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Oct. 14, 2014 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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October 14, 2014, Tuesday, Hour #3
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As usual, my friends, half my brain tied behind my back just to make it fair, Rush Limbaugh executing a side host duties flawlessly, zero mistakes.
Great to have you here.
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L Rushbow at EIB net.com.
There's still lots of things I want to try to get to in this hour.
We've been talking about the low information voter.
We had a call from an admitted low information voter, which tells me they weren't really low information.
I've never yet met one that admitted it.
So somebody admits to being a low information voter, they probably know enough to know that they're not one.
I mean, you stands to reason.
But I've been asking all day.
Most people, average ordinary, people not like us, people that do not live and breathe the events of the day, like we do.
They live and breathe other events.
And yet the Ebola thing happens, they become aware of it.
And my my concern is that most people will automatically assume that the leaders of their government are out to protect them.
Would never do anything other than protect them.
And that we have current leaders now that would clearly take advantage of that assumption and use it to their own political advantage.
I don't think there's any doubt about it.
So the question would be, how do you reach them?
How do you not scare them away?
How do you not turn them off when you tell them what's really going on?
Because it's something they don't contemplate.
They really don't.
I mean, most people revere the office of the presidency, no matter who is in it.
I mean, even Richard Nixon had goodwill up to a point.
Nobody thought Nixon was selling the country out.
It's just...
People just don't, then they don't want to think that.
Okay, so now we have this Ebola situation, and there are a lot of things that don't make common sense happening.
I mean a plethora of them.
Many more than we would like to catalog.
We got a CDC director that's clueless, the guy that ran Mayor Bloomberg's anti-smoking, anti-trans fats, anti-32-ounce soft drink campaign.
This is the guy in charge of it, who's relying on his protocols that are worthless, and who he says even now he has to change.
There just doesn't appear to be anybody in charge inspiring confidence here.
And lo and behold, the Washington Post has a poll, and they are surprised.
Normally they'd be unfazed by this.
Nearly two-thirds of Americans say that they are concerned about an Ebola outbreak in the U.S. And about the same number say they want flight restrictions from the countries in West Africa where the disease has quickly spread.
And I've I've been asking myself for the past week or so, why haven't we seen any polls on this?
They poll everything in the world out there.
And I thought that the reason we hadn't seen any polls is because the polls went against the wishes of the regime.
The regime does not want to close the country off to flights from those three countries in Africa.
The regime cannot shut the border.
They can't do anything to keep people out of this country.
There's no way they can because of what they have planned toward the end of the year.
So a new poll from the Washington Post and ABC News shows that 67% of people say they would support restricting entry to the United States from countries struggling with Ebola.
Now, some of you might be alarmed that the number isn't higher, but trust me, 67%, we will take it.
And I was thinking it might be 30 or 40%.
And clearly the Washington Post is surprised at this.
The Post is surprised the number's that high.
Because the Washington Post has people think just like the regime, that it's bigotry, that it's profiling, that who are we?
What folks, please do not doubt me when I tell you we have people at the highest levels of our government, in the highest levels of our media.
Okay, we've got an Ebola outbreak, primarily in three countries in Africa.
Somebody says we got to close down our airports.
We can't allow flights from those countries.
People at the highest levels of our government say, why?
Why shouldn't we get it?
Why should only those three nations in Africa get it?
We're no better than they are.
And they have this attitude, well, if they have it in Africa, by God, we deserve to get it because they're in Africa because of us.
And because of slavery, particularly in Liberia and Sierra Leone.
And do not see that's one of those things I say, and I just if low information voters tuning in here for the first time and hears that, I'm saying, what are they thinking?
And I'm thinking, do not doubt me.
This attitude permeates much of the American left.
It's not just Ebola.
It's, you know, why should we be a superpower?
We don't deserve that.
We're no better than anybody else.
Why should there be any concern of us what this group ISIS is doing?
None of our business.
Who cares what they're doing to Iraq and Syria?
We don't live there.
It's not our business.
Those countries have their own free will.
Hell with it.
What do we business is it of ours?
And if we're going to meddle, then we deserve what we get.
And there's that kind of thinking has ascended to the highest levels of our government.
The idea that there is nothing special about America.
And not only that, the attitude that America is responsible for so many of the world's problems, and therefore we deserve whatever pain we end up experiencing because of it, because we've caused it.
And if that sounds outrageous to you, I'm begging you to not doubt me.
It is inarguably true.
And if you are doubting me, I challenge, I'll bet you've had a teacher in your life that says things, said things like that.
I'll bet you've had somebody, a friend, a teacher, somebody who has said something similar to that about pick a subject that the United States is the problem in the world.
We have a president runs around apologizes for this country.
Basically, we have leaders at the highest level who think the U.S. has no moral authority to tell people what's right or wrong, good or bad.
Because we ourselves have done evil, and we ourselves have been bad, and we ourselves have acted in an immoral way, so who the hell are we?
That describes practically every college professor, their exceptions, of course.
That's exactly the case.
And may I remind you, we had the audio soundbite last week.
This news just made the printed page this week.
Marine Corps General John Kelly, commander, U.S. Southern Command, predicted last week the Ebola virus will not be contained in West Africa.
And if infected people flee those countries and spread the disease to Central and South America, it could cause mass migration to the U.S. of people seeking treatment, and thus they could bring the disease with them.
General Kelly said in remarks to the National Defense University last Tuesday, a week ago, if it breaks out, it's literally Katie barred the door, and there'll be mass migration into the United States.
They will run away from Ebola, or if they suspect they're infected, they'll try to get to the United States for treatment.
The potential spread of Ebola into Central and Southern America is a real possibility, and he said it's what keeps him awake at night.
In his speech, General Kelly cited the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's prediction that 1.4 million people could be infected with Ebola by the end of the year, with 62% of those infected dying from it.
And he said that's horrific, and there's no way we're going to keep that confined to West Africa.
So General Kelly, he's not battle planning for global warming, folks.
He's battle planning for Ebola migrations.
And we can't close the border.
We are no way Gonna close that border, folks, because that would present problems to both parties when it comes to illegal immigration amnesty.
They can't wait for for that to be granted toward the end of the year.
The Centers for Disease Control Director, Thomas Friedan, says that after the nurse in Dallas, whose name has been released now, after her uh Ebola infection, we must rethink our protocols.
Really?
Really, Doctor.
Why it was it was just yesterday that the protocols were the protocols.
And the protocols they were superior to everything.
They were sub surf subvervient to absolutely nothing.
We were not subordinate our protocols to anything.
And yet the next day here we are.
The only possible you know what they've done?
What's happened here?
The nurse got a blood transfusion from the uh from the missionary worker who came back from Africa, flew him back.
He had Ebola, he got the serum made from the tobacco plant in Kentucky.
He recovered.
So he volunteered some of his blood to be transfused to the nurse, hoping that his blood has enough antibodies from the serum in order to reverse the disease in the nurse.
The nurse is saying she feels blessed.
But make no mistake, uh, if you're looking out there and you're and these this Washington Post poll proves it, 67% of the people have already figured it out here that the safest thing to do for the American people is to keep flights from those three African countries from landing in the United States.
But then there are others, you that's so mean.
How could you do that?
Well, does that mean we're all supposed to get it or we're all supposed to be subjected to it?
Well, if that's what it takes, because who are we?
Why why should we not get it if they have it?
I'm telling you that attitude, it's conflict resolution 101, it's it's income inequality 101, it's fairness 101, it's equality by itself 101.
This is what's taught.
I have a question changing subject matter here.
Would somebody I'd be interested in knowing if any of you have a theory.
Barack Obama is doing all of these private fundraisers.
Why?
What is he doing?
He is not campaigning with Democrats.
They do not want him.
What is he raising money for?
Does anybody have any clue?
This uh this Grimes woman in uh in Kentucky, once again another time refused to admit whether or not she voted for Obama.
Alison Lundergan Grimes in a debate with Mitch.
I'm wondering if she voted for Romney.
You know, she's a big Hillary babe.
She's a huge Hillary.
She worked for Hillary in the primary.
I wonder, I wonder if she voted for Romney.
I wonder why why not answer this?
She's refusing to answer.
Well, that's possible.
Maybe she didn't vote, but that could be found out.
You can find out if she didn't vote.
You can't legally find out for whom she voted, but you can find out if she showed up to vote or not.
Well, I know that doesn't explain.
No, Obama's numbers in that state are pathetically low.
But okay, so she could say uh no, I didn't vote for Obama.
I was always for Hillary.
I voted for Hill.
No, she could say I voted for Hillary in the primaries, but yes, after Hillary was defeated, Obama won in the primary, yes, I voted for Obama.
But I was always hoping Hillary, she could say that.
But she's not even saying that.
She's not even answering the question.
The sanctity of the ballot box, and my vote is my vote, and it's none of your business.
And all it means is she's Hiding something.
And it could be inconsequential, but she's making it appear like it's something big.
Anyway, my point is not that.
I'll get to that in a minute.
She doesn't want Obama anywhere near her.
His approval number in Kentucky is barely at 30%.
She doesn't want him anywhere.
None of the Democrat candidates want Obama anywhere near them or their campaigns, and yet he is on a fund.
You think it's because he's black?
I hadn't thought of that.
You mean these Democrat candidates don't want him because he's black.
Are you kidding me?
These Democrats don't want Obama because he's black.
Why will that hurt him or hurt them?
No, no, no, no, no, no.
I had well, that's why you'd have a good point.
First black president, you would think at every damn one of these Democrats would want him standing next to them.
First black president, look what he did for us.
He gave us Obama care.
He's giving fighting ISIS.
He gave us the stimulus.
Look at all that Obamas.
But none of them want him on stage.
None of them want to be able to point to all the great achievements.
Well, that's true, too.
They don't even want him in public.
These fundraisers are in private houses.
You really think the Democrats don't want him there because he's black?
That would be racism, Mr. Snardley.
Sturdley thinks that the Democrat candidates don't want him there because he's black, and that's a negative.
I don't know.
But I have to tell you that it is interesting that they don't want Obama on stage, pointing out all the great things he's done, reminding voters, hey, Obama cared.
There's a guy that did it.
Stimulus bills, shovel ready jobs, there's the guy that did it.
All this vast new job creation, ending the recession, there's the guy that did it.
They don't want him there pointing any of that out.
My question is above and beyond that.
Why is he doing all of these fundraisers?
He is not campaigning with Democrats.
For the reasons we've just mentioned, Democrats don't want to be seen with him.
He's burning up millions of taxpayer dollars for each one of these fundraising trips.
I mean, even CBS News is starting to ask questions.
I mean, how much money he's spent, how many millions have been spent on these trips, but but but who's donating him the money and for what purpose?
He's not running.
Anyone have any ideas?
And we go back to the funds to Valprazo, Indiana.
This is Sheree, and it's great to have you here.
Am I pronouncing your name correctly?
Yes, perfect.
Thank you so much.
You bet's one of my all-time top ten favorite female names.
I was hoping you'd say that.
Yes.
Hey, you know that D sixty-eight strain of enterovirus that has been sickening our school kids?
Yeah, which is more widespread than Ebola right now, yeah.
I know.
It was rare in the United States, but common in Central American countries until this year.
Yeah, wonder how mysteriously, um, after tens of thousands of unaccompanied aliens flooded across our borders.
There's no basis for quarantined.
And no basis for that.
See, this is typical Republican bigotry when you start talking that way.
Well, it spread to every state in the nation, but now the CDC admits that it's possible that the illegal alien miners brought it in with them.
Apparently, our president doesn't know that Section 1182 of the immigration law gives him the power to keep immigrants out.
He only wants to bring them in.
But it gives him the power to keep them out if he deems them to be detrimental to the interests of the United States.
In other words, if they're too educated from Europe, too smart, what have you.
Oh, probably something like that.
But um, I really think if people care about their children and they want to stop amnesty, that they can't elect any Democrats to uh Congress at all.
Case in point is my own uh now Senator, Joe Donnelly.
He was a very conservative Democrat who had an excellent voting record on um controlling immigration as long as he was my congressman.
He had an A on his voting record.
And then once he got elected to the Senate, he started voting for what the President wants.
Yeah, what do you think?
What do you think happened there, Sheree?
Um I think they'll just do whatever the President wants them to.
Therefore, no one's for Democrats.
It was also, hey, hey, Joe, you uh how's your how's your how's your campaign coffer looking, uh Joe?
You want you want to have a decent amount of money to run for re-elect.
Well, sure I do.
Well, let me tell you what you're gonna have to do to see to it that we'll get you some donors, even maybe from outside India.
That's how it works, Sheree.
Well, I don't care.
It I don't want him playing ball.
I want him to uh do the right thing to protect the American people.
And that means that um the section on it inadmissible aliens, section 1182 of the immigration law ought to be fully enforced.
There's a whole lot of immigration law that should be enforced, not just that particular section, and it isn't being, and it's purposeful.
But look, I'm I'm not trying to be a uh downer here, but in some instances, the Republicans aren't any better on this.
I mean, they've they've got their own group that wants amnesty.
They got their own bunch that wants the Chamber of Commerce is telling them, Cherie, you Republic you may as well not even nominate a presidential candidate for 2016 if you don't do amnesty because we at the chamber are not going to give your candidate a dime.
I know the Republicans are a huge problem, too, but um it's a hundred percent guaranteed that any Democrat you uh elect to the Senate or the House will vote for the President for what he wants.
That's true.
There is no question about that.
But when it comes to this issue, we're not even talking votes in the Senate any longer.
Obama's gonna do this by executive fiat.
That's what he's threatening.
I shouldn't say threatening, he's promising Democrats.
This is what he's gonna do.
He's promising immigration activist groups.
He's promising various Democrats.
I don't know how many times he's promised poor old Luis Gutierrez in Illinois.
He's promising people left and right as soon as these elections are over, December, he's gonna do this.
I still maintain, I still maintain that he's only going to do it, not only, but his preferred way of doing it is if the Republicans take the political hit for it, not the Democrats.
And I know he doesn't care that much about the Democrats anymore.
He's certainly not raising money for them.
He's raising money for his post-retirement.
That's what he's doing.
I have no doubt about it.
I mean, I don't know how that works, but I mean, what the hell is he out there raising money for?
Let's be real.
For the Senate, right?
Right, for the Senate, even though they don't want him in the word.
Okay, fine, we'll take him at his word.
That's worth a lot.
Now, this business of blaming the Republicans, before you start snorkeling at that or chortling at that, I ask you to take a look at media yesterday, and you'll find it was blaming the Republicans for Ebola.
Republicans are being blamed for Ebola.
You know how that works?
Why, yeah, they you know what the Republicans did?
They cut the budget for the Santa City.
The Republicans with the sequester into Republicans with their butcher knife, they just butchered the hell out of the budget.
And that's how it works.
However, ladies and gentlemen.
I have here in my formerly nicotine stained fingers.
According to the Atlanta Business Chronicle.
Republicans appropriated more for the centers for disease control this year than Obama requested.
According to the Atlanta Business Chronicle, in January, the CDC won big in the budget deal.
The Centers For disease control and prevention will see an 8.2% increase in the budget for fiscal 2014 thanks to a 1.1 trillion dollar spending bill announced by Congress on January 13th.
But there was also this little bit of news.
This influx of cash will raise the CDC budget to 6.9 billion dollars, which is 567 million dollars more than it got in 2013.
This is more money than the CDC anticipated because the president's fiscal year 2014 budget request for the CDC was for only 6.6 billion.
So the Republicans actually ended up giving the CDC about $300 million more than they requ the president requested.
And yet, check your news yesterday.
Go back to this program's archives at Rushlimbo.com and you will see the Republicans are being blamed for Ebola.
The Republicans are being blamed for the spread of Ebola to the United States because they cut the CDC budget.
The truth is, the CDC got $300 billion more than they asked for.
$300 million more than they asked for.
$300 million more than the Obama administration requested.
They got $6.9 billion.
Republicans in the House of Representatives voted to give the Centers for Disease Control more money than the president requested, according to the Atlanta Business Chronicle.
Okay.
Thanks, Sheree, very much.
Peter in Buffalo, you're next on the EIB network.
Hi.
Hi, Rush.
How are you?
Very well.
Hey, I was uh you were talking before about uh, you know, it's it's just not believable why Obama's making the decisions he's he's making.
And I I just really believe it's his deep down inner, you know, is his convictions.
And and you were trying to describe a way, and I and I thought about this, and if you think about this, Obama is an extremely logical man that is deliberately making a logical decisions as president.
And that's really based on his innermost belief.
Because it doesn't make sense.
Everybody's spending all this time trying to figure out why, why does he do this?
Why but uh, you know, his inner beliefs are pretty evident to me.
What his real goals are.
Right.
So you are you are in the camp that what may appear to be making no common sense whatsoever actually makes total common sense when you know what Obama's objectives are.
Exactly.
That's exactly what you're saying.
Yeah, I know it.
Well, I know, I know, I know um and see that we're up against it again here.
We uh here we are.
We arrive at a very interesting point where we're asking people to believe that they've elected a president who does not really have their best interests as his own.
And that's it, I gotta tell you, folks, that's that's a tough thing to make people believe because of the inherent uh trust in the institution that people have had ever since the founding of the country.
There's an implied trust in the presidency, no matter who holds it.
And people do not, they they don't they want to hear uh talk otherwise.
Just can't imagine it.
Cannot imagine it.
And so they they rejected it.
It it takes a lot of examples, and we're getting plenty of them now.
I'm I'm I'm heartened by that Washington Post poll that 67% of the American people think the regime's doing the wrong thing here on travel restrictions from Ebola countries.
Folks, I'll tell you what you do.
If you're gonna watch the baseball playoffs tonight at in about an hour, you're gonna have the Cardinals and the San Francisco Giants, and then after that you're gonna have the Royals and the Baltimore Orioles.
And in five states, five battleground states, you're gonna be able to see ads blaming the Republicans for the spread of Ebola in this country because of budget cuts to the CDC.
You're going to see these ads in the baseball game.
You're going to see a lot of these ads.
And Republicans haven't cut any budget, but that's kind of misses the point because the CDC's not going to do anything to stop the spread of Ebola.
Did the CDC come up with the serum that's made from the tobacco plant?
No.
Is the CDC going to close the borders?
No.
Is the CDC going to produce or do any?
No.
They don't have that.
All they do is their price is product.
The CDC's run by a bunch of guys like Mayor Boomberg who wants you to stop eating trans fat and all this other meaningless stuff.
It's like, I'm sure I'm going to get in trouble for my comments on Zuckerberg.
You gave $25 million to the CDC Foundation, making a big deal of it.
Fine and dandy, but he'd have been better advised to give that money to some private enterprise companies actually developing medicine, experimental trials to deal with actually curing people from the disease.
The CDC's not doing that.
The CDC is just a bureaucracy.
And a bureaucracy has one objective.
It's like any other life form, to make sure it stays alive and grows.
Any bureaucracy, the number one requirement is to make sure the doors are open tomorrow.
Whatever the hell else you do.
Very quickly, Jim in Parachute, Colorado.
Great to have you on the program, sir.
Thanks for jumping in here.
Glad to be part of the fastest three hours on radio.
I called Russ to let you know why people do not get tired of listening to you.
I heard the guy the other day tell you that.
And I was thinking why that is, because I listen to other people and I find myself turning them a lot of time.
Number one, you're informative like everybody else.
But you also do not sound like you're complaining.
Oh, that's key.
Yeah, that's well, I thank you for that.
Appreciate that.
Another thing too is I find that you're not repetitive.
You make your point and you move on to another interesting.
Well, now that's a that now that's another interesting thing you say because sometimes I worry I repeat things too many times.
And I've I've evolved that purposely because I found it takes that sometimes in order for a point to actually get made.
You have to say it over and over again.
So I'm glad to hear you say that this program doesn't seem repetitive.
That's great.
I appreciate that.
You don't you don't repeat the same talking points over and over, is what I mean.
You always you always have a different way of getting your point across.
Oh, yes.
I get it.
That's true.
That's something I strive for.
When you have to listen to the same phrase over and over, it just it's kind of, you know, you just want to turn the channel.
Uh you are very perceptive, sir.
You're very you're very shrewd and perceptive.
I really appreciate this.
It's like I appreciated that guy that day who uh who said that the one guy never gets tired of listening.
That that's that's very meaningful to me, and I really appreciate you saying that.
Yeah, I wish that you were still on Monday Night Football, too.
Well, I never was, but it would have been unlike ever it had been had I been.
That's one of those things.
But given everything that's happened since, it wouldn't have lasted long.
It wouldn't have had a lifespan, but boy, it would have been unforgettable.
No question.
Speaking of the Redskins, did you see Daniel Snyder at a game against the Arizona Cardinals, and he's got the the chief of the Navajo Nation sitting next to him in his box.
I mean, that's in your face, and I'm watching, and I he's wearing a Redskins hat.
The chief of the Navajo Nation proudly wearing a Redskins hat next to Dan Snyder, the owner of the team, and I I read a drive-by sports report, and and the guy asked, Does this actually mean that the Navajo Nation is not offended?
And they were totally, totally perplexed by this.
Anyway, Jim, thank you very much for the phone call.
I appreciate it.
That's it, my friends, out of precious broadcast time for our program today, but that doesn't mean much because there's always tomorrow.
And we will be here, revved and ready and looking forward to it.
Thanks for being with us today.
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