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Sept. 1, 2014 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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September 1, 2014, Monday, Hour #2
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Hi, how are you?
Welcome back, ladies and gentlemen.
Happy to have you here, Rush Limbaugh on the cutting edge.
Half my brain tied behind my back just to make it fair.
Yes sir, Bob.
Telephone number, if you want to join us, 800-282-2882.
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I guarantee you, Seattle media is even as we speak trying to track down that woman and find out, they're going to find out what happened here.
That woman's going to become one of the biggest heroines Seattle has ever seen, willing to lose her job to make sure the dentist's office did not have to have this program blaring on the radio.
You wait.
You wait.
She's going to be a hero.
They're tracking her down even now.
You know damn well they are.
What a story.
Anyway, my friends, it's great that you're here.
We have barely scratched the surface on things today.
Let's start.
Grabbing something number three.
When I make jokes about the left, as you well know, they end up coming true.
And we kept hearing during the, I guess, month ago or so, when the intense attention was being paid to all the illegal immigrant children pouring across the border,
so many Democrats, President Obama, all of those who supported them coming, were actually, and Obama actually, I think these words ran around, was talking about how these kids were the future of America, which prompted me to say this.
If they are so great for the U.S., why aren't they great for their native countries?
If they're great for us, I assume they'd be great for Mexico.
If they're great for us, if they're really, really going to determine our future, why wouldn't they determine the future of Guatemala, El Salvador, etc.?
And then, folks, is it right for us to steal the hope and future and future greatness of Mexico, Guatemala, El Salvador, by taking these young gifts of love away from those countries?
What gives us the right, I ask?
What gives us the right to take these young kids who determine the future?
They're so talented, they're so good, they're so important.
Our future rests on them.
What about Mexico, Guatemala, El Salvador?
Where they are from?
Why are we stealing the future from these other countries?
And what about our own children?
Are they just Jack?
Are they just worthless?
No.
You see, it's already assumed that today's children are pre-registered Democrats.
These children are the future of America because they are registered Democrats in waiting, which is the only reason the Democrats care about having them here.
Anyway, Obama was saying it, that they were the future of America.
And I think my questions are valid.
They may have sounded funny.
But if they are special and so talented and represent the future of America, and Obama believes that we became a superpower, not because of our own efforts, but because we stole everything from everybody else around the world, then what gives us the right to steal the world's children?
Well, God bless him.
The Vice President, Joe Bightme, has come along to explain it.
Yesterday at the Eisenhower Executive Office Building, during a meeting on legal access for unaccompanied immigrant children, Vice President Biden said...
He's not somebody else's kids.
These are our kids.
These are the children that lift the national ambitions of each of these countries aloft.
And it's a tragedy for the countries who are losing them and for us not being able to solve every one of their problems.
That's just so precious.
I mean, there's old Joe gaffing his way into first.
He claims the kids, these kids for America just claims them.
They're our kids.
They're not those kids.
They're not El Salvador's kids.
They're our kids.
They're not somebody else's kids.
They're ours.
Then he admits that it's a tragedy that we're stealing them.
It's a tragedy for countries losing them.
Right, because they're so great.
They are the future and we are stealing them.
It's a tragedy for the countries who are losing them.
And it's a tragedy for us, not being able to solve every one of their problems.
But I have, ladies and gentlemen, a little different take on this.
It is said that the Tea Party and Republicans and Conservative.
In fact, it is said that anybody who opposes blanket amnesty for these kids or for any of the others living in the shadows, it is said that if you oppose blanket amnesty, it's because you are a racist, right?
It is because you are a bigot.
You are a racist and a bigot and you are a nationalist and you are selfish.
You are greedy.
You don't want to share.
You are threatened by young people of color.
Well, what of these people and kids who are rejecting their own culture and their own country?
And what about these parents of these children sending their own young people here?
Is it not they who are practicing racial preferences?
Is it not they who are rejecting their own cultures?
I mean, we have to sit here and listen every day to how we're a bunch of racist pigs, sexist bigots and homophobes, and how America is that way because of us.
And yet all these people around the world want to come here.
And all these parents in Central America are sending their kids here.
And in the process, are they not rejecting their own cultures?
Despite what all the demographers say, America remains a majority white country.
Despite the predictions, despite the hopes, despite the dreams of all the leftists, and white people eventually become the minority in this country, it hasn't happened yet.
So why do governments in countries of color encourage their children to come here if we are such bad racists, sexists, and bigots?
And of course, the leftists would answer that question by saying, because they are here to help us take over.
They are here to help us wrest control of this country from you white bigots.
That's what they would say on the blogs, Mr. Snirdley.
That's what they'd say in the comments.
If I were to pose that question at Democrat Underground, they're huffing and puffing, and that would be the answer.
But they're though, these children are children of God, and they're so special, and they're so great, and they're the future of America.
Well, what about their own countries?
I guess they don't matter.
And in the end, they don't.
In a balancing act between the Democrat Party in the United States and the future of Guatemala, the Democratic Party, U.S. is going to win.
In a contest between the Democrat Party and the future of El Salvador, the Democrat Party in America is going to win.
In a contest of the Democrat Party and the children of Guatemala, Ecuador, MACO, you name it, the Democrat Party is going to win.
And the Democrat Party will make it look good by saying the kids are so wonderful and so forth, but they don't care what it means in the real world that the future of these other countries is leaving to join the Democrat Party in America.
Now, there's a story in the Christian Science Monitor.
You know, I just love, I love poking holes.
I love finding hypocrisy and lies and BS in the media.
And I found another example.
Christian Science Monitor, for some migrant girls, rape and pregnancy are part of the journey.
And I said, now, wait a minute.
Hold it a second.
I thought, and I thought it because I was being told along with everyone else that these young kids were fleeing such things in their native countries.
They were fleeing rape.
They were fleeing poverty.
They were fleeing teenage sex trafficking, child sex trafficking, and other traps.
They were fleeing all of that.
This article flies in the face of everything we've been told previously.
We have been told that these children are fleeing sex trafficking.
By the way, just so you know, fleeing sex trafficking is the only way that children can apply for asylum under the 2008 Wilberforce Act.
It's got to be sex trafficking that they're fleeing.
That's the only way that they can get asylum.
They can't get asylum fleeing poverty.
They can't be granted, according to the law, which may not mean anything, but according to the law, the Wilberforce Act, it has to be sex trafficking that they're trying to escape.
By the way, do you know who Wilberforce?
You don't know who Wilberforce is?
He is the British man who ended slavery in Great Britain.
Yep, William, I think his first name was William, but there was a major movie made about the man, and it was made by, oh, I'm having a metal block.
I can't remember the guy's name.
He's not a traditional Hollywood producer.
Actually, part of the, is one group trying to get a football team in Los Angeles, and I'm having a metal block on his name.
Famous note, Anschutz.
Ann Schutz.
Philip Anschutz financed the movie on William Wilberforce.
I think it's William.
And Wilberforce was the force behind the equivalent of slavery in Great Britain long before we dealt with it here.
The movie was Amisteed.
Ever heard of the movie Amisteed?
Okay, that's what it's about, William Wilberforce.
And so anyway, the Wilberforce Act of 2008 specifically says that these kids must be fleeing sex trafficking in order to be granted asylum.
And now this story comes along.
Christian Science Monitor says, oh, no, no, no.
They're encountering, these poor souls are encountering rape and pregnancy on the journey.
They are not aware at the Christian Science Monitor that we pay attention.
Now, the drive-bys are going to miss this.
All they're going to see is, oh, my God, is it that they want to come here so bad?
These kids want to get to America so bad that they are willing to risk rape and pregnancy to get here.
Oh, my God, how can we keep them out?
That will be their take on it.
They will not remember that we've been told they are fleeing rape and pregnancy and sex trafficking in order to come here.
Not that it is occurring on the trip, which is this story.
Although teenage boys make up the bulk of Central American children traveling alone to America, girls increasingly are venturing north too.
And for some of them, the risky journey becomes even more difficult because of a pregnancy.
Now, this, in addition to everything else, raises an interesting point.
Now, we know the majority of these illegal alien children are boys.
At least 65%, maybe more.
And yet we're supposed to believe they should all get asylum in the U.S. because they're the victims of sex trafficking.
So, in other words, the minority make up of the children coming north is girls.
And yet, here's this big sob story about, oh, they're all being raped and they're getting pregnant.
And that's why it's just a sad thing, Mr. Limbaugh.
This is what's happening to they want to get here so bad that they're willing to risk these horrors in order to get away.
Wait, not even the majority of them.
65%, maybe more, are boys.
Who's doing whatever?
We're just being lied to.
People are trying to tug your heartstrings to get you to agree to all this, and they're lying to your teeth, folks.
It's a sad thing.
You really can't believe anything you read.
By the way, folks, book time.
I have been meaning all week to tell you, whenever I run into a couple of books or any book I'm reading and I want to pass on to, I always share with you Daniel Silva's latest, The Heist.
If you like Daniel Silva mysteries, those that are in the art world, this is just, it's fabulous.
It's the latest one.
It's a dark blue cover.
It's called The Heist.
And I haven't gotten into this one yet, but Wayne Root sent me a Wayne Allen Root.
Went to school with Obama, Columbia, has written a bunch of op-eds about that and about how he knows from his knowledge of Obama way back when what an anti-capitalist Obama is.
He's got a book out, and I have a signed copy, it happens a lot, called The Murder of the Middle Class.
Wayne Allen Root.
And there's one other.
Oh, the latest Stone Barrington is great escape.
I mean, if you like Stuart Woods, Stuart Woods is a huge lib.
Huge.
I mean, an MSNBC type lib.
But I love the guy's books.
Stone Barrington, the series of the big-time lawyer.
If you've read them, you know what I'm talking about.
Time to grab to the phones or grab the phones.
El Segundo, California.
Richard, I'm glad you waited.
And welcome to the program.
Hello.
Hello, Rush.
I can barely hear you.
Mr. Sturdley told me that I'd get better reception, but if you can hear me, fine.
I hear you just perfectly.
Excellent.
Excellent.
Speaking of hearing, first things first, how's the ear implant situation?
It's actually improved my hearing in a lot of circumstances.
It was well worth doing.
Thank you.
Excellent.
Excellent.
Pleasure to talk to you again.
My point is this.
This 40% popularity figure is bunk pressed by the major media.
It carries no legs at all in my mind.
If you throw out the people who are in some way, shape, or form dependent on government, it should be down at zero.
Among the independent, thinking, self-sufficient people in this country, his popularity has dissipated to virtually nothing.
Well, but popularity and job approval are two different things.
Well, I used the wrong term.
Okay, so you're talking about job approval.
I'm talking job approval, yes, sir.
Yeah, but all we have to go on to the polls.
I mean, it'd be fun to sit here and say, we know they're making it up.
I'm like you.
I happen to think it's much lower than 40.
Well, amongst the people that count, I'm not counting Rio Linda and Goodapart of El Cegundo here.
Well, you have to.
I'm counting the people out there in the system who are self-sufficient, working, trying to get ahead.
The approval rating's got to be close to zero amongst those folks.
True, but you can't leave out.
I mean, over almost half the country.
Do you know how much was spent on transfer payments just last year?
Are you talking about all of welfare programs?
Everything.
Yeah, over a trillion dollars.
Two trillion.
It was over $2 trillion that we are transferring from producers to non-producers in $2 trillion.
The budget is only about $3.5 trillion.
Right.
That's exactly right.
My point is you can't leave them out of a public opinion poll.
They're going to be surveyed, and I think he's lower than 40, but I don't know by how much.
I don't advocate leaving them out.
All I'm saying is to explain away this 40%.
You've got to consider the fact that, as you've said many times, it's tough to vote against Santa Claus.
Yeah.
Okay, well, if you're doing that.
They're just not going to vote against this guy as long as the goodies are.
I know.
And there's the wilder effect.
People still are not going to say anything negative about a black president or a pollster.
Given our last caller from El Segundo, California, and his point was well taken, that the only reason Obama's at 40 is because of all the people depending on government.
And you have to factor some of that in.
I don't dispute that.
But I'm here to tell you, even if Obama's approval number hit 30, they're not going to report it.
They'll report it.
They won't dwell on it.
They'll still shift that to anger at Washington.
It's part of the limbaugh theorem, folks.
Remember the limbaugh theorem.
I hate to keep mentioning my name with this, but I'm the one that deciphered this.
The way Obama got reelected in 2012 is that nobody held him accountable for anything he'd done.
The economy wasn't his fault.
It was still Bush's.
The unemployment rate wasn't his fault.
Nothing.
Benghazi wasn't his fault because he's perfected the art of appearing as not governing.
He's still, even though he's been president for six years, He still has been able to position himself as somebody as a victim of all this, and he's fighting real hard to fix it.
He's been working on it since a campaign.
He's working very hard, but there's all these powerful forces aligned against him.
These Republicans in Congress, and nobody, all they're doing is hating and they won't help.
And nobody's working with him, and they can't get anything done.
And this is how it's done.
Here, let me grab audio soundbite.
What is it?
I think it's number 19.
Let me make sure that.
Yeah, grab soundbite 19.
Obama today was in Virginia at Fort Belvour, and he was signing a VA bill, acting like he's had nothing to do with what's wrong at the VA.
Over the last few months, we've discovered some inexcusable misconduct at some VA healthcare facilities.
Stories of our veterans denied the care they needed, long wait times being covered up, cooking the books.
This is wrong.
It was outrageous.
And working together, we set out to fix it and do right by our veterans across the board, no matter how long it took.
It happened in his administration.
It's been going on for six years, and here he is signing a new VA bill, talking about these stories of our veterans denied the care they needed, long wait times being covered up, cooking the books.
The books were cooked because of him.
The people cooking the books did so to protect themselves from punitive policies in place if they didn't meet quotas and so forth.
But even disregarding the details, he's been president six years.
The VA scandal happened during his administration.
We've discovered some of these things out there, and veterans denied care cooking the books.
It's all wrong.
It was outrageous.
And I didn't know it was going on.
And now that I found out it's going on, we're going to fix it.
Limbaugh Theorem.
It's exactly how all of this happens.
Now here's this story.
This is from a deeply concerned Reuters.
Headline, Americans worry that illegal migrants threaten way of life, comma, economy.
As President Barack Obama considers sidestepping Congress to loosen U.S. immigration policy.
Don't you just love that choice of wording?
He is going to break the law.
If he does this, he's going to be violating the Constitution.
And what does Reuters say?
He's considering sidestepping Congress to loosen U.S. immigration policy.
A Reuters poll shows that Americans are deeply worried that illegal immigration is threatening the nation's culture and economy.
70% of Americans, including 86% of Republicans, believe that undocumented immigrants threaten traditional U.S. beliefs and customs according to the poll.
And when you read the rest of the story, you cannot escape Reuters' belief that this is just a bunch of crazy, paranoid racists that are responding in this poll.
Because everybody knows that illegal immigrants are a boon to the economy in our culture.
Everybody knows that these kids are the future of America.
Everybody knows that this is a nation of immigrants.
And without these people crossing the border, we will never, ever reclaim our greatness.
How can kids be a boon?
They're future Democrats.
They're future Democrats.
That's what.
Kids, I know all kids do is consume, particularly Democrat kids.
But they're the future of America because they're going to vote Democrat.
They're the future of America because they're going to keep Democrats in office.
They're the future of America because they're going to be subservient and dependent on the Democrat Party.
That's why they're the future.
But the point here is that you have a poll where 70% of the American people know the disaster that will happen.
And Reuters writes about this as though the disaster is public opinion.
There's a story.
It's not, by the way, just this poll.
Some member of the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights is warning Obama that all of this is going to be disastrous for the black population.
And you can figure that one out.
This guy says the poor blacks in this country do not need more competition for the dollars handed out by the Democrat Party.
And in fact, they've got first dibs on them because they were the original victims of this country.
And what do you mean, importing a bunch of new victims?
We can't have that.
It's all over the place.
It's not just the 70% in the Reuters poll.
This Civil Rights Commission guy is standing up and he's saying it would be a disaster for the black population.
I still, I'm going back and forth on whether or not Obama will actually do this.
On the one hand, I wouldn't be surprised if he did it just to create the disaster because he thinks this country deserves it.
It's time we found out what life on this planet is really like for most people and should have been like for us all along if it hadn't been for the fact that we've run around the world and stolen everything.
On the other hand, there's a part of me that says Obama didn't do this when he had both houses of Congress the first two years of his regime when he could have done it easily.
He wouldn't have even needed executive orders.
He could have just had the Democrat Congress give him the bill he wanted and signed it.
They could have done amnesty the first two years and they didn't.
And the reason they didn't is because nobody's going to get credit for this.
There is only going to be blame.
And to the extent that Obama cares about the Democrat Party, if he can't finagle this so that the Republicans get blamed for it, he may not do it.
Those are the two competing ideas I have in my head about this.
And I don't know which one is more correct.
Because both of them, in their own way, make an equal amount of sense.
Again, on the one hand, we have Obama with a chip on his shoulder about America.
And it's deep, and it's rooted to the founding.
How could a country write and ratify a constitution rooted in individual liberty and freedom when there was slavery?
And that's just something I don't think he and Holder have ever gotten over, even though it didn't affect them.
It didn't impact them.
I think as leftists, they've been raised and educated to be angry about that, no matter what happens, no matter that we are one of the few nations on earth that has solved it and gotten rid of it at great cost.
So that's one.
On the other hand, he doesn't want if he does this on his own, it's going to be him and the Democrat Party take the hit, not the Republicans.
And I don't know that he's ready for that.
Time will tell.
So on the one hand, I don't think he's going to do it.
On the other hand, I think he will.
I don't know which is the case.
I think there's a bunch of huffing and I think his dream would be if he can scare the Republicans into doing it.
I think that's what this is really all about.
That's why the Democrats will not shut up about impeachment.
That's why the Democrats will not stop goading the Republicans all this claptrap about you guys are never going to win anything as long as the Hispanics keep hating on you the way they are hating on you.
And if you don't start getting some love from the Hispanics, your days in the political system here are over.
And the only way you can make them love you is amnesty.
And of course, the Republicans believe this, tripe, folks.
So there's no question that Obama is trying really hard to make it look like the Republicans are stopping it and then pressuring them into making it happen so that they take the hit.
Because the truth of the matter is if the Republican Party wants to end itself, if it wants to commit suicide, if the Republican Party wants to ensure that it doesn't win the White House for a long time, they will do amnesty.
And that's what the Democrats want.
The Democrats are not interested in Republicans winning the White House again.
The Democrats are not interested in the Hispanic vote shifting to the Republican Party.
Any two-year-old could figure that out.
Time will tell what happens here.
And I really, on this one, it's tough to predict.
It could go either way.
That's Peter Kersenau.
That's the black commissioner on the eight-member U.S. Commission on Civil Rights.
Peter Kersenow is the black member, and he wrote a letter to Obama this week.
I write to remind you of the disastrous effect of illegal immigration on the employment of all Americans, but particularly black Americans, he wrote.
He was livid about it.
And he let Obama know in no uncertain terms.
Here's part of what he wrote.
Illegal immigration has a disparate impact on African American men because these men are disproportionately represented in the low-skilled labor force.
He added, granting legal status to millions of people in the country illegally will continue to depress wages and employment opportunities of African American men and teenagers.
And it'll also depress the wages and employment opportunities of African Americans going forward.
So, Peter Kersenow, black member, U.S. Commission on Civil Rights.
I, E, a Democrat.
More than likely.
There is no credit for doing this, this thing.
Now, on the one, let me throw another thing in the mix and trying to predict what Obama is going to do.
The fact that the Washington Post has an editorial today warning him and, in a sense, throwing down the gauntlet and saying, you really don't want to do this.
We will not and cannot defend you if you do this.
That tells me they think he's really close to doing it, which may give us some sort of indication.
As I say, I'm not surprised either way.
If he goes ahead and does this and drops that nuclear bomb and grants amnesty, the half of them or all of them would not surprise me.
And it wouldn't also surprise me if he sat around and waited and waited until he can figure out a way for the Republicans to get blamed for it.
Because I'm telling you right now, there is no credit.
There's no credit to be had here.
I mean, not anywhere near a significant amount of credit that would redound positively in a political sense to anybody.
Now, Peter Kersonau, he's a staunch opponent of amnesty.
It was a Bush appointment, by the way.
So he may not be a Democrat.
Okay, okay.
I understand correctly.
Conservative African-American Peter Kersonow, and he's warning Obama.
Okay, well, then that just means Obama won't listen to him.
But he wanted to go on record anyway.
Oh, pay.
Back to the phones.
Brian is a trucker from Phoenix, now in Austin.
On the road.
Great to have you on the program, sir.
Hi.
Thank you, sir.
I appreciate you taking my call.
I've listened to you forever, and I've wanted to call in, but scared most of my life to even talk to you.
But I heard that gentleman talking about the dental story, and I laughed so hard that I thought I better tell Rush.
Isn't that great?
I know.
That was awesome.
To get to the point, because I know you got more important things.
My brother is a Republican, and I'm a Republican conservative Christian that 25 years ago was hoping Jesse Jackson would become president when I was a liberal dumb college student.
And my life has changed.
I've seen that in reality.
You know, that stuff doesn't work.
And his business and my business are very well.
We have children, and mine are 16 and 18 and just doing wonderful.
Long story short, I got your first book, the Rush Revere one about the Mayflower and the Pilgrims and for his children behind his back because he thinks that everyone on the far left and the far right, including me and you, were all wacky.
He's right down the center, and that's normal, he thinks.
So I ended up getting the book for him, my daughter.
His kids look up to my kids so much that she was babysitting him.
I went over there when he was gone, read the first chapter in front of my daughter and his two children, and I made the voices of the horse, and I made it really fun so they would get hooked on it, and they loved it.
I left with the book there, and hoping that I wouldn't get in too much trouble and hoping that the kids would want to read it.
And sure enough, when he came home, he went ballistic in front of my daughter, angry, just yelling.
She'd never seen him act this way.
Just because your picture and your name on the book.
Holy smokes, it shows who people really are.
So what took place was the kids really wanted to read the book.
They liked that first chapter.
I really made an impression on them, or you did.
And so the kids, he said, well, instead of throwing the book away, because, you know, it costs a little money and it was from his brother, even though he thinks I'm wacky, he ended up having the kids, you can bring it to school.
And if they will read it there, then you can read it.
So he brought it.
The kid, my nephew brought it to his, it's a Christian private school.
Okay, look, I'm out of time.
Can you hang on?
We have to wait breathlessly here for the end of the story.
I'm sorry, folks.
I was hoping and praying, but we got to take this stupid.
Okay, we'll have to wait a while to find out what happened when the guy kicked the book out of his house and directed it to be taken to the school.
What happened next?
We'll find out when we get back.
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