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Oct. 6, 2014 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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October 6, 2014, Monday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 Podcast.
Right here we are, folks, back at it, back in the Southern Command Headquarters of the Excellence in Broadcasting Network.
Rush Limbaugh, as we all know, as long as I'm here, it doesn't matter where here is.
But nevertheless, it's still great to be home.
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How about those Kansas City Royals sweeping the Anaheim Angels three games to zip?
These are the kinds of things that destiny is made of, folks.
First time in the playoffs in 29 years, up against the best team with the best record in baseball, not supposed to have a chance.
And before you know it, the Angels are eliminated and the Royals go on to start Friday night in the ACLS in Baltimore.
Just it's it's a good feeling.
Twenty-nine years.
That's the longest drought, I think, in baseball team has been well in the modern era.
It's uh it's great, and congratulations to everybody uh at the Royals and in Kansas City.
It's uh it's great to have them back.
Great scrappy young team.
Do you know that one play Josh Hamilton, get this statistic, and it's just this is not about this no complaining here.
It's just an illustration of things.
Josh Hamilton, who I think was hitless in the series, left fielder for the Angels.
17 million dollars this season.
He made more than six of the starting eight Royals players combined.
That's uh it's an amazing stat, and and and the names I escape me here, but I think it's it's five or six of their starting eight, not counting the pitcher starting pitcher to be eight players it'd be the one play, and I think he went hitless.
Uh or one hit, whatever it was.
Anyway, uh, folks, I got another C. I told you so here.
I told you that the Democrats would politicize Ebola, and it would make a suggestion that it needs to be blamed on the Republicans, and it happened yesterday on Stephanopoulos' show.
And it was the former regime figure Van Jones.
Details are coming up.
There's also uh, ladies and gentlemen, there's a there's a another poll, actually a couple of polls out there.
Uh the voter opposition to Obama is at a 16-year high.
Voter opposition to Obama is worse than voter opposition ever was to George W. Bush.
Now you wouldn't know this because the drive-by's, of course, are not talking about it.
They're not reporting it on a daily basis.
They have not been reporting Obama's decline in favorability with the American people and the people who voted for him, like they chronicled it with Bush multiple times a day, much less multiple times a week.
In addition to that.
The AP has a funny story.
It's what's funny in the way it's reported.
The headline, Americans worry, can government protect us.
And this what's funny about this, this is an AP story reporting an AP poll.
And you have to dig hard to find the numbers because they're so bad.
For example, in one result, they they use the term nine in ten.
Nine out of ten Americans, blah, blah, blah.
Instead of saying 90%.
They have really reduced the use of numbers in this piece so that the low information crowd will not realize the full impact of it.
Um, and and here's the thing that worries me about all of this is going to be featured with details coming up here, but the thing that worries me about this, we've talked about this in terms of the millennials before.
It used to be, and it wasn't that long ago.
If you had a poll that showed something like nine out of ten Americans worry that government can't protect them, that That would automatically redound negatively to Democrats, but it doesn't today necessarily.
As we have found, the millennials, for example, are losing faith in America, not the Democrat Party.
Not Obama.
They are responding negatively, poll after poll, to Obama policy after Obama policy, after Democrat Party policy.
And it isn't working for them.
And they're very down and out about their futures.
But they think it means the country's best days are behind us.
They don't associate it, at least a significant number of them don't.
Associate that failure of government with failure of the Democrat Party.
For some reason, well, it's not for some reason, we know why.
They do not associate the Democrat Party with the party of big government.
Now stop and think, how could the Republicans have possibly lost that?
The Republican Party used to be known as the Party of Limited Small Government, and by virtue of that the Democrats were known as the Party of Big Government.
That's not automatic anymore.
That is a huge branding loss.
Anyway, details on all of that and more are coming up.
But that 9 out of 10 number, by the way, that the AP refuses to call 90%, 90% of those polled say they are likely to vote in the November election and say the economy is an extremely or very important issue.
Thank you.
Which would not redound well to the party in power, which in this case the party in the White House.
But even the poll question, can government protect us?
What is government not have a hand in anymore?
When you get right down to it, what does government not have a hand in?
The government's hand is in virtually everything you do, including what you say, including if Michelle Obama had her druthers what you eat.
The government's determining what kind of car you drive or wants to, the government's determining uh the the light bulb ban.
Can government do enough to save us?
Can government protect us?
And you've got Ebola, the government's got its hands in the in the name of the Washington Redskins.
The government's got its hands in whatever's going on in the NFL, be it concussions or domestic abuse, and then there's a poll at the Hill.com Democrats start to point fingers.
And this one's kind of surprising because of the source, the Hill.com, uh talking about trouble in the Democrat Party in Democrat Paradise.
So those are the polling stories.
The Van Jones story is a giant C, I told you so.
But ladies and gentlemen, before we get to that, old Joe.
Oh, yeah, the Supreme Court.
People are confused what the Supreme Court ruling is.
You're not you're not confused.
Okay, well, you're smiling and you oughtn't what what what do you think the Supreme Court did?
That's right.
Gay marriage now, that's right.
They wanted no part of it.
They they rejected efforts to stop it in five states.
And so that means that it's now a state-by-state issue, if the states, which arguably is what should have happened with abortion when you get right down to it.
If that had happened with abortion, we would have a much less royaled society and culture.
Because in abortion, the American people have never spoken on it.
It was nine guys in black robes that came down with the ruling.
Supreme Court here has said essentially we're not going to get involved here in gay marriage.
And if a state wants to do it, have at it.
And there were appeals from five states to make sure that their anti-gay marriage laws could be upheld.
The court said, no, don't look to us.
So it's going to be a state-by-state proposition.
But Joe Biden, Joe Biden.
Uh This is an interesting set of circumstances.
Because Biden's been calling all over the world apologizing.
And for once, he actually got it right.
What he said was actually correct.
But it is said that the timing was ill chosen.
And it was time, it was not just the timing, but maybe this is something that should not have been said publicly.
Vice President Joe Bightme on Sunday called a crown prince of the United Arab Emirates to clarify that he didn't mean to imply in his remarks last week that the UAE was supporting Al-Qaeda fighters in Syria.
Biden spoke with Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahan, the crown prince of Abu Dhabi and a key leader of the United Arab Emirates.
It was the second time in two days that Joe Biden had to call a key partner in Obama's anti-ISIS coalition and walk back comments he made last Thursday.
What did he say last Thursday?
He said that U.S. allies, including Turkey, Saudi Arabia, and the United Arab Emirates had funded and armed extremist groups linked to Al Qaeda.
Well, they have.
Turkey has.
Saudi Arabia, I mean, I guess one of the best kept secrets in the world, at least well, no, best kept secrets in the United States, Saudi Arabia is ground zero for this.
Ground zero for the thinking that leads to militant Islam, Al Qaeda, ISIS, the Corazon group.
Pick your group.
In fact, I found it, I found it somewhat comical.
I guess it's a month ago.
There was a fairly big story.
It was in the UK Daily Mail, I believe.
And uh the Saudi king, King Abdullah Ibn Abdulaziz Saud had called all the newly arrived ambassadors to Saudi Arabia over to his house, uh palace for sort of a welcome and a hello and an orientation.
And included there was our Secretary of State John Kerry, who at one time served in Vietnam.
And at this meeting, Saudi King Abdullah Ibn Abdullahiz Sod these ambassadors to go back to their leaders and tell them that ISIS has to be stopped, that this is out of control, and that in a month's time ISIS is gonna have infiltrated Europe, and in two months' time ISIS is gonna be in America.
And I'm reading this, and I'm I'm I'm mildly amused is not the is not the right word.
But I mean this this this would be like Colonel Sanders calling in a rooster and telling him to tell a chickens to be on the lookout for a bad guy.
It just seriously, and I'm not, I'm not, I'm not trying to get on the wrong side of the king of Saudi Arabia, King Abdullah.
I mean, after all Obama bowed to the guy when he when he first met him.
But seriously, uh so Biden comes along and he and he happens to make the point that all of our allies have indeed supported officially or unofficially, financially and with uh with arms and ammo, ISIS and Al Qaeda, and they're outraged to be called on it.
And so Biden's had to run around and apologize to everybody to call him up personally and and and say that he didn't mean it, and that and that he misspoke, and that he's very, very sorry for it.
The White House said that Biden clarified his remarks and recognized the United Arab Emirates' strong steps to counter extremists and participation in U.S. led airstrikes against Islamic State militants.
The White House statement said that Biden's remarks regarding the early stages of the Syrian civil war were not meant to imply that the United Arab Emirates had facilitated or supported Al Qaeda, the Islamic State Group, or other extremists in Syria.
The UAE's official news agency said that Biden had apologized to the UAE for any implications in his recent statements that were understood to mean that the UAE has backed the growth of some of the terrorist organizations in the region.
Now, as I say, this was very impolitic to say.
There's something about this that amuses me as well, because I've given up being frustrated by it.
If Joe Biden were a Republican, he'd have been out of Washington 29 years ago.
Joe Biden is a is a, you know, I have a friend of mine who is from Delaware.
And this friend is not nearly as into politics as I am.
My friend believes Civics 101 versions of politics and holds in all elected officials.
And Biden's name came up, and I said, isn't this an absolute blithering idiot?
The guy looked at me like I was from another planet.
So I started giving examples of why why I think this.
And it it didn't matter.
It was home state loyalty.
All that mattered was that this guy from Delaware and Biden represents Delaware, so Biden's automatically great.
There was no thought at all.
There was no intricate analysis of Biden or anything of the sort.
So many things that remain, even at my age to date, 63, still remain kind of surprising and eye-opening at how shallow people look at particularly in politics.
The depth people explore isn't all that deep.
But Joe Biden, I mean, here's a guy sitting in the wheelchair out there in St. Louis.
Oh, God bless you.
Oh, my God.
What oh my oh, gee.
Everybody stand up for Chuck!
Chuck can't stand up.
He's paralyzed.
He's in a wheel.
These are just isolated things.
But the serious Joe Biden has actively sought to destroy people like Clarence Thomas.
Joe Biden's actively participated in efforts to ruin the lives of several really highly qualified judicial nominees on the Republican side, Roberts Alito.
And he gets away with this inanity.
He gets away with all of these gaffes that violate every tenet of political correctness.
They they violate every tenet of common sense.
They violate every sensitive corpus.
The guy walks around and makes fun of the people at work at 7-Elevens stores.
Yeah, in Delaware, man, you've got to be an Indian if you're going to go in there and understand what they're saying to.
Oh, that's just Joe.
He can probably get away with sexual abuse.
Because it's just Joe.
And it's a it's a standard that is.
Ooh, my gosh, I just saw the clock.
My God.
Oh.
Ladies and gentlemen, a correction is due.
I erred.
I committed a boo-boo in the analysis of the Supreme Court ruling today on gay marriage.
It is not going to be state by state.
It has been nationalized because of the what basically has happened, that the Supreme Court let lower court rulings on this stand.
So essentially, gay marriage can happen anywhere now.
It is, it's it's not going to require a referendum or a vote state by state.
It has been effectively with this action, by not taking any action and letting the lower court's latest rulings on gay marriage be the rule of the day, then gay marriage has been nationalized, is what this essentially means.
So I wanted to make sure I got that correction out there as as quickly as I could.
Now, I'm I'm sorry, I I went way deep into this segment that's only going to last a minute and a half.
I just totally lost track of the clock.
I wasn't watching it fortunate I saw it in a nick of time.
I just got a couple of Joe Biden sound bites, uh, and then I want to get back into the uh polling data and the giant see I told you so involving Van Jones, suggesting that the Democrat Party politicize Ebola and blame it on the Republicans as an election issue.
Something that was an easy prediction to make, and I made it last week, maybe the week before.
Whatever, sit tight, be right back, don't go anywhere.
No, no, no, no.
My confusion over this stemmed from something I I heard on TV this morning.
And I I was either CNR Fox, and I heard somebody analyzing, and I heard somebody say, so now it's a state-by-state proposition.
It was somebody I thought knew what they were talking about.
But here's the the crux of the matter with the Supreme Court ruling on gay marriage, we can cite Chris Silizza at the Washington Post, who's giddy about it.
And he says Supreme Court confirms that uh confirms what we already knew.
The fight over gay marriage is over.
And it is.
The Supreme Court's action today essentially nationalized the proposition, despite the number of states that have had referendums where majorities opposed it.
And the Politico has an article that may help explain why the Supreme Court punted on this.
And they cite Justice Ruth Buzzy Ginsburg, who may have foreshadowed the court's decision.
She was speaking, making a speech last month.
And she said in the speech that the justices were likely to await a difference in opinion among the circuit courts before they rule on the issue.
And there is no disagreement in rulings at the circuit court.
All three federal appeals courts who have taken up gay marriage have agreed that it is unconstitutional for states to prohibit it.
And as far as Supreme Courts could according to the at least the heads up that you might want to interpret from Ruth Busy Ginsburg, is since all three Federal Appeals courts have taken the case up, have agreed that it's unconstitutional for states to prohibit, they don't have any disagreement to arbitrate.
The lower court rulings have all been identical.
It's unconstitutional for states to prohibit same-sex marriage.
So there was no desire to strike that down because there was no lower court ruling disagreeing with those three.
So that's why they punted.
And in punting, and that's really what they did, in punting, same-sex marriage, gay marriage, is now the law of the land.
Anywhere, anytime, wherever.
And I apologize to my earlier error on this.
My bad, I just I simply thought I was listening to somebody who knew what they were talking about on TV.
Now, just to wrap up this Joe Biden business, because I don't want to spend a whole lot of time on this, it's just the thing is, when Biden speaks, it's always a gaffe, and he's always given a chance to clarify.
Every liberal is.
Every liberal, every Democrat, every liberal Democrat media member misspeaks, they always get a chance to clarify.
Republicans are never offered the chance to clarify.
Republican apologies are not even accepted.
And Biden is just is a is uh is an absolute he's a joke when you get right down to it.
So let's go to the audio sound bites.
This last Thursday in Cambridge at the John F. Kennedy Jr.
Forum.
This is what Biden said.
The Saudis, the Emiratis, et cetera.
What were they doing?
They were so determined to take down Assad and essentially have a proxy Sunni Shia war.
They poured hundreds of millions of dollars and tens, thousands of tons of weapons into anyone who would fight against Assad.
Except that the people who were being supplied were Al Nusra and Al Qaeda and the extremist elements of jihadis coming from other parts of the world.
Well, it's correct, but it was a no-no because what he did was basically impugn the intentions and the good name and the good vibes of our allies in this war on ISIS.
Basically went out and said when he when he identifies them here, the Saudis, the Emirates that United Arab Emirates.
And he included Turkey, Recept Tayp Erdogan, who is big, by the way, huge Islamic extremist, which is new for Turkey.
They're all supporters, proponents of extremist Islam, and have at times supported Al Qaeda.
Biden just pointed it out.
And it was a foolish thing to do.
I mean, these are our allies.
Kind of thing you say privately and you you but he goes out there and said Biden's one of these guys that loves to prove, try to prove how smart he is, and how in he is, how close to the centers of power he is.
And he just he sometimes speaks without a filter, and this is one of those times.
Here's here's the next example.
And the Turks.
President Erdogan told me he's an old friend, said, You were right.
We let too many people through.
Now they're trying to seal their border.
So he's had to call and apologize to all these people.
And it's funny to watch the media cover.
Oh, that's just old Joe, you know, it just an untimely time to tell the truth.
And they're all laughing about it and uh and chuckling over it.
So what happens is he's allowed to get on the phone and read an apology script written by somebody probably in the State Department of Communications office or or what have you.
And he's given a chance to clarify, and it's just like if you recall this, you may not.
That's why I'm here.
It was the 2004 presidential campaign.
CBS was doing a profile of the Democrat candidate John Kerry, who uh at one time served in Vietnam, and he did such a bad job in the interview that CBS offered him a do-over.
They offered take two.
This never happens.
When the media gets somebody making a gaff or making an idiot of themselves, they run as fast as they can to get it on the air.
But CBS News with this John Kerry panicked and offered, because it I forget what the details were, it doesn't matter.
I forget what the substance of the interview was, but it was just embarrassing.
He was blabbering all over the place, not making any sense about anything.
Uh and CBS realized if they aired this, it would it would not be good.
So they gave him a chance to uh do it over.
Angry and frustrated voters are planning to use the midterm elections in one month to tell President Obama they oppose his agenda.
The highest no vote percentage in the last sixteen years measured by Gallup.
The polling outfit found that 32 percent of voters want to send a message of opposition with their vote, compared to just 20 percent who were sending a signal of support.
This is 13 points higher than in 1998 when uh Clinton was headed to impeachment for lying about his sex affair with Monica Lewinsky.
And it's higher than it was in 2008 when Americans were tired of George Bush's military actions at Iraq and Afghanistan.
And again, I know, but don't get me started on that again.
They were tired of it because they'd been talked into it for five years.
Now the uh this this question is not new.
It was first asked by Gallup back in 1998.
The question reads this way.
Will your vote for a candidate be made in order to send a message that you support Barack Obama be made in order to send a message you oppose Barack Obama?
Or will you not be sending a message about Barack Obama with your vote?
Not surprisingly, Republicans want to use their vote as a megaphone of opposition, and then Gallup quotes the numbers here.
Uh the stories in the Washington Examiner, but it is a huge number here.
A 16-year high.
People are actually responding to a question about whether or not their vote is specifically a message of opposition to Obama.
It's a huge number.
It's the biggest number, I think, since Gallup has been asking the question.
It's not that long ago, 1998.
And it's all part – Republicans have, I'm sure, strategists and consultants and pollsters which have told them something similar to this.
And it's one of the reasons why the Republicans are just standing mute and not saying anything.
They think that by opening up, they might make of themselves targets.
And they really believe the more they're invisible, the more they're not even on people's minds, the better the outcome will be.
I still – I understand that, by the way.
But I still think it's a – just a tremendous opportunity to – I mean, you've got here looking, you've got a record high number of people who who claim that their vote is to send a message of opposition to Barack Obama.
To me, that's a golden opportunity to build on it.
Expand the number of people by virtue of education.
You the here again, it seems to be a large number of people just waiting for a connection.
You know, the the majority opposition to Obamacare seems to me to have always been opportunity for the Republicans to connect with a majority of the American people on something.
Obamacare.
Another one is uh the economy and jobs.
Uh there are any number of things that people oppose in great numbers what Obama is doing that are majority.
And immigration's another made the order, but of course we know where the Republicans are on that.
But they're passing up these opportunities to forge a connection with a majority body of thought.
And I uh it it's it's it I can't help but think it's a it's a missed opportunity.
It's an opportunity to actually forge an alliance with people and let them know you you you think the same way.
You're on the same page with them.
But they're opting to stand mute.
We'll be back.
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We go to the phones to flushing Michigan.
This is Susan, and I'm glad you called.
Great to have you here.
Hi.
Hi, Russ.
How are you?
Very well.
Very well.
Great to be home.
Oh, I'm glad you're home.
Um, just something real quick just to go along with what you're talking about, the president's uh favoritism amongst people is low.
Uh we went to a college football game here in Michigan this last weekend, and um they did a public service announcement during the game, which was about it reminded me of more like a yes we can kind of deal again, but it was about taking care of each other and doing this and working together.
Okay, now wait, wait, wait.
I don't want to gloss over this.
Do you who the P because who did the PSA?
What on whose behalf was it?
Um Obama.
It was an Obama PSA.
Yes, because Joe Biden's face was talking about doing things together along with students.
He was in the middle of the announcement, and at the it was about a 30 second announcement.
It was put up on all of the big screens at the stadium.
Right.
And at the very end of the announcement was President Obama.
And as soon as his face came up there, there were booze in that stadium that surprised me.
And I was just so happy to hear it because I thought, you know, it just it was like a positive thing for me because it was like, okay, other people are feeling the same way I am a lot of the people in that stadium, including the student section.
Up until then, you hadn't heard that there were you mu you might have heard a poll here or there that said Obama's approval number was down around 40, 39, 42, whatever it was.
But the media doesn't harp on it.
And the media certainly doesn't talk about Obama's lack of popularity.
They never talk about how far he has fallen from the lofty heights of two thousand nine.
And as such, you never see any evidence of the polling data that's reported.
You never see uh men on the street interviews with people expressing their disgust with current government policy, the economy.
You never see it.
So here for the first time, Obama's picture on the big board and massive booze, and you you you I'm sure I know how you felt.
You felt like finally you weren't alone in what you were thinking about it.
Exactly, exactly.
And especially this is not a big campus, and it was this is a huge stadium, and to have that many people, the boos were so easily heard across the stadium.
Well, I must ask.
I must ask the campus.
Well, this would be at Michigan State University, and this is a campus at President Obama.
Now wait a minute.
Wait a minute.
That's not a small college.
No, no, it's not.
I thought you said it was a small university.
No, no, no, no, no.
It's it's one of the bigger universities.
Okay, I was gonna say this is then right, then the impact here is this Michigan State would be your your classic liberal citadel.
Correct.
And for this kind of reaction to happen with just Obama's picture on a big board, I this is why that that privately, you know, people who are aware that this is what the low polling d data means.
This is why the that that some people are running around and they're doing it kind of as quietly as they can because there's always a series of unknowns, but people are predicting a wave election are doing so on the basis that that they really think there's profound anger and disgust with Obama right now.
Well, I've I I mentioned earlier in the program, Susan, that uh some people are afraid that this opposition, like the the polling data here that we have on the story, Americans worry can government protect us.
A lot of millennials have not lost faith in Obama, they've lost faith in the country.
And so what you saw would help people, I think, realize that no, it's it's it's it's not that people have lost faith in the country.
It's that they're just they're they're angry, and there is no outlet for it.
There is no political party representing what they think.
That's why it's all happening in a vacuum, and when you saw it, you felt like it was the first time you were actually had it confirmed that you weren't alone.
Right, exactly.
And I told my husband, I said, you know, that was probably the high high point of the game for me.
You know, we did win, of course, but um but uh it was just it was a positive thing for me thinking that maybe we can turn this thing around because I I'm as frustrated as the next person, but to hear people booing when his face came up.
Actually it's very sad that it has to be that way.
But it is what it is.
He he campaigned in on this stadium or on this campus in two thousand and eight when he won in two thousand and eight.
He came and campaigned there.
And so you know, he's a friend of the campus, and you know, and and of course I'm sure to me it was kind of creepy also.
Are are they playing this at all stadiums across the nation?
I have no idea.
I've this first have heard of it.
I wouldn't be surprised.
That yeah, what is uh is some PSA about uh ever everybody come together, work together, we're all one what I don't what what what was it about?
What was the point of it?
That was the point.
Take care of each other.
Oh geez.
Yeah.
As though we don't.
You th th the the thing that that I resent about that but folks, I'm not smirking at the premise.
I'm smirking at the fact that what we don't help each other.
We always have uh anyway, I've got a time crunch problem here.
Susan, thanks for the call.
More when we get back, don't fastest three hours in media, as proof the first hour is already you know when a broadcast engineer says, Man, that first hour w you know it was fast.
Because Bros broadcast engineers if that happens to them, it must be zipping by everybody else.
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