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Aug. 6, 2014 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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August 6, 2014, Wednesday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 podcast.
So we got a poll.
We have a new poll out there, the NBC News Wall Street Journal poll.
It shows Obama at record lows in this poll.
And NBC is ignoring it.
They're ignoring their own poll.
I mean, they're talking about it, but they're not talking about the stuff that damages Obama.
It is.
It really is amazing to just to watch how our country is just being taken over.
I don't know if it's if it's just rampant ignorance or it is abject stupidity, maybe a combination of the two.
But it is stunning to watch and record every day how low information seems to be spreading.
Anyway, we'll get into this and I'll explain to you exactly what I mean by this.
I don't want to panic anybody, no reason to panic yet.
I've always told you it's time to panic, and it isn't yet.
Some of you might think it is.
Some of you might think we're getting close.
I'll let you know.
Telephone number 800-282-2882 if you want to be on the program, the email address, L Rushbow at EIBNet.com.
Let me give you an example before I get to the NBC poll.
There are three stories.
Uh, yesterday, today, maybe all three today, not sure which.
Now, as any informed person, and I I don't mean biased, I just mean any honest, objective informed person knows.
Whether you believe in global warming or not, there hasn't been any warming since what the last 16 years, 17 years, almost 17 and a half years, there has not been any warming.
According to NASA, according to official temperature takers, according to many people who buy into and believe the crisis of man-made global warming.
They all admit there hasn't been any.
They've they've had to come up with explanations and excuses why it's just on hiatus.
Temporary uh things like Sahara desert dust or volcanoes or something.
Something is a temporary interruption in what everybody knows is global warming, except there isn't any, and there hasn't been any for 17 years, 17 and a half years now.
Nevertheless, Washington Post has a story today.
Will climate change worsen Ebola outbreaks.
What you the there's a theme here, and that is you take a fear.
Right now, the fear is Ebola.
Uh whether it's a legitimate fear or not, there are people that fear the massive spread of the Ebola virus uh into places such as the United States outside the three nations in Africa where it's really uh raising hell.
So you've got this fear.
And by the way, in the in the New York Post today, there's a piece by the well-known author Michael Fumento, who is uh a self-described expert in mass hysteria.
That's how he just that's at the end of the piece.
That's how he describes himself.
There are two other descriptions, and one of them an expert in mass hysteria.
His point is there's no way that Ebola is going to come to the U.S. We couldn't get it here if we wanted it here.
We couldn't cause an outbreak if we wanted it.
It's just too hard to spread.
Don't worry about it.
It is an abject fear people are raising, but it's it isn't gonna happen.
And he is he's hellbent on convincing people there's nothing to worry about here.
Well I'm just I'll get to the details in a minute.
I'm just setting this up.
He's he he says, don't worry about it.
It's it's much ado about nothing.
And now remember, he's an expert in mass hysteria.
He knows how it works, he knows how it's created, he knows how it's fed, and he is obviously he's opposed to mass hysteria.
Don't misunderstand, He's not for it.
He's an expert in dissecting it.
Anyway, just until I get to the details, he says it's nothing to worry about.
It's much ado about nothing.
He says there are more people dying from diarrhea, mosquito spread diarrhea, and other diseases in Africa that are dying from Ebola even now.
More he said, more people dying from tuberculosis every day in Africa than from Ebola.
You just don't hear about it.
He says, if it's that bad, why is it only killed a thousand people in three countries?
How come it hasn't spread beyond these three countries?
If it's been around for six months, and if it's so deadly, how come it's still primarily contained in three poor countries in Africa?
I mean, these are the kind of things he's saying.
Nevertheless, that's not the point.
The point is you take the fear of the day.
If you're the left, if you if you're the authors of the daily soap opera to keep people on edge, to keep people frightened, to keep people demanding government do something.
You take the fear of the day, and in this case, you blame it on climate change.
So you get a twofer.
You take the fear of the day, you blame it on another issue that you want people to believe.
And so, Washington Post headline, will climate change worsen Ebola outbreak.
California governor Jerry Brown, climate change will drive millions of people north over the border.
Have you heard this?
This is uh, I think from last week.
Uh Moonbeam thinks that climate change is going to cause people to flee in even greater numbers to the U.S. You know why?
Well, it's going to be getting warmer here, but I mean it's going to be a sweat box in Mexico and it was about in Ecuador and Guatemala.
You go further, you get closer to the equator.
I mean, it's gonna be it's gonna be a sauna.
And so to cool off, the immigrants are gonna have another reason to flee north, not just to get to the United States for prosperity or the safety net or what have you, but to escape the sauna.
And in the third headline, weather under the guy that co-founded the Weather Underground website, which a lot of people like, climate change may increase the number of Hawaiian hurricanes.
So they get you two hurricanes on track to skirt by Hawaii.
It's not all that common for hurricanes to hit Hawaii.
They they have.
But it's not common.
Remember when Katrina hit, the drive-by's every June 1st would go to every beach they could find and look out over the Atlantic Ocean, hoping to see the next Katrina coming, or the first day of hurricane season.
They just wanted to trumpet this crisis horror-related news.
And so, there do you know how many days it's been since a major hurricane hit landfall United States?
It's over 3,000 days.
Major.
Over 3,000 days since a major hurricane hit landfall in continental United States.
So have a couple of hurricanes, first time in a long time, headed toward Hawaii, and all of a sudden, the weather underground co-founder, climate change may increase the number of Hawaiian hurricanes.
Um Sanders writing at the Lock Foundation has a piece on this today, and the concept behind this, the purpose, the left hopes to achieve, or the objective they hope to achieve, but it's constantly keeping people frightened, constantly promoting these issues, which there isn't any global warming.
There isn't any.
And the only thing that helps the issue survive is just low information voters who don't know diddly squat, who think they do, though.
They buy into it.
Climate change is happening, even though there is record cold weather all over this country this summer.
Why, it was just yesterday that I had a story about how the temperatures in New York are so much below normal that people are going to see psychiatrists.
They're suffering psychotic depression because they don't think they've had a summer.
Summer hasn't shown up because the temperatures haven't gotten hot enough, and they're worried about it.
Even though the days are not getting shorter, they feel Like they are, because the temperatures are not up.
There is no warming.
Now I expect somebody Mr. Limbaugh, you must understand weather is not climate.
Oh, really?
Well, then how come every time there's a heat wave in January, you guys start talking about climate change?
Is that not weather?
Don't give me that.
So i it's just, it's, it's it's just I don't know.
To me, it fascinates me.
Frustrates me, I can't tell you how it, you know, being surrounded by fools is one of the most irritating things for me.
I just having my intelligence insulted, I just, you know, it's like fingernails on a chalkboard being surrounded by idiots and fools, that's the same thing, and it seems like we're surrounded by more and more of them each and every day.
My brother made a point to me the other day, says, you know, whenever Obama, it just seems this way.
When when Obama makes an argument about something, it's just automatically assumed to be true without even proving it, without just to say it, and everybody just tends to believe it.
And so where do we how do we deal with that?
Where do we go from that?
And it's the same thing here.
Phony baloney, plastic banana, good time rock and roller headlines about global warming.
And you wonder how many people buy into it.
Then you've got the NBC poll.
On Tuesday, what is this is yes, it's yesterday, the latest NBC News Wall Street Journal poll found that President Obama's popularity reached its lowest point since he first took office in 2009.
Overall, 54% of Americans disapprove of the job the president is doing compared to just 40% who approve.
At Gallup, Obama's still at 39% approval.
NBC News, Washington, or Wall Street Journal poll, 54% disapproval.
And when you get to immigration, it's even higher.
But despite these low numbers, NBC Nightly News failed to cover its own results during the Tuesday night NBC Nightly News.
This poll also found that a strong majority of Americans, 60%, disapprove of Obama's handling of foreign policy.
Only 36% approve the way Obama is handling foreign policy.
The same poll found that 33% of Americans have very negative feelings towards Obama, which ties the record high in this poll from December of 2013.
And instead of covering this, the anchor for the NBC Nightly News, Brian Williams, spent 40 seconds promoting a video of a Norwegian mother trying to get her two-year-old son to go to bed on a hot summer night.
Let's go to the audio sound bites.
We have the Today Show today, the chief White House correspondent F. Chuck Todd joining the correspondent Carson Daly, live in the orange room digital space, whatever that is.
And they're talking about the new NBC new poll on Obama's job approval.
You will not hear F. Chuck Todd mention it.
F. Chuck reports on the poll that shows Obama at a new low, but he doesn't mention it.
He says the public's angry at Washington.
And furthermore, all the Republicans want to do is impeach Obama.
It's not just an angry public.
We use this poll to try to understand how hard was it to dig out of the Great Recession.
And most people are angry and they are fed up with Washington and throwing up their hands.
Limbaugh theorem is on display in spades here.
What is the Limbaugh theorem?
The Limbaugh theorem explains how it is that Obama escapes blame.
How it is that Obama escapes accountability for anything happening as a result of his policies in his presidency.
And the way he does it is to act Like he's not really governing.
Somebody else is doing that.
Somebody else is causing these problems.
He is outside Washington.
He is at campaign style appearances, and he's complaining and whining and moaning about the same thing people in the poll are.
He's complaining about Washington and how he can't get anything done there, and how nothing gets done there, and how nobody will work with him, and it's full of hate and all this.
And therefore, these stupid idiots that he gets to sit behind him in these public appearances applaud all of this.
And in that way, Obama is able to create this impression that he's got nothing to do with what's going on.
Now, F. Chuck Todd takes a 54% disapproval rating for Obama and translates that into people hate Washington.
They're fed up with Washington.
They're fed up with the Republicans.
They're fed up with the recession.
Never once mentioning Obama.
And this is how the limbaugh theorem is used each and every day, not only by Obama, but by the drive-bys in order to insulate and protect Obama.
So Carson Daly, after that soundbite from F. Chuck Todd, said, Well, let's break it down into parties, Chuck.
We'll start with the Democrats.
What was the word cloud to represent?
Now, this is what they do, they have this graphic, and they create a cloud or a series of clouds to illustrate how often words are used.
And the more often a word is used, the bigger that cloud is on air graphic.
Because you see, everybody's stuff is in the cloud now.
So they do these word clouds.
So Carson Daly is saying, okay, Chuck, let's break it down into parties.
We'll start with the Democrats.
What was the word cloud to represent that?
This is what Democrats, most Democrats said they would put on their sign.
They said a lot of things, but the biggest thing, do your job, Congress, stop Republicans, focus on our own country that has to do with foreign policy.
Check out what Republicans would put on their side.
The biggest thing, enforce immigration laws, and then impeach Obama.
So the whole idea of impeachment, something Republicans are talking about.
They're not.
The Republicans are not talking about it.
That's an outright lie.
The Republicans are not.
They're going out of their way not to talk of it.
They've taken it off the table.
They're so not talking about it.
This is not the news, folks.
This is not journalism, and they're not even reporting what's in their poll.
They are misrepresenting anger at Obama is been assigned to anger at Washington and anger at Republicans.
They're angry at the Republicans, stop the Republicans.
That's what their poll said.
A 40% of approval rating for Obama is translated into stop the Republicans.
The views expressed by the host on this program, documented to be almost always right.
99.7% of the time.com.
Look, I'm not going to play it again because I've played it, I don't know how many times, but you remember the Wolf Blitzer orgasm.
When George Bush's approval numbers hit the 30s, it led the CNN newscast every hour for five hours in a row.
And we put together a montage illustrating it.
And Bush's low approval numbers.
You ever remember them being reported as reflecting poorly on Washington?
Or the Democrats.
Did Wolf Blitzer say when reporting George Bush's approval number at whatever was 38%?
And breathlessly doing so.
Did he also point out that their poll showed that meant people were just ticked off at Washington and ticked off at the Democrats?
No, of course not.
That's exactly what NBC News is doing.
Barack Obama hits a record low in their poll, 40%.
And F. Chuck Todd and NBC News report that people are just mad at Washington and they're mad at Republicans and they're mad at Republicans talking about impeaching Obama.
Back when Wolf Blitzer was breathlessly orgasming over the low approval number, George W. Bush, did they ever talk about how the Democrats were trying to impeach George W. Bush?
No.
Even though they did.
They actually did.
Kucinich presented the articles of impeachment.
Sheila Jackson Lee forgot she signed on to them.
She did.
It's 76% of Americans think their kids' lives will be worse.
That's also in this poll.
And of course, that means people are upset at Washington and the Republicans.
Here what Chris Jansing did.
Yes, Chris Jansing finally, after all of these years, finally made it to the big network.
Chris Jansing, you may know the name.
She worked at MSNBC for the longest time.
Female journalistas who were hired at MSNBC...
One of the one of the ways they were recruited, I'm told, by the way, I obviously am hearing this source is very close that all of the women hired their art are there's they're dangled a carrot of the today show.
Yeah, come to MSNBC, and you could end up being the next Jean Pauley.
You could end up being the next White House correspondent.
And they do that to all of them.
And Chris Jansen got hired, and then another bunch of women, Savannah Guthrie, and they all raced past her.
But but Chris Jansen finally made it.
She finally made the bump from MSNBC.
She's now the White House correspondent at NBC News.
And in talking about the White House hopes for Africa becoming part of Obama's legacy, Chris Jansen said, quote, yeah, and the fact that he's from Kenya, and that fact that when he was elected, there were expectations from the African continent that he would do great things for them.
He's from Kenya.
So they had to do a quick 180 on that, and she had to pull back and offer a correction, and she clarified that she had misspoken, and she meant to say that Obama's father was from Kenya.
So what she meant to say was, yeah, and Obama's father is from Kenya, and that fact, when he was elected, there were expectations from the African continent.
So Africa had expectations.
Obama was going to do things for them because his dad was from Kenya.
That's what she said that she meant to say.
Then Biden.
Biden, you know, there's this meeting of African leaders going on in Washington.
Biden went speak to him.
And he uh he repeatedly said how much we were going to do for the nation of Africa.
You know, and the guests kind of nudge each other and look at each other and raise their eyebrows.
Does this guy not know that Africa is a continent?
Does he not know there isn't a nation called Africa?
Come on, Russia.
He just misspoke every I know it's funny.
He always misspokes.
He's a walking gaff machine.
By the way, little housekeeping here, we're having some Ditto Cam problems today.
And they are clear channel-wide issues.
They're not just affecting the EIB network.
But uh our broadcast syndication partners, Clear Channel, and they're having network-wide problems, not only with the DittoCan, uh, the video feed MadidtoCam were also having some problems with affiliate streaming.
They are working on it.
The Rush 24-7 subscriber email is also not working.
Coco just sent me a note saying they're working on all this, and as soon as it is rectified and back to normal, then I will get the note and I will pass it along to you.
There's more information, the NBC News Washington or Wall Street Journal poll.
And in it, it's 54% disapprove of the job that Obama is doing.
That's a 40% approval rating.
In addition, the poll reveals that an all-time record of 76% of Americans do not believe that their kids' lives will be better than their own.
Almost as many respondents, 71% believe the U.S. is headed in the wrong direction.
That was 63% just a month ago.
60% believe the direction is plunging downward.
This is stunning.
76% of Americans.
I think it's worse than this because I think there's something not stated here.
76% of Americans do not believe their kids'lives will be better.
And I will bet you that almost every one of those 76% don't see a solution to this either.
I'll bet you that there is an abject futility out there.
I think people are just at their wit's end.
Uh what with what to do about this.
And I'm going to attempt to explain why.
And I'm going to do that by sharing with you an email my brother David received.
He is an essayist.
He writes columns and books and so forth.
He had a recent column on something.
And a woman read the column and responded to it.
And she poses some questions that I think demonstrate the utter futility that people feel.
It's a very long letter.
I'm going to have to excerpt it.
I do not have permission to mention her name, so I won't.
She signed it.
She mentioned her name and uh, but I I'll not mention that until I find out it's okay.
Dear Mr. Limbaugh to my brother, your essays are always a joy to read, almost as fun as listening to your brother's radio show.
She didn't really say that.
I just I just threw that in, because I know she meant it.
Not only for your insight and your conservative views, but also because of your excellent command of the English language, which I'm sure you learned from your brother, and which I promote and proudly teach.
He didn't, she didn't say that, I just I just threw that in.
Those of us who shy away from public forums on current events for fear of retribution think IRS targeted conservatives, for example, are grateful for your writing and are happy to have you speak for us.
Now, in your recent column, Democrats, the Constitution, a rule of law, you state we have an entire political party and liberal media that grossly underappreciate our unique constitutional system of government and are so blinded by their ideological goals that they have no problem virtually conspiring with this lawless president in trampling the Constitution and the rule of law to serve his and their ends.
As I have observed these abuses, if not outright crimes and misdemeanors, go on with impunity for the past six years.
I'm left with questions, simplistic though they may be, that I haven't been able to find adequate answers to.
First, are there now or have there ever been provisions in the Constitution for the enforcement of laws?
Some laws seem to be strictly enforced, others arbitrarily enforced, and others overlook completely.
Does the fact that no administration before has blatantly disregarded the Constitution, as well as some cherished traditions, does that mean that no one else ever tested the waters?
Have we just been lucky that Idi Amin Dada or Hugo Chavez or the like haven't been elected here?
Or has the country been on the honor system all these years?
Although even on the honor system there are penalties for breaking the rules, if indeed there are penalties for breaking the rules, who's charged with assigning them?
Who's charged with enforcing them?
If there are some, is there someone or some office derelict in its duty?
What she's asking here is does our Constitution protect us in case we have somebody like Obama elected?
Does the con she's she's experiencing futility here?
There is a wanton disregard for the Constitution, and she doesn't know what to do and what anybody else is doing about it.
And she's asking, what okay, here we are in 2014, we're 230 years old.
Is it just luck that we haven't had a blatant Chavez-like dictator take over this country?
Or is it something in the Constitution that saves us from this?
She says, Finally, as admirable as it is to stand by one's principles and not sink to the opposition's level, how does one prevent a huge defeat if there are no consequences for wrongful actions?
If there are no consequences for breaking the law, if there are no consequences for making the law, making if there are no consequences for violating the Constitution, then how do you prevent somebody doing it?
After all, if only one team plays by the rules, the other team is sure to lose.
Team playing by the rules is always going to lose to the one ignoring the rules.
And without any kind of a deterrent, we know that some teams would take advantage and do whatever they had to do to win.
So if neither team would observe the rules, then we have total chaos.
The obvious conclusion is the rules must be enforced.
The questions are how and why is it not being done?
And I think this little letter that she sends my brother this note is indicative of a tremendous amount of futility people feel.
When you look at this, 76% of Americans don't believe their kids' lives will be better than their own.
That folks, that's major.
This that this country has been the American dream, which is rooted in our founding and tradition, is that I mean what parents try to do is see that their kids have a better life than they do.
This has been an objective since this country began.
And it's something that generation and generation has always happened.
It's always been possible.
Not every offspring's done better than parents, but it's been possible.
Now we have a point in time, 76% of Americans, I I can't tell you the number of people my age who have grandkids who think their grandkids aren't even going to have a ghost of a chance to accomplish what they, their grandparents did.
Some people are more worried about their grandkids' future than their kids' future, but still there's concern for both.
But when you have an all-time record high of 76, this is, and it's a real number, it's based on real live at present events and attitudes.
I also believe in addition to 76% of Americans not thinking their kids are going to do better than their own, they also don't think there's going to be any change in that.
And I think that is illustrated in this email.
Who enforces the rules when one team is out breaking them?
How is it, is it the honor system all these years that's kept people respecting the Constitution?
Is it fear of punishment for breaking the law that's kept people honest?
What is it that has made the rule of law triumph for all of these years, all of these decades in this country?
It's and it's it's a great question.
I think a lot of people are asking this.
I think the uh I think I think this comes close to summing up the desperation or futility or just everybody's hands in the air and saying, what do we do?
And and part of the problem, obviously, is that the other team, the Republicans are trying to make everybody think they're gonna play better rules.
Oh, yeah, we love you, we're not what they say.
And I've always said the aggressor in any conflict sets the rules.
The aggressor sets the rules.
Whatever the rules are, don't matter.
What the aggressor does is the new set of rules.
And if you don't respond to them, you're going to lose.
I gotta take quick time out here, my friends.
Don't lose your train of thought.
Back after this.
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Let's go to the phones.
This Judy in Cincinnati, you're up first today, and thank you for calling.
Hi.
Hi, Rush.
I'm calling about the lady's letter to your brother David.
Yes.
There is another example, and that was Andrew Jackson.
He disregarded the courts, the Supreme Court, who said he could not move the Indians out of Georgia.
But he did it anyway.
And said, let's see them, let's see them enforce it.
So our founders counted on people being honorable.
And the Constitution has no recourse if they're not.
And Obama is following the Andrew Jackson mode.
Well, this is this is sadly uh for closer to true than it isn't.
Uh the honor system and uh maybe a strange way to put it, but if you read, if you read the Federalist Papers, and not very many people have, and I doubt very many people will, but the Federalist Papers were written basically to explain how the Constitution came to be and the thinking behind it, and and to persuade people to accept it and support it.
And throughout the Federalist Papers, uh you read of the importance of character and honor in the president, and the character and honor of elected officials as the backbone of the rule of law.
The rule of law requires respect for the law.
And you know, it's it's kind of scary, Judy, to tell people that the country's hanging by such a single narrow thread as the honor system.
That's right.
But the only recourse, the only recourse that that lawlessness in the executive has, the only recourse really is impeachment.
Uh which is why I have really spoken out against the Republicans taking it off the table.
I've not urged them to do it at the moment, but to take it off the table is essentially telling criminals in the uh in any endeavor that you're gonna close down the police department in a town, and there's not going to be anybody enforcing any law there.
It's it's a it's a do what you want, free ticket.
That's correct.
But you the Republicans see what happened to them after uh Bill Clinton was impeached, and they're never gonna try it again unless there is a massive uprising among the people demanding it.
Well, what did happen to the Republicans after Clinton was impeached?
Well, a lot of them lost their position, especially the man from California who led the uh Rogan wrote I forget what his name was, but uh I mean James Rogan, you're right.
Uh but Lindsay Graham, who was a House manager's now senator from South Carolina.
Well, that's South Carolina.
No, come on.
It's typical Ohio hubris.
You people think the country revolves around you because of the presidential election every year.
That's correct.
We determine it.
You do.
You asked the well, no, but that that that is the answer to the question.
So the fact that we have never had.
See, uh a Hugo Chavez up now, Hugo Chavez could not get Obama could not have gotten elected in this country if he had campaigned on what he was gonna do.
He could and his approval numbers for pr the the polling data that we have now is a is a great indication.
The American people don't want any part of this.
They don't want to, they don't want they don't want any part of the this kind of statism, uh, this type of presidency, but that's where the futility is.
That's where I think there's just uh incomprehensible amount of futility among people in this country.
They didn't know what to do about it.
Public opinion doesn't matter in this case anymore.
It seems to always have mattered in the past.
See, public opinion always used to shape events.
It doesn't seem to anymore.
There is another way, instead of or in addition to impeachment.
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