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Nov. 9, 2012 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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November 9, 2012, Friday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 podcast.
Everywhere I look, ladies and gentlemen, it's my fault.
It's my fault.
It's my fault the Romney ground game didn't come out.
It's my fault we didn't get Virginia.
It's my fault we didn't get the black votes.
My fault we didn't get the women votes.
My fault we didn't get the Hispanic vote.
It's my fault.
I'm alienating everybody.
That's what's all over it.
It's my fault here today, folks.
I got some solutions.
What?
New Orleans has got some trailers from FEMA?
What's New Orleans getting trailers from FEMA for?
Oh, oh, I get it.
Oh, do you know in New York?
Get this.
In New York, you're not allowed to donate food to the homeless.
No, no, no.
You know why?
Because the mayor says they don't have a way to measure the fat and salt content of the food, so you can't donate it.
No, no, no.
Not kidding.
Greetings, my friends.
Great to have you here.
Rush Limbaugh, the Excellence in Broadcasting Network and the Limbaugh Institute for Advanced Conservative Studies.
Open line Friday.
When we go to the phones, you get to talk about whatever you want to talk about.
Unlike Monday through Thursday, where you have to talk about things I care about, not the case on Friday.
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I'm not kidding.
We got into soundbites.
Wherever you go, it's my fault.
I just, you know, I need to close down my show and close up shop and go away.
It's the only way the Republicans are ever going to have a chance.
I just have to go away.
By the way, I notice a lot of people are starting to moderate, ladies and gentlemen, on the issue of immigration.
It seems to be the wave.
And so I want to propose something here.
How about the EIB El Rushbo amnesty plan?
We give every illegal alien currently living in the country amnesty.
And they can't vote for 25 years.
And we'll see who is really interested in this.
I'm not kidding.
Wherever I go, even we got some soundbites on this.
It's all my fault.
And this Santa Claus business vote, that has, they are, Bob Becko says, Limbaugh's a bunch of Yahoos.
Limbaugh and these guys are Yahoo.
Santa Claus, the Pennant class, 47%.
That's what got Romney in problem.
That's not who our voters are.
That's not who's voting a Democrat.
It's an insult.
It ain't possible.
It's not the way.
These guys need to shut up.
This thing is really a little throwaway line, Santa Claus.
Arnold Allert, who used to write columns for the New York Post, I don't know.
He's a Jewish World Review is where I found this one.
And he's got his idea is, folks, look, we're headed to collapse.
It's just a question of when.
Have you seen what's going on in Argentina?
Argentina is about 700,000 people are protesting the government in Argentina.
Their economy collapsed 11 years ago.
The number, if you do population comparisons, the number of people protesting in Argentina would equal 5 million in this country if you make a population adjustment.
5 million people are protesting the government.
It took them 11 years.
The government, the economy tanked in Argentina 11 years ago, and a just now figure it now.
Arnold Allard's point is we're headed to collapse anyway.
Just get out of the way.
Boehner and McConnell just let the Democrats have everything they want with no opposition.
None.
It's headed to collapse anyway.
And when it does collapse, nobody can say that the Republicans had anything to do with it.
Nobody can say the Republicans obstructed.
Nobody can say it's the Republicans' fault because they got out of the way.
It's actually quite interesting proposition, just to make a point.
He says, I have a suggestion for the Republicans, one they won't hear from anywhere else.
Give Barry and company everything they want without an iota of resistance.
Let them raise taxes, let them raise debt ceiling, gut the military, run up trillions of dollars of additional deficit and debt, and then stand back.
Let an utterly corrupt media chronicle the demise of the country without being able to pin an ounce of the ensuing socialist catastrophe on an obstructionist GOP.
Harry Reid wants to end the filibuster.
Tell him not necessary.
For the next four years, Republicans will do what a certain senator from Illinois made a career in doing.
Simply vote present on every bill put before them.
In effect, give the Democrats the same unassailable majority they had in 2008, same one that led directly to the passage of Obamacare.
Well, you think that's radical compared to what?
Watching a president get re-elected despite four major scandals, the worst recovery on record, the explosion of entitlements, all of which was blamed on the Republicans and their obstructionism, being blamed for everything that will go wrong from 2012 to 2016, completely irrespective of reality for the truth.
He's got a point.
The Republicans are going to get blamed because you do have a corrupt media.
And of course, the Democrat voters are going to believe that.
What's going to change?
What's going to change to make them not believe it?
If these four years get blamed on George Bush, when I saw that in the exit poll data, I said, oh, no.
I said, it has to be BS.
It just, it can't be.
And if it is not BS, then, you know, we're outnumbered.
We've lost the country.
A little audio soundbite just show you what I'm talking about.
This is Diane Sawyer.
This last night, ABC's World of News tonight.
Diane Sawyer interviewing John Boehner and talking about the election.
There have been a lot of Republican comments since Rush Limbaugh said.
I went to bed last night thinking we've lost the country.
We've lost the country.
We're outnumbered.
Al Cardanas has said that the party has gotten, these are his words, too old, too white, too male.
Is that right?
Well, I think what Republicans need to learn is how do we speak to all Americans?
You know, not just the people who look like us and act like us, but how do we speak to all Americans?
Folks, the futility of it.
How can you laugh?
the utter futility of it.
We need to learn how to speak to all Americans.
You know, we was talking to the broadcast engineer there, folks.
It's a little dead air.
Never heard it.
We need to talk to.
I'm sorry.
This is how I felt the past two days.
Grab somebody number 22.
This is John Boehner.
He had a press conference today, meeting with the press in Washington, and He repeated that he thinks this is a great opportunity now, Obama, to lead.
This is an opportunity for the president to lead.
This is his moment to engage the Congress and work towards a solution that can pass both chambers.
You know, earlier this week, the president and I had a short conversation.
It was cordial.
I think we both understand that trying to find a way to avert the fiscal cliff is important for our country.
And I'm hopeful that productive conversations can begin soon so that we can forge an agreement that can pass the Congress.
Okay.
So this is the moment to engage the Congress, an opportunity for the president to lead.
Go back here, audio soundbite number two, to Diane Sawyer and Boehner talking about the election again and what we Republicans need to do.
There have been a lot of Republican comments since Rush Limbaugh said.
I went to bed last night thinking we've lost the country.
We've lost the country.
We're outnumbered.
Al Cardenas has said that the party has gotten, these are his words, too old, too white, too male.
Is that right?
Well, I think what Republicans need to learn is how do we speak to all Americans?
You know, not just to people who look like us and act like us, but how do we speak to all Americans?
Let me help, ladies and gentlemen.
I've been talking about Santa Claus for the past couple, three days.
Let's reach out to the Hispanic community and make sure they get the message.
The EIB network.
You're the Excellence in Broadcasting Network.
Santa Claus has them just beside themselves, even on the Fox News channel.
They're talking about it on the five yesterday.
They also don't believe in dependency, believe it or not.
This election being about makers and takers is just one of the most vastly overrated analysis of this campaign.
When the 47% comes up, let's remember a huge chunk of that is people on Social Security and Medicare who have paid for their own Social Security and Medicare.
When Limbaugh says that, he's talking about people on welfare, I assume.
He's mimicking the 47%.
No, I'm talking about the way people look at the Democrat Party, Bob.
The Democrat Party is seen as Santa Claus.
Free stuff.
Becko continued.
Ronald Reagan was the last Republican to have a comprehensive immigration reform policy, and it worked.
And George Bush was the one who could talk to Hispanics, and it worked.
But you all now are letting that party be run by a bunch of Yahoos who talk their mouth off Rush Limbaugh and the rest of these people who don't want to build the peace.
How does Rush run the Republican Party?
Just curious.
Because you talk about big fences and keeping all these.
He's a radio host.
He's not running the GOP.
He's not running the right.
Oh, he's not.
Simpson Mazzoli.
Beckle says, hey, Ronald Reagan, it worked.
We got to define that, folks.
You know, my problem is I live in Rielville, and these people don't.
They live on Fantasy Island, where Santa Claus shows up every day.
I don't.
Ronald Reagan passed amnesty in 1986.
It legalized 3 million illegal aliens, and it was supposed to be the end of it.
That way you're going to get control of borders, and we're not going to have the problem.
And now we're going to have 20 million illegals.
It didn't work, Bob.
It didn't work unless you're the Democrat Party and it's working fine.
That's why I say I'm willing to compromise.
I'm willing to reach out.
EIB amnesty.
Go and find every illegal alien in the country.
Find them.
Beg them to come forward.
We're going to give them a path.
In fact, we're not even going to give them a path.
We're going to proclaim them citizens.
We're going to make them citizens right now, but they can't vote for 25 years.
And we'll see what kind of interest we have in amnesty with that requirement.
Greg Gutfeld wanted to get in on this, this discussion of me and Santa Claus at the five.
He said this.
But you can beat Santa Claus.
You take his clothes.
I say take Santa's clothes, exposing these ideas of dependency as corrupt.
I don't believe that the people that voted for Obama don't believe in achieving.
I don't believe that they don't believe in excellence.
But, you know, we need to reach out as a conservative why the way they're going is working against them.
Okay, now, Gutfeld, this is interesting.
You can beat Santa Claus.
You take his clothes.
I say take Santa Claus, exposing these ideas of dependency as corrupt.
We've been trying that.
I don't know how many different ways it has been attempted, morally, ethically, economically.
But the bottom line is, there's no sense of outreach that seems to work.
is I don't believe that they don't believe in excellence.
They need, well, all we know is that the people, what is the Democrat Party known for?
What is it thought of?
It's thought of as the party-free stuff.
It's part of what everybody thinks of.
In fact, it's a Democrat Party that's Santa Claus, folks, not the government.
It's just the government when they run it.
You believe they keep saying this is my fault.
It's my fault, folks.
I'm driving everybody away.
I'm driving Hispanics away.
I'm driving people like Christmas away.
I'm driving people to believe in Santa Claus away.
I'm driving away African Americans.
I'm driving away single women, the vagina crowned.
I'm driving them all away.
It's all my fault.
That's the drive-by media analysis of the election.
Obama didn't win.
I lost it.
Today is day 11 for people without power in New Jersey and New York.
Day 11.
Don't worry.
That's exactly right.
Santa Claus is coming.
Government will fix it.
Just be patient.
El Rushbo, the all-knowing, all-caring, all-sensing, all-feeling, all-concerned Maha Rushi in charge of the good vibe here at the EIB Network and the Limboy Institute.
Here we are at Open Line Friday.
And again, telephone number is 800-282-2882.
Now, I went and looked something up.
I was really curious about this.
We've been talking the past two days about amnesty, illegal immigration, and why Hispanics vote Democrat.
It's stunning.
There's a truth out there.
Nobody wants to admit it.
The Republican Party doesn't want to admit it.
And very few Republican pundits want to admit it.
The Democrat Party is not getting the Hispanic vote because of immigration policy.
I'll mention Heather McDonald again.
She's a scholar on this stuff, and she's concluded.
She studied it.
She's found out.
She's looked at the data.
75% of the Hispanic vote goes to the Democrat Party because the Democrat Party Santa Claus.
The Democrat Party is the party seen as the social safety net, the hammock.
Not even a safety net anymore.
It's a hammock.
And it's been a hammock for a while.
The Democrat Party's seen that with the Republican Party's not.
This is indisputable.
Nobody associates voting for the Republican Party and getting stuff, do they?
Everybody associates voting for the Democrat Party and getting stuff.
I don't care how it offends people.
I don't care if it seems abrasive.
It's undeniable.
75% of the Hispanic vote votes the Democrat Party for reasons that have nothing to do with immigration.
So I went back because Bob Beckel said that Reagan granted amnesty in 1986 and it worked.
What worked?
Well, if you want to say granting amnesty to 3 million illegals worked, okay, 3 million illegals were made citizens.
Okay, that worked.
What?
Incumbent with the passage of Simpson Mazzoli, which was the legislation that granted amnesty, was the assurance that that was it.
If we just legalize the 3 million illegals who were there at the time, and then we could secure the border and we've solved the problem.
Well, of course, everything Washington does doesn't solve the problem.
All Washington does is exacerbate a problem.
They create a problem.
They then say they're the only ones to fix it.
They go in and fix it, and the problem gets bigger.
And then it's all over again.
Well, we need a new amnesty plan.
Why?
I thought the one in 86 worked.
Bob Beckel just said it worked.
Let's take another way.
Look another way at how it worked.
Ronaldus Magnus passes amnesty, Simpson Mazzoli, in 1986.
Ronald Reagan in 1984 got 37% of the Hispanic vote.
So the Republican Party getting 37% of the Hispanic vote when Reagan signs amnesty.
George H.W. Bush, Bush 41, runs for office in 1988, two years after Simpson Mazzoli.
Two years after the Republican Party is seen as heroically granting amnesty.
What percentage of the Hispanic vote do you think that George H.W. Bush got two years after Reagan passed amnesty?
30%.
The Republican Party lost 7% of the Hispanic vote after passing amnesty.
Now, am I saying that there's a correlation?
I don't know.
But I can say the Republican Party did not increase its support from the Hispanic community after passing amnesty.
It lost it.
Now, we're told, the reason why this is important, we're told, we plebes, we know nothings out here, we're told that the Republican Party is demographically seeing itself eroded out of existence.
And we've got to learn how to talk to these people.
We've got to learn how to speak to the African Americans.
We've got to learn how to speak.
Every time we try, they make fun of us.
Every time we try to speak the language of these groups, they make fun of us, or they call us racists, or they say that we're insensitive.
Every time we try to speak to them in their language, ways they can understand.
That's one observation.
We're also told, if we don't pass amnesty, if we don't get on the right side this amnesty issue, we're going to lose perpetually the Hispanic vote.
We're never going to get it.
Well, we're losing what?
30% of it, 25% anyway.
My only point to you is the Republican Party, Ronald Reagan, granted amnesty to 3 million illegals in 1986, two years after getting 37% of the Hispanic vote.
George H.W. Bush running for president as a Republican, Reagan's vice president, two years after amnesty, two years after really shoring up the Hispanic vote, got 30%, lost 7%.
Now, you may not be able to say that amnesty lost it, but you definitely can say that granting amnesty did not increase Hispanic support for Republican candidates.
It's in the numbers.
The numbers don't lie.
There is a reason Hispanics vote for the Democrat Party.
There's a reason everybody who votes for the Democrat Party votes for the Democrat Party.
If the trial lawyers, you're voting for the Democrat Party because the game is rigged in your favor.
Legislation is passed allowing you to score big-time bucks suing the pants off of whoever you want.
If you're in the unions, you know full well that the game is stacked in your direction.
So you vote in Democrat.
If you're Hollywood, if you are academia, you're voting it because you supposedly believe the ideology.
But what do you believe?
What is the ideology?
That the Democrats care more about why is that the case?
Because they give more stuff away?
What is the definition of Democrat compassion, by the way?
Isn't it the number of people who get stuff?
Isn't it the number of people being taken care of?
And isn't the definition of compassion or lack of compassion for the Republicans because they're cold-hearted and cruel?
And what does that mean?
They don't give people stuff.
What else could it mean?
Why is it said the Republicans don't have compassion that the Democrats do?
What does that actually mean?
We're not talking emotions.
Republicans love people every bit as much as Democrats do.
But the media and the Democrats say we don't.
Like, we're racist and we hate and so forth.
Plus, we don't give stuff.
We're perceived in not giving.
Oh, wait, wait.
The Republican, Richard Nixon.
You know what?
Richard Nixon created more government programs than I can shake a stick at, second only the FDR.
Richard Nixon, OSHA, Richard Nixon, EPA, Richard, what did it do for him?
Affirmative action.
Richard Nixon, a Republican, George W. Bush, a Medicare entitlement.
What did it do for him and the Republicans?
Even when the Republicans give stuff away, they don't quote unquote get credit for it because why?
They don't really mean it.
It is not arguable.
It's not debatable why people vote for the Democrat Party.
You can see it in the Hispanic numbers.
You can see it.
It's not about immigration policy.
Again, I want to reiterate that we've thought this through here at EIB, and we're ready to announce our own amnesty plan.
Immediate citizenship for every illegal citizen in the country now.
Just come forward.
Only requirement is you can't vote for 25 years.
Or if that's too stringent, you can't vote for the number of years you've been in the country.
That would require you to be honest and admit how long you've been here.
But that wouldn't work because that wouldn't work.
So 20, 25 years.
You can't vote.
Let's see what kind of support that would get.
I don't think very much, particularly on the Democrat side.
Richard Nixon, 35% of the Hispanic vote in 1972.
He won on the landslide.
And Watergate came.
35% Hispanic vote in 1672.
Reagan, 37% Hispanic vote in 1984, passes amnesty two years later.
And in another two years, 7% fewer Hispanics vote for George W. Bush, H.W. Bush.
So we go from 37 to 30% after passing amnesty.
It's amazing how the Republicans could be tricked.
They say, don't criticize the Democrat president.
Don't criticize Obama.
You're going to call you racist, and then he's going to really tick off the independents.
Okay, okay, we won't.
We won't.
We won't be critical.
And we won't be critical of the president when we run for office against him.
We'll call him.
He's a great guy.
He's a nice guy.
He just doesn't know what he's doing.
We'll be as nice as we can.
And we'll get the independent vote.
And guess what?
Romney got the independent vote.
And what happened?
He didn't win the election, did he?
You notice how easy it is to talk Beltway Republicans into strategies, policies that are suicidal.
And now that's what this immigration stuff is.
Because that's not why Democrats get the votes of 75% of the Hispanic population.
Okay, folks, a brief time out here as we continue on Open Line Friday.
Don't go away.
Okay, we're back, Al Rushbaugh, and the Excellence in Broadcasting Network.
Ladies and gentlemen, you know me.
I'm dipped in logic and common sense each and every day.
So the argument all week really intensified last night and today is that I'm the problem.
I'm the reason that the Democrats keep winning.
And so the Democrats keep saying they got to get rid of me.
The Democrats keep saying, of course, the Democrats are very much interested in losing, right?
The Democrats are very interested in having the Republicans win.
So the Democrats are saying, you guys have got to get rid of Limbaugh if you're ever going to have a chance.
Now, it would stand to reason to me that if the Democrats think that I am the reason they are winning, they would want me even bigger.
They would make me a movie star.
They would insist that I do a television show on a liberal cable network.
They would put me everywhere if I am forcing people to abandon the Republican Party.
I ought to be the biggest star in the Democrat Party.
I should be inundated with phone calls from Bob Iger at Disney and from Harvey Weinstein and Barry Diller and whoever the kingmakers are in liberal entertainment, Hollywood.
They ought to be all over me because what do I do?
Why, I send people to the Democrat Party in droves.
And I cause people to hate the Republicans.
Why, I would think the Democrats would want me everywhere.
Why don't they?
If I'm so magical for them, because they are.
I mean, the Democrats are urging the Republicans.
And Obama did it too, by the way, after he was first emaculated.
The first joint meeting that Obama had with members of Congress 2009, a couple weeks after he won.
He brought Boehner up there, but they said, hey, you guys have got to stop listening to Rush Limbaugh.
That's not how things get done here.
So obviously, I'm the reason the Democrats win.
I'm the reason that the blacks stay away from the Republicans.
I'm the reason Hispanics stay away.
I'm the reason that women stay away.
I'm the reason that whoever's avoiding the Republican Party, I'm it, right?
So why do they want to get rid of me?
I'm one of their best weapons.
They should want me everywhere.
Here's what's Felipe, Felipe Jackson, Tennessee.
Hi, Felipe.
Glad you called your up first today on Open Line Friday.
Hi.
Hey, Mr. Raj, how are you?
Very good, sir.
Thank you.
Good, good, good.
I'm glad.
It's a privilege for me to be able to speak with you.
I appreciate that, Felipe.
It's great to have you here.
Yeah.
Well, you're going to tell me that you are a former Republican, but I turned you into a Democrat.
No, no, no, no.
I've never been a Democrat or Republican.
Oh.
I came here in the early 80s, and I was one of the beneficiaries when our president Ronald Reagan, for me, that has been the best president in our state I've ever seen.
And he gave out the amnesty, that's true.
And I was one of the beneficiaries of that.
And I came to be a U.S. citizen not too long ago, but all six.
And all four, I was not able to draw to vote.
All eight.
I just decided not to vote for nobody.
And now, this time I vote for the...
This is what I wanted to say.
This is my point.
Many of us do not vote for freebies, freebies from the Democrats.
That's true.
They are just like you say, just like you say, like Santa Claus.
And this is how I choose.
Happen the way.
How I choose my candidate.
I check first things I check who is a pro-life, who is against abortion, who is in favor of Second Amendment.
Okay, so you, you are one of the 25% of Hispanics.
You're one of the.
You don't consider it.
I'm not considering myself Democrat or Republican.
I'm considering myself independent because even if it's not easy, but even if I find a good Democrat with good family values, good principles, I'll vote for.
But like I say, it's not easy to find one on the whole Democrat field.
But that's how I choose my candidate.
And I vote this year.
You know, I had to ask me for who I vote for.
Okay.
What we're hearing from Felipe, ladies and gentlemen, he is one of the 25% of Hispanics that does not vote for the Democrat Party for the reasons most do.
What he's telling us is he votes issues, he votes principles and so forth.
And they are out there.
There's no question they're out there.
So when you talk about Hispanic outreach, this, I think, people like Felipe is what theoretically the Republicans mean by reaching out.
They've already got those.
Is it my point?
The Republican message is known.
Conservatism is, well, I take that.
It's not really.
You know, it's not, there aren't enough Republicans who cheerfully heart from the heart articulate conservatism.
But he gets it.
He gets it.
Look at he's making, he wants to make sure everybody knows he's not one of the 75% who votes for the Democrat because of Santa Claus or immigration policy or what have you.
Got to take a break here, folks.
Open Line Friday rolls on.
Don't go away.
Folks, you'll remember this when I remind you of it.
We did the story on this program.
Barack Obama, in coordination with the Mexican president, Felipe Colderon, was running television ads.
The United States government was running television ads in Mexico targeted at Mexicans who planned on coming to the United States.
And do you know what the commercials were about?
How to get food stamps.
Now, what is that?
There's a word for that.
It's called hispandering.
Hispandering.
Advising people how to get free stuff.
Obama administration, commercials in Mexico.
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