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Jan. 31, 2014 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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January 31, 2014, Friday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of The Rush 24-7 Podcast.
Greetings, my friends.
How are you?
Hope you're fine and dandy.
One of the biggest holiday weekends of the year.
And I'm still stunned that our esteemed leaders have not turned it into a three-day weekend with Monday off.
Probably because it does not benefit the ski industry.
Live from the Southern Command in sunny South Florida.
It's open line Friday.
You do know that that's why there's a lot of Monday holidays in February.
Oh, yeah, the ski industry lobby.
Fine with me.
I got 92 million people not working.
What's another Monday holiday?
Bye.
Okay.
Anyway, folks, it is Super Bowl weekend, and as such, we're going to have our straight Super Bowl pick.
I can tell you that now, if you want.
I'm leaning toward the Seahawks here for one reason.
Only one reason.
And I think it has to do with uh I think it has to do with the defense.
I think the Seattle defense can keep Peyton Manning off the field.
I think their defense, so I've studied it, folks.
I've looked at tape.
And I uh the Seattle defense has the ability to prevent Denver's long drives.
Time clock chewing drive.
Now, whether they will or not is uh is another thing.
By the way, there's a story here in the stack about Peyton Manning and how what it is like to play with this guy.
It isn't a vacation.
I mean, his intense, there is never a second of wasted or downtime at a practice.
If Manning in practice makes a mistake and throws a pick and the defensive back drops the pick, Manning chews out the defensive back for goofing up on his mistake.
One example.
Uh Manning was injuring uh nursing an injured ankle.
It was in the cold pool while practice was going on.
He had his iPad reviewing plays, tape, game tape, whatever, and was wearing his quarterback helmet so that he could hear the offensive plays being called in practice while he's in the training room in the cold pool, sitting there with his feet in the coal pool, shorts and a t-shirt wearing his helmet.
There's a picture of it.
Anyway, I if if Seattle's defense is not able to get Broncos off.
Now, this you may think this makes perfect total sense and common sense in anything special.
And you're right.
Best offense against the best defense, uh, and it's the weather's not going to be remarkable for either team.
They've both played in temperatures like this.
It's gonna be dry.
So I don't even know the wind isn't gonna be uh a factor, so I don't think that's gonna matter a hill of beans.
And I don't know how much it would anyway, unless it was really in climate, which uh it it isn't going to be.
The the one thing about Seattle, they're gonna have to do that, or they don't have a prayer because they they don't have anywhere near the scoring machine.
They're gonna they're gonna be depending on their running game for that unless Russell Wilson has a career game.
It's entirely possible.
But that's just my early feeling on this, and it's it's really not any more complicated.
I don't go in for destiny.
It's Peyton's last game.
It's Peyton's gotta win it here.
Brothers in trouble with fake gear, that kind of I don't go in for that kind of stuff being a factor.
I just look at the X's and O's and the uh and the and the two teams.
And the the Seahawks are gonna they're gonna if if they just don't have an offense to keep up with Denver if their defense can't keep Peyton off the field.
If they keep Peyton off the field, they're in the game and they have a chance.
And they do have the best defense in the league, and of course Denver's the best offense.
Now the environmentalist wacko pick is an entirely different proposition.
And that will come up later in The big broadcast.
It's open line Friday, and that means that whatever you want to talk about is okay.
Well somebody just sent me a note.
Well, what about what about the gay pick?
The gay pick the gay factor is part of the environmentalist wacko pick.
Which team is more pro-gay, which team is more that's that's a factor in the environmentalist wacko myth.
And I'll reveal that when we get the uh environmentalist wacko picking.
I don't know when it's going to be probably be in the uh in the third hour.
So anyway, open line Friday.
Normally Monday through Thursday, you have to talk about things I care about to keep me interested.
Because if I get bored, it's going to sound boring to people and they're going to tune out, and that's not good.
Uh but on Friday, that's the great risk.
I throw that out, and whatever you want to talk about, pretty much okay.
And I look it upon and uh take it upon myself challenge to make whatever, even the most dull, boring things sound interesting.
Now, normally that doesn't happen.
You normally you probably couldn't tell the difference week to week in an open line Friday versus a standard Monday through Thursday show.
But sometimes you never know.
This Super Bowl has stood out for me in uh in one way that, for example, Super Bowls here in South Florida have been remarkably different.
And I could be missing things, but I read constant media everywhere, and I haven't read very much at all about parties, late-night social uh life, uh knockdown, drag out uh party affairs.
It's striking, and the reason why it it strikes me is because New York is a party town.
New York has club after club and place after place.
It's open till four o'clock in the morning.
And I read, I see the Broncos at a pizzeria.
Um nothing wrong with pizzeria's.
But uh Club K, it isn't.
And I've just I've kind of been struck by that.
I don't know if it's the cold weather or what, or if more likely it's just too big a task to get into the city from their hotels in Jersey City and get back.
They've got a 1 a.m. curfew.
And norm most of these late night places don't get going till 11.30 at night.
Have you noticed this too?
I mean, TMZ, there hadn't been much going on there at all at the Super Bowl.
It's it.
For the players, yeah.
After the first couple of nights, it was a 1 a.m. that that I think is for Denver.
I don't know what the Seattle curfew is, probably much the same.
Uh most of these guys take it seriously anyway.
But you got a Super Bowl here in South Florida, and it the the news is nothing but all the social stuff going on.
It's all it is here in South Florida, and you can't go anywhere without encountering some Super Bowl bash or party.
Now, New York, there is so much going on, and it is so big that maybe it's the same amount of stuff just getting swallowed up in all the stuff that isn't Super Bowl related.
I don't know.
It just it's not a criticism, it's just an observation.
It uh I just I don't know.
I have to think that there's it's been 17 degrees in the daytime most of the week up there.
That's got to have uh an impact on people going outside being mobile and it's so what?
The game, so oh yeah, the game's sold out.
Oh, yeah, the game is sold out.
Well, there's no question of game.
What are you worried about?
The blackout.
There's no.
Oh no, the game is sold out.
What the what the problem with tickets is that a lot of brokers get tickets.
That's called a secondary market, and they're having trouble moving them at higher than face value prices.
They won't have any trouble moving them at face value.
What is interesting is that hotels, and I don't uh hotels that are within close proximity to the stadium have rooms.
They're go they're begging.
I don't know what the Situation is in Manhattan.
But look, New York's got more hotel rooms than they need anyway.
So I don't know what kind of a measure that is.
If you're going to the Super Bowl, you want to stay in Manhattan.
The only thing that happens in New Jersey is Sunday.
Everything else is happening in Manhattan, so you don't want to stay there.
So I don't know if that's a big deal either.
It's just different from what it uh from what it has been.
Also, ladies and gentlemen, we opened yesterday, we spent about an hour, maybe a little bit longer, talking about uh immigration, the Republican Party, where they are on it, what's happening, Democrat and Republican electoral fortunes in the House and the Senate.
And there's more on that today.
The Republicans are having their three-day retreat in Maryland.
And there's a really confusing story here from DeHill.com.
And the headline reads this Boehner, House GOP is alternative to Obama, not the opposition.
Now, if that is accurate, that is also problematic, right?
We we need to be the opposition.
An alternative, obviously.
But these guys, if this is true, want to split hairs over the difference in being in opposition and an alternative.
So here's how the story starts.
This is the actual text.
House Republicans arrived at their retreat here in search of an agenda for 2014, hoping to show voters that they are, in the words of House Speaker John Boehner, the alternative party, not simply the opposition to Obama.
Now I want to be fair here because this headline is really misleading.
They say here in their lead, Boehner said, not just the opposition party, yet the headline says we are the alternative, not the opposition.
But you put not just the opposite, you totally change the meaning of what you're reporting and to leave the word just out of the headline, quoting quoting Boehner, is big.
And that's why I had to dig deeper and read further.
Because as they say here plain and plain as day, Boehner said, not just the opposition party, but the Hills headline might be closer to the truth than we would like.
In between motivational speeches and ideas, lectures at a resort along the banks of the frozen Chesapeake Bay.
Republican lawmakers will try to hatch plans on immigration, the debt ceiling, and health care.
Boehner said, I think in order to maximize this year, it's important that we show the American people that we're not just the opposition party, that we're actually the alternative party.
And again, I'm not sure what that means coming from these guys.
I know there's a reluctance to oppose.
They think opposing is racist, or they're going to be called racists.
And frankly, it's I'm getting a little impatient and worn out with this.
Barack Obama is the president of the United States.
He has vowed to ignore the Constitution to advance his agenda.
What does it matter what his race is now five years into it?
Why continue this defensiveness?
We don't need to be an alternative.
You know what they mean by that?
Yeah, normally that wouldn't be bad, but the way these guys tend to mean that is Obama advances a piece of legislation.
This is a pick an Obamacare.
And the Republicans as the alternative, well, they have to come up with their own version, thereby allowing the Democrats at the agenda.
The opposing party might say, no, we're not going to do a massive reform of health care that involves the federal government.
Pure and simple.
We're not going to do massive immigration reform.
That is amnesty.
We're not going to do it.
But instead, what they say, well, we're the alternative party, so they propose amnesty.
We have to have an alternative amnesty plan, which Allows the Democrats to continue to set the agenda to establish the premise that we're always responding to.
And this is a big big attitudinal problem.
The fact is we haven't seen the Republican Party act much like the opposition party.
Whenever some individual Republicans do pop up in opposition, they get cut down by other Republicans.
I'm going to say, folks, sometimes I I end up angrier at Republicans and what they're saying than I get at Democrats these days.
And this amnesty business, this whole push for amnesty emigration reform that we talked about at length yesterday.
Boehner sent a confusing signal about that today, too.
He said, Well, you know, we're not necessarily going to push for that this year.
Well, wait a minute now.
What is it?
Yesterday it was pedal to the metal.
Yesterday, stated a coup address it was pedal of the metal.
Republican Party's gonna get this done, it's gotta get done, we're gonna get it done to the American people.
Then all hell breaks loose, and then they show up at their retreat on the frozen banks of the Chesapeake.
Doesn't that's another thing.
Nothing against Maryland, but it's a blue state.
Aren't there other places you can go in February than the frozen banks of a lake?
Why don't we do what the Democrats are?
You know, grab a bunch of prostitutes and head down a Dominican Republican.
Open line Friday.
Rush Limbaugh having more fun than a human being should be allowed to have.
Now, I'll tell you, folks, this is not an insignificant difference or distinction.
Boehner is showing up and saying that we are the alternative, not just the opposition.
Now, in modern Republican parlance, what that means, what what Boehner is trying to convey by saying we're not the opposition, we're not opposing the precious young president that everybody loves.
We're just the alternative.
It's another way of saying we're kind of, you know, it's we're kinder and gentler, but we're not criticizing Obama.
Oh no, and we would never criticize Obama.
And I'm sure the directive has come from on high, wherever that is in the Republican Party among the consultants class, the donor class, some in the so-called conservative media, the directive obviously going out, do not criticize Obama.
Whatever you do, they're gonna call us racists and sexists and they'll think of us as talk radio.
So don't do that.
So instead we go and say, We're the alternative, not just the opposition.
So don't criticize our beloved young president.
And, you know, just even almost hesitantly suggest a different approach to the same conclusion.
So Obama wants amnesty.
Well, we're the alternative, we're not the opposition.
So uh, and we are not going to criticize the dictator.
We have a smarter way of getting to amnesty.
We know they've already said the Republican leaders already said legalize the illegals with a pathway to citizenship.
Game's over then.
As was pointed out by a number of people yesterday, there isn't any such thing as bring them out of the shadows and let them work, but they're not citizens.
There's no way that that's gonna fly.
Only gonna take two hours of Democrats are gonna start raising holy hell, blaming the Republicans are once again being heartless and mean spirited.
And the Republicans will agree and uh they'll be able to vote in three hours after they have come out of the shadows.
Or if not, then sometime in the near future.
And I just it nothing's nothing, you know, it it here's here's the thing that is uh frustrating or puzzling.
These guys on our side are acting like they believe Obama's approval numbers are still in the 80s.
Well, they may never have been the 80s, but they think his approval numbers are sky high.
They're still acting afraid of him.
They're acting scared to death.
Do they not know that majorities of Americans oppose practically everything Obama has done and wants to do now?
And on Obamacare, how about the flip-flop that they have engaged in on that?
They wanted a dead laser-like focus in Obamacare.
Then Cruz and Lee pipe up, and the Republicans say, What are you doing?
You're taking the focus off Obamacare.
And they show you shutting down the government.
It's horrible.
Now they are taking the focus off Obamacare and transferring it to amnesty.
But it's like they think Obama is still loved and adored by everybody, and they've got a tiptoe around any opposition.
Look, I don't care how you slice it, folks.
It just doesn't make any sense.
It does, I don't care how you slide.
Even the most accepted, and some might say logical explanation, it doesn't make sense.
And here's what it is.
Why are the Republicans willing to commit suicide?
Because that's what it is.
Let's let's review.
Last fall, remember, leading up to the government shutdown.
The Republican leadership is making sure they're out there.
They're publicly saying, focus on Obamacare.
Get rid of Obamacare.
We got to get rid of Obama.
They've wanted us to think that's what they're focusing on.
And do not lose sight of it.
And Mike Lee and Ted Cruz pop up and take them seriously, and uh the result in a government shutdown.
The Republican leadership goes absolutely baddie.
Oh my God, you're killing us.
We're going to get blamed for shutting down the government.
And people love the government, people don't want the government shutdown.
Oh my God, oh my God.
Now they've done a total flip-flop and the heck with Obamacare.
They don't seem to care at all, even though it's failing, even though it's ripe.
I mean, it's it's never been, and it's been this way for a long time.
It's never been a greater opportunity for the Republican Party to connect with a majority of Americans across the spectrum.
The opposition to Obamacare knows no bounds.
People from all income levels, people from all walks of life, all religions, all creeds, all three sexes, it doesn't matter.
There are opponents, and they are the vast majority.
And it is getting bigger.
And the Republicans who last fall said don't do anything to take the focus off that, have now taken the focus off that and have shifted to amnesty.
If you look at national polls, you find that amnesty is important to 3% of the population.
Obamacare polls at the top of issues the American people think are important, need to be addressed, fixed, done something with.
And in the minute that polling data comes out, we drop our pursuit of Obamacare, which was tepid anyway as a party, and now we've shifted at our retreat, which is a good name for what's happening here, retreat, to amnesty.
And advancing amnesty.
It doesn't make any sense.
Phyllis Schlafley has a report coming out where she has looked at just reams of polling data and other demographic data on illegal immigrants.
Anne Coulter ran used some of it in a column that she wrote about this earlier this week.
And she made the point that Phyllis Schlafley's report was embargoed, but Coulter said, I don't care.
It's too important.
I'm going to use it anyway.
So she did.
But Phyllis Schlafley put this together, and here are just some of the highlights of this.
According to a Harris poll, 81% of native born citizens think that the schools should teach students to be proud of being American.
Only 50% of naturalized citizens do.
Naturalized citizens equals immigrants.
Legal, illegal, whatever.
This is a huge problem.
That is major.
It cuts against the notion that there is assimilation.
You know, I wrote Rush Revere and the Brave Pilgrims.
I love this country.
I want everybody to love this country.
It is the greatest country human beings have ever devised.
It's the greatest way to organize life.
It's the greatest way to organize business.
It's the greatest way to organize society there has ever been done on the face of the earth in the course of human history.
There is every reason in the world not to just be proud of it, but to love it.
And I want everybody to, and the problem is that young people in public schools are being taught not only not to love the country, but they're being lied to about how the country was founded, why it was founded, who founded it, and what its purpose is.
And they're telling young people this country is not warranted its superpower status.
That we've discriminated, that we've killed, that we've been racist and bigoted, that slave states still are.
That you know the drill.
The multicultural curriculum is taken over and this country's beaten up, and there's no counter to it.
Talking about pushback or opposition.
And that's why I wrote the book.
There's a mission behind the book.
This isn't just sell a book or, you know, come up with a different way of doing a book after having done two prior.
There's a mission here.
or We've lost education.
We've lost pop culture, we've lost books, movies, television shows, music, this kind of things.
It's a you know little attempt here to forge the truth to insert the truth into young skulls full of mush.
And this is 81% of native-born citizens think the schools should teach students to be proud of being American.
Why is that even controversial?
Do you understand the left?
That is controversial because of the word force.
Schools should not not force, but should.
That equals force to them.
Teach students to be proud of being American.
Damn right they should.
But no, they teach them to feel guilty about it.
But the point is only 50% of naturalized U.S. citizens do.
See, my take is we ought not be granting citizenship to people that don't love the country.
We ought not be granting citizenship to people that don't understand the history of this country.
We ought not be granting citizenship to people that don't understand a preamble to declaration to the Constitution.
We shouldn't be granting citizenship to people who come here want to undermine it.
But we do, in the interests of fairness and multiculturalism and being non-judgmental and all this.
But the real reason we do is because the people granting citizenship to people like this share that opinion.
This is no place special.
And that's what's so damn frustrating and inconceivable about the Republican Party wanting to open the country up to this kind of immigration.
It just doesn't make any sense.
It's the end of the Republican Party, it's the end of the country as we know it.
It doesn't make any sense in the traditional way of judging this.
Now there are other ways that it does make sense, and they're not pretty.
Touched on some of those yesterday.
But let me keep on with the Phyllis Schlafley data.
While 67% of Native-born Americans believe the Constitution is a higher legal authority than international law.
Only 37% of naturalized citizens agree with that.
Meaning 63% of people that we are granting citizenship to do not accept, probably don't Even understand and do not believe that our Constitution trumps international law.
Now, you may be saying, well, who are we to say to I'll tell you what it means?
It means that international law should trump the Constitution, meaning whatever some nefarious body somewhere like the UN wants to say should govern our country.
That's what it means.
That's why it's important.
Again, saying that the Constitution should trump international law is not us bragging.
It's not us saying we're smarter and better at all.
It is us recognizing our uniqueness and attempting to preserve it, for which there should never be an apology.
But why are we subjecting ourselves to these challenges?
They're unnecessary.
We do not need to be granting citizenship to people who essentially don't agree with nor understand nor love the country they're coming to.
So I don't understand the point.
And I'm gonna, if for those of you who think, well, Russia's the only way we're going to attack poverty, it's the only way we're going to attack income inequality everywhere in the world as poor as it can be.
We are not going to wipe out world poverty by letting everybody that's poor into this country.
We're just going to become one of them if that happens.
It cannot be done, folks.
There is too much poverty all over the world.
The numbers of people that live on less than $2, although, although Herbert Meyer, who was an official with the Reagan administration, we've talked to him, interviewed him for Limbo Letter, one of the things that he says, one of the most remarkable things that's happening, and I've seen it now in two or three other places, is that poverty is slowly being eradicated.
Real, real abject poverty.
We're not doing it by letting people into this country.
And I've told you about the guy at the golf tournament I was with my friend in California.
You lost it and walked out.
This major national media figure.
You would know.
And his only reason for supporting illegal immigration and amnesty was if somebody wants to come to my country and improve their life, who am I to stand in their way?
Well, that's not you're not.
We cannot improve people.
We have to change the way they live, where they live.
We have to change the systems that govern them where they live.
The problem with poverty is an unequal distribution of capitalism in the world.
We cannot fix poverty.
We cannot solve the poor of the world by opening our borders to them.
And believe it or not, there's some people who think that that's why we should grant amnesty, because they think it's a compassionate thing to do.
But there's simply too many people that are poor.
That ought to tell you something too.
How is it that whole science societies, whole nations have been around for thousands and thousands of years?
We've been around for not even 250 or 300 years yet.
Those nations, most of the people live in them under $2 a day.
Like Obama's brother still lives in a hut in Kenya.
What is he earned?
$9 a year?
Some such thing.
And yet here we are in a meager hundred, 200, 300 years.
There's a reason.
And we need to take what's happened here to other parts of the world, not open ourselves up to the rest of the world.
We can't.
We'll destroy what creates the wealth and prosperity here, which is what some people want to do on the American left.
Now, when you have numbers like this, 50% of naturalized citizens think that schools should teach that it's proud to be an American.
67% think that international law should trump the Constitution.
Is it any wonder that illegal immigrants vote two to one Democrat?
Let's take the word illegal.
Is it any wonder immigrants vote two to one?
This is what they think.
The two largest immigrant groups, Hispanics and Asians, have little in common economically, culturally, or historically, but they Both overwhelmingly support big government, Obamacare, affirmative action, and gun control.
And that is who we are granting citizenship to.
People who believe those.
No wonder the Democrats want it.
But why in the world do the Republicans?
According to the 2012 National Asian American survey, as well as a Kaiser Foundation poll, only 40% of the general public holds a favorable opinion of Obamacare.
42% unfavorable.
Meanwhile, 51% of Asians have a favorable opinion of Obamacare, 18% unfavorable.
Even Koreans support Obamacare, 57% to 17%.
Overall, 69% of immigrants like Obamacare, according to a 2012 cooperative congressional election study.
The same survey showed only 35% of Native-born Americans support affirmative action.
It is clear what is happening here.
It is clear that it could be stopped.
I have to take a break.
And we're back.
Open line Friday.
Here's more from Phyllis Schlafley.
A Pew Research Center poll of all Hispanics, immigrant and citizen alike, found that Hispanics take a dimmer view of capitalism than even people who describe themselves as liberal Democrats.
Again, the pew research center, people in the press, poll of all Hispanics, immigrant and citizen alike, found that Hispanics take a dimmer view of capitalism.
I either more opposed to capitalism than even people who describe themselves as liberal Democrats, like Obama or Harry Reid or Pelosi.
Forty-seven percent of self-described liberal Democrats hold a negative view of capitalism.
55% of Hispanics do.
I said, the question, why are we doing this?
We must be fair, Mr. Limbaugh.
We must be fair, and we can't be judgmental on people like this.
We're the land of the free and the home of the brave and the equality, where people come for their tantal life.
Yeah, but you know, in the old days, immigration was about finding Americans.
People wanted to come here to be Americans.
They came here to assimilate.
There was a distinct American culture they wanted to be part of.
Now much of this is actually just infiltration to tear down the American culture.
And it's happening.
The Pew research people also found that only 27% of Hispanics support gun rights.
Now, you might be saying, so what, Rush, we're not surprised by this.
Well, I'll just tell you, I have for the vast majority of the time I've been doing this program talking to Republicans and conservative scholars and so forth.
I can just tell you that one of the things that I have heard is that, and you probably have too, that Hispanics are conservatives in waiting.
They're pro-life, they're a lot of them are very devout Catholics.
And they uh they're with us on the on the social issues.
I've heard this, I can't tell you how many times.
And it's been it's been said to me in a way to get me to sign on to the concept.
And then we've all been told that the only way these conservatives in waiting, this is what we're told, right?
If they're conservatives in waiting, it shouldn't matter.
They got here, get here, they become citizens, and they are conservatives, right?
Why do we, as Republicans have to show them that we don't intend them any harm?
Or that we don't think of them this way, or what why?
If they're already conservatives and waiting, why do we have to do anything to bring that out of them?
You know, why do we have to be defensive?
Why do we have to say, no, we're not racist?
No, we're not bigots.
No, we're not.
I mean, it's just it's just a furtherance of the trick that's been played on us all these years.
Keep us defensive and guilty.
57% of non-Hispanic whites support gun rights.
75% of Hispanic immigrants, 55% of Asian immigrants support bigger government.
Those are Phyllis Schlafley's numbers.
We'll be back.
Okay, we're gonna get to your phone calls when we get back soon to the next hour, and some proof of uh some assertions I made earlier this week about how the Democrats in Obama seek to make everybody equal.
They tear down people at the top.
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