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Oct. 11, 2013 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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October 11, 2013, Friday, Hour #3
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Now, Mr. Snerdley, you smirked when I mentioned the name Nate Silver.
Because you think he's a partisan leftist tack.
I know it.
But you know what else he said in this little piece of his?
He says the impact of the 1995-96 budget shutdown is overrated in Washington's mythology.
Which he's right about that.
Exactly what I've said.
And he also said in the same piece today, the Democrats face extremely unfavorable conditions in trying to regain the House.
But if you do nothing but pay attention to what is not media that comes out of Washington, you think the Democrats have already won the House.
They're going to keep the Senate, and we got one party government.
You think the Republicans are losing everything.
The Republicans may be losing some things.
Look, I'm not I'm not in a in a fog here.
Um but they're not losing losing but the Democrats are not winning anything here, folks.
And that is what you are not being told.
Live from the Southern Command in Sunny South Florida.
It's open line Friday.
Anyway, if folks, if in the last segment I was yelling out there, I didn't mean to be doing that.
I just got caught up in it.
I can only take so much of the lies and the and the misdirection and the and the propaganda.
And this idea that Obama is universally loved, and everybody loves Obamacare and this is a crock.
A hundred people show up in Pittsburgh at an event that was promoted by the Pittsburgh Steelers.
And I know the team's what 0-4, 5, whatever, but still it's the Steelers.
It was the owner, Dan Rooney.
He's going to be profoundly respected no matter how the team plays.
A 100 people and a seminar on how to sign up for Obamacare and how wonderful Obamacare is.
And of course, with that big star, Kathleen Sabilius.
I'm just telling you that all of Washington is being seen in a very ugly light right now.
And my point to you is that can't be all bad for those of us who like limited government.
This Obamacare episode and the way Obama has handled himself, there is no better evidence against big government than what is happening with the rollout of Obamacare.
And it's only going to continue because they're not ready for it.
They're not capable of dealing with any kind of serious Onslaught.
Okay, uh I didn't mean to be yelling if I was.
I don't like doing that.
I just got passionate.
Get this.
This is from Fox News.
It was...
A classroom of 14 and 15-year-old Illinois Haskrill students.
Listen to this.
You think we're losing.
You listen to this.
A classroom of 14 and 15-year-old Illinois Haskell students was assigned the task of deciding the fate of ten fictional characters in an exercise that critics said was a bad lesson in death panels.
The assignment was part of a sociology unit for freshmen and sophomore students at St. Joseph Ogden Haskrul in St. Joseph, Illinois, just east of Champaign.
The lesson involves ten people who are in desperate need of kidney dialysis.
Unless they get it, they will die.
And the classroom of 14 and 15 year olds was assigned the task of deciding Who among these fictional characters got treated?
The 14 and 15-year-olds were shown an aspect of Obamacare.
Death panels.
This is not 2009, where back then these same kids would have been singing Barack Hussein, Obama.
Mm-mm.
To the audio sound bites we go.
This morning on CNN's newsroom, actor, sorry, anchor John Berman spoke with a Christian broadcasting network chief political correspondent David Brody about Ted Cruz and the government shutdown and the CNN anchor said you heard Van Jones from Crossfire asking if Ted Cruz would apologize to the Republican Party for his role in the shutdown.
Now I don't suspect he'll be apologizing to this crowd here to the values voters summit going on at Washington.
So what message do you think Ted Cruz will be?
See, Van Jones on CNN, who is Van Jones, but a quasi wannabe communist who was drummed out of the regime.
So Van Jones goes on CNN, Ted Cruz should apologize to the representation.
So the rest of CNN, Van Jones said last night that Ted Cruz should apologize.
And they're asking all their guests.
You think Ted Cruz should apologize?
And if he doesn't apologize, what'll Ted Cruz do?
And here is what David Brody of the Christian Broadcast Network said in response to that inane question.
I gotta tell you, I've been traveling around the country.
What they're telling me on the ground is that Ted Cruz is not only the real deal, but Ted Cruz is the one guy.
They call him robocandidate.
If they could manufacture a candidate in a lab somewhere, Ted Cruz is the guy.
What's going to drive liberals nuts here is that he's a guy that is a world-class debate champion.
He's got all of the Ivy League street cred as well, so he's not one of those Tea Party folks that you can kind of dismiss.
That's why they hate him, but it was one of the many reasons.
He's one of them.
He's an Ivy League grad debate champion at Harvard.
That's not cool.
Harvard's not supposed to produce people like Ted Cruz.
This is an embarrassment to these people.
So then the CNN anchor John Berman said to the Christian broadcast network chief political correspondent David Brody, well, the polls that we've been showing this morning show a majority of Republicans are blaming Republicans for the shutdown.
Yeah.
How about that?
How about the They do.
They've got polls.
Majority of Republicans are blaming Republicans for the shutdown.
Well, what Republicans would those be.
Do you think?
The McCain type Republicans?
The establishment Republicans blaming other Republicans for the shutdown.
And Berman said, I don't suspect it's the same sentiment at the value voters convention where you are right now.
It's probably vastly different, and that is the audience that these candidates are going to be speaking to.
A lot of folks are missing the end game here.
A lot of people think the end game is the Gallup poll numbers, or what the Republican Party is going to do in 2014.
What we are seeing right now is a transformation, or at least what the Tea Party hopes to be, a transformation into a constitutional conservative Republican Party.
Is that going to take years in the making?
Absolutely.
Will it take decades?
Possibly, for sure.
This is kind of like an intervention.
You know, when you have an alcoholic and family members need to get involved, and there has to be an intervention.
That's what the Tea Party is trying to do here with the Republican Party.
You know, that's right, folks.
I can't tell you the number of people that I've said to over the years that have wanted to go third party, for example.
No, no, no.
The objective is to retake the Republican Party.
And that's what the Tea Party, that's what people are attempting to do.
And they are in it for the long game.
And it isn't just about 2014.
And it isn't just about Obama.
But those things, of course, become tools.
But this Tea Party people are dead serious.
They're not all political novices now.
They are dead set committed into turning the Republican Party into a constitutional conservative party.
It is happening.
And it's happening not in Washington.
It's happening in The grassroots.
And that's why the inside the beltway news apparatus or whatever they are don't get it.
That's they don't see it.
They're not, even if they would be told, even if they were to be told, they wouldn't get it.
They get it in their heads that a bunch of people are racist, sexist, bigot, homophobe, kook extremists, and that's it's all they can see.
They have no legitimacy to them whatsoever, and so whatever they're engaged in is also illegitimate.
They're not interested.
They're the most closed-minded bunch of people.
They're not worth listening to.
They're not worth investing all that trust.
They really aren't.
Not the Washington.
They're not even media.
I got a note the other day.
You know what, Rush?
We're the mainstream.
We shouldn't be calling them mainstream.
We're the mainstream.
We need to call them the legacy man.
I say, how old is this?
This is from a person who thought they wrote it something brand new, a Republican, 30 years behind the times.
They're not media.
They're disguised and camouflaged.
Well, I mean, they're media.
They're not news.
Scott Walker in Wisconsin.
Does anybody remember?
We were told Walker had no prayer.
We were told Scott Walker was going to be given his walking papers.
The unions were going to destroy Scott Walker.
There was no way Scott Walker was going to be able to reform Wisconsin.
There's no way you're going to be able to fire people.
No way they're going to be able to cut the budget.
No way going to do it.
And guess what?
Scott Walker yesterday called for a hundred million dollar tax cut because the state of Wisconsin is running a surplus.
And the same people saying Cruz is a wacko lunatic idiot, extremist ought to go.
Same people think that about Mike Lee tried to destroy Scott Walker in Wisconsin, too, the Republican governor.
I know it's hard.
You have to find all these things yourself, and then you have to believe them.
And you don't get any reinforcement.
You don't get any gratification because you don't hear any of this in the media.
It's like outdoor billboard advertising.
I've always had a theory about it.
Outdoor billboard advertising is not really designed to attract new customers.
You know what the purpose of it is?
Big billboards.
The fact that they are big billboards.
If they advertise something you use, that validates your opinion.
You look at that billboard with pride.
Yeah, I buy that.
Yeah, I used that.
Yeah, they're big.
Oh, yeah, they advertise.
It's it's a reinforcement.
There isn't any of that on the Republican side, other maybe then he here and other conservative uh talk shows.
But in the mainstream media where everybody seems to want to get it, and you're never going to get it there, there isn't any of that reinforcement.
All there is is mockery.
And uh it's worse than that.
There's destruction.
Actually, try to destroy the things that you believe in.
Now let's go to the value voters summit.
Mike Lee spoke.
He's one of the targets, along with Ted Cruz, one of the people said to be responsible for the shutdown, responsible for the Republicans losing so badly in the polls.
None of that is true, but nevertheless, Mike Lee and Cruz remain targets, and here's Mike Lee.
We have a couple sound bites from his remarks.
And what he's doing, I you may not like everything he's doing, you may disagree with some of it, but he's out fighting for you, or what he believes, he's out pushing back.
He's not caving to any of this.
Here, listen.
The very best argument against Obamacare is the president's conduct during the first 10 days of this shutdown.
I mean, look what's happened.
The president is using the vast immense power of the federal government to hurt the American people.
Why?
In order to win a political argument.
What happens then when we turn over some of the most private, intimate decisions in our lives.
Our health care system to the government.
When will that be used as a tool against us?
We must stop it.
We must defund it.
We cannot accept it.
Ted Cruz and I have been roundly criticized for our actions in the attempt to defund Obamacare.
We make no apologies.
We stand with you.
We stand with the people.
We edited the applause.
Here's more.
Throughout our party's history, the bigger our ideas, the more we've succeeded.
Ronald Reagan's conservative revolution, the 1994 contract with America, George W. Bush's compassionate conservatism.
They all showed in their time that it's the ideas and the principles, rather than the personalities or the discrete interest groups, that unify the Republican Party and propel it both to electoral success and to governing success.
Lately, it seems we haven't had nearly enough of either.
That's right, because there's been too much focus on this policy and that policy, and conservatism isn't a set of policies.
Conservatism is the way you live your life.
If you are responsible, if you try to follow the rules and the law, you do your best on the moral side.
You're a conservative.
Take care of yourself.
You're self-reliant.
You teach that to your kids.
You're conservative.
That's how you live.
That's what conservatism is.
It's not tax policy.
It's not.
It's not all of this uh entitlement policy.
It's what informs the policy.
Tax policy, conservative tax ideas come from conservatism.
It's not tax policy that defines a conservative or creates a conservative.
Now, Ted Cruz, which is a values voter summit today in Washington, and he got heckled.
Obama sent the rentamobs out to heckle Ted Cruz.
And I want you to hear how Ted Cruz dealt with them.
But I'm going to take a timeout first.
So I don't feel so pressured and hurried here on the commentary side.
So you sit tight.
We'll come back and get to that right after this.
We are supposed to respect the Congressional Black Caucus.
I call them the Congressional Black Caucasians.
We're supposed to respect the uh the Hispanic caucus, right?
Yeah, why not the Tea Party caucus?
Why aren't we supposed to accord them any respect?
Well, we know the answer.
I'm just pointing out things.
Here's Ted Cruz, the value is voter summit getting heckled.
It seems that President Obama's paid political operatives are out in force today.
And you know why?
And you know why?
Because the men and women in this room scare the living daylights out of them.
How scared is the president?
What a statement of fear.
What a statement of fear.
Oh, they don't want the truth to be heard.
The left will always, always, always tell you who they fear.
And they fear you.
They fear the American people.
I'm telling you, that is so right on, and they fear Ted Cruz right now.
That's that is the sole reason why they get so worked up at people.
I mean, if Cruz paled in these people, if they were all a bumbling idiots that the left and the media tell us, they don't have a prayer of winning if they're so stupid.
What's the old rule?
Get out of the way and let your opponent drown or destroy himself or make a fool of himself, whatever.
But no, Obama had to send in some website staffers.
Not much going on at healthcare.gov, so he sends some of them over to the values voters summit, the heckle Cruz.
Here's another sound bite.
This afternoon, President Obama has invited the Senate Republicans to the White House.
So after leaving here, I'm going to be going to the White House.
I will make a request.
If I'm never seen again, please send a search and rescue team.
I very much hope tomorrow morning I don't wake up amidst the Syrian rebels.
Hey, like that sense of humor out there.
There's old Ted Cruz laughing about what might happen to him at the hands of the regime.
He dares go over to the White House.
Look, I'm gonna get to your phone calls quick.
I know you've been waiting patiently.
Got one more here.
This is um.
This is Ted Cruz basically laying out a brief fashion what it's going to take to win.
What does it take to win this fight?
It takes the men and women in this room.
Each of you is called to be here.
Much like Esther, you were called for a time such as this.
For 400 years, every generation of Americans has given to their kids and grandkids greater opportunity, greater prosperity, a greater future.
If we keep going down this road, we will become the first generation not to do that.
And every man and woman in this room believes in your heart and your gut in your soul that is utterly and completely unacceptable.
Now, a lot of people say that Cruz is really uh exposing people, using them, setting them up for massive disappointment.
Cruz are promising them things that can't happen.
Obamacare not going to be defunded, Obamacare not going to be delayed.
Cruz knows it, but he's making these people think that they're gonna happen.
He's they're gonna be sadly disappointed.
And I I think everybody involved here knows exactly what's going on and why they're in that room and why they're fighting is they're not being fooled.
All right, we go back to the phones now on open line Friday to Mount Clemens uh uh Michigan.
Is that what this is?
This is uh John.
Welcome to the program.
Hi.
Thanks, Rush.
Um twice today in previous shows, you've mentioned uh some Republican strategy of waiting till this thing is implemented, letting it fail, be a boondoggle, um, overpriced, incompetent.
And at that point, the Republicans can say the Democrats did it and they take the blame.
Is that not one strategy?
The theory, and it's I've even uh it's gonna sound but uh I think coming up somebody's yeah, let it implode.
It's it's uh Lincoln McCain says it, I've got it some.
It's gonna implode when it implodes.
The Democrats are gonna get blamed.
Obama's gonna get blamed because yeah, it's their idea.
Okay.
I submit to you that if that were the criteria for a federal program falling apart, all we would have existing at the federal level is the United States military.
Because that is by definition most federal programs.
Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid.
Um the Department of Education.
Not only do those things not go away when they prove themselves to not work or be incompetent, if a Republican dares to try to tweak it to make it work, like George W. Bush and Social Security, Paul Ryan.
Not only is it deemed to be anti-program, it's deemed to be anti-the people it's supposed to serve.
So if you try to tweak Social Security, what do we get called, Rush?
We hate we hate senior citizens.
You try to tweak Medicaid, you hate poor people.
So you put this thing in place and you don't take it apart now, you wait till it's in place.
We have a history to show what that strategy gets.
I think is 80 years of debate.
You're right.
You're right.
But let me get there's some differences here.
In the case of Social Security, everybody gets the check.
As far as they're concerned, it works.
Whether the system's broke, they don't care as long as they get the money.
Medicaid, ditto.
Um education, schools are open, kids are going, they're being fed, it works.
The difference in Obamacare is it isn't working.
You can't sign up.
It isn't gonna be easy to sign up.
When you do sign up, you're gonna pay for the nose of the IRS is gonna come find you.
These are the things that the advocates of this philosophy believe.
They believe it's gonna be so bad at implementation that it isn't gonna have time to settle in and start working as the others are perceived to work.
But look, I'm like you.
I uh this this idea sit around and let this happen.
It's no different than saying, Rush, let's elect Clinton in 92, and let's let people see how Bad the Democrats are.
And Clinton got re-elected.
You sit back and you let this thing happen and you let them tweak it and fix it to the point that it does appear to work, then it's over.
Right.
So your point is your point is well taken.
I just this you because you're right.
There's never I don't know in the in a s in a historical sense of a government program that the people demanded be taken away because it doesn't work.
The old people, sorry, seasoned citizens and Dan Roskinkowski, that was an outlier.
It was a one example, but that was before it even was implemented.
They were seasoned citizens were told, this is back in the 80s, that their I think it was medical security, something, was going to cost them additional seven dollars a month or something.
And they just had a fit and they attacked Rostin Counstie's car on the street in Illinois with him in it.
And then they went back and they canceled the uh the program.
But I don't think in terms of a major, major entitlement, maybe prohibition would be it.
Maybe maybe prohibition.
But again, that was denying people something.
That wasn't giving them something or even appearing to.
I don't know of an entitlement program that the American people have demanded be taken away from them.
Oh, I know who it why the uh cookie gave me a soundbite of Ted O'Baxter advocating this on his TV show last night.
That's who it was.
That it's going to implode, you know, focus on something else because it's going to implode and it ain't going to work.
And you don't need to do anything.
Anyway, uh John, I appreciate the call.
Here we go with Plano, Texas.
This is Bruce outside Dallas.
Great to have you on the program, sir.
Hello.
Hey, Rush.
Great to great to be on.
Glad I got through.
Thank you, sir.
Yeah, I'll get straight to the point.
And my point is this is uh what is it that makes people gravitate towards liberalism or conservatism?
We both know that there are smart and stupid people on both sides.
But I guess to be more precise, why would a intelligent person buy in to liberalism and all its stupidity?
And I think it has to do with motivation that conservatives we're motivated, we're truth lovers.
We have a burning desire to know what is truth, what is actually happening in the world, how things really are.
With liberals, I think they have they're motivated by a deep emotional investment in seeing the world the way they do.
They say it has to be this way, and to them that means more than more than than a desire to know the truth.
Okay, well, let's look at an obstacle.
Let's look at it in your terms, because I think you you're you're on to something here a little bit.
The uh liberal basically saying conservatives deal with reality.
Truth is reality, this is what we deal with every day.
That's uh that's our world.
Liberals see an imperfect world.
They see an unfair world.
They see an unjust and immoral world.
And they think it can be perfected by them because they are better people.
I have often said that liberalism is the most gutless, easy choice you can make because all you have to do is look at suffering and say how much you hate it.
You don't even have to fix it.
You just get to say, oh, that's so horrible, and you automatically are said to care.
And caring.
See, conservatives don't care, precisely because they're rooted in reality.
And if you're rooted in reality, you see all the horrors out there, but you don't care because they don't move you.
But liberals, everything is imperfect, it's unjust, and I th so many psychological explanations for this.
They're looking to make themselves think they're better people or look better people, uh, look like better people, or um in many cases, that's there's so many, there's a different reason for every person.
Some they just want to be close to power.
For example, I always ask myself, how does a smart, as you say, brilliant CEO of a modern entrepreneurial company sign on with a bunch of statists?
And there's an answer.
The answer is as long as they get close to the statist, they're close to power, and maybe the statist will leave them alone or grant them favors from the state, a most favored nation status or what have you, but it's about power.
It's about status, and it's about being near it.
Uh and the implicit promise that the statist will leave you alone if you happen to be on his side.
Um, and then the other factors come into play.
Well, as a liberal, that means I care about people.
I have compassion.
I'm for gay marriage, I'm for equal rights, and I want to save the planet, and I want to protect the stupid whales and seals, and not stupid, the smart whales and seals and the dolphins.
And you other people, you don't care.
And it's it's the um liberalism does not involve thinking.
So much conservatism does.
I've always thought it's an intellectual pursuit.
Even though people live their lives that way.
My dad had a had a good way of explaining.
He said, son, it's always amazed me here in the neighborhood.
There isn't one person in our neighborhood, son, that'll go knocking on doors and ask for money.
For whatever reason.
Kid needs it, kid needs to go to school, somebody needs to go to the doctor.
There's not one neighbor in our neighborhood to come knocking on our door or anybody else's and asked for money, but they'll vote for people to do it for them.
And it's it was it's it's true.
Uh the point is that most people actually do live their lives as conservatives.
And of course, liberalism has that really added benefit that all of this compassion and magic always happens with somebody else's money.
I have another question.
You know, they run around, the Republicans.
Conservative uh think tankers and others are running around ripping into Ted Cruz because he is setting people up for major disappointment, and he is misleading them.
Yes, he is.
Ted Cruz is making people think that they can actually support and make happen the defunding of Obamacare.
And it can't happen.
There aren't the votes.
And he's using people and he's setting people up for a major, major disappointment.
It's going to it's so mean.
And then Ted Cruz is making people think that if they support him and sign his petition, he's not asking for money, by the way, that they can delay Obamacare, and they can't, and it won't happen.
And he's just using people, and he's setting people up for a major, major disappointment, and it's not nice, and it's very selfish.
Well, my question is why isn't that said about Obama?
You want to talk about misleading people and setting them up for major disappointment and shock?
How about a guy who's promised people get to keep your doctor and they don't?
How about a guy who's promising their premiums come down $2,500, and they won't?
How about all the promises Obama's made with his stimulus and all the shovel-ready jobs?
All of it's none of it's happened.
How come the same standard is not applied to Barry?
How come it's not said of Barry that, oh, God, what a mean guy.
He's really using us.
He's setting people up.
He's promising all these wonderful things that are not possible really, and they're going to be so disappointed.
Why is that not said, folks?
I think it's a perfectly legitimate question.
Obama is misleading people.
Ted Cruz really isn't.
Ted Cruz hasn't promised one damn thing.
He's expressed a goal that a lot of people would like to work really hard to make happen.
Ted Cruz, in one sense, and Mike Lee, and these guys actually are giving people some hope.
But not unrealistically so.
Here's uh Kent, Ohio's beginning.
Mike, welcome, sir.
Great to have you to EIB Network.
Hello.
Hello, Rush.
Kent Ohio, Porties County Tea Party.
Of all the people who are scared, the sky is falling, the sky is falling on us conservatives and Republican Party.
Look at one thing.
I live in Realville like you.
Look at the rating of all these medias and their newspapers.
They're in the tank.
No one's buying it.
They're lying.
If everybody believed it, they'd have ratings through the roof.
They don't.
Another excellent point.
The New York Times is losing ad pages.
Ad revenue, obviously.
The drive-by's are losing their audience.
That's actually an excellent point.
Right.
We don't have to argue it.
It's in their ratings.
No, I know.
See, the the problem, the problem here, Mike, is that that it's people who are not able to overcome their fear.
They really fear that the media is persuading everybody except them.
They're smart enough to see through it, but they worry that everybody else is being fooled.
And uh, and and they're not.
But they are good at manufacturing propaganda.
There's no question about it.
But I I nevertheless I like your common sense logical analysis.
I appreciate the call very much.
My friends, that's it.
We are out of precious busy broadcast moments for open line Friday today.
Hope you have a great weekend.
And we will uh Yeah, we'll be back Monday.
In fact, we'll be here all next week.
No super secret meetings or any of that.
And keep the faith, folks.
Try to keep everything in perspective.
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