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August 9, 2013, Friday, Hour #2

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	Live from the Southern Command in sunny South Florida, it's Open Line Friday!
	Yip, yip, yahoo!
	Open Line Friday!
	Where would we go to the phones?
	And I promise we're going to do that.
	I always try to go to phones at first hour on Open Line Friday, because honestly, the phones are supposed to be the focus on Open Line Friday.
	But it just, I mean, we're overwhelmed here with crucially important news.
	Oprah and racism in Sweden.
	And a guy killing his wife in Miami and putting a picture of her dead body on his Facebook page.
	And then begging people to follow him.
	Keep track of him.
	So whatever you want to talk about, find telephone number is 800-282-2882.
	The email address, ilrushboateibnet.com.
	Look, very quickly, the president is going to do a press conference this afternoon.
	I don't know what time I haven't heard.
	He was on the tonight show earlier this week, and I thought that that was a mistake.
	I don't need to rehash everything I said, but it makes the presidency look small.
	It diminishes it.
	JFK didn't go on jack par to tell the American people about the Cuban missile crisis.
	We closed 21 embassies for a week.
	All this talk about dangerous terrorism out there.
	Chatter that was as dangerous, potentially dangerous as that which we had heard prior to the 9-11 attacks in New York and Washington.
	And to address this on the tonight show, so this led to some people reacting to that.
	At first, journalists tried to say, well, you know, in the new media, everybody's a journalist.
	It really doesn't matter anymore.
	And there's no reason why you can't combine fun with journalism.
	I said, it used to not be that way.
	And I said, the truth of the matter is, if anybody but Obama, the media would be livid here.
	This guy's sidestepping them left and right.
	And they're still in his camp.
	I mean, this guy doesn't get any pushback from the mainstream media.
	No reason to go on a comedy show and sidestep them.
	But they'll do everything they can to accommodate this guy because they're in the tank for him and his agenda and everything else.
	But Chris Saliz in the Washington Post wrote a piece and said that, you know, Russia's absolutely right.
	Most reporters, me included, have been frustrated by the regime's tendency to end run the traditional media by picking and choosing where and when he gets asked questions.
	And USA Today, much the same thing.
	And let's go to the audio tape.
	Earlier this afternoon on the Fox News channel, Judith Miller, the former reporter for the New York Times, was on.
	And the co-host here, the fill-in co-host was Kelly Wright.
	And they're talking about this.
	Kelly Wright said to Judy Miller, Judy, does the media give him a pass for not coming to the White House Press Corps first?
	Or the American people, for that matter, saying, look, this is a very serious matter, America.
	We're dealing with it here in the White House.
	What do you think here about Limbaugh's point?
	Other presidents have done this, but this president has made a habit, a pattern out of this.
	And I don't see why he has to, because until recently, the mainstream media haven't exactly been beating up on him.
	But I rarely agree with Rush Limbaugh, but this time I do.
	It diminishes the presidency, and it's not fair to the nation.
	It's fair to the nation.
	It's just not respectful.
	But it's not presidential.
	It's diminishing.
	That's the whole, which is nothing new, by the way.
	But this is being talked about left and right.
	Let's go to townbite number two this morning on CBS.
	This morning, Nora O'Donnell speaking with their White House correspondent, Major Garrett.
	And talked about the press conference today.
	She's major.
	A lot of topics to be discussed here.
	A great number of topics.
	Evacuation of embassy personnel, Yemen, the uptick in strikes by drones, the ongoing global terror alert, Russian relations, all those terror alerts and security situations will sort of haunt that vacation, as will the destabilized situation in Egypt.
	Now, earlier on the Today show, F. Chuck Todd had something interesting to say, NBC, about the president's summer and the upcoming vacation.
	This is expected to be a press conference that'll be all over the map.
	It's an end-of-the-summer type press conference, if you will.
	The president is headed for vacation tomorrow for 10 days in Martha's Vineyard.
	This is basically a little bit of a disappointing end of the summer for the president.
	Three months ago, he thought this would be a press conference where he'd be talking about a big success, possibly signing a big immigration reform bill.
	That doesn't appear anywhere inside.
	He's got a big budget battle coming up in the fall, implementation of health care.
	So it's a more precarious position that he's in as he heads to vacation and has this final press conference.
	Ooh, it's been a disappointing summer.
	So Obama's got to do a press conference here trying to revive things.
	By the way, there's an interesting thing that has been noticed.
	I think it was noticed by newsbusters.
	Our buddies at Newsbusters happen to know.
	NBC announces this big Hillary Clinton miniseries.
	And the next thing that happens is a chairman of the Republican National Committee, Reince Priebus, says, you know, if you guys do this, to hell with you.
	We're not going to show up in any debates that you moderate.
	And I said, well, that's a start, but why don't you send the letter and say, we're not going to show up at any debate you moderate, period.
	Seriously, if I may be a brief aside, what business do Republic, particularly in their primary debates, what business do they have going on what are now undeniable left-wing agenda news networks?
	You know, the presumption used to be that this was the mainstream media was objective and you had to go through them to get to the White House, but that's not what it is anymore.
	These people are part of the Democrat Party agenda.
	CNN, MSNBC, NBC, wherever you go outside of Fox, you are going up against the Democrat Party with people disguised as journalists.
	Why do it, particularly during your primaries?
	You know this whole war on women thing?
	Remember how that got started?
	Just remind you again.
	It was in January of last year.
	And it was a Republican debate.
	ABC was doing it.
	Stephanopoulos was moderating it.
	And out of the blue, he starts asking Romney about contraception.
	And contraception wasn't an issue.
	He's asking Romney if there ought to be contraception, if he would agree that there should be mandated contraception or not.
	States should do it.
	Romney didn't know what the hell to say.
	It wasn't an issue.
	Nobody was talking about it ever.
	And all they had to do was Romney say, just answer the question, yes or no, and they had their built-in war on women.
	Now, I'm convinced that Stephanopoulos was working with the Obama campaign to do that.
	There was coordination.
	I don't have any doubt about it.
	There would be coordination today.
	In 2014, there's going to be coordination in 2016, the primaries.
	Why show up and do debates on those networks?
	Do them on your own network.
	Put together your own debates with your own moderators, whoever you want, and focus on real Republican issues in these debates rather than have it all whether they're going to do a Hillary Clinton miniseries or not.
	That's just my brief aside.
	That would be, in this current modern age, there's no reason anymore to treat these mainstream media people as mainstream objective and non-aligned reporters.
	They are aligned.
	They are aligned with the Democrat Party.
	Their objective is the defeat of whoever the Republican nominee is.
	And so their purpose is to discredit and impugn all of them.
	So by the time you have, what, 20 debates, 10 debates, however many Republican primary debates that you do, by the time you finish all of them, every one of those Republican candidates is going to have been savaged, laughed at, discredited, made fun of, whatever by whatever network is hosting these things.
	It makes literally, in just an intelligence sense, it makes no sense to do it.
	Put together your own debates on your own networks, get your own moderators, whoever.
	And no, this is not a push.
	I don't even want to do it, folks.
	I don't like interviewing people.
	I don't.
	This is not at all a push for me to be involved.
	I have no desire to do it.
	I'm just talking about being smart.
	Anyway, so NBC announces, along with CNN, NBC announces this giant Hillary miniseries.
	Then Reince Privus says, well, if you do that, we're not going to show up in any of your debates.
	And not long after that, a bunch of NBC people start criticizing the Hillary miniseries.
	Andrea Mitchell, NBC News in Washington, F. Chuck Todd.
	I mean, there were a slew of them.
	Three or four NBC prominent news people started criticizing the Hillary miniseries.
	And I did not think, and I do not think that that's a coincidence.
	I think they're trying to kill it.
	What F. Chuck Todd says, you know, we can't win.
	If they do the Hillary miniseries, we're either going to be perceived here at NBC News and MSNBC as in the tank for Hillary, or if it goes the other way, we're going to be criticized by not being enough in the tank for Hillary.
	So we'd rather not have the pressure.
	But there was also a presumption that the Clintons don't want a miniseries on Hillary because they don't think they need it.
	As far as the Clintons and the Democrats are concerned, Hillary's a lock.
	The 2016 nomination is hers.
	She doesn't need an image-building miniseries.
	So by the time you add the Clintons not being desirous of it and NBC News people not wanting it, Maybe you can kill it because obviously it started out as a bad idea, and they have to kill it and make it look like it's being killed for really, really qualified and classy reasons.
	And I wouldn't be surprised if NBC doesn't do it.
	I mean, it's really not a coincidence that all of these people signed up on this.
	In fact, the newsbuster story on this, Henri Mitchell, NBC News in Washington, F. Chuck Todd, Robert Gibbs, within hours of each other Thursday, just yesterday, came down strongly against NBC's miniseries about Hillary.
	Why do you think that would be?
	Well, the Hollywood reporter gave us a clue.
	With NBC planning to create a Hillary miniseries, CNN poised to do a documentary.
	Hollywood might have brought about that rarest of phenomenon, bipartisan agreement.
	Reince Priebus doesn't want it.
	Harry Thomason, longtime Clinton friend and producer, said he never discussed the matter with the Clintons.
	But it was revealed in the Hollywood Reporter that some Clinton associates are wary of this and would be happy if both projects fell by the wayside.
	Because frankly, as I say, they don't think they need it.
	It's a weird way things work, but I don't think that's a coincidence at all.
	Now, I have a story.
	This story has been sent to me by minimum five people and probably more.
	It's from thehill.com.
	And everybody sending me this story is fit to be tied.
	They're mad as they can be.
	40 to 50 House Republicans will support immigration reform, says Illinois Democrat Luis Gutierrez.
	Gutierrez predicted Thursday that many of the Republicans are supportive of immigration reform, amnesty, if you will, but they don't want to be identified.
	But he insisted that they would support comprehensive immigration reform.
	Gutierrez said, if they ask me today to go find those 40 to 50 Republicans, I tell them I already found them.
	I know where they're at.
	This is in an interview with the Washington Post.
	I know who they are.
	I'm not going to tell you the names of some of them because some of them I've spoken to and they've said, I'd love to do the activity with you, and I want to be able to vote for it, but I don't want to draw attention to myself.
	So the story is out there from a Democrat that there are 40 to 50 House Republicans ready to sign on to essentially the Senate amnesty bill.
	The story is also out there that the Speaker of the House wants to walk this slowly down the aisle of reality, make it happen.
	So the Drive-By Media has this story and a couple of others suggesting that 40 to 50 Republicans have signed on.
	This story comes from theHill.com.
	Let's proceed on the assumption that it's true, just for the sake of it.
	I've spoken to, oh, in the last month, off and on, Incidental to other conversations.
	People in Washington, party level, consultant level.
	Folks, I just got to tell you something.
	Inside the Beltway, in Washington, the premise that Republicans have to engage in outreach to Hispanics has been etched in stone.
	Everybody, there are conservative media outlets who are planning on ratcheting up Hispanic outreach.
	This entire premise that Republicans and even conservatives have no political future unless they engage in serious outreach to the Latino-Hispanic community.
	It's just now established fact.
	There's no pushback of any consequence inside the Beltway on this.
	And I tell you this, A, to inform you, but B, just to get you prepared.
	The pressure has been on Republicans for I don't know how many elections to reach out to Hispanics that they can't win the White House without doing it, without getting more of the Hispanic vote, and it's going to take immigration reform, path to citizenship amnesty.
	I'm just telling you, that belief has really dug itself in.
	There's hardly any pushback against it.
	So when you see a story, 40 to 50 House Republicans back it, I'm inclined to believe it based on everything else I've heard.
	And when you have conservative media organizations, news gatherers and so forth, thinking they're going to have to ramp up their Hispanic division in order to acquire and attract Hispanics to their audience, everybody's doing it.
	In Washington, it's just a lay of the land now.
	It is settled.
	Oh, yeah.
	Gosh, I just settled science, if it were.
	I sincerely apologize, folks.
	I went way, way too long in the last segment, and this one is going to be way, way too short, and that's not good.
	And just my lack of discipline to the format.
	I apologize.
	They're going to be going to a break here in 30 seconds.
	We'll get to the phones when we come back.
	By the way, we had such phenomenal action at 2F by T on our 25th anniversary celebration last week.
	We basically is unbelievable to me, almost sold out.
	We are in the process now of restocking, and our shelves are starting to fill back up again.
	So if you've been trying to buy some tea at 2F by T and have been getting the sold out sign, it's okay to try now.
	And we will be back.
	Open Line Friday and back to the phones, or to the phones, because we have many days.
	You want to start in Melbourne, Florida.
	And Ben, I'm glad you waited.
	I really am.
	Thanks very much.
	Hello.
	Yeah.
	I'm a high schooler, and I'm going to be a sophomore this year.
	And ever since I heard your show in the back seat of my dad's truck, I mean, I was hooked.
	I basically learned how to be a conservative from you.
	And the only downside is that your show is from 12 to 3, which means I can only listen to you during the summer.
	So that means this is the last day I can listen to your show before school starts next Monday for me.
	Well, it may be the case that aside from vacations, sick days, or when you skip school, that you can't listen live, but you can listen to every show every day.
	Do you have a computer?
	I have a laptop, but right now it's the case where the battery, it has to be plugged in with the charger in order for the computer.
	Well, that's okay.
	But are you, let me ask you this.
	Are you a member of my website, rushlimbaugh.com?
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	No, I haven't gone there before.
	Well, here's the thing.
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	So I can just listen to it whenever.
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	This is Reed in Virginia.
	You're next on the program.
	Great to have you on Open Line Friday.
	Hi.
	Well, thank you, Rush.
	I'm really honored.
	Appreciate that, sir.
	Thank you.
	Yeah, I was calling.
	I'm a good student, so I have a cell phone.
	I will pause after every couple sentences so I can hear what you say, too.
	I was listening to the week, and one of the themes was Bob Dahl and how we need to expand the Republican base and reach out to Hispanics and so forth and move to the middle.
	And I share the same frustration that you do.
	And then the second issue that we've talked about a lot this week is the lack of energy, the lack of enthusiasm, and the lack of people really expressing conservative values.
	And I think a lot of people are missing another political group that we can bring into the party, which is the Libertarians, which are just so much better aligned with us as far as our viewers than the Democrats.
	Yeah, the problem with the Libertarians is that Chris Christie doesn't like them.
	He and Rand Paul, I haven't gotten into this, and I probably shouldn't admit this to you all, but that whole Rand Paul, Chris Christie thing just didn't interest me.
	I don't know why.
	It's just, like I said at the beginning of the program, I'm starting to, when I do my show prep, there's more and more I'm starting to throw away as, this is silly.
	This is stupid.
	I catch myself.
	This one, I actively decided to leave it alone because I didn't think that it was going to have a lot of legs.
	I didn't think that it was of a whole lot of substance.
	But basically, it's that Chris Christie thinks that libertarians are really, and he's not alone, by the way.
	He thinks libertarians are a little unserious about foreign policy.
	In many ways, libertarians do obviously would tend more to the Republican Party than the Democrats.
	But by virtue of polling data, you say reach out to libertarians.
	There aren't that many of them, given how many Democrats there are, Hispanics, other demographic groups.
	But this whole thing about grouping people bothers me.
	You're right.
	Bob Dahl said that the GOP must broaden its outreach.
	Why don't the Democrats ever have to do that?
	Why is it always the onus of the Republicans?
	I really resent this.
	First, the assumption that we're the closed party, the assumption that we're the closed-minded people.
	It's the exact opposite.
	It's the Democrats who demand that their voters and believers think only one way and say only specific things and vote only one way.
	The Democrat Party doesn't allow anybody in that doesn't agree with them.
	This is really the Republican Party putting a straitjacket on itself, accepting the premise put forth by who, by the way, the media and the Democrats.
	I heard Bob Dole say that the GOP must broaden its outreach, and that's code lingo for we've got to do amnesty.
	I know what it is.
	But behind the code is the assumption that we can't win because Hispanics hate us.
	That may well be true, but it's not because they hate conservatism.
	And I don't think it may well be true.
	I think there's so many assumptions made that are nothing more than tricks, like the idea that it's the independence you have to get every election if you're going to win.
	I mean, that trick was so effective.
	The Democrats and the media consultants come up with this silly notion that 80% of the electorate is going to vote the way it votes every election, regardless.
	The great independence, the undecided, the 20%.
	That's who you have to get.
	Well, how does that end up happening?
	More to the point, what ends up happening?
	The trick here is that the Democrat Party and the media, and I do believe it's a trick, have tricked the Republicans into running a campaign for the presidency aiming at 20% of the voters.
	How stupid is that?
	To see the theory is that 40% of the voters are going to vote Democrat and 40% are going to vote Republican, and that's always going to be the case.
	It's never going to change.
	But there's 20% in there, the independents, who apparently vote Republican sometime and vote Democrat sometime.
	Well, the upshot of this is that the Republicans have stopped serving their base.
	They have stopped serving conservatism.
	And they're making this move that the only votes that count are people that don't vote for them, i.e., Democrats, or this 20% block of independents.
	But the real brilliance of this trick is that every Republican presidential candidate ends up running a campaign aimed at 20% of the population.
	It doesn't stand a chance of winning.
	And then after doing that, Bob Dole and these other establishment types scrunt around and they wring their hands that the Republican Party must broaden its outreach.
	It's never said about the Democrats.
	It's never the Democrats never have to broaden their outreach.
	What?
	Everybody loves them already?
	Everybody loves.
	I look at polling data and I see Obama's approval numbers well below 50% now.
	I see that every Obama issue is opposed by a majority of the American people, including Obamacare and Amnesty.
	I'll tell you, it really offends me, this assumption, that it's the Republicans who are close-minded, narrow-minded, bigoted, whatever else.
	And it's never said that the Democrats have to reach out.
	It's never said the Democrats have certain problems with certain voters.
	It's always said about the Republicans.
	And lo and behold, the Republican establishment just falls for it, hook line, and sinker, and they start repeating this tripe that's put out there by Democrats and the media.
	So what I was telling you before we went to the break at the bottom of the hour, this story from Luis Gutierrez, that he knows 40 to 50 House Republicans, they're going to back amnesty.
	From everything I've been able to figure out, the idea that Republicans need to engage in outreach to the Hispanic community is settled.
	It's accepted.
	Even conservative media thinks they have to do this now.
	I'm talking about in Washington.
	That entire political and social culture is a closed culture, but the people that run that end up dominating everybody that lives and works there.
	And what happens is the end of this, the Republicans end up ignoring their base.
	The Republicans end up angering or taking their base for granted.
	And that's why they're losing elections.
	The Democrats have gotten convinced that they're losing elections because they aren't able to get enough people that vote Democrat.
	So when you say to me, we need to reach out to libertarians, we just have to get back to what we do best, and that is making the case for all people what it is to be an American.
	Pure and simple.
	It's not that hard.
	Conservatism works when it is tried, particularly in national campaigns.
	Yes, sir, Bob, we're back.
	El Rushmore on the cutting edge of societal evolution.
	I'm not trying to insult you, libertarians.
	I'm just tired of groupifying everybody, folks.
	I'm just worn out with it.
	I think it's a trick.
	I think it's a penalty.
	That's what the Democrats do.
	The Democrats are the party.
	They are a coalition of little group here, little group there, little group there.
	And these groups have one or two things in common, and that's it.
	The two things they have in common, they all hate conservatives or Republicans, and they all believe government ought to make everything right that they think is wrong.
	But not all people in the global warming movement are pro-choice, for example.
	And not all the pro-choicers are into unions or whatever.
	But every Democrat constituency group has at least two things in common.
	They hate us.
	They despise opposition.
	That's why they created political correctness, speech censorship.
	They hate opposition, and they'll do anything they can to eliminate it.
	That's how you get a mayor who won't let you eat what you want to eat because he thinks you don't have the sense to make the right kind of decisions about your diet for crying out loud or about the car you drive.
	It's it to me, there's nothing about that party I want to emulate.
	There's nothing about the Democrat Party I want to be like.
	There's nothing they do that I want to copycat.
	And especially, I don't want to end up looking at people in this country as members of groups and then as victims.
	And so reaching out to libertarians, reaching out to the Hispanics leaves me cold.
	We don't have to.
	We have a political message that is timeless and speaks to the heart and mind of everybody who can be made to hear it.
	And it is the language of the founding of this country.
	It is rooted in the notion of creation by God.
	The natural state of that creation is the yearning to be free and the understanding that those natural rights of freedom come from our creator, from our God, from your higher power, whatever you want to call it.
	They do not come from Barack Obama or Ted Kennedy or Woodrow Wilson or Fidel Castro or any other despot.
	They don't come from a government.
	They are the way we are made.
	Every one of us around the world, that's what's been exceptional about this country.
	This country was founded with the understanding of what people really are, who people really are, and what really is important about humanity.
	And that's the blessing.
	The Democrat Party exists to snuff all that out.
	We don't have to reach out to Hispanics, reach out to this group or that group.
	The Republican Party might, but we conservatives don't.
	The Republican Party can fix itself and start winning elections every time, or most of the time, if they'll just stop all this fear and panic and become conservative.
	Well, the time is just zipping by here, folks, and we have come to a screeching halt for the second hour of Open Line Friday, but we still are loaded.

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