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Oct. 22, 2014 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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October 22, 2014, Wednesday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of The Rush 24-7 Podcast.
It seems like only yesterday we were here.
And well, I guess we were.
And we're back.
Folks.
And every day it doesn't matter.
Some people think, after such a barn burner show today, what's Rush gonna do tomorrow?
Answer.
Watch the news.
Read the news.
We are loaded today, folks.
Been chomping it to bit for the fast half hour to get started here.
One of those rare days where I know what I'm gonna lead off with.
Greatings and great to have you.
I really don't.
When I start the program, sometimes I'm not sure what's gonna be the very first.
I mean, I know the first three or four things are.
But today I know what the first one is, I know what the second one is.
Great to have you here.
Telephone number 800-282-288-2, the email address Ilrushbow at EIBNet.com, a soldier on guard at the Canadian War Memorial was shot to death about 10 o'clock this morning.
According to reports, a man with long hair carrying a rifle went up to the soldier and shot him in the chest.
After that shooting, there was more shooting inside the Canadian Parliament building.
The war memorials a couple hundred yards from the Parliament building in Ottawa.
One gunman is dead, one person may still be at you know I didn't know that they had a tea party in Canada.
Well, every time there's a shooting here, Brian Ross and the investigative unit at ABC start looking at uh evidence to find that the shooter's a member of the Tea Party.
I assume they're gonna do that in Canada.
Just kidding, obviously, folks, but that was that was the first thing that came to my mind.
We got a tea party in Canada.
Who knew?
The um the uh the episode still unfolding in terms of uh information and reasons and all that, and as it becomes available, we'll make it known to you.
Uh do you know that a Canadian town says this is not one of the two things I planned, it just happens to be in the next uh the next thing in order because it's Canada Halloween, they celebrate Halloween in Canada.
You may not know that, but they do.
And there's a town in Canada that is canceling trick-or-treating this year.
You know why?
Fear of polar bear attacks.
Now, I'm admittedly a little confused here because I thought the polar bears were dying because of global warming.
I thought we were killing the polar bears.
Al Gore's movie, Earth in the Lurch says so.
Al Gore and all the environmentalist wacko.
Yes, I love pounding them.
I love pointing out their errors, their mistakes, their lies, and their hypocrisy.
There isn't a polar bear shortage.
We have an abundance of polar bears that a town in Canada has had to cancel Halloween trick-or-treating because they're afraid the polar bears are going to attack the kids.
You realize what shocking news that's got to be to the kids.
The kids would probably think that a polar bear'd be a great pet based on TV commercials they see, based on global warming news they see.
And wasn't it an American automobile manufacturer at a commercial with a polar bear following some guy driving an electrical via Nissan?
Nissan.
The Nissan Leaf, that's right, a polar bear followed this driver of a Nissan Leaf all over town to give him a hug for driving a Nissan leaf and saving the polar bear population.
We find out little kids in the small hamlet of Arviat in Canada are not going to be able to trick-or-treat.
Michael Sam has been waived by the Dallas Cowboys.
Did they call a press conference on this?
I haven't seen it.
They they did a press conference when they announced that they had signed him to the practice squad.
First ever press conference in the NFL to announce a player signed to the practice squad.
Nobody, you don't.
It it It's rare, folks, to be cut from a practice squad.
I mean, it happens.
Dallas Cowboys have waived defensive end Michael Sam from their practice squad, signed linebacker Troy Davis.
Sam, the first openly gay player, signed with the Cowboys in September 3rd after he was among the final cuts of the St. Louis Rams.
Speaking of St. Louis, Michael Brown's gunshot wounds in Can I that basically have found out that everything we thought about this from the get-go was true.
And that, you know what the St. Louis incident, this Ferguson, Missouri incident illustrates.
It illustrates this.
Smearing and destroying a police officer was necessary and appropriate to Democrats in order to create mobs and property destruction and voter registration.
And turn out the vote.
It is clear the individual means nothing to the left.
Individual rights mean nothing.
Innocent until proven guilty means nothing to the left.
In the end, all that matters is the end.
The end justifies the means.
It's the agenda.
So here's a cop.
Doesn't matter.
As a human being, doesn't matter.
We're going to destroy the guy.
We're going to destroy the officer.
It was necessary.
It was appropriate for us to advance our voter turnout agenda, is what the civil rights coalitions essentially said by virtue of their actions in St. Louis.
Politically incorrect facts are facts are stubborn things.
The autopsy shows that Michael Brown, the gentle giant, was shot at close range.
CNN, the New York Times, are all reporting this.
In fact, CNN was the network that maybe has done the most to advance the Democrat leftist agenda in Ferguson, Missouri.
A reporter was threatened and run out of town.
In a stand-up interview last night, full-on intimidation against the network that's done the most to help them.
And the fact that the autopsy shows that the gentle giant was shot at close range, tends to support any testimony that there was some kind of a scuffle in the police car.
And those are the words of CNN legal analyst Danny Savalos.
And he furthermore said, if so, that tends to support Officer Wilson's testimony and his justification for using deadly force.
If the gentle giant was in the car, there's only one way that could happen.
He forced his way in.
The police officer didn't invite him into the car.
The police officer didn't drag him into what?
Well, the I w the uh nothing, nothing's gonna happen to the eyewitnesses because we're gonna all this is going to be seen at as a failed political effort.
There isn't going to be any criminal act because the the protesters are now threatening more of this if they don't get an indictment and if they don't get a trial.
The protesters from all over the country have once again descended on Ferguson, and they're threatening the town, the police officer, people in positions of authority, if they don't get their indictment, if they don't get a trial, and they're openly saying this.
So you got a lot of eyewitnesses who've been shown to have lied.
Nothing's gonna happen.
You know it as well as I do, nothing's gonna happen.
It's just gonna be looked, nobody's gonna have the guts to do anything about it.
They're gonna think, what's it worth?
It's not worth it.
We're gonna have trouble as it is if this turns out the way we think it's gonna turn out based on the way the evidence is going.
See, the facts are coming out.
It's actually a wonderful opportunity for the president, the attorney general to set the record straight.
It's a wonderful opportunity for some leadership, but that isn't gonna happen.
This is a political defeat.
This isn't even a matter of law.
This is a political defeat.
That is why I say smearing and destroying a police officer.
That's what they had to do.
That's what they had to try.
It was necessary, it was appropriate to Democrats in order to create mobs, property damage, which leads to voter registration and voter turnout.
And we know from news earlier this week that if the black population doesn't turn out a great numbers in November, it's bad news for the Democrats.
And that's what Ferguson will still be about.
But the president, the attorney general, I mean, i normally they could take the occasion here and set the record straight.
They could be pleased to calm down what some might think now is unjustified anger of community organizers and protesters.
In other words, they could sue for calm.
They could sue for peace.
The president, the attorney general, could use their authority, their credibility, their dignity, and their positions to call for calm.
Because the truth is the ultimate goal here, right?
Isn't it the truth?
Isn't that what everybody's always wanted from the beginning of this?
No.
See, that's not the case.
Now, what's wanted here is fairness and justice, but fairness and justice are defined within the prism of the Democrat Party and its agenda.
Fairness and justice have nothing to do with what you think fairness and justice are.
Fairness and justice is the right outcome.
So now the facts are coming out.
Does this mean the networks and the websites that fanned the flames of violent protests?
Will they come on the air will they apologize?
No.
Will all the false assumptions and smears be retracted?
No.
Because you see, the drive-by's are gone.
By definition, the drive by's have already been there.
The drive-by's they stirred it up, they created the chaos, and they're already down the road on the next story.
And now it's left to other people to fix the mess that they helped make in Ferguson, Missouri.
Michael Brown's gunshot wounds included a shot in the hand at close range, according to the official autopsy, according to an analysis reported by the St. Louis Post Dispatch.
Remember, the family asked for war, was it one or two autopsies.
What have there been three different autopsies here?
This uh this detail that the gentle giant's gunshot wounds include by the way, the autopsy also shows that he was using marijuana, and the evidence looks pretty good, almost irrefutable that his hands were not up.
He was not surrendering.
But the detail about the shot in the hand could lend credence.
I'm reading here from CNN's page.
I wanted to go as far left as I could to find this story for you.
The detail could lend credence to Ferguson police officer Darren Wilson's account that he and the unarmed black gentle giant scuffled at his patrol car before Brown was shot and killed.
He'd always maintained that.
The eyewitnesses said it ever happened.
I mean, he was running away.
Stopped and put his hands up and surrendered.
I saw it.
We've got a video.
All that stuff is all out the window now.
Wilson, the cop told investigators that in a struggle for his gun, inside the police SUV, the gentle giant pressed the barrel of Wilson's gun against the officer's hip.
According to the post dispatch, citing a source with knowledge of his statements.
The officer tried to prevent Brown from reaching the trigger, the source told the newspaper, and when he thought he had control, he fired.
But the gentle giant's hand was blocking the mechanism.
Wilson said he fired two shots.
Brown was hit in the hand and ran.
Told investigators he fired again when Brown turned back and charged at him.
And there are eyewitnesses that indeed happened.
Brown's blood, the gentle giant's blood, was found on the officer's uniform.
Blood from the gentle giant was found inside the police car, according to law enforcement sources telling CNN.
Those sources corroborate details first reported by the Democrat Party's official publication, the New York Times.
At least one of the wounds that Brown suffered is consistent with a struggle and appeared to be fired a close range, according to a different source, with firsthand knowledge of all this.
That tends to support it's not going to be explained away.
That's the they're not this isn't gonna matter.
The calls for an indictment are going to continue, the calls for a trial are going to continue, the threats if they don't get a trial and an indictment will continue.
Nobody's gonna be held to account here.
I know you think they should be.
I know you think anybody else they would be, but that's not going to happen here.
The evidence is already in that that isn't gonna happen.
Again, the CNN legal analyst, Danny Savellos.
That tends to support any testimony that there was some kind of struggle in the police car, if so, that tends to support Officer Wilson's testimony and his justification for using Deadly Force.
St. Louis Post Dispatch story, official autopsy shows Gentle Giant had close range wound to his hand, marijuana in his system, and this information is from the first autopsy.
This information's all in the first autopsy, the one the family refused to accept and wanted to do over.
There have now been three autopsies.
The result of the autopsy support Officer Wilson's story completely.
And they also completely contradict the pro gentle giant witnesses.
The first autopsy was performed the day after the gentle giant's death.
That was August 10th.
Why is it that we are only getting the details in this autopsy today?
August 10th, August, September, October, or two months here.
Why is it taking two months to get the details of this first autopsy?
Hmm.
Because it just wasn't what was needed.
They had to do a couple more.
See what they could produce.
Ferguson protesters shut down CNN broadcast because it is Zionist.
Angry protesters, Ferguson, Missouri shut down CNN's live broadcast last night after repeatedly heckling the reporter and camera person for working for an organization run by APAC and Zionists.
Got to take a break because of the constraints of time and the programming format be right back.
There are days that I actually ask myself, how is it that Democrats win elections?
Look at Hillary Clinton.
Big memoir, right?
Big book.
Nobody bought it.
What was the size of her advance?
How big an advance did she get?
Help me out here.
Was it 14 million?
Was it seven million?
It was a ten, but what it was millions of dollars, millions, and the publisher puts out all these press releases and hosts cocktail parties, such a big deal, and nobody bought it.
She's not that popular.
Contrary to everybody thinks she's not that.
If it weren't for voter fraud, I am more and more convinced the things, and I've got some stories in the stack today to back this up.
They're just not that popular.
Andrew Cuomo, the governor of New York, has a new book.
Memoirs.
It's his autobiography.
And you know how many people care about Andrew Cuomo's life?
945 books sold the first week.
Well, I know he's got a big family.
So some people, even the size of family.
945 hardcover copies in its first week.
This from the New York Times.
It was reported in a previous New York Times story that Kumo had received an over $700,000 advance for the book.
It was supposed to be published in August.
They moved it back.
Yeah, it was between $8 and 14 million dollars for Hillary, and nobody bought it.
$945 books for Andrew.
They are not popular.
They are not personally popular.
This is you know, so many people are living, including in the Republican Party, living under so many so false and wrong myths about the love and adulation people have for Democrats.
I know the Democrats, but look, I'm not trying to refute reality.
Don't misunderstand.
I'm telling you they're not as popular as people want us to believe, and they want you to believe.
They're not rock stars.
Republican Party has a branding problem more than anything else.
Mark Cuban knows he's got the answer.
Mark Cuban, the owner of the Dallas Mavericks.
Mark Cuban has some advice for the Republican Party, drop the social issues.
He said, if I was going to give guidance at a Republican Party, I'd say stay out of the social issues, he said it on CNBC today.
I've been hearing that since 1992.
I can't tell you how many years.
1992.
1992.
I have been hearing the Republican Party had better get rid of the social issues, or it doesn't have a prayer.
And the theory, here's what Mark Cuban says.
If you stay out of social issues, then the conversation from that side, meaning the Democrats will only be economics and business and growing business and ideas.
That should be well, he maybe is the Republican side.
Yeah, if you stay out of the social issues, then the conversation from that side will only be about economics and business and growing business and ideas.
It should be easy.
The generation of sex, drugs, and rock and roll didn't turn out quite like we planned, right?
We thought we'd be like live free, stay out of the bedroom, stay out of everybody's lives.
Let's just focus on business.
Turned out not to be that way.
It turned out to be the exact opposite.
If the Republicans, by the way, there are plenty of Republicans that have stopped talking about social issues.
They still get hammered with them.
The Republicans are going to get hammered, no matter what they do.
The Republicans are going to get hammered.
Look at the war on women.
There wasn't one.
There isn't war on women other than the one the Democrats conduct.
There is not a war on women, and yet it exists.
And it's not because of anything the Republicans do.
It's not because of anything the Republicans have said.
It was totally made up out of whole cloth.
You know, giving away ammunition is not the solution to your political problems.
Abandoning 24 million voters is not the route to victory.
But it's amazing how the smart people keep coming up with the same suggestion.
Now, ladies and gentlemen, there's an AP poll out today.
And this is the most amazing poll.
It is an AP GFK poll.
And the headline is this.
Most expect GOP victory in November.
But they will cringe voting for it, meaning the Republican Party.
Two weeks before election day, most of the nation's likely voters now expect the Republican Party to take control of the U.S. Senate according to a new AP poll.
And by growing margin, they say that's the outcome they'd like to see.
But the survey suggests that many will cringe when they cast these ballots for Republicans.
Most likely voters have a negative impression of the Republican Party, and 70% are dissatisfied by the leaders in Congress.
Well, thank God the AP managed to work that in.
Of course, 60 years of vilification by the news media wouldn't have anything to do with what people think of the Republican Party now, would it?
Sixty years of smears, sixty years of vile lies, distortions and smear wouldn't have anything to do with what people think.
But let me ask a question.
Most expect the GOP to, by the way, let me tell you something else.
The New York Times has a story today about the Democrat Party In panic.
And I think that that is because it's looking even worse than anybody publicly is willing to state.
This AP poll today, there was one back in September.
Very same poll.
And it said back in September, this is only October, folks.
I mean, this has been four or five weeks since the last poll.
The AP poll in September said that both parties were neck and neck.
Now it says the Republicans are up by 8%.
Back in September, the AP claimed that women favored Democrats over Republicans by 7%.
Now the Republicans are up by 2%.
That's a shift of 9% in less than a month.
So we are supposed to believe.
We're supposed to believe that there has been a gigantic shift toward the Republican Party just since September.
But while this shift has happened, the people who made it possible resent it.
They resent themselves.
They're going to vote Republican, but they don't want to.
They're going to vote Republican, but they're going to cringe when they pull the lever.
They're going to vote Republican, but they hate the Republicans.
They're going to vote Republican, they're going to vote against the Democrats, but oh man, they're not going to like what they do at all.
And just a month ago, this wasn't even going to happen.
A month ago, the Democrats were going to win.
Are they going to hold even?
Might hold the Senate, might even pick up some seats here and there.
And they certainly still had the edge in women.
Now four weeks later and a total reversal.
And the people responsible for the total reversal, the voters are mad that they have reversed.
A month ago they were happy.
They loved Democrats.
They thought the Democrats are much better for women than the Republicans, and now in four weeks something's happened and they've totally changed their minds and they've changed their preferences.
But boy are they mad at themselves.
I mean it's a self-loathing going out there.
They must really hate themselves.
These people are going to cringe as they vote for Republicans.
It must mean they really hate the Democrats.
What has happened in these past four weeks to cause this?
You know what I think it's more likely?
I think it's more likely we are just seeing what we see almost every election year.
As we get closer to actual election day, the polls get a little more realistic because the pollsters start thinking about their credibility.
So a poll a month ago, a poll in August, a poll three months ago could be used entirely to shape public opinion and advance, say the Democrat Party agenda rather than reflect public opinion.
And I have no doubt this happens.
None.
Zip zero nada.
This this this poll, these polls don't shifts in public opinion don't happen this way.
So what's obviously happening here as we're getting closer to the actual day of the election, the polls are starting to reflect more and more the reality of the situation.
By this time, the pollsters have done as much as they can to boost Democrat donations.
They've done as much as they can to boost Democrat turnout.
Now they have to try to salvage some credibility by showing that their polls were accurate after the election.
But I'm still struck by this whole premise.
Two weeks before election day, most of the nation's likely voters expect the Republican Party to take control of the U.S. Senate, and by a growing margin, they say that's the outcome they'd like to see.
Okay, that denotes happy people.
To a certain extent.
Most of the nation's likely voters expect the Republican Party to win the Senate, and most say that's what they want to see.
But the next sentence.
But the poll suggests many will cringe when they cast these ballots.
They want the Republicans to win.
They're going to vote for the Republicans, and they're going to hate themselves in the morning.
Just amazing the way people who vote Republican are characterized, is it not?
Self-loathing, confused, snarky, mean spirited extremists.
And then if you read a little further in this excuse for a story, you find this.
The Democrats win few accolades themselves.
Oh.
You mean voters cringe when they vote Democrat too?
You mean there might be some unhappiness with the Democrats?
You mean that's why a majority of people want the Republicans to control the Senate and are going to vote that way because the Democrats win few accolades themselves?
Apparently so.
Impressions of the Democrat Party among likely voters have grown more negative in the past month.
Why?
What's happened in the past month?
What's so much different in the past month than the past six years?
Well, some things may be Obamacare, maybe ISIS, maybe Ebola, maybe jobs, but all of this has been happening to one degree or another.
I mean, we weren't in utopia four weeks ago, and all of a sudden have somehow ended up in hell.
Nothing really starkly bad has gone on.
It's just continued to get worse day in and day out.
In fact, you know what the AP loves to report here?
In this, in this very poll where remember now, most likely voters are going to vote Republican because they want the Republicans to control the Senate, and then this.
In fact, Democrats are more trusted than the Republicans on only two of nine issues.
Wonder what those issues are.
Gay rights, climate change, income inequality, the really important stuff.
I mean, what is it?
The economy remains the top issue for likely voters.
91% called it extremely or very important, and the GOP has increased its advantages.
The party more trusted to handle the issue by 39 to 31%.
So the economy's big.
Women have moved in the Republicans' direction since September in the last ABC poll, or AP poll.
I'm telling you, folks, nothing's happened other than the pollster is changing his objective.
A month ago, two months ago, three months ago, the objective was to shape public opinion, to try to engender donations to the Democrats, voter registration for the Democrats.
They've done all that they can.
Now we're getting close.
Now they've got to start getting real so that they have credibility when their poll is looked at after the election.
One more little tidbit from this poll.
The Democrats are actually cringing more than the Republicans are.
In this silly poll, 40% say that they're excited to vote for their guy.
32% of Democrat voters say they're excited to vote for their guy.
So we are looking at Democrats cringing even more than people voting for Republicans.
It this is have you ever heard of anything like this?
Have you ever heard anything reported like this?
People, likely voters want the Republicans to win the Senate.
They expect it to happen, and they're going to vote for it, and they're gonna cringe when they do it, even though they're doing what they want to do.
And the impression clearly left that for some reason people would really like to vote Democrat, but but but but but but they just can't.
It's it's it's mind boggling.
Andrew Kumo, 945 books sold.
Hillary Clinton, 14 million dollars for her book that was just out that nobody bought.
There is there are reports of voter fraud and Obama's encouraging Well, I gotta be very careful about that.
You'll hear when the story comes up.
But this this multiple voter registration, dead people, it's just it's reached a an all-time high.
I am, I'm really I'm convinced that that the Democrats irrespective of who wins elections.
I'm just here to tell you they are not universally loved adored.
They are not thought to be hip and cool from top to bottom.
They are not thought to be rock stars.
They're not thought to be infallible.
We are we're living under a false pretense, false image, false brand created by the Democrats and the media that the Republican Party happens to believe.
Frankly.
Let me grab a phone call.
My uh my objective here, get a phone call in the first hour, and we're gonna start Fairfield, Connecticut.
This is Ferris.
I'm glad you called, sir.
Great to have you with us.
Hello.
And I'm glad you took my call, Rush.
Thank you for so much for uh keeping our eyes on the balls.
The problem is there's so many balls.
Yeah, that's true.
And I've had to adopt now I I use three crystal balls myself and have to decide uh between, you know, which one has two answers and which one has the single answer.
But you're you're the only one really who understands the truthfulness of keeping our eyes on these what you call social issues, I'd like you to call them moral issues.
And without morals, uh we would never have had a republic, and we would never have had a constitution.
And uh and that's where we've lost it, and you'd be surprised how many people.
Well, that's why a lot of people want to do away with the Constitution so they can precisely get away from all this judgmentalism that they don't like.
Yeah, the morality is is what's missing, and uh that is heard loudly by the the people that I talk with, and uh of course the media tends to make most of us think that we're alone in this, but actually uh this is a winning uh issue for Republicans.
The moral issues are the important ones.
Those women who control the uh the mind control in this country want you to think that that people are are head over heels for homosexual and lesbian marriages, but in fact they're not.
And quite frankly, right now, what you have is a strong pushback, especially in that voting block that you refer to so often, as the African American voters.
These people understand right from wrong.
And there is such an enormous uh support among my uh uh my uh African American brothers and sisters for uh traditional marriage.
And we've been rolled over, and and nobody more than here in the State of Connecticut.
We've been rolled over by this.
Oh, no, wait, now I understand but you the Californians have been rolled over twice.
They've voted on on two different occasions to uphold the morality you're talking about, and a judge told them they had no right.
They've state statewide, they have voted two times and had it thrown out.
I understand that, but uh let me explain why uh you could be mistaken about that, and you might agree with me that we in Connecticut uh were uh railroaded in a worse fashion.
In other words, when this movement started, the first state that uh was selected by Mary Buenato, who is president of the GLAD, the gay lesbian advocates and defenders.
The first state was selected was the weakest state in the country, which is Massachusetts.
And she could see in that Supreme Court, because she knows, and she knew that no electorate or no legislature would ever vote for homosexual and lesbian marriages.
So she went to that Supreme Court, which is populated by seven people who have a special name in Massachusetts.
It's called the Supreme Judicial Court.
Well, that's true.
I got I have to step in, I'm gonna get time constraints here that I've got to step in on you if you're Ferris, but that's exactly right.
That the Massachusetts court, he is exactly right about the strategy there.
But I don't want to get into an argument over who's had uh the the the biggest battle with the Californians, they've the people of California Prop 187, that was thrown out.
People of California Prophet 8, that was thrown out after they voted for it, and then people that supported it lost their jobs.
Even after majority of people voted for it.
But it's not a battle of which people in which state have taken the biggest hit.
Your point here, the social issues, When people stand up and say Republicans should stop bringing them up.
They're talking about one thing.
They're talking about abortion.
That's all they're talking about.
And they couch that as as uh as social issues.
But I mean, like I say, I've I've been hearing this for twenty, well, since 1992.
It doesn't matter that it doesn't matter what the Republicans do.
They're going to be accused of all this stuff whether they say it, do it, or not.
The solution is to not shut up about things.
So Democrat candidates don't show up for debates and will not talk positively about Obama when they do show up for debates.
We just getting started here, folks.
I can't wait for the next hour to get here.
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