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Oct. 7, 2014 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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October 7, 2014, Tuesday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 podcast.
Hiya, folks.
Greetings to you, music lovers, thrill seekers, sports fans all across the fruited plain.
Time once again for another excursion into broadcast excellence hosted by me, Rushland Bo this, the most listened to radio talk show in the country.
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We have our usual roster of news regarding Ebola today.
And there's a lot of contradictions.
There are a lot of contradictions going on.
The president said some time ago, don't sweat it.
Very hard to get it.
Very unlikely it's going to be here.
Well, now that it's here, the president had a meeting last night to discuss protocols.
Great timing.
After it's here, we're now going to discuss what to do about it.
So it's quite a lengthy roster of soundbites I have on it.
There's some regime officials very, very concerned about this.
Some media people very concerned for the regime.
The media people more concerned for the regime than they are the citizens in Ebola, because with them, it's always, how is this going to affect Obama?
And I guarantee you, Obama's not going to get Ebola, but the media is acting like Ebola is going to hurt him more than any people that end up contracting it.
You'll see what I'm talking about.
The program unfolds before your eyes and ears today.
Predicted to you a long time when Leon Panetta's book came out that it was the beginning of the transition from the Democrat establishment moving from Obama to Hillary.
And now Panetta and his book are really unloading on Obama, so much so that Dana Milbank in the Washington Post is very concerned about the disloyalty.
The thing about the Dana Milbank piece is that while he berates Panetta, he repeats everything Panetta says.
So it's a double-hatchet job, Panetta and Milbank, with Milbank defending Obama, ostensibly, while attacking Panetta.
So that is coming up.
There's some polling data out there in the various races in the election.
For example, in Wisconsin, Scott Walker, who I think is a singular conservative Republican blueprint success story, has been trailing anywhere from five to six points until today, where he has, among likely voters, magically vaulted up five points.
There is the Mitch McConnell race for the Senate in Kentucky.
His opponent is a woman by the name of Grimes who has been caught on video.
Well, her supporters have been caught on video by James O'Keefe, people like James Dolan, Cablevision New York, Harvey Weinstein.
They're all at a New York restaurant at a fundraiser for this woman.
Grimes is her last name.
And they're caught on video saying, oh, yeah, she's going to do whatever she has to do to get elected.
And then she's going to, and then they F-bomb the coal industry.
They just flat out admit the woman's lying in Kentucky to people there about her intentions on energy and coal.
And after she gets elected, then she's going to do what they're giving her money to do.
And that is F-bomb the coal industry.
So that's a little bit of the table.
Of course, other things.
There's a young American in Chicago, A young American teenager in Chicago, a 19-year-old young American boy in Chicago, left a letter expressing disgust with Western society.
Typical American boy here, according to the AP.
19-year-old American boy left a letter expressing disgust with Western society before trying to board an international flight in Chicago.
The first step in his plan to sneak into Syria to join ISIS.
This according to a federal criminal complaint released yesterday.
So here we have a perfect example of what people refer to as homegrown terrorism.
Here we have a red-blooded American boy from Chicago.
In fact, referred to by the AP in the story as an Illinois teen, quote unquote, who suddenly decided to take up terrorism.
Oh, wait, his name?
Mohammed Hamza Khan.
A typical American boy.
Just your average American Illinois teenager fed up with Western society.
Mohammed Hamza Khan, typical red-blooded, average American teen who lived with his parents in the Chicago suburb of Bolingbrook, was arrested Saturday at O'Hare International trying to board a plane on the first leg of connecting flights to Turkey, which borders Syria.
He's charged with attempting to provide material support to a foreign terrorist group, which carries a maximum 15 years in prison.
Investigators said that a typical American teen, Mohamed Hamza Khan, left a three-page handwritten letter in his bedroom for his parents that expressed anger over his U.S. taxes being used to kill his Muslim brothers and sisters,
which the authorities think is a reference to a bombing campaign against Islamic State militants.
So, Mr. Mohammed Hamza Khan, average American teen, Illinois suburbs, was upset his taxes were used to kill Muslims as if 19-year-olds pay taxes.
Excuse me.
So he decided to go to Syria to help ISIS kill Muslims because whether he knows it or not, ISIS is also killing Muslims, including anybody else.
Anyway, there's that, and some people, come on, Rush, that's not a big deal.
It's just let them go.
Let them in.
Just don't let them back in.
Well, but that's the problem, isn't it?
We have this thing called open border.
How are we going to stop him from coming back?
Especially if he gets Ebola.
Our borders are screened.
Oh, I'm sorry.
I forgot.
You're right.
Our borders are screened.
Never mind.
Let him go.
Nothing to worry about.
Thank you.
Mr. Snerdly, neighbors of the Ebola patient in, have you heard that?
I was wondering how long this is going to take, and it's happened.
The Reverend Zach is on his way to Dallas.
Grab audio soundbite number 14.
Roger Stahlbach's daughter is a member of the Dallas City Council.
Now, Dallas City Council elections are officially nonpartisan, but the neighbors of the Ebola patient feel discriminated against.
That's the magic word, discrimination.
They feel discriminated against.
That is sending up a flare, the equivalent of sending up a flare to the monochrome coalition and a request for the Reverend Jackson to arrive on the scene.
They are discriminated against.
Residents in the Vicker Meadow neighborhood of Dallas, living near the epicenter of the Ebola scare in North Texas, now they say they're facing a different challenge, discrimination.
Thomas Duncan stayed at an apartment in the community before being diagnosed with Ebola and admitted to Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital for treatment.
Just wait till the people living near the Duncan's family's new undisclosed residents find out who their neighbors are.
That's going to be a whole new set of fireworks.
Dallas City Council Member Jennifer Stahlbach Gates says she met with over 30 community leaders yesterday trying to assess the needs of the residents.
These are all illegal aliens.
Well, I don't know about all, but quite a few of them are living on visas that have expired.
She said, unfortunately, they are, well, she was down there trying to assess the needs of these discriminated against residents.
Most are concerned about the possible stigma of living near the apartment building.
30 community leaders, 30 community organizers in this one neighborhood.
Now, unfortunately, said Ms. Gates, they're feeling discriminated against.
We still have some that have been turned away from jobs, some that have been turned away at retail locations.
We're getting them in touch with legal aid and any resources necessary.
Here is, this is a press conference.
This is, again, Jennifer Stahlbach Gates in Dallas yesterday.
I'm speaking kind of as the voice for the Vicker Meadow neighborhood that I represent.
Unfortunately, they are feeling discriminated against.
We still have some that have been turned away from jobs, some that have been turned away at retail locations.
We're getting them in touch with legal aid and any resources necessary.
Do you believe this?
Folks.
Based on their address, they're being discriminated against.
Based on their address.
Well, because there was an Ebola patient in there.
And now, I don't know how they, oh, you mean how does it actually manifest?
Okay, so a resident of Vicker Arms shows up at, say, Walmart to try to get a part-time job, which Walmart is now not paying health benefits.
Have you seen it?
Well, have you seen that?
Walmart eliminating health benefits for part-timers?
Did you see that?
You didn't see that?
Oh, well, that's one of the reasons why they support Obamacare.
Could it not be?
Hello, Costco.
How are you going to deal with this?
Anyway, so what happens?
Somebody from Vicker Arms goes to Walmart, say, to buy some bleach.
And somebody at Walmart's, aha, you're from Vickory Arms.
We're not selling you bleach.
And we want you.
How do they know?
How do they know where they're from?
But they're being discriminated against.
Translation of this is community leaders have realized there's taxpayer money available here because of Mr. Duncan.
Here's some people have recently arrived or been here not very long from Liberia and they already know how it works.
Discriminated against.
But forget that.
I mean, you know, there's no win.
I mean, I can spell out exactly what this is, and I'm going to get the one.
I'd be the one who gets the grief if I even get anywhere near it.
Anyway, I don't know.
There's a handbook on Shaking Down America 101.
Nah, it's just the news media.
If you can have access to American news, you see how this all works.
But they knew enough to call a Reverend Jackson.
And the Reverend Jackson's on his way or else has arrived.
Discrimination, a magic word.
Anyway, we, I, nah, just let it speak for itself.
That's the best course of action.
Here, Walmart has announced that they are eliminating health coverage for part-time workers defined as people who work less than 30 hours a week.
It's right there in the Obamacare law.
Yeah, they say they have to do this.
Let's see.
I don't think I put it near the top of the stack because I hadn't actually intended to get into that much detail yet about Ebola because there's a couple other things here I want to get to first.
Anyway, one of them, there's Stan Greenberg, the Clinton pollster.
Stan Greenberg and James Carville have a polling unit.
And they just put out a release on their latest poll.
They put it out yesterday.
Unmarried women overwhelmingly favor Democrats in Senate battleground races.
This according to the latest Stan Greenberg poll.
Unmarried women.
Now, we knew this.
I mean, we knew that unmarried women tend to vote Democrat.
The spread here is what is the news.
Unmarried women support Democrat candidates by 22 points in 12 battleground states.
Now, what can the Republicans do in the face of this?
Unmarried women, the Julias of the world, if you remember that commercial that the regime put together, unmarried women overwhelmingly favor Democrats in Senate battleground races, by 22 points.
12 battleground states.
What should the Republicans do about this?
The Republican Party would be well advised to set up a dating service and to embark on a policy of arranging dates for as many unmarried women as possible.
Unmarried women favor Democrat candidates by an overwhelming 22 points in Senate battleground races, according to a poll released Yesterday by the Women's Voices, Women's Vote Action Fund and Democracy Corps, Stan Greenberg's outfit.
Republican candidates have a slight edge over Democrats overall in the 12 battleground states with all likely 2014 voters.
It's important to mention that.
Republican candidates have a slight edge over Democrats overall among likely voters in these 12 battleground states.
But when unmarried women are polled and separated from the poll and looked at with just their results, unmarried women favor Democrats by 58 to 36.
And it was back in July, it was 50 to 39.
So there has been an eight-point gain for the Democrats among unmarried women.
Paige Gardner, president of the Women's Voices Women Vote Action Fund, said the Senate races are tightening and Senate candidates can't win without the votes of unmarried women.
In our new poll, unmarried women, African Americans, Latinos, all indicate they will vote for Democrats next month with big gains for Democrat candidates since we last conducted this poll in July.
It was 1,000 likely voters.
And overall, the Republicans have a two-point edge, 47-45 in these 12 battleground states, states that were won by Romney by an average margin of nine points in 2012.
The poll also shows that Democrat candidates are poised to retain control of the Senate largely through the support of unmarried women and people of color.
Now, that conflicts with Nate Silver, who used to be at the New York Times and now is over at ESPM with his 538 blog.
And I think, in the top of my head, I think the last projection I saw from Silver was, somebody correct me on this.
I know this is not right, but it seems like it's close 59% chance that Republicans win the Senate.
Up from, yeah, well, up from 51%.
Now, Nate Silver, this is a special interest group poll.
I mean, I never heard of this group, Women's Voices, Women Vote Action Fund.
And obviously, they have a vested interest in the importance of unmarried single women being seen because that's going to lead to more attention and therefore more money for the group and all of that.
The poll shows that all likely voters care deeply about creating jobs and improving wages, but unmarried women and members of the rising American electorate, that's in caps, rising American electorate defined as unmarried women, people of color, and voters between 18 and 29, also respond strongly to policies that help women and men in the working middle class.
Too bad no one's talking about that.
And they're not.
It's a wide open field, once again, for the Republicans to move in, but they're seeking other strategies, utilizing other strategies, basically to stand mute.
They can start up a dating service.
Maybe the only thing they can do.
America's real anchor man, doctor of democracy, and America's Truth Detector, all combined in one harmless, lovable, fuzzball bundle.
Nate Silver's 60%.
538 blog, Nate Silver says that the GOP has a 60% chance of winning the Senate, which is a direct contradiction of this unmarried Women's Voices Women Vote Action Fund, claiming that Republicans, well, it's maybe not apples and apples because this is 12 battleground states, Republicans with a 47 to 45 edge, except in single women where Democrats lead by 22 points, sorry,
in these 12 battleground Senate races.
But overall, Nate Silver, it wasn't that long ago that he was saying the Republicans' chances of winning the Senate were 51%.
It was last month.
And now it's up to up to 60%.
On the phones, we go to Maitland, Florida.
This is Elise and great to have you on the program.
Hello.
Hi.
Good morning, Rush.
How are you today?
I'm okay.
Good to have you here.
Well, thank you very much.
I know the answer to this, but I think it needs to be asked.
I don't remember reading about this.
Who is paying for all the medical bills for the patient in Dallas, the Ebola patient, who evidently is not a citizen of the United States?
Who's paying for all that?
I always thought that he was.
Uh-huh.
Is that not right?
I just assumed people paid their own because he doesn't have health insurance.
I figured he was.
Well, I would assume he doesn't.
I mean, he's not a citizen, so technically he shouldn't have health insurance here, right?
Well, I mean, I know he doesn't have health insurance.
He's a citizen of Liberia, Canada.
I don't think Obamacare spread there yet.
So I just assumed he was paying for it himself.
Well, I'm sure you're right.
Probably the people in Dallas, too, that need the legal aid because they're being discriminated against, they're probably paying for that themselves, too, right?
Well, I don't understand that.
I really don't.
They say they're being discriminated against.
They don't even live in the same apartment complex that this guy lived in.
They live.
Let me get this straight now.
They live in the Ivy apartments.
That's where the fiancé of the Ebola patient lived.
This is a whole different neighborhood that's claiming that they're being discriminated against.
Wow.
Well, I bet you they're paying for their own legal bills, though, don't you think?
Right, yeah.
That's what I assumed.
I assumed if they didn't have Obamacare, they'd be paying for their.
No, I'm being facetious, obviously, folks.
It's got to be Medicaid.
It has to be Medicaid.
Medicaid is health care for the poor.
It's got to be, which means that you and I, the taxpayers, are paying for it.
Taxpayers on the hook either way, be it for the legal aid or for the medical treatment for the Ebola.
You know, there's something else.
There's a case of Ebola that has been discovered in Spain.
And everybody's reporting first known case outside of Africa.
What do we have here?
I mean, isn't it kind of a technical point?
Yeah, there's an Ebola patient from Africa who is here, Thomas Duncan.
But I guess what they mean is the first Ebola case contracted by somebody not in Africa, not who went to Africa, is somebody in Spain, which maybe it's a fine point, but why would anybody want the dubious honor?
And now the Eurowweeny, sorry, leaders of the European Union are now, they're scared to death.
And they are now claiming that an Ebola outbreak all over Europe is unavoidable now.
They're making no bones about it.
They're taking an entirely different tack with their population in Europe than our government's taking with us.
Our government is telling us nothing to see here, nothing really to worry about.
We're working on new protocols, and we're going to ramp up screening, and we're taking people's temperatures, and we're interviewing them before they get on the airplanes.
We're going to make a fill-out questionnaires.
So we got it covered.
Very hard to contract here.
Don't worry about it.
We've got it contained.
In Europe, they're doing just the exact opposite.
They're telling everybody a European-wide outbreak is unavoidable.
And given who the Euroweenies get what is in it for them to create a panic like that, well, they have the philosophy: never let a good crisis go to waste.
And it's axiomatic, as senseless as it is.
When things like this happen, people the world over turn to their governments for solutions, for answers, for help.
And if you happen to be a member of a big, far-reaching tentacles everywhere socialist government, that's music to your ears.
And so, if you wanted to establish a European-wide curfew, if you wanted to establish European-wide restrictions on movement to better control your population, what better way than to scare everybody into thinking that an Ebola outbreak all over Europe is unavoidable?
I mean, I'm sorry to be suspicious about this, but I happen to know how statists operate, and I happen to know what they see as opportunities.
And it's what you and I see as crises.
They see them as opportunities.
And statists, socialists, and so forth are all about as much control over their populations as possible.
That's how they stay in power in many regards.
So it's something to be concerned about.
Now, the regime here has not resorted to that tactic yet.
In fact, they're doing just the opposite.
France has nothing to see.
Don't worry about it.
Got it handled.
Our guys at the CDC, better than anywhere in the world.
Our guys at customs, better than any place in the world.
Our border agents, better than any in the world.
We got it handled.
No need to worry about it.
Very hard to get this disease.
Don't sweat it.
Seems to be the messaging here.
But that's going to change.
It's going to change simply by virtue of who it is that's in power here.
It has to change.
Question is, how long is it going to take?
We'll see.
I predict it isn't going to be long before the regime changes its tactics.
And the problem for them, as is the case with everything they do, is politics.
There's an election coming up.
And they can't and don't want to do anything that will further anger the population at large with the people in charge.
The election will always come first.
With the media, whatever Obama does, how it will affect him will always come first.
Not what the effect of the disease will be on the population, but what will Obama's policies mean to him?
And you can see evidence of that already.
Here's Jay in Olathe, Kansas, outside Kansas City.
Great to have you on the program, sir.
Hello.
Kansas City Royals Ditto's Rush.
How about that?
Oh, I tell you.
Three game sweep of the best team in baseball.
By record, the Angels.
This is going to be, kicks off Friday night in Baldwin's.
The town's got to be buzzing.
It's got to be buzzing.
It is, I tell you.
And, you know, we're doing it right here.
You didn't see one car turned over in all the excitement this weekend.
Oh, come on.
You've got to get your act in gear.
Yeah, I tell you.
Got to get your axe in gear.
That won't happen in Kansas, except maybe Kansas City, Kansas.
You have made my day, Rush.
I can go out right now and buy a lottery ticket.
This is my lucky day.
I've been a longtime listener, first time on the air.
Unbelievable.
I wanted also to tell you that this poll that James Carville just did, and you were talking about it earlier, it just goes to prove that the Maha Rushi is correct again.
And I go back to Rush's truths of life and how feminism was started.
And it was the and the single- Let me do it.
Let me state it so that we can.
Because, yeah, I wrote it and I know what it says.
It's undeniable truth of life, number 25.
I do not know, Jay, where you're going with this, but I just, I want to get the truth of life stated, and then we'll all eagerly wait, see what you do with it.
Okay?
Undeniable truth.
There were 35 undeniable truths of life written in the late 80s.
Number 24, feminism was established so as to allow unattractive women easier access to the mainstream of society.
That is it.
Okay, that's that's I think it's undeniable.
That's why I wrote it.
Anyway, now, how does that relate to this poll?
Unmarried women support Democrat candidates by 22 points in 12 battleground states.
Because any young conservative male also is, if you look at who they are married to or who they're dating, they have a hot young wife.
And that is what I have.
I have a hot young wife.
And I make no bones about it.
And she is smart and educated and knows what is right and is on track.
Well, congratulations.
I think the greatest thing in the world is when a guy thinks he's married to a hot woman who's smart, got the whole package.
That's just fabulous.
Congratulations to you.
Thank you very much.
She's two years younger, and that's why I keep calling her my hot young wife.
And is she okay with that?
Yes, she is.
She actually gets a laugh out of it.
All right, cool.
Then that's even better.
All right.
So how does this relate to unattractive or unmarried women voting Democrat in the election?
The unmarried women, again, do not have that conservative influence with their husbands to actually kind of get to show them.
Oh, oh, I see.
So by virtue of the fact that women are unmarried, they don't have any relationships with conservatives, and therefore they are strangers to it.
They don't know anything about it.
That's correct.
Which is what you were saying.
The Republicans need to get a dating service.
I loved it.
Well, I don't think it's too late for a policy initiative.
The only thing to do is to embark on a plan to get these women married.
It's Rush Limbaugh, having more fun than a human being should be permitted to have here on the one and only Excellence in Broadcasting Network.
Back to the phones.
Gary in Roseville, California.
Welcome just right up the road from Sacramento.
Hello.
Good morning, Rush.
Thanks for taking my call.
You bet, sir.
Hey, I recall a couple occasions earlier in the year when you had pointed out that Actors that studied for a role in a movie for weeks or months and then ended up appearing in front of congressional committees preaching about as if they were experts on the subject.
And I just wanted to put out two cautions, if I could, to you in that regard.
One is that I'm afraid you may be on the verge of doing that with this Ebola thing, since there aren't really any experts out there yet, I don't think, in the lay world that are qualified to kind of give the opinions that you've been giving.
And I'm kind of afraid.
This is very helpful.
What?
What?
And I'm kind of afraid, and I can give an example, that your coverage of the Ebola thing may be going from informational, from being informational in a good way, to be kind of fear-mongering in a bad way.
Can you give me an example of how I am acting as an expert in this?
This is very helpful because if I am engaging in this behavior, I would like to know.
I do not believe I'm an expert on Ebola.
I've never had it.
I don't know anybody who's got it.
I'm relying on what's in the news media and what the experts at the CDC are saying.
What have I said to fearmonger it?
Well, as far as the fear-mongering goes, that's the easiest example.
And that would be the young lady that called you, the young mother of three kids that called last week.
She sounded on the verge of terrified about Ebola.
And I got the impression it was because of what she had been hearing from not just you, but including you, about the subject.
And as far as you seeming to be discussing the subject as if you might be more of an expert than any of us really can claim to be.
Well, give me an example of that.
Well, I've heard you criticizing when the medicine was to go overseas.
I've heard you criticizing bringing back patients from overseas.
I've heard you saying that.
Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait a minute.
That's not acting as an expert on the disease.
You're claiming I'm spreading false information about the disease, and I don't know it.
That was a comment on whether or not it was wise to bring back this patient, but that is not.
I don't know that any of us lay people are qualified to make those judgments.
And I heard the other day you said that.
You know, this is the problem, Gary.
A lot of us had better start speaking up about things or we're going to get snowballed.
And we're going to end up losing our freedom, Gary.
You know, I don't know where this comes.
Well, we must leave it to the extras.
We are not qualified to make these.
We most certainly the hell are when it comes to using intelligence guided by experience.
So far, you can't give me one example where I have stated something medically about Ebola that isn't true or that I have acted as an expert in the spread of the disease, acquiring the disease, eradicating it.
I haven't talked about that.
I have simply weighed in on what I think may be some haphazard behavior by officials in the way we're dealing with it.
But this I don't, I don't like this that lay people are unqualified.
I've been hearing this my whole career.
It started when I was a big proponent of a very healthy and well-funded Defense Department.
People like you would call, well, did you ever serve in the military?
No.
Well, then you're not qualified.
You have no right.
You have no business talking about the defense.
But really, where does that come from?
Where is it written that citizens have to be mute idiots in this country in order to be reasonable and understanding and so forth?
Gary, I really think we have a big problem in this country, and that is too many people are afraid to say what they really think because of all the hell it descends on them when they do.
I think there are a lot of people in this country who are scared to death about a lot of things going on.
They're afraid to say so because they see what happens to others who speak up.
And then that leads to beliefs like yours that it's more reasonable and simple to leave it to the experts.
Experts define how.
Is Obama an expert in the Constitution?
Because he taught it ostensibly in Chicago.
In my view, he's not an expert.
He's an expert in why he doesn't like it and would like to transform it, make end runs around it, or get rid of it.
But it doesn't mean I should shut up because I wasn't there when it was written.
That's absurd.
And tell me, who are the smart people?
Politicians?
Elected politicians?
Elected Democrat politics?
Are they the only experts around qualified to speak?
Are they the ones we must stop everything we're doing and listen to?
We are too stupid to have reasonable, intelligent opinions ourselves.
We're too stupid to function on our own.
Too many people are not speaking out.
Too many people are not saying what they really think.
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