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April 3, 2014 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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April 3, 2014, Thursday, Hour #3
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I wonder if old Ian, our caller in the last hour, who said the Coke message, it makes people feel nervous, vulnerable, you can't go out there and do it alone.
You think it should be boiled down?
You think if people are told they have to work, that that scares them?
That having to work is not a winning political message.
That if your political message involves working and providing for yourself and making your way through life, getting a job and so forth, if that's not a winning message, let's put it another way.
If that message harms you, that in order to be prosperous, you must work.
Well, I don't know where we are.
If that's the case, could that be why people don't care that we're losing jobs left and right?
Because they don't think it's necessary.
I keep saying we've got 92 million Americans on the beach.
They're not working and they're all eating and they're all making phone calls and they're all watching television.
But they're not working.
You mean to tell me if you tell them that to keep all that, they're going to have to get a job, that that is a detriment to your campaign?
Interesting, isn't it?
Well, we'll come back to this.
I'm sure some people want to weigh in on it.
We get back to the phones.
In the meantime, President Clinton was on Jimmy Kimmel Live.
I guess this is how you do it.
You go on Jimmy Kimmel Live.
One thing, by the way, let me share this way, back to Ian for just a second.
Because I have people routinely urging me to have a presence, a much bigger presence in social media.
People say, you know, Rush, there isn't anybody.
Conservative, Republican, Libertarian, you name it.
There's nobody on our side that has a large social media presence.
But the left is everywhere in social media.
I mean, take your pick.
Actors, actresses, producers, anchors, sports writers, they're everywhere.
They're on Facebook, they're on Twitter.
We don't have anybody anywhere.
You need a bigger presence.
And then people who are close in my orbit always warn me against it.
Do not do it, Rush.
Don't get anywhere near it.
The biggest danger in social media, every one of them tells me, is the send button.
Because once it goes, you can't pull it back.
And so what I get from that is that there are a lot of people scared to death of it.
And you know, a defensive posture is not something I'm comfortable with.
I just don't like playing defense.
I don't like doing things so as to not Anger people or not to hurt people or not to get into trouble or whatever.
Russia's safer.
You know what?
Don't go there.
Let us handle it for you.
We'll post a couple things from you, you know, twice a month, but don't go out.
Don't go tweeting, you know, every day what you think about.
Don't do it.
People in my orb who are quote-unquote looking out for me advise me to stay away from it because it's fraught with danger.
All it takes is one blown tweet and you're finished, which I don't buy, by the way.
But it's amazing how many people on our side are just really walking around, quaking in fear over saying what they really think.
It reminds me of the old days of the Soviet Union, where people would retreat to their bathrooms in their families and tell them what they really thought of things because they figured the bathroom wasn't bugged, that the KGB was not listening in the bathroom.
Anyway, so here's Bill Clinton, who can't do anything wrong.
I guess because he's likable.
He doesn't make people feel vulnerable.
Clinton doesn't make people feel like he's going to take things away from them.
So he was on Jimmy Kimmel Live last night, and Kimmel just was hell-bent on finding out if Clinton could confirm or not that there were aliens at Roswell, Georgia.
Yeah, he would.
If we were visited someday, I wouldn't be surprised.
I just hope that it's not like Independence Day, you know, a conflict.
Maybe the only way to unite this incredibly divided world of ours.
They're out there.
We better think of how all the differences among people on Earth would seem small if we felt threatened by a space invader.
Okay, so here is a former president of the United States seriously discussing on late night TV the existence of space aliens and how a divided world see how we all need to come together would make us even more vulnerable if space invaders showed up.
So should I be doing this?
Should I be showing up on Kimmel and answering questions?
See, I wouldn't get questions about space invaders.
I'd be asked if I was one.
I know I have met them.
The Weekly World NEWS already blew that story.
They met with the space aliens in New Orleans back in sometime in the 90s.
They were trying to engineer my election as president.
Was?
There's a cover of the Weekly World NEWS?
We'll put that, Coco.
Get that out of the archives.
We'll put that at Rushlimbaugh.com so people can see it.
I've already met with the space aliens left hand shakers, by the way.
And then Kimmel said, well, do you, do you miss being the first African-American president?
Now remember, this is the former president of the United States, a white guy, being asked, do you miss being the first African-American president?
I feel like you were cheated out of that, like that was taken away from you.
Yeah well, my grandparents were poor white Southerners who, as a class, were among the most racially prejudiced people in the south, and they weren't.
My granddad ran a country store and the vast majority of his customers were African American.
So I was raised in a different way, and so I love being called the first black president, but But Barack Obama really is.
He deserves it.
How big a statement, how big a, you realize how big that is of President Clinton to actually admit that Barack Obama is the first black president?
Just with ease and total humility, Clinton just throws away the title.
Let's Clinton have first black president.
And you hear what Elsie said?
Well, you know what?
My grandparents are poor white Southerners, and poor white Southerners as a class were among the most racially prejudiced people on this earth.
My grandparents were, but I mean, the people around me were.
Yeah, like your mentor, Jay William Fulbright, senator from Arkansas, biggest segregationist the Senate's ever seen, or one of them anyway.
Let's see how this works.
Oh, yeah, I grew up.
I was a white southerner, but I'm a good white southerner because my grandparents weren't racist and they sold things to African Americans.
But boy, the people I was around when I grew up, man, they're some of the most racist, prejudiced people on this earth.
I wasn't.
I wasn't because of my great-grandparents.
But boy, everybody around me was.
Well, it's good to know.
Mm-hmm.
I don't know.
Were Clinton's grandparents?
No, Clinton's grandparents were not racist.
He said everybody else, everybody else's grandparents were racists.
Everybody else that lived in the town was raised, but Clinton's grandparents weren't.
They had a little country store and they sold things to black people.
So they wouldn't.
Mr. President, they raised prices or lower price.
I don't know about that.
I'm just telling you, Libbo, they sold stuff to him, and that means they're not racist.
So there's no price gouging going on.
I don't know.
I'm just telling, look at me.
I'm not a racist.
I've turned out just fine.
I'm telling everybody else that lived in the South, the biggest racist hayseed hicks in the world, but I'm not.
That's all you need to know.
That's it.
I was first black president.
I saw black churches burn.
Actually, I didn't.
I made that up, but everybody believed it when I said that.
Okay, so we'll see.
We're going to move on now.
Let's see what I tell you.
Soundbite eight.
Yes, here's Baghdad Jim McDermott.
Now, this soundbite kind of goes with what Ian was saying about how people dependent on government.
Our message can't be something's going to make them think they're alone.
Our message can't be something that's going to make them feel vulnerable and they're going to do everything for themselves.
This is C-SPAN's Washington Journal today.
And a caller called in, a guy named Dennis in Maryland, and said, Baghdad Jim, how is it that the Republicans can get people to vote against their own interests?
How is it, Baghdad, Jim, that Republicans can get people to vote against what he's talking about, their own interests is voting for government, voting for Obamacare, voting for all kinds of government programs?
How can the Republicans convince people to vote against themselves?
And here's what Baghdad Jim said.
People have been subjected to a $100 million campaign for the last three years, including the presidential campaign, saying Obamacare is bad for you.
And if you keep pounding on people and they don't have any other information, they respond to it that way.
They're going to find out when other people are benefiting from it.
When the guy down the street has health insurance and doesn't lose his house when he gets sick, they're going to say, you know something?
We ought to have that.
See, okay, when the guy down the street has health insurance and doesn't lose his house when he gets sick, then everybody else is going to say, you know what?
I want that.
I don't want to lose my house when I get sick.
Well, who is?
See, who is losing their house when they get sick?
I would venture to say nobody is losing their house when they get sick.
But this is what I guess we're up at.
We've got to deal with a bunch of lies, essentially propaganda that people have been inculcated with.
They believe it now.
Now, getting sick equals bankruptcy, therefore we need Obamacare.
And if you have Obamacare and you get sick, you will not lose your house and you won't go bankrupt.
But everybody that doesn't have Obamacare will lose their house, and you don't want to be one of those people.
See, but if you start talking about that, you're going to lose them, Cee Snerdley, if you start saying, yeah, but if you sign up for Obamacare, you're not going to have any money for anything else.
You'll starve to death.
If you sign up for Obamacare, the hospital you go to may not be in a network and you may not be able to find a doctor that'll treat you.
You'll lose them.
That's Ian's point.
You'll lose them with facts and truth.
Do not work anymore.
Facts and truth scare people.
Facts and truth equal doing it on your own.
Facts and truth mean, you mean I got to work?
Hell with that.
Facts and truth make you frightened.
Facts and truth scare you.
Facts and truth make you feel vulnerable.
Facts and truth make you that you're on your own, that nobody's going to care for you, and everybody's going to hate you.
You'll be all alone and you're going to get stomped on.
Put on your big boy pants and deal with it.
You scared them even more when you say that.
Put on your big boy pants and deal with it.
You're really scaring them now.
You're really making them vulnerable.
You're really making them feel insecure.
They're really going to vote Democrat now when you tell them put on your big boy pants because now you're insulting them and you're calling them sissies.
Which they are, but can't say that because then you get a couple of more observations about Ian.
I'm going to get to the phones.
One is, did you realize that when I mentioned Rand Paul to him, all of a sudden he contradicted himself.
Rand Paul's message worked.
Rand Paul's a conservative from the most libertarian, but he made my point.
The message can be a winning message if presented by somebody attractive or real or likable to him.
Rand Paul was likable to him, so the message was fine.
He called here saying the message won't work, Rush.
But then you get the right guy with the message and the message was cool.
Folks, it's a salient point.
Because his original point was the message ain't going to work.
It scares people.
But then Rand Paul doesn't scare people with the same message.
Well, he's got a point about likability.
That's television age.
Of course, he's got a point about likability.
Of course it matters.
Absolutely it matters.
That's the realization of television, modern politics.
There's no question about it.
But if Ian is right, it also means that we have become a nation of children, not adults.
We have become a nation of children.
And I think that actually could be a profundity to get right down to it.
In the meantime, go to Bob in Hover, Alabama.
Bob, I'm glad you waited.
Great to have you on the program.
Hello, sir.
Hello, Rush.
Thank you for taking my call.
Anytime, you bet.
I want to talk about your books.
I have a seven-year-old grandson who is on the autistic spectrum.
And when I got the first book, I started reading it to him.
And I find out that he's reading ahead of me.
He falls in love with the book, and he can't wait till the second book comes out.
And you always say that the book is for 10 to 13.
He's seven years old.
Wow.
And loves the book.
I asked him the other day, who is your favorite character?
And of course, he said Liberty.
Right.
And then I said, well, if it's not Liberty, then who else?
He said, well, Elizabeth.
And I said, Elizabeth, he said, yeah, she's such a pain in the neck.
Spoiler alert.
Spoiler alert.
Don't go too far here.
I'm sorry.
Elizabeth is a character in the, well, but the second book, she, it was fun writing Elizabeth.
I just have to tell you, it was so much fun writing Elizabeth.
And I'm glad that you're seven years old and he's autistic, and he was ahead of you reading these books.
Yeah, he would read ahead of me.
Right now, he's reading the first book to his mother.
Man, that's.
And he understands every single thing.
Of course, his memory is fantastic.
He retains everything.
So I gave him the quiz from the first book, and he got 80% of that correct.
And I just want to thank you, Rush.
I mean, to have him sit next to me for a half hour, 40 minutes, and read the book and one chapter after another, it just warms our heart.
I just can't tell you how important it is to our family.
Well, I appreciate that.
It's got to be great to have him focused for that long a period of time.
Oh, it's unbelievable.
I mean, I just think that if there's anybody out there with children in the same situation, they need to get that book for them.
Read it to them.
Like I say, we were on vacation last week, and every day he said, Grandpa, let's read Rush Revere.
Okay.
And then he got four or five, at least two chapters ahead of me on the second book.
I'm not going to spoil it, but he talked about the classroom thing and how cool that was.
That is just incredible.
I got goosebumps here from this because I know people who have autistic kids, and it's highly on the spectrum, but he's still on the spectrum.
But nevertheless, I mean, if I'm hearing you're right, correct me if I'm wrong about this, but the fact that you get, whatever you get, 30 to 40 minutes at a time focused on one thing, that's not common, right?
No.
Yeah, that's what you like.
That's great.
Yeah, and he just loves the books.
And, of course, the big question is amongst all these kids, Rush, autistic or not, is when is the video coming out?
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
I was probably the, you know, I asked him, I said, if you're going to, if he had a question for Rush Revere, I said, what would be the question?
And he said, when's the video coming out?
Yeah, and what they mean by that is when is the movie coming out?
When is the, they want to see, they want to see the, they want to see the situation with the portal.
They want to see that.
Yeah, oh, you got the time travel.
Absolutely.
Yeah, yeah.
Time travel.
They really want to see that.
And it's just delightful to have a book that the content.
I think the content should be read by adults.
That's the kids.
That's the added bonus.
It's the content happens to be the truth about it.
Yeah, the content should be read by high school.
It should be reading for every high school and college.
Well, Bob, you've made our day here, and I'm going to – do you have the audio versions or not?
We do not, Rush.
We have the two books.
You've got the audio versions of them?
No, we do not.
Oh, that's what I want to send you because that'll be the next thing that the next project, because that changes it.
When you listen to me read the things, that's yet another way.
So hang on.
Don't go away.
It kind of begs the question: what has happened to mental toughness?
What's become of it?
Look at the growing number of people that want to ban football, for example, or ban anything that might hurt some violent or brutal or what have you.
It just a segment of our adult population that still children, still kids.
And you look at their parents, baby boomers.
Some of it's not surprising.
And then you got the low-information voters.
You got to give the Democrats, the Democrats credit.
The Democrats have made the low-information voters think they care about them.
And the worst thing you can do is invest in the Democrat Party.
The worst thing in terms of life potential, the worst thing you can do is to turn over your life to a political party that simply is going to use you.
And the evidence is clear.
Look at all of these groups that have been voting Democrat for 50 years and take a look at them.
Take a look at the towns that have been nothing but Democrat, the towns and cities for 30 years and just take a look at them.
The evidence is right there.
And we got the strong silent type, and they have been replaced by this pajama-clad kid that the regime used to sell Obamacare.
The pajama kid?
The nerd in his pajamas?
Anyway, Zach in Colorado Springs, Colorado.
You're next on the Rush Limbaugh program.
Hi.
Hey, Rush.
How are you today?
I'm good.
Thank you for the call, sir.
Good.
This is addressing your 33-year-old colleague that called about a half an hour ago saying the conservative principles will not work.
Well, I'm 26, and I'm one of the few who got more conservative through college.
And I love to talk politics with anyone, especially people my age.
And I think calling most of the people my age low information is probably a compliment.
And the biggest complaint I hear from people coming out of college and in college is that there are no jobs.
They're throwing their money away.
So say, okay, well, I get that you're a liberal.
These are your principles.
So let's take a look at history.
Let's see where we are today.
Name one liberal haven, be it Detroit, Chicago, California, that liberals have had free run of for more than 30 years that is better off for it.
They're all bankrupt.
Now, let's look at Texas and Tennessee, who are historically conservative.
These two states have the highest ratings for economic freedom, and both states are running billion-dollar surpluses.
Okay, so you lay the facts out on the table like that.
Let me give you one more state to put in that list when you talk to people.
Mention Wisconsin to them.
Absolutely.
And you're right about Texas is growing gangbusters.
And you know, and I think it's North Dakota, a lot of it is energy-based, fossil fuel, all industry-based.
Not only some of it's cattle in Texas, but you're right.
Texas is going gangbusters.
And Detroit isn't.
New Orleans isn't.
I mean, all of these places run by liberals.
You can see what happens.
That's exactly right.
Look at the black population of this country, if I dare say so.
That was what I was thinking of a moment ago.
Look at people who have invested in the Democrat Party for 50 years.
Look at them.
How have their lives improved?
They haven't.
I heard you say that.
That was perfect timing.
So, I ask these people if their liberal policy is superior, then why are three of these havens bankrupt and people are fleeing like they have the black plague and going to these conservative states like Texas?
And when Obama puts out his job numbers, if he took out Texas from all of that, our economy would be in the tank.
It just would.
These are where our jobs are coming from from the conservative states that have healthy economies with minimal regulation.
And I don't understand why people in the United States, and especially people my age who complain about not having jobs, don't understand that.
Well, let me the people that your age talking about that don't have jobs, do they really want one?
They want one handed to them.
Let's call it that.
I had a great professor.
I went to school at a state school here in Colorado, and I had a professor who was asked that question: why aren't there any jobs for us here?
And he said, There are plenty of jobs if you're not an idiot.
He was very blunt, but he said, The only way you're going to get to where you want to be is to be willing to outwork every single person around you.
And I've followed that as a principle in my life.
I got hired directly out of college.
I'm prospering while those people are still sitting there because they don't even want to fill out cover letters or applications personalized to the company because it's too much work.
That's the fundamental problem.
Everybody my age wants something handed to them on a platter.
They want the egg before the chicken, and it's a systemic disease.
I don't know how to fix it.
Well, some of that is common to every generation of young people because most people have always done better than their parents, and their parents have done pretty well.
And there's always been a sense of expectation.
It's part of being an American in a sense, not the excessive degree to which you're describing it, but it's not uncommon for young people to expect things.
It's part of growing up.
But one thing I was going to point out to Ian, the 33-year-old guy you're calling about, this is you know, you're 26.
Now, you've got it.
You're not afraid of the message.
But a guy like Ian, here's the thing: he's never seen the message win a presidential election.
He's never seen it.
All he's subject, and you haven't either, actually, at 26, although you may have seen local elections with conservatives win and so forth.
But it's it, what kind of factor is that?
Um, I look at it the complete opposite way growing up in Colorado.
Um, there's been such a liberal push here, and the last couple of governors that we've had and the state legislature with their attack on the Second Amendment and uh civil liberty, I've seen what doesn't work.
I've seen them run on ideals, emotions.
I've seen what doesn't work, and so I don't see how this could fail because we feel oppressed here in Colorado.
You've got northern Colorado that's trying to secede from Colorado altogether.
We've seen what doesn't work.
So, I think if we have a strong candidate who will adamantly oppose everything that we're being spoon-fed here in Colorado, I don't see how it wouldn't work.
I don't need to see the success story because I've seen all the failures.
Let me ask you one more question: as time is dwindling and I got to go.
But he also talked about likability in a candidate and how that can overcome defects in a message.
What do you think?
No wrong answer here.
I'm not trying to put you on the spot.
I'm really trying to learn what you think.
What is your reaction to Ted Cruz?
I love Ted Cruz.
Do you think he's a likable guy when you see him on television?
Do you think that not if you have opposing views, but me aligning with him on about 99% of ideals?
Absolutely.
I think he's a credible candidate.
See, I don't understand.
There are Republicans, establishing Republicans, who think Ted Cruz is not a likable guy.
Don't understand that he's I've had I've had occasion to meet him twice, but just watching him on television, he's not unlikable, he's not dislikable, he's a very likable person.
Sarah Palin is a likable person, don't you think?
But you've got even people on our side.
Well, Ted Cruz not he scares people, Rush.
He's just what is it that scares people?
Is he too opinionated?
Yeah, Rush, he's just too sure of himself.
That's another thing.
I've heard that throughout my star stunner career.
Rush, nobody's that sure of themselves like you are.
That's off-putting, Rush.
You've got to be more open to other points of view.
Nobody's that sure of themselves.
And that translates to being unlikable in some people, especially in a nation of children.
Anyway, Zach, you keep on.
You hang in.
Keep on.
Because if I were doing your commencement speech, I would say you are the future of the country.
Walter in Burnell, Iowa.
Hi, sir.
Glad you waited.
Good afternoon, Mr. Lembaugh.
Thank you.
Good afternoon, sir.
I wanted to mention I can directly correlate my comment with Ian's statements earlier, which bring up both subjects, because I was going to talk about the unarmed soldiers that are on the United States bases.
I can tell you exactly when the wimpification of the United States Army started, and I believe it was in the late 80s.
I was in the United States Army from 80 to 84, and my brother was, my brother is actually two years younger than me, and he's a World War II veteran.
And the reason is, is because he saw action on the Berlin Wall while it was still under World War II occupancy.
Oh, wow.
Okay.
But during his time in the military, there were some mishaps that happened, and he was ordered along with everybody else.
Once he became an M60 machine gunner down in a jeep down below next to the wall, he was told he was not allowed to keep any bullets in the gun, no matter what they do.
If they throw bottles on him, if they spit on him.
And that's when you think, that's when you think the wussification began.
I think it sneaked in right there because exactly what happened was they told him they weren't allowed to load their weapons unless there was a direct threat.
And by then, I'm pretty sure you're dead.
Well, you know, the thing about this, and I've heard this.
There was a general on TV talking about this.
He didn't want people on the base to have weapons.
And the reason we wanted to leave that to the professionals.
Well, now, excuse me.
Aren't the armed forces the professionals?
I mean, if you can't, if you can't let people on an army base be armed because they're not professionals, you've got to leave it to the who are the professionals outside law enforcement?
It's senseless.
Sadly, my friends, we are out of busy broadcast time, but there's tomorrow, Open Line Friday.
We'll look forward to it.
We'll see you then.
And another shout out to our dominating gang at Fire Chat.
And we'll see you tomorrow, folks.
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