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July 15, 2014 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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July 15, 2014, Tuesday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 podcast.
Yeah, here we go again.
Here we go again.
A poll is serving the purpose of making the news.
And in this case, a poll, the ABC News Washington Post poll, is providing the template for the entire day of news in the drive-by media.
A poll.
It's exact they use polls to make news.
And that's exactly what's happening here, and it's called Circle the Wagons Around Obama regarding the border crisis.
What border?
Regarding the crisis at what used to be the southern border of the United States.
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So Snerdley, I have the audio soundbite roster here today.
You will be happy.
I am in the first 12.
Do you know of this National Geographic three-night special on the 90s?
Well, the reason that this was initially uh attractive to people was that it was it's it's the show that features an interview with Monica Lewinsky where she I don't know, it's the latest from Lewinsky, where she comes out and says, I've had it, I'm fed up, I'm not gonna let this ruin my life anymore.
But that made news that's on it.
You remember that?
Well, it turns out I'm all over this show.
I'm all over it.
Cookie sent me the sound bites.
I T-voted because Catherine wanted to watch it because of the Lewinsky stuff.
So I've got it T-vote, haven't watched it.
I got sound bites on it.
I'm uh I'm I'm all over this show.
As I think about it, it makes sense.
I was the 90s.
I am the 2000s as well.
But I mean, it's about the Clintons and it's about it's about uh the Republican takeover in the House.
It's all it's all because of my power.
I I was the guiding force, I was the guiding light, I was the impetus, and all that's what this show says.
Some snarky narration by Rob Lowe, but nevertheless.
Also, the drive-by's Rob Lowe's the narrator.
Doesn't matter.
Drive-by is also predictably over the top with my comments about Eric Holder yesterday.
Eric Holder says that uh the criticism he gets and the criticism Obama gets is because of racism.
So if you were here yesterday, you remember that we commented on it.
We also played some soundbites in Howard Dean and other Democrats talking about taking over, take their country back, as Eric Holder said when he hears that.
When he hears people say they want to take their country back, he hears racism.
So we went out and got a bunch of soundbites of Howard Dean and other Democrats, including Hillary talking about taking their country back.
So there's that second 11 or 12 sound bites, and there's all kinds of well, it used to be considered wacko cultural news.
It's not wacko anymore.
It's indicative of where we're going.
And I used to prep the show every day and I'd have my wacko stack or the lighthearted, I'd call it.
and Cultural stack.
And now that's not what it is.
I mean, it's it it may be wacko, but it is not simply over there in its own separate pocket.
It now is an indication of where we're headed culturally.
So we've got lots of that.
We have updated news, of course, on the crisis of what used to be the southern border.
But let me, before getting to all these sound bites, let me tackle this poll because the purpose of this poll, ABC News, Washington Post poll, the purpose of this poll is to say that while Obama doesn't do quite uh very well public opinion-wise on handling of the border crisis, it's really bad for the Republicans.
Oh man, you ought to see it.
Oh, it is so bad for the I mean the people of this country just totally disapprove of the way the Republicans are dealing.
And I'm saying, what are they doing?
What are the Republicans doing about it?
I'll tell you what's noteworthy about the Republican numbers in this poll.
It's very simple.
There are almost as many Republicans as there are Democrats in the poll who disapprove of the way the Republicans are handling this.
And if the Republicans in this poll were more supportive, they were if they were traditionally supportive of their own party as Democrat uh respondents are, then it wouldn't be, we wouldn't have the disparity that we have.
And I think that's somewhat noteworthy because the reason why, it's real simple.
This isn't going to get reported, and if even when I say it, it's not going to be accepted by the people that should accept it and face the news and believe it.
The reason this poll looks bad for the Republicans is there isn't any real opposition to Obama's immigration agenda.
And that's why the Republicans are upset with their own elected officials, is because they are seen to be on the same page with Obama.
There is no opposition.
And despite the news we had yesterday, I still, this news has not escaped the little sandbox that it was in yesterday.
The fact that immigration reform as a campaign issue has sizzled for the Democrats.
I'm sorry to be repetitive for those of you who were here yesterday, but I I need to go through this again for people that were not here yesterday who are here today.
There was a story yesterday, and it was uh the Hill.com, which is an inside the beltway pro-Obama agenda publication for all intents and purposes, it was a story about how comprehensive immigration reform, i.e.
amnesty, has now fizzled as a campaign issue for the Democrats in the 2014 midterms.
Now, my problem, I don't think it ever was a slam dunk issue for the Democrats.
I think we were being defrauded by media and Democrats alike trying to create that image that this whole country has always wanted amnesty and massive immigration reform when it never has.
There's never been majority support for that.
But it was it was said that if the Republicans didn't got on board to Amnesty, they have a prayer, they were never ever going to win the White House again.
Chuck Schumer out there personally worried, believe it or not.
Yeah, Chuck Schumer was very worried.
He said, if you Republicans do not sign on uh comprehensive immigration reform with us, you're never gonna win the White House again.
As though Chuck Schumer cares about us winning the White House, as though he actually wants us to.
He doesn't.
And so the Republicans in the Chamber of Commerce, the Republican consultant class, the inside the beltway corporatist class all signing on, gotta do amnesty, got to do comprehensive immigration reform.
And if you don't, you don't have a prayer.
If you Republicans don't sign on to this, you're finished.
The chairman of the uh president of the uh Chamber of Commerce told Republicans, if you don't sign on to this, you may as well not even nominate a candidate for 2016, because you're not gonna get any money from us.
And lo and behold, yesterday we get a story saying the whole issue has fizzled for Democrats.
How can that happen?
If it's such a slam dunk, if the American people and if all parties involved are so desirous, so seriously intent on getting comprehensive immigration from how can it dissipate as a winning issue for the Democrats.
Well, it's because of what's happening at the border.
It's because of a massive influx of 300,000, whatever the number is since April, 240,000, because what's happening at the border is providing a little snapshot of what comprehensive immigration reform will mean.
And now when polls are taking, oh, the Democrats are in trouble if they stand for that.
My point yesterday, well, I'll repeat it again.
It's never been the slam dunk issue for Democrats that we've all been told it was.
And it certainly never has been the only thing Republicans do to save themselves.
It was a trick.
If the Republicans had signed on to this and made comprehensive immigration reform happen, that's When they would never win the White House again.
And this poll in the ABC News Washington Post, I think, demonstrates just that.
When you have just as many Republicans as Democrats disapproving of the Republican position on immigration, whatever that is.
And by the way, about that.
For anybody, I'm talking poll respondents, paying attention.
The vast majority of Beltway Republicans are pro-immigration reform.
If any of these idiotic poll respondents are paying attention, and if they like what Obama's saying, they ought to like what the Republicans are saying, because both are saying the same thing.
We need comprehensive immigration reform, and we need it now, and we need it before the November elections.
The Republican leadership is all for it.
So how in the world do we get a poll that says there's massive disapproval of the Republican position when it's largely identical to the Democrat position among the leadership?
Now you have Ted Cruz and you have Mike Lee, you have some renegades in the Republican Party who are not, but they're not part of the leadership.
As far as the leadership is concerned, it's pro-immigration reform, pro-amnists.
So why why why the difference here?
And when you look and you find that as many Republicans are critical of the Republican position on immigration reform as there are Democrats.
it is simply because the Republican Party has not provided any real opposition to what Obama is doing.
And had they, in let's say the last six weeks or two months, if the Republican Party had been vocal daily about opposition to comprehensive immigration reform, at the same time this onslaught's taking place at the border, you'd have an entirely different poll result.
Thank you.
As it is, six out of ten disapprove of Obama's handling of the border crisis.
That is a legitimate headline for this poll.
Six out of ten disapprove of Obama's handling, but it's worth it's 66 disapprove of the Republicans.
Oh, save the day.
And so that becomes the narrative.
Yeah, yeah.
And a lot of people disapprove of Obama saying, but it's even worse for the Republicans.
Bingo.
We've got our template for the day.
We got our hook for every news story of the day and every discussion topic show on cable news tonight.
Of congressional Republicans, 66% disapprove of their handling of the border crisis.
Only 23% approve.
60% disapprove of Obama.
So there you have it.
66 anti-Republicans, 60% anti-Obama.
It's even worse for the Republicans.
Oh yeah.
And the drive to drive by celebrate and they applaud and they have a party.
Now, Noah Rothman, who writes about this at Hot Air, has a legitimate question.
Why did the pollster even think to ask how respondents think or feel about how the Republicans in Congress are handling this?
They have nothing to do with it.
So why ask?
I mean, you've got a president exercising executive action, executive orders every day.
You've got a president saying, they're not going to do their job.
Well, I'll just do it.
I'm not going to sit around here and do.
So you got a president saying it doesn't matter what Congress does, I'm going to do what I want to do.
So what does it matter?
Why throw this question in there?
And you throw this question in there hoping and praying that you can show more unhappiness with the Republicans on this than you can.
And they got what they wanted, and bingo, there you go.
However, if you dig deep, you will find the president's approach, the president's behavior on this is in a far worse position with the American Public throw out the Republicans.
It doesn't matter.
Six out of ten disapprove of the way Obama is handling this.
If the Republicans had provided some real opposition to this, if they'd been on record opposing comprehensive immigration reform rather than trying to I don't know, be like hangers on on the Democrat Party on this, then they might have a different result in the poll.
But it's all it's all made up.
It's again, it is a poll being used to make news to provide the drive-bys with a template and a hook for the entire day so that they can shield Obama from what is actually very horrible news for him.
When is he had 60% disapproval on anything?
He's got it in this.
But they can bury it with their Republican number at 66%.
And I must take a brief timeout.
Sit tight.
We've got hoax.
We got stuff, I mean, you know, I don't tease you.
I'm above it.
I don't have to tease you in order to keep.
You know, I got an email.
Rush, what do you mean by this teasing business?
Let me give you an example.
I don't want to name any names.
But in the formulaic business of radio programming, it is thought that hosts, as they go into commercial break, should tease the audience in a provocative way with what's coming next so as to hold your attention through the commercial break to avoid what is called the dreaded tune out.
And I sometimes do it as just a natural occurrence, but it's not a philosophy of mine.
My philosophy is that I am the reason you are here anyway.
I don't need to tease you.
You are going to listen because I am host.
And whatever I do, you're going to love it and enjoy it and respect it and become addicted to it.
But I do have some things I could tease you with.
I'm not going to now, since I told you what it is.
Now that you know how to prepare yourself for the trick, it won't work on you anymore.
And I've probably blown it up for everybody else, too.
Ladies and gentlemen, as an adjunct or a continuation of the discussion just now on the polling data, the Washington Post ABC News showing how bad it is for the Republicans in the way they're handling the immigration crisis, the southern border.
I had a soundbite yesterday from the governor of Nebraska, and I did not get to it, and I can shoot myself for not getting to it.
I don't need it.
Now it's too late.
Now it's my bad, but I can tell you what it was about.
The governor of Nebraska was livid when he found out that a whole slew of these children crossing the border are being dumped in his state, and nobody told him.
He didn't know.
That was the soundbite.
And it's happening to a lot of governors.
They're not being told that border patrol and homeland security and whoever it is, these companies, the regime is hired to handle transportation logistics.
They're just dumping these kids.
They're dumping them with families.
I mean, they're dumping them in houses and homes.
They're not dumping them on the street, but the governors of these states do not know it.
And there's a story about this today.
National Review Online, Jim Garrity's column, Obama's Feds secretly inserting what are essentially illegal alien invasion forces into the states and not telling state authorities.
And there's a link to the study or the report we had the sound vibe in the governor yesterday.
Now, there's a there's a dot here that is not being connected.
You remember me telling you, and I interviewed this guy for the limbaugh letter, Stanley Kurtz of National Review, wrote a book on his demographic study of what he says is Obama's war on America's suburbs.
And there is a related initiative in housing and urban development called AFFH, affirmatively furthering fair housing.
Now, Kurtz's theory is, and you know that leftists are very upset at the what they think is the unfairness and the disparity between city dwellers and suburban.
They think suburban dwellers are basically a feat elite upper middle class rich snobs who fled the filthy confines of the city to escape it, leaving behind the poor and the disadvantaged to wallow in the garbage.
And this isn't fair.
And so Kurtz has a theory that Obama has a war on the suburbs to take people from the inner city and put them in the suburbs via affordable housing right in these suburban neighborhoods.
It is happening, and I will take a break and explain it in a moment.
Stanley Kurtz said in his interview with me in the Limbaugh letter, as well as in his book, that this transformation of the suburbs would be a major tenant of Obama's second term.
Now, when did this border crisis start?
Second term.
What do we have?
We have we're being overrun, and there's no end in sight, by the way, and the news is that there's no end in sight.
The governments of Mexico and Guatemala are facilitating the trip north by these kids.
There's no end to this, folks.
Nobody's trying to stop it.
Obama's not trying to stop it.
The Republicans aren't trying to stop it.
That's why this poll is so cockeyed.
And these kids, what's happening to them?
Nobody's allowed to see, nobody's allowed to know, are they?
That's why the governor of Nebraska was a little bit upset when he found out that a bunch of them are ending up in his state.
Which takes us back to Stanley Kurtz.
Kurtz makes the point that Obama and the left, and this is true, by the way, this is not opinion.
This is this they will tell you this if you listen to them.
They think people live in the suburbs.
Well, they resent them.
You've heard a term applied to suburbanites called white flight, have you not?
And that's how Obama looks at it.
Obama, Eric Holder, and many in the left, the Democrat Party think that people in suburbia fled the city to get away from minorities, essentially, to get away from the poor, to get away from uh dilapidated uh buildings and crumbling infrastructure.
And they move to the suburbs and they form these communities which are clean and prosperous and uh that and it's not fair.
Because the poor couldn't leave.
The poor were trapped.
The upperly mobile because of their relative affluence were able to leave and move.
So Obama has had a war on the suburbs.
And do do not doubt this.
And I this is this is something never gonna be in the news.
This is something this is part of the Obama agenda that's never going to be openly stated, just like he never openly stated that he was for socialized medicine.
He did in closed session with his union buddy supporters, but he'll never put it as part of the agenda.
Now, how this is happening is this.
There's an initiative from the Housing and Urban Development Department called affirmatively furthering fair housing.
The concept, as it is properly understood, is to change the enforcement paradigm in order to allow the Department of Housing and Urban Development to essentially decide what every neighborhood in America should look like.
Now, if you're going, come on, Rush, you can let me just ask you to remember something.
How long has it been in your memory that you've heard Democrats say that diversity is our greatest strength?
Diversity is our greatest power.
And that we must have a government that represents the diversity of America.
We must have uh cabinet department that represents the diversity of America.
We must have a Supreme Court that represents the diverse You You've heard this now.
And of course, diversity means one thing.
Skin color.
Doesn't mean different rich cultural differences that they want to melt.
This is purely skin color.
And it's it's a reverse affirmative action kind of thing.
But that's what they mean by diversity.
They're skin deep people, and they simply say we have to have diversity based on the appearance of the mixture of the people in any particular group, including a neighborhood.
And if a neighborhood is not properly diverse, then the housing and urban development department, along with its affirmatively furthering fair housing initiative, is going to be able to decide and prescribe what every neighborhood in America should look like.
So that is the paradigm for decades has been that discrimination is illegal, right?
That has been how everybody has lived and governed their lives.
Discrimination is illegal.
Okay, but discrimination in housing has been illegal for 40 years.
Yet we have segregated neighborhoods.
Why is that?
If discrimination is illegal, and yet we have segregated neighborhoods, how do how is this happening?
And it is more often than not, dare I say, because people want to live among their own racial and ethnic groups.
It's not that they're being denied the chance to live somewhere, it's that they are choosing to live with quote unquote their own kind.
This is especially true among minorities.
So since the regime, because discrimination had been illegal for 40 years, since they could never prove illegal discrimination.
The social engineers in the regime now say that what they must do is attack the root causes of de facto segregation and find out why people want to live among their own and change that.
And the way they're going to change it is to mandate that states integrate by essentially building low-income housing in nicer suburban neighborhoods.
And the penalty would be millions in federal funds would be withheld from municipalities that don't comply.
If there's a, you people in Westchester County in New York know exactly what I'm talking about because there is a huge lawsuit going on right now over just this.
The regime is requiring to get even with all of this flight to the suburbs that took place back in the 50s and 60s and 70s.
And it's continued to happen.
And it isn't fair.
It just isn't fair that some people should be able to get out of the hell holes while others have to stay in them.
And so the regime is going to make it easy for people that cannot escape the hell holes on their own to escape them by moving them there.
Under diversity law, anti-discrimination law, the affirmatively furthering fair housing initiative.
And so what they're going to do is build projects is the name for this.
Low-income housing.
Think Pruitt I go, think Bed Stai, think what they're going to build public housing in these affluent suburban areas to make sure that there is diversity, and this is what people who are aware of what Obama's doing are calling his war in the suburbs.
And I realize some of you, come on, Russ, this is even too much.
Folks, just please use your common sense.
You know that that practically everything Obama's doing is based on redistribution.
Redistribution is what?
Taking from those who have.
And why?
Because of the belief they didn't get it fairly.
They screwed somebody, or they inherited it, or they had an unfair break somewhere along the line.
They committed some great crime to a master.
Whatever, it just isn't legitimate.
Nobody who has a lot of money really could get a lot of money with just pure honesty and talent and hard work.
It's got to be something.
So Obama's here to level the playing field.
And he's doing it with a redistribution of wealth.
We've got a hundred million Americans not working.
They're all eating.
They've all got cell phones and they've all got big screens, and if they wanted to watch the World Cup, they could.
We're converting from full-time to part-time everywhere, so that people have only one place to go for health insurance eventually.
Obama.
It's all happening right in front of your face.
Right between your eyes, you're being hit, and you can see it happening with both of your eyes.
So to close the loop, we go back to the Southern crisis with these refugees, illegal alien immigrants, and the fact that they are being placed in states where state authorities, including the governor, are not being told.
They're being placed in the homes of people who are either being paid to take them, or who are supposedly their family, or what have you, but nobody knows how this is happening.
They're in the processing centers for such a small amount of time that the medical screenings are not proper.
They're not thorough.
So we don't know what kind of infectious disease we're importing.
We don't know as much as we should.
And these kids are being flown out, bussed out, driven out, and they're ending up all over the country, and there's no end in sight.
And you don't think they're being deposited in these buildings with broken windows on 8th Avenue, do you?
They're certainly not being deposited there.
Make no mistake what this is.
There is a deep resentment held by many on the left for those in this country who are affluent.
Those who've uh who made it, what have you, and it's it's cut everybody down to size time.
Time to show the United States what life is really like for everybody else.
I got a quote here from John Kerry.
He's he's, I don't know, mumbling around out there.
He actually said he gets really, really uncomfortable when he hears Americans talking about exceptionalism.
Just really rubs him wrong.
It just makes him embarrassed and nervous.
He doesn't like when Americans talk that way.
So who they are is an open book right out in front of you.
All it takes is a courage to admit it.
And so if you want to know why all of this is being permitted, I mean, there's any number of correct answers to it, but this is just the latest to throw into the pile.
And now a brief obscene profit timeout.
We'll be back, we'll continue after this.
Don't go away.
750 affordable housing projects are being forced on Westchester County, New York.
Westchester County, New York is being forced to build 750 affordable housing projects, even though the uh the county is the fourth most diverse in the state.
Westchester County rivals Manhattan in the number of black and Hispanic residents.
But it doesn't matter.
It's suburbia that makes the difference here.
Westchester County is suburbia, and they're gonna be made to look like the city since they had the ability to leave.
Fine.
You left, we're gonna take the city back to you.
It's essentially what is happening.
Now, the John Kerry quote.
I was privileged to speak to the graduating class of Yale this year, and it was a particular pleasure because it happened to turn out to be literally, I hate to say it, 48 years of the day that I spoke as a graduating senior to my own class.
And I always get a little uptight when I hear politicians say how exceptional we are.
Not because we're not exceptional, but because it's kind of in your face.
And a lot of other people are exceptional too.
A lot of other places do exceptional things.
So I get really, really uptight when I hear politicians talk about them.
Of course he does.
Because these people are laden with self-hatred and self-guilt.
Over what they consider their good fortune to be.
Anyway, got some people who want to respond content so far.
We'll start with Thor in Pittsburgh.
Welcome, sir.
Great to have you on the EIB network.
Hello.
Thor, are you there?
Okay, not waiting.
Where are we going next?
Let me try uh Ron in Jacksonville, Florida.
Great to have you, sir.
Hello, welcome to the EIB network.
Hey, Rush, how are you doing?
Just fine, sir.
Thank you.
Um I think the deal with the Republicans is basically that they're not, you know, upset because there's no comprehensive immigration reform or anything like that.
And the numbers that you're quoting there, I think, look at the fact that they're upset because uh people are upset because they're not shutting it down fast enough.
That's exactly right.
That's exactly why the disapproval for the Republicans in this ABC News Washington Post poll is so high.
Of course, the Post is not going to tell anybody that the narrative is, the template is that, yeah, people are unhappy with uh Obama, but they're even angrier at the Republicans because they won't get on board.
Which is a crock.
You're exactly right.
The Republican respondents in this poll are upset with the Republicans because they are not opposing any of this.
Again, it i I hearkened back to the news yesterday.
Comprehensive immigration reform is an issue has fizzled for the Democrats.
Now, why?
If it was such a slam dunk, if if standing for, if being for, if making happen, comprehensive immigration reform were the ticket.
If that's what every politician had to do in order to win, how the hell did it fizzle in just a couple of months?
How does that happen?
The only way it can happen is if it were never true in the first place, which is my claim.
I don't believe for a moment that the only way a politician, particularly Republicans, could ever win anything again, was to finally come out and be pro-amnesty.
That's just a crock.
If it's that big, if it means that much, if it's the ticket, it can't fizzle.
And yet it did in two months.
No longer an advantage for the Democrats.
Barry Sterling Heights, Michigan, thank you for waiting.
Great to have you on the EIB network.
Hello.
Hi, Rush.
First time caller.
Great to have you.
Hey, Rush.
Uh, in Michigan, we were just uh watching the news in Vassar, Michigan, which is up in the thumb.
They're gonna be uh forcing a hundred and twenty kids that'll be twelve to seventeen years old from the border.
They're gonna bring them all the way up to Michigan, and in a small rural town of Vassar, Michigan, where they won't really have uh but local objections, but they did get 300 people objecting to it.
They should really not be transferring these people around.
They should hold them at the border and force the legal network down there to actually process the people or send them back.
But this uh organization out of Chicago, the Heartland Alliance, contracted with the Michigan uh children's social caregiver organization.
Yep, this Wolverine Human Services, and that's how they're bringing them in.
Yep, they're one of the many that responded to the ad Obama place to the federal websites back in January seeking companies with transportation and logistics services to disperse these kids all over the country.
And you know, you take kids from Guatemala, El Salvador, and put them up in a thumb of Michigan, as you say, they're gonna freeze.
Anyway, uh the state authorities are not being consulted.
They're just being what's the word?
Deposited, planted, they're just being dropped off.
I got a lot of email on this from angry, panicked people.
Let me let me uh put you at ease.
Contrary to rumors that Jay Carney would be the new chief of public relations for Apple, Incorporated.
It isn't true.
It isn't going to happen.
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