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Sept. 18, 2014 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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September 18, 2014, Thursday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 podcast.
And it is the you know, it's the fastest week in media.
For me, it's one of the slowest weeks.
This is like uh the week leading up to Christmas Day.
When I was a kid.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
I'm waiting, I'm waiting for tomorrow.
But I'm gonna tell you something, you know.
Last year, I don't know if you if you all remember, I'm I'm almost ashamed to admit this, but last year I took iPhone 5S Day off.
Remember that?
And I came up with some cockamami, look, uh I forget what it was.
Maybe I didn't come up with an excuse just that I said be gone, but I was here awaiting delivery.
And you know, this year I decided Rush, let's show a little maturity here.
You've got a job, and you just can't take off because FedEx or UPS are gonna show up.
And so I decided that I'm gonna be, and it's gonna be the slowest three hours in media tomorrow.
Well, I don't mind admitting it.
I've always been one that loves sharing my passions with you and uh anybody else.
And then it was great, you find out that somebody shares your passions.
It's it's terrific.
Anyway, telephone numbers 800-282-2882 if you want to be on the program, the email address El Rushbo at EIBNet.com in the National Football League, some commentators are starting, are beginning to catch up to your host in realizing, recognizing what's going on.
We have audio sound bites and documentation coming up.
If um if you're looking for evidence that we have lost the country, and you still are on the ledge about this, you don't know which way to go.
Let me throw a story at you.
The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco has affirmed that it is now illegal, it is against the law in the United States of America to wear American flag shirts on Cinco de Mayo.
The story comes, uh the Daily Caller.
It's official, the U.S. Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals has issued an order declining a request for an N Bonc hearing in a case involving four students and a California Haskrul who were sent home for wearing American flag t-shirts on Cinco de Mayo.
The full slate of Ninth Circuit judges has thus agreed with a lower district court and with three appellate judges that officials at Live Oak Haskell in Morgan Hill, California could indeed censor students who wanted to wear flag, American flag emblazoned shirts on Cinco de Mayo.
The Federal Appeals Court issued its denial of an inbox hearing on September 17th, which was yesterday, Constitution Day.
How about that for irony?
Yesterday was in fact Constitution Day, and on that day, the Ninth Circuit issued a denial of a request for an inbox hearing, meaning the people wanted the entire Ninth Circuit to hear the case, not just the trio of judges.
The court said no further petitions shall be permitted.
Now, trouble here dates back to Cinco de Mayo, which is May 5th in 2010, when officials at Live Oak Haskrul, a school with a predominant Mexican American student and body, forced the students to remove their American flag festooned shirts.
I remember talking about this story when it happened.
Remember it?
Couldn't believe it.
We literally couldn't believe it was one of those signs of something that was going on, maybe a sign of something they come in.
It's one of these things that we all catalog.
This is crazy, it's never gonna happen.
And here it is.
It's it's happened.
Administrators at the school called the shirts incendiary.
And worried that fighting would break out between white and Latino students if Latino students noticed the American flag shirts in America on Cinco de Mayo.
So the assistant principal, Nigel Rodriguez, told the students to turn their shirts inside out or leave school.
Students of Mexican heritage told local media the students who wore American flag t-shirts should also have to apologize.
They said ethnically Mexican students wouldn't wear a Mexican flag on the 4th of July.
It's not a school day anyway.
But that wouldn't matter.
You think you think a bunch of American kids get upset if somebody shows up in high school wearing a t-shirt with a Mexican flag on it?
Nobody wouldn't care.
That's the point.
Nobody would be offended by it.
They wouldn't care.
It might cost some snarky comments.
Nobody would take it to court for crying out loud.
Nobody would demand they turn the shirts off and turn them outside in.
Or inside out or whatever.
Now, this has screwed Morgan Hill has screw located 20 miles south of San Jose.
We're not talking down there in the Mexican border.
This is near Silicon Valley.
The Hasgir located 20 miles south of San Jose has experienced numerous gang problems, but nevertheless, the scruel seems to have organized impressive cinco de Mayo celebrations in recent years.
In the previous three judge ruling, a Ninth Circuit held that school officials have wide latitude to limit freedom of expression.
The court said our role is not to second guess the decision to have a Cinco de Mayo celebration or the precautions put in place to avoid violence.
Here, both the specific events of May 5th, 2010, and the pattern of which those events were a part made it reasonable for scrub officials to proceed as though the threat of a potentially violent disturbance was real.
And so on cinco de mayo, some American students.
I think aren't they all American?
What is this?
Aren't they all American students?
Or is get some illegals in this in this school?
What is this?
So American students on Cingle de Mayo, it was considered to be a provocative.
See, that's they were trying to stir things up.
It was provocative.
And we've got to stop the violence.
And therefore, the fault is not on those who had the violent reaction.
No, no, no, no.
The fault is with those who wore the t-shirts.
I don't know where you put this in the category, but the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals.
I mean the category of have we lost the country or not.
This this to me is.
I don't know how to describe it.
It's it's it's worse than silly.
It's outrageous, doesn't cover it.
Offensive doesn't cover it.
Dangerous is more likely.
Remember the other day we were talking about the uh the new requirements at Ohio State University.
If you're gonna make out or have sex, all of the contractual agreements you must make with your opposite partner.
And there must be yes at every step of the way, and there must be an agreement on why.
Yes is agreed to every step of the way.
Well, another story here from the website campus reform, Clemson University.
Oh, by the way, Clemson, that's the Florida State opponent this weekend.
Jameis Winston, the quarterback for Florida State, suspended for the first half for shouting about vaginas and stuff from a tabletop in the student union.
I mean, literally shouting about it, but he didn't wasn't using the word vagina.
He's dropping F bombs and so forth.
I'm gonna make a prediction to you.
This guy stands up on a table student union and starts shouting like he's literally out of control.
He's imitating some some uh video, YouTube video it's out there.
He gets suspended for this by the school for the first half.
I guarantee you when this guy shows up in the second half, he's gonna get a standing ovation.
It I don't I don't Brian, where's the game?
Is it at Clemson or is it Florida State?
Do you know?
Well, especially if it's at Florida State, but I don't care where it is.
He's gonna get a standing O from the students.
He's gonna get a standing ovation of support for having been suspended, and he's gonna get a standing ovation for having the guts.
It's a Florida State home game, a Seminole's home.
So he's gonna get a standing ovation for doing what he did.
The students away, man, way to bust through, man.
Way to really blow out the envelope, man.
That's so cool.
You see what he and they're gonna give him a standing O. You wait and see.
You disagree with that?
Of course you don't disagree.
Okay, so anyway, the Clemson is the opponent.
Clemson is now requiring students and faculty to complete an online course through a third-party website that asks invasive questions about sexual history.
In an email, Clemson University says that failure to complete the course will be a violation of the student code of conduct, the general student regulation eight, and failure to comply with official request.
Clemson University requiring students to reveal how many times they've had sex in the past month, and with how many partners.
Clemson, it's public university, requiring students and faculty to complete an online course through a third-party website.
And among the questions, how many times they've had sex in the past 30 days and with how many partners.
In screenshots obtained exclusively by the website campus reform, Clemson is asking students invasive and personal questions about their drinking habits and sex life as part of what they've billed as an online Title IX training course.
Now, off the top of your heads out there.
You know what Title IX is?
Yeah, it's equality in the universe for the university for instance in sports related men.
Title IX basically made universities get rid of a bunch of male sports to make room in the budget for female sports.
That's what Title IX.
So it's under the auspices of Title IX, i.e.
feminine equality, female equality, that this survey is required.
Another question: how many times have you had sex, including oral in the last three months?
Is one.
That's a Clinton question.
Uh, you know, it could have said how many times have you had a Lewinski, but they didn't say that.
How many times have you had sex, including oral, in the last three months?
With how many different people have you had sex, including oral in the last three months, including yourself?
How many people, how many different people have you had sex, including oral, including yourself, in the last three months.
In a campus-wide email, the South Carolina University announced that all students, faculty, and staff would be required to complete this mandatory one-hour-long Title IX training course by November.
What is what what's the training here after you've answered these deeply personal and invasive sexual behavioral questions?
What's what's the training going on here?
The email demanding all this, again, provided the campus reform reads, we believe you'll enjoy the assignment.
It's an engaging and informative online course created with students for students.
It'll provide you with useful information regarding sexual violence and relationships.
The course provides a healthier and safer campus into how.
If they're going to make the survey results known.
What uh well the the question of anonymity is relevant here.
How else are they gonna determine if everybody's complied if they don't know who has and who hasn't?
The only way you can do that is by name or number.
Now, whether they publish the results attached to names, I can't believe, but then I never thought that you could go to jail for wearing an American flag t-shirt on Secret Mayo either.
Although the email said that the course, which also asks if a student is part of Greek life or is an athlete, meaning sorority fraternity or on the football team.
Although the email said the course was created by students, it's actually a product of campus clarity.
That's Capital C Capital C one word there, campus clarity.
It's a Title IX and Campus Save Act education program, a combined sexual assault and substance abuse prevention in a comprehensive online training program.
Clemson students are still required to log into the course with their student IDs and include their first and last names, email addresses, and their housing information.
Everything that you admit to in this will be known.
Clemson student told campus reform, hey, look, it's not that I have an issue with being trained on Title IX.
I have an issue with the personal questions here.
The fact that I'm told it's anonymous, but it's clearly linked to my name.
It's obviously through a third party, so it's not only it's my information I'm going to be filling out, incredibly personal information regarding my sex life, I have issues with speaking about.
It's not only going to be the university, it's going to be this third-party company I don't know.
All ostensibly to promote more polite, respectful sex on campus.
Let me take a brief time out while you digest those two things.
And then when I we just barely scratched the surface here.
I just I just got an email flash.
Very early this morning, Clemson University canceled.
The Title IX Sexual Behavior Survey for students and faculty.
They um they claim that they had no idea the third-party company was asking these kinds of questions.
They thought it was going to be a survey designed to promote peaceful, respectful, consensual sex on campus.
They had no idea that the questions were this personal.
So the latest year is that Clemson University no longer prying into its student sex lives for now.
Made the announcement very, very, very early this morning.
So some sense permeated.
Common sense reared its head and was and was listened to.
Uh, but nevertheless, understand somebody tried to do this.
Somebody was attempting to get this done.
And at some point, they'll bring it back in a disguised form and get it done.
Because there's an agenda behind this.
There's make no mistake that there isn't an agenda that's largely going to be the feminist agenda driving it.
Some things here from um let me deal with an email first, I got.
I uh I'm glad I got it again.
Rush, I've noticed something in your show recently.
You're not talking about the elections, and you're not talking about the Republicans uh much, and I would think Rush, I'm I'm summarizing a whole bunch of emails on this.
I would think that you'd be totally absorbed in the elections.
Now, I don't make conscious decisions to avoid things or to discuss things.
Uh I rely on my instincts.
I I really do each and every day.
I come here and I decide what to talk about based on what I'm most interested in.
Because I believe that there's certain requirements here that equal the audience expectations being met.
One of those things is passion.
And I don't I I'm not gonna talk about something if I if I have to do it perfunctively.
If I'm not into it and don't care about it.
And I finally sat down last night and said, okay, why have I because the emails are right.
I'm I haven't spent a whole lot of time uh in the nuts and bolts of the election.
And I basically concluded, I don't can somebody tell me what the Republican Party message is.
I'm I'm getting panicked emails about the polling in state after state, where it was thought there was gonna be a wave election, the Republicans are gonna win in a big wave, and yet Republicans running against really at risk incumbent Democrats find themselves trailing by a point or two.
Somebody said, Well, one of the reasons for that rush is that the Democrats have much more money.
The Republicans aren't spending any money.
And that's why I said even if they were spending money, what's the message?
Can somebody tell me what the Republican Party stands for when it comes to amnesty?
Does the Republican Party talk about job creation?
Does the Republican Party talking about economic growth?
Are they talking about anything opposite what's happening here?
I I don't know what they stand for anymore.
Other than they're not Obama.
They're not the Democrats.
I I really don't know.
So I don't know what to talk about.
Hi, welcome back.
It's Rush Limbaugh and a cutting edge of societal evolution.
Let me try to explain this.
I'm not.
I am not one of these people who is lined up and ticked off and want to blow up the Republican Party.
That's I I don't I don't get into it in that regard.
What I'm saying is I don't know what to cheer about.
I I can remember back in the days, uh the Reagan years.
It was exciting to be a Republican.
We knew what we supported.
We had a president and a political party that we knew was attempting to implement what we believed, and they were winning, and it was it was something to be very proud of and excited about.
You wanted to be part of it, you wanted to help it.
And I just don't feel anything like that now.
I've been through all the reasons why.
And it just boils down to whether they're suffering from PTSD, whether they're afraid to be critical because of Obama's race, or maybe they pretty much agree with the Democrat agenda, but don't want to say so.
I don't know what it is.
I all I know is that somebody will send me an email.
Look at this, look what the Republican, and I've stopped reading it.
It's not news anymore.
I don't you want something to cheer about.
I know what I think needs to be done to fix the country, and you do too.
That's why there's the Tea Party.
And aside from a handful of candidates who've been elected and are attempting to govern in that way, there is no party identity that is associated with stopping any of this stuff.
You know, I I read the political blogs, I read all this, and I'm I read the people who are immersed in the in the political science of it all.
I read the people who analyze every freaking tab of a poll.
I read the people and analyze to the nth degree what a poll result here means with this demographic group, and I read the analysis, and to me it all misses the point.
And I see after the after the analysis I read, they all some of them are very worried, my friends, that how can it be in this climate that say a Kay Hagen would be leading in North Carolina over her Republican opponent, Tom Town?
No, Tom Tell us, how can it be?
And somebody says, well, if you take a look, Tillis hasn't had any money.
And the Democrats have been spending money all over the state in North Carolina, of course, trashing the Republican.
And I said, okay, fine and dandy, but if they had any money, and if they were running ads, what would they say?
That's what I don't know.
Some of these consultants, and I really think the consultant class is largely responsible for this chosen posture of the party.
Even they are starting to write now that you know a month ago, two months ago, they were sitting fat and pretty.
They thought they were gonna get the Senate and get their precious committee chairmanships, and they thought there might be a wave election.
They weren't Really confident in predicting that, but they were fairly confident of a big win.
And then Nate Silver, the poll predictor guru came out and said 65% chance the Republicans win the Senate.
Republicans win, yay.
And the consultants went, yay.
I kept saying, why?
On the basis of what?
Disgust with Obama, discussed with the Democrats?
Where's the evidence of that?
Well, you can see it in polling data in Obama job approval, but does that automatically mean people are going to choose Republicans simply because they're not Democrats?
Apparently, this is the operative theory at the upper levels of the Republican Party.
Then I think it was Nate Silver, came out maybe early this week or late last.
Guess what now?
It's no longer a 65% chance the Republicans win the Senate.
Now it's a 51% chance the Democrats hold on to it.
And so now these political animals, these wizards that analyze all this polling data and make it just impersonal.
Start analyzing this stuff in ways that has no real meaning other than really inside baseball.
Yuckity yuck stuff, but has no relationship to real people, real events.
Now they're all of a sudden worried, they're panicking.
Oh my God, what's and I'm asking myself, I'm just trying to be honest here, folks, not being critical for the sake of it.
Can somebody tell me what there is to cheer about?
Can somebody tell me what it is that makes you want to go to your checkbook and write a check?
Can somebody tell me?
And I can give you some names of people that inspire that.
But the party doesn't have that identity.
The people who are inspiring that actually are enemies of the Republican Party and the consultant class.
Ted Cruz at the top of the list that they're out there trying to impugn and destroy from the get-go along with the Democrats.
I give you an example.
Amnesty.
Obamacare is another.
You realize the American people have never expressed majority support for Obamacare.
That is an issue.
The Republican Party could have zeroed in on in 2010 when that was passed despite them.
They didn't have the votes to stop it.
It was clear one party domination, there was no bipartisan partisanship.
The Republicans could have forged a majority coalition with people that opposed Obamacare alone.
But they didn't.
And the same thing on immigration amnesty.
Obama's numbers on that now are 30% approve, 60% disapprove of Obama's.
The Democrats were thought to own the amnesty or immigration reform issue.
It's an issue that if the Republicans wanted to forge a relationship with a majority of Americans, it's just been waiting to be done.
And it hasn't happened.
Instead, what do we get?
We get clichés.
We get every Republican candidate stands up and says safely, we need to fix our nation's broken immigration system.
Thank you.
And that's supposed to engender cheers, and that's supposed to go, yeah, man, right now, we're with you.
We want to fix our broken system.
Imagine if instead of uttering cliches like that, a Republican candidate said something along the lines of, oh, you want to know my views on immigration?
Let me be very clear.
My first priority when it comes to immigration is getting the unemployed in this country back to work.
And getting the unemployed in my state back to work.
Now, how hard is that to say?
And by the way, isn't it the right thing to say?
What in the world?
Why is it that the American unemployed worker is at the bottom of the ladder or the food chain when everybody's talking about the need for businesses and others to find people to do jobs?
There are 92 million Americans not working in this country, and I don't believe that all of them are liking it.
We need to fix our broken immigration system.
The thing is, everybody knows what's broken about it is it isn't being enforced.
There's nothing broken other than the people in charge of administering it and enforcing it.
The only thing threatening the immigration system is the Democrat Party.
What is so hard about standing up and saying so?
You realize how many people are just itching to stand up and cheer and to be part of something that would be victorious and turn the tide, at least start to turn the tide on all this.
Whether you think we've lost a country or we're on the verge of it, at some point you have to work on reversing course.
You could say a Republican candidate instead of saying, we need to fix our nation's broken immigration and wait for the applause after asserting that first priority would be getting unemployed people in this country, in my state back to work.
Say something along the lines of we have 92 million Americans who can't find a job, but my Democrat opponent, he wants to double the number of people with no skills and no education and will work for nothing coming into the country.
Now why would you support that, Mr. Ms. Voter?
How hard is that to say?
Do you realize how many people around this country would stand up and cheer that candidate if he just said that?
The Democrats claim that they support and love the little guy.
The Democrats have made, I don't know how much hay over the course of my lifetime, supposedly standing up for the little guy.
If you ask me, the little guy is barely holding on after all of this help.
The little guy is barely making it after all of this assistance and after all this attention.
How many Democrats do you think are accepting big dollar donations from corporate CEOs and Wall Street financial execs, and that could be pointed out?
When it comes to immigration, it wouldn't be hard to say my Democrat opponent is aligned with big business CEOs in the Chamber of Commerce that don't want you to get the jobs available in this country.
They want low wage, low skill, low education, illegal immigrants to get the jobs.
You realize how many people would stand up and cheer.
The Republican Party, I know for some reason just doesn't look at it this way, but if they want to know why they're imaginary poll advantage is starting to dwindle, I don't think it's that hard, and it's it's not just a matter of money.
I didn't intend to get into this in this much detail.
I just had these emails.
How come you're not talking about the index?
Because folks, I don't I just I don't I don't know what the message is.
This guy running uh out in in Colorado, Republican running in Colorado, Corey Gardner.
Uh he's not even sounding like a Republican on immigration.
His his campaign appears to believe that it's unseemly unwise or just not gonna do it to try to win the election by appealing to people who oppose open borders.
Somehow, these Republicans have been made to believe that if you uh if you criticize the open borders crowd that you're a bigot, that you're a racist, that you're anti Mexican or Hispanic.
And part of me over here says, well, can you really blame them when the Ninth Circus says that high school students cannot wear an American flag T shirt on Cinco de Mayo?
Do you know that Cinco de Mayo is not even an official Mexican holiday?
I think it was created by a beer company to sell beer.
It's not even an official Mexican holiday for crying out loud.
I have to double check that, but I I think that.
Well, it's it's like Kwanza.
It's in fact it may not even rate as high on legitimacy scale as Kwanzaa.
Cinco de Mayo is uh I I'm su I don't if if it has any rule, I don't, it certainly is not related to Mexican independence.
It's just it's it's but I don't understand why there isn't anybody that understands voters need something to enthusiastically support, not just oppose and vote out of fear.
I'm a little long.
Brief timeout.
Uh we'll be back.
Don't go away.
Okay, so I just checked the email, and as usual, as predicted, there are a lot of snarky, I would even call them seminar emailers.
Shut up.
Stop whining, stick to the issues.
Russ, you're missing the whole point.
There's only one message, and it's get rid of the liberals.
Oh, I agree with that.
Can somebody show me where that is part of anybody's campaign?
Others are saying, Russ, you're forgetting what happened in 2010, and the same thing's gonna happen this time.
What did happen in 2010?
What do you think it was?
I know that the Tea Party came into existence, but why?
What was the single reason people voted against Democrats in 2010?
Exactly right, Mr. Snerdley.
That vote in 2010 against a Democrat and for a Republican was the only hope anybody ever had of repealing Obamacare.
That is a powerful single issue.
That is something to get rallied behind, focused on, and cheering and enthused about.
The only way possible even have a chance at repealing Obamacare was to get rid of Democrats in 2010.
And because there was that single understandable message, it worked.
What is the corresponding big reason to vote against Democrats in November?
What is it, Benghazi?
Is it ISIS?
ISIL?
Is it Obama?
What is it?
Is it oh, we still have to repeal Obama?
What what is the one thing?
That's my point here.
Immigration?
What is it?
Here's Aaron in Brayton, Florida.
Hi, Bra uh Aaron.
It's great to have you up first today on the EIB network.
Welcome.
Hey, Russ.
I appreciate you taking my call.
You bet, sir.
Longtime listener.
Uh, I heard you talking about Jameis a little bit ago, and you said that um he's probably gonna get a standing ovation.
I hope not.
I'd be surprised.
Uh, I'm an alumni, alumna, uh, as well as my wife and my family, and we're all heading to the game this weekend.
Um, we're pretty embarrassed.
In fact, we're upset about it.
You know, we're to the point now where we just kind of want the guy to go away.
Um, you know, spoke with a bunch of fraternity brothers as well, and we all kind of agree.
You know, he's a risk anymore.
Do you think he's gonna go away?
You think they're gonna get rid of him?
They're gonna bench him, you think they'll suspend him?
Nah.
No, he'll probably he'll probably stay around.
It's the student body.
Uh, whatever percentage of the uh attendance at an FSU game is student body, that's just gonna get him standing out.
The kids.
Probably.
I wouldn't be surprised at that at all.
Yeah, but that's all it's uh.
I don't think the adults, some of them may not have even heard what happened yet.
I hope they have.
But but the this the kids, I mean, the students.
Oh man, they're gonna dig it.
This it's it's a rallying thing here.
Hey, our QB got up on a table, student union started talking about bang, and they just gotta.
It's something to celebrate.
They'll give him standing.
And especially because he was suspended for the first half, they'll welcome him back.
They'll get the band off the field.
The band may even form the shape of male genitalia to welcome him back to the second half.
Gloria Allred is just the latest from the left to demand the resignation of Roger Goodell, a commissioner of the National Football League.
We have some more details, developments in that story.
And of course, whether we're at war with ISIS or ISIL, and whether anybody knows what they're doing there, that's all coming up.
Sit tight, my friends.
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