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March 18, 2013 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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March 18, 2013, Monday, Hour #3
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Oh man, so much to do in this hour, folks.
So much I got to try to cram in here.
Here we go, 800-282-2882, if you want to be on the program.
Have you heard the latest that we've learned about Adam Lanza, the kid that went nuts at the Sandy Hook Elementary School?
Have you heard the latest?
It has been learned, this kid was a total video gamer, and he had been planning this event for years.
He had a spreadsheet that was something like nine feet long by four feet wide, cops have found, in which he copied elements of certain video games that he played, and it was all about points.
And he killed himself because you, apparently in a video game, if I understand this right, you get really penalized if somebody else kills you instead of you.
If you let yourself get killed, you really get creamed points-wise.
But the upshot is he didn't just go nuts one day.
He didn't just lose balance and flip off the edge of the earth on one day.
He had been planning this and working on it and had a spreadsheet all worked out about it.
He targeted a school because that's where the least resistance is.
He learned from video games that you reload before you run out and you go from room to room to avoid getting caught.
You constantly stay moving.
All this from video games.
That's what law enforcement say.
Not I, El Rushbo.
That's what law enforcement, here's Jay Carney at the White House.
The biggest story in the world is not gay marriage.
The biggest story in the, by the way, speaking of gay marriage, the Washington Post now, folks, has a poll that shows overwhelming support.
Now, I'm going to tell you what, there's so many things going on with this, but the focus of attention on gay marriage in Washington is the Supreme Court case where they are hearing the constitutionality, I think of Prop 8, which, you know, gay marriage was voted down in California, and the Supreme Court's going to decide whether that stands or not.
And a full court press is underway aimed at the justices led by the immovable John Roberts and others.
I got a question for the Republican Party rebranders, i.e. the establishment.
Now, stick with me on this.
This is not too hard to follow.
According to the people in the Republican establishment, Hispanics are Republicans in waiting, right?
I've heard it.
I'm sure you have too, that Hispanics are natural conservatives.
Doesn't matter what you believe.
I'm telling you what the establishment Republicans say.
They say that the Hispanic population is naturally conservative, that they're Republicans in waiting because of shared family values and virtues and religious morality.
All that right?
Well, then why push for gay marriage?
Because I would think, I would think that that won't help with Hispanics.
If Hispanics are Republicans in waiting, I can show you New York Times polling data, pew polling data.
It's not even close.
Republicans, vast majority oppose gay marriage.
And if Hispanics are Republicans in waiting, then why would you make a push for gay marriage and amnesty at the same time?
Because theoretically, you'd anger all those staunch conservative Hispanics.
Now, that's not who they are.
70% of Hispanics vote Democrat because they believe that government is the source of prosperity and should be.
They don't think of them as welfare statists.
They just think that government's where prosperity comes from.
And that's the Democrat Party.
They're not conservatives.
Not a majority of them.
I just ask this as a rhetorical point.
I'm just trying to illustrate that the rebranders really don't, they're not even thinking about what they're doing.
Being intellectually consistent.
Anyway, here's Jay Carney.
The biggest story of the day is that the European Union and the banks decided on Saturday to just confiscate between 6% and 10% of everybody's money in Cyprus.
And they're thinking about doing it in Italy.
And they said, there's a one-time deal, only going to do it once.
It's an emergency.
We're never, never, never do it anywhere else.
Now they're thinking about doing it in Italy because there hasn't been any worldwide shock or outrage.
So at the Daily Press briefing today, a reporter asked Jay Carney, the spokeskin, what's the U.S. take on this EU plan with Cyprus?
Basically, the Cyprus government and the banks just confiscated people's private property, 10% of their money.
What's the White House reaction?
I would refer you to the Treasury Department.
We're obviously monitoring the situation right now.
Our general proposition is that we believe it's very important for Europe to take steps necessary, as they have been, to both grow and deal with sovereign debt issues.
But as regards this situation, I'd refer you to Cyprus beyond saying that we're monitoring it.
I mean, refer you to Treasury beyond saying that we're monitoring it.
Go talk to the Treasury.
So the government of the United States of America, I will guarantee you, you asked Ronald Reagan this question, you asked George W. Bush, his administration, this question.
The first thing they would do is unilaterally oppose this.
We stand against the seizure of private property.
Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
This White House can't even defend and will not defend the concept of private property.
By the way, I'm being told now that Cyprus has delayed voting on what to do.
They were supposed to vote today on this.
I didn't think there was a vote.
I thought they went ahead and did it.
Anyway, obviously, they listened to this show there because it's the only blowback they're getting other than from the Cypriot citizens, and who cares about them?
Where are we?
Back to the audio soundbites for just a second.
Rentz Priebus at the National Press Club after explaining what happened in the last election of focus groups.
Well, focus groups described our party as narrow-minded and out-of-touch, stuffy old men.
We got to be more inclusive, and I agree.
Okay.
So the next question was, this, look, oh, wait a minute.
The question is longer than the answer.
This, somebody, somebody stood up and I guess a president of the National Press Club, oh, was reading questions from members of the audience.
And her name is Angela Keene.
Anyway, she said, this questioner here, Mr. Priebus, says that in spite of RNC staffers trying to make inroads into communities of color, that there are some people with the Republican message saying unwelcome, if not offensive, positions to communities of color, such as Ann Coulter and Rush Limbaugh and Sean Hannity.
What is your strategy to make sure the message of interest and welcome to people of color will not be undermined by people like Coulter and Limbaugh and Hannity?
Well, first of all, I think our whole team is a blessing.
If you have unscripted moments that are problematic in a campaign, and clearly there were a few, if you don't have a serious, granular presence in communities to help explain, to help promote, to help educate, well, then you have sort of a vacuum.
And those moments end up taking a life of their own.
I, for one, I'm not in the business of throwing anyone under the bus.
In fact, I welcome everyone into our party, no matter what spectrum in our party and wherever they're at on the conservative in that bandwidth, they're welcome.
And we're appreciative.
We're a bandwidth, Snurdy.
We are a bandwidth.
In the spectrum, we're a bandwidth.
That's cool.
We're appreciated, yep.
And a blessing.
So we're not going to be thrown under the bus.
He's got to be given props for that.
You don't realize how easy it would be.
I mean, the easy thing for Priebus to do would be to just, not just me, just throw any of these, Todd Aiken, Murdoch, throw any of them over the bus.
It'd be easy to do.
He's got instincts to know that that's not going to help anything.
That's just going to make the Democrats demand even more until finally they demand that Priebus just end the party.
Why don't you just do the right thing and just cancel the Republican Party?
Just go out of business.
In the interest of tolerance and openness and fairness, why just quit?
He knows that's where it would lead.
But now let me go to CNN where it was discussed.
Can the Republican Party exist with me alive and breathing and talking?
And this, of course, occurred on the program hosted by our stalker, Carol Costello.
Well, former stalker.
They gave her an anchor job so she doesn't stalk us as much anymore.
Not a reporter.
But she had on Democrat strategerist Robert Zimmerman and Republican strategerist Anna Navarro.
And she said, I asked an official involved in this Republican study whether Republicans would, for example, Donald Trump and his birther stuff.
Many African Americans thought that amounts to racism.
A lot of white people think that way too.
So I asked him, will people like Trump no longer be welcome in the party?
And he said, in essence, no, it doesn't mean that.
But, Carol Costello says, should it mean that people like Trump are no longer welcome in the party?
There's got to be a zero tolerance for hate-mongering, for homophobia, for discriminating policies against women.
And I'll tell you something, that's really the challenge for your party.
You can't stop, of course, candidates from saying ugly, stupid things.
But what's intolerable is when you see the congressional Republican leadership tolerate it.
Look the other way when Marshal Lumbaugh engages in his behavior, or in fact, try to excuse that kind of conduct.
There have to be standards, and that I think is going to be critical to building that Big Ten picture you're talking about.
See, it's going to happen at some point.
It will happen because they're bringing the pressure to bear here.
But how about the arrogance of this guy?
There's got to be zero tolerance for hate and on-green for homophobia for discriminating policies against.
This is what we've been talking about all day long.
This Zimmerman guy is setting it up.
Democrats are the party of liberty, liberation, freedom, hedonism.
Whatever you want to do is fine, and we don't care who you are and what you do.
But we need the government to get bigger to control you, but we still want you to be able to do whatever you want to do.
The Republicans, they're the old fuddy-duddies, the old white guys, don't want you having any fun whatsoever.
They're the racists and the bigots, and that's why you need to be liberated.
That's the theory.
That's how this all works.
That's the Democrats always need a group that is supposedly oppressed and being tyrannized by the Republicans.
And you throw my name in there when I engage in my behavior.
What is my behavior?
All I do is convert liberals to conservatism.
That's what I do, and that's why they don't like me.
Tolerate limbalding.
Hey, look the other way.
So then they asked Anna Navarro, the Republican strategist, what she thought about what this guy just said.
I agree with you.
Republicans have to come out strongly against it.
I mean, she was agreeing with Zimmerman that they've got to stop putting up with me and Trump and Coulter and Hannity and all the others.
In other words, what the Republicans have to do, and even a Republican strategist agreed with this.
Anna Navarro agreed.
What they're really suggesting is that every voice of opposition be silenced.
That's what they're all talking about.
No dissent, no opposition whatsoever.
Anybody opposing us or Obama, you have got to denounce them.
You have to shut them up.
She was McCain's Latino advisor.
I know who she is.
I know who Ana Navarro is.
But how many business owners and operators are meeting with their accountants this month, hearing that coming tax increases are going to put a crimp in their profitability?
How many of them are?
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Okay, to the phone's next.
And Dina in Donnelly, Idaho.
Welcome to the EIB Network.
Great to have you here.
Hi.
Nido's Rush.
I've been a listener since the late 80s.
My question was that why the young people push for no marriage.
There's many young people today not getting married.
So why is there a concern that gay should be married?
I mean, the government even supports non-married women with their children.
Because it's really not about marriage.
It's about the fact that they want to do something and somebody won't let them.
And so somebody's being intolerant.
And they love just like anybody else loves.
Who is it for us to say they shouldn't be able to get married?
What right do we have?
If they want to get married, why should they not be able to?
It's unfair.
It's intolerant.
It's discriminatory and a must-stop.
I look at gay marriage.
My granddaughter is in favor of gay marriage.
And the only thing I say to her is that all my life I've paid attention to animals and birds.
And animals, you know, the prime directive is procreation.
And animals don't practice the practice of death.
They have a partner, they mate, and they produce an offspring.
And it doesn't make sense for people to be gay because they cannot reproduce themselves.
It makes no scientific logical sense.
Well, but it's not even about that.
I mean, you're talking about the breeder population.
How old is your daughter or granddaughter, did you say?
Granddaughter.
She's 16, and she lives in Virginia, so she lives in a bubble of liberals.
Well, she's just, I'm telling you, it's in her age group all the way up to age 30.
It is issuo numero uno.
Right.
And it's, it's, you can, you can hit her with every bit of logic in the world.
You will not make any inroads.
I'm trying.
Particularly on the animal side.
Because, you know, she said, well, animals, that's instinct, mom.
And that's just.
And then she's probably been taught that there are gay animals and that tolerated animals.
Well, we've tried to promote that animals are gay.
They aren't really.
But she did listen to me because she has kind of got that science head.
Well, no, it's not science that we're talking about here.
It's politics.
You're right.
That's the thing is.
And I guarantee you, I mean, your granddaughter just doesn't think it's fair that people who love each other and want to get married are not allowed to in this country.
That's not what freedom means to them.
That's not what tolerance means.
Right.
And she has used the word fairness.
Exactly.
It's all about fairness.
She hasn't.
There's no.
She just doesn't have the same framework of understanding that you do.
And I don't know how early in your life you thought the way you do now.
But this is one of these trendy, cyclical things here that is being pushed unbeknownst to your granddaughter by a very activist liberal leadership.
Ari Fleischer.
Ari Fleischer on CNN this morning talking about the Republican branding problem.
And I think this is instructive here.
Ari Fleischer is a PR company.
He basically tells people how to get their message out.
Can I make a point about something though, folks?
I've been doing this 25 years.
That's number one, truth.
Number two, it's the most listened to radio talk show in probably 23 of those years.
We haven't done a dime's worth of advertising.
We haven't ever done any focus grouping to find out what I should say when.
We haven't polled anybody to find out what they want to hear.
We haven't done any market research.
We haven't spent a dime on advertising.
We haven't had meetings where somebody says, you know what?
Why don't you change the way you're talking so you'll be more inviting for people who listen?
It's never happened.
In other words, this show has never done one thing that the Republicans think they have to do.
Now, admittedly, we're not getting votes here.
And I can prosper mightily being hated.
Political candidates can't.
But, see, I'm really not hated by the people who listen, which is the point.
The people who know me, you, do not hate this program, and you don't even find it controversial.
You agree with it.
So this program is only thought to be hated by people that don't listen to it.
And why do they think that?
Because that's what other people are saying about it.
But it really isn't.
A program that is hateful would not be number one ever, and it wouldn't stay number one.
A program that a radio show that was as this one is characterized wouldn't exist for very long, and it certainly wouldn't triumph.
And I think this does have application to the Republican Party or any political party or movement to the people who listen.
There isn't any hate.
All there is is a good show, a lot of fun, and actually a lot of love for country on this program.
But there isn't any hate of any kind.
But people that don't listen to it think there is.
And listen to Ari Fleischer here.
He's on CNN.
He got a question from Solodad.
Don't call me a prison.
O'Brien.
When you look at what the GOP lost by category, Asians, Latinos, African Americans, you definitely have this issue of diversity, only going to be more of a problem as the nation becomes more and more diverse.
How do you manage that, Ari?
For the Republican Party, what it means is that Republicans need to adhere to our conservative message, our conservative core, but do so in a way that invites other people to join in.
We cannot do it in a way that pushes people out or says they're not welcome.
And that's been a real Republican problem.
We give people the impression that they're not wanted.
No, we don't.
My point is we don't do that.
And it's going to be a big mistake if the Republican Party thinks that they're doing that.
Who is doing that?
The Obama advertising campaign.
Media and the Democrats are doing that.
The Republicans are not.
Mitt Romney was not exclusive to people.
Mitt Romney didn't.
Mitt Romney may be one of the most decent, nice guys ever to run for the office.
But people that didn't bother listening to Romney, who only paid attention to Obama's ads about him, they thought certain things about Romney, but they're not true.
And I really mean this.
I think these people are close to really screwing up here.
Because Ari says, you know, we need to adhere to our conservative message, our conservative court.
That's true, and they're not.
And they're afraid of it, the establishment Republicans are.
But in a way that invites other people.
Look at, I saw our convention.
Our convention, there was nothing exclusive about our convention.
Our convention wasn't filled with hate or mean-spiritedness or exclusiveness.
That convention was the American dream.
That convention was story after story after story of the American dream being realized by people of so-called diversity.
If anything scared people about our convention, it was the notion of hard work in the era of food stamps and unemployment compensation.
See, that's the way to them, that's that kind of exclusionary camp.
Are you making fun of it?
No, I'm not.
I'm just telling you the way it really is.
But I think this is a key point.
The Republicans are not mean people.
They may not be the brightest in the world in terms of how to, they're just lacking confidence.
They're feeling very defensive.
And they believe this notion that somehow they are keeping people.
That's not them.
So when Ari says we're going to have to explain ourselves in a way that doesn't push people out or says to people they're not welcome, we don't do that.
But if these people end up thinking that the way they are and the way they're talking, i.e. conservatism, is pushing people out, then they're going to really screw up and they're going to start trying to sound like moderate Democrats, liberals, or whatever, and really mess it up.
I think this is a key, key point.
Conventional wisdom in Washington, Republicans lost because they scare people, which is nothing more than accepting the premise of the left that the Republicans oppress people and deny them fun and freedom.
And the Democrat Party is there to save you and liberate you from tyranny of the mean old Republicans.
It's just, it's, it's not.
The point is the Republican battle has got to be to reshape what is thought about them, not who they are and what they're saying.
It's no more complicated than that.
They better not say they have to change themselves.
I'm talking about core principles here.
Well, you've got to change the perception of you.
For example, when Obama's running ads claiming that you don't like your dog, you kill your dog, you put your dog in the roof, you know, run counter ads.
How is, you know, there's a great object lesson going on out there.
I know you people don't like it when I bring this up, but there is a fascinating, similar thing taking place in the world of high-tech right now.
Apple Incorporated is literally despised.
And people are telling lies about Apple and iPhone sales and iPad sales.
They are telling lies about the quality of Apple's products.
And Apple doesn't know what to do.
They've never had to do anything.
Their brand was automatically gold from the get-go.
But now it seems like Samsung.
Sam's, because people have been hoping and praying that somebody would knock Apple off because they didn't like jobs.
Jobs was arrogant and condescending.
And people don't like the people at the top anyway.
It's a human nature.
But if I had time, I would show you the similarities.
Because I read these tech blogs, and it is amazing what is being written about and said about Apple right now.
You would think that this company has concentration camps.
You would think that this company is just shot its wads, got nothing left to offer.
It's been totally outclassed, outsold, outdesigned, out-innovated.
Their days are over, and they never deserved number one days in the first place.
And it's happening in the media, in the tech media.
And by then, Samsung.
Samsung is running 10 times the advertising at Apple is running.
And Samsung's advertising is making fun of Apple customers about how they wait in line.
They're making fun of everything to do with that.
Samsung's telephones are absolutely commercial break.
Quick.
Get this.
Mayor Doomberg now wants to ban tobacco displays.
He doesn't want you to be able to see it.
Like in a cigar store.
Like at Nat Sherman's.
No tobacco on it.
You can't see it.
I'm not kidding you, folks.
I am not kidding.
This is how they do it.
Here's Rick in Rio del California.
Great to have you on the program.
Hi.
Okay, thank you.
I wanted to say that if the Republican Party supports amnesty and open borders and whatever, I will leave the party.
I'm unemployed, and it will make it very hard to get a job if amnesty is granted.
And I know my vote doesn't count much in California because there's so many Democrats here, but I will leave the party and join some third party or something.
Well, the Republican Party in California pretty much irrelevant now, right?
Yeah, yeah.
And you know that's what will happen to the Republican Party nationwide, right?
Yes.
Yes.
It really won't matter if you leave it.
They're going to be outnumbered.
If they grant amnesty to 12 million illegals, the math, by polling data alone, 9 million of the 12 will vote Democrat.
Uh-huh.
And then people will leave the Republican Party, too, like me.
Yeah.
They'll lose, too, obviously.
The party will lose.
See, this is exactly the kind of thing that I was talking about.
He got these Republicans thinking they have to reach.
Did Obama reach out?
What is class envy?
Obama is one of the most divisive Obama picks.
See, this is the Democrats get away with virtually everything they criticize the Republican Party for being.
They get away with it.
It's just the Republicans, if they're not careful here, they're going to make the mistake of assuming that the reason they are losing these so-called minority votes is because of them.
You know, when and I'm not picking on Aarry Fleischer, he just happened to say this.
I like Aarry Fleischer.
Don't misunderstand.
But when he says we got to be conservative, but not in a way that pushes people out, who is?
Who's pushing people out?
And don't say me.
Give me candidates.
What Republicans are pushing people out?
What?
You talk about Todd Aiken?
Aiken and Murdoch thing?
Well, there's no question that did.
Well, okay, then I tell you what we do.
We set up an academy.
You know what we do?
I'll run the thing.
We set up an academy where newly elected or even nominated or candidates, young conservatives show up and are taught how to avoid trap questions from a media, local media, trying to screw them.
A two-week academy, the Limbaugh Institute.
When they ask you about abortion, move on.
Don't talk about rape.
Just move on.
Sorry, that's just me.
You know, folks, if you check out the mainstream media, I mean, it's going to be Yahoo, go to AP, go to C, and wherever you go.
The coverage of the Cypress money seizure is not getting anywhere near the coverage of Lindsey Lohan showing up in court again.
It's incredible.
I got to go.
Sadly, out of busy broadcast moments, but we'll be back tomorrow, my friends.
Can't wait.
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