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March 6, 2014 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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March 6, 2014, Thursday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of The Rush 24-7 podcast.
So you got the uh you got the hatches betting down out there.
I mean, we have a major, major weather front moving in here.
I mean, we may have to we may have to leave the state.
I mean, it's gonna really rain out there.
Uh, yeah, I mean, we're gonna we gotta I look at a narrator, we got rain coming.
Might have to shut things down.
There's even a possibility of a tornado.
We should leave and just we gotta be safe.
Anyway, I'm just giving you a preview of tonight's local news here in West Palm Beach.
Greetings, and uh great to have you here, folks.
Rush.
No, we we do have some serious rain coming, but it's not anything out of the ordinary.
It's rain.
Uh, but there's all kinds of panic.
Should we send this staff home early?
Oh god, oh god.
Go ahead.
It makes you feel better.
Well, absolutely.
Uh 800 282-2882 is the number, the email address, L Rush Ball at EIB net.com.
Great to have you here.
Did you see um you see this video report from the Wall Street Journal?
Russia taking over Ukraine's news media.
And by the way, we have some great audio sound bites coming up.
There had the two infobabes at Russian TV.
One quit on the air, and the American media is just livid at her.
And the other one who criticized on the air has been sent to uh get your mind right camp.
And apparently didn't take very long because she's back with her mind right, now spreading the Putin gospel.
That's it's incredible.
You it's all coming up here.
And this this there's a there's a video report in the Wall Street Journal, Russia taking over Ukraine's news media.
Pretty outrageous.
I didn't know that Putin even had an FCC put hole monitors in his own media like they want to do here.
But this seriously, folks, this Ukraine business, I I like to always find ways.
Excuse me.
I just too lazy to reach the cough switch there.
Um I like to find ways to put things in perspective that might be persuasive.
And this Ukraine business.
We had a call yesterday from a very uh uh articulate woman who said this African American who said, Look, this Ukraine business ain't gonna change anybody's mind on Obama.
This Ukraine business, that's esoteric.
You gotta talk about those black pastors that have 25,000 signatures now on a petition to uh impeach Eric Holder.
I said, We did.
I talked about it twice, but her point was nobody cares about this stuff.
It isn't gonna change any low information voters' minds.
And sadly, she's right.
I mean, there's there's probably but that doesn't mean that we don't find a way, nevertheless, to make it connect.
That's my constant struggle is to take all this esoteric stuff, make the complex understandable.
And I think the way to understand Ukraine is to boil it down to its essence, to step back and think about what we are witnessing.
This is the KGB versus Acorn.
Now, what do you think is gonna happen in this conflict?
We have a top KGB officer.
By the way, I have a little thing I printed here for the stack of stuff.
It is a picture of Reagan in Moscow.
Says 1988 at a summit, he's standing outside the Kremlin, and Gorbachev is there and other Soviet officials, and there is a man disguised as a tourist with a camera around his neck.
It's Putin.
The KGB showed up as families that the Russians, the Soviets wanted Reagan to meet.
And these KGB people pretending to be families, supposedly hit Reagan with accusatory questions.
Just like the left would do here if they if they got hold of people they didn't like on television or something.
And Putin is there with with the with blonde hair.
It it says it's Putin, and it does the facial feats a side shot, but not full on side, maybe a little diagonal front side shot.
But he does, it looks like Putin's face with a lot of blonde hair.
Not hippie hair, nice combed hair over the ears, got a camera, looks just like a tourist.
It's Putin.
Pretending to be a Russian family.
And apparently the Reagan people knew it because the story says that there are people surrounding Reagan in the American Endurage a little upset at the questions Reagan's getting.
Don't worry, we knew this.
These are not families, it's all KGB families.
So what we've got here in the Ukraine, we have the KGB, a top KGB, not former.
Because no one ever leaves the KGB.
You have a top KGB officer, Vladimir Putin, versus a failed community organizer, Barack Obama.
Who do you think is going to come out on top in this?
The KGB versus Acorn.
That's what we're witnessing.
That's what Ukraine is.
What has been Obama's boldest move so far?
To give the Ukrainian government a billion dollars.
It's ostensibly loan guarantees, but it's a handout.
That billion dollars is going to end up in Putin's back pocket.
It's just enough for them to be able to pay their natural gas bill.
They have to get from Putin.
So Obama is paying Putin, essentially, not Ukraine.
Putin a billion dollars, so the Ukrainians can continue their free flow of uh of natural gas.
And we throw it in Crimea.
Who was it?
Governor Kobol, somebody said, give us an Amhous, give him a couple of islands, he'll go away.
Somebody here said, give Putin Crimea.
He'll go.
We've no.
So a billion dollars and Crimea in the battle between the KGB and Acorn.
Now, is there what is the Russian word for shaft?
Because that's exactly what we're gonna get here.
It's pathetic, folks.
It is laughable and it is pathetic.
No, the Putin photo is legit.
He was pretending to be a GP or a family, a Soviet family, just a guy, a father with a with a camera.
John Bolton's with CPAC today.
CPAC opened up today.
John Bolton said, under Obama, you can get away with murdering his personal representative, Ambassador Chris Stevens in Manghazi, and get away scot-free.
See, folks, this is the kind of simple, devastating truth that can that could eventually go into some of the most successful, effective political ads we could ever see.
You imagine a Republican candidate running against whoever the next Democrat is and equate that next Democrat with Obama.
And you say, under Obama or under the Democrats, you can get away with murdering their personal representatives.
You get away scot-free.
It's amazing.
And uh let's see, there's this um this it made me think of something.
You know, I I'm interviewing this afternoon after the program concludes, if we don't have to cancel it because of the rain.
I'm interviewing uh Bill Donahue of the Catholic League.
I've always wanted to talk to Bill Donahue.
I've I admire the way he does what he does.
I admire what he does too, but I admire the way he does it.
And it reminded me you really need to read the current interview in the current issue of the Limbaugh Letter.
And the Limbaugh Letter is now an app.
It's digitally available via the iTunes Store or at Rushlimbaugh.com.
We have digitized the Limbaugh Letter.
Limbaugh Letter is a monthly publication that dates back 23 years.
It's been around almost as long as the program has.
And one of the things that we did and do in the Limbaugh Letter to distinguish it from the radio show is interview people, newsmakers and whatever.
Because you know, I really don't like doing that because I don't care what most other people think.
But for the limbaugh letter, we do it.
It's a marketing thing to do something in the Limbaugh Letter that is not found regularly on this program.
And as it's gone on, it's become a monthly publication.
It's become more and more challenging to put unique content in there because of so much material covered here on the radio program and with the daily morning update or morning commentary that's heard on all of our affiliate stations all across the fruited plain.
Though we work really hard on that, and we achieve that, and it's it's tough.
You know, you've got a news item, okay, let's save that for the newsletter.
Well, now wait a minute, what about the radio audience?
We we owe them to mention that.
So it's it's a it's a real tight, tough balancing act here.
And we just took the limbo letter is always mailed.
It was always a printed publication, but we just recently in the past year took it digital, and you can get the Limbaugh Letter app to go along with the Rush Limbaugh Show app.
You get the Rush Limbaugh Show app, and you get the Ditto Cam if you're a subscriber to the website, get the ditto cam right directly from the app.
Don't have to go to the website, right from the app.
Just go to the iTunes store and search it.
Now, the interview that is is current in the at-present issue of the Limbaugh Letters, Scott Walker, the governor of Wisconsin, as, and you know, if you're a regular listener, I think that what he's done in Wisconsin is the blueprint for what the Republican Party could do to come back and triumph all over this country.
It is, I think it's the story.
Scott Walker has stuck to every concern.
Look what he did.
The bluest of blue states, he took on the public teachers' unions.
He has created via policy, not economic gimmicks, a one billion dollar in this day and age budget surplus.
The unemployment number in Wisconsin is far below the national unemployment rate.
You know how the Democrats and the left three times tried to destroy this man, not just his political career, they tried to end his professional career in politics in total.
There were physical threats.
There were physical threats against his family.
It was brutal.
He had his legislature leave the state a couple of times.
Cowardly fashion to avoid votes.
And he hung in there.
And I was always amazed that what happened with Scott Walker and his success there did not become more of a template, and actually did not become more of a news story for the Republican Party.
It's profound.
It is the blueprint.
And it's Reagan-esque.
And it shows that it can be done.
It shows that the Democrats can be beat and the media can be beat.
And with ideas and with stick toitiveness, with commitment, with passion, with inspiration, simply being optimistic.
It can happen because it did.
And if it happens once, it can happen several times.
And when I saw this John Bolton quote from CPAC today in which he said, under Barack Obama with Barack Obama, you can get away scot-free, killing his personal representative.
That's simple.
It cuts to the quick, so does the comparison at KGB versus Acorn to typify what's going on here in Ukraine.
And here's a pull quote from the Scott Walker interview.
The pathway to Win the and the whole interview, by the way, you really should see it.
The pathway to win the center isn't to move to the center, it's to lead.
Because most people who are undecided or persuadable voters aren't necessarily looking for a candidate they agree with on every issue.
They want people willing to do what they say they're gonna do and boldly lead.
Do you realize that that may sound what's so hot about that?
Rush, that's gonna be ho Hummer.
No, it's not, because the current thinking in the Republican Party is that to win the center, you've got to move left.
That's the current think of the Republican Party.
To win the center, we've got to be pro-amnesty.
To win the center, we've got to somehow back off on the social issues.
To win the center, we can't be worried about the budget because Americans want a big government.
We have to instead position ourselves as better stewards of it.
Scott Walker didn't do any of that in vanquishing the left in Wisconsin.
didn't do any of that.
The pathway to win the center isn't to move to the center.
It's to lead.
Stand for things because he correctly has identified who these undecided are what it takes to reach them.
And he's proven he knows how to do it.
And I've had a couple people who have read the interview tell me they haven't been this excited about a Republican in a long time.
This interview in the Limbaugh Letter.
I got a note from uh from a friend Rush, that interview should be read by everybody.
It's absolutely inspiring, and there's no platitudes in it.
This guy's accomplished, achieved, the accomplishments and the achievements are on record.
They're a matter of record and not a matter of opinion.
Presents a clear vision of what works and what doesn't work, uh, both politically and economically.
It was really good.
Have you seen, ladies and gentlemen, the new Cadillac commercial for their new electric car?
You haven't.
It features the actor Neil McDonough.
You watch Justified.
Well, Neil McDonough was in Justified two years ago.
He's he's got this baby-shaped head, blue eyes, short blonde hair.
He can play either the nicest next door neighbor or the evilest villain you've ever found.
He is the actor in this commercial.
The left hates this commercial.
There are caustic posts on leftist websites.
And even mainstream news sites, huffing and puffing them posts, they're outraged over the Cadillac ad.
If you've seen it, you might know why.
If you haven't, I will explain it to you in a mere moment.
And just before we go to the break, just a little nyan y-n-n-n-LA Times reports that two members of the motion picture arts and sciences academy.
People that vote for the Academy Awards, two of them have admitted they voted for 12 years a slave to win the best picture and hadn't even seen it.
Do you remember all the trouble I got in?
Well, it's not trouble.
Yeah, but you remember, do you remember the uh the conniption fit that the left had?
When I said that 12 years a slave was gonna win no matter what, it didn't matter if it didn't win any other award, it was gonna win best picture because it had the word slave in it.
It's all you had to know.
It was going to win.
And they just had a fit that was racist, it's typical limboy, and here we have it in the LA Times.
The newspaper of record for the Hollywood left.
Twelve Years of Slave puts the spotlight on Hollywood's approach to race from the ad campaign for the film to a joke by host Ellen DeGeneres.
Issues of racial sensitivity and writing historical wrongs surround the movie.
All the same, two Oscar voters privately admitted to the LA Times that they didn't even see 12 Years of Slave because they thought it would be upsetting.
To them, personally, it would it would it would it would make them it would be painful and upsetting to watch.
They didn't watch it.
But these two, and if there are two of them, they're gonna be more than two.
If two admit it, you know there's more than two.
These two said to the LA Times, they voted for 12 years a slave anyway, because they felt obligated to do so.
Given the film's social relevance.
Folks, the evidence is in, don't doubt me when I explain to you what's gonna happen with leftists, Democrats, why they do what they do, why they're gonna do what they're gonna do.
Okay, we'll get to this Cadillac commercial that the left it's for an electric car to boot, and the left hates it.
They despise it.
It is it is such a teachable moment, folks, but we're uh get to that here in just a second.
I've got some CPAC sound bites.
Governor Christie just finished speaking.
He spoke for about, I guess, 20, 25 minutes.
And he started just before the program began, and it is reported I didn't see it, he got a standing ovation.
Standing over he showed up, and I think Dana Bash, the info babe at CNN said that he got a louder applause than Ted Cruz.
Now, I could be wrong.
She didn't mention Chris, well, I didn't hear her actually name the person she was comparing Christie's applause to.
I'm assuming it was Cruz, because he's the only other guy there that got raucous applause today.
And the National Review Online is reporting that Christy got standing O, and as he exited stage left, Christie said, We don't get to govern if we don't win.
Let's come out of this conference resolved to win elections again.
Now, that can be interpreted in any number of ways.
It could be that, and I doubt this, but some in the establishment think that you and the Tea Party are more interested in being right, making statements, and having elected people say what you want to hear than you are in winning elections.
And the establishment thinks, look, just like I told you, I talked to this prominent GOP, elected GOP guy last week, who told me he that they don't think the Republican Party can win simply by turning on its base.
Now they're wrong about that, but they believed that.
And so when you make a comment, we gotta come out of this conference resolve to win elections again.
Some could interpret that and say, look, we got to win.
Before we can govern, before we can implement our idea, if we got to win, meaning lay low while we go about winning, and then we'll be okay when we get into office.
Now, when an establishment person says this, I'm not a uh attributing this to Christy, but when an establishment person says to you, hey, let's come out of this resolve to win elections again, it could mean ignore me while I pander to the left.
If you're an establishment guy, and if the establishment thinks you can't win by turning out the GOP base alone, then the obvious conclusion is they got to go out and pick off Democrats.
So one philosophy says, well, we got to come up with a plan for African Americans.
We just get we don't need them all rushed.
We just get five, 10% of the African American vote, we could totally destroy the Democrats.
Okay, cool.
And then Rush, we've got to go get some Hispanics.
We have to get them all maybe five, 10% of the Hispanics, and we can bust the Democrats coalition.
And then Rush, we gotta go out, we're gonna pick off some women, we gotta get some single women.
So what they're saying is look, we have to go out and get some votes of people that don't like us.
And to do that, we may have to say things you don't like, but that's all part of winning elections, so just be quiet and let us professionals do what we do.
That's one way of interpreting that comment.
Because if you if if you say, let's come out of this conference resolve to win elections again, isn't there somebody of thought that says there are people that don't want to win?
Isn't that the objective of a political party is to win the election?
Who doesn't want to win?
Well, the establishment must think that somebody in the Republican realm doesn't want to win.
At least that's not the priority, that there are other things that come first.
I'm probably making too big a deal out of this.
But I did I do find it an interesting comment, and particularly after having had uh conversation with if if the establishment believes that they can't win by turning out the base, and by the way, they could have if if there were four million Republicans in 2012 it didn't turn out, stayed home.
If they would have all shown up and voted just the party line, we'd have beaten Obama by two million votes.
We could have won the White House by turning out the base.
We didn't turn out the base.
So it's obvious uh that the establishment of the party believes that the re that the that the country, the population of country, has organized itself in groups now, and you have to appeal to them that way.
You can't go out and appeal to a single American culture or a singular American ideal.
You you cannot come up with a political campaign or strategy or philosophy that encompasses everybody.
You've got to go to the groups where these people are and pick them off.
That's the inside the beltway strategy on the establishment part.
Now, you and I don't I won't lump you in with me.
I don't hold to that.
I think you get into big trouble when you start bifurcating your message for this group or that group over here, because then you know you you're watering down your essence.
But still, as an active proposition, you do have to win.
Everything else is academic if you don't win.
It's just the disagreement over how.
And then, of course, the mandate that you have after you win depends largely on how you campaign.
So what I'm sure we'll have some Christie bites.
I'm sure the audio production staff is even now working on assembling them.
Let's listen to Ted Cruz at CPAC today.
We've got four sound bites here, and he got a raucous reception.
No question.
How do we win elections?
Number one, defend the Constitution.
For all of our friends in the media, free press means not having government monitors sitting in your newsroom.
The right to freedom of religion, and that means, among other things, not having the IRS ask citizens, tell me the content of your prayers.
We need to stand for the second amendment right to keep and bear arms.
We need to stand for the Fourth and Fifth Amendment rights, the privacy of every American.
We need to abolish the IRS.
We edited a lot of the applause that went on and on and on.
We edited for time.
Now, let me make an observation.
When I when I did my first, was this my first CPAC speech?
It might have been, I don't know.
When I did it, what was it, five years ago now?
Has it been that long?
It's one of those things that seems like yesterday.
I did the closing speech, whatever it was, three, four, five years ago.
And I was going through some some basic uh here's who we are as conservatives.
And the audience was applauding raucously after every sentence.
And I finally paused, because it was happening here too with Cruz.
Every sentence he's getting applause.
And I imagined, using uh my well-endowed empathy, I imagine that people watching might have, well, well, why is all this stuff getting up?
Defending the Constitution, why is that being applauded?
Uh the IRS and then not not having them ask the content of why why are people applauding all this?
So I paused and I said to the people watching, because every network was telecasting my speech.
I said, you may wonder why all this is being applauded.
It's because we think all of these things are under assault.
You may think that it's standard operating procedure to defend the Constitution, but it's under assault.
And so when somebody comes up for a group of conservatives and pledges to defend it, it's going to be applauded because there's genuine fear that it's under assault and in the midst of a transformation.
And the same for every bullet point made.
And it happened to Cruz here.
So I just wanted if any of you are being applauded, of course.
It's because the people in that room and a lot of others around the country think all of these institutions, traditions, all these things that are definitively American are under assault.
Here's the next cruise bite.
When millions of Americans stood up last fall and said, stop this train wreck, this disaster that is Obamacare that is hurting millions of people.
The Democrats said, the mainstream media said, although I repeat myself.
They said this is hopeless.
Don't you understand?
Just move on.
Just accept it.
You can't do anything to stop this.
Yes, we can.
Again, why are they applauding that?
Because people in that room think that the country they know and love is in the midst of being transformed, and all these great traditions are being attacked.
And they're happy to hear anybody stand up and say that they're going to defend them.
Here's another one.
He announces just about every day, one change after another after another in Obamacare.
It is utterly lawless.
It is inconsistent with our Constitution, and it ought to trouble everyone.
Republicans, Democrats, Independents, Libertarians.
Let me tell you something.
If you have a president who is picking and choosing which laws to follow and which laws to ignore, you no longer have a president.
That's Ted Cruz at CPAC this morning.
Here's our final bite.
There are lots of voices in Washington that'll say, no, no, no, no, no, this is too bold.
You can't stand against the IRS.
That's extreme.
You can't say repeal Obamacare.
That's really a bit much.
Let's just modify it.
You can't not bankrupt the country.
Let's just slow it down a little bit.
A friend of mine suggested a bumper sticker slogan, Republicans.
We waste less.
You win elections by standing for principle and inspiring people that there is a better tomorrow.
Ted Cruz at CPAC again.
And remember we edited the applause for time purposes in our soundbite.
So we will be right back.
Okay, let's get to the Cadillac commercial.
There's a headline here at the Huffing and Puffington Post.
It's by a woman named Carolyn Gregwa.
And I don't know if she pronounces it that way.
G-R-E-G-O-I-R-E.
Greg Wah, Greg Wire, Greg, probably Gregory, if I had to guess.
But anyway, headline Cadillac made a commercial about the American dream, and it is a nightmare.
This commercial has hit a nerve in the left that is such a teachable moment.
The reaction to this commercial itself and the reaction to it by the left is all anyone needs to know about what really has become of the Democrat Party and the American left.
The actor is Neil McDonough.
Seen him in uh Justified.
he was in some other TV series that ran for four years.
I can't think of the name of it.
Right off the top of my head.
You'd recognize him if you saw him.
And he's uh playing the part here of a successful American male who happens to own one of these new Cadillac electric cars.
Here is the and this is 43 seconds here.
And I will I'll read the I'll it'll go by here pretty quickly, and I'll I'll do the transcript myself when this is finished.
Why do we work so hard?
For what?
This stuff.
Other countries they work, they stroll home, they stop by the cafe, they take August off.
Off.
Why are you like that?
Why aren't we like that?
Because we're crazy driven hardworking believers.
Those other countries think we're nuts.
Whatever.
Were the Wright brothers insane?
Bill Gates, Les Paul, Ali.
Were we nuts when we pointed to the moon?
That's right.
We went up there, you know what we got?
Bored.
So we left.
That's pretty simple.
You work hard, you create your own luck, and you gotta believe anything is possible.
As for all the stuff, that's the upside of only taking two weeks off in August.
As for all the stuff, that's the upside of only taking two weeks off in August.
He also says in the ad about the moon, and we're gonna be the first to go back.
Now the left is simply outraged because they perceive this to be an attack on Western European socialism.
This is Cadillac.
Remember what I've always told you about advertising.
Advertising that works is advertising that properly correctly takes the pulse of the people it is targeted to.
It takes the pulse of the American culture at that moment, at that snapshot.
So here you have Cadillac in their ad agency, and what are they using to sell this thing?
The American dream.
The old adages, hard work, success, climbing the ladder.
You just work hard and work hard, and you don't think about vacations first.
You think about your work.
You find something you love, you go out and you do it, and yeah, you acquire stuff.
And there's nothing wrong with acquiring stuff, and there's nothing wrong with improving your lifestyle.
And the left is just livid.
A pull quote from this Huffing and Puffington Post story.
A completely shameless celebration of our work hard buy more culture with a blanket dismissal of other countries and their laziness tossed in for good measure.
All of the things that liberals love to hate about America is wrapped up in that one sentence.
Let me read it to you.
The pull quote from Carolyn Gregwa, the Huffington Post.
This Cadillac had a sh a completely shameless celebration of our work hard buy more culture, with a blanket dismissal of other countries and their laziness tossed in for good measure.
If there's one thing that this commercial misses, and, well, not really.
There's a lot of Americans who can't work anymore.
There aren't any jobs.
No matter how hard, they're just...
Some people can't find work.
But Cadillac is targeting those who have jobs and trying, you know, whatever you do, don't feel guilty about climbing the ladder.
Don't feel guilty about improving your life.
Don't feel guilty about wanting a Cadillac.
An electric Cadillac.
Don't feel guilty about this.
Why are we looking to Europe for guidance?
They take the month of August off.
There's 14% unemployment.
They're welfare states.
They sit around and they move at a leisurely pace.
They can't defend themselves.
They rely on us for that.
What in the world is there to model ourselves after?
And the left is just loaded for bear.
I'll share with you further details in this piece.
Here, grab somebody at 18.
Quickly, we can squeeze it in.
Here's a Robin Roberts on Good Morning America today.
Oh my goodness.
And what's wrong with taking more than two weeks off?
You're made to be felt guilty because you're not working hard.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
That commercial.
Oh wow, that makes me feel guilty for not for you if I take more than two weeks off, that Cadillac commercial making me feel guilty.
I'm telling you, the left is afraid of that commercial.
That's such a teachable moment here.
Don't go away, folks.
And we're off to a running and rousing start.
Sit tight, my friends.
Hang in there and be tough.
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