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Jan. 24, 2014 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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January 24, 2014, Friday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 podcast.
Who does who does Mike Huckabee think he is?
Me.
Well, we all know he wanted to be me at one time.
Who not talking about women that way?
That's my world.
That's my world.
Who he talking about?
I'm talking about Huckabee.
What are you doing?
It made my world.
I have ownership.
Sorry, folks, this is my Richard Sherman impersonation.
Welcome to the E Live from the Southern Command in Sunny South Florida.
It's open line Friday.
Yes, sir, Rebob.
Great to have you.
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Openline Friday.
This is.
You know, it's a great risk.
This is perhaps the biggest showbiz career risk since Bob Dylan went electric.
When we go to the phones, I turn the content portion of program over to the callers.
Well, you know, Dylan was a folk singer, and when he went electric, you know, the Pete Seeger crowd, they were not into it.
They thought it could be.
You know, Steiman Wintergate Funkel used to be an a cappella group, and CBS said you better put a percussion track in Sounds of Silence, or nobody's gonna buy it.
And they didn't want it, they wanted that to just be a cappella and acoustic.
And they said, you better put a drum, you know, percussion, put some drums in there, and uh, and they they they lost the CBS won.
They did, and of course, Sons of Silence and Mrs. Robinson and uh the graduate, and hello, how are you?
Have you seen folks?
Hang on just a second here.
I'm gonna hide something.
Have you seen the New York Times magazine cover this Sunday?
Here, let me turn the Ditto cam off.
I've got to zoom in on something.
This is the ugliest damn thing I have ever seen, and I do not know what they are think.
Okay, I'm gonna show you here on the Ditto Cam, and we'll we'll put it up at uh at RushlinBod.com.
Planet Hillary.
That is the cover of this Sunday's New York Times.
Yes.
And you see, Planet Hillary, and what you can't read, there the neighboring uh little stars shooting there, people like her daughter and Huma that are in her orb.
Is that not the ugliest?
That looks like I mean, that can you uh they think this is going to be helpful?
You know what that looks like.
I can't tell you what it looks like.
I can't say what it looks like.
For Richard Sherman, I can tell you.
Is that what you know this?
This is unbut you notice there's no wrinkles in it.
There's a flesh-colored globe made to look like a planet, and on the left center is nothing but Hillary, barely any eyebrows and a smile.
There are no ears, there's no hair.
This is they're trying to create the idea that she is the center of the universe and her planet huge, but it's the it's the ugliest picture that I have ever seen.
I have I have no idea what they're trying to accomplish with this.
It's not flattering in any way, and it does not convey an image that she's the center of the universe.
They they've made her look sick here.
They made her look ill.
I mean, that is my brilliant take on this.
Uh, ladies and gentlemen, open line Friday, sometimes it's uh it's like Monday through Thursday, in that we stay serious and focused on the issues, and sometimes on open line Friday, it gets lighthearted and sometimes off the rails.
It's unpredictable.
You never know where it's gonna go.
We're gonna start with um so I had no idea that I was gonna start with this till 15 minutes ago when I got the audio soundlight roster.
Now I knew that Senator Chuck Schumer had made a speech.
And I knew that Senator Schumer, by the way, you know what the title of this speech would be, when does the bipartisanship start?
You know, I'm getting a little fed up.
We keep hearing they've got Governor Christie talking about it.
Boehner last night on the tonight, all these Republicans keep talking about the need for bipartisanship.
We got to work with the other side.
We got to show them that they're wrong about us.
We have to show them that we're not mean, that we're not extremists and that we're not racists and pigs.
When does the bipartisanship start?
It's always a one-way street.
Whenever you hear a Democrat talk, they never talk about themselves being bipartisan.
All they do is demand that Republicans be bipartisan.
Of course, what that means is that Republicans should just give up everything they believe in.
So when does this bipartisanship start?
Because Chuck Schumer would out there and he made a speech, and by the way, now you've got De Blasio backing up Cuomo on conservatives ought to leave New York.
And you got Schumer out there now, basically took on the Tea Party.
He said the Tea Party is the greatest threat to this country because they are trying to convince people that government is too big and it's too powerful and it's become too necessary, and government needs to be defended, and the Tea Party needs to be shellacked.
And as an aside, there are some Republicans who agree with him, by the way, as you as you will know.
Now, what I didn't know, folks, was that I am mentioned five times in this speech by Chuck Schumer.
The New York Times in writing about it doesn't mention that once, and the LA Times didn't mention it once, and nobody else reporting on the Schumer speech was at the Center for American Progress.
Nobody else mentioned that.
And it was not, he did it, Fox News and me.
And now, having learned that, and we've got the audio soundbites of it coming, having learned that we was yesterday that the New Yorker released further excerpts of their interview with Obama when Obama blamed me in Fox News for the fact that Republican base voters are not open to Obama's ideas.
You remember we talked about it yesterday.
Obama blamed me for convincing you not to agree with Obama.
He blamed me.
See, you're just a bunch of sponges, mind numb robots.
You're not able to think on your own.
They're used to people being that way.
Their own voters are mind non-robots.
Their own voters are not curious.
They're not critical or or or independent thinkers.
They just buy it, hook, line, and sinker.
You don't.
And the reason you don't is because of me and Fox News.
And Obama's really bothered by it.
What this all means, and we've even got a soundbite from a Democrat consultant admitting it.
What it all means is that as the election for the for the for the House and the Senate midterms gear up in November, what it all means is that if things don't change, Obama and the Democrats plan on running against me and Fox News.
And if they if they're going to do that, it means that they've got polling data, which indicates to them that that energizes their base.
Now it is abundantly clear to Obama and Chuck Yu Schumer that you are not going to abandon me because they criticize me.
They're not going to pick you up as voters because they rip me.
And they're not going to pick you up as voters because they rip Fox.
Well, no, they won't.
So what they're trying to do, they're not trying to pick you off.
They're not trying to convert you.
They're trying to rally their base.
What it means is they got problems at home.
What it means is that Obamacare and a whole bunch of other things has got their own base less than jazzed, less than excited.
They've got focus group, and I know this is true.
Their base, Democrat voters, hate me.
They have engineered that.
They've made that happen.
They hate me.
So when it's time to, when it's when it's when it's time to energize their base, that's what they go back to.
Me and Fox News.
And Schumer mentions it five times.
I got sound bites coming up.
And then Obama and New Yorker with David Remnick.
They released that yesterday.
It's clear.
It's part of the part of the strategy.
It isn't a coincidence here.
It's not a coincidence that a New Yorker released that Obama quote on me hours before Chuck Yu makes this speech.
This is another one of those times where I just wish my mom and dad were they wouldn't believe it.
And they'd be fit to be tied to my dad, especially, but they wouldn't believe it.
Here's Schumer out there talking to leftists, committed hardcore socialist leftists, about how important it is to stop the Tea Party.
That was the focus of his speech.
He said it's time somebody spoke up for government.
He's tired of government being ripped, criticized, blamed for things.
Tea Party's doing that.
And uh that is I as I said, there's some Republicans who agree with Schumer.
You know it, and I know it.
There are some Republicans think the Tea Party is a big problem for them for a whole host of reasons, which we have, which we've discussed.
So we'll sit tight, can take a brief time out.
We'll come back and get started with this so that you can see what I'm talking about.
Don't go away.
I have to tell you, folks, and I'm being totally honest, I love this.
I absolutely love this.
Now stick with me here.
As you know, one of my long-held theories is that the president, the Democrats, will always tell us who they fear.
That's what the effort to destroy Sarah Palin is all about.
If Palin were actually the Doomkoff, the incompetent, the embarrassment that they portray her to be, they would just shut up and let her go, and she would defeat herself.
But they don't do that, do they?
They continually try to destroy her because they're afraid of her.
Don't doubt me.
Do not doubt me on this.
And they're coming after me now, and Fox News, and of course, this is not the first time they've come after me.
Let's go back, shall we, to the grooveyard, the archives.
I have here for you a story from Politico.
In 2010, what was remarkable about 2010?
You remember?
2010 midterms, the Tea Party, that was their first real election as an identifiable group of voters.
And the 2010 midterms were one of the biggest shellackings the Democrat Party has had since 1994.
The Republicans regained the House of Representatives.
It was all about Obamacare.
It was all about the mounting debt.
The Democrats lost over 700 seats total nationwide.
House of Representatives, Senate, all the way down to mayor, governor, town council, you name it.
It was a shellacking.
You remember that.
And I have for you now a story from the Politico 2010.
Top Democrats believe they have struck political gold by depicting Rush Limbaugh as the new face of the Republican Party, a full-scale effort, first hatched by some of the most familiar names in politics, and now being guided in part from inside the White House.
The strategy took shape after Democrat strategists Stanley Greenberg and James Carville included Limbaugh's name in an October poll and learned that their longtime tormentor was deeply unpopular with many Americans, especially younger voters.
Then the conservative talk radio host emerged as an unapologetic critic of Obama shortly before his immaculation, when even many Republicans were showering Obama with praise, and soon it clicked.
Democrats realized they could roll out a new GOP bogeyman for the post-Bush era by turning to an old one, Rush Limbaugh, a polarizing figure since he rose to prominence in the 1990s.
That's before the midterm elections.
The Democrats in 1990 turned me into the demon.
They turned me into the villain.
They used me as the face of the mean spirited extremist, whatever Republican.
And look what happened.
The Democrats took one of the biggest drubbings in their electoral history in the modern era, certainly since 1994.
And here they are, back, gearing up to do it again.
Stunning.
This is further evidence, folks, that they're A not that smart.
B, they are very clear about who they fear.
So yesterday, the New Yorker releases more pages from their interview with Obama, in which Obama blames me in Fox News for the fact that he is not as popular as he used to be.
And then later that same day, Chuck Yu Schumer heads out to the Center for American Progress to make a speech.
And he mentioned me and Fox News five times.
Here's the first.
What gives this group such undue power?
The power of a message machine led by Fox News, the Drudge Report, and the Rush Limbaugh's that can broadcast the same exaggerated and even false messages instantaneously are all means that the Tea Party has used to gain ascendancy.
See, they again are telegraphing that they think you in this audience and the Tea Party once again are incapable of thinking yourselves.
You're incapable of reacting.
You're incapable of consuming news and forming an opinion yourself.
You only exist because I am your Svengali.
Anyway.
Or Fox News is your Svingali or Drudge or whatever.
You only exist because we tell you to be mad.
Otherwise, you would love Obama.
Otherwise, you would love the Democrats.
Otherwise, you would love government.
Otherwise, you would love Obamacare.
But because I tell you not to, you don't.
That's what Chuck Hugh thinks.
Now anybody in politics who wants to be honest with themselves knows that the Tea Party doesn't have a leader.
The Tea Party doesn't have a singular titular head that dictates or organizes or leads it.
Everybody in politics who's honest knows the Tea Party is average Americans, outraged and scared by what they had seen in the first two years of Obama, and they simply got involved in politics in a formal way for the first time in their lives.
They started going to town hall meetings.
They'd maybe voted, but that was it.
They are independent.
They came together coincidentally.
There was no driving force.
There was no consultant.
There was no marketing plan.
There was no headquarters.
There was no polling data.
There was no focus group data.
There was none of that.
The Tea Party is just the quintessential American citizen engaging in citizenship 101.
That's what the Democrats can't deal with.
That's what they can't accept.
That's what they just refuse to believe.
They think people doing that would automatically want more government, would want Democrats in charge of it, would want more benefits, would want to be taken care of.
Instead, if anybody is responsible for the creation of the Tea Party, it's the president himself and his party and their policies.
The Democrat Party and their policies and their spending and the racking up of more debt and their economic destruction brought to life a political movement that was dormant.
And we're back, El Rushwood.
It's open line Friday.
Great to have you here.
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Before I get back to the Schumer speech, I need to I need to illustrate a point.
Yesterday, there was really profound great news out of the state of Wisconsin.
In my mind, earth shattering news.
In my mind, it's the kind of news that should have caused a political earthquake, and probably did.
It's just that nobody reacted to it.
Here you have one of the bluest of blue states.
You have a Republican governor, a conservative Reagan-ass governor, who was targeted twice for removal.
They did everything they can to gin up hate, anger, trying to destroy his reputation, his career, and his life.
He hung in there.
The state of Wisconsin instituted his policy reforms, deemphasizing the role of unions in the state.
And the upshot of it is that Wisconsin's unemployment rate is rapidly falling.
So new jobs are being created there.
Wisconsin's budget is now in surplus 912 million dollars.
There is a one billion dollar government surplus in the state of Wisconsin.
And Governor Scott Walker is going to rebate the money in the form of tax cuts to the people who he said own the money.
He is going to cut income taxes and property taxes.
And he made the point that it's not just a gimmick of budgeting or accounting.
It's the result of serious, significant policy changes.
Now, folks, what I just told you was not reported once.
Anywhere in what you would consider mainstream media.
It was not reported on one cable network, much less all of them.
It was not reported in the New York Times, the Washington Post, the LA Times.
It was reported in Wisconsin.
There was an AP story on it.
Maybe some local papers picked it up, but just as a filler.
On all the opinion shows on the Fox News channel, there was not a syllable of this story discussed.
So And to me, for us as conservatives, Wisconsin, and Governor Walker, I mean, everything that we want to happen happened there.
We want people to stand up and defend themselves and what they believe, and when they do, we join them and help.
We want somebody who believes in conservatism and can articulate it, who gets elected on that basis, to then implement it.
Everything that we are demanding as voters, everything that US Tea Party members are demanding, Scott Walker did.
Everything as conservatives want for the vast majority of everything you want, it's happening in Wisconsin.
A light has been turned on.
There's a light at the end of the tunnel, if you will.
The path has been illustrated here.
Not one mention of this anywhere that I saw.
Not one.
No, instead we got Chuck Schumer and Barack Obama ripping the Tea Party, defending big government, attacking me, attacking Fox News.
And we've got other Republicans going on television in one degree or another agreeing with Chuck Schumer.
And we've got other Republicans.
I've I thought it was really interesting.
I think what Governor Walker has done in Wisconsin is a huge story.
It's a huge story for the Tea Party.
It's a huge story for conservatism.
It is the way out.
It shows what we can do nationally.
Scott Walker's not the governor of a Republican state.
He's the governor of a huge Democrat state.
This is not supposed to be possible, what's happened there.
And it didn't take that long, by the way, to generate a one billion dollar surplus.
And it didn't take him long to call for a tax cut and return the money to the people who earned it.
And he used that language.
The Tea Party is a huge story in American politics.
It's being ignored and tamped down and now impugned and criticized because the Democrats are so afraid of it.
That's why they call it teabaggers, Tea Party, laugh at them makes my scared to death of it.
Precisely because they can't control it, and precisely because the people in the Tea Party, people who call themselves Tea Partiers, are independent thinkers.
They are not the product of mind control of propaganda.
They believe what they believe because they're engaged.
They understand it.
They're critical thinkers.
They can't be talked out of it.
Now, they can be talked into staying home if the people they expect to represent them fall short.
As happened in the presidential race in 2012, when four million of them didn't vote.
Because they were not happy with whoever it was the Republicans nominated, Romney, and everything else that emanated.
The drive-by's are not reporting on Wisconsin.
Mainstream media is not reporting on it.
The GOP.
You would think the Republican Party would be singing the praises of one of their own.
Instead, they're all focused on Christie.
They're all focused on trying to save Chris Christie.
Federal Supreme.
By the way, take a look at that.
Folks, what else is going on?
The Justice Department, the legal system run by Democrats.
Look at what's happening here.
Subpoenas of Governor Christie's staff for traffic jams.
Dinesh D'Souza indicted for some sort of uh campaign finance fraud.
Bob McConnell in Virginia.
Indicted, multiple counts of whatever, 140,000 changing hands or what have you.
What else?
There's a couple others that I'm forgetting.
Eric Holder's suing some people.
I mean, they are the justice system as run by Democrats is out trying to criminalize as many Republicans and conservatives as they can.
This indictment of McConnell, by the way.
It's you know, however, it turns out, as I say, the main purpose of it is to help create the image Republicans are fat cats, rich cheaters, in bed with rich CEOs.
That indictment is simply to spread the new branded image of Republicans.
Doesn't matter.
They'd love to convict him, don't misunderstand.
But damage is already done.
The success was the indictment.
The conviction would be the cherry on the top.
So Governor Walker's out there just uh guiding Light a beacon being totally ignored.
Back to Chuck Hugh Schumer.
We have still uh three more bites.
This is at the Center for American Progress Action Fund.
This is a far this is John Podesta's group.
And uh he's upset here because uh rich, powerful Republicans got the Rush limbaughs.
Who are the other Rush limbows, by the way?
Mr. Sturdley, who are?
I mean, I didn't think so.
I'm not I I know I'm me and I'm here, but as there's well, no, okay.
I know what he means.
I'm just being a nitpicker here.
But he claims that rich, powerful Republicans have got rush limbaugh to make government the enemy in the minds of the masses when really government built the roads and bridges that made them rich in the first place.
This is the Elizabeth Warren.
This is Barack Obama.
You didn't build it.
You didn't make that happen.
You didn't build the Chuck Schumer joining that bandwagon now.
The underlying unrest that allowed the movement to ascend can be found in economic as well as cultural and social forces that in combination have greatly unsettled the American psyche.
The first and most important phenomena is a phenomena that Democrats have recently begun to address the decline in middle class incomes.
When the Tea Party elite came in and said government is your problem, we didn't say no.
It's part of the solution.
The American people became frustrated, sour, and angry.
And the Tea Party elites, unchallenged, tapped into that anger with their Pied Piper solution.
That's a new one.
The Tea Party elites.
There aren't any Tea Party elites.
By definition, the elites are all found in both party establishments.
Tea Party elite.
He couldn't name one if he had to.
Senator Chuck Yu.
Name one of these Tea Party elites.
Name one.
He can't.
So you see here the first and most important phenomenon, phenomena Democrats have recently begun to address the decline of middle class incomes.
You've caused it.
Democrat Party policies have caused the middle class to erode, to calcify, to flatten out.
Oh, yes, they look, ladies and gentlemen, it's mathematics.
Forget even you if you don't even want to go to illogical route.
The Democrats are simply taking over more and more of the private sector.
That's where the middle class is.
They're simply confiscating it.
They're raising taxes, and they took over health care.
They took over General Motors.
The government is shrinking the private sector.
That's where the middle class is.
The stagnation is a direct result of Democrat Party policy.
Here now is the bite with Chuck Yu blaming me for convincing you that government is the enemy when in fact government is the reason anybody has anything.
These people are wealthy, hard right, narrow, people who don't want to pay taxes.
People who say I created my business all by myself.
How dare your government tell me what to do with it?
Government paved the roads and built the airports so they can ship their products.
Government educated the workers that make their companies run and purchase their products.
They conveniently ignore these facts.
Over the years, they built a powerful and successful message machine that amplified and sold this anti-government theory to their followers, the Rush limbaugh, the Fox News agree with the plutocrats and spread their propaganda to the masses.
I don't even know how much of this he really believes.
He's just a lot of it.
I mean, don't misunderstand.
He's a died in a wall.
But this is clearly red meat for these rabid beasts that occupy the Center for American Progress.
The um the idea here, government paved the roads and built no government didn't.
Taxpayers did.
Government doesn't have any money to lay take the money.
Government educated the workers?
Really?
Government educated.
Government educated the workers.
Okay, you want to own that?
What is your excuse for how pathetically poor it is?
This is what we're up against.
This is these people are becoming more radical and more leftist with the passage of each day.
They're not just Democrats anymore.
And they're really not leftists anymore.
They are far, far further left than that.
Gotta take a break.
We'll be back and continue after this.
Don't go away.
So look at what's happening here.
We are in the middle of a government run program meltdown.
Obamacare.
The government running health care.
And it is a disaster.
We are beyond theory now.
People are living it.
They are living insurance being canceled.
They are living, their deductibles tripling, they are living, their premiums doubling, they are living being canceled, they are living, not even knowing if they have insurance anymore.
They're living in the middle of government, screwing up something that they enjoyed.
And so what has to happen?
You gotta send the cavalry out there to defend the government.
You gotta make sure that all of these people encountering misery and messes and disappointment and anger because of Obamacare, are told that it's Rush Limbaugh's fault.
And Fox News' fault.
It isn't the fault of government because the government's made up of Democrats who are wonderfully great, feeling and compassionate people who built all the roads for everybody.
And the Democrats educated everybody.
And the Democrats built the schools, and the Democrats, they just do everything.
Nobody did anything until the Democrats came along and did it for them.
Up next, Chuck Yu Schumer claims that he was heckled by a Tea Partier using Rush Limbaugh talking points.
He kept interrupting us all the time, using the standard Rush Limbaugh talking points.
Your government is wasting our money.
What are you doing about Obama phones?
How are your friends the trial lawyers?
I asked him, do you like Medicare?
He answered, Yeah, I like Medicare.
I don't think you should change that.
I explained to him the myth of Obama phones.
He said, I don't believe you.
I've read it in the newspapers and heard it on TV.
It was very clear.
He was just mouthing the Tea Party Rush Limbaugh talking points.
That's actually really pathetic.
That is that is beneath.
Senator Shue, you've got to come up with better examples than that.
Like, I don't even believe that happened.
Well, I know, but the the the I don't talk about the Obama phone.
I don't have an Obama phone talking point that people pick up on.
If people were gonna heckle Chuck Schumer and quote me, it wouldn't be about Obama phones.
And it it wouldn't, it wouldn't be about Medicare.
It wouldn't be about government wasting money.
It would be about Schumer.
Anyway, I'm just the name that the focus group data has told them to use because those people in the audience hate me.
That's all that's going on here.
He can tell them anything that I said.
That's it doesn't matter.
Just use my name and his audiences is seething out there.
I'm really proud of this, folks, as you have to understand.
It hasn't been easy making half the country hate me.
Now, ladies and gentlemen, uh you all know that next week I'll be back to being an entertainer.
Irrelevant.
And a non-factor.
Do we have uh don't have to there's there's one more Schumer bite, and it does mention my name, and I we've got enough.
You get the picture here of uh of what's going on.
Now, we've got all kinds of stuff.
Like Boehner was on tonight's show last night and in some ways agreed.
Governor Christie.
Oh, by the way, if you haven't heard this, Governor Christie, shortly after having been told that his department is his governorship is often subpoenaed for documents relevant to a traffic jam.
Governor Christie announced that he thinks that uh New Jersey schools should start serving dinner.
And on that, a brief timeout here at the top of the hour.
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