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June 26, 2014 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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June 26, 2014, Thursday, Hour #3
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Hiya folks, welcome back.
Great to have you.
Rush Limbaugh and the Limbaugh Institute for Advanced Conservative Studies.
Happy to have you with us here in the fastest three hours and meeting.
A telephone number if you want to be on the program 800-282-2882 and the email address L Rushbaugh at EIB net.com.
I think we now know why the left loves soccer so much.
You can win by trying.
You can even win by losing.
Okay, so uh what was it?
Uh Saturday, Monday night.
Whenever the USA played Portugal, the game running it was a tie.
And I was told, well, that's it for the U.S. Portugal advances.
Wait a minute, it was a tie.
How can anybody win anything here?
Well, it's just the way it is.
Well, why is it the way it is?
How come a tie means that we lose and they win?
Well, you're not supposed to ask that.
It's just the way it is.
Okay, so I'm figuring that's it for the USA.
And then I was told, no, no, no, no.
If they play Germany and we got a good chance against Germany, we beat them in a couple world wars, then we could get back into good graces of FIFA.
So we played Germany today, we lost.
But no.
We advanced because of the Portugal game.
But wait, we tied the Portugal game.
We tied the Portugal game, we lost the game against Germany, and we advance.
No wonder the left loves this.
You win by trying, you even win when you lose.
But it explains a lot, does it not?
Telephone number if you want to be on the program 800-282-2882.
I wonder if John King remembers as I do.
Representative Benny Thompson doubled down on racial remarks he made over the weekend is back on April 30th.
Benny Thompson called Justice Clarence Thomas and Uncle Tom for standing against affirmative action.
John King question did you find that helpful?
Useful.
You know, those are two terms that the drive by's love to toss out.
And it wasn't useful.
Uh it's not a useful comment.
Limbaugh to call Republican black voters and vote for Thad Cochran.
Uncle Tom's for Thad.
Benny Thompson, he doubled, he called Uncle Tom twice.
He called Clarence Thomas and Uncle Tom, and then people say, You really want to call a fellow brother and Uncle Tom?
Damn right I'm gonna double down on it.
He's an Uncle Uncle Tom.
I wonder if John King remembers that.
And then, ladies and gentlemen, prepare thyselves.
Because I have here a soundbite from just this afternoon on Wolf on CNN.
He spoke with the head honcho of the monochrome coalition, the uh Reverend Dax.
And Wolf said, I know you have strong views.
The fact that Thad Cochran, the Republican incumbent senator in Mississippi, reaching out to African American voters in Mississippi, mostly Democrats, to secure this primary victory.
What's the bottom line here, Reverend Jackson?
What's your message from what happened?
The bottom line, if it were a white primary and blacks couldn't vote, it would have been the outcome.
I wouldn't determine the outcome, I'll not wouldn't determine the outcome.
And when there's a reach out, I mean, what made Bill Clinton so strong coming out of Hope, Arkansas?
He reached out.
I mean, uh his opposition had more white votes than he did.
He had more white, black, and brown.
So a multicultural rainbow coalition is America's future.
So let me.
No, I don't.
Anybody know what he said?
I do.
That's why I'm host.
Uh let me turn about my volume and hair but it go up a little louder.
I uh explain this to you.
In the first place, the really the only thing you need to know here is that the Reverend Jackson's not mad by the question.
If this black turnout for Thad Cochran were really, really meaningful, then the Reverend Jackson would be criticizing it.
He'd be ripping it to shreds.
He'd be calling it uh illegitimate.
He would claim that it was created with lies and deceit.
Well, no.
The Reverend Jackson's all for this.
That alone tells you this doesn't mean diddly squat.
The bottom line, if it were a white prebary and blacks couldn't vote, it wouldn't have been the outcome.
Okay, we need to diagram that sentence.
And by the way, folks, just so you know, the VA is still a scandal.
We're still losing Iraq.
Obamacare's still a disaster, and we're still being flooded at the southern border.
It's still happening out there.
While all this is going on.
Well, I've had people say, you know what?
You're letting them distract you by focusing so much on you.
It's what they always do.
They get you talking about what you didn't do wrong, and then you would be.
Ladies and gentlemen, we're having too much fun with this, don't you understand?
This is a gold mine.
This is fun.
And while we're doing this, Lois Lerners still demanded that Chuck Grassley be audited.
The IRS is still the Smarmy bunch they've always been.
The southern border's still being flooded, and everybody knows that.
It's not as though because I'm talking about this that people have forgotten any of that stuff today.
The economy is still contracting.
Obama's approval number is still in the tank, and the country is still teetering.
Now back to just relax.
We got it in hand here.
Everything's under control.
And just because we're talking about this today doesn't mean people have forgotten that other stuff is happening.
The bottom line, if it were a white primary and blacks couldn't vote, it wouldn't have been the outcome.
Our voting determined the outcome.
Our not voting determined the outcome.
So the Reverend Jack is basically saying we hold all the cards.
If we vote, and if we don't vote, the outcome changes.
If it were a white primary and blacks couldn't vote, it wouldn't have been the outcome.
Well, of course, if the blacks hadn't turned out, it wouldn't have been the outcome.
True enough.
And when there's a reach out, I mean, what made Bill Clinton so strong coming out of Hope, Arkansas?
He reached out.
I mean, his opposition had more white votes than he did.
He had more white, black, and brown, so a multicultural rainbow coalition is America's future.
None of which happened here.
I don't know how you get from Thad Cochran to Bill Clinton.
I don't know how you get to reach out because Thad didn't reach out.
There wasn't any reach out.
That's the point here.
And the Reverend Jackson knows it.
There were robocalls.
There was race baiting.
The race card was thrown countless times.
There was a flyer that went around in black counties and voting areas warning them that the Tea Party candidate wanted to take them back to the days of segregation and stop them from voting.
There wasn't any reach out.
If anybody reached out, it was the Republican base or establishment, if you will, the Republican established reaching out, trying to thwart their own base voters, is what happened here.
Look at folks, the bottom line is you can't find a single Democrat or civil rights leader who is in the slightest upset by this.
And that's all you need to know to know that this is not real and doesn't mean anything.
Other than it meant Chris McDaniels loses and old Thad wins.
But it doesn't mean any In terms of realignment, it doesn't mean that the Republicans have figured out a way to reach out and convince blacks to vote for it.
It doesn't mean any of that, and everybody knows it.
Pure and simple.
I mean, there's just no two ways about it.
Let's see.
Let's just uh I do have Clinton audio sound bites on their wealth.
They still can't get rid of it.
But I want to find there's one soundbite I'm looking for here.
Oh, we've got Hank Paulson on global warming.
Here it is.
Grab sound by number 18.
As you know, ladies and gentlemen, we like Kirsten Powers, who is uh an info babe on Fox.
Now, Kirsten Powers has it, she's extremely bright, she's objective, and she's very fair.
And that's why I'm puzzled by this next soundbite.
This was uh last night, special report with Brett Baer, and they were talking about the economy and latest polling numbers.
And Brett Baer said to Kirsten Powers, you take a look at the latest Fox poll, the president on the economy, 38% approve, 59% disapprove.
As bad as these numbers are, you don't hear any serious economists talking about us going back into a recession.
You saw how Wall Street responded to this, which is really to not respond.
So I think that there are a lot of economists who just see this as an aberration, something that is a result of bad weather.
It's possible health care spending could have something to do with it, but they mostly see bad weather as being the primary problem.
And there's been a lot of comparisons to the last time this happened in 2009.
However, we have to remember that we lost millions of jobs uh then, and we added hundreds of thousands of jobs this time.
Now, this just doesn't jibe.
Uh in the in the first place, she's talking about the 3% contraction of the economy in the first quarter.
It didn't happen in 2009.
It's the first time it's happened since they started keeping such data.
This is historic.
There hasn't ever been a 3% contraction.
The truth of the matter is, ladies and gentlemen, we never got out of the recession.
I don't think we've ever seriously really they they might be able to have a formulaic way of measuring recession versus uh growth and depression, the number of quarters in a row where the economy doesn't grow.
The fact of the matter is we're not producing the kind of jobs that lead people into the job market with vigor.
They're not the kind of jobs that lead to careers.
Entrepreneurism is taking a hit.
There really isn't any significant quality job creation going on, and it's getting even worse because of the influx of illegals crossing the border now.
So there hasn't been any serious reaction from serious economists.
So this is a one-off.
The economy, I mean, you look at recent numbers, the economy's actually doing quite well right now.
The economy hasn't been doing well in six years.
We would all be wise to remember that Obama changed the way the GDP is measured last year so that it would not reflect as poorly on him as it really is.
They changed the definition for calculating the gross domestic product as a means of lessening the political impact on him.
And in fact, the the the new way of calculating the GDP, a bunch of economists said the end result of that new calculation would add up to 3% to the GDP.
Now I can't spell out the calculation, a formula kind of complicated here, but I can tell you that no other Western country defines economic growth the new way that we do.
All I can tell you is that when George W. Bush was president and the economy was growing at 3.3%, the drive-by media was screaming and yelling and shouting recession, depression, doom, gloom with every newscast.
Here we have the first news we had in the first quarter was now one-tenth of one percent.
Then the next revision we got, it was worse than that.
Now it was actually minus 3%, a contraction.
But it doesn't mean anything because no serious economist thinks they would have won off.
It was it the weather.
I have here a post at zerohedge.com.
Turns out, the headline here, turns out, harsh weather is actually boosting the economy.
Something curious happened earlier today.
January spending, this uh which which will be part of Q1 GDP soared, which, as we reported earlier, was entirely on the back of a record monthly surge in spending on services while spending on goods, both durable and non-durable drop.
The record January spending can be seen in the chart below.
Meaning this story is uh uh back on June 3rd.
This story is 23, three weeks ago, and three weeks ago, they looked at spending in the first quarter before this 3% drop was reported this week.
Three weeks ago they were looking at the spending, and they were thinking that spending in the first quarter was really pretty good.
It was going through the roof, in fact, and they were chalking it up to the weather.
The good news, since GDP is driven by spending of any kind, in the first month of the quarter, the harsh winter weather actually had a very positive impact on GDP, which as a result of the surge in spending will now have a higher number in the bean counting models, as will Obamacare.
So three weeks ago, and by the way, this is a this site is if it tends any direction, it tends conservative.
Three weeks ago, analysis of spending in the first quarter GDP was high, and they were expecting an upward revision of economic growth.
And the weather was cold, and they were chalking it up, harsh weather because of the spending, because of the spending numbers, they were concluding the harsh weather actually was helping the economy.
Now it's three weeks later, and the number actually come out that the economy contracted at 2.9%, even with this spending.
Well, then you add to it Obamacare spending, and then you find out that spending takes the place of private sector spent.
There's no good news here, and it's not a one-off.
It is a trend, it's a warning sign, and the fact that nobody wants to see this is proof positive of how politicized virtually every bit of this data has become.
You know, I was just going to make a point.
It's amazing.
I was just going to make the point that whoever came up with this brilliant strategy in the Thad Cochrane campaign that attracted all those black voters could become an instant multimillionaire Republican consultant, right?
I mean, this is what the Republican Party has been dreaming of being able to do.
My whole life.
Outreach to the black community.
If we could just, we don't need them all rushed, we need 10%.
If we just 8%, 7% of the black vote, we could bust up that Democrat coalition, and we could win election after election, and apparently somebody did it.
Folks, if we are to believe the drive-bys, a bunch of African American voters fell in love with the Thad Cochran campaign, and they showed up in droves and they propelled him to victory.
Who is it that came up with this?
That person should be on television right now, explaining how they did it.
Because that person could name his price.
Every Republican candidate would line up to hire that consultant, that strategist, right?
Except there is no strategist.
And there is no strategist on TV.
There is nobody to hire.
Because we don't know who did it.
This would be akin to somebody finding the cure for cancer staying anonymous.
Who would kill?
Well, any any number, Bob Schrum, any any number of people would kill for the knowledge that went into this strategy.
How did they do it?
Who did it?
But it's a mystery.
Why we don't know, except that we do now.
The Huffing and Puffington Post has revealed that it was a group of Democrats.
And there is a second pamphlet.
Stand by.
The Huffing and Puffington Post.
An unusual coalition of activists and organizations have united in the hopes of defending Senator Thad Cochran in his June 24 runoff against State Senator Chris McDaniel.
The Clarion Ledger reported on Tuesday.
James Scooby-Doo Warren, a Democrat political operative, says he is working with the Mississippi Conservatives PAC, again, another Democrat group, on a statewide plan to turn out votes for old Thad.
Meanwhile, Bishop Ronnie Crupp, Sr. of the New Horizon Church in Jackson is affiliated with a super PAC called All Citizens from Mississippi that's run advertisements and distributed pro-Cochrane flyer.
It turns out that a bunch of Democrat groups did this.
Why?
Why, what do you know?
At least one of the flyers and robocalls was put together by a Democrat group, and it's proudly reported in the Huffington Puffington Post.
They had a there's a second flyer.
It's just as racist as the flyer that we had yesterday.
And in Democrat circles, it's well known who these people are.
But you know, all they did, ladies and it turns out there's no grand strategy here.
It turns out there is nothing new.
It turns out there was no reach out or outreach from Thad Cochran and his campaign to black voters.
There is no expansion of the base.
There is no crossing bridges and breaking the divide.
There's none of this that the drive-bys want you to think happened.
All it is is what always happens.
The Democrat called their opponent a racist.
It was just cheap race card politics.
That's all it was.
That's why there's no grand strategy.
That's why there's no great brilliant millionaire in the waiting here on TV claiming credit for it.
Because there's nothing new.
It was just a bunch of Democrats that got together and started sliming the Tea Party candidate as a racist.
There was no reaching across the aisle.
There was no outreach.
There was no appeal to black voters to join the Republican Party to change their life.
There was none of that.
In fact, we checked all citizens from Mississippi.
There's no such group registered with the FEC that we can find.
So Julie Pace, we had John King, we had Jesse Jackson, we had Charlie Wrangell all today telling us that this is exactly what the Republican Party should be doing all along.
This kind of outreach and broadening their base, reaching out to minorities and promising them things and telling them they have a home.
The Republican Party, Thad Cochran showed how it was done.
Except Thad Cochran didn't do anything and may not have even been aware of it.
And even if he is aware of it, he's probably forgotten it.
The NAACP, by the way, now wants its cut.
Again, from the Huffing and Puffington Post headline, NAACP wants Thad Cochrane to show some reciprocity.
What now?
And I thought Thad did all kinds of stuff for him, Donna Brazil said after Hurricane Katrina.
I thought this was gratitude from the victims of Katrina.
Take Thad Cochrane for all that he had done.
Turns out that this it looks like this uh this group, all citizens of Mississippi is a church group.
And as you know, they're not supposed to be if they're 501c3, if they're charity.
They're not supposed to be getting involved in politics.
But we'll look the other way here because they end result is what everybody wanted.
They will not lose their exemption.
So there is no grand strategy.
There was no outreach.
There was no building of bridges.
There was no reaching across the aisle.
And John King knew it, and Julie Pace knew it, and Donna Brazil knew it.
Ari Fleischer knew it.
The Republican establishment knows it.
All that happened here is what always happens.
A bunch of Democrats got together and called a Republican a racist and put together a bunch of lying, filthy pamphlets and robocalls to spread that message.
That's it.
Nothing new to save.
Back after this.
Don't go away.
One more observation.
I'm going to grab a phone call.
How can there be, ladies and gentlemen?
And this cuts to the nub of this.
Really to the quick.
And I just got an email from a friend.
You know, I know you sounds like you're having a really good time doing this today.
And I have been.
This has been immensely fun and enjoyable.
It is a bummer that it's necessary to do.
It is a bummer to gonna explain this every which way from Sunday, but this has still been fun.
I love highlighting ignorance and stupidity and failed efforts to slime me.
But here's the here's the real nub of it.
So they want us to believe it has been this massive realignment, so to speak, that we've had.
Wow, look at this.
We're really so the black vote really moved over to the Republican Party.
Like Thad Cochran, what a strategy.
What was it?
This is and everybody's praising that this happened.
It's a beautiful thing.
How can there be this massive shift to the Republican Party?
When the Democrat Party wasn't on the ballot.
It was a Republican runoff.
There was no Democrat on the ballot.
Thad Cochran took the place of the Democrat.
The Republican establishment in the media made Thad the equivalent Democrat in this race.
And they treated the Tea Party guy as a traditional Republican racist sexist bigot homophobe.
But in truth, both were Republicans.
So these voters were not abandoning their own party here.
All this is absurd, folks.
And we have now covered this every which way possible.
And here's Steve in Pensacola, Florida.
Thank you for waiting.
Welcome to the program.
Rush, megadidos.
My question, I've got so much to talk about with your uh speeches and what you're talking about.
But my question is why is our president going out of the way by leaving the Middle East and respecting respecting the culture of the Middle East while at the same time he's tearing down the culture in the United States.
It makes no sense unless he's for one and not the other.
Well, there you go.
It makes no sense unless it's got a big problem.
He's got he's got a big problem with the traditional culture of this country from the founding forward.
In his view, it is an unjust immoral culture dominated by unjust immoral majority, which has gotten rich and powerful on the backs of the poor, the misbegotten, the hungry, thirsty, and you name it.
And it's time now to reverse field.
It's time now to transfer power unfairly acquired by these people on the majority and give it to the people it was stolen from.
The Middle East culture, same thing basically is happening here.
We're gonna get rid of the Israelis and their dominance and we're gonna bring back the the the what what it's just good.
I mean, your question is really well stated and on point.
Obama respects every other culture except ours and the Israelis.
Those two cultures he's got a problem with.
And those two cultures, he thinks have to pay a price for some I don't know, unfair, unjust behavior that we and they have engaged in over the years.
I look at, I've said this I don't know how many times.
I I'm serious when I say that he's got a chip on his shoulder about this country and the way it was founded.
There's no question about that.
And he's doing what he can to transform it.
It's what he intended to do, and it's what he meant when he said that the fundamental transformationist country has begun with his election.
We're watching it.
There's no denying what's happening.
Just that some people don't want to believe it or see it for what it is.
And even those who see it for what it is just don't want to admit it.
It's too hard.
That's just that would be devastating.
So it's got to be incompetence or an accident or something we don't understand, but it can't be what it really is.
Folks, that's it.
Sadly out of time, but we'll be back tomorrow.
Open line Friday.
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