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Sept. 26, 2014 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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September 26, 2014, Friday, Hour #3
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And greetings to you once again, music lovers, thrill seekers, sports fans all across the fruited plane.
Documented to be almost always right 99.7% of the time.
Rush Limbaugh, the EIB network, it's Friday, so let's hit it.
Live from the Southern Command in sunny South Florida, it's Open Line Friday!
It's the last big hour of the week, folks.
Our last busy broadcast hour, Rush Limbaugh at 800-282-2882.
If you want to be on the program, and Open Line Friday means whatever you want to talk about, fine and dandy, have at it.
As you've heard today, we have had a whole bunch of very typical Open Line Friday calls.
What do I mean by that?
They've been about nothing, but everything.
There has been no pattern, no topic, no rhyme or reason.
They're all over the place.
It's exactly what Open Line Friday is supposed to be.
So don't be inhibited.
If you want to ask something, it's not about politics, have at it.
That's what Open Line Friday doesn't have to be politics.
It doesn't have to be issues.
Screw the stick to the issues crowd.
That's what Open Line Friday is for.
For example, you know, I would love to explain more about this guy that called me about the iPhone 6 and iOS 8 and all the problems going on, but I'm kind of reluctant to do it because I know some of you people think I'm shilling and I'm not.
I'm not shilling at all.
I just share my passions with you.
But I'm not going to do it unless I get a phone call about it because Open Line Friday is your, well, I might.
I don't know.
It depends on how bored I get.
So, bottom line, you don't have to talk about things you think that I'm going to be interested in.
I'm omnivorous.
I'm a polymath.
I'm self-educated in all kinds of things.
I'm interested in a lot of things I don't care about either, but I can fake it if I have to.
Now, we just had a call.
A guy, understandably, I agree with him.
I think we're really blowing an opportunity here in this election.
I don't like this assumption that we're going to win big.
I just hate it.
It makes me uncomfortable.
Winning with no effort is a recipe for not winning.
And it doesn't look like any effort's being made except fundraising.
I mean, I'm like you and inundated with panic-stricken fundraising emails.
Do you get those?
We're losing.
You know why we're losing?
Because they're outraising us.
Yeah.
Why do you think that might be?
I think it's a golden opportunity that's being blown here and missed.
But see, I'm not a professional politician.
And they are.
Theoretically, they know their business and we don't.
I know we vote for them.
They supposedly work for us.
But politics is a business.
And they have experts that tell them what to do to win.
Sometimes the experts have blown it pretty bad, but it seems, I'm I'm sure to you, as it does to me, that this is such a golden opportunity, not just to win an election, but to beginning, set the stage and build a foundation to affirm real change here.
And then turn things around so that we're in the direction, back in the direction of rebuilding the principles and the doctrines that led to the founding of the country, which basically means just turn things around so that once again the emphasis on individual liberty and freedom, economic freedom, economic abundance and advancement,
and the accrual of wealth and people getting jobs again and finding careers.
It seems like just such a golden opportunity.
And then we read why they're not.
A, the theory on your opponent destroying themselves.
Get out of the way, let it happen, which a part of me understands.
And then there's the fear, the fear that criticizing Obama, no matter where he is in the polls, is going to anger people, particularly the independents.
Republican consultants believe this stuff.
And then there is the existing, and we know it exists, dislike in the Republican establishment for conservatives.
Because Republican establishment types are like Democrat establishment types, in that government's the center of the universe.
Government's where the money is.
And I think there's another factor here.
I think as the grassroots, as you individuals have been donating less money, the Republicans are getting it.
They're making up the deficit from corporate interests.
And the corporate interests who are donating are now the masters.
You donate, you expect results.
And if you donate in big books, in blocks of big books, rather than a $5 donation here, $10 there, you wield considerably more power in getting policy decisions that you want.
And I think this is a chicken or egg thing.
Grassroots are contributing less money because they're angry that the party doesn't seem to be representing them.
That leads to corporations filling the gap, which further distances the grassroots and the base from the party.
And it's such a blown opportunity.
I don't think you have to criticize Obama to state your beliefs if that's what you're afraid of.
You don't even have to mention Obama in spelling out what you believe.
You don't have to mention Obama in explaining core principles.
You don't have to explain Obama at all, not to mention Obama at all in telling people what kind of country you want, what you believe in, and how you intend to make it happen.
But for whatever reason, they're not doing it.
And not only are they not doing it, in some places, it's even worse.
Tom Tillis is the Republican running for the Senate, North Carolina, against Kay Hagan.
Kay Hagan ought to have been blown out already.
She ought not even be viable, but she is for a whole host of reasons.
Some of it is money.
So Jeb Bush went in there the other day.
Jeb Bush went in to campaign for Tom Tillis.
And one of the things that Republicans are in certain, Scott Brown is telling everybody.
He's running a Gene Shaheen up in New Hampshire.
And he said this election is totally about amnesty and stopping it.
From the Republican side, this is an election about amnesty, not just in New Hampshire, but he's specifically referencing that, but elsewhere.
And Tillis and a number of other Republicans seeking the Senate are running with an anti-amnesty plank as part of their campaign.
So Jeb Bush went in there and actually suggested that Republicans should pass amnesty if they win back the Senate.
Now, here you have Republicans campaigning for the Senate with an anti-amnesty, anti-amnesty-related comprehensive immigration reform plank in their campaign.
Here comes a guy saying, Yeah, but after you win, you should do it.
It's, I don't know, folks.
Breitbart has the story.
Even though Republicans may take back the Senate by running against amnesty, former Florida governor Jeb Bush pushed amnesty legislation while stumping for North Carolina Republican Senate candidate Tom Tillis on Wednesday.
According to the New York Times, Bush reportedly said that comprehensive immigration reform will restore and sustain economic growth for this country.
And even though a recent Gallup poll found that illegal immigration is now the top concern among Republicans, by the way, Obama's polling low on it, 30% approve of whatever he's going to do on immigration.
Despite all of that, and despite the fact that immigration is a top concern among Republicans, Jeb Bush said in North Carolina, if immigration reform is framed in that way, I don't think there's a big debate in the Republican Party about the need to do this.
Meaning, frame it in a way that it will restore and sustain economic growth.
This is where, Jeb, if you're out there, and if, or representatives of Jeb, if you're out there, grassroots Republicans don't understand that it seems just the opposite.
If you're going to flood this country with millions of low-skill and low-educated individuals, how in the world does that restore and sustain economic growth for Americans for the country?
Seems to me that the natural Republican campaign theme, whenever you're talking, you don't have to even mention Obama talking about immigration.
You can mention Democrats at large.
But how hard is it in opposing comprehensive immigration reform as a Republican to say, no, I am in favor of jobs for the American people?
How hard is that?
That's not hard at all.
And that would resonate.
But the American people don't understand how economic growth is going to take place, especially for them, if there is a never-ending trek into the country by low-skill and very ill-educated people from Central America or anywhere else.
The two don't make any sense.
But this has been something that the Republican establishment has been married to since the first term of the George W. Bush administration.
It has been something they have been salivating over.
There's something more going on here than just the Chamber of Commerce wants it.
There's something more going on here than just big money donors, big business who want cheap labor donors want it.
There has to be something else that is behind this, because it doesn't make any, on the surface, common sense.
And especially to go in with a guy who's campaigning for the Senate on an anti-amnesty plank, and then to suggest that the Republicans, after they win the Senate, should do it.
And Jeb Bush, according to the New York Times, and we have to, as a caveat, according to the New York Times, I wouldn't be surprised if Jeb denied this, by the way.
He hasn't yet, that I've heard.
But the New York Times says they put this in quotes, but they still use the word reportedly said.
And my hope is with a Republican-controlled Senate, we can begin to see a conversation about how to go about doing that, meaning immigration reform that will restore and sustain economic growth for this country.
Here's a story from the Associated Press.
And it's a shocker.
Well, it's a shocker because the AP is shocked.
It's their story.
Headline, U.S., most new immigrant families fail to report in.
No kidding.
Really?
And the AP is shocked and stunned that these new immigrant families that have come across this year, the children and the adult parents that they've been paired with or found, are not reporting back to the authorities.
The regime, for nearly three months this summer, carefully avoided answering questions about what happened to tens of thousands of immigrant families caught illegally crossing the Mexican border and released into the U.S. with instructions to report back to immigration authorities.
Homeland Security Secretary Jay Johnson and others said if they don't do that, they face deportation.
But it turns out tens of thousands of those immigrants did not follow the government's instructions to meet with federal immigration agents within 15 days, and now they're out there.
They're in the wind.
And we don't know if the government knows where they are.
We don't know if the government kept records of where they put them.
They have vanished.
It says here in the story, they have vanished into the interior of the U.S. Boy, I hope they're not taking pictures of the interior.
Did you see the other day the Park Service not letting journalists take pictures in national parks?
You didn't see that?
Oh, yeah, you can't take pictures in National Park without permission from the government now.
And if you do it, you could be fined $1,000 if they catch you.
So I hope these illegals who have vanished into the interior are not taking pictures in their Jellystone Park or at Yosemite, El Capitan.
Now imagine, imagine the outrage when Obama finds out about this, folks.
The AP is shocked.
The AP is shocked that these immigrants did not report in as they were told to do.
Imagine the outrage when Obama finds out.
Heads are going to roll.
He only knows things when he reads them in the paper like you and I do.
And when Obama finds out that these tens of thousands, maybe hundreds of thousands of illegals across the border were told to report back in 15 days and didn't.
Oh, man, I don't want to be there when the heads roll.
Oh, I should point the AP earlier this year made fun of.
They mocked people who suggested this would happen.
People like me and you.
When we heard that these hundreds of thousands of immigrants were told to report back to immigration authorities within 15 days of clearing the border, when we suggested that that would never happen, no way, Jose, they mocked us and they called us racists and they called us bigots.
And now from this article, the 70% figures suggest the government released roughly 41,000 members of immigrant families who have failed to appear at federal immigration offices, 41,000.
That's what they're admitting to.
You can bet the real number is higher than that.
And this also from the article.
Final deportation had been ordered for at least 860 people traveling as families caught at the border since May, but only 14 people had reported as ordered.
Now, if I'm reading this right, only 14 people caught at the border since May have been deported.
But how can that be?
Because Obama repeatedly says that deportations are up, and he'd never lie to us about this.
So, man, I'm just confused.
Open Line Friday in our final busy broadcast hour of the week.
Jacksonville, Alabama next.
This is Carol, and welcome to the program.
Hello.
Hi, Rush.
How are you and Allie doing with her newfound freedom?
Well, aren't you sweet to ask that question?
It has been, let's see, has it been a week or two weeks since I mentioned that we were going to do this, and that's very sweet of you to remember and to care about that.
So let me give you the answer.
We got a new kitten about, well, I guess 13 months ago now, an Abyssinian.
It's a tawny.
And previous cat was Punkin, which was a ruddy.
She was a ruddy.
She passed away with kidney failure.
So very, very sad.
So we got a new one named her Allie.
And because this cat is insane, I mean, Punkin was an old soul from the get-go.
Punkkin behaved like an adult very soon after leaving kittenhood.
But this cat's all over everything, jumps to the highest point in every room she can get to, including needing a ladder to go get her because she can't jump down.
So I have been afraid because I've seen it happen to them.
She'd get on a banister on the second floor and a narrow banister of two or three inches wide, lose her balance and fall.
I've been scared to death, so we've kept her in two rooms.
And finally just decided a couple of weeks ago, we can't have this poor cat just live in two rooms of the house.
So we just opened the doors and let her out.
And I have to tell you something, Carol.
She's a different cat.
She's not nearly as insane.
She's not nearly as lunatic.
But you can tell she's just having more fun going places because I would pick her up and carry her through the house to take her from the office to the bedroom.
And you can, she's just looking at everything as we're walking by because you know the curiosity of cats.
But since she's been let go, she just has the run of the house except where the dogs are.
And she just is having the time of her life.
And she spends just as much time with me on her own now as she did when she was forced to.
I mean, she sometimes slinks off and finds some sunlight coming through a window and take a nap in it.
But I can count on the fact that late at night when it's time to go to bed, she's going to be somewhere where I am and will follow me right up.
And it's just, it's been great.
It's entirely, it's been with no fear.
And I was scared to death to do this because I was afraid she'd fall.
That was my only fear.
Not that she'd get lost somewhere, but she'd fall.
But it hasn't happened yet.
And she's a, she's, when I say different cat, I mean, she's just, she no longer worried about being picked up.
She didn't want to be picked up because she didn't want to move against her own volition.
It's just, it's been fun.
She sounds like a Republican.
Wait a minute.
Well, you know, Catherine says, you know, you could learn a lot about women by watching this cat.
It's all rooted in freedom and just letting them do whatever they want to do.
And if you do that, they'll be there when you need them.
And I said, okay.
And it's proving out to be that way.
This cat, when I say lunatic and insane, I just mean this cat is fearless and runs all over the place, screams and cries when she wants something.
I mean, gets mad.
It's funny.
She's just got oodles and oodles of personality.
We just love her.
I appreciate the question.
Thank you very much.
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This is Alicia in Miami.
Hi, Alicia.
You're next.
It's great to have you open line Friday.
Hi.
Thank you for having me on your show.
You bet.
You know, the first time I had your program, I think it was around March 20 something in 2001.
I was home.
I just had arrived from Madrid.
I married in Madrid with an American citizen and we decided to move to New York.
And you were talking about how you were losing your hearing.
And actually, you moved me to tears because I'm a journalist.
And I was thinking, what is he going to do if he can't hear?
How is he going to continue with his show?
I was doing the same thing.
Yeah, that's the thing.
You continue to do the same thing day in, day out.
And I really got addicted.
And even when I went back to Spain, I would try to listen to it through the internet.
And then fast forward to spring of 2009.
I was a correspondent for a newspaper.
I was doing translation and I write.
And I was having trouble with my car cortano syndrome.
So I had surgery.
It went really bad, really wrong.
It was medical negligence, and I lost my fingers, all five fingers with my left hand.
No, wait, wait, wait, wait.
You lost all five fingers on your left hand.
And you are a writer?
Yeah.
Lucky for me, they just cut the fingers, not the rest of the hand, because in the beginning they said it was going to be below elbow.
So I'm lucky and I'm alive.
But, you know, it's a shock.
What are you going to do if you're right?
So there are many things to, many people to credit for my recovery.
And you're one of them.
You know, because you inspired me.
You know, it's like our veterans, they come back without two limbs, three limbs, and they keep going and they keep doing what they do, you know.
And it was the same with you.
So just so you know, I really look up to you and I listen to your program every day.
And it was really good what I was doing, really have to keep listening to you because you know that you can be an individual with strength and stamina to keep going and just not be stopped because you lose your fingers.
Oh, I can imagine.
When I was losing my hearing, it was obviously scary, but it was also frustrating.
It happened rapidly, but in stages.
I lost it all in six months.
It was about 10% a week at one point.
And it finally, one day I came in here and I literally New York, the engineer, get started on setup for that day's program.
I couldn't understand what he's saying.
I heard him fine.
I just, my, my hearing had deteriorated.
I could not make out the words.
And that meant that day, I was not going to be able to understand a single thing anybody said to me on the phone.
And so it hit me that the original diagnosis of me was wrong.
They thought, oh, that's just genetic.
Your father was hard of hearing, and they thought it would taper off and could be handled with hearing aids, but that didn't work.
I always knew, my point here, I always knew that there was not a solution, but a way to deal with it called a cochlear implant.
But I didn't know how well it would work.
I didn't know if it would work well enough for me to comprehend speech, but I knew there was something I could do.
So I didn't really panic.
But I'm sure in your case, same thing with me.
I mean, you love to write, and so you've just found a way to do it.
It's what you want to do.
Okay, there's something you lost your fingers on your left hand in your case.
You also were fortunate to find things that inspired you, and you found a way around it to keep doing what you love.
And, you know, everybody needs inspiration.
Everybody needs assistance now and then.
And so I'm really honored that I could have been a part in that for you.
I know how important it is.
Now, I don't even think about it now, other than when I just got a new one on my right side, then it becomes a focal point, and I tell people about it.
Now to me, it's just normal.
How about you?
What is your work around?
I'm doing pretty well.
I keep translating.
I don't do a lot of gigs and journalism because I'm really disappointed at the state of the profession.
So I'm doing a lot of copywriting, translating, and I'm doing, well, I work at home with my dog, and I enjoy South Florida.
Well, do you use your right hand to write?
No, no, no, both hands.
The ones without fingers, I trained myself.
In the beginning, I would use Dragon, the voice recognition software, which is very good, but it's not the same when you write with your hands and when you write with your speech.
Well, you know, that's interesting.
That's different.
That's interesting you say that because, you know, I want to send you.
Do you have, well, I'm going to send you anyway.
Do you have an iPad or an iPad mini?
No, I don't.
I want to send you an iPad mini.
You can dictate on it what you're calling voice recognition.
You can dictate to it.
Any app that has a keyboard, email, word processing, you can dictate.
Now, in my case, I speak my thoughts much better than I write them because that's what I've done my whole.
My brain can't keep up with typing on a keyboard.
But it can keep up with my mouth, or my mouth could keep up with my brain.
So I just, when I write anything or a lot of things, I dictate it and then go back and clean it up later.
Because if I just, if I write, I can't type because I get focused on making mistakes, correcting them, and losing my train of thought, and I get frustrated.
And I've learned now that I can actually dictate my thoughts, speak them with more vocabulary and more creativity than if I just sit down and write.
And not that it'll ever be that way for you, but if you let me send you one of these iPad minis that's got dictation on it, you can try it and you might find that it comes in, it might come in handy, at least in helping you express yourself in a written way, which is what you love to do, I gather.
Thank you so much.
That's so nice.
I have to tell you something else.
I just bought your Russian Revere and the Brave Pilgrims, not for a kid, but for me.
And I'm enjoying it.
You bought it for you.
Oh, yes.
Yes, I'm a barracks reader, and I try to improve my English every day.
And my learning of history of this country, I'm so glad and so grateful to be able to become an American, which will be very soon.
So, God bless you.
Look, I'm flattered.
I'm flattered that you called.
If you will hang on, the people you talk to when you call will get your address and make sure it's an address that we can FedEx to.
We don't mail here for a bunch of reasons.
And I'll get it out to you as it might be a week before I can get to it because I don't think I've got one here.
I've got them at home, but I'm not, I'll do my best to get it as quickly as we can.
In the meantime, I appreciate Alicia.
Thank you so much.
I've got to go, folks, a quick timeout because time constraints force me to.
Back after this with much more.
And this is Paris, Tennessee.
Next, this is Ricky.
Ricky, welcome.
It's great to have you with us.
How are you?
Hello, Rush.
Mega ECIG Dittos.
Thank you, sir.
Great to have you here.
Just had a question.
Do you ever know what happened to the Commibe makeup artist that used to be on your TV show?
Oh, yeah.
The Comie Babe makeup artist is still a commie and still a makeup artist at Fox News.
Really?
Well, that's interesting.
That's really interesting.
She married one of the security guys that was on the TV show.
They're happily married with about 18 kids.
I don't know how many kids, but they're happily married.
Stuart's a great guy, and she's, I don't know how much of a commie she still is.
I don't know how much Fox has rubbed off on her, but they all love her over there.
She's, you know, she came, she arrived there with a commie babe identity.
And whenever I'm at Fox, I see her.
It's been a long time since I've been there.
But she's still around and still doing exactly what she did when she was the makeup artist for my TV show.
Yeah, I used to watch the show when I was in high school, and I just loved it and recorded it and watched it over and over again.
And you saved me from a lifetime of liberalism.
That's great.
I appreciate that.
Thank you.
Thank you very much.
This has been some fascinating open line Friday calls today.
See, this is exactly the kind of stuff.
We didn't have to be issues all day, front to back, side to side on Friday.
Appreciate that, Ricky.
Sadly, my friends, we've come to another screeching halt.
It was a fun open line Friday, and there'll be many more straight ahead.
But we've got the weekend off, and we'll be back here Monday, revved up and ready to go all over again.
And remember, as I always say, you don't have to pay any attention to anything going on over the weekend.
We, I will do that for you.
You just show up Monday.
Whatever happened of any importance, I'll have it for you.
And as an added bonus, I'll also tell you what to think about it.
Thank you for being with us, my friends.
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