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March 18, 2013 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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March 18, 2013, Monday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 podcast.
I um I hope everybody had a great weekend out there, uh, ladies and gentlemen.
And as Maggie Smith said in one of the greatest lines ever in the TV show, Downton Abbey, what is a weekend?
She's from the aristocrat class.
Every day is a weekend.
She had no idea what one was.
Anyway, great to have you here, folks.
L Rushbow and the Excellence in Broadcasting Network, the telephone number if you want to be on the program today, 800-282-2882, the email address L Rushball at EIBNet.com.
I find something pretty interesting.
Uh Rench Prebus went out today, and once again, and I gotta be very, very careful, because then they th in in in discussing this, I have to be very careful because Rich Prebus went out and announced the new Republican Party rebranding and marketing plan.
Now I have been in marketing.
Marketing is a multifaceted discipline that has one objective, and that is to separate people from their money, and sales is part of marketing.
Now, one thing that I've always believed in as somebody in marketing, is you don't tell anybody how you're going to separate them from their money.
You just do it.
You don't give them any ammo to resist you.
You just do it.
You just show up and execute the plan.
I remember uh when I I worked for the Kansas City Royals, I was in sales and marketing, and the offseason was the busiest time, because the offseason is when you planned everything you're going to do marketing-wise to sell baseball tickets the next season.
The one thing that sells tickets better than anything else is a winning team, and that's the one thing you've got no control over.
You have no control over whether a team's gonna win, so you have to come up with creative, innovative ways to get people to ballpark regardless.
Well, we never told anybody how we were gonna do it.
In fact, it got and we were famous for our marketing plans.
I mean, they were they were copycatted by number of teams, uh not just in baseball, but in the NBA, and got to the point the media would come to us every February and say, what so so what's the theme for this season?
And we'd never tell them.
We just execute it.
Um But the Republicans, I I tell you what, this this um the thing that, and we're gonna get into this in some detail.
I the the Republicans are just totally bamboozled right now, and they are entirely lacking in confidence, which is what happens to every political party after an election in which they think they got shellacked.
They think they got landslided, and they didn't.
But they are acting like they did, and they think they did.
And I think what really is going on here, folks, I think at the at this moment, policy is not the primary thing they're concerned about, even though they're not gonna admit that.
They are concerned, and you will understand this the moment I say it, about their donor base.
And so what prebus is doing with his, they got this big plan that I got a copy of it last night.
I got an embargoed copy.
It wasn't it what it was it was embargoed to like seven o'clock this morning, but didn't matter to me because I'm not gonna be talking about it in public by then, so I could go ahead and look at it.
And I didn't.
I waited for others to go through it and report on it, because I know what it's gonna say.
And I was right, they think they've got a rebrand, and it's all predicted, they've got to reach out to minorities.
They gotta moderate their tone here and moderate their tone there, and that's not at all what they've got to do.
All they have to do, the Republican Party lost because it's not conservative.
It didn't get its base out in the 2012 election.
Yeah.
Now that's simple to say, and it's probably simple for you to agree with, but I'm telling you that that is a major mountain to climb within the party itself, as you well know, because the the establishment in Washington, the ruling class, both parties is not conservative, and in fact they fear it.
They're very much worried about it.
And because it it's it's it's considered an outsider movement.
So they they kicked the Tea Party out, or they try to de-emphasize the Tea Party.
Don't use it, but let's put it that way.
They did not use the asset that the Tea Party provided them.
And uh they did not at all.
The principles here are timeless, but to go back now and I think you redefine your principles and sort of message, and it's not it.
It really isn't that hard.
Anyway, to me, that's not the big story today, and I I guarantee you that if a Republican were in the White House, the media would be talking to you about one thing today and one thing only, and it is what happened Saturday in Cyprus and what might happen in Italy.
Let me just I'm gonna take a little test here.
Mr. Snerdley, do you know what happened in Cyprus on Saturday?
You gotta be kidding me.
You read a headline and you don't know.
Not to put you Brian, do you know what happened in Cyprus on Saturday?
Yep.
Not just savings accounts, they date you're right.
He said they they took money out of um people's savings accounts.
What happened was Cyprus launched Cypriot banks launder a lot of money for the Russian mob.
So those banks are important.
You got to keep them open.
The banks are in deep doo doo, and the government of Cyprus is in deep doo doo because it's leftist, it's socialist.
It's just like all the rest of the European Union.
And they're out of money and they're in debt and they're near collapse.
And so what they did, the European Union, the Eurozone, just decided that they were going to confiscate people's private property, which is their money.
Now, people don't look at money as property, but it is.
It's as much property as as as land is, or as your house or your car.
And they just went in there and they're calling it a wealth tax, and they're taking anywhere from six to ten percent of everybody's deposits, not just your savings, but everything.
Your checking account, your mistress account, a lot of people there have mistress accounts.
10% max, people have raised how there was a run on banks in Cyprus began.
People started going to ATMs and trying to take all the money they had in the bank out because that was the only way to protect it.
A digital transfer is easy.
So if the European Union, the Eurozone, and the government of Cyprus want 10% of your money, they decided they needed it.
They just went and got it.
Everybody's folks, not just the rich, not just people to make over 130,000 euros, everybody.
Now I'm telling you, if a Republican were in the White House, that would be the big story, and the question would be could it happen here?
This story is being ignored.
It deserves to have a lot of attention focused on it because we are headed in that direction.
What happened in Cyprus makes Greece look like a paradise.
Now they're talking about the same thing possibly happening in Italy.
The Eurozone is run by a bunch of leftist aristocrats who have no more idea what they're doing than leftists in this country do.
Speaking of leftists, Obama has just nominated a replacement for Hilda Solis at the what is it, Department of Labor, Labor Department is at the MRB or the Labor Department.
Okay, I'll tell you who this guy is.
This guy's name is Tom Perez, and he may as well be Hugo Chavez, and that is not an exaggeration.
Yep, Tom Perez is his name, and I'll tell you who this guy is.
He is the guy in the Department of Justice in the Civil Rights Division Who made the call not to prosecute the new Black Panthers?
This is his rule.
Now I want to play a little game with you, folks.
Let's, in a hypothetical, let's replace Obama with George W. Bush and the Black Panthers with the Ku Klux Klan.
Now I want you to try to imagine Bush's head of the civil rights division not prosecuting clanners when they engage in voter intimidation.
And then, after not prosecuting clanners for that, then imagine what would happen if Bush turned around and nominated the Grand Kleagel of the Ku Klux Klan to a cabinet position where he would be deciding on discrimination lawsuits.
That is exactly what's happened here.
And there would be unmitigated hell to pay if that had happened.
If George W. Bush puts a Klansman in his cabinet, there would be hell to.
That's essentially what's happened here.
This guy, Tom Perez, I would I read a piece at PJ Media today by our old buddy Jay Christian Adams, who was in the Justice Department and who was prosecuting the new Black Panthers, voter intimidation Philadelphia.
He was prosecuting them when Holder shut it down, just ended with and there was evidence to convict a mile long.
And Jay Christian Adams had his investigation pulled out from under him and he retired.
He resigned.
He quit.
He says no point in me being here.
And the way this is PJ Media has written this up is this way.
Today, President Obama has issued a challenge to Republican senators in nominating Tom Perez as labor secretary, he implies that Senate Republicans don't have either the guts or the organizational skill to stop it.
And this guy, Tom Perez, is a Hugo Chavezite, who may be the most radical left-wing cabinet member in history.
Now, J. Christian Adams'book, Injustice, Exposing the Racial Agenda of the Obama Justice Department, He described this guy Perez.
But the new Black Panther case is just one case that this guy was involved in.
I remember we're talking about radical leftists and what they do.
And the umbrella for this is what happened in Cyprus.
Because it is a very logical question.
Could that happen here?
I mean, you've heard Jesse Jackson demand that people, the government, just go grab people's pension funds.
We've heard discussion of how the government might buy, quote unquote, your 401k from you, give you the equivalent value of it now, promise you one to three percent annual interest on it, but eliminate the tax deduction for your annual contribution because they can't afford it.
There are any numbers of stashes of money like that, $16 trillion in debt, they can go do.
And if there isn't any hell to pay, I mean, if if if they if the Eurozone just confiscates between six and ten percent of everybody's money in Cyprus, and nobody complains about it, and there won't be a lot of complaint if the media doesn't cover it, then it is a logical question to ask.
Could it happen here?
We've got the same kind of people running this government as are running all those European so-called socialist democracies.
And an example is this Perez guy, the new nominee for Secretary of Labor.
And again, the new Black Panther case was just one small part of his tenure at the Justice Department.
He was involved in the eighth-grade transvestite lawsuits in New York.
The race quotas in New York City.
This guy is this Perez guy is at the forefront of Obama's war on the Catholic Church and demanding that contraceptives be given away.
He Overruled, this is the man who overruled career lawyers in the Department of Justice in the South Carolina voter ID case.
He is a classic, classic radical leftist.
That's not going to get reported much today.
And to the extent that I'm talking about it, people say sour grapes, sour grapes.
Point, it's not sour grapes.
I'm just trying to tell you what's going on.
There's a story from the Pew Center for the uh for the uh research project for excellence in journalism.
They ought to change the name of this to the Limbaugh Research Center for Excellence in Journalism, because everything that I have said in criticizing and analyzing the media, these people now say customers are not being serviced, customers are unhappy, consumers of newest, don't trust it.
Don't think they're being dealt with fairly and honestly and so forth.
It won't matter.
So there are degrees of similarity here that are that are scary as they can be.
And then while all this is going on, folks, while a golden opportunity exists, excuse me.
While another golden opportunity exists for the Republican Party to simply contrast themselves with all of this radical liberalism.
What are they doing?
And I'm not comfortable criticizing here.
I mean, it's I don't, I'm not in their line of work.
You know, I'm not politics is not my business, and I I don't pretend to know better than they do how to run their business.
I don't want anybody to misunderstand.
And I I really don't doubt that they've got people trying to do what they think is best, but I'm telling you that the past five years have not been, and there never will be again, a greater opportunity to contrast conservatism with what's actually happened.
We don't have to warn people about radical liberalism.
We don't have to warn people about what will happen if radical liberals ever get it's already we're in the middle of what we were warning about 10 and 15 years ago, the contrast with, and instead we're getting this hand-wringing analysis and marketing announcements and what we got to do to reach out to minorities and so forth,
and uh and I'll tell you there's something else I'd like to spend some time on today and develop further if if it works out, making no commitments.
Hillary Clinton has come out today for gay marriage.
I mean, it it this issue, I I've since this, I warned you about this months ago.
This this issue is now catapulted to the top, seemingly of everybody's list.
It's stunning the way this has happened.
Uh in the millennial generation, 25 and under, it's all that matters.
Gay marriage.
Young conservatives, 30 and under, 3500, Manhattan Barseen Conservative, gay marriage, all that matters.
People willing to leave the party if the party doesn't change his mind.
And you know how it's happening?
Not just on the basis that love is a wonderful thing, and who are we to say somebody could or could not love somebody?
It's also coming under the umbrella of freedom.
And this is something that concerns me, because I think freedom is being misapplied or maybe incorrectly defined.
Freedom does not mean hedonism.
Freedom does not mean sibaritic pursuit, just do what you want.
Anyway, that's a little bit of setting the table.
And there's even more.
And of course, we go to the audio sound bites.
You'll hear the media asking, can the Republican Party even survive with me on the radio?
Hey, welcome back.
great to have you.
El Rushball and a brand new week of broadcast excellence.
Now, one of the things here that the um the left does, the Democrat Party does, they pretend to be the party of freedom and liberation.
And it's a you talk about marketing.
What a masterful marketing trick they have pulled off here with the notion that they are the party of freedom and liberation when in fact it's just the opposite.
You see that the left's big lie is that government frees people, and that only government can liberate people, when really it's just the opposite.
And that's why the left is constantly looking for new groups that they can cast as victims.
I mean, it's an it we acknowledge that the left seeks to victimize everybody.
But many people think that it's so that they can provide benefits and grow the welfare state, and that's in part true.
But there's another hideous reason for trying to put so many people into different groups of victims, and it is that those groups need protection.
From whom?
Mean spirited extremist radical right wingers.
And who are the groups all of a sudden or for all time who need protection?
Gays, they need to be liberated by the government.
Blacks, Hispanics, women, left-handed people, you name it, anyone they can claim being discriminated against, and who must be protected by government, can then be liberated by government.
So the government, the the the Democrats set themselves up as these great liberators, when in fact they stigmatize people, they make them members of groups, they plug them into these groups, and they cease to exist as individuals.
But it's even more hideous than that.
Sit tight, folks, we'll be right back.
Hi, how are you?
Great to have you here, folks, El Rush Ball and your um excellence in broadcasting network.
Again at 800 282 2882.
Okay, this is crucial.
Remember what we're about here, informing people, educating people, while at the same time entertaining everybody with a good show.
Trying to explain things, making the complex understandable.
A lot of things happening in the world today, and we could fit them all in under one umbrella.
Radical liberalism, socialism, communism, whatever you want to call it, it's radical and it is governing not just our country, but the world.
Our country used to be an exception to this kind of governance.
Thank you.
But now we have been ensnared by it.
To the point that freedom is taking on a whole new meaning, incorrectly and dangerously so.
And I might say, and I know I'm gonna I'm gonna make some people mad by saying this, but this very broad definition of freedom that is used to, for example, justify gay marriage is being advanced not just by radical leftists, but by libertarians as well.
And even some conservatives.
But the reason the reason the whole issue of freedom is working against I mean I ron Paul said something, and I've I've mentioned this before, his so-called farewell address to Congress when he left speech, last speech for leaving the House of Representatives.
He said he couldn't believe how difficult it was or is to sell freedom to people.
Now he meant freedom from government, self-reliance, responsibility, taking control of your own life and making the most of it is a concept.
The Republican National Convention was my gosh, that was from the standpoint of timely and time less American tradition, it was it was perfect.
One story after another of how up from nothing success occurred.
Hard work.
You know, people smirk now when you tell them that kind of a story.
Yeah, I worked hard.
You can see it too.
You can you can watch people react to a politician on TV or anybody who talks about, yeah, I came from nothing, I worked really hard, my parents raised me right.
I remember doing two or three jobs, putting my way through school, and people smirk at it now.
And what's happened is that the Democrats, the left, have successfully convinced people that they are the party of freedom.
They are the party of liberation, that they free people from bondage or what have you.
For the longest time, I noted, and I always laughed at it, and as usual, I should have taken it more seriously than I did.
When Bill Clinton was inaugurated, elected, his the you know, the celebration that takes place a week before the inauguration, all these liberals show up, and they have parties in Washington on the mall.
And every day, people like Aretha Franklin would get up and sing songs about we shall overcome.
We have overcome, like they just got out of jail, like they were just freed from tyranny.
And I just I sat there and laughed.
I said, what kind of loco weeds are these people?
At the time I didn't have the maturity, or the experience, probably a better thing to say, to understand what was really going on.
These people really do believe that those of us who are not liberals want to constrain them from having a good time.
We want to punish them if they have a good time.
We want to deny them fun.
We are rock rigid, and then after that we are judgmental.
And why is that?
Well, because they view us as people with a moral code, and they don't want a moral code.
A moral code itself is punishing.
A moral code has lines beyond which you're not supposed to go.
And that's not fun.
And the people in charge of that are a bunch of old-fashioned dry ball fuddy duddies who go to church every Sunday and have sex once a year, and then think they're committing sin.
And we don't want to have those people running our lives.
And the Democrat Party comes along and agrees with them and says, Yeah, well, we're here to liberate you.
We are the party that will free you.
When in fact, it's it's it's it's at the end of the day, it's just the exact opposite.
But that's why the Democrat Party is looking constantly for new groups that they can cast as victims.
Groups that need protection from us, need protection from the Christian right, need protection from conservatives like Sarah Palin, and me, and whoever else you care to name.
Gays and blacks are oppressed.
I mean, that's the message in 2013 America.
There are large groups of Americans still under the yoke of oppression.
They are made to believe that.
They end up, they go through their day believing that they're oppressed.
When a Democrat wins an election, that's when they think they're set free.
It's the most amazing thing.
Women, war on women, what do you think that really was?
Uh in addition to being a vote-getting scheme, it was a continuation of this notion that women are oppressed.
And the Democrats will free them.
You want contraception every day paid for by somebody else so you can make love as often as you want.
Here it is.
We're gonna make you make it possible for you.
And we're not gonna judge you.
We love you more than anybody in the world.
Go ahead, do whatever you want to do.
We're the party of freedom.
Anybody that they can claim is discriminating or being discriminated against must be protected by the government.
So there's their primary need for government.
Government to protect people from the oppressive right wing.
The left has to have some group to champion.
So gay marriage, gay rights is the new cause celebrity of the day.
And at the same time, the left needs a group to champion, they need a group to demonize, and the group to demonize, of course, the people who are opposed to gay marriage.
And to give young people, give young people the sense of being part of some recreation of the Civil Rights Act, to give young people the illusory idea that they are part of some big movement that is championing freedom and love and all of these wonderful just horizon expanding things that the Republican Party doesn't want you to do.
They don't want you to do that.
They don't want you to do that.
They don't want you to have any fun over there.
No fun over here.
And we, the Democrats, are here to liberate you.
You.
That's why Obama had to make a big deal out of pretending he was at Selm.
When he couldn't find it on a map before that day.
He had to pretend he was part of it.
Civil rights movement.
But if you notice, blacks have never been liberated, have they?
The really, truly liberated blacks are conservative Republican blacks.
And look what happens to them and look what's said about them.
The left portrays these people or themselves as the great liberators of everybody.
The champions of freedom.
When in reality, that's who we are.
Now I ran across something.
There's a book out there.
It's by Oz Guinness.
Maybe some of you have heard of Oz Guinness.
His book is a free people's suicide.
Sustainable Freedom and the American Future.
And I want to read you just a short little paragraph excerpt that I think is probably a summary, a teaser summary of the book.
Americans today are heedlessly pursuing a vision of freedom that is short-lived and suicidal.
Freedom without virtue.
Leadership without character.
Business without trust, law without customs, education without meaning, and medicine, science, and technology without human considerations can only end in disaster.
What does that mean?
If you have low information, voters tuning in and they hear me reading that.
Do you think they get it?
I don't know, not quite sure.
I understand it instinctively.
Freedom without virtue isn't freedom.
It will eventually destroy a society.
Freedom without morality, freedom without proper constraints and restraints, freedom without an accompanying sense of responsibility.
Freedom without a spine or a spinal cord of morality.
We're not talking freedom.
But in today's modern vernacular, we are.
To young people today, that's exactly what freedom is.
Freedom is hedonism.
Freedom is your sybaritic pursuits.
You do whatever you want, and as long as it doesn't hurt anybody else, there's nothing wrong with it.
And it's the as long as it doesn't hurt anybody else, that's where the trouble begins.
Because is there great harm...
to a society when an age old?
I mean as old as humanity itself, custom is corrupted.
Any custom, any tradition that has demonstrated its usefulness, its primacy over hundreds of thousands of years, is a freedom that would corrupt that actually good.
Is it virtuous?
It isn't.
But that's where we are right now, and we are here because the Democrats have succeeded in convincing so many people they're oppressed.
So many people are convinced that they need to be liberated.
And the Republican Party is the people who have everybody in chains.
And the Republican Party wouldn't know chains if they ran into them on a snow covered road.
The Republican Party right now is willing to let pretty much anybody have whatever they want in their process of rebranding.
Just to do battle with this image that they are the oppressors.
But that's what this is really boiled down to all about.
You know, it's about the brand problem of the Republican Party.
That's what it is.
It's old-fashioned anti-fun.
...
Bunch of super moralistic Christians.
Victorians, boring, dry ball, no fun kind of people who are so mean they would even deny people the freedom to love somebody else.
Anyway, let me take a brief time out, my friends.
We will be back.
We will continue in mere moments here on the EIB network.
Do not go away.
So what do we have here, folks?
What is it that's going on?
Well, same-sex marriage, homosexual marriage is just the latest way to portray Republicans as oppressors.
After they get same-sex marriage, it'll be on to something else.
They always have to have a cause that is liberation related.
And it's the Republicans who are the oppressors.
But if you ever noticed all of the left's solutions for more freedom always involve us, giving the government more control over our lives.
We always end up expanding government.
We always end up giving up a little freedom in order to be liberated by the left.
Now, again, Republican Party, I'm I'm not in the political business.
I'm not, I'm not in the getting votes business, and I will be the first to admit this.
And I will be the first to admit that getting votes and getting an audience are two different things.
For example, a politician really can't be elected if he's hated by half the people.
A talk show host can be an overwhelming national phenomenon being hated by half the people.
However, I can do mathematics.
And I happen to know who the Republican base voter is.
The profile.
And I can I'm pretty certain that if the Republican Party officially comes out for amnesty, they're finished.
Because they are going to immediately end up registering a majority of whatever it is, 11, 12 million illegal aliens as Democrats.
I make the number 70% of the Hispanic population votes Democrat, so if we're talking about 12 million illegals, then we're going to have nine million of them become immediate Democrats.
Well, it's over.
If they come out for amnesty.
And that doesn't matter what any other Republican voter does.
The Republicans could could turn out their base in total, and they couldn't overcome that.
There's no way the Republicans can compete if with the snap of your fingers.
Theoretically, figuratively, over a year to five years, out of the blue, there are nine to ten million brand new Democrats voting.
There's nothing they can do.
Second thing is homosexual marriage.
If the party makes that something official that they support, they're not gonna pull the homosexual activist voters away from the Democrat Party, but they are going to cause their base to stay home and throw their hands up in utter frustration.
Now, whether they like it or not, the Republican Party's base is sufficiently large that they cannot do without them.
And their problem is they don't like them.
Back after this, folks.
Don't go away.
Okay, so we're same-sex marriage.
The latest way to show the Republicans are oppressors.
And the next group?
Illegal aliens.
They are, if not, in fact, they may already be the next group sharing the stage with the same sex marriage crowd.
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