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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 gotta 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 uh went nuts at uh at the Sandy Hook Elementary School.
Have you heard the latest?
It has been learned this 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 uh you you apparently in a video game, if I understand this right, you uh 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 the the upshot is he didn't just uh go nuts one day.
He didn't just lose balance and flip off the edge of the earth on one.
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 and 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, L. Rushbow.
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 has a poll that shows overwhelming support.
Now I'm gonna 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 gonna decide whether that stands or not.
And a full court press is underway, aimed at the justices led by the immovable John Roberts.
And and others.
I I got a question for the uh 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 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 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.
Yeah, I mean in being intellectually uh consistent.
Anyway, here's Jay Carney.
I the biggest story of the day is that the European Union and the banks decided on Saturday to just confiscate between six and ten percent 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, it would 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 what's the U.S. take on this EU plan with Cyprus?
It basically the Cyprate government and the banks just confiscated people's private property, ten percent of their money.
What what what's the White House reaction?
I would refer you to the Treasury Department.
We're obviously monitoring the situation uh right now.
The our general proposition is that we uh you know believe it's very important uh for Europe to take steps necessary as they have been to both grow and deal with uh sovereign debt issues, but as regards this particular situation, I would refer you to Cyprus beyond saying that we're monitoring it.
I mean, refer you to Treasury beyond saying that we're monitoring.
Go talk to the Treasury.
So the government of the United States of America.
I I will guarantee you, you ask 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.
And because it's the only blowback they're getting, other than from the Cyparate citizens, and who cares about them.
Where are we?
Back to the audio sound bites for just a second.
Rentz Prebis 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, not a touch, stuffy old men.
We got to be more inclusive and uh and I agree.
Okay.
So the next question was this uh look.
Oh, wait a minute.
The question is longer than the answer.
This somebody somebody stood up and and uh I guess the president of the National Press Club, oh, was reading questions from members of the audience.
And uh her name is Angela Keene.
Anyway, she said this questioner here, Mr. Prebus, 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 at 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, uh, no matter what spectrum uh 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, Snerdley.
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.
It's got to be given props or that.
You know 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 gonna help anything.
That's just gonna 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 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 strategist Robert Zimmerman and Republican strategist Anna Navarro.
And she said, I asked an official involved in this Republican study whether Republicans would uh well, 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's, 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, Remerch Limbaugh 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 tenth picture you're talking about.
See, I'm it's gonna happen at some point.
There will, it will happen, because they're bringing the the pressure to bear here.
Uh but how about the arrogance of this guy?
There's got to be zero tolerance for hate mongering, 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 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 be well, 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.
Hey, tolerate limbs.
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.
Anyone opposing us or Obama, you have got to denounce them.
You have to shut them up.
She was McCain's Latino advisor.
I I I know who she is.
I know who Anna Navarro is, but uh.
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Okay, to the phones next, and uh Dina in Donnelly, Idaho.
Welcome to the EIB network.
Great to have you here.
Hi.
Niddles 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 gays should be married?
I mean, the government even supports non-married women with their children.
Because it's it 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?
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.
Uh 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 you're talking about the breeder popular.
How old is your your uh daughter or granddaughter, did you say?
Granddaughter, she's sixteen, and she lives in Virginia, so she lives in a bottle of libert um uh uh liberals.
Well, she's just I'm telling you, it's it's in her age group all the way up to age thirty, it is issue 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 in the uh on the animal side.
Um because you know, she said, well, animals, that's instinct, mom, and that's just and and then she's probably been taught that there are gay animals and it tolerated.
Well, he's tried to promote that animals are gay, they aren't really, but uh she did listen to me because she has kind of got that science head.
Well, no, she it's not science that we're talking about here.
It's uh politics.
You're right.
That's the thing is.
And I guarantee you, I mean, your your granddaughter just just doesn't think it's fair that that people who love each other and want to get married are not allowed to in in this country.
That's just not 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.
It's all about it's it's she hasn't there's no she just hasn't doesn't have the same framework of understanding that uh that you do.
And I don't know how early in your life you thought the way you do now.
Um, 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 uh 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 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 twenty-three of those years.
We haven't done a dimes 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 we haven't had meetings where somebody's you know what, why don't you change the way you're talking so you'll be more inviting for people to 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 that but 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 that that or 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 has applicat 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 Solad.
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 uh 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 gonna be a big mistake if the Republican Party thinks that they're doing that.
Who is doing that?
The Obama advertising campaign, the 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 I really mean this.
I I think these people are close to really screwing up here.
Because Aries says, you know, we need to adhere to our conservative message or conservative court.
That's true, and they're not.
And they have they're afraid of it, the establishment Republicans are.
But in 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 what we mean, Myth of the Mo.
That's the kind of exclusionary campaign.
You're making fun of it.
No, I'm not.
I'm just saying the way it really is.
But I 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 gonna 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 gonna really screw up and they're gonna 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 Republican.
It's just it's it's not it 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.
well you've got to change the perception of you?
For example, when when 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 you know if I had time, I would show you the similarities.
Because I I you know 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 you would think that this company is just shot its wide, got nothing left to offer, it's been totally outclassed, outsold, outdesigned, out innovated, their days are over, and they never deserved the number one days in the first place.
It's and it's happening in the media, in the tech media.
And by then, Samsung, Samsung is running ten 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 it.
Samsung's telephones are absolutely up, up, up, up commercial break, quick, go to a break.
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 can't 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.
Um I wanted to say that if the Republican Party supports Amnesty and open borders and whatever, I will leave the party.
Um I'm unemployed.
And it will make it very hard to get a job if Amnesty's granted.
And um I know my vote doesn't count much in California because there's so many Democrats here, but I I will leave the party and uh join like um some third party or something.
Well, you the the Republican Party in California pretty much irrelevant now, right?
Yeah, yeah.
And you know that's what'll happen to Republican Party nationwide, right?
Yes.
Yes.
It really won't matter if you leave it.
They're gonna be outnumbered.
If they if they grant amnesty to 12 million illegals, that the math.
By polling data alone, nine million of the twelve will will vote Democrat.
Uh-huh.
And then people will leave the Republican Party too, like me.
Yeah.
The lose, too, obviously.
The party will lose.
See, this is it.
This is another this is this is exactly the kind of thing that I was talking about.
You got these Republicans thinking they have to reach Let me did Obama reach out.
Did 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.
I I uh it's just the Republicans, if they if they're not careful here, are uh they're gonna make the mistake of assuming that the reason they are losing these so called minority votes is because of them.
You know, when when and I d I'm I'm not picking on Ari Fleischer, he just happened to say this.
I like Ari Fleischer.
Don't misunderstand, but but when he says we gotta be conservative, but not in a way that pushes people out.
I mean 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 Aiken and Murdoch thing?
Well, there's no question, Ed did.
Well, okay.
Then I tell you what we do.
We've 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 the 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 uh that's that's just me.
You know, folks, if you check out the mainstream media, I mean, it'll be Yahoo, go to AP, go to C and wherever you go.
The uh coverage of the Cyprus money seizure is not getting anywhere near the coverage of Lindsay Lohan showing up in court again.
It's incredible.
I gotta go.
Sadly, are the busy broadcast moments, but we'll be back tomorrow, my friends.
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