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July 8, 2014 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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July 8, 2014, Tuesday, Hour #3
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You know, look at how the numbers of illegals in this current influx has been quietly ratcheted up.
Now, when this first started, we were talking about a couple of thousand kids, maybe a few hundred.
Then it became a few thousand, and then it became 30,000.
And then it became 50,000.
And then we heard that there was a memo.
We found a memo, government memo, in January.
There was a jobs posting.
See if you remember this, because we found it.
A jobs posting memo by the federal government in January where they were looking for transportation and logistics companies to bid on jobs involving the transportation and resettling of 65,000 illegal immigrant children.
This was back in January.
And we either had this news for you last week or the week before, and it was when we found that that we had our suspicions confirmed that this is not just happening,
that this is not just some spontaneous invasion, that somebody knew that this was going to happen, and that they were planning for it, and that they were seeking job applicants from transportation logistics companies to be able to handle the dispersion, if you will, of these new arrivals.
At any rate, that number was 65,000.
Over the weekend, the number shot up to 300,000 in the drive-by media.
A New York Times story just cavalierly mentions that since April, 300,000 illegals have flooded the border.
And as I sagely pointed out yesterday, that is twice the size of the invasion force at the Normandy beaches on D-Day.
The Allied forces had 150,000 soldiers invading Omaha Beach, Puandojo, Sword Beach, all that on the Normandy beaches on D-Day.
This is 300,000.
And it's just in there in a Sunday story in the New York Times.
And as far as I know, one tiny town in California even seems to be trying to stop it.
That would be Murieta, California.
And it seems that this circumstance is just being accepted in the sense that there may be some people who are protesting it to stop it, but it's gone beyond that point now.
The idea of stopping it doesn't even seem to be a realistic expectation that everybody now is folks, okay, what do we do with these?
And I look, I understand you just can't ignore them and leave them to the wolves.
Don't misunderstand.
But I don't get the acceptance.
I don't get the idea that there's no end to this.
Now, I understand what Obama's doing.
He's trying to get Hispanic numbers up.
He's trying to put pressure on Republicans to vote for amnesty before the November elections.
I understand all of that.
I understand the politics of it.
On one side, I have a tough time coming to grips with the idea that there's nothing that can be done.
So that's just me.
I admit, folks, I may be in a different wavelength than all this.
But I think even if I lived where this would be happening, my first question would be, when is this going to stop?
But maybe you don't have time to ask that question when you're surrounded by it.
Maybe there are other concerns that take precedence, which probably part of the plan.
Now, by the way, I made a flippant remark going into the top-of-the-hour break about the Republican convention in Cleveland.
I don't want to be misunderstood.
We love Cleveland here.
We own Cleveland.
We have one of the highest audiences in any city in Cleveland.
We have had for a long time.
Cleveland loves and adores this show.
And I asked rhetorically why Cleveland, there is an answer to this.
And here's what it is.
The Republican Party has concluded that they can't, I guess they're concluded, the presidency cannot be by anybody if they don't win Ohio.
Given the political realities of the day, the demographics and voter registration and all of that, the calculation is by the party, I don't necessarily agree with this.
The Republican Party believes that they can't win the presidency unless they win Ohio.
There was a point, if you go back to 2012, if I'm remembering this right, and I probably am, it was thought that the 2012 race was going to be so close that the winner of Ohio could end up winning the electoral vote and the presidency, but still lose the overall national raw vote total, the popular vote, like Bush in 2000.
It was thought to be that close.
And to give way to the, remember how Karl Rove just would not give it up on election night?
Fox News, where Carl was doing analysis, eventually called Ohio for Obama.
And Carlson, no, no, no, no, you can't be right.
There are too many counties.
And he and Megan Kelly or Megan Kelly walked down to the wise men's room where the computer analysts and so forth looking at the data, making the call.
They walked down there, and it was a much talked about thing, but that's how important Ohio was.
It turned out that Ohio would not have made the difference, but there was a point in time where it was thought, I guess they still do think that Ohio is a must.
If they don't win Ohio, that doesn't matter what else happens.
Well, now, when you stop and think of that, again, this is just me, and politics is not my business, contrary to what many people.
I got in a big argument with a friend of mine out in California who said, you know, what do you mean you don't do politics?
I don't.
Politics is not my career.
Radio's career is my career.
Broadcast.
Oh, you're telling me you're not political?
I'm saying my success is not determined by who wins.
My success has never been determined by who wins elections.
I've made a point of that.
If my success were determined by who wins elections, I wouldn't be here.
So, yeah, in that sense, I'm not political.
Yes, you are.
All you do is political.
No, no, no.
I talk about a lot of things besides politics.
But I'm not in the politics business.
Getting an audience is much different than getting votes and vice versa.
So from that perspective, I sit here and I say, when I'm told, hey, if the Republicans don't win Ohio, it's all over, no matter what else happens.
Well, then, what in the name of Sam Hill is wrong with the message, if that's the reality?
Am I wrong about that?
Now, I know there are various realities you have to deal with.
The electoral votes, some states are locked for the Democrats, and some states are locked for the Republicans, and it doesn't matter.
But I think the Republican Party buys into too much of that.
I think the Republican Party buys into what, just like they bought into the silly idea that every election is determined by the independent vote.
That trick has been played on the Republican Party my entire life.
And the way it manifests itself is that when you get to the presidential election, the Republican Party is aiming at 20% of the voting populace.
Not all of it.
With their message.
So the theory, okay, you get your 40% that's in your base.
And they're not doing that, by the way.
There were 4 million Republicans that sat home in 2012 rather than vote for Romney for whatever reason.
So they didn't solidify the base, number one, but they thought they had.
So then you go for the 20% independent.
Well, Romney won independence going away.
It wasn't even close.
And they didn't win the presidency.
But the trick is believing that every presidential race has fought over 20% of the voting population.
Well, when you tailor a message to 20% of the voting populace who are independents, you don't really know what message.
How do you campaign to independence?
Well, that's the next trick.
The next trick the Republicans have fallen for, hook line, and sinker, is this idea that if you are too partisan or if you criticize the Democrat candidate, I don't know if it's Obama or if it's Hillary or whoever, if you, independents do not like that.
They do nothing like it.
And when you criticize them, independents are just going to run right back home to the Democrat Party.
So the Republicans have been talked into being docile, non-ideological, campaigning for 20% of the vote.
And you know this is true.
The Republican consultants class runs around and tells all the candidates, I'm the guy that can get you the independent vote.
I'm the one you hire me.
I know how to get the independent vote.
Meanwhile, the Democrats are out there shooting for everybody.
Democrats have a plan for every different group.
They're going for everybody.
Reagan went for everybody.
Reagan win for Americans first.
And then they got subdivided.
So when I hear that if we don't win Ohio, even with this set of circumstances, my question is, what's wrong with the message if it comes down to one state?
See, that's why I say, because I'm sure if I had some political professional sitting here and I'm asking that question, I'm sure I get an answer that would, well, Rush, you just don't quite understand.
Here's the way these elections shape up.
I get a list of states that are locked for Democrats, no matter what, no matter who, no matter how, no matter what we do, Democrats get them.
And then here are the states that we get, blah, blah, blah.
And I would get county by precinct, by this, by that.
I get the independent vote and the Hispanic vote, the women vote, single women.
All of that escapes me.
I don't care about it.
Because I don't know how you message.
I don't know how you chop your message up into 15 different parts and have it still mean something.
Well, you hire consultants and you do it with TV ads.
And then you make sure that there's nobody with a video camera when you're talking to the donors.
I guess.
That's why I say I'm not in politics.
I live in this naive little world, which I happen to believe that the most pro-America optimistic, we can be great message would win a lot of people.
I live in that world when that apparently is just stupid thinking.
Rush, that message is not going to work.
You've got to realize, Rush, over half the country is bought and paid for by the Democrats.
There's no way that we can counter that with a message of hard work.
I mean, it's a guaranteed loser.
Yeah.
They have a point.
The old standard message of hard work, American dream, gets laughed at because half the country is being supported already by the Democrats.
Well, that message hasn't been tried along.
My message, when's the last time it was tried?
I don't know.
It hasn't been tried in a long time.
Not nationally.
It's Marco Rubio's message, and when he stays on message, that's what his message is.
And it's Ted Cruz's and a couple of others and see what happens to them, even in their own party.
Let me take a brief time out.
And I checked email during the break.
I got some people.
Rush, you were kidding, right?
This movie director hosting the fundraiser for Obama.
No, I was not kidding about that.
I'll give you the details when we come back, and then we'll motor on back to the phones.
And I still have a couple of sound bites to get in here.
David Brooks admits he got caught up in the Obama fever in 2008.
And, well, you'll hear.
Be back after this.
Sit tight, folks.
Talent on loan from God.
And here is Eric in Charlotte, North Carolina.
Eric, I'm glad you waited.
Great to have you on the program, sir.
Hello.
Oh, Rush.
Hope I can contain my emotions here.
Thank you for just being there, the man to take the blows, the bombs, the bayonet for Americans everywhere, and especially black men.
I'm a black man, but you've stood in the gap and just stood up for black people in the truest sense of the word than most any American in our modern day.
And I want to thank you.
So much I could say about that.
Wow, I appreciate that.
Rush, I'm trying to contain My disgust for Obama.
I'm going to say it three times.
He disgusts me.
In a moment, I'm going to show you how this man has turned out to be one of the greatest exploiters of human beings, a human trafficker that this country has ever known since the days of slavery.
This thing that's going down here on the border is proof of it.
And he, in a moment, I'm also going to show you how he is the greatest Uncle Tom since we had this Uncle Tom controversy that you mentioned a few weeks ago.
He's the greatest Uncle Tom that we've ever known.
And first of all, let me also say this.
Stop, stop, stop referring to this man as a black man.
He's not our first black president.
He's half black.
He's half white.
He's what we term, and I'm using it not in the derogatory sense, but in the anthropological sense, he's a mulatto.
A mulatto is just a word, a Spanish word for mule.
A mule is a mixture of a horse and a donkey.
He's a mixed race president.
So please refer to him as either our first mixed race president or our first mulatto president.
But he's not a black man in the purest sense of the word.
Well, but he wants to be called that, so that's what he is.
You know, he wants to be called a lot of things.
Don't coalesce.
Don't give in to that rush.
Don't put yourself, don't dignify what he wants to be called.
You know, stand up for what you've been standing for, principle all along, not for what this display.
But Eric, it may be true, but he's always going to be the first black president of this country.
He just is.
Nothing's going to change that, no matter how anthropological you get.
I know, I get it.
Well, okay, then.
All right, I'll let you have that.
But let me say this.
You know, this word, Uncle Tom, and I want to get to this exploitation thing in a moment, but this thing about an Uncle Tom, people don't understand where the word Uncle Tom comes from.
Uncle Tom was a figure in Harriet Beecher Stowe's book.
He was a hero.
He stood up for black people.
He actually laid down his life and died.
And it was during the Marcus Garvey era that that word has taken from the connotation that we now take it, meaning a man who's doing a double dance, double jig for both the white man and the black man.
Brush, that's what Obama is doing.
That's what he is.
He's the perfect candidate for this.
Many slave owners back then had their children by black women.
And when they did, they used these black half-black kids to be double spies a lot of times within the blacks.
I saw that.
I saw that in the movie Django Unchained.
Yeah.
I saw what you're talking about in that movie.
Yeah.
Well, the point here is what he does is the Democratic Party, as far back as we know, has been an exploiter of human beings because they were the ones who supported slavery.
They were the ones who stood behind slavery.
They've explored their whole legacy has been exploitation and not and denying.
Now, this is true, folks.
The Democrat Party was the KKK.
The KKK was Democrats.
The segregationists back in the 60s were Democrats.
George Wallace was a Democrat.
Lester Maddox was a Democrat.
The people standing in the way of blacks going to school were Democrats.
Well, and it is the dehumanizing of humans that's been their legacy.
That's why they supported slavery.
That's why they support abortion to this day.
Their legacy is very consistent throughout.
But the point here is, this thing, when I said what's going on down here at the border, this man, he reminds me of these Islamic fanatics who will sacrifice and blow up their own kids for a cause.
He is allowing these children, these children, as political pawns, political tools to further his political aims.
Do you know what happens to Chile?
Yeah, but you're all left.
The take on this is that Obama's saving them from that circumstance in their own country.
You've got an uphill battle.
One thing about what Eric, our last caller was saying, is from Charlotte, North Carolina.
The idea that the kids are being exploited.
And look, he's got a point in the sense that the Democrat Party exploits and attempts to create as many needy people as they can.
That's their power base.
Their power derives from human beings not meeting their potential.
Now, I know that that may sound a little raw for some of you because it's just hard to get your arms around.
But it's true.
If you're self-reliant and can provide for yourself, the Democrat Party doesn't have any interest.
In fact, you're a threat to them.
The Democrat Party thrives on dependence.
The Democrat Party thrives on obedience.
The Democrat Party thrives on victims.
And they do everything they can to make as many people victims of something, usually the country, as they can.
And people, a lot of people would much rather blame some unseen force for their plight than themselves.
Human nature.
And so it is exploitative.
I don't think there is any question about it.
But on the other side of it, see, the rub is the Democrats get all of the credit for having compassion, for wanting to help the downtrodden and the miserable and the hungry and the homeless and the starving and the thirsty and what have you.
When in fact they put policies in place that are guaranteed to ensure such circumstances.
The Democrat Party, I've said it countless times, needs a permanent underclass of needy, dependent, obedient people, voting for them, relying on them, and so forth.
And the Democrats, the point about here come these kids arriving from wherever, being exploited for political purposes, there's no question that they're being used for political purposes.
Let me ask you a question.
One of the objectives here is to get the Republican Party to cave on all this and agree to amnesty before the November election.
I have a question.
If anybody can answer, would somebody tell me what amnesty would do to resolve this current crisis at the border?
How would new reform immigration legislation that granted amnesty or coming out of the whatever it is that they're calling it?
They don't like the word amnesty, but whatever, how would it stop what's going on?
We all know that's the objective.
The objective Obama wants the legalization of the people already here.
And there's no question that this influx of 300,000 since April is designed to put pressure on the system and the Republicans so that they cave and agree to it.
Okay, let's say that happened.
Is this influx going to then stop?
It won't, will it?
So it but even if every illegal alien in the country was automatically granted citizenship, wouldn't that, in fact, tend to increase the numbers approaching our borders?
How in the world would what Obama wants solve this?
It wouldn't.
But it doesn't matter.
The thinking is these are people from war-torn, poverty-stricken countries, and they're just seeking a better life.
And who are we?
Who are we to deny them to anybody coming to my country and wants to improve their life?
I say let them come.
That's the refrain you hear from a lot of Americans.
To them, it's a matter of American pride that so many people want to come here to improve their lot in life.
But are they?
Is that what happens to them?
Maybe in comparison to where they're coming from, perhaps, but it's a challenging thing because the Democrats own this whole notion that they are compassionate.
And yet it doesn't compute with me.
When you look at the plight, look at the vast majority of Democrat voters.
What is compassionate about?
Jack Kemp had this saying, I've never forgotten it.
I've always loved it about conservatives.
We measure compassion by counting the number of people who no longer need assistance, cradle-to-grave assistance.
That's the true measure of compassion that you've actually taught people to help themselves rather than remain trapped in this victim and victimized mentality, which the Democrat Party clearly sponsors and promotes.
But to say something like that is just outrageous.
Why, how dare Mr. Limbaugh say that this is so insensitive.
And that's how they succeed with this.
They characterize any commonsensical, commonsensible analysis as extremism and mean-spirited in all ways.
Just the exact opposite.
We want the absolute best for everybody.
We want everybody to have the absolute best life possible.
And they're just not going to get that.
Look at, well, you're just not going to get that in a country run by the Democrats as they are currently constituted.
And I give you as exhibit A, the country.
We got Alexandria next from Pleasant Plains, Illinois.
Alexandria says here that you are 13 years old.
Yes, Mr. Limbaugh.
Well, welcome to the program.
I'm delighted to have you here.
Thank you.
It's an honor to talk to you.
Thank you.
I wanted to compliment you On your books about Rush Revere and tell you that I enjoy them and I learn from them.
That is great.
That is just, you warm, you warm my heart.
I have not been in the best of moods today, Alexander.
I will not bore you with why, but you have lifted my spirits immensely.
That's so nice to hear.
It's so nice of you to call and say.
And the thing is, is nobody really, like, in school, kids, they don't like to learn, but like your book has gotten them reading about history again.
And history, they need to know their history.
It's a very important thing because it's part of our daily lives.
And if you don't know your history, that is a big part of your life.
Well, you're so right.
And those kids are not unusual.
I remember when I was your age, the last place I wanted to be was school.
And when I was your age, even older than you, I thought, I thought what they're teaching me now, I don't need to know this.
This is a waste of my time.
And I didn't learn until much later how wrong I was.
And I was very lucky that I ended up, I absorbed more than I was interested in when I was in school.
And so that's why these books are written in a way to make it fun and to actually take you, the reader, to and be right in the middle of the historical event rather than just have it recited to you because there's nothing more boring than that.
And they're taking all of the good stuff that is in the history books.
And the founding fathers were, they had lots of virtues and principles.
They're taking all that out.
And they're just putting in, they're just, they're just really taking out all the good stuff.
I argue.
And they're, which also makes it kind of boring.
Well, they're taking out the truthful stuff is what you mean.
When you say they're taking out the good stuff, they're taking out the truthful stuff and replacing it with their own agenda.
Well, Alexander, do you have the audio versions?
Do you have the audio versions of these books?
Because if you don't, I would like to send them to you.
I do not.
Well, you do not.
I don't want to make you feel obligated to do that if you don't want to.
No, no, not obligated at all.
This is a joy for me.
I love sharing these things.
I read the audio version, so we'll send you both of them.
If you'll hang on here, the nice man who answered your call will pick the phone up and get your address so that we can send them out to you.
And it's great.
I thank you so much, Alexandria.
Folks, that's it.
We are out of time for our busy broadcast day today, the fastest three hours in media.
I don't know where it goes, but we're back in 21 hours.
And I'll expect you back then, too.
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