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Oct. 9, 2014 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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October 9, 2014, Thursday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 Podcast.
Yes, sir, reviv.
Here we are, my friends.
Told you to be back, and here we are, chomping into bit, ready to go.
Brushlin ball, the guy you never get tired of listening to.
On the Excellence and Broadcasting Network, the telephone numbers 800-282-2882.
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Once again, a lot of news about Ebola today, much of it conflicting from the regime level.
While they are, in effect, ramping up the panic, there are stories about how they're trying to not ramp up the panic.
The um the White House has been demonstrated to have lied again on the secret service prostitute thing that happened down in Cartagena.
It turns out the White House was in on it.
The guy that actually ran the show down there, some 25-year-old kid, is now running women's issues for John Kerry at the State Department.
And he's the guy that hired the prostitutes for the Secret Service.
The White House was fully aware of it, covered it up, and asked people to stand mute on it again until after an election.
So here's the another instance where the regime has bottled up, covered up, silenced, critical information before an election.
And you ought to see the drive-bys today on this story.
The drive-bys are ringing their hands over this.
The Washington Post is the source for this.
Huge.
I mean, it's a really, by their standards, a very long story.
And the drive-by's are acting outraged that the regime would keep this news for what do you mean keep this new?
You guys participate in these cover-ups.
You know, that's the thing about this.
The drive-by's, they save all the good stuff for their books after the election, or they suppress the information so it doesn't hurt Obama before the election.
Then when the news comes out, how everybody suppressed the story, then the drive-by start talking about how the White House kept them in the dark about things.
The White House that keep them in the dark, they didn't want to know.
And to the extent that they found out, they participated in suppressing it because that's been the name of the game.
Whatever the story, it is viewed through the prism of does it hurt or help Obama.
Journalism has reached such a sad state of, and I predicted this.
Unknowingly, unknowingly, I predicted this.
Snerdley, have you did you see the story that NBC News offered John Stewart anything he wanted to host Meet the Press.
Bef Before they settled on F. Chuck Todd, they backed up the Brinks truck for John Stewart, not because he's a journalist, but because of his demos.
Because of the demographic, all of his audience is apparently 2554, all one million of them.
And NBC looked at that just like Les Munves admitted when replacing Letterman, it isn't about ratings, it's about hip.
It's about bragging rights.
So and I I've got a soundbite from me, previous program on play for you, and it's it in this soundbite.
I predict that the new credible left-wing journalists of the day are today's comedians.
And lo and behold, here comes NBC and the news.
This is in New York magazine.
I don't know why Stewart turned it down.
I didn't, I didn't read that far.
Uh uh but but it's clear they offered him whatever he wanted.
And they approached him.
Again, I guess he took some time off last summer to produce some movie.
And they thought, well, maybe he'd getting tired of doing this daily show, maybe, and they thought that was an opening to approach him then.
Now you imagine yourself, you're F. Chuck Todd today, and in your own mind, if you're F Chuck Todd, you are Edward R. Murrow.
They all think they're Edward R. Murrow.
Now they all think they're Walter Gronkite.
They all think that the world hangs in the balance on them doing their jobs every day.
I mean, they these people take themselves seriously, you can't believe.
Modern day, old day, future, you name it, journalists think they are the sun in our solar system.
Everything revolves around them, and if they weren't doing what they were doing, everything would crumble.
So you're up Chuck Todd, and you get the gig and you go on a diet, start losing what you trim the goatee a little bit, you try to have a more professorial look, you you you work as hard as you ever have.
Your first guest is a and then you wake up one day after a month of doing the show and find out they wanted a comedian from Comedy Central to do the job they gave you, and then you find out that they offered him the bank.
I don't know what you, as F. Chuck Todd are getting.
And how do you think every other serious journalist is viewing this news now that it is that it has come out?
I mean, I I it.
Well, how many serious journals?
What that's not the point.
They all think they're serious.
They all think they're serious journalists.
And on NPR today, you know, NPR they had a, I guess, a call-in segment today.
And some woman, smart woman called up and said, you know, I object to you people calling them a Democratic party, not the Democratic parts.
A Democrat Party, Republican Party, and you keep and that got blamed on me.
We have the sound, but I'm proud of that too.
I because I did start that trend.
I'm I'm but it's been years ago that I started refusing to call them a Democratic, because they're not, anyway.
They're the autocratic party.
If you want to put an IC after the name of there, they're autocratic party.
There's nothing Democratic about the Democrat Party.
It's not the Republican Party.
It's not the Republican in Party.
It's the Republican Party.
And so I long ago, I said, what it's a minor little point.
I knew it was going to irritate him, and sure as it has.
It just, it really has.
And there's polling data, CBS burying the results of their own poll showing poor ratings for Obama and the Democrats ahead of the midterms.
And yeah, there's a there's a there's an Ebola stack today, too.
That goes without saying.
We'll get to everything here in due course, my friends.
I'm just setting the table.
I have no idea.
Look, I'm gonna go to a commercial break here pretty soon.
I have no idea what I'm gonna actually start with in detail.
I'm just setting the table for you.
I've got the audio sound bites arranged by group.
And uh so just whatever I feel, whenever I feel it is what I first get into.
But what I did put on the top today is this CBS Barry's results of own poll showing poor ratings for Obama and Democrats ahead of the midterms on Wednesday night, CBS evening news with Scott Pelley.
Now, there's a great example.
You if you want to watch somebody who really takes themselves seriously, and really thin that the sun and the moon set on every breath he takes.
Just watch that guy.
He's his great illustration of the sense of self-importance they have.
And of course, that's not new.
Remember when that Lawrence Tisch bought CBS and he's looking at the balance sheets and he sees a news division is bleeding money.
So he says, Well, I'm gonna cut 200 jobs in there, I'm gonna make that division profitable.
Dan Radder had a cow.
Started running around saying, what do you mean?
What we do here is too important to be to be stressed out by having to make a profit.
What is that?
News divisions are too important.
We should be immune from having to make a profit.
We should be immune from the pressures of having to make money.
We should be immune to the pressures of having to have an audience.
Larry Tisch, in about a half hour, said, Why did I buy this mess?
And eventually got rid of it.
And now Moonvest, CBS, Showtime, whatever they are, Viacom.
Anyway, Wednesday night, CBS Evening News, Scott Pelley made no mention of the results from the latest CBS News poll.
In that poll, Obama and the Democrats fare very poorly ahead of the November 4th midterm elections on issues ranging from the economy to ISIS to terrorism to who voters are most likely to vote for.
Now regarding the midterm elections, Republicans find themselves ahead of Democrats on both a generic ballot and the specific issues.
Ballot or poll.
Republicans have a six-point lead against Democrats overall, 49 to 43, and a five-point lead.
Voters who would like most to see take over the Senate.
4742 Republican.
Independents sided with the Republicans by a full 30 points over the Democrats, 57 to 27.
Now, can I focus on that one for just a second?
Because you who are students of the political arts and sciences.
No.
The consultants class in both parties, primarily the Republican Party, stress every election, the importance of the independence.
The moderates, that it is there that every election is won or lost.
This has been, in fact, a giant trick.
Played strategically executed very well against the Republicans.
The deal is this, the theory.
Republicans are going to get 40% of the vote.
That's their base.
These are averages.
The Democrats are going to get 40% of the vote.
That leaves 20% undecided.
It's that 20% that decides every election.
And so consultants in seeking employment go to Republican candidates and say, I'm the guy that can position you to get the majority of the independence.
I'm the guy that then devise a campaign to make you president.
What happens is that the Republican candidate always takes for granted his base and begins trying to target the independents, which Republican consultants think are basically liberal Democrats that are afraid to say so.
And that's how Republican candidates ended up sounding like Democrats.
Because the consultants say the independence, you've got to get the independence.
And so what happens in situation like that?
Mitt Romney won independence going away.
This theory was upended in 2012.
This theory was rendered as folly and, Mitt Romney won independence majestically in 2012.
But you know that 40% that was automatically going to vote for the Republican, it was about 32%, because four million Republicans who voted for McCain in 2008 didn't even show up in 2012.
Nevertheless, a 30-point spread for the Republicans in this CBS news poll in independence is significant.
Despite what I just said, this is such a big spread that it is, it's it's significant.
It is, it is meaningful.
When it came to who voters trust to do a better job in the economy, foreign policy terrorism picture is the same.
On the topic of terrorism, Republicans hold in a massively 21 points over the Democrats, 52 to 32.
This is the latest CBS news poll.
And they didn't report it.
That is the point here.
CBS buried the reason.
Now, my friends, for 10 years, for 20 years, the poll has become the news.
Presidential election opinion polls have become news stories.
They are designed to shape public opinion, not reflected.
That the the polling is not what people, it's not a sample of the temperature of the American people.
It is an effort to shape The thinking of the American people.
That's what polling has become.
And polling, polling results, which is news bought and paid for by its checkbook journalism is what it is.
The networks pay for their own polls, and then whatever the results are, they make the lead news story out of them.
Every time the poll comes out, it's the lead news story.
Their own poll.
It's not news.
It's bought and paid for results.
The results may be legitimate, but they do the poll once a month.
But it's treated as though it's earth-shattering news.
Like the first thing you need to know if you're standing on the corner and you want to know what happened, and some guy comes, hey, there's a poll out.
Guess what you think?
It's become easily poll results are leading news stories.
Except this one.
For some reason, this poll never became news at CBS.
I wonder why.
Well, it's obvious and self-explanatory.
The numbers in the poll were released in an article at CBSnews.com at 6.30 p.m., which is when the CBS Evening News with the serious Scott Pelley begins in the East.
But they never reported it on the CBS Evening News.
They never reported the poll results on TV, which constitutes the data being buried.
Chris Steyrwald at Fox News has a has an analyst of some of their latest polling data, and it is bad news for the Democrats, state by state, nationally.
It's bad everywhere.
Sam Brownback in Kansas is rebounding.
The anti-Obama tide is working in Alaska to Dan Sullivan's advantage.
Obama made a big deal of going into Arkansas to help out Mark Pryor.
And I don't know.
They say when Clinton goes to Arkansas, it does help.
His endorsements have not been helping Democrat candidates for years now.
Obama's disapproval number in Arkansas, 61%.
Tom Cotton, the Republican candidate, his wife just had their first baby today, by the way.
Tom Cotton has a seven-point lead over Mark Pryor, 4639%.
And Alison Lundergan Grimes, that video that surfaced me mentioned it yesterday where she tells a bunch of supporters, don't worry.
Give me your money now, but after the election, I'm going to turn on a coal industry.
I'm going to F-bomb them, she said.
Don't worry, after the election, we'll take care of the coal business.
We just can't say it beforehand.
Well, the news is out there on that.
She's now trailing McConnell.
Back after this, folks, sit tight and they'll go away.
And we're back, Rush Linboy here on the Excellence in Broadcasting Network.
Let me, since I mentioned this, get this one out of the way.
This is what happened on the NPR yesterday.
Chris Eliza, our old buddy, the Washington Post was a guest, uh along with Norman Ornstein and Susan Davis from USA Today.
A caller called in, Ann in Missouri.
I'm questioning the use of the term democratic amongst your panelists, as well as broadly across the news media.
A person either belongs to the Democrat Party, the Republican Party, or some other party, but they don't belong to the Democratic Party.
Our country's a democracy.
And we should keep the word democratic isolated from politics.
That's what Siliza said.
To me, getting fixated on things like this, this to me is a perfect example of why our politics, and I would say this if it was the Republic Party.
This is not about bias.
This is a perfect example of why our politics are so incredibly small.
People say, I don't understand why they don't tackle the big ideas.
Like let's grow up.
This is something that has rankled Democrats for a very long time because it's as if uh you have a large number of people, and many Republican politicians do this too, who are just dissing their party.
Yeah.
Well, you wonder why it's small policy.
The Democrats get all upset if it's not that big a deal.
Ignore it.
Diane Reim was the host of the program, and she and Susan Davis of USA Today continued the discussion.
This is where the name of your beloved host uh is invoked.
You know, it is interesting.
I do listen to Rush Limbo quite frequently.
Seems to me it kind of began there.
Susan, am I wrong?
I think it is an offshoot of sort of Republican talk radio, and that I think actually my understanding of the idea that you should call it the Democrat Party was more not a matter of respect, it was more a matter of insult.
That the root of it was sort of not giving them that credit.
Uh was that Diane Reimer Jill Abrams.
You know, it is interesting.
I do listen to Rush.
Limbow.
And oops, out of time here.
Times of trouble, confusion, murky disumult, chaos, rampant disease, panic, near panic, no panic, and even the good times when they pop up, Rush Limbaugh here at the distinguished and prestigious Limbaugh Institute for Advanced Conservative Studies.
Gabriel Sherman, New York magazine has the details.
This Sunday marks the one-month anniversary of hosting Meet the Press for F. Chuck Todd.
And despite an opening week ratings spike from his exclusive sit-down with Barack Obama, mm-mm.
Meet the Press is settled back into third place behind this week on ABC and Slay the Nation on CBS.
This had been frustrating to NBC News executives who at one point considered going in a radically different direction with the show.
Before choosing F. Chuck Todd, NBC News president Deborah Turness, a British import, held negotiations with John Stewart about hosting Meet the Press, according to three senior TV sources with knowledge of the talks.
One source explained that NBC was prepared to offer Stewart virtually anything to bring him over.
They were ready to back the Brinks truck up, the source said.
A spokesperson for NBC declined to comment.
James Dixon, the agent for Stuart, didn't respond to multiple requests for comment.
And then this makes sense.
This is in New York magazine now.
It makes sense that NBC would make a run at Stuart.
Does it it makes sense?
Yes, you see, because the comedian Coomb Media Critic possesses something that broadcast executives covet, a loyal young, stupid.
A young loyal malleable low information audience.
And it's not the first time.
NBC tried recruiting Stewart, according to sources.
NBC Entertainment courted Stewart several years ago for a 10 p.m. variety show that eventually went to Jay Leno.
Though not a traditional journalist, Stewart can be a devastatingly effective interrogator, and his Meet the Press might have made a worthy successor to Tim Russert's no B. S. interviews.
I kid you not.
Meet the clowns.
Not meet the press.
Meet the jokers.
Meet the court jesters.
And so now we know we have proof.
We have as Lanny Davis say, we have poof.
Ladies and gentlemen, what news has become?
It isn't journalism.
It's demographics.
Pure and simple.
It's bragging rights.
Same thing with Les Moonvest hiring Stephen Colbert.
He said, we don't even sell ratings on late night TV anymore.
He later even acknowledged, you know, when I had pointed that out, he acknowledged that that was correct and further said, on a different occasion, the CBS CEO, Les Mundvis said, you know, we need to get rid of overnight ratings.
We need to get rid of this way of measuring ratings for TV show.
You know why?
Because there's so much delayed watching, there's DBRs, TVO, and people watch streaming.
He said, we need a new rating system that tabulates weekly viewing, not day of broadcast viewing.
Now he may have a point.
But generally people losing these ratings races come up with these different theories and alternatives of what needs to be done with uh with ratings.
But Tim Russard has got to be spinning in his grave.
Or you would think so anyway.
I I think here's here's let's take a little progression or timeline progression.
See if this seems like fair speculation.
If the media had done its job, as it always has in the past, Barack Obama probably would not have been elected had he been vetted.
He was here.
He was in a lot of places, but nowhere in the mainstream media did anybody spend any time reporting on who Barack Obama is.
And I think for those of you who are relatively new to this program, uh certainly haven't been here longer than a year, there's something you need to know.
None of what I this is not bragging.
Please don't think that this is pure fact here.
None of what is happening in this country is a surprise to those of us who knew who Barack Obama was prior to the November 2008 election.
None of us are surprised.
We knew this that is why I said I hope he fails.
I didn't want any of this to happen.
I knew what his plans were on the economy, I knew what his view of foreign policy was, I knew what his view of the country was.
This is not a surprise.
That's why I said yesterday he's not a failure.
He has succeeded, I think, if if we could ever get him in an honest moment, I think that he probably thinks that he has succeeded beyond his wildest dreams.
You know why?
I think if if you could get Obama to be honest about something, you know what it would be?
That he would be stunned at how little opposition that he's faced.
Now he would never admit that.
In fact, his whole point is to blame his opposition for obstructing him.
His whole modus apparendi is to get rid of any opposition, because all they do is stop him.
So he's never going to admit.
But the truth of the matter is he's got to, in his private moments, he's got to be chuckling over how easy this has been.
Anytime anybody did criticize him, guess what?
They were called racists and they shut up.
And there hasn't been any serious pushback against Obama from the Republican Party.
The first two years he could have done anything.
He had every vote he needed to accomplish anything.
He could have done amnesty.
He could have gotten Obamacare, because the Republicans didn't have enough votes to stop him on anything legislatively.
And I think that carried over.
The Tea Party clearly was major opposition.
The Republicans winning the House, 2010, major opposition, but in terms of actual day-to-day push, look what the IRS got away with.
Look what he got away with taking over one-sixth of the economy.
Look at how he's gotten away with uh missteps all over the world on foreign policy.
I mean, he's succeeded in his world.
In his view, his objective to transform this country succeeded, I think, beyond his wildest dreams.
He's still got two years to go.
And there still isn't any pushback.
And I know that if he were honest, he would tell everybody he's shocked at how little opposition there's been.
I mean, serious political opposition from elected.
Critics don't misunderstand.
I'm one, there are countless critics in media, but not in the political class where it matters, people who have votes.
They've paid lip service to repealing Obamacare, but it's heading on down the pike, is it not?
Uh now there was a who was it, some journalist the other day.
you know, Obama hates the press.
I didn't surprise me.
I mean, I think all presidents probably hate the press because they're prying eyes, but I think again, if Obama, if you could get him to be honest, give him some kind of serum, be honest, he would be laughing at what a bunch of sycophants he's had to work with here in the media about how easy it's been.
I think he and the Democrat Party have come to expect that anyway.
I think they've come to expect slavish support from the media.
And that's why when there are those rare moments when uh mainstream media opposed, they don't know what to do.
They freak out, they lose their tempers, because they don't have to deal with it very often.
But I think Obama, if he if he was honest, would say, man, this has been much easier than Michelle and I and Valerie thought it was going to be.
And they probably sit up there and mock the media as much as any president ever has.
But in this case, they probably mock them on how easy it's been.
They probably you know, we got these guys in the palm of our hands.
You watch the did last night.
As though we're paying them.
They're sitting around saying, we couldn't buy this.
We couldn't buy this kind of support as they watch MSNBC.
As they watch CNBC, as they watch some of the commentators on Fox, we couldn't buy this support.
And they read the newspapers.
I dare say, since the Kennedy family, there has not been a Democrat official with this kind of slavish, almost groupy like support since Barack Obama.
You see, there's a that and that leads to the the myth of Barack Obama and journalism have done great damage to this country at the end of the day.
The the Barack Obama is a is a myth he could have, if he were properly vetted, could have been beaten.
And journalism not doing its job has done great damage to this country.
Journalism not doing its job, vetting candidates, ferreting out details of stories such as Benghazi, they joke about it when you bring it up to them.
Journalism clearly is laid down between widespread deceit and political cowardice.
This country doesn't know who to trust or what to believe anymore, even on something as serious as Ebola, people don't think they're being told the truth.
People now sense that everything's being subordinated to politics, the politics of the Democrat Party.
Whatever happens, it can't hurt the Democrats.
Doesn't matter who gets sick, doesn't matter what happens to the country.
Years after all of these scams occur, the country is getting a glimpse of the depth of corruption that liberalism brings with it.
Liberalism is a political philosophy wholly dependent on lies, fraud, and deception.
Totally.
Now I know those are fighting words, some of you.
And I know some of you probably especially if you're new.
Come on.
You know, you're just saying this to get a rise out of it.
No, I'm not.
I gave up doing that long.
I don't say things to get a rise out of people.
I if I say something, I mean, outside of parody and satire, if I say something, I genuinely mean it.
And it really is nothing new.
I think liberalism cannot be honest about what it is.
Liberals cannot be honest about who they are.
Liberals cannot.
It's like this, this babe in in in Kentucky running against uh McConnell.
She's running campaign, trying to tell everybody in the coal industry that they have nothing to fear from her, that she's gonna do everything she can to protect the coal industry in Kentucky.
And yet somebody had a hidden video camera at a big, big, wealthy donor fundraiser she held, and a bunch of her supporters were told, it was caught on video, don't worry, she's gonna F the coal industry after she gets elected.
Meaning she's lying to people, she misrepresenting her position.
Because if she were to tell the voters of Kentucky what her real intentions are vis-a-vis the coal industry, she would get elected.
Well, that's liberalism across the board.
Obama had to tell you that you get to keep your doctor.
Obama had to tell you that you get to keep your plan.
Obama had to tell you that your premiums are going to come down $2,500 in order to get the support of low information people on his attempt to take over the healthcare industry.
He had to lie about, and they do it about virtually everything.
Liberal is.
So in this context, folks, it makes perfect sense that Jon Stewart would be hired to moderate meet the press.
A liberal philosophy political philosophy wholly dependent on lies, fraud, and deception.
Here we have a partisan wise guy who specializes in giving incomplete facts to advance complete nonsense is seen as the optimal messenger for liberalism, and that is exactly right.
Laughing our way, all the way, to the false promise of utopia is just what the scam artist ordered.
If you're gonna be fleeced, why not enjoy it right up until you realize you've been had.
So it makes perfect sense that NBC would want a comedian to represent and host what is arguably the signature program of their journalistic identity.
One more little soundbite on this, and then we um head into other directions.
I want to take you back to May 1st on this program.
And I again I admit this is self-serving.
I want to demonstrate to you what being on the cutting edge of societal evolution means.
Way back on May 1st, a little monologue in which I detailed my opinion that leads to what happens with NBC wanting to hire a comedian to host Meet the Press.
In other words, ladies and gentlemen, if you were here with us back on May 1st, you heard this foretold.
John Stewart blasts government before state-controlled media, and what this does is now give permission to other Obama stenographers to go out and get mad at the regime.
Why else is this news?
Have you ever heard of this?
When's the last time what Johnny Carson said was a news story or letterman's was a news story?
Might be water cooler chit chat the next day, but a news story.
So comedians are now, and of course, what it could be, they're jokes.
They don't deal with reality either by definition.
Now there has to be grain of it for comedy to be funny, but comedians are not a 21st century journalist for the far left.
For the left, comedians are source authorities.
Comedians are gradually replacing the New York Times, the Washington Post, CBS NBC, PBS, ABC, CNN, as the arbiters of when Democrats can be held accountable and when they can't be.
So if you want to know when the drive-by's are gonna harp on Obama, pay attention to the comedians.
When they do, it's a signal to the drive-by's that it's okay to.
It's very pathetic.
And it's how you end up with low information voters who don't know what the hell is going on.
It's how you end up with millennials down on the country, down on themselves rather than on the people responsible for the mess that we live in, and that's the Democrat Party.
So what was going on at the time, uh Stewart had criticized Obama, and that became news.
And I said, how does that happen?
How so a comedian finds fault with the regime, and that that gives permission to the rest of the media to then go after because the comedians are the trendsetters, the comedians are the new journalists.
And all these networks.
And with the audience, the comedians are more trusted than the serious hand-wringing students of classical journalism.
Pointed out way, way back in May.
Be right back, folks.
When we get back, we will uh Delve in to the latest on Ebola.
And of course, that news is as much the medical news as it is that we're being given from the authorities, and also an analysis of the way that news is being covered by the rest of the media, who, of course, are still very interested in whatever the news being not harming the Obama administration.
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