of the Marlborough days.
They're just not.
And it is, you know, feminism does have consequences, and it has had.
And I have to go.
Be right back, though.
What?
No, a couple days.
I'll tell everybody a couple days.
Wednesday.
Still stringing along.
Wednesday's a big day.
Green job success eludes Obama, says Politico.
No, every job success eludes Obama.
It's not just green jobs.
There aren't any jobs, period.
See you tomorrow, folks.
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